LIBRARY POCKET AND TAG

Designed by Charlotte Kemsley

This card is a somewhat different take on the ‘Wish You Were Here’ type – the tag is stamped on the back, but the front is left blank for you to add your own impressions of the street scene from some East European city where you drank strong coffee in small cafes and rummaged around dusty shops looking for old books and ephemera…. oh well, we can always dream! 

Materials and equipment needed: 

·                    Time to Stamp ‘Vintage Ads’ rubber stamp sheet

·                    DelArte Glamour Girls rubber stamp sheet

·                    Rangers Distress Ink – Walnut Stain

·                    Butterscotch, terracotta and slate Adirondack inkpads

·                    Black card folded to measure 10cmx21cm

·                    1 large library pocket

·                    1 tag

·                    Double sided sticky tape

·                    Collage elements – vintage bus ticket, small key, 2 coins, scrap of newspaper

Method: 

1.              Age the library pocket and the tag by dabbing Butterscotch (OR Caramel) and Terracotta inks onto the edges – leave the centre quite bright, and try and make the edges the darkest part; use the Slate grey pad last, to smudge the very edges, and even use your own fingerprint to mark the paper – very authentic!

2.              Use the images from the ‘Vintage Ads’ and ‘Glamour Girls’ plates, and on the library pocket stamp images with the Walnut Stain ink pad at an angle but lined up beneath each other; the key when doing a collage style image like this, is to alternate between dark and light/solid and open images.  When stamping the library pocket, mask off each section with a piece of paper so that images do not overlap.  Stamp the back of the tag too.

3.              Cut a piece of newspaper to the same width as the library pocket, but only about 1/3 of the length, and age with the Adirondack inks; glue this onto the black folded card on the right hand side, leaving a border of approx. 5mm on the right hand side, top and bottom.  Attach the library pocket so that it lines up with the newspaper, and leave a 5mm border on the left hand side.

4.              Use double sided sticky tape (or glue dots) to attach bus ticket, key and coins on top of the newspaper bit – use the picture as a guide.  Lastly, write your message on the tag and insert into library pocket.