12 Tags of 2014 - July

   

   
      On July 31, I finished the July’s challenge of Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014. I was beginning to wonder if  I would get a tag finished in July because I was having such a hard time trying to decide how to create my tag.

     Tim’s tag, shown here, is a summer themed tag. I don’t have the dies that he used nor do I have the embossing powder that he used to make the sand and to cover the seahorse, sand dollar and star fish.

     My supply closet is very limited. I know I still could have created a summer themed tag but something just didn't feel right. I thought about using a July 4^th, Independence Day, themed tag but nothing was coming to me.

     Then, the son of the Preacher and I was sworn into the Army (read post here) during the month of July, and I knew that I had to do something to remember this big event in his life.  

     My tag is very simple, nothing fancy. I found the Uncle Sam postage stamp image and the Army camouflage background on Google images. I used some old stickers for the USA and I found the stars in my embellies stash. I stamped the date,  July 21, because that was the day of our son's big day. I had the Army print ribbon in my stash from a page I made documenting the decision our son had made when he was 12.

     Now on to the August tag!