Vintage Recipe Book

This is the front

This is the inside covers front and back






I have taken on a project of making a recipe book.  I think these are so cute.  I've seen many people making them and I just adore them.  I started this today so I don't have any pages in it yet but thought it would qualify for the Layers challenge on Simon Says Stamp and Show.  Jump on over there and play along - it's a lot of fun.  
I had an old book that I purchased from a used item store - I cut the front and the back hard covers off and used Graphics 45 paper to line the front and back and inside.  I just love this paper.  I put some Tim Holtz metal corners on the front of the cover as well as the back.  The letter were die cut from Tim Holtz alphabet die using Kraft paper and I colored them with Red Barn distress ink.  The sunflower is from Spellbinders and the book rings are 7 Gypsies.  The sweet stickers are from Crafty Secrets.  I can't wait to start decorating the rest of the book.  I just need to get the holes professionally punched.  I'll have to find out where I can get that done.  Have a great day and happy cooking!

Wishes

My entry for the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week. What a great challenge this one was. To make something in the style of Tim Holtz. Well we all know no one can do it like Tim but it sure was fun to try.  I had purchased these rather large tags in Longmont, CO when I was at a stamp store last summer and never used them so decided to use one for this challenge - it gives you a lot of surface to work with and I seem to need that.  I made the little charm by using the tinted vision fragment technique from Tim's book "A Compendium of Curiosities".  This is a great book to learn his techniques.  I made the flower out of grungepaper.  I have so many of his products - I just need to start using them.  This challenge was a great way to get going with it.

Dream, Hope, Love

This is for the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge.  This is their second challenge week and Wendy Vecchi is providing 2 great prizes.  I don't know why I seem to be so fond of these colors.  I start out with something different and end up with these colors.  Go figure.  Anywho -- I used chipboard from Sizzix and a lot of distress ink by Tim Holtz.  7 Gypsies paper was used for the flower and the alpahbet is Tim Holtz spellbinder die.  I cut out a bunch of alphabet letters and keep them in an envelope for use later.  The bird is also a die from Tim Holtz as well as the ornate frame holding "Hope".   The right side edge is also a stamp by Tim Holtz.   Added the buttefly and voila.   Next week I am going totally with a different color as I have a million of them but for some reason I am drawn to these colors.   I had fun making this and hope you like also.