Halloween 3D Retro Oven Walkthrough

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Hello folks, today's walkthrough is of the 'Halloween 3D Retro Oven' make. It was requested by many of you after I made a 'Red Cookies 3D Retro Oven' and I hope I manage to answer as many questions as possible with this step-by-step of the Halloween version I made. 


This make generally consists of a 3D box template that I have personally designed for this project of which you can download and print from HERE and of the new Tim Holtz Retro Oven Die. There are a few more pieces used to decorate the inside of the oven for a Halloween out of doors theme, but I'll try to link to as many like products in my 'Products Used List' at the bottom of this project.

Don't forget, you can adapt this make to fit any style or theme you want and I'll try to demonstrate the various optional adaptions of the oven, shelves and a piping bag etc which you will ba bale to find at the bottom of this project. You choose how you want to make your oven. This is my walkthrough just for you.

1. First things first, use the given 3D box template I have provided to print out and cut around so that you can keep it for all future oven makes or box-like makes. (Don't forget that this template has been created by me to forfill this particular project and isn't a stardard box template although you can use whatever templates you may already have).

Using your template draw around it using a pencil on the cardstock of your choice. Remember to chose some cardstock that has colour or patterns on both sides as both sides will be seen. 

2. Cut out all the drawn out pieces so that you have one of each as shown in the photo above.


3. Using a scoreboard, score down and across all the fold lines as shown in the photo above.

4. Using the Tim Holtz 'Retro Oven' die, die cut out two of the main oven front (the largest die in the set). Put one aside including the oven window it cuts out and for the second dispose of the oven window and trim the oven down to where the oven hob section no longer is present on this piece (as shown in the photo above). 

5. Using the trimmed down oven front as a template, line it up on the 'joint 2 square sidepiece with tab AND one the square closest to the tab' so that the second base line of the oven is matched to the base of the sidepiece base edge. (Look to wear the pencil point in the photos above). Once aligned, draw the window onto the sidepiece (shown in the photo below).

6. Now cut out that oven window in the box sidepiece using scissors. Here is where I am showing you that it just as easy to use the Sizzix 'Rounded Square Shaker Domes' for the front of your oven but I wanted to save my ones for the front of cards and used a flat piece of acetate cut down to size of the oven window instead. 
(For an OPTIONAL ROUTE to make the oven door open-able or to include an oven shelf, go to the bottom of this completed project to see the next few steps before going into the decorating stages).

7. Using my trusty Cosmic Shimmer glue (wet glue), this allowed me enough time to glue my acetate piece onto the front of the window and have time to manoeuvre if needed.

8. Now glue the tab that my bottle is pointing to in the photo above to stick it to the right hand side of the other box piece (circled) to start forming the box. Hold in place until it's dry.

9. Then glue the other tab shown in the photo above and placing the tab on the inside of the box to form our oven (shown in the image below).

10. Apply the trimmed down oven front using glue making sure to align the windows carefully.


11. Now to glue the full oven piece onto the back of our oven box but DON'T GLUE ABOVE the hob line or OUTSIDE THE OVEN DOOR AREA AND BELOW and above as this will still be seen from the front of your project. (see in the image above). When placing the back onto the oven box, it easier to line up the die-cut using the same second bottom edge we used for drawing the window in previous steps.

12. Also glue into place the oven window onto the back to add a completed look and strength.


13. This is a photo of the oven stood up and from the side you can see the issue that we're about to address.

14. In the photo above the pencil is pointing at the oven bottom from the back panel that I'm going to trim down in order for it to stand upright and balanced. You want to cut off that extra edge and test it to see how it stands. If needs a small extra trim, then take a slither at a time and test in-between to see the results.

15. Next, use all these pieces from the Tim Holtz 'Retro Oven' die to choose your colours and dectorate your oven.

16. As an option extra, I wanted to have a 'Hob Plate' feel to my oven so marked up and trimmed down a piece of light orange card to the square size of the base piece we are yet to put in as shown in the image above.

17. In the photo above you can see my original Red Oven project was one piece but this time I wanted to cut out a slither from the center of my square to give the impression of two Hob Plates'. It's your choice of which you pick or even if you want one at all.

18. Using the 'Hob' die from the Tim Holtz 'Retro Oven', you want to die-cut out 16 pieces in total (8 passes throught your machine), as shown in the image below.


19. Next, using your thumb or a ruler if it helps, fold each of the hob pieces in half.

20. Using four of the hob pieces you want to create this cross-like formation ready to glue together. 

21. When glued together, depending on how easy you find it to hold in place, you may end up with a partial gap in the centre of the four pieces where you just need to add small amount of wet glue and push the folds in a touch further to fill in the gap so that the hob pieces look flush like in the image below.

22. Glue each of the hobs into place on the lid of your oven.

23. Using all of the decorative pieces you have to hand, start applying them to you base piece of card carefully to create your own scene. I used a Glue Gun for most of the dimensional pieces  and also a die-cut house and bats from the Tim Holtz Ghost Town die and Gatekeeper die (in the image below). For the bats to hang in place, I used Clear/Invisible Fishing Wire and glue the bats to one end and the wire to the inside of the lid to give the impression of them in flight.


24. I also made a hole in the base card piece to allow me to apply some tiny lights and battery pack to the bottom of the make using hot glue to hold in place.

25. This image is purely to show you how to complete your make once decorated by adding glue to the tabs of your decoarted base and push into place, making sure that it doesn't go any higher than the oven window and make a gluey mess and also to allow you time the place the base in level.

Once your base is dry, you'll have completed your very own 'Halloween 3D Retro Oven' complete with lights.




FOR OPTIONAL OPENING OVEN DOOR

Once you've drawn and cut out your oven window onto the box panel in step 6, you want to take your trimmed down oven front and using a pen knife carefully cut the three edges to make the oven opening. Then score the hinge line just above the decorative embossed lines. For the next step to work, you also need to die-cut another oven front using the largest die in the 'Retro Oven' set and cut down to the same size as the oven opening NOT CUTTING OFF the embossed decorative line at the bottom, as you'll need this bit for neat glue and strength within the door opening. Score along the same edge on this 3rd oven piece ready for the next step. (The next image may help with understanding this step).

Then, using wet glue applied to the INSIDE of the the oven door you want to apply your cut down acetate (or shaker dome), then followed by gluing down the 3rd oven piece on top to neaten it up for when the oven is open.

Allow the scored line to match up and glue around the extra flap (the pencil is pointed at).

Now you should have oven door that opens.


Carefully applying the glue to ONLY the oven door frame, now apply this to the front of your oven box.

Here's a photo of the Oringal Red Oven door example I created and also another version to show that you can have an opening oven door for flat card makes too.


FOR OPTIONAL SHELF

Here's the example of my Original Red Oven project where I included a shelf. Make sure if you want to have a shelf, that you glue in your shelf FIRST before you glue in your base at the end of your decorated project.

To create a shelf, draw and cut out another base using the template and just trim off just ONE of the tabs, plus a little extra trim from the same side if you wish the shelf to be reduced/inset from the front of the oven face. 
Don't forget to decorate your shelf first (if you wish to decroate onto it), then apply glue to the tabs and carefully apply to the inside of the box from the bottom. Then after you've also decorated your base, to apply glue to those tabs and insert from the bottom too.

FOR OPTIONAL PIPING BAG 

This optional piping bag make, struggled to set hard due to the lack of oxygen the Grit paste is exposed to, so please try to bear this in mind or find a way to make some air access to the paste inside to help it set.

Using a sealable lunch bag, just cut an improvised corner off of it (mine left me with  these dimensions, and also cut off the teeny tiny tip of the corner piece. (Also shown in photo below).

I then placed in some Grit paste using the spatula whilst trying not to push too much through the nozzle but just a small amount so that it looked as if had already been used.

This is an example photo of my original piping bag and how I just twist the top and using a hot glue gun to carefully hold it in place.

Thank you folks for following this walkthrough and for encouraging me to even attempt to make this 3D Oven a blog post. I hope you enjoy it and I hope it answers many of your questions.

If you made this card or one similar using the techniques shown in this blog, then I hope you would like to share them and enjoyed crafting along. Feel free to share your makes with me on Instagram @bluebrumby

Keep crafting,
Jessica


Products Used:
Ranger Grit Paste
Tim Holtz Retro Oven Die Set

Halloween Scene Decorations:
Mini Skeleton - Pound stores/Target

Comments

  1. ceceliaNovember 7, 2021 at 3:38 PM

    Jessica, Thank you so much for doing this tutorial. Your oven is awesome. I have difficultly working from videos. Don't know why, but I really really like picture and word directions, and this is excellent. Woohoo to you.

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