 Hey guys, I'm working on some envelopes for my little note cards. I have a actually book here from the New York Times that's a bunch of page one copies of their page ones from their newspaper from 1896 to 1996. It's a great book for just you know ephemera newsprint type pages and it wasn't very much I think it was like a dollar or two on Amazon as a used book with free shipping so I you know and probably if you go to your local used bookstore but you can find something like that anyway so I've been making little envelopes for my cards using my envelope punch board they're not you know they're turning out okay I have had the envelope punch board for a while and I'm really not very proficient with it to be perfectly honest so and I'd rather buy envelopes and make them but nobody makes an envelope that's a good size for these little cards so I'm going to have to make them just the way it is so and I'm still not sure if I'm going to use the envelope punch board but I'm gonna take a break from making envelopes for a while because it's kind of frustrating me and I thought I'd make some sort of a little box here where I could organize my cards and I thought I could this is a box from my medication from Pill Pack they send my pills in these boxes every month and I saved them and I thought it was a good size because it's just about the right height I could stack all the cards up here on one side and then I thought I could put like pre-cut maybe pieces of paper and or envelopes on the other side something like that I don't know something like that so let's see what we can come up with first thing we're going to do is like cut this lid off because it's really driving me crazy I need a cutting board cutting mat okay so let's cut the lid off try to find the best way to do it that I'm not going to cut myself and I'll do a semi good job at it maybe oh no it's all crooked why did I bother with the straight edge it's all crooked I don't know yeah yeah yeah there we go so now I want to put a divider in here and I thought I just thought we would use this since you know I've got it and let's cut this part off maybe it'll fit in there it's a little bit too big but it's about the right height I just need to make it shorter so it needs to fold right about there so if I push on it with the edge of my ruler and make like a score line yep not worked low tech is the way to go I like low tech and then if we get it in there straight yep that's perfect and then I can put like bits and pieces and parts on the other side I can put envelopes I have a bunch of these shapes that I sat and colored and fussy cut out last night I could put them in here so that I have my bits and pieces when if I run low and I need to make more cards I can just pull this box down I like that idea so let's get this glued in and I want to put some tape on here um we're going to just use this um scrapbookers glue because I have it handy from working on the cards and we're going to tape it so I'm not going to rely on the glue to hold this in this is just to like extra protection that kind of hold it in place while we're waiting to get the tape in there that works all right let's get some tape on here I've got this turquoise blue duct tape I thought I would use I've been busy and distracted this morning working on other things that actually I guess in a way didn't need to be done today because I had like another whole almost two weeks to get them done but you know you ever have one of those days where it's just like on your mind today and you don't want to wait the two weeks you just feel like you need to get it done today that was me this morning anyway it's all done now so I'm going to just go around the box and then I'm going to come over here and just cut this off low tech you know this is a storage box if it gets a few like wrinkles in it you know I'm not too worried and I cut a slit up the corners and I'm going to start with these edges here the short edges and just bring this down over the cardboard and then here we're going to have to cut a slit in it where this divider is and push this down as well as acting up and blame it on all the Christmas candles and those damn cinnamon scented pine cones that are everywhere it's getting really difficult to avoid them okay so that's nice and it you know strengthens up the edge of the box I want to put a little piece of tape here too though I think I'm going to just lay it on top and that works so now I have a nice storage box for my no cards and envelopes I'm not crazy about the envelopes I'm going to have to work on these envelopes if anybody has any hints or tips I think part of the problem is I want a rectangular envelope and the punch boards really made for making square ones if you got a tip let me know anyway think about what you have laying around when you need a storage thing for your art room you know what cardboard boxes or other items you have just laying around that you can quickly and easily make some kind of storage container for whatever it is use what you have all right and don't forget to have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye