Today we are so excited to bring you our next Creative Spaces We Love post featuring a loved member of our SCT community, Gloria Parra! If you follow our Instagram feed, or have ever taken part in a Crop & Create Delivered event, you’ll have probably seen Gloria’s space set up in such a beautiful way for our events, but we’re so excited to show you more of where Gloria creates today! We know it will give you some great ideas for how to organize your space, too!

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Hello, SCT friends! This is Gloria from @gloriascraps. I’m so excited to share with you my craft room in sunny Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I have been scrapbooking for over 15 years and own a scrapbooking store called “Nube de Papel” which means Paper Cloud.

I have been crafting in my basement for almost 8 years and we’re finally building our forever home and my dream craft room. Hopefully, it will be ready by 2023, and I can’t wait! I am dreaming and planning what will be my favorite room in our new house.

This is the overview of my current craft room. It is far from perfect, but it makes me so happy! Spending time in this room is my therapy and it brings me so much joy, peace, creativity, and happiness.

The enormous table in the middle used to be the workshop table from my store, but we soon outgrew it and I decided to bring it home to my craft room. This is where I do all my crafty projects, I love the huge amount of space I have to create and get messy.

This is where I sit down to create almost every day. On hand I have all the essentials such as my scissors, rulers, adhesives, pens, corner rounder, ink applicators, journals, planners etc. I love having my Scrapbook.com Stadium Organizer by my side with the current collection or kit I’m working with and the 360 Craft Tower holds all the goodies I use most frequently.

I love traveling and getting fun mugs, bowls, dishes and candles that will add color and character to my room. I love collecting them and the ones from Disney are my favorite!

This is one of my most used and favorite bowls. I love putting different ephemera or elements that I fussy cut in the three compartments for my current project.

In the back of my working table, I have this colorful wall with two big Ikea peg boards, which is my favorite space in this room. It stores my most used inks, corner punches, Nuvo drops, watercolors and tools. I love the amount of color it adds to the space, and it just makes me so happy looking at it every single day.

I love how easy it is to access all my favorite supplies from my working station. Having your favorite product at arm’s reach makes all the difference when creating.

At the bottom of this wall I have a 4 x 2 Kallax unit, where I store some of my 12 x 12-inch yearly albums and my beloved paper collections in some Scrapbook.com and Cropper Hopper plastic envelopes.

This is my favorite way to organize my collections—the plastic envelopes are amazing for that. I love having the papers and embellishments all together. It makes it so much easier when you want to create. When I have used a good amount of the collection, I go ahead and separate it, storing them in other places by category (paper, enamel dots, sticker sheets, ephemera, etc.)

At the end of the room, I have my two working tables. One of them is set up for my mixed media projects and has my stitching machine plugged and ready to be used. The other table is where I do all my computer work and has all my printers ready to go as well. The baskets on top hold my embellishments which are organized by theme such as chipboard, frames, flowers, alphabet Thickers, etc. The big white rolling cart (a Hudson cart from Michaels) holds all of my December Daily products and albums that are still a work in progress.

On one side of my wall, I have a couple of Scrapbook.com ink storage units where I keep my Distress, Stamp Market and Taylored Expression inks.

I use baskets to store embellishments by categories such as sticker sheets, puffy stickers, enamel dots, labels, chipboard, etc. When I’m not inspired to create, I like going to my craft room and looking at the supplies I have.

In the back wall of my room, I have an Ikea Kallax unit that holds more embellishment baskets, albums, and some fun bowls and trinkets purchased in different vacations.

The transparent drawer unit from Michaels holds all my ephemera packs which I have transferred to Avery Elle medium plastic storage envelopes and are still in the process of being labeled. I am a huge ephemera lover and have tons of it. I have this drawer units divided by company and designers.

This new storage solution is working well for me. I cut the back part of the ephemera package where you can see all the elements included in it, and adhere it to my plastic envelope. Now I know exactly where to find my ephemera and I can access it easily. The best part is that there is no bulk from the ephemera packages, and my collection can keep growing!

On the left side of my room, I have a little nook where I have my Peloton bike and my die cutting station and Crop and Create event table.

This unit holds my stamps, dies and machines such as my Big Shot, my Cinch machine and trimmers. The black tote holds all my Crop and Create kits that I still need to work on. I’m a huge fan of the Crop and Create events, and I try not to miss a single one. That’s why I leave my little party set up all ready to go!

On the left side I have an Ikea closet that holds all my patterned paper. I have them divided by my favorite designers such as Shimelle, Maggie Holmes, Dear Lizzy, etc. and by companies such as Pinkfresh Studio, Simple Stories, Echo Park, etc. This is all the paper I’m allowed to have, if it doesn’t fit in the plastic containers, I know it’s time to purge!

This is my mini me, Leticia. She loves scrapbooking as well and we both love our rolling carts. I have a couple of them all around my craft room and they help me stay organized. This pink one holds my sticker sheets, sticker books and word Thickers. The WRMK project cart has been a huge life saver, and I keep products here for the different projects I’m working on such as my daughters baby album, school albums, travel albums in different trays. It is so practical to get the tray whenever I’m ready to work on that specific album and have everything ready and contained to start working on it. I really recommend it!

Right beside my working table, we have a little family room with a big couch and TV in front of it. We also have my daughter’s desk where she did her virtual learning during the pandemic. She now uses this desk to work on her own scrapbooks while mom is working on her projects.

Thank you so much for stopping by the SCT blog today to take a peek at my craft room. I hope you liked my little happy place and if you have any comments or questions, please let me know. I hope you have an amazing day my friends, and don’t forget to “do more of what makes you happy!”

Find more of Gloria’s creations at these links: Instagram | Shop