Tool Time Tuesday: Crafty Essentials Kit

I'm busy-- who isn't-- and I have to craft on the fly... and I was hating pulling 7 boxes out to do one little card.  So to make it simpler, I came up with a crafting basics kit that I can use for most of my paper projects... and some others. I keep it close at hand and "shop" upstairs in my stash for specific papers and embellishments for projects.

To house the kit, I'm using a real tackle box, not the pink one from Michaels, but the kind John would love from the outdoor gear section of KMart, or whatever.  I get all the compartments a girl could want-- and 1/2 the price.  But it is ugly brown and tan.  It's a fine tradeoff, and if I had issues with it, I'd cover it, but I feel no real need to do that.

Here is my essential craft kit that I'm working with these days

• Tools
• X-Acto knife
• black fine-point Sharpie
• scissors
• pinking shears- the real, old-fashioned fabric kind, not the funky paper-cutter kind...
• standard flat paint brush
• Crop-a-Dile (double hole punch and eyelet setter-- AWESOME- see photo below)
• ribbon threader punch
• flower hole punch
• measuring tape
• tweezers
• compass
• wire cutter
• small wood dowel -- you never know when the glue will be too hot to handle, etc.
• Flower and heart punches- small
• Ribbon
• Silver
• Gold
• White
• ivory trim
• Tags - a handful (cardstock, vellum, metal trimmed)
• Punched cuts- miscellaneous- squares, circles, flowers, trims
• Adhesives
• regular glue stick
• glue gun & extra hot glue sticks
• adhesive runner
• Craft Bond- clear glue fine point and brush point ends.
• adhesive squares
• double-sided tape
• adhesive dots
• Black Stamp Pad (Staz On in Jet Black)
• Stamps
• "Created By"
• "Made with Love"
• ladybug
• bee
• Chinese symbols 
• heart
• Happy Birthday

That's everything that fits in the kit.  I also work on a 12x12 self healing mat.  I still have 2 or 3 open areas for future "needs".

The Crop-A-Dile: