He needed retail therapy

Oh boy...what an interesting theme Simon Says Stamp & Show chose this week...'Men Only'.  Now I know many of you will be thinking of Tim Holtz' stamps and stuff.  However, I looked at my collection of Studio 490 stamps and had an 'aha!' moment.  The removal of one letter (s) can make such a difference...lol!

I had all my distress re-inkers in a cardbox that fit them just perfectly.  But it needed something other than the label from the dentist's office (where I got the box).  How about a fella?  Got the shirt on top, the pants on the bottom, nice pocket watch, but in obvious need of a pocket protector!  Oh well.

Yes, the button placket and pocket have been stitched on my trusty Kenmore sewing machine.  The buttons are vintage - got to use them sometime, why not now?  The ink stain is courtesy of a blop from the Frayed Burlap distress stain bottle.  'Oops' is a Studio 490 stamp in Coffee archival ink.  A bit of chipboard was colored with Silver paint dabber so I could stamp the pen nib in Jet Black archival ink.  I curled it a bit to look real then glued it on using Claudine Hellmuth's Multi-Medium.  All around the shirt, placket, pocket have been edged with Frayed Burlap distress ink.

Nice belt, dude!  Some Bazzill cardstock was cut and shaped and punched, edged with Frayed Burlap distress ink.  The belt loops were faux stitched with a black Sharpie.  The Rubber Stampede pocket watch was stamped using Jet Black archival ink on more chipboard painted silver.  The watch face has a coating of Glossy Accents on it.  The chain is from a multi-strand necklace I picked up along the way.

Inside the pocket is a Studio 490 chipboard pencil, stamped in Jet Black archival ink.  It was colored with yellow, red and green distress inks.  A #5 tag with the sentiment stamped in Jet Black archival ink, the ink bottle in Olive archival ink and the blank lines in Coffee archival ink (Hero Arts) are for the list of reinkers to get on my next shopping trip!  The tag was edged with Frayed Burlap distress ink.

Studio 490 stamp sets:  Destination Art (ink bottle, oops), Art Is Theraputic (text with 's' blocked out), Speaking Of Art (pencil, pen nib)

No more boring cardboard box for my distress re-inkers!