Another Jumbo Clothespin/Recipe Card Holder: "Time 2 Cook"

This one's for me!  My kitchen has earth tones in it:  taupe, khaki, black, brown, beige.  My granite counters are a speckled pattern with all of those colors.  And then I accent here and there with a subtle, muted orange color.  This matches perfectly, although you really can't tell from the picture...natural light made it look too yellow, the flash made it look like "Halloween Orange".

I covered it with a white paper that had a black flourish pattern.  Since I don't have white in my kitchen, I used a soft creamy brown chalk ink and rubbed it over the entire piece, which turned it into a soft, muted brown.  I added a strip of black cardstock and then cut "time" and "cook" from the FMK cartridge.  I modge-podged over all of the paper portion of the project.  Finally, I added a clock face matted with two orange flowers and then used the Street Sign cartridge to cut arrows for the clock hands.  I glued the hands in the 2 o'clock position....Time "2" Cook!!!  TFL!  :)

Jumbo Clothespin/Recipe Card Holder (Chicken)

Grandparents Day was yesterday and because I was sick all week, I wasn't able to get done what I needed to get done and sent to the Mess Maker's and Noise Maker's grandparents...if I'm being totally honest, I didn't have the energy to even make them, but I had the idea!  So, they have something coming a little late this year. 

I have been wanting to make one of the altered jumbo clothespins (for the purpose of holding recipe cards), and since I just bought the "From My Kitchen" cartridge this week (on sale at Michael's...woo hoo!...don't tell the CFO!), I decided this was a perfect gift for grandma (grandpa's getting his own gift).

My mom's kitchen is decorated in chickens...LOTS and LOTS of chickens.  So I decided in keeping with that theme and her color scheme (mainly sage green with a little yellow and red thrown in), this chicken die cut from the FMK cartridge was perfect!

To make the recipe card holder, I covered the front and back of the clothespin with patterned paper (inked on edges and top to mute it a little).  I cut out the chicken with different colored layers and inked those as well.  After piecing the chicken together, I rubbed chalk ink over the whole thing to make it look a little "worn" (can I tell you how much I LOVE chalk ink???).  Then I Modge-Podged both the clip (front and back) and the front of the chicken, so that if something were to splash on it, it wouldn't soak into the paper and ruin it.  Then I tied a ribbon around the chicken's tail b/c I just can't hardly make ANYTHING without ribbon!  Finally, I attached the chicken with glue dots.  TFL!!!

P.S.  Mom, if you see this sometime in the next few days (before it arrives in the mail)...SURPRISE!  Hope you like it...the Mess Maker and the Noise Maker made it all by themselves!!!