Valentine Matchbox with Booklet Greeting

Matchbox with heart on outside top, "love" on inside bottom, and booklet with heart cover and ribbon band closure. 

For my husband on Valentine's Day, a handmade matchbox with a tiny booklet inside. 

Many thanks to Susan Raihala for this matchbox idea and for the tutorial on her Simplicity blog!  On my version, I added some patterned paper, to decorate the outside top and line the inside bottom.  (The lining is very flat, but in my photo, a shadow makes it look wrinkled.)

My booklet is about 1-1/8" square.  It's stapled on the spine (one standard-size staple) with one folded sheet inside.  In other words, two pieces of card stock, scored and folded, for a total of eight pages including the cover.  I rounded the outer corners of the cover, but not the inner pages, which are sized a bit smaller than the cover.  The ribbon band, made with a small square of Scor Tape, keeps the booklet closed inside the box.

Note: I found that the item inside (such as my booklet) needs to be somewhat 3-D if it's not attached.  Very flat/thin items can easily slide out of the closed matchbox if it's tilted.  Maybe if my box were more perfectly constructed?  Just something to consider if you decide to try this!

Details:

• Card stock is Neenah solar white, Papertrey Ink (PTI) gold shimmer,  and the bitty dot print from PTI pure poppy (red) pattern pack.
• Dies are PTI heart-2-heart #11 and Elizabeth Craft love.
• The 1/4" metallic gold ribbon was leftover from a gift box.
• Booklet corners are rounded with 1/4" Corner Chomper.

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