Time for Tea . . .

This week, our Susan K Weckesser team is partnering up for fun, color, and inspiration with Clearsnap, so make sure you check out both sites all week. And don’t forget to connect with our Facebook pages, too: 

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 Hi everyone, Tracy here and I am sooo excited to be combining two of my loves-

Susan K Weckesser stamps and Clearsnap products!

  Anyone for afternoon tea?

I have popped together a whimsical paper mache tea cup and teaplate to share with you all using a few of my favourite things . . . 

It all started with an empty Kelloggs Cornflake packet, old book pages and watered down pva glue . . .

 . . . you can find a template and tutorial here from Ann Wood, will be trying this next time for sure.

I used a teacup to get a rough reference to make my base, chopping and sticking it all together . . . kinda rough and needs some love with stamps and inks galore!!

 A quick coat of white Acrylic paint and a quick blast from my heat tool to speed things up.
Taking the stylus tool from Clearsnap, I applied fluid Chalk ink pads for the background.
Time to get stamping with Colorbox Wicked Black Archival ink pad and
the flower stamps from Create your Day by Susan K Weckkeser

Did I tell you yet how much I looove Smooch?
I Looove them, here is a peek at just a few I have used to color in the stamped images . . .

Don`t they look just delicious and they have the cutest names . . . Taffy, Lettuce, Sassy Pink . . .

It was looking a bit flat at this point, so out came some Smooch Spritz in various colors along with a few Jumbo sized ones . . . my heart sings when I use them!
  I love how the Smooch Spritz brought it to life with bursts of color dotted around!

 I used the same mix of ink pads and sprays for the teaplate, stamped and then coloured to tie it in with the tea cup.

 Now if you have a cup of tea, then you have to have something to look at and as I adore
Susan K Weckesser Stamps and Clearsnap products,
I got carried away and made this in my raggedy old book turned Art Journal,lol.

 Spraying smooch Spritz to make my the background.
Inking up  The Happy Homestead and A Little Bit Washi with the Wicked Black Archival inkpad.
More Smooch Spriz sprays and Jumbo Smooch Spritz  to color.
Applying the Watermark ink pad randomly to the page, sprinkling with Clear embossing powder and heating to give it a beautiful shine.
I took another sentiment from Create Your Day, stamped onto card, cut out and fixed in place to finish.

Whew, that`s all from me today

but

be sure to head on over to the Clearsnap blog to check out what the team created.

Happy Crafting

Tracy Easson

Design Team member for Susan K Weckesser