Play Date DSP | The Maui Stamper

I’m an office supplies dork. I love nice pens and Post-it® notes and crisp pads of paper and colored push pins and highlighters and Sharpies®. You can imagine my reaction when I saw the matching file folders and envelopes in the Family Organization Suite. Those big bold flowers and that goofy owl are a great starting place for a desk-top make-over:

I’m offering a class this month to get the make-over started. We’ll make the jumbo paper clip book mark, the Post-It® note holder and the clipboard plus a coordinating card (that missed the photo) for $15. Class will be Thursday morning September 16 from 9:30 am to 11:30 am and Tuesday evening September 21 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Take a 10% discount on any of the Family Organization suite products on pages 92 and 93 of the Idea Book and Catalog with your paid class attendance – a few of those items are pictured below. I hope you can join us!

Play Date Family Organization Suite

I’ve had a couple of requests for more detail on some projects in the past few days. I have to be honest – I don’t see tutorials in my future. I don’t really have the patience to set it all up, and especially to do video. Ugh. That means a script, and lighting, and maybe editing, and — aaarrrgg! — a manicure. I don’t think so.

But when someone asks so nicely and tells me how much they love my blog, how can I say no? (PLEASE do not test me on this. Ask my kids: I am capable of saying no.) Here are a few photos and some dimensions for the matchbook style sticky note holder:

Here’s the basic folder. The cardstock is cut to 7 7/8″ x 3 1/4″ and scored at 1/2″, 1″, 4 1/4″, and 4 1/2″. That gives you room for a standard 3×3″ sticky note pad – it’s about 3/8″ thick. If you’re making these as favors or give-aways you can split the pads in halves or even thirds and adjust the scoring marks accordingly. (Sorry, I detest fractions – you’ll have to do the math yourself.)

Here you can see the way the Sticky Notes fit into the cardstock. The score marks at 1/2″ and 1″ make the base of the matchbook cover. I’ve used a 1/2″ circle – actually two of them adhered together with Tombo-the-miracle-adhesive – and attached to the center of that first 1/2″ tab with a brad. I put the brad through the circle in the bottom half to leave enough room to tuck the top flap in. I tried buttons, which I thought would be cuter, but you couldn’t cheat them to the bottom like that and they didn’t hold the top flap down.

Here’s the finished Sticky Note holder, all ready to go. I’m working on my September class and this will be part of it. Wouldn’t you like to come to Maui to go to this class? I have room for you…

I need to learn the keyboard shortcut for the “registered trade-mark” symbol – you know, the R with the circle around it. All this talk about “Sticky Notes” is really annoying.