The 12 Tags of Christmas, Day 8

Another lovely tag today, with a new (for me) technique:  aging vellum so it resembles old parchment paper.
This is Tim's inspiration piece:

I have vellum, I have the inks, I have a music stamp.  One element down, several to go.  No lamp post stamp, again, not the same flourish stamp.  I have hitch fasteners for the key, but can't use them (need them for an upcoming class). Oh, and where oh where did my scratch tool go?  I just saw it recently, but it was MIA today.  So I scratched up the background with a coarse sanding block.  Not that you really see the scratches when all is said and done.   Lots of changes and adaptations today.  Here is what I came up with:

I had the fancy grungeboard lamp, and cut the post from some plain board, inked them up with embossing ink and applied the black embossing powder.  I inked up a little piece of vellum, as long as it was there staring at me, glued it to the back of the lamp and then plopped in some antique linen distress stickles:

Although I do have the word key that Tim used, it looked too clunky on my tag (my lamp post is much smaller than the stamped version), so I used one of the old keys I had in my stash.  I dabbed some copper/gold rub-n-buff on it and then some black alcohol ink.  I found a little metal tag that says "sing," and gave it the same treatment and attached it to the key. While I was at it, and already had a copper/gold finger, I toned down the gold of the bells with the same rub-n-buff treatment.   Instead of using the hitch fastener, I threaded the key through the ribbon with a jump ring.

I also curled the vellum differently, not because I had this great artistic vision of how it should be on my tag.  But because I JUST DON'T FOLLOW DIRECTIONS  very well.

All in all, I'm very pleased with how I adapted the tag and think it is a cheery, musical one.