APOTHECARY CABINET - TIM HOLTZ IDEA-OLOGY HALLOWEEN 2023

 

Hello everyone!  I had planned to get this tutorial done a lot sooner, but I've been super busy this month.  Better late than never, I guess!  I'm sure most of you have done all your Halloween crafting, or maybe you're like me, creating until the last minute or even after!  

                               I might not explain everything in great detail, but at least I have photos to help you!

The bottom of my cabinet is made up of two large vignette boxes glued together with Distress Collage Medium. 

The top portion of the cabinet is three smaller boxes (about 3 1/4 x 4 1/2") glued together. The two sections will be glued together after I drilled the holes for the tiny lights. 

Cover the inside of the boxes with Halloween Backdrops papers. Figure out where you want your Tiny Lights to go, and drill the holes. I started in the bottom corner, made my way across the other side and up through the top to the bottom of the top three boxes. My string of lights goes across these top three also. 

Keep in mind when stringing your lights, that there are three shelves to be put in the upper cabinets.

These shelves are just made with corrugated cardboard cut to fit the depth and width of the boxes.  They are covered with wood looking paper from the Backdrops package.  They are glued in with Distress Collage Medium after I've made the Matchbox drawers for each end box, which they will rest on top of.

I've cut each Matchbox in half.  There are three sections.  These are all painted with Distress Paint.  I started with a dark brown, and then dry brushed a grey and beige paint on top.  For the drawer, I used some old Tim Holtz Remanent Rubs for the numbers and large Fasteners for the knobs.  There's a close up photo further on.

Usually I make these little books in my spare time, so handy to have them done and ready to use!  These book pieces are in the Ephemera pack.  I cut small pages from an old book.  I usually cut it wide enough to fold in half, add a few together, then staple them with my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. Depending how thick you want your book, glue a few sections together and then to your book cover.  Ink the edges.

For my book ends, I've added some Glow Grit Paste and Skeleton Head Stickers, book clippings to the two gravestones in the Graveyard pkg.  I've also rolled up some scrap paper and ephemera, distressed, and wrapped a book clipping around them.

For my Skulls, I've applied Crushed Olive Distress Glaze, then highlighted with Gilded Foundry Wax.

I've broken a few bones in half, inked and glued them into a drawer.  The Mummy Cloth under the skull is saturated with Glow Grit Paste.  I have a photo further down. I've also kept the lights quite loose, so they can be adjusted as I'm filling up my shelves.

All my vials have been painted first with Distress Collage Medium (this helps prepare the glass surface), then Rock Candy Crackle Paint applied after the medium was dry.   Labels and book clippings were also applied.  Brown Distress Crayon  was applied in the cracks.  I've painted the insides with paint and added in some Glow Grit Paste in some of them.  Keep in mind that there will be a window in front, so make your bottles a bit brighter, so they show up better.

Two windows from the Baseboard layers pkg. are used for my cabinet.  The Shattered Window pieces are adhered behind.  For the top centre window, an extra baseboard piece was added.  I've added a Skull Tag to the middle with Glow Grit Paste.

To make the Shattered Glass look dusty or dirty, I've rubbed a very small amount of Collage Medium with my finger on them.  If you want any section left clear, you can rub it off with a damp cloth or finger as I have done in the middle of the one pane.  I've adhered the windows to the cabinet at the very end of my project.  All my shelves were finished and the tiny lights were placed first.

For the middle window, I've used one of the Etcetera Facades (2nd from the left), which fit perfectly behind the window and was enough for the extra baseboard arch piece to fit on.

Here, you can see the Facade from the back.  I've just painted the back with Distress paint.

I've used two owls from the Ephemera pkg. and adhered them both on top of a glass bubble with Glow Grit Paste.  The tall one is adhered with Glow Paste on top of a piece of foam, which was painted and Grit paste added.  The shorter one is adhered onto a small round ephemera label.

These two owls are placed in the bottom shelf. I've kept them close to the edge, as a window will be in front, and they will show up better.  Another larger Owl label is placed right on the middle of where the two boxes join.  I've cut some of the background away at the top and just left a narrow piece where the wood edges are.  There's a photo later on, that it shows up in.

A mini Display Dome has some Ephemera and acrylic bats inside.  Glow Grit Paste on the bottom. The glass also has some Collage Medium on it to dull the glass.  There's also Sticker bats adhered to the tiny lights.

On this shelf, I have used the framed portrait from the Sticker Book, Drippy Candles (with added drips from my glue gun) on the candlesticks from the Manor Pkg.  A spider adornment, and a wizard's staff or wand (not sure what you would call it, lol).  It was made with a glass bubble(tinted with alcohol ink) and a cotton ball, I have explained further down with my twisted twigs.

These Trick or Treat Pumpkins were my favourite from this release!  This cat one is filled with twisted branches and whispy Glowing Cotton (explained below), Leaf adornment was tinted with Foundry Wax and paint.  Another Mini Display Dome, with bones inside, a bit of fabric wrapped around the bottom, and another spider adornment and mummy cloth. 

I created these twisted twigs with a Cotton Ball, Collage Medium and Mica Stains.  Just tear off a piece from your cotton ball, saturate with Collage Medium and twist it!  Easy!  After it has dried, then colour with Mica Stain or anything you choose.

Here's some other ones, I created for another project.  My mummy cloth used in this project also had Collage Medium applied, then Glow Grit Paste.  Just clip parts of the cloth so it's ragged, it will still be pliable after it has dried.  I've also unrolled part of the cotton ball and applied my Glow Grit Paste to this too.  Makes for some interesting shapes!  For the Wizard wand, I just twisted the staff like I did with the twigs, but thicker, especially at the top, made an indentation, and glued a glass bauble on the end after I coloured it.

In this section, I've got another vial, with a label, a bone (broken in half) and mummy cloth with Glow Grit Paste.  Here's the close up of the drawers after they were painted, and remnant rubs and fasteners added.  Inside the open drawer, I have mummy cloth, with some Confectionary candies.

A lock and key from the Gothic Gates was added with a small chain, to the middle window pane (or I should say glass cupboard doors!) This was  distressed with paint and Foundry Wax too.

Here's another close up of these two top shelves.  Once you have your shelves all filled and glued down, the shattered glass frames can be adhered on to the front middle.

Here you can see the label with the owl.  I've cut some of the top part surrounding the owl off, except that middle strip. It covers the box edges.  I did this, as I wanted more to show up behind the owl.  A word Plaque was added at the bottom of this frame.

The back and sides of my cabinet was covered with Halloween Backdrops paper.  One continuous sheet of paper across the top part and another across the bottom, to cover the boxes.  I've also added some Distress Opaque Crackle paste in random areas.  This was coloured with Distress Crayon and Ink.  I made a little pocket for my battery pack from a piece of Halloween Ephemera.

Here's a few photos of the shelves lit up.  The Glow Grit Paste adds in an extra green glow to the lights.  I've used Green Tiny Lights here. 

Here's another look at my finished Apothecary Cabinet!

Thanks so much for visiting me here, and I hope you have had a great Halloween creating and making  season!  

Until next time,

Jan

Supply List

TH94325 Shattered Windows

TH94345 Mini Display Domes

TH94342 Spiders and Branches Adornments

TH94340 The Manor (candlesticks)

TH94341 Word Plaques &Tags

Th94339 Skulls & Bones

TH4338 Trick or Treat (pumpkin)

TH94337 Graveyard

TH94336 Halloween Confections

TH94335 Halloween Sticker Book

TH94333 Halloween Layers & Paper dolls

TH94332 Halloween Ephemera Pack

TH4334 Baseboards & Transparencies

TH94331 Halloween Backdrops

TH94343 Gothic Gates (key & lock)

TH94155 Mummy Cloth

TH93201 Corked Tiny Vials

TH92899 Corked Vials

TH94050 Match Boxes

TH94314 Large Fasteners

TH94157 Halloween Tiny Lights

TH93279 Vignette Boxes

ETC016 Etcetera Facades

TH94260 Drippy Candles

TH94180 Glass Bubbles

Ranger Ink Supplies - Distress Inks, Mica Stains, Crayons, Collage Medium, Grit Glow Paste, Paint, Foundry Wax, Alcohol Ink, Opaque Crackle Paste

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CURIO CLOCK - TIM HOLTZ IDEA-OLOGY 2023 RELEASE

Hello everyone!  Hope all of you are enjoying this new Idea-ology release from Tim Holtz and getting inspiration from all the wonderful makes that everyone has shared.  If you missed Tim's YouTube Live Release, you can always watch all his videos on replay.  This is my second project created for the release, a Curio Clock.  As soon as I saw the round Transparencies, I knew I wanted to create with the clock and one of these.

I feel like I need to use Tiny Lights with every Idea-ology make now, are any of you the same?

I usually thread my Tiny Lights through the back of my clocks, but this time I decided to drill a hole through the base and clock body at the bottom. 

On this clock, I decided to add in Mini Foundation Legs to the base.  I used scrap pieces from some Etcetera Trim Thickboard pieces and cut them so they fit in each end so the legs have something to glue onto, as in the photo.  These are glued to the bottom of the base with Collage Medium.

This is where the legs will go.

I've used a generous amount of Collage Medium on the legs and another coat on the ends of the scrap pieces.  I've let this dry overnight so it's nice and solid.

The legs and thickboard pieces are painted green with Ranger's Rustic Wilderness paint.  The legs are lightly sanded to expose the metal in the raised areas.  The battery pack for the the Tiny Lights fits in-between.

I am loving these colour palettes in the new Idea-ology paperie items.  I decided to go for a yellow palette in my clock.  The Collage strips were used around the outer clock body.   A Snapshot photo was tinted and trimmed to fit behind a Collage Layer Frame.  The edges were inked with Distress Ink and distressed. Narrow strips cut from the Collage Strips were used as trim around the clock base. 

A yellow coloured paper from the Backdrops Volume 5 pkg was cut to fit the inside of the clock back.  I

have chosen a round Transparency from the Transparent Layers Pkg. to place in the rim of the clock.

I've also used Rustic Wilderness paint on my Ornate Foliage Adornment and lightly sanded.

The photo, frame, Ephemera pieces, painted foliage adornment and a Quote Chip Label (this was wet with water, edges manipulated and after it was dry, inked) were adhered to my clock back.

The Collage Strips were adhered to the outside ring of the clock.  The edges of the strips were sanded first.  I've also used Design Trim Tape around the edge.

Now for the rest of the embellishments in the clock insides. A barrel was used at the bottom of the clock inside.  With the Transparency in the front, my barrel was a little wider and was pushing on it, so I filed down a back corner so it fit and was snug against the back. The barrel was tipped on its side so that my flowers were spilling out. 

The flowers were cut out with Sizzix Small Tattered Flower Thinlits Die and the new Sparkle Kraftstock and Backdrops Paper.  For the centre, I used the large Fasteners which have been hammered with the new Texture Hammer. A bit of paint was rubbed in to highlight all the bumps. 

At the bottom of the clock, arrange your Tiny Lights before adding in the barrel and flowers.  I didn't use the whole strand, if you just want a small amount of lights, just snip off the end of the string.  I've arranged them at the bottom of the clock, but if you would like the whole inside light up, you can adhere your string around the inside round opening. Next, adhere your barrel, then all of the flowers with a few leaves from the Organic Layers pkg. and decorative moss.

This is what it looks like when the lights are on.

I've also added die-cut flowers, tiny Bouquet flowers that have been tinted with Distress Sprays, and a few Idea-ology Beaded Berries to the top of the clock.  Some dyed  bias ribbon and moss were also added.

These little word tags are my new favourite in the Idea-ology metal pieces.  These were  coloured with Rustic Wilderness paint also and tied with string, facing the front.  I've also added in two foliage adornments (they are just peaking out under the flowers in the photo) that were also painted with Rustic Wilderness. 

Here’s another look at my finished clock.  The yellow trim around the bottom base is thin strips cut from Collage Strips that have been inked on the edges. 

Well, that’s all for today, thanks so much for visiting!

Until next time,

Jan

Supplies

TH94328 Collage Strips

                                             TH94209 Backdrops Volume 5

                                            TH94317 Ephemera Palette pack

TH94238 Barrels

TH94216 Curio Clock

TH94329 Transparent Layers

TH94318 Layer Collage Frames

TH94316 Organic Layers

TH94322 Snapshots Volume 2

TH94315 Sparkle Classic Kraft Stock

TH94320 Labels Quote Chips

TH94307 Ornate Adornments

TH94330 Word Tags

TH94311 Foliage Adornments

TH94324 Tiny Texture Hammer

TH94314 Large Fasteners

TH94019 Clear Tiny Lights

TH93569 Bouquet Findings

TH94218 Design Tape Trims

TH93581 Mini Foundations

TH93779 Beaded Berries

Sizzix 661806 Small Tatttered Flowers

TDF72843 Rustic Wilderness

Distress Collage Medium

 

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