Week 23 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2018

The prompt for Week 23 is "Favourite Past-time".

I have several favourite past times, but one that has been with me, from a very young age is reading books, it's my way of escaping.  Therefore, I have reflected that in my tag for this week.

I started off with a sheet pulled from an old hymn book with lots of text on it.  I then used several shades of Distress Oxides to colour the sheet, allowing the original text to show through.  Once dry, I used a Stamper's Anonymous typewriter stamp from their "Mini Blueprint" set.  For the books and the reading sentiment, I used a Darkroom Door stamp their "Bookworm" set.  

I die cut the letters for "word" and found a section of a decorative circular lattice die cut in my off-cut box and stuck that on to fill some of the gaps.