Flower Cupcake Topper

Celebrate the everyday moments with these cute Doodle Flower Cupcake Toppers 

from Design Team Member Beth Watson. 

Festive for a crafty birthday, a Summer picnic, or even a Tuesday afternoon!

Featured Storage:  Deflecto Rotating Carousel Organizer

Materials Needed:

• Heavyweight Cardstock
• Markers or Colored Pencils
• Scissors
• Flat Wooden Picks
• Adhesive
• 1/8" Assorted Green Ribbon
• Sprinkles

Directions:

1. Doodle your flower design onto heavyweight cardstock.
2. Color in your design with markers or colored pencils.
3. Cut around the image with scissors.
4. Adhere the design onto the end of the wooden pick.
5. For some added texture (and fun), measure and cut six inch lengths of assorted green ribbons. 
6. Tie the ribbons in a knot around the wooden pick and trim ends. The ribbon mimics leaves and makes the toppers extra fancy!
7. Once the Doodle Flower Cupcake Toppers are complete, it’s time to decorate the cupcakes and celebrate!

You can download a free printable copy of Beth's doodles on her website here.

Beth says..."Organizing is a Breeze with the Deflecto Rotating Carousel Organizer.  It fits perfectly on the top shelf of my baking cabinet with plenty of room for additional supplies. The fun secret about the Deflecto Rotating Carousel Organizer is that the base is a Lazy Susan! So, I can spin it around and have access to everything on the top shelf."

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DIY Cleaning Caddy

Now that the kids are home, that means more messes for you.  

To help you keep up with those messes, how about creating a DIY Cleaning Caddy for those essential items that you use most often.

Keep Kid Messes at Bay.  

Stocked with individual hand wipes and cleaning towels, the Deflecto Stackable Caddy makes the perfect Grab and Go DIY Cleaning Caddy and a little less stress with the mess.

Share your home and organization projects with us using #DeflectoAtHome

Organizing the Messy Desk Drawer

The start of the new year is a great time to organize your messy desk drawers. Stop Hunting and Start Organizing! Staying organized is key to any creative space. If you cannot find the item you need to use, it can make the creative process extremely hard where the organization is key!  

Design team member Erin Reed shows us how she transforms her messy desk drawer with a little help from the Deflecto Caddy Storage Tray.  The tray helps keep all the little bits and pieces from rolling all around the drawer. Designed to work with the Deflecto Caddy Organizing system, the tray nests securely inside the 


Large Caddy Container, it's also perfect for using inside a desk drawer. 


For more desk organizing tips you can read Erin's full post here.

Create Store, Create More or #Cr8StoreCr8More for storage

Wintertime Crafting

Holidays with all the parties and family gatherings bring a lot of opportunities for photos. By New Years Day you've got a fair amount of pictures. To get those photos off your phones/cameras and into albums, you need a plan.  

Design team member Lorrie McCullers is a scrapbooker and loves using her Deflecto Stackable Caddy Organizer to get her supplies in order. Lorrie says, "I'm not a winter person, so in winter I spend my time indoors working on my crafts at home and crops."  The Deflecto Stackable Caddy Organizer is perfect for both. You can put tons of tools and supplies in the containers, and you don't have to worry about anything falling out, thanks to the snap-tight lids. The caddies stack together and stay together with the lift and lock handles. You can have it sitting right beside you at the craft table, at home or pop them into the car and take them to the nearest crop.  

If you love to stamp and color and have a lot of markers, you can use the Interlocking Marker Organizer in place of one of the caddy containers to hold your markers. This organizer has rubber inserts that will hold different sized markers. Thick or thin, the markers all fit into the Interlocking Marker Organizer.

Lorrie's not kidding when she says she has all of her supplies in her stackable caddies. She fills her caddies with scissors, inkpads, adhesives, ink sprays, paper punches, and embellishments. Lorrie takes her caddies to every crop and never has to unpack the supplies when she gets home. It's ready to go wherever she wants to work.  

No need to hunt for supplies, they're all in the caddies!

You can read Lorrie's full post here.

 Create Store, Create More or #Cr8StoreCr8More for storage

Organizing Jewelry Making Supplies

End of the year organizing:

Organizing can be a pain, but it's also refreshing to start a new year with things in place. When Kymona started metal stamping a few years ago, she said her supplies were all over the place-in drawers, baskets, handmade pouches- everywhere. It was getting on her nerves! She decided for the new year, all of her jewelry making supplies needed to be in one handy place so she can create without looking in a million different spots.

The stackable caddy organizer and caddy storage tray was her first choice in organizing. The caddy has multiple units that can be conveniently stacked and locked using the lift and lock feature. Each compartment can be taken out of the frame and used independently. It has three different compartment sizes including small, medium and large. Since jewelry supplies come in different sizes, this feature is excellent for holding tools, jewelry pieces, and accessories separately.  

The caddy storage tray fits neatly inside the large storage container. It has ten medium compartments and one large compartment. All the small jewelry pieces fit neatly in these compartments.

The Stackable Caddy Organizer is great for on-the-go storage.

Read Kymona's full post here.

Create Store, Create More or #Cr8StoreCr8More for storage

An Organizing Solution for the Junk Drawer

We all hate the dreaded junk drawer, but most of us have them. Junk drawers are the family dumping ground for anything you don't know what to do with. They hold things like pet toys, rubber bands, and other miscellaneous items. The worst part you can never find what you are looking for!   

Do you have a junk drawer that needs organizing?  

Design team member, Nadine Carlier had one of those drawers and decided to do something about it. She used Deflecto's Carousel Rotating Organizer as the perfect solution for cleaning out her junk drawer. Since the carousel rotates, she moved it into the pantry and can move it around to find the bin she needs. As a bonus, she says "I can now use that drawer in my kitchen for kitchen things." The bins are clear making it easy to see what is in each one.

Each bin is a clear canister and has a snap-tight lid that can be easily removed to get what you need.


You can read Nadine's full post here.

Create Store, Create More or #Cr8StoreCr8More for storage

December Daily Organization

Have you heard about creating a December Daily?

With everyone so busy during the Holidays, a December Daily® is a mini-album project that documents the 25 days leading up to Christmas. It's a great way to remember all the fun you've had.

For her December Daily, design team member Anita Scroggins shows us how she keeps everything organized using the Deflecto Large 3 Drawer Organizer and Small 3 Drawer Organizer. Anita gathers up her papers, embellishments, adhesives, album, and other things she wants to use on this year's album. She then sorts everything by type and how she will be using it.  

Anita even uses one of the drawers from the small organizer on top to hold stamps, ribbons, adhesives, and journal pens. Since the drawers in the Small Organizer are divided, they hold the larger items upright and keep everything in its place.  

When everything's in place it makes working on your project easier too. 

Read Anita's full post here.

Create Store, Create More or #Cr8StoreCr8More for storage

Interlocking Tilt Bins...All around the House

It doesn't matter if you need a little or a lot of help organizing. The Deflecto Interlocking Tilt Bins are great to use all around the house. We have a few organizing ideas to get you started.

For the Kids:

Kids are the number #1 mess makers around most homes. The Interlocking Tilt Bins are great for playdoh, Legos and other art supplies.

In the Bathroom:

Hair ties, makeup, cotton swabs, toothpaste, you name it! Clear up the clutter on the bathroom counter.

In the Garage:

There are so many bits and pieces to organize out in the garage. Perfect in Mancaves too.

In the Nursery:

The Interlocking Tilt Bins are perfect for keeping things handy when your hands are full.

In the Craft Room:

The tilt bins are interlocking and stackable. Great for storage needs all around the house, wherever you need a little extra storage. The nice thing about the interlocking single tilt bins is that you can use just one or use several. They can also be hung on the wall or used with the mounting bar.

Create Store, Create More or #Cr8StoreCr8More for storage

Organizing your Embellishments

Looking for a great way to organize your embellishments?

Design Team Member, Nadine Carlier used the Deflecto Rotating Carousel Organizer to organize her large collection of artificial flowers and leaves. This is visually appealing and really helpful in finding what you're looking for.



Nadine says the Deflecto Rotating Carousel was the answer to all her flower and leaf organization issues. She organizes her flowers by color and takes only the bins that she needs to her workspace instead of having all her flowers on her desk taking up much needed space to craft. The Rotating Carousel comes with 9 bins, three large bins, and 6 small-bins which are great for organizing items all around the house.

You can read Nadine's full post here.

Marker Storage Solutions

Happy National Craft Week!

Saturday was National Card Making Day and now we have National Craft Week? Be still my crafty little heart. (Seriously, I thought every week was craft week.) Since we’re talking all things “crafty” this week, I’d like to ask you a personal question.

How do you store your markers?

When it comes to markers, we all have our opinions and preference on which are our favorite. Lately, I’ve been curious about how everyone stores their markers and what works best for you. I started rubber stamping in the mid-'90s and slowly built up a nice collection of Art Markers. Personally, I have been using Tombow Markers for over 20 years and some markers in my collection are almost as old.   

Up until recently, my marker storage system was just about as old as my collection. A wobbly little holder (with a slight lean) and an extra basket for the overflow. It worked, but it wasn’t quite as efficient as I wanted it to be.

Recently, I started doing a lot more cardmaking and using my markers again.

That’s when I started using the Expandable Marker Accordion* from Deflecto. It is the ultimate in marker storage and portability! It has 80 slots that hold markers, but because my Tombow and Marvy markers are skinnier than Copic markers, I can easily put two markers in each slot.

The Expandable Marker Accordion comes with a clear lid that easily snaps in place and a handle that makes it easy to take your markers with you to classes and crops, keeping everything secure.

Depending on your workspace, you can use it in a straight line, a U shape, as a cube or in my favorite, a zig-zag pattern. Whatever combination works best for you and the project that you’re working on.

Let’s talk another option.

Maybe you’re just starting out your marker collection or you need a little more flexibility with your marker storage, you might like Deflecto’s Interlocking Marker Organizer. This little marker holder can be used solo or because it has an interlocking design it can be connected to additional units, making it perfect whether you use it upright or horizontal.

And the best part, the Interlocking Marker Organizer also fits into the Stackable Caddy Organizer. You can fit six marker organizers into the Stackable Caddy for the Ultimate Grab and Go. So many great options to fit your crafting style.