Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge - Feed Me! Use Food In Your Design

Hello, Crafty Folks!

 Shopping Our Stash Feed Me Challenge 

This week we are giving you the perfect opportunity to pay creative homage to your favorite food!
My Farmhouse Recipe Album

A little over two years ago, I created this recipe album for my friend, Amy.  The construction was bad and I replaced it. I deconstructed this album with the intention of reconstructing it and giving it to my niece.  But it languished in my unfinished projects box until I saw the "Feed Me" Challenge and knew this was the perfect opportunity to put the mini back together and fix the problems.

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My Favorite Cake Recipe

The Reconstruction

I am a huge Mod Podge fan, but it did not work for this project.  The first time I constructed this project, I used Scor-Tape® and Modpodge to secure the cover to the base.  It began to peel away.  To repair the book, I used a combination of Scor-tape®, Art Glitter Adhesive™, Tombow® Metal Liquid Glue, and Tombow® Mono Liquid Glue.  I have learned the hard way that different glues give better results based on the materials. 

Glue Guide

During the reconstruction process, I realized that glue had seeped out from beneath the tabs, what a mess.  I was not sure I would be able to salvage the pages but two of my most favorite tools saved the day.  If you do not have glue erasers in your stash...get one or two, they are well worth the price!  As you can see, these got quite the workout on this reconstruction project.   I generally wipe down my cylindrical eraser with a baby wipe and I use an emery board to clean away the glue on the other one. If I were to repeat this project, I would use the WRMK® Tab Punch Board.

A New Beginning

Selfish me, I have decided to keep this Recipe Album for myself.  The Hubster is renovating the kitchen and one of our goals is to de-clutter.  I am in the process of going through my old cookbooks and selecting my favorite recipes.  We are then going to ship the cookbooks off to the Goodwill Store.  I still prefer recipe cards over videos.  With the cards, I can take my time and not worry about a device that is going to time out on me or having to rewind the video.  Okay, mostly, I am just a paper person!   Here are some looks at the completed, all new recipe album.

This is the front set of recipe pages.  The recipe pages are all magnetized as is the back of the binder.  This makes it easy to flip down pages.  The center spine is also magnetized.

This is the back set of recipe pages.  Because the magnets hold the pages together, it is easy to flip from front to back.  

A magnetic sheet beneath the design paper provides a place for paperclips 

and Magnets.  There is also a clip for recipe cards and a pen rest.

This is the ideal "stash reduction" project.  I used up a lot of loose 6"x6" paper pads and was able to get rid of quite a few 12"x12" kitchen themed papers.   If you decide to make a recipe album, I would recommend selecting one that uses ribbon to tie down the cards.  This project requires the use of eight magnets per page and that can get very expensive.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope to see your work in the 
SOS "Feed Me" Challenge
Hugz,
Chana Malkah

Shopping Our Stash #197 - Lost and Found - One More Brown Bag Project

Hello, Crafty Peeps!

The Team over at Shopping Our Stash is challenging you to use something that you have rediscovered!  It could be something you lost or it could be something you forgot you owned.  Be sure to let us know what has be Lost and Found!

I continue to work on my Recipe Book and as I complete some elements, I will show them here.  I have rediscovered a lot of things while rummaging around in my stash looking for "Kitchen, Cooking, or Food" related items.  My greatest discovery, has been Ephemera.  I used to buy a lot of it when I first started crafting.  But, as with so many trends, I stopped using it until I started following Tammy Tutterow's blog and saw how she used emphemera to add interest to her projects.

 Lost and Found items on this project are "The Mason Jar and Mailing Label Ephemera"

One of the sections in my recipe book is "Brown Bag Lunches" and it occured to me that it would be very appropriate to use a brown paper bag as the index page for this section.

I actually lost the Mason Jar ephemera piece.  Thankfully, I found another in the package.

 Recipes are stored inside the bag and there is a place on the back for notes.

The spoons were cut from a Sizzix/Hampton Art

 (Framelit For Graphic 45) set I had totally forgotten.

The Stencil is Heidi Swapp's Square Lattice

The Paints are from Tattered Angels!

The neat thing about this project is that you can recreate it and use it to share recipes.  

This is a small lunch bag.  My finished bag is 7 1/2" x 4 1/4 "

I cut about 1/2 inch off the top of the bag because I wanted to cut my own thumb pull.

Thanks for stopping by!  I look forward to seeing your projects in our challenge.  I know many interesting Lost items will be Found and put to good use!

Hugz,

Chana

Challenges Entered:

Through The Craftroom Door  - Anything Goes

PaperTake Weekly - Words, Words, Words

Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes (Monthly Challenge, 3E)

All Crafts Challenge  - Anything But A Card

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello, Cardies,  

I have another mini album to share with you today.  I made these little minis to give as gifts to my female guests on Thanksgiving.  They really look pretty on the table.  I had to set the table to make sure everything would work...and it does    I hope the ladies will like them.

This week, over at the Outlawz, Our Monday Greetings Challenge is "Make a Thanksgiving card that does not include, pilgrims, turkeys, or cornucopia.  The team came up with some really stunning designs; you should check them out!

We have three fabulous sponsors this month:  Jackson's Digital Expressions, Eureka, and SquiggleFly.  Hope to see you there!

Hugz,
Chana

This is the appetizer recipe mini.  There is one for Entrees and Desserts

Some recipe tags were hand written with embossing pins.

There are six pocket sections to hold the recipients own holiday recipes!

Even though the bulk of the recipes are appetizers, I included one entree and one dessert!

Additional recipes can be added to all the pockets.  There are top loading pockets on all the panel!

Each book has these journal pages in case there is recipe swapping after dinner.

Entered In These Challenges:
Forever Friends Challenge - Anything Goes

ABC Challenges - Color Challenge
Lady Anne's Challenges
Craft My Life - All Arts Challenge
Created With Love - Fall
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner- Fall/Thanksgiving
The Pink Elephant Challenge - Giving Thanks