This Vignette Box Easter Book is the second project I'm sharing using the new Tim Holtz Spring release of Tiny Eggs and Salvaged Rabbits. I have links below to past tutorials for making the Vignette Box Books (you can also search my blog for Vignette Box Books and they should pop up.) I really had so much fun making with the new Spring release. I can't wait to share more ideas!
This is the video tutorial I made for this project.
This is another rendition of the Vignette Box Books that I love to make! This version, much like the Ode to Poe is a book with an opening that lights up. I made this a little differently than the Ode to Poe, so I hope the video shows that.
Here are links to other makes where I have tutorials for making Vignette Box Books:
The sides of the Vignette Box get scratched to make them look like pages of a book. You have to layer some 1/8" strips of chipboard along the edges of the top, bottom and side of the book and wrap with Backdrops paper used for the cover. Dark brown Distress Crayon will hide any imperfections.
I love this piece from the retired Adornments Nature pack. It's just so perfect for adding some texture and interest across the top of an oval opening.
For Tim's tutorial on making the barrel Easter basket visit:
Don't overlook the things you have in your stash that may have been there forever! Quote chips, Baseboard Frames, Adornments.....we buys so many things when they are new and then don't use them, or only use a few things. Take time to really search your stash before starting a project and you might find some really wonderful things you had forgotten and would fit perfectly in your makes.
Thank you very much for visiting my blog. I hope you were able to
take time to watch the tutorial too. I appreciate your support!
Have a creative day,
Tami
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an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below
send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose. If
you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my
links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here.
The 2022 Halloween Idea-ology release from Tim Holtz is fabulous! So
many great products that can be used year round so be sure to stock up!
As I was going through the products when I got them, there were a few
pieces that inspired this make: the ravens, the baseboard chamber door
and the piece of Poe ephemera.
I started trying to think of what things I
could use to make a project that could showcase some of Edgar Allan
Poe's stories and poems.
This was the outcome. I hope you enjoy it!
Here is the video tutorial for this project.
Here are the links to my previous tutorials for making the trays and boxes into books that I referenced in the video tutorial:
I decided to leave the metal on the card file since I was doing books. It seemed appropriate.
This book vignette represents the short story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe.
I used a bunch of Distress Crypt Grit Paste on this vignettte!
The fork sconce made from Adornments Silverware.
The Cask of Amontillado made from an Idea-ology Barrel and Halloween Remnant Rubs.
This story of revenge takes place in the Montressor family catacombs and there are bones everywhere.
The short story The Gold Bug is about looking for pirate treasure.
It begins when a man finds a gold bug with a skull on its shell.
Then he and some friends use a skull and the bug to find the pirate treasure.
This is the view from the other end of the piece.
The Oval Portrait is an very, very short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
It is about a traveler who takes refuge in an abandoned house and discovers a very lifelike oval portrait and a diary that tells its story.
Poe's chamber or studio is represented in this area. You see candles and books and things I imagined he used as inspiration for his stories.
On the top shelf are a bunch of books I thought Poe might use for reference, but tucked between them is a letter. It represents one of the first detective mystery stories called The Purloined Letter.
I had been wanting to use this man with his cat paperdoll, and figured this was as good a time as any. I framed him holding his cat, because Poe has a short story called The Black Cat. I know this cat isn't black but again, I am using a man who loves his cat as inspiration for Poe's story.
The eye on this shelf really stands out.
Both the eye and the heart under the floor boards are from the short story The Tell Tale Heart.
I just added a raven and skull on the bottom level thinking they might be inspiration for his poem The Raven and for the Gold Bug Pirate story. The papers and pen nib are representative of him writing a story.
You did it! You made it all the way to the end! I truly hope you like this project as much as I do. I really had such a fun time working on it and trying to find things to include that could represent different poems and short stories. Thanks also for bearing with my literary geekiness as well. LOL! I tried to control myself and to be honest, I could have been a lot worse. :-D Regardless, I appreciate you sticking with me to the end.
I wish you a very crafty day!
Tami
I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links
below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you
choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one
of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here.
Hello fellow makers! This post has links to the two process videos I made during and after this project for the Tim Holtz Idea-ology 2022 release. I used many new products from the release, such as the Vignette Card File, Word Plaques, Memoir Ephemera, Snapshots, Remnant Rubs and Backdrops 3.
My affiliate links to many of the products I used are at the end of this post if you haven't purchased them yet and would like to try a similar project. I also reached back into my stash and used a few retired Adornments to make book ends. The dog is from the Treasures Adornments and the camera was part of the Souvenir Adornments.
I have close-ups of this project posted below the video tutorial links if you wanted a closer look at anything.
Here are the closeups of the project without any instructions. Those are all in my videos.
If you have any questions or need clarification on something, please contact me through the link in the column at the right. I still cannot get Blogger to let me respond to your comments, although I read each one! So thank you to those who leave sweet words of encouragement! They mean so much!
I am always very grateful for your support. Thank you!
I hope you have a crafty day,
Tami
I
am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links
below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you
choose. If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one
of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here.
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