I recently celebrated 15 years as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. For nearly all that time, I’ve worked to keep track of my products, first with an Excel spreadsheet, then wanting to add more information as well as images, with Evernote. I discovered that it’s very helpful to search my products by type, color, images, words, themes, or other characteristics and Evernote made that possible.
I found out about Evernote from another demonstrator on an old Stampin’ Up! website where we could share ideas and help each other with all kinds of ideas. We all started sharing our notes. I discovered it’s really helpful to use a consistent format, so I created notes for every product in the catalogs and I’ve shared my notes all along. I’ve worked hard to have notes for every current product and saving the notes for retired products. But Evernote started changing their features, like making it faster to sync by eliminating my tags from the shared notes and raising their prices. Last February I paid $249.99 for the Personal Level. I believe they are calling that the Advanced Level now. Each time the prices went up and the desired features vanished, I’ve searched for alternatives. I haven’t been very happy with any of the alternatives I’ve tried.
Then I was approached about a brand new program with all the features and an eager team wanting to help me stay organized. I am FINALLY able to share that program! The CraftSpace App was just released to the public so I can finally tell you all about it! I shared all my notes with them so they to add them to their database.
To sign up for The CraftSpace App
You can start using the CraftSpaceApp by using this link. https://craftspaceapp.com/join/bev-adams You will notice that my name is in this link. I do not own this app, but as I mentioned, I have contributed my data and I do get a commission when you use my specific link.
There is a free version of the program, but it is limited to 100 stash items. I think it’s really an introduction. There are two more levels and a discount if you pay for a year at a time.
That works out to $129.48 for a year for the Standard Plan or $199.56 for a year for the Ultimate Plan.
But there is also a special deal for my clients.
You will see Inkee mentioned above. Inkee is a cute little octopus ready and waiting to help you. He juggles with all eight arms to make our life easier! You can ask Inkee easy questions like how to work the app. It’s free to ask how to work the program, but you can use “coins” to ask Inkee more creative questions like what die set that lone die you just found belongs with. I don’t think it’s ready yet, but a planned feature is to ask Inkee to suggest a project with the supplies in your stash!
Importing Your Stash from Evernote
Click here for a tutorial from the CraftSpace App developers.
You can keep track of Your Stash of products by entering the item number, name, or even just take a photo! For those who use products from companies other than Stampin’ Up!, you are set there too! My notes are already in their system, so you should find them. You can just add the product. All the tags, greetings, and images should be there. And you can edit the tags if you’d like. All your stash can then be listed by Category, by Card View, or Table View. And you can sort them alphabetically, date added, brand, or location (which you will enter when you add the item. Inkee is smart, but he really doesn’t know where you put your things unless you tell him!).
I do plan to create a video about using the CraftSpace App. In fact, what I have shared on this page started out as my script for a video.
I tried very hard to have the notes for Evernote ready the day the Stampin’ Up! products went live for customers. That should happen with the CraftSpace App too. The developers just need to know when a new catalog comes out. I will be happy to keep them informed about products from Stampin’ Up! I know they will be on the lookout for new products from other companies as well. I’m not sure they have found anyone else crazy enough to catalog retired products and catalogs from other companies. If you know of anywhere those retired products can be found, please add that with the Feedback button!
People who have shared my Evernote notes have asked to be my friend on the CraftSpace App. They think this will show them what they saw when they shared my Evernote notes, a list of all the Current Products. If I share my products with you, my friends, you will only see the products that are actually on my shelves. I think this is really designed for maybe my local friends so we can borrow and loan products with each other. I have suggested a feature of listing all the products in the CraftSpace App data so we can search it all, or by brand (so you can again see all the current Stampin’ Up! products), or maybe all the dies or all the designer paper, or maybe all the Stampin’ Up! stamps that are good for making a birthday card.
You can even take a picture of your project and ask Inkee to analyze it. Inkee will list the products you used. Inkee is pretty good at this now, but he’s getting better and better all the time. If he got some thing wrong, you can delete products or Inkee will show you a list of your products. You can check off the ones he missed and he’ll add those products to the list. I think you’ll love this!!!
The CraftSpace App is indeed a brand new program. There have been some glitches. That is to be expected. If you spot a glitch, just let Inkee know! Or better yet, use the Feedback button in the lower right hand corner.
This feedback button is a great place to let the developers know about something unexpected that happened in the app. It’s also a great place to suggest features you thing might be helpful.
The actual CraftSpace App for the iPhone will be available June 15th, but you can use it now on a computer or tablet. There will also be an app for Androids perhaps August 15th. One subscription works on any and all devices you decide to use at any time.
I thought Evernote was wonderful and the best thing available, but honestly, I think the CraftSpace App is already way better than Evernote and it is getting better and better all the time!
And for those who aren’t quite ready to leave Evernote, I have vowed to keep my Evernote notebook up to date until January 2027. I wanted to be sure you got your money’s worth from me and also give you time to decide if you wanted to renew your subscription with Evernote. You could decide to stay with Evernote, pay their prices, and add your own notes.
If you have any questions please email me.