Tea with the Queen

I have been working extra hard to try to catch up on all my swaps! Since I did not do much creating in June I have a lot I need to catch up on. This week has been great since I have felt very inspired and managed to finish my pincushion, my crown, my little Marie cards, and 2 book pages. Yesterday I thought I would work on my ATC cards for a stamping ATC swap on my Marie site. The rules where you could do anything you would like that might be Marie or French related as long as you use at least 2 stamps and your main focal image is a stamp.

I did mine "Tea with the Queen". I used 2 stamps. A teacup image from Sweet Impressions, and a large text image from Alluring Impressions. I thought I would share with you how I created them.

1. I started with a few sheets of old book pages. Using a small sponge I applied color to random spots using a variety of pigment and fluid chalk ink pads.

2. I stamped the teacup image in multiple locations on the book pages.

3. Next I stamped the teacup a variety of times onto white cardstock.

4. I cut out bits and pieces of the teacup that was stamped on the white cardstock.

5. I matched up the white stamped cuts with the book page teacup image and glued them down.

6. Next I applied color to the white pieces using the ink pads and Q-tips.

7. Then I glued the full teacup image to a sheet of white cardstock to stiffen up the image a bit and cut it out.

8. Next I stamped the teacup image onto a transparency using Stazon black ink and cut it out. Then I lined up the transparency image up with the second teacup image, using diamond glaze I glued them together.

9. For the background I teared and glued a variety of papers to a watercolor paper cut ATC size.

10. Once I glued the torn images I then stamped the large text image in random spots.

11. Using a ColorBox Pigment Stamp Pad in Frost White I stamped over the background. I pressed hard in some spots and lighter in others. This was to help the background papers blend together well.

12. Using blue thread I sewed messy stitches around the edges and glued pink paper to the back to cover the back of the card.

13. Next I cut out some roses and glued them to the center of the teacup and attached a small millinery flower.

14. I glued the teacup to the background and applied a bit of Stickles glitter glue.

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