Tim's tags of 2015 Jane's Journal style

It was great that Tim's number 5 tag coincided with the May bank holiday. After cutting my  lawn and tidying both my gardens I had some time to make my card version. Once again Tim has shown a more feminine side to his creating. Here is his tag.

All the details of how he made this are over on his blog here

I love using hessian as a background and have made several projects with it so I was delighted to see Tim using it on his tag. The found relative photo looked great with the hint of colour added with distress markers.

Now I am not sure Tim would ever go this far towards his feminine side but I decided to create a wedding card for my version, yes seriously! I have friends tying the knot in July and I knew they would love this type of wedding card. Instead of the numbers stencil I added red hearts with a mixture of texture paste and red Dylusions ink.

I cut the month of July out of my TH paper stack as this is the month of the wedding. I also cut out some other elements.

Rather than using found relative prints as Tim does I like to use my real relative vintage photos. Below are my Grandparents on 25 July 1928 on their wedding day. Don't you love those hats!

 I decided to add some colour to them using my squeezed lemonade distress marker

I also added some red to the flowers including my Nan's bouquet and my Granddad's button hole.

I wanted to use my very latest distress ink...fossilized amber and together with antique linen and worn lipstick I dyed some ribbon.

How cool is this colour combo.

I also coloured up some card stock to make my flower with.

 I edged the card with squeezed lemonade, note to self this is such a summery colour blend with the other inks.

I used my  tattered floral strip die as I don't have the die Tim had to cut some flowers. In the end I only used one flower but these will come in useful for other projects.

I stuck my elements down and gave everything a covering of glue.

Tim uses buttons hung on a clip on his tag, I decided to put a button in the centre of my layered flower.

It was then time to put everything together....here is my May card.

I mounted my hessian strip onto a Kraft card blank.  Here are some close ups

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2015 May

Country View crafts simply scenic this is the scene at my grandparents 1928 wedding.
Simon Says Stamp work it Wednesday add something yellow
Noor!UK May flowers
Allsorts April showers bring May flowers
Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Sparkles Monthly Ribbons and buttons
A Vintage Journey spring colours
The Mixed Media Challenge May Flowers
Cheery Lynn lots of layers
Stamping sensations flower power
Penny Black and More Dies and punches
Crafty ribbons anything goes with ribbon

It's been a good bank holiday weekend. Although it's raining now we have had lots of warm sunshine too and enjoyed our lunch in the garden today.

I hope you all had some time to enjoy some crafting and that the sun peeped through for you at some point. Thanks for popping by.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x