Love Notes

My family leaves little notes for each other. My husband has been leaving my daughter and me notes on our desks, craft table, or school notebooks on whatever piece of paper is handy. I leave notes for them on the napkins I place in their lunch boxes.

I sat down to create this little love note container and note cards. This was my prototype so there are creases in the paper where there should not be so I made another one with the instructions below.

Start with a piece of card stock that is 4 7/8" x 8". Score on the short side at 1", 1 3/8", 3 1/2", and 3 7/8". Score on the long side at 3", 3 3/8", 6 1/2", and 6 7/8".

Cut out the four boxes/rectangles on each end on the top and bottom.

Use a corner rounder and round the corners. Use your bone folder and crease the score lines.

Cut a piece of DSP to be 1 3/4" x 2 1/2" and round the corners at one of the short ends.

Attach to the front of the box - which will be the long end of the card stock.

Decorate the front as much or as little as you like. Mine is pretty simple this time.

I used the Small Heart Punch (SU 117193) and a silver brad to create the closure for the box.

For the cards, I took 2 pieces of card stock and cut them into 2" x 3" rectangles. I then stamped different images/phrases on them. I used Chestnut Roan chalk on the edges of the cards. Here are examples of what I did...

I hope you like it ... I am off to add some color to the note cards before I need them for lunch boxes tomorrow!