Bead Storage

Long ago I had seen a video on YouTube by the Hometalk channel and they do a lot of DIY's for the home for storage/organization and such. They had used the acrylic drawers and bamboo cutting boards from the Dollar Tree and made a small countertop storage item for the bathroom to hold cotton balls/Q-tips and other small items. I liked that idea but did not make one then.... Recently "Crafting to Cope" on YouTube shared her video using this idea for bead storage in her craft room. Great idea for bead storage as the system I had now was not working. . .

Off to Dollar Tree with my plan to make this countertop storage idea for my craft room with a list of items I would need to make my holders. Not so fast..... went to two Dollar Tree stores looking for these acrylic drawers and bamboo cutting boards and NO LUCK.... WHY  all the Dollar Tree stores do not sell the same products is beyond me......  Third try was the charm and happy me they had all the drawers and cutting boards I would need in stock. Here is a photo of my bead holder and my holder is 4 drawers high:

I like not only can I see all the beads in the acrylic drawers but I can easily remove a drawer of beads to take to the work table to use:

I also bought 4 extra acrylic drawers and stacked those and that stack will be for the head pins, lobster clasps, and other items I need to use:

This can sit on top of the other holders or since it is free standing it can stand on the countertop for easy access. Here is a side view of this one:

In the Hometalk video they used a hot glue gun to assemble their unit but I have the Surebonder hot glue gun and mine is not a low temp glue. I did not want the hot glue to melt the acrylic drawers so I used E6000 to assemble mine. These acrylic drawers are wider in the front and taper back to a narrower size in the back so keep that in mind if you should make one. I put the E6000 on the bottom of the drawers along a thin ridge they have and I used a thin line of the glue on them. E6000 is very strong so you do not need to glob it on and it stays clear once dried. I also put E6000 on the side of the drawer that sits next to the drawer next to it. The glue container says after 72 hours this adhesive is its' strongest so I worked on my holders over a period of a few days rather than trying to do all the steps at one sitting. It is a strong smelling adhesive as well so do this in the garage or maybe outside where you have fresh air while you are using this glue. 

Before I had all my beads in clear plastic bags for storage but it was not easy to not only remember what beads I had in the stash but also to find them when I was wanting to make something with them.... Happy Crafting to Cope uses this Hometalk idea for her bead storage and thanks to her for making her video and showing her how-to's as she makes one. And thanks Hometalk shared this idea for countertop bathroom items! Another project off the list and new storage that works in the craft room.... 

Holographic Halloween Die Cuts

franticstamper.com   is closing the doors to their store on July 31, 2026.  She carries many brands from Altenew, Tim Holtz, Memory Box, Lawn Fawn, and many more... She also sells her own brand of dies and I have many of those. This die set is what I was working with this week:

I did some die cutting using scraps and also using the holographic sticker sheets that I used on the butterflies for this card and it was inspired by Heidi the Yorkshire Crafter on YouTube:

I used two ghost dies from my stash along with the Frantic Stamper "Fun Happy Halloween" set of 2 dies for the words on my samples:

and the ghost with the words:

These holographic sticker sheets give your project the sparkle and shine without having to use glitter or glittered card stock for your projects.  As usual hard to capture the holographic sparkle on the die cuts with the camera:

Franticstamper is having different specials as she gets closer to her closing date the end of July so many good deals to be had and she has a large store so many things to look at. As with using the holographic sticker sheets I was not sure with the "Happy Halloween" word dies having so many cut outs if the dies would cut the sticker sheets well or not, but as all her brand dies do, these easily cut the sticker sheet and the card stock it was on with one pass in the machine. Sad to see yet another online store close it's doors but she has many specials going on her sight so a good time to shop .....