Sunday, March 23, 2014

Ink & Reinker Storage Unit

Yup! Another storage unit. This time it holds most (well, a few) of my non-distress ink pads such as Ranger Archival, VersaFine, Memento, StazOn, ColorBox and India Ink.

Not only the ink pads but I have two boxes, each holding 25 re-inkers, sitting on top of the "spinning" unit! The top box can be removed by lifting with the handle, to reveal another box underneath.

I have been wanting to make this one for a while now, but it has only been recently that it became an URGENT to-do project as my ink pad drawers were overflowing and very difficult to close LOL.

The "shelves" of the ink pad modules are made in the same way that the S T I C K L E S Spinning Storage Unit was made, with "ledges" that the "shelves" slot into. Creating it this way used less chipboard (I think) and made for a much "cleaner" look.

I used Graphic 45's Steampunk Debutante paper to cover and embellish it. The shelves and reinker sections were sprayed with Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays. And of course the piece de resistance is the Lazy Susan spinner underneath!

I will be adding a Cutting Guide here as soon as I can as well as a link to the YouTube video on the making of it (when I get around to editing the video), so keep an eye out for that! The height (without the spinner) is 17 3/4" to the top of the top re-inker box, the width is 8" (with the ink pads). If you wanted to make this and was wondering about the "spinner" size, I used a 4" round spinner, however the base area of the unit measures 6 1/4"x6 1/4".

Below are some photos of the unit.













On to the next project!

Smiles
Jen

12 comments:

  1. Oh wow Jen - this is fabulous. Looking forward to the 'how to'.
    Beryl xx

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    1. Oh you and me both, Beryl LOL. I've done two parts so far and just don't want to get back to it. Have to push myself past this! LOL

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  2. I'm so gonna do this is you share with us.

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    1. I hope you do :) I'm getting the video editing done, slowly, but surely LOL

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  3. LOVE this Jen
    FABULOUS !
    Will be making one of these
    Hugs
    Lori

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    1. Oh I can't wait to see what you do with this, Lori!!!
      Smiles
      Jen

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  4. This is awesome...I made one very similar to hold all of my Distress Ink Pads about a year ago. Love that you used the Steampunk Debutante collection.

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    1. Oooh Patti I would love to see it!!! Do you have a picture of it on your blog? I made my Distress Ink Storage Unit back in September 2012. Couldn't do without either of them now :)

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    2. I don't have any pics yet, but I will take some and post for ya.....maybe tomorrow.

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  5. I love you storage spinner. I found you blog recently and I am working on the distress ink storage spinner right now. I'm always looking for better storage ways and I love your site for this. I love how they can be customized.
    Thank you so much for offering these tutorials.

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