My 2023 Craft Room Tour 

Thank you for doing Craft Room Tour, Cathy! It took me 2 hours to finish watching it, because every 5 or 10 minutes I started to do research or organize my craft desk, LOL. It's so motivating!!

The stencil storage binders: put some black, or dark, paper behind each stencil so that you ca see the pattern. Then you can also add another stencil on the back!

I usually go to Lowes or Home Depot and clear them out of the magnet vent closer. You get 3 to a pack and can be cut down to have 12 5x7s. Then cut down if need smaller size. I double stick tape them, then arrange and slide the stamp that goes with it, into it. :)

It’s nice that you still have craft/ dining if you still want to be with your peeps and you want to die cut or color or whatever. That way you can work on something and still be with them. I can see you working alongside the littles. That is definitely happy vitamin d lighting in there!

I honestly cannot say there is one specific thing I liked most! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it all. I just retired to care for my elderly parents and after the passing of my Dad last November, I found myself with so much free time it was depressing. I returned to embroidery, which I really enjoy and just started to dab at card making. Your craft room is so well organized, attractive and lovely. I even like your voice, soothing, not too fast at speech and believe and hope to learn card making with you! Thank you for sharing your inspiration. Be blessed!

My craft room used to be a screened in porch. It's been closed in with windows. It's long and narrow like a bowling lane. It's cluttered right now with my craft area on one side of the room and my personal living room on the other. Plus I'm a beginner knitter who collects yarn so I need to pare down and reorganize so I have more room to move about

I love craft room tours, and I can honestly say yours is one of the best I’ve seen! I love so many of your ideas for storage. Glad you’re happy in your new craft room!

Congratulations on your craft room! You've waited a LONG time for it, and I'm sure you are enjoying it immensely!!

Thank you for the tour. My 2 yr old grandson calls my craft area 'Gram's mess '. The video has given me inspiration to organize. 😊

Love your new space! Thanks for taking the time to share it and inspire us! I work in a craft/hallway - it's uber tiny, but organized and it works for me! Ikea is awesome for organizing small spaces for less money, and while I don't have a Kallax (yet), I do have several of their plain kitchen cabinet boxes (no doors!) hung on the wall for amazing paper storage. I have tons of 12x12 cardstock (I make cards and 3d projects for sale at my artists co-op)and they can handle the weight. I am obsessed with my 3 kivissle drawer organizers, so thanks for sharing that they will fit in a kallax one day!

I love your studio. It is absolutely wonderful. I love how organized you are. Thanks for sharing. I am now calling my room a studio. Because I am not just a crafter, I’m an artist. Sandy Allnock an artist on RU-vid from Washington State and you helped me realize this. Thank you 😀

Y'all, that was a fun tour. I love and work best in organization. I'm happy for you that you were able to move upstairs and have that dedicated space. What a fun place. I'm sure it took a wee bit of time deciding where to put what and make it functional. I see some of your storage that I want/need. I've never heard of some of these companies so thank you for introducing those to us. Thanks for the tour and I hope you get many years of pleasure out of creating in the CZ zone. We'll be benefiting also.

"You need to look away, Let's move on" Oh my gosh Cathy, you are just such a riot! Its always so much fun to watch you! Great space and organization, I love your ideas!

Wow what a great organized craft room! Very impressive. I can’t believe you used to craft in your little dining room/kitchen. You have so much cool stuff. Love it. TFS

I ended up in hospital for a few days and I just got home and had the joy of watching your craft room! My fav part is where you actually do your crafting! Such a neat space!!❤

Thanks so much for the tour...I am inspired to set up my "work area"...an unfinished room in my house. I got great ideas from your tour!

So I just moved and have a much smaller space for my craft room... I loved watching this because I have unpacked some of my stuff but have shoved them into rolling carts for now. I need to unpack the rest of my stuff before I can even begin to figure out how to organize it and where it will all go. I got some really good ideas fro your tour. I believe this took you several months right? At this point, I can't create anything yet because I can't find what I want! Thank you for all you do for me personally and the crafting world as a whole.

Thanks Cathy Z for showing us your new room where your creative magic happens - as someone that also lives in an old century house I "get it" we just have to look at the quirks as it's personality. I will say, as much as I love your new creative digs, I do miss getting to see your Orchids that live in the Craft/Dining Room. Thanks for the name dropping on/of the products that are working well for you, it's always helpful to see and hear about new to us products, we gals who love crafting love the tips and inside info. Again, Thanks for your tips of the trade. The only thing missing was getting to see your grand-kitty today.

I love your craft room. I enjoy watching other people's craft rooms. To me it inspires me to decorate, organize and create. I also love the wall color in your room. It’s a warm color but not a dark color that will make the room dark. Plus I love that green color.

Thanks for the tour! My cable management is terrible in comparison to yours. 😂 My husband is constantly trying to get me to fix it, but I change things around so often that I don’t want to deal with fixing them. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I love the fairy light tree. I think you’ve motivated me to get a peg board. I’ve been on the fence, but I like how you have your swatches hanging. 🙂

I have the fairy light tree💜💜 Your studio is great!!🩷🩷

I emailed Organize More and even though they don’t have the large in ink holder on their website, they were happy to make one for me. It took several weeks to get, but I love it!!

I so appreciate the way you share all the things you've learned and used in your crafting in such a free handed way. It's really encouraging and has been such a blessing to me as I've watched and experimented in crafting over the last several months. Thank you

Thanks for the tour of your studio, Cathy! I appreciate the info on the Ikea items you use. And ( emphasis added like you would say) I especially love your beautiful orchids! I have an orchid collection as well!

Love it! You can hunker down and just craft, what more could anyone ask for? I'm a little worried though, now that the dining room is (almost) craft free do you have to cook more meals?!? lol Hope not! Enjoy your space, Kathy.....Life Is Good (knock on wood) 😉

Your filming setup is inspirational! Thanks for sharing with us Cathy.

OH MY GOODNESS I CAN’T BELIEVE I FOUND YOU ON RU-vid! I bought your book, Clean & Simple Scrapbooking, over 15 years ago when I first got into scrapbooking, way before social media, back when I was in high school. Saw your video pop up on my feed, immediately recognized your name, and was shocked! Good to see you still crafting, Cathy! Your craft room is lovely ☺️

I was so excited to see you did your new craft studio room video. I have been waiting for this video for awhile. I love your new craft studio!! What a great set up! Thank you for sharing your room with us.

Your studio is fabulous! Thanks for the tour!

Great video Cathy!! I love when people share their creative spaces & yours did not disappoint ❤

One more thing, i LOVE OLD HOMES!!! One day i'd love to watch a video showing off your beautiful home! ❤

I just wanna say: for a non-tech person (like myself) your tech corner is downright terrifying! Holy moly! 😮

TY for sharing your craft room! It is eye catching, functional and well organized. Your filming set-up and desk is awe inspiring. Lots of great ideas abound in your room. :)

Love, love, loved watching your craft room video. I love that you are so organized and practical. Thank you for sharing your space and ideas❤️❤️

The blender brushes look like a flower arrangement.

I wasn't able to catch you live, but I watched this afternoon. I love your space ❤️ thank you for the tour!

Hi. Great craft room, great storage, great organisation, great display, it's fabulous and I'm green with envy! 😊

Love your crafting room/space! Thanks for sharing!

I love your space. If I had known 4 years ago that I would still be in this world and space, I would have done the same thing by buying the IKEA items. They make storage so easy but I had folding shelves from Origami. And so I used what I had. I use plastic storage boxes from Iris to hold my stamps and they stack. Paper is kept in a long item with paper slots. It works fine. When my roommate had to move to a rehab unit, I had a 2 bedroom apartment by myself and no furniture to fill the living room. It is now my studio and about the size of your office. Your set-up looks great and is easy to work with. I love the video. Thanks for all the joy you bring to fellow crafters. I love watching you make and hearing you BOOP. You go, girl!

love your new craft space! thank you for sharing I always love watching craft room tours

Thanks so much CZ for the tour really enjoyed it and all your videos 🎉❤😊

Wonderful!! I love seeing your new craft space! I'm happy for you. Wonderful to hear your voice too. I'll have to watch this again as there are several items I've always loved and would love to purchase if they are available. Hugs, sweet Cathy!! ~ Audrina from DFW. P.S. I would treasure the most simple card from you. I can send you my address if you are willing. Am I a begger? Possibly. Probably. :)))

I love your craft/office space. I currently am using half, of a very small bedroom, where I keep my craft table and a couple of plastic drawers. Lol. Thank you for sharing with us. I love seeing other people's creating spaces. I also enjoy your videos and sometimes make a card along with you.

LOL, it's taken me like five days to watch this, keep getting interrupted by children and cat. I have two hobbies that I work on, Ball Jointed Dolls, and scrapbooking. I have a walk in closet, not big, could be a little bigger, by my son made me the tall Alex ones I think, and about 4 of boxes we found on amazon to put several try as in. So I have twelve 12x12 containers that fit neat, then two other Alex, but not the 12 wide. I have my Lawn Fawn/Simon Says sitting on them in the long plastic containers, then four (YES) Four elpha hanging sets to put the rest of stamps in. Its insane. So seeing yours, and its very nice, makes me happy. But yes, having everything in one room is awesome. We moved to the house that we are in now, because it had an extra "mother in law" bonus room. With the closet and bathroom. If I could get a mini fridge and hot plate, my kids would never see me again. :)

I have been watching you for a long time. I remember your space in the beginning. You are a great teacher and I love that you have such a great space now. ❤ congrats 🎉😊

Moving from nursing home to my new handicap home. Woo hoo. Very enjoyable video. Good ideas.

I had to make my own dividers for my papers. I bought thick clear Mylar and cut it to 12x12 or bought it that size and added removable , erasable tabs to them. It’s nice you found some made! I’ll be checking out a lot of the little things I might be able to afford. I just bought paper trays for my 8.5x11 papers so I’m exited about that. The one thing you’ve done I really wish I could afford to do, is put them in the pockets. That keeps the from getting dusty and can hold half sheets or quarters well. But if you added only that up. You have a whole house in that room! Lol I know what they cost because I wanted them as soon as they came out, but not on disability. I’m ashamed of my room. It’s so important to me I’d sell half my furniture if I could buy those page pockets! I love those. I also would have a peg wall like you have for the things that I’d like to organize differently. But definitely jealous of the pocket folders. No hiding it. Butt it’s got to be the closest that ng to being in heaven with a room so nice!

Your craft room looks great, but I do miss you saying “welcome to my craft/dining room.” It always made me smile because I used to craft at my kitchen table before I had the Container Store build a craft room for me. Enjoy your new space. I’m going to be looking for the tower where you have your TH Inks. Thanks for sharing...

cooling of any kind will be great. Hope you got it in before the summer heat! Thanks for all the sharing, humor and inspiration. Bye dining room. :)

Your new room is amazing!! I need to clean up my room that I have. You have inspired me!!

Wow! Love your craft room. I have a spare bedroom as my space which I love, but I don’t have coordinating storage pieces. I do have 1 Alex drawer which I love, & an IKEA tabletop with rolling legs & small desk.the 2 wall cubicle units are from Kmart many years ago & are only 11x11 cubes (9 cubes per unit), so a lot of things (eg paper, IKEA drawers, etc) don’t fit in them. But I make it work. I have been doing acrylic & watercolor painting for several years, started making all my own cards in 2016 when I retired, and recently started playing around with distress inks/oxides & soft pastels. I just finished a little organizing of the various mediums I have so I can find what I need as I do something with a particular medium. It’s much more fun crafting when I have things put away & I can right into playing!😊

Thanks for sharing! It was fun to see your crafty space. Now we can imagine crafting with you when we see your videos. I think you’ve done a great job in a small space. My craft room isn’t very big, either, but I’m thankful for it! 😊❤️

I missed the live (I was on a backyard clean out, donation/dump run this morning), but I’m here now. Sad to have missed the live😢 but at least I still get to see it. On to watching your video.😊.

Very nice. I’m on my Dining room table now working my way back into my disaster of a craft room 😂 my gdaughter says it looks like a Hobby Lobby exploded in there 😂. Also I too have a fairy light and I love it!! You’re awesome and I love your videos. Thank you ❤

Having craft space is great thing to in a master room with walking chairs sweet dreams Ryan

Cathy, I finally made time to watch your new studio video. What can I say? I think it’s perfect! It’s real life and very much my style. I can’t thank you enough for sharing. My room is half boxed up in the process of moving so I have no inspiration. You made my day my friend ❤

Congratulations on your crafting space❣️You have it so well organized. Love it💖

Great video! So many craft room tours are of such amazing-Architectural Digest level rooms, that are fun to watch, but not realistic for many of us. Once again, you show us the “real life-I live-in-an-old-house-w/tiny-closets-and-don’t-have-AC” version” Great use of the space and useful tips-thank you!!

WOW you have a LOT in that room. The closet is also packed>. Thanks for sharing.

Lynn Le Bel I like the fair ry light. I say if things make you happy that's a must have😊

You are the most well organized crafter and your craft room is exactly how I would organize mine. For now I have my craft supplies in my bedroom 😂 But thank you for sharing

The craft room is cool but I love that you have Glassy Babies! My sister has a huge collection and I have a cherished few. I need to bring them into my craft room!

I loved this CZ. My room is 11'x14 and has a tiny boudoir. Toilet n shower. Just thought I'd use a fancy word for a room I wont use. Its hubbies business room. 😊 But theres a spare bedroom.. 8'x11" Ive already claimed for storage. No tricked out room with my name on it. I even get physically ill while viewing tricked out rooms.😢 Not sure I dont get a teeny homicidal if I view too many in a row. I had about 10% of what they cost. I just waited so long to freely create. Scaled my other crafting loves way down. Like now I keep no fabric stored up nor yarn. I purchase per item things now. But mostly other than card making I keep watercolor art supplies and mixed media supplies. Theyre like mini vacations. But of all the rooms Ive viewed yours makes the most sense for me. Funny I use most of the same brands in inks and stamps. I have Simon Hurley inks and my Tonic dies. I use them for sales and neighborly holiday makes n treats. I wish I could sfford every set you've created. Im very much into snarky stamps, etc. Very cautiously used in sales here in N.W. MONTANA. Like the hidden Bible belt. No insult implied. Thx for everything you do. I do miss the start of your vids when youd say 'craft/dining room' 😊❤❤😊

I'm glad you found a happy place😊

Awesome new studio!!!!! If anyone deserves a wonderful studio it is most definitely you. Thank you for sharing. MaryLisa

That was a great tour of your studio! I will definitely try out some of your storage ideas in my space. Thanks for sharing your space.

This is great. I have labeled my drawer for pastes as “Goop”

Oh my goodness Kathy, I'm trying to get ready to start my own channel. I'm very discouraged now. I have none of this fancy stuff. 😮 Thank you for letting us enjoy your beautiful craft studio. Some of these items i use in my own space, 😊 creativity, and creating is such a wonderful diversion from everyday stresses!! You have made life much more enjoyable by sharing your life with us! Much love, Kim Hansen ❤️

What a fabulous use of space! You did a great job. 😊

Thanks for the awesome tour. You've inspired me to rearrange and reorganize some of my tools. I always enjoy your videos

Love your new craft room, I love old houses and I think you have done an amazing job with your space. I recognized your wooden chairs in the ding room. The house I grew up in Detroit with my grand parents had wooden chairs just like yours. About 10 years ago my husband and I moved into an old house and had a Mitsubishi Wall mounted unit put in , in about 4 rooms,, It was expensive but so worth it. 🙂

❤❤❤❤!!! I LOVE organizing almost as much as I love paper crafting!! This looks AMAZING & love all of your design/storage ideas!! Thanks for the tour!!

Wonderful space Cathy! I obviously don't have much "technical stuff" but am a little envious of your organization. My craft space is in the basement with zero natural light and an old desk and banquet table HA! Still, it work for me now. Maybe one day I can have something a little more cheerful like you do. Thanks for sharing!

I feel like the weight of the dies I have will fall from 2nd floor to the 1st floor. TYSM for sharing! You are organized.

Hello Cathy! Have to say sometimes I miss your opening “craft/dining room”. I’m excited to see your craft room and happy that you have a designated crafting space. I’ll have to catch it later on Saturday. I’m taking an all day card class at the Enchanted Cottage, Lewisville, North Carolina on Saturday. Spending the day there with my crafty friends. Thank you in advance for sharing!

Love your space Kathy, very inspiring ❤

Thank you for sharing your studio space with everyone. What I like most is the ambience that your space creates, the fact that you show your awesome family photos (though not the focus of your video but, our families shape us into who we are, who we become) and, your Go, Dog. Go! book (my favorite as child). Throughout your tour I kept wondering to myself, where on earth does she keep her stamps and dies??? Then came the answer... now, a question, maybe two: How long do you keep your old stamps/dies/stencils and now I guess glimmer plates, too? Sooner or later, the breaking point hits where you find you haven't got any space left and/or, you don't use some of them anymore so, what do you do with them?

Thank you, Cathy! This was such fun to see how you've set up your space for now. I am so glad you moved upstairs, I loved you working in your craft/dining room but always felt bad about your shaky table. I used to work on a folding table and when I moved to a solid work surface, the difference was fabulous. Love your craft space, the video was worth waiting for!

Thank you for sharing your space with us. So many amazing organizational spaces. I have not delved into your type of card-making, but it sure is beautiful.

Thank u Cathy. Congratulations on your own creative space. It has been a long time coming. Enjoy it. Thank u 4 sharing it with us. Have a great, blessed day.

Thank you so much for sharing. I think it's a beautiful space. I have no feelings about where you create...I just loved when you said craft slash dining room... it made me laugh. I'll follow you wherever you craft.

Cathy, watching your videos makes me happy. I recently lost my husband to pancreatic cancer and watching your videos helped me through the griveing. Your funny, love your sense of humor and you have a beautiful soul.

Thank you for sharing your craft studio. I got some great ideas from you on how to store some stuff in my craft room.

What a wonderful set up you have in your crafty studio now Cathy! Love it all! A real dream building space! xoxo

What a great creative space! You have inspired me to reorganize my own craft room. So many wonderful organizational tools. Thanks for sharing your space & ideas with us!

I love your room! Useful and covers real life necesities. I really like your stream area ♥

It is so fun to have a dedicated craft room! Love the things you have done to your craft room!

YAY so excited

so happy!! can't wait!

Thank you 🙏🏻 you so much for sharing. It is really good to see where and how the magic happens. I know how much time and tidying 🤣 must have gone into making this video and that makes me appreciate it even more.

OMG, Cathy....I would do anything to be as organized as you. It's such a beautiful craft room and so is the area you create in. I've always loved that about you, girl! Thanks, so much, for going to all this extra work to share your spaces with us...I really appreciate it. Now, hopefully, I will finally get mine in order

Looks great Cathy! This tour has me inspired to take a less-than-perfect, old, compact space use it it more intelligently for my crafting supplies. Love the details you provided! Long time fan!

I'm so excited!!

love it!!

Can’t wait!!

i like the homey feel of this room. sure, kind of small. kind of cramped but everything is within reach.

I love your design studio, Cathy!!! It is so colorful and I love your level of personalization!!! I’m blown away by the technology needed to be a content creator!!! I could never do that! You inspire me often and I admire you so much!!! ❤😘❤️

I can see why you love this new space! What a great room. I am so technically challenged, do you just know this stuff or does someone professionally help you set it up? You’ve invested a great deal of time and money to provide us all of the wonderful things you create. Thank you for your continued work!!

loved it !

Yeah!! 🎉Looking forward to it, also!! 🎉