WEDNESDAY

Well, Happy 2018 to all!  I'm hoping I can get back in the groove and keep the blog more up to date.  Things just got busy over the holidays and I found that I wasn't even working on anything new.  However, the other day I spent some time in my craft room after seeing a post from someone who made a stationery box.  I just had to try one.  So here is my version.

This box was so much fun to make -  a little labor intensive, but, I think, once you have made one the second one would go faster. I used the Whole Lot of Lovely DSP from the annual Catalog.  It is SO pretty! The lid holds this box together, so here is a picture of the box once you take the lid off and the box "pops open".

The box is filled with 4 regular cards, 4 note cards (3 x 3), a small handmade notebook, and a pocket for stamps.  The empty pocket should hold some tags, but I didn't get around to making them yet.

Here is a picture of a matching pen also.  The pen is supposed to be attached in a loop under the small notebook, but my pen was just a tad too long so it didn't work.  I will just be sitting the pen in one of the pockets so it doesn't get lost.

I made a small roll of DSP and put it inside the pen to match the box.

I watched several different videos or visited several blogs to see how the box was made.  The you tube video I followed was made by MayMay.  Even though the video was a little long, I found her directions easy to follow and dimensions for the box and DSP were on her blog.  Click here to watch her video.  You can also just go to you tube and choose any number of blogs or videos to look at.

In some of the upcoming posts, I will share the cards that I put inside and also a couple of other details.

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