Halloween Recipe Holder

Can you believe it's already Autumn? Time for candy and food galore! Well actually...I have time for both all year round...hehehe! Keeping with the season though, I decided to enter my first challenge, well two really. Studio L3's Grungy Monday weekly challenge is to make a "Tim Holtz inspired Halloween" something, and Simon Says Stamp and Show weekly challenge is to create something with "wings". I decided to do a project that includes both of the criteria as well as combine my love for food and art. We will see how it goes. I hope some of you join in on the fun as well. And speaking of Tim, drop in and check out his last two Halloween projects...a Bewitching Tag and Halloween Texture Fades.

Halloween Recipe Holder:  This project is created for a magnetic frame. Therefore,  I attached magnets to the back of the project instead of altering the whole frame, so I can change out images every month to commemorate all holidays or seasons...sort of like calendar images. I can easily store the images in a folder until time to use them next year. The recipe cards just slip in behind the glued on elements. Cool...don't you think? You can always replace the recipes with a photo which is what the frame was originally intended for. I think this would make a fantastic wedding present. By the way, I make this trail mix every year for my neighbors and close friends to celebrate my favorite season. It's delish...Make some soon!!!

Supplies:

Frame- Bazzill Magnetic Frame

Paper Used- Core'dinations Color Core Cardstock in Black Magic (background), The Spider's Web by My Mind's Eye (tree images), and Tim Holtz Idea-ology Seasonal Paper Stash (Halloween words insert), TH Grunge Paper and Grunge Board (dies and extra decor)

TH Vagabond Materials Used- Dies: TH Alterations Artful Dwellings, Branch Tree, Heart Wings, Mini Acorn & Pumpkin Set, and Sizzix Spooky Fence; Texture Fades: TH Alterations Wood and the Paper Studio Journal Card with Scrolls

Stamps Used- TH Happy Halloween Ticket

Coloration Used- Inks: Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black, TH Distress Ink in Black Soot, Gathered Twigs, Peeled Paint, Pumice Stone, and Ripe Persimmon, TH Adirondack Brights Alcohol Ink in Sunset Orange; Paint: Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber in Pitch Black and Gold, TH Distress Crackle Paint in Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint, Rock Candy; TH Distress Stain in Picket Fence and Vintage Photo, TH Distress Stickles in Rock Candy

Embellishments Used- TH Idea-ology Salvage Stickers (spooky word), Seasonal Mask (jack-o-lantern), Plaquettes (31), Brads, Stick Pin, Q-Tip (smoke)

*Note- The small jack-o-lantern, grave stones, sidewalk, and house parts were made from scraps of Grunge Paper.  The moon was created by sanding away Black Magic paper. Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents was added on top of the title letters and the bird in the tree on the left to add depth. 

Tim's Cruise Projects

I cannot even explain how exited and anticipation filled I was before every class with Tim. What where we going to create was all the topic with the besties. We were like kids at Christmas! Lori who was a newbie was nervous of course, but caught the "dark side" (that's what Timmy calls it) bug after Tim's welcome to class speech. The first project was just to start to getting our creative juices flowing and familiarize newbies with some technique. Cruise sponsors gave Tim all the free paper and rub-ons to create the drop in sheet that goes inside the cup. It will house my green tea from now on! SO NICE, SO NICE!!!

Project 1: The Cup of Creativity

On all the other past cruises we always made a journal so I had an idea we would make one again, but not this cool! I had never made a gate journal before and always wanted to, so this was perfect. Of course, it is not completed yet, so stay tuned for more pics later. There were tons of freebies for this one!!!

Project 2:  The Artful Journal

Front

Back

At our next class we only had an hour so we knew it would be a quick project. Paula guessed that it would be a watch, since we usually made some sort of jewelry on prior cruises. She was right...sort of. We made a necklace out of a watch case! We even received a big stack of Graphic 45 paper to help us along, as well as many Idea-ology pieces.

Project 3:  Elements of Time

 
 

For our last project we had 6 hours over two days to complete, so we knew it would be a biggie. This is the one Tim said to be finding things for that commemorated our trip. We all knew it would be a Configurations Box...but, it wasn't. It was a Configurations Tray with a photo album tied in...something Tim had never taught before...so this was a real treat! Talk about excitement...the whole room was a buzz, and it took awhile for the giddiness to die down.  You cannot even imagine all the free product Tim gave to us. He is "THE MAN" who is SO NICE, SO NICE!!! Please notice the phrase I made using the type cast grunge block letters. So appropriate, don't ya think??? Once again, I am not finished with it...hopefully soon.

Project 4:  Configuration Of Your Imagination

 

 

 

 

Here is all the free LOOT we received from all Tim's sponsors! WOW!!!

 

 

 

This is what I won at Jim's Farewell Party...Coordinations Tim Holtz Kraft Core Cardstock in Nostalga and a large assortment of flowers by Prima (my fav). A big "Thank You" to all of the sponsors from the cruise!!! I just wanted to add one more thing. Tim did an  awesome cruise video recap of the trip that really brought tears to my eyes. The girls and I are in it soooo many times...I think I counted 7. Check it out! You will see my Charlotte in her Glassine bikini in my Configurations Tray. Oh shucks! Thanks Timmy!!!