I am going to admit right off the bat that this was NOT my idea. I was trying to think of a cool way to store my stamp pads and I was leaning more towards doing something with pizza boxes since I can get my hands on plenty of those. I did a little Google search and saw many folks were making pad holders from foam core. Foam core! Brilliant!!! I watched a few of the videos, I recommend that you do that too before you tackle this as they are very detailed and informative, then I decided to just dive in. I cut my foam core back from black foam core, as it was much better quality (wish I gotten 3 of these instead of just 1) at 20"x12.5. Then I cut my sides 2 pieces at 20"x3" and the top and bottoms are a little over 12.5 x 3" (I put the sides together on the back and measured what I would need to cover the top part o the sides too.
The insides (shelves) were 4"x20" for the long ones and 12.5"x 4". I would change this to 3" instead of 4" now because most of what I use is Tim Holtz and sometimes I have to dig in the slots for those 3"x3" pads. The small shelves have slots cut into them at 4.25" and 8.5" (this is seriously where you need to watch those videos) and the long ones are notched at every 1". I am not going to give you assembly directions because these other folks do it so much better than I did, so why mess with perfection?
Inspiration videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSBnDd3Oi-8 foam core holder with storage (very cool)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNo3jWxosIc (this lady has so much DIY stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YZRp4c15NI (this one is so detailed)
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