Simon Says...Back To School

Hi Everyone...welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog...thank you for joining us for last week's challenge...we hope you can join us this week too because...

and the theme for this week is...

BACK TO SCHOOL

I made a "tongue in cheek" Vintage Card for a friend's grandson who will be moving up to Secondary School tomorrow when our local schools return from their Summer break.

This wordly wise 13 year old was fascinated by the tales that his Grandma and I told of our schooldays, learning without the aid of computers, calculators and mobile phones, no Internet or Google to help us out with homework and a visit to the Headmaster's Office for six of the belt if you misbehaved or a star added to your book if the teacher was happy with your work. At the end of it all, he said...THIS IS COOL, YOU TWO ARE VINTAGE and we're thinking hoping that VINTAGE may have an entirely different meaning in this world of  modern day speak. He will probably be even more surprised to learn that this is exactly how the lads in our class used to dress for school, short trousers and long socks, summer or winter, whatever the weather.

I trimmed a panel of Idea-ology French Industrial paper to 5" x 7" and applied a light coat of White Gesso using a brayer.

I die-cut 3 layers of Tim Holtz/Sizzix Alphanumeric Thinlits from white cardstock and fixed in place with Distress Collage Medium Matte.

I added scraps of French Industrial and Dapper papers, more layers of letters and applied a coat of Distress Collage Medium Matte over the whole panel.

I added a torn scrap of dictionary paper with the definition of school, created shadows around the lettering with a Candied Apple Distress Crayon and Walnut Stain Distress Crayon around the paper scraps. I stamped the images from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mini Blueprints 8 with Black Soot Archival ink.

I applied a coat of Distress Collage Vintage Medium Matte on to a scrap of French Industrial paper, re-stamped the images, coloured with Candied Apple, Peeled Paint and Twisted Citron Distress Markers and fussy cut

I stamped the script from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Entomology with Versamark ink on to the background and a scrap of card coloured with Candied Apple and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide inks, heat embossed with Ranger Super Fine White Embossing Powder and added splatters of White Gesso. I die cut the letters from the coloured scrap of card and fixed in place with Distress Collage Medium Matte.

I added Idea-ology Number Remnant Rubs, stars from Idea-ology Typography and an Idea-ology "schoolboy from back in the day" cute Paper Doll.

I roughed up the edges of the panel with a Paper Distresser, added to a panel of French Industrial paper and matted on to a 5.1/2" x 7.1/2" white card blank.

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Have Fun and Happy Crafting

Hugs Kath xxx