Anything Tim for a Vintage journey

Hello everyone and welcome, so lovely to have you drop by!
Today is a day of celebration over at A Vintage Journey! The reason? We have been going for a whole year, can you believe it?!
Like with our very first challenge, the theme is Anything Tim.

But there is more excitement, because the wonderful Mr Holtz himself is offering an amazing prize for one lucky winner of our challenge. There are also several changes afoot, so make sure to check it all out!!
Now to my project: I altered a little 6 x 6 file folder from my stash, this is what it looked like after I started to ink around the edges:

Next I decided I would use the wonderful new Tim Holtz Correspondence papers as the background to the collage elements I wanted to add.

I used a double layer of papers for the front of the folder and used the new mixed media dies on the top, so the bottom paper would be visible.
Next I gather some collage elements I wanted to add to the front and inked all their edges:

The gentleman is a Paper Artsy stamp, the other elements are either from Tim's ephemera packs or cut from the paper collection.

And here is the front complete, as you can see, I added a flower, but in a way wished now I hadn't, but hey, you live and learn. The numbers are part of an Artistic Stamper stamp.

To balance the flower I added some further collage elements still.

The other sides and flaps of the folder were created in similar ways. Here is the back:

Collage created with stamps from the Mercantile set, the feather is a Spellbinders die.

The front flap (it closes with a little magnet). The word Journey was cut with a Cheery Lynne die.

Here you can see what the whole little folder looks like from the outside.

And below the inside:

I created a belly band for the center part, to tug in some tags for journaling or whatever:

The words are all taken from Tim's new small talk stickers.

The tags fit neatly underneath the belly band, and could of course also be used as little photo mats.

I had great fun putting this together, it's a gift for a craft friend who has been very kind to me and it will soon be on its way.

Do make sure to hop over to A Vintage Journey, if you have not been already, there are some amazing projects from my DT sisters to admire and of course you have to play along if you want to be in  with a chance for the fab prize.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit, and see you next time....

Have a great weekend!