Good Morning everyone! I hope you had a great holiday weekend! I know that I did. My scrap room was pretty close to perfection yesterday when I started working on my project, so now it is a little messy again! Oh well!! I will keep working on it!! :-)
Today is the last day of November which means that it was my last time to post on the Unity blog as their Guest Designer! You can see my post HERE (after 10 am CST) Sniff sniff!! But thankfully I will still get to remain involved with that wonderful group of Unity people through {Ippity}!! Yeah!!
For my last GD project, I decided to make a Recipe Book cover to hold all of our families' favorite recipes. I am going to make three of them (maybe four!) One for each of my daughters and possibly my future daughter in law too! The perfect Unity set for this project is called Kitchen Logic. You can't buy it right now, but it was available for a brief pre-release period, and will be available again in the spring after the Winter CHA in January!
I used the adorable stove image and the sentiment that says "Nothing says LOVIN' like something from the OVEN!" Isn't that the cutest?? I paper pieced the kitchen towel and colored the rest of the image in with Copics. The heart I drew free hand and then matted with a some more of the red DP.
I am so happy about how I made my cover too! I was being very green! After I buy Unity stamps that come in those cute little brown recycled packages, I put them into CD cases that I keep on a CD rack near me. I have been saving those packages since the beginning and I am getting quite a collection of them in my stash! So I decided to use some of them to create my covers. I cut them down to be a little larger than the 4 x 6 recipe cards that will go inside the books and I glued two of them together. Then I used Modge Podge to coat the exteriors to keep them more waterproof since they will end up in the kitchen where it might be wet! The title was stamped believe it or not with cheap stamps I picked up from the Dollar spot at Target. Of all nights, my printer ran out of ink and I wasn't able to print the title out as I had originally intended!
I will make a picture tutorial for you and show you exactly how I made my covers in an upcoming post! :-)
The DP I used for this project came from the BG Nook and Pantry line and also from Flair Designs "What's Cooking" line. They both give a very warm homey feel and had great muted colors that went perfectly with the Kraft colored covers. I added the three buttons for accents on top of the ribbon and lace trims that I chose. I was going for the vintage cook book look with this project! I hope that you like this and might be inspired to create a cook book or album of your own using some recycled packaging!
I will be back again with more inserts for this book as I create them. I am thinking that this may end up being a Christmas gift for the girls if I can get them done in time. I found some self-adhesive clear pockets that will fit 4 x 6 cards that can be adhered to the interior pages and allow the card to be removed for use and then replaced afterward for storage. I am really excited about sharing our favorite recipes with my girls and also giving them this book that I think they will cherish into their adult years!
I hope you have a wonderful Monday and may your bucket overflow with many ways to create lasting memories for your family!
The heart and circle border were stamped nine times all together to make the image panel as you see it. First it was stamped three times on the white CS base, then again three times on the DP which was then cut around the larger heart. And finally it was stamped three times again on white CS and cut out around the smaller heart. The hearts were layered on top of each other alternating colors for contrast.
Here is a closeup of the heart and border stamp. What a perfect sentiment for the loved one in your life!
After stamping the sentiment, I colored in the hollow letters using coordinating Copics. The DP is from The Greeting Farm. Brads are from Basic Grey, ribbon is from Joann's, Flowers are from MM, and the border punch is from MS.
Isn't this the cutest little cow? Do you see the tag on it's ear? How country is that??
I decided to use the cow image and focus on the word "Mooving" to make a card to give to a co-worker or neighbor who is changing jobs, retiring or moving away. I couldn't help but use Moo in my sentiment! It just made sense!! At least to me it did!! LOL! The DP used is from the DCWV Nana's Nursery Boy collection and also from Scenic Route's Garden Grove collection. I used small Prisma flowers that I colored purple with my Copics and also added a touch of Flower Soft to the pasture too.
I created the sentiment using the Word Art program on my computer. The font is one of 
To add depth and dimension I stamped the cow image twice and popped up the second image on top of the first.
This set includes the Christmas tree stamp and the Peace sentiment that you see used here. The Christmas tree was stamped three times onto this awesome Cardstock from the 
I stamped the tree again onto a plain piece of cardstock and then saturated it with embossing ink and then sprinkled it with gold embossing powder from Custer's Last stamp. The rhinestones are from Studio 18 and were colored with my Copics to match them to the DP. The gold accents are stickers made by FlowerSoft.
The DP is from the Cosmo Cricket line called Holly By Golly. The DP was cut into pieces to make it appear like blowing wind. The snow is called Glittery Snow that was sprinkled on top of a glaze adhesive. The Peace sentiment was colored over using my gold ink pen. 
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