Quick Tip Tuesday: Storing Twine

Happy Tuesday everyone and welcome to Quick Tip Tuesday! My name is Lisa from A Mermaid's Crafts and I'm excited to be a new design team member! I will be posting the Tuesday Quick Tips for the next few weeks!

My tip today was born out of necessity. I love adding twine to my projects but I haven't gotten around to storing it properly. This is embarrassing, but here is my current twine storage:

Sad, huh?! All of it stuffed into a plastic bag. Each time I use it, I struggle to find the ends and it gets knotted easily. It's a mess. So in my search for a better storage plan, I remembered a notable tip from the July 12 Cricut Chirp. I saved the issue with the intention of organizing my twine. It only took me three months to get around to it :)

So I gathered some supplies and went to work. I used thick cardstock (the thicker the better) and punched tags with my Marvy Uchida punch. Cardboard would probably work better but I liked the idea of using the tag shape. I taped one end of the twine on the tag and wrapped it around and around. When I got to the end, I cut a small slit in the top corner of the tag and anchored the twine in place. I punched a hole with my crop-a-dile and threaded the tags through an o-ring clip. In just a few minutes I went from this:

To this:

Now I won't have to struggle each time I want to add twine to my cards. I found some other great storage ideas from The Twinery. Click HERE to see those options.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you will join us next week for another Quick Tip Tuesday!

Have a great day,