My Accordian Prayer Box
This week I decided to work on my prayer space and getting it organized! I love getting organized and I don't have nearly enough time to do that! Plus, adding all my little stamped friends makes it all that more cozy and inviting!
The first thing I wanted to organize were my prayers from others to make sure everyone and everything gets prayed for on a regular basis!
Take off the band and look what you see!
This is one side of the set, and here is the other side:
I thought this would be a great opportunity to use our new Christian Critters Too set! This set was made to go with various critters from a variety of sets! I chose to use the following:
Individual stamps: Sammy Seal, and Harriette Hippo
You may have other sets with different critters, so feel free to use those instead!
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I decided that I wanted to start my organization with some of the little soft fold boxes. I wanted to organize mine by the days of the week so I used 7 boxes. The Prayer Journal Set has words you could organize with such as friends, family, praises, church, personal growth, and so on....which would also be a good way to organize your prayer requests.
Soft fold clear boxes 3 1/8 x 13/16 x 3 1/8 - Qty 3
The first thing you do is cut off one set of the flaps:
If you are organizing by days of the week, you would need to cut the flaps off of seven boxes.
Making the "cards" that hold the boxes together:
You are going to make 6 cards altogether to create your Accordian Prayer Box. You will need to cut your card base 3 x 6 1/4. That way you have a little extra space for the fold when it attaches to the box.
Here are the six cards I made:
I used the Nestabilities Labels 3 to bring unity to all my cards.
All the papers I used are the Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers (they are my favorites :-)
Tombow markers are listed for each and can be found in my store in this section: markers. For a tutorial on how to use the Tombow watercolor markers go here. You are going to love these....they are my favorite!
The cardstocks I used are SU Kiwi Kiss, Taken with Teal, Not quite Navy (wish I'd used Taken with Teal on this one too), Rose Red, and Marigold Morning.
Cards for Accordian Prayer box:
Tombow markers: 969, 977, 026, 076, 451
Tombow Markers: N95, N65, 076, 452, 772
SU Kiwi Kiss ink pad for words
Tombow markers: N65, 912, 451.
SU Taken with Teal ink for the words.
Tombow markers: 025, 076, 452, 925.
SU Soft Sky ink pad for words.
Tombow Markers: 772, N95, 452
SU ink pad Taken with Teal for words.
Sigh, this is my very favorite paper in the pack :-)
Tombow Markers: 452, 772, 076, 969, 977, 026.
SU Kiwi Kiss ink pad for the words.
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Now that all our cards are made, we need to put them together. I used the Scor-tape to attach my cards to the boxes to make my accordian.
Here is how the boxes go together:
Make sure the fold of the card is right on the edge of the box.
When you go to attach the next box and card, you need to place the fold of the card on the opposite side of the box.
Continue until all seven of your boxes are attached.
Now on each end, you will need a 3x3 one sided image.....here is what I chose:
I chose a plain design for the back side of my box:
I made a surround to hold my box together that is 1 inch wide and stamped the verse all the way around it.
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I decided to add little day dividers.....the Day of the Week stamps are from a stamp that will be introduced on June 1st :-)
The dividers are 3 x 4 inches tall. The white strips across the top are 1/2 x 3 inches.
I then cut white pieces of cardstock 3 x 3 1/2 inches tall and made the actual prayer cards (you could use the 3x5 index cards you buy at the store).
I stamped my prayer cards with the Dotted Journaling Lines.
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After I got my little accordian box done, I started thinking about all the different uses for a day of the week box!
1. Rotating chores around the house....wouldn't it make you a smidgy cheerier to get a chore done if you got to use your box....well it couldn't hurt! LOL!
2. Rotating chore box for kids.
3. To do lists for the week.
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I sure hope you enjoyed this project as much as I do....I can't wait to start using it....I actually made something for me! Woo-hoo!
These would also make awesome birthday presents, baptism presents, graduation presents, and more!
While everything is out, I think I will go get some matching cards made to send to people I pray for! More next week on "Organizing your prayer space"!
Hope your day is filled with blessings and stamping galore!
Lori
It's an amazing idea!!! It's very very nice!!!
Greetings from Germany
shortyrose
Posted by: shortyrose | August 17, 2009 at 05:38 AM
Wow, not only is this an amazing project, but an awesome way to make sure everything and everyone gets prayed for regularly. You're awesome!
God bless :)
Posted by: SMK | May 29, 2009 at 07:56 PM
What a wonderful idea! With this cute project one could keep most anything organized. But I like the idea of a prayer box. It's good to write down prayers so we can go back and se how God has answered our prayers.That could be recorded on the prayer card also.
Posted by: Janet McGraw | May 27, 2009 at 07:40 PM
This is just incredible! And a really adaptable idea....altho I like your idea best. Thank you for sharing this.
Posted by: Linda Bandow | May 20, 2009 at 04:34 PM
WOW, Lori...what an absolutely AWESOME tutorial...you are sooo creative!!!
Posted by: Joan Ervin | May 18, 2009 at 10:00 PM
OMG, I just happened to pop onto your blog and caught this tut. What an ingenious idea! I can see all kinds of uses for your project, including several people who can use the prayer box. Thanks! Pat
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Posted by: pat martin | May 17, 2009 at 05:16 PM
This is a wonderful idea!! Thank you!
Posted by: Tricia T. | May 17, 2009 at 02:47 PM
This is an awesome idea-thank you for the inspiration.
Posted by: Terrie | May 16, 2009 at 10:32 AM
What a darling idea! Lori - if you love organizing...want to come to Montana? Seriously, though, maybe some blog entries about how you organize your supplies? Thanks for the consideration.
Posted by: Renee K in Montana | May 16, 2009 at 09:22 AM
Lori thank you for sharing this idea, I absolutely love it.
Posted by: sandi | May 16, 2009 at 09:21 AM
What a great idea. I love this and what a cute and creative way to make sure all prayer items are covered in a week. I don't have these boxes, but maybe there is a way to do this without them. TFS.
Posted by: Darlene Gabriel | May 15, 2009 at 08:45 PM
That is such a fabulous idea. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Terri | May 15, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Lori - I love this sooo much! I was wondering how you hooked the boxes together and using the card folds is a genius idea. This can be used for some many things -- daily reminders, appointment reminders, etc. It is just so clever.
Posted by: Candyf | May 15, 2009 at 09:03 AM
Lori this is wonderful, what a sweet idea. And man would that be so much better than the piece of paper all written on that I have. hee hee Great creativity and work.
Posted by: Stacy SCS Twinshappy | May 15, 2009 at 08:24 AM
Lori this is just the cutest idea!!! I love it! What a fun thing this would be for kids chores! I love that it used so many fun images and paper... every day is a new surprise! Thanks for sharing with us!
Posted by: Grace Nywening | May 15, 2009 at 06:20 AM