Sewing Room Tag

This week you need to check out the lovely Linda Ledbetters Grundy Monday weekly challenge.  It takes you all the way back to Tim's Christmas Tag 2 from 2007.  I find this extremely exciting because I didn't even know who Tim Holtz was much less what this crazy craft I was getting myself in back then so I definately was not playing along like I am now.  I had my nose in a book focusing on passing my state boards to get my license to become a pharmacist. Check out how Tim created his tag way back in the day here:

Tim Holtz Tag 2 2007

Now I wanted to use my dress form stamp set but when I used all the smaller stamps with the paint dabber-- they were a little too detailed to work.  So what to do?? What to do??? I remembered Tim has blogged about creating your own stamps using craft foam and your Sizzix die cuts.  I used my Vagabond to cut some craft foam to get a custom stamp of a spool of thread which I stamped all over the tag with white paint.  I then used mustard seed and peeled paint distress paint on my craft sheet with water to get a great blend of color on my tag.  I wiped the ink off  white ink to expose the stamped areas.  I stamped my dress form with sepia archival ink.  I took some vintage lace and sprayed it with lettuce color wash and tied it at the top of the tag.  Lastly, I added some vintage sewing embellishments. 

Now go and check out Linda's work of art here.

Grundy Monday Challenge


Thanks for stopping by!!

Tara