Recipe Challenge Day 1

Next week will be our one year anniversary.  So in honor of that occasion I will be posting from Monday to Friday vintage cookbook images which our guest designers have used to make wonderful recipe books or cards. Each day we will showcase a different international designer and more images.  Be sure to check back everyday and collect all the images.   I hope you will be inspired to make a recipe book for a teacher or a bride and share it with us. 

Our first hostess in Lenet.  Lenet has made for us a beautiful vintage recipe box.  I love how she makes the images blend with the page.  Here is here bio in her own words.
"My Name is Lenet Mos. I live with my husband, two kids, and two ginger tom cats in the Netherlands. I’m a stay at home mom and have always been creative at some way. I discovered scrapbooking about 4 years ago. I started making cards in July 2009. At the moment I’m totally into card making. I think you can say I’m a bit addicted to it. Every spare moment I have, I spend on being creative, I love being creative there is so much more I want to do,but there are not enough hours in a day.

I used a bare elements treasure chest from Creative Imaginations.  I decorated it with paper from K&Company,some lace and I distressed it with tea dye distressing ink from Ranger.  The recipe label at the box is a stamp from Waltzing Mouse.

My blog address : http://scraplenet.blogspot.com/ "

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The images this week are from a children's book of poetry from the early 1900's.  I hope you enjoy.

This week's guest artist is Terri Snode.  Terri has been a hostess before and has created another amazing set of projects.  I love her use of color and the layout of her cards.  Please welcome Terri back.

Here are Terri's two projects.

Girl in Garden

I used a white cardstock base and papers by DCWV. I edge the pink gingham paper with a gold metallic pen and the image was colored with Tombow Markers. The epoxy sticker is from K & Co, the flowers are prima and the pink gingham ribbon was added to tie in all the colors.

Boy with Birds

The image was colored with prismacolor pencils and thinner. Striped background paper is by DCWV and the diamond papers in the corners is from Paper Pizzaz.The image and mat were cut out using Nestabilities Label die. I ran the mat through the Cuttlebug using a vine design to add dimension and the "family" sticker is K & Company. Pop dots were used to add dimension.

Here is Terri's bio in here own words.  I began stamping in 2004. Although I love to use rubber and clear stamps, I find myself using more digis now. When I teach classes, I use rubber and clear stamps because of the flexibility in different techniques. However, when I need a quick card or working on challenges, I go to my digis. I began teaching a card technique class at our local library last summer and the ladies enjoyed it so much, we decided to continue through this year. Thanks to a dear friend, Darlene, I started doing challenges and have finally started thinking "out of the box."   You can see more of Terri's beautiful artwork on her blog.

Recipe Challenge

Starting the 8th of June we will be featuring daily a designer who accepted my recipe book/card challenge.  There are five designer in total.  I hope you all will stop by every day to see the amazing projects these designers have created and of course I will be posting daily the images so you can make your own vintage recipe book.  I have seen some sneak previews of the projects and they are show stoppers.  Remember, you will need to stop by everyday to collect all the great vintage images they have included in their projects.  What a beautiful gift one of these projects would be for a June bride! Here is a tease for those of you who can wait to see the images. 

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The two images for this week's challenge are from a John Martin's children's book from the 1920's. I love these two little girls.   We are lucky to have a guest designer from the Netherlands this week.  Her work is so beautiful and each card she makes has so much detail.  Lenet's choice of papers and color add to the vintage feel of her projects.  Here is her bio in her own words.  "My Name is Lenet Mos. I live with my husband, two kids, and two ginger tomcats in the Netherlands. I’m a stay at home mom and have been scrapbooking for about 4 years now. I started making cards in July 2009. At the moment I’m totally into card making. I think you can say I’m a bit addicted to it. Every spare moment I have, I spend on being creative, I love being creative there is so much more I want to do,but there are not enough hours in a day.
I’m very exited and honored to be chosen to be the guest designer for this week. I hope you like the card I made with the image."  You can see more of Lenet's work on her extremely creative blog To Scrap or Not To Scrap.

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Wow, almost a year of posts.  It is hard to believe.  It is so much fun to see what the host each week creates with the digital images.  I have learned so much from all of you.  You would never know that I use to be a die hard rubber stamper and would never consider digi stamps as a form of artwork. I think our guest hosts each week prove that statement incorrect and this weeks hostess is no exception.  She has created two beautiful projects using these great old images from the Jordan Marsh catalogue from 1885.  I just love her coloring of these detailed images.  Margie has not been feeling well lately so here is sending her a big get well soon. 

Here is Margie's bio in her own words.   "My name is Margie Overman. I live in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.  I love being creative and create work of Art. I use different Art Mediums from Distress Inks to Crayola Twistables to create my work of Art.

I also teach Paper Crafts. I´m an endorsed Paper Craft teacher from Urban Swank teaching Paper Crafts and Home Decorative projects with the gorgeous Urban Lily´s products.

How I created the projects. 
Project 1:

I started with coloring the girls in the Image with Crayola Twistables. I glued the image to a white big card stock and after that I used Glimmer Mist Spray and sprayed the image with the nice sparkling paint. It gives a nice shine to the Image.

Project 2:

I colored the girls with Crayola Markers and also Distress Inks from Ranger with the Ranger paint nibs.  After I glued the image to the card size 5x5 Inches, I punched 2 holes in the card and placed a bow on the card.  As the finishing touch I adhered 2 3D Heart Stickers to the card."

You can see more of Margie's work on her blog. Margie's Creative Projects  I hope you take the challenge this week.  Please link your project in the comments section of this post so we can all be inspired.

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The images this week are from a special find from the flea market.  They are from a Jordan Marsh & Co catalogue from 1885.  Our guest designer this week is Dee Morris.  She has created two beautiful projects for us to enjoy.  Dee's artwork has a lovely sense of balance and all the extra touches add to the vintage feel.  You can see more of Dee's amazing artwork at her blog http://sprytebyrd.blogspot.com/ .

Nurses Day Project

So today is National Nurses' Day here in the USA.  The nurse at my daughter's school is so wonderful.  My daughter is one of those children who needs a band aid for every boo boo and paper cut.  So she is there often and the nurse is always so kind to her.  Besides that she is a stamper so she is a kindred spirit who likes my kind of gifts.  This is the project I made for her and filled it with two sets of stamps from the Clearly Vintage photo polymer stamp line.  On the cover of the folder I used a nurse stamp from here at Digital Two for Tuesday.  The papers are K & Co and Marcella K.  The button is antique and the ribbon is from Michael's.  The stamped sentiment on the outside of the folder is Hero Arts and the printed sentiment inside was done on my computer.  I have re posted the nurse image below so you can make something special for the nurse in your life.

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This week's guest hostess is Jeanette.  Jeanette has been a supportor of Digital Two for Tuesday for quite some time.  Here work is always beautiful.  She has the talent of taking and image and making it blend with the page. In the project she has created for us the image looks so wonderful on the background and the accents merge the work into one piece of art.  The muted colors complete the vintage feel of the piece.  Here is Jeanette's bio in her own words. "My name is Jeanette Waters and I've been papercrafting for about 15 years now. Some I do with stamps and some are done digitally. I love them both. I've also become very active online in administering a papercrafting forum and two challenge blogs. I just love to do challenges and Digital Two for Tuesday is a favorite. I always enjoy the images. I had such a good time creating a card for this image. Being it was a sailing ship I decided to make my piece with an antique feel. I colored with Derwent colored pencils and distressed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. There is also just a touch of silver gel pen here and there. I hope you enjoy using these images as much as I did.

My Blog and links to my Forum and Challenges are here H20 Creations ".

See the post below for information about guest hosting at Digital Two for Tuesday.

Looking for Guest Designers

Well it is that time again to search high and low for guest designers for Digital Two for Tuesday. 
1. If you do not mind creating projects that are out of your comfort zone than please send me an email that you would like to be a guest designer.  Approximately a week before you will be the host or hostess I will send to you two vintage B&W images to use as stamps in one or more projects.  It is your choice what you make and you may add other images or stamps.  The idea is to inspire other to take the challenge.  The week of your guest hosting please post your project on your blog and on any sites you participate to encourage others to play.

All are welcome to apply.

2. I am also looking for a small group designers to all work with some images to create a blank recipe book or card box. It will be a super challenge and may take a few weeks to complete.  I was hoping to have this challenge ready before Mother's Day but I have been crazy busy at work.  This will be due June 6 for posting on June 8.  I have about a dozen black & white images from a recipe book from 1915 that I thought might be fun to use to make a blank book to give some one to put recipes inside. The images are small 1.5" x 3" approximately. I was thinking you could use the different images for the different sections like meat, fish, poultry, breads, and so on. I am looking for several designers to each make a different project that we would post on the Digital Two for Tuesday blog using the images. The project could be any type of recipe holder such as recipe card box or a book. When we post the projects each designer can post a family recipe on their blog to get everyone started.



So please email me if you are interested in either designer spot with a link to your site or blog so I can see your work at coraharkins@sbcglobal.net. Please let me know whether your are interested in the guest hosting spot or the receipe project. If it is the guest spot these are the weeks available June 29 , July 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10 and 17(edited on May 3 to show remaining dates). Please list 2 dates you will be available in case one has already been taken. 
Thank you.  I wouldn't be able to keep the site going without all of your help.

Cora

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This week we have two images from The Little Book House Volume 6 A Bigger World first published in 1920.  I got 6 of these volumes last week at the flea market and could not wait to share.  Our guest designer this week is Helen.  This is the 2nd time that Helen is hosting and she has not let us down.  Helen has created two beautiful projects.  I love her coloring technique and the paper she has chosen for accents.  I know her work will be an inspiration to all of you to take the challenge.  Here is a description of her cards in her own words.

"I am so glad that Cora asked me to do another project for her. She has such beautiful images. I really hope I did these justice. I have a blog it is at http://tomorrowstreasure.blogspot.com I also have a challenge blog you can get to from that site.

I thought the Queen was perfect for a mom's day card, or to a friend, or your daughter. For A birthday or... She is so beautiful and I wanted her to come to life. I thought the black with colors would work. The two on the horse was really fun to do also. I was thinking like the white horse nursery rhyme- "to see a fine lady upon a h white horse" it is a really nice image to work with. Thanks Cora for such great images and for being able to show them.

To do these projects I used mark-its and color pencils with OMS. DP is DCWV, CS is The Angel Company.

Thanks! This is my blog http://tomorrowstreasure.blogspot.com/ "

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This week's images are from and old magazine from the early 1900's.  I originally copies them and made them into stamps to use for my acrlic stamp line Clearly Vintage but decided not to include them.  I just love the details in these girls.  Our innovative guest designer Jodi Clausen has created for us two wonderful cards using the images.  I love her choice of papers and the flower accents.  These details really highlight these delicate images.  You can see more of Jodi's designs at her blog Reflectionz in Paper & Ink. 

I hope you take the challenge this week and create something.  Please remember to share your project in the comments section of this post so we can all enjoy what you create.

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This week we have a treat.  Lorraine is our guest hostess again this week.  She is from the UK and has been papercrafting for over 5 years. I just love her creativity and the way she uses printed papers in her designs. I know I say every week that our guest hostesses amaze me with what they make out of the images but it is true.  My favorite thing is to see the designs before everyone else.  You can see more or Lorraine's work on her blog Coldwaters2