I can't get through the Halloween season without making at
least one project other than cards; this year was a little frustrating because
I still have so many things in storage and I am not used to having to go hunt
for an item I want {and hopefully I can find it!} Personally, I think this is one of my favorite
creations and I hope you like it, too!
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| The Book |
I have used mostly Tim Holtz Idea-Ology products in making this; some are discontinued, but you can find most of the items online if you must have them. If there is no link, I couldn't find the product. I am in no way endorsing the stores to which I have linked. They are merely the first link that came up with the item in stock when searching with Google.
I am not positive about the paper I used as I only found a few pages in my Halloween stash and couldn't locate the full pad, but I am pretty certain I used “Materialize” which I cannot find anywhere online. That's sad as the papers are beautiful black & white patterns. Anyway, I started the project by painting the book and the boxes with black paint. Since I never know what I am going to do with the items I chose until I know {heeheehee}, I figured starting out with everything black was a good beginning. I wrapped some of the boxes with really old washi tape that I have had for so long; I know some of it is Tim's, but can't recall the name. Other washi tape as well was used but again, I'm blank on the name. I papered some of the boxes, as well as the background of the book.
I used various Quote Chips and Quote Tokens to fill in some
spaces as well as some very, very old metal letters and numbers and I can't
even remember getting them. If you look close you can see the spider climbing up the wall near the Quote Chips. I actually used some of the metal letters
when I made the hanging word “SPOOKY.” I glued them on top of the Type
Charms and then put the acrylic bubble on top of that. I placed my
witches and surrounded them with all the boxes and bits since they are really
the focal point of my book. After I finished, I realized I didn't really
have a way to tie in the fact that this was a book so I decided to make it a
magical Spell Book. I made a table of 
contents in fancy font and solved that issue. I hope you can read the table of contents, I had a LOT of fun thinking it up! I also had to size the pictures down to small so if you'd like to see them bigger, just give them a click.
I am happily entering my Spell Book in the following challenges:
The Corrosive Challenge {OCT} - Anything Goes
