The inspiration for my colors and layout was a desk we had growing up. My dad painted an unfinished student desk an olive green color, which was actually kind of hideous against Mom’s pastel color pallets. So, Mom contributed a desk blotter that had gold embossed fleur-de-lis. I did a lot of homework at that desk.

Stationery Box Set Intermediate Project By: Linda McClain Zoom in to view this project closer Make this project: Step-by-step instructions Mail a link to this project to a friend

 

I wish I could show you how amazing this is when you lift open the lid of the box. It spreads open so magically. I’ll just say that I’ve had to pick up a lot of jaws from the floor.



The box is only 5” tall and 6” wide, but look what it packs.



I filled mine with four gift tags, four 3” x 3” cards and 2 full-size cards, 4-1/4” by 5-1/2”.



The talented Jackie Topa is the creative genius who developed the template for our stationery box. Dannie Graves also put together a very helpful video and downloadable pdf files. Jackie and Dannie graciously agreed to let me link you over to their instructions here: http://jackietopa.typepad.com/Stationary.pdf and http://danniesdesigns.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/09/stationery-box.html. So hop-skip over to those ladies for the basic design, and we’re going to have fun looking at ways to make it your own.

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I hope you have as much fun with this project as I have. If you make one of these, I’d love to see your creations. So, come visit me a leave me a comment at www.cateredcrop.typepad.com (LMac’s Catered Crops) where you can also see another stationery box with a Spring theme. If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, and would like to order some of the products I used, come visit me at www.stampinwithlmac.stampinup.net.