Karen McIntyre

Karen primarily uses storage boards inside 3-ring binders labeled with dymo labels. She also has a few laminated stamp storage folders in her collection.

This system is great for picking up a big number of stamps to carry over to your stamping area with you. You don't have to get up and down like you do when you can only select a few images at a time.

Suzanna Sitton

Suzanna uses a similar method and takes it a step further by inserting indexes of the stamps in sheet protectors between the stamp storage boards. She had a lot of mounted stamps that she converted to this system to save space and saved the colored plastic label off the wood mounts on the stamps that had them. She adheres to those to 8.5" x 11" freezer paper so she can peel them off later if she wants to change the order in which they are stored.

Robyn Wood

Robyn uses a similar method but instead of a hole punched storage board, she adheres her stamps to a clear piece of acrylic and slides the whole thing into it's own sheet protector.

The advantage I see to this is that if someone travels with their stamps it isn't so easy to lose the little ones. No one wants to be missing an "a" or "e" in a set of alphabet stamps. On the other hand access to the stamps isn't as simple as with the plastic storage pages.

Lorna Roache

Lorna found a great use for these plastic drawers. Sometimes she clings the stamp directly to the bottom of the drawer, but if the stamps she buys come on a storage board she can lay three sets in one drawer. She keeps the indexes in plastic page protectors. Lorna is from Australia and says these drawers can be found in office supply stores. I would imagine they can be found elsewhere as well. The drawers are nice because they aren't as deep as the standard iris carts.

This is definitely one of the easiest to maintain and least time consuming systems I've seen. It also solves the problem of lost stamps that fall out of binders. If those trays had lids, they'd be portable, too!

Sabine van Passen

Sabine's system is similar to Lorna's but with the deeper drawer it takes a bit more digging to find the stamps. She uses report binders that have acetate for clinging the stamps to and have page protectors to store the indexes. This is another example of a wonderfully portable system.

Susan Wolfe

Susan has some of her stamps on cling cushion and some with repositional adhesives, like Aleene's tack it over and over, on the back and her system works for both. She uses a file cabinet to store her stamps and writes the name of the manufacturer on the back of each stamp (before applying the adhesive if the repositional adhesive is used).

She stores hers on transparency sheets and organizes them with an index so she can easily find the stamp she wants.

Simple, organized and easy to access.

Andrea Cloutier

Andrea had her boyfriend add dividers to her shelving so that she could simply stack white storage boards on the shelf in front of her craft table. This seems to work great for a small number of stamps.

Lisah Ross

Lisa stores her stamps on a laminated piece of paper with the image on the back. She then puts it in a numbered drawer so she catalog her images into a notebook.

She also uses cassette tape boxes and stores them with her ink pads in cassette organizers.

Cyndi Evans

Most of Cyndi's unmounted stamp collection are not on cling cushion. The ones that are usually stored on the computer keyboard pull out drawer on pieces of either flexible cutting boards or plexiglass. The ones in the photograph are not on cling cushion but I know that for people use use raw rubber dies the CD storage idea is a popular one so I wanted to show this wonderful example.