hi guys! this is cindy lietz, your polymer clay tutorin today's studio tip, i'm going to show you how to set up an art supply inventory systemfor your planner. now, a little bit ago, i talked about settingup a planner for your crafting studio and in the back part, i showed you how i inventoryall my different supplies and i'm going to
stickles glitter glue color chart, show you that today too but one of the thingsthat happens if you have a lot of art supplies like i do, it takes-- once they start pilingup it-- it's a little bit hard to remember which colors you have, which particular suppliesyou have and so keeping track of it is a really good idea and as i have just a little samplingof some of the pencils and inks and things
that i have and it would be very hard to rememberwhich particular blue you had of any particular brand. so, the first thing i did quite a while ago,as i started off with as-- a system like this and this is a really good one if you are wantto have something small and something quite simple and all i have is just a blank littlebooklet where i have just put in different samples of the different paints that i haveand the different pencils. all i would do is just put a blotch of thepaint ,the-- the name of the brand and then the color name and i did this for a wholebunch of different pages so i had sections for watercolor pencils, sections for othertypes of art pencils.
here's my prismacolors, i have a lot morethan that now and that's kind of a real simple system that you can set up for all the differentkinds of paints, pencils, that kind of thing here's my gelato pen crayons, that kind ofthing but then when i went to a planner system, i decided to add planner pages and startedhunting down different sections of--or different printable things online. now, i've already talked about how i've gotmy planner set up and everything but in the back part here is where i have my suppliesand actually, it's not taking up that much room yet. i don't have the inventory set up for everysingle brand or a type of pencil but i'm working
on my way and i just want to show you howi've got that set up. so in a supply section in the back here, i'vegot my sections divided with these little journaling cards and this planner here isan a5 size which is a pretty standard, little bit larger sized planner, there are smallerones, there's bigger ones. you could do this in any size that you likeand i just made these little dividers so i've got my colored pencil divider here this onesays watercolor pencils and i've got little pocket pages with different printed out chartsthat i found online. now i'm going to-- on our blog at polymerclaytutor.com,i'm going to give you the links to all the different printables that i found online somake sure to go there if you want to figure
out-- find out which particular ones thati have here. now, you can make your own charts if you like,but some of the companies have made up charts that you can find online. so for example, i'll just pull this one outhere, this one is the prismacolor chart that they have for their soft core color pencils. so these are the prismacolor pencils pencilcrayons that you would find in michaels or just about any art store and this is a blankchart and you can see the colors that i haven't got yet are just white still and every timei buy a new pencil, i just sharpen it up and color in the right section.
then every time i go into michaels and i wantto buy a few pencils, all i do is i pull out my chart because i bring my planner with meand i just see which colors i don't have yet. now, it turns out i've got all the ones thatmichaels carries so in order to find the rest of these, i'm going to have to go look somewhereelse. but this is a really great way and in prismacoloris very clever, they've got a chart for every type of pencil, their crayons, their markers,their chalks and everything. now, some of the companies are not that smartas far as i'm concerned. if you've got a whole line of colored pencils,it is very wise of you to make a blank color chart.
now, some companies do have like a coloredcharts like for example, derwent watercolor, now i printed this in black and white butderwent watercolors have you know, the-- their color charts, these all look great here butthey would be the proper colors if i had printed on a colored printer but they're smarter ifthey would have a blank one that you could color out but it'll still work. this one for example, what i did is just printedout their chart, their color line and then i just colored over top of the the-- the nameswhere i happen to have those particular colors. now, it-- with a watercolor pencil the pencilcan look a little bit different it-- when it's when you use water on top of it so idid use my little water brush and put water
on top of those spots so that i could seewhat the color looks like when it was wet. now, some companies don't have charts at alland some handy bloggers have made their own charts and that's what this particular chartlooks it has was done by some blogger. this blogger wasn't very smart because theydidn't put the name on it so i'm not sure which one this is i probably have it writtendown somewhere and i can add that to the list if i've got it. now, there are charts for markers so theseare the spectrum noir markers, they've got kind of a neat little hexagon chart onlineand copic markers, copic doesn't have blank charts that i could find, this was actuallydone by a blogger and this one was at paperfections.com
i'll give a link for that one too. this one was a-- to the copic has so manymarkers, i mean and this was this one was done in 2012 but it looks to be quite currentto what their line is now anyways so and that was the most recent chart that i could find. there are-- oh here's another one here forthe prismacolor markers and see how in this case these ones look like little marker shapeswhich was is quite cute neat thing to do. faber castell isn't very good at making charts. i may go ahead and start making some of myown charts but i haven't gotten around to that yet.
a great company that has done some nice charts. this was this done privately no, i think thisone was done by the colorbox chalking guys but one of the things i wanted to show youis you can make your own little stamps for stamping in your chalks i mean your-- yourinks and things like that. so what i've done is i've got a little anacrylic block that use for sticking, you know, the clear rubber stamps too and all i've doneis i've cut out a little square around in this case there's a little rectangular pieceand i've got one on each side and i'll explain that in a second but this rectangular piecewas just cut off of a piece of craft foam. obviously, the color doesn't matter and ijust have a bunch of scraps so you can cut
out to whatever shape you want and you couldcut a large one or you could cut a small one or whatever you want but i just got a littlerectangle and then i just stuck it to my acrylic block with some double-stick tape. you could always remove it later, scrape itoff and clean it with some rubbing alcohol if i didn't want it on there anymore but that'swhat i did, i cut a little swatch shape and then i would take my ink added on and thenstamp it onto the blocks that i had of the different kinds of ink. now, sometimes you'll get a company that hasa whole bunch of colors and sometimes their colors like, for example this one here thisis the pigment ink, so that's how-- i found
some charts for the pigment inks here wellthey had quite a few colors but not all the colors i could find on the chart. so i just added a few from here. i had to look up the names of these colorsonline, it was a bit of a pain but i found them and i stamp them onto the thing there. now, in this case here for the brillianceink, the dew drops and the versa magic and that kind of thing, in my head, i always rememberthem as these teardrop-shaped ink pads and so i thought it would be kind of neat to maketeardrop shape stamps to put into those spots. so i just took a piece of that fun foam, cutit in the shape of a teardrop and when i stamped
all my teardrop shaped ink pads, i just didwith a teardrop. now you wouldn't have to use the colors youwouldn't have to make a swatch thing like this, it's just kind of handy to do if youlike, you could just use a rubber stamp or something but it gives a real good solid impression. you get a good impression of what the colorslook like. now, with the alcohol inks, they bleed outreally fast, i printed out the chart and then i put a drop of ink on it-- it just bled outreally quickly so if you're going to do that, you have to be quite careful. i could have put some alcohol ink on my glassmat here and then used stamp like this instead
that would have been a little bit more controlled. one company i found is just brilliant is ranger. now ranger has a really wide range of differentproducts like the adirondack inks, the archival inks, vintaj patina inks and look at theydid they made charts, blank charts a whole bunch of them, all the tim holtz distressink, the distress stain and so all i had to do is go to one spot on the ranger site andfind all those printables. he even has them for the distressed paintand i found, i printed them up but i haven't needed them yet so i didn't want to fill upmy planner but the-- they have the ones for dina wakeley media paints, the wendy vecchiembossing powders for stickles, for delusion
paints, the ink sprays that adirondack colorwash. these guys are smart and they've got all,so you can see their branding and everything and all the colors and so you don't have tolook them up you don't have to write them down, you can just print them out. now, usually their-- when you find a colorchart online, when you print it out it's going to land as an 8 1/2 by 11 size this is infact the same copic color sheet just to the 8 1/2 by 11 so i had to size it down for myplanner when i had put it in here. i'll flip back to it so you can see the difference,here's the size here. my particular printer, you can just choosean a5 size and then that will fit into these
pocket pages quite nicely. i also found out that in a5 size is approximatelyseventy three percent so if you print your page seventy-three percent, you're going toget this shrunk down to that size that works just great and so as far as the pocket pagesand things, if you want to women pocket pages in a planner, there's a couple of companiesthat do the 6x8 size pocket pages there's the snap! or the simple stories snap! pockets and the project life pockets. they both fit in an a5 planner though they'reslightly wider than the a5 size so they're 6x8, they'll work just fine, you will haveto probably punch extra holes to put in here
but the-- those ones both of those pocketpages have these two holes line up perfectly and then you just have to punch the outertwo on each set. so it's real doable and you can do-- put themin there no problem, you just have to hand punch them out and then another thing i justrecently did was i made a sampler sheet for my washi tape and washi tape is another oneof those things where you can have a whole bunch of different patterns and sometimes,it goes on sale and then you think oh do i have any of that? and you don't want more of the same one unlessit was a total favorite so i just got ripped off i put out my first of all i took a pieceof card stock cut it the size to fit my pocket
page put a cute little colorful label at thetop and then i just ripped out little sections of washi tape and stuck them on there on bothsides. and the cool thing about washi tape is it'sit's very repositionable so if i run out of this particular color, i can just take itoff of there and then i know that i don't have that tape anymore or i could move thisto a spot worse and you know i just desperately need more of that particular one. so that's a nice thing about washi tape, wecan make these little cards. now, i couldn't find a printout sheets onlineand i haven't had time to make some charts of myself so there are going to be a bunchof products that i don't have printouts for
yet like the glimmer mists this so i justhand wrote the amount just that i wouldn't double by them and of course i've got wallsof product and all kinds of glue all kinds of paints and pens and / pealex powders andglues and glitters so eventually i can put it all into the system now if i have everythingi owned in a binder i may just have to have his zipper binder all together and not includedin my planner or have some that i swapped out-- in and out but i thought you would enjoyseeing that how i've got things set up for myself and maybe it'll work for you you canmodify it however you like do it in a great big three ring binder if you want or justhave a little tiny booklet that you can throw into your purse that you've just written downall of your different pens and inks and colors
and things like that that way you're not wastingyour money buying stuff that you already have. alright? so i hope that was helpful for you and ifit was do let us know if you like this video and if you've got any cool tips or thingsthat you would like to share make sure to leave those in the comment section below andif there is something you don't know yet and
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