If you like to keep your stamps and dies together, you may find this ingenious tip just what you’re looking for to merge the old with the new packaging.

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Personally, I prefer to view my dies while I work so I can see all my options. Who knows? Just because a die doesn’t go with a stamp set, doesn’t mean I can’t use it right?

I use magnetic sheets either behind or in front of the original card they come on and pin them to a cork board that sits behind my Cut & Emboss machines. The magnetic sheet helps to hold them on, but when I use them in front of the card, they’re so much easier to pull off!

The stamps I put in a basket on top of my ink storage so I can easily flip through. When I get a new stamp set, I adhere it to the back of the paper folder it comes in, pull off the thin plastic shield, ink up all the stamps and close the folder to stamp those images on the inside of the front of the folder. Then I clean the stamps and replace the film.
Then, whenever I use a stamp, I align it to the stamped image and close the folder to transfer it back to the acrylic sheet in the same place. This also helps to know if I’ve forgotten to replace any.

My punches are out for viewing too! I bought a few inexpensive towel bars to hang them on. This works for both the newer punches as well as the whale tale punches!

Notice the 12 x 12 storage to the left of the punches? This is where I store my DSP and my two-tone card stock.

The 8-1/2 x 11 cardstock is stored in a filing cabinet in hanging folders. Each folder has one color. The tabs indicate what the color name is and I swiped the edge with the actual ink. I keep smaller scraps of the same color in a baggie in the front of the folder.