Tim Holtz's 12 tags of 2015, Jane's Journal style, July

We're past the half way mark this year with Tim's monthly tags. For July he created a water coloured piece, the details of how to make it are here.  This is the photo of it below.

It is obviously a very patriotic tag for the USA 4th of July celebrations. As you know I am making 12 different cards instead of tags, using them as "special" cards for close family and friends.
I had planned to use the August tag to make my Hb's wedding anniversary card which we celebrate on 25th of this month. Now Tim's stamps would be of no use for this plus I don't have any of them so I went away for quite some time to consider which of my stamps I could use to make my Hb's card.

They needed to be a sensible size, not too big and not too small and I also wanted to feature a sentiment in the middle of the 3 panels where Tim used his USA stamp.
I searched my stash and eventually I decided that 3 of my Visible Image stamps would fit the bill.

I first chose my backing paper and then stamped out my images.

I tore them in the same way as Tim shows on his blog and then coloured them with Distress inks

Now I do have Tim's magic ingredient....Distress micro glaze and I used it here for the first time...it really does work like magic and seals the inking perfectly. I was then able to go over my images with a wash of watercolour without anything moving or bleeding. It's fab!

It was then time to assemble my card and add my own take so here is what I came up with this month.

 I added LOTV tiny tags with my anniversary wishes on and a couple of star brads I have had in my stash nearly from day 1.

 I do not have a sewing machine and I actually find my faux sewing manages to fox most people so I am sticking to making holes and using a pen for my stitching..shuuush don't let on.

I would like to enter my card into Tim's July tag challenge

and also into the following fun challenges;

That craft place anything goes mixed media
Craft stamper take a stamp
The craft barn words.....and yes all my background is words, I purposely took at photo to prove it although most got covered up (as always)
Creative Inspiration let's colour
Noor UK something old something new my old are my VI stamps, my new is my T Holtz backing paper.
The artistic stamper tags
Simon Says Stamp Monday anything goes

Thank you all so much for your support on Monday with my 2 posts in one day...that took some reading and I really appreciate you taking the time to do this.

Thanks for stopping by today. I will be back on Monday with my 3rd GD post for Tracy over at Noor UK. We are really looking forward to a big family wedding this weekend. My eldest niece gets married and we are all looking forward to the celebrations.

It looks like the summer weather has returned, phew it's hot today.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x