I started with a manila tag that I colored with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink (applied with a blending tool). I spritzed the background tag with water to give it that great bleached look. I added some Walnut Stain Distress Ink around the edges. My nephew is going back to school and so I thought I would use some of Tim Holtz's School Desk stamps for this tag. You can see some of the great columns of numbers on the background tag (stamped with Coffee Archival Ink) and the alphabet stamp (stamped with Back Soot Archival Ink) used on the bow tie embellishment (Tim Holtz Bow Tied Sizzlet on Distress Cardstock edged with Black Soot Distress Ink).
On top of the background tag, I layered one of Tim's Salvaged Baseboards with one of his Frame Baseboards. In the frame, I put some printed scrapbook paper that I stamped the word "celebrate" and embellished with a small star and a couple of buttons. I wanted it to look like a vintage print shirt with the bow tie on top. I added my nephew's initial (grunged Tim Holtz letter ... sorry can't remember exactly what these letters were called) to the frame.
Some of Tim's Ideaology Design Tape (from the Travel set, Elementary set, and Dapper set) can be found on the frame and background image. The final embellishment is Tim's "moments" die cut (from his Handwritten Journey thinlits set). I die cut it on black cardstock and coated it with Glossy Accents.
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Allsorts Challenge Blog From Boys to Men Challenge
Love to Scrap Old School Challenge
This was so much fun to make. Hope you are finding joy in crafting this week as well. -- Mary Elizabeth
