Something, Anything, All Things Tim

I presumed by this that Sam, who had chosen the theme for this week, meant that our work had to be reflecting the ideas and materials of Sir Tim Holtz.  I really struggled with this one as I realised that despite my spending I have lots of gaps in my collection of TH rubber stamps.  Lots of Ideology stuff, got three of his paper stacks, several dies but nothing that would work together that I hadn't done previously.

Chatting with my friend Jayne (about something totally different as I cannot divulge what is up ahead for challenges) she reminded me that she had bought me the small birdcage and bird die for my birthday.  Oops!  So out it came and got used (first time) along with the bigger one.  What next?

Eventually sat down with my stamps, stamped on a prepared tag (Distress Ink, wet, crumple, iron) with three stamps, turned the base up, added two gussets and there I had it - an ATC holder.  Then I used utee on the cage and on the bird, attached one to the other, a bit of chain, a small safety pin and it was complete.

Just made three ATC's, using TH stamps, to show how it can be used.

Here it is all packed up and ready to go for swapping:

And here it is with the ATC's taken out so you can see the stamping on the holder.  Hope you like it and think of making one for yourself.