Grab Yourself Some Tea as Anything Goes with the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the next fabulous challenge at the 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

The theme today is 

Grab Yourself Some Tea as Anything Goes

we have two fabulous sponsors

One winner will get a $25 gift certificate from House-Mouse Designs

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Now I thought I would move a little back into my altered art mode, so I spent a good couple of days creating a tea chest, originally a blank hardboard chest, which I decided would nicely hold different flavour teas.  You see my brother was drinking lots of these teas whilst going through his chemo, however think it may now be a little redundant as he is now able to drink all sorts :)

But do not forget to hop on over to the main challenge site to see the rest of the gorgeous eye candy to inspire you.

So here it is

Where to start with this one, well I used gesso to give it an all over coat, I then sanded this down.  I then used a wet wipe and some pale green acrylic paint and smudged on some green.  Followed with a few liberal coats of crackle glaze and another coat of sand acrylic paint.  Once dry I then scuffed it up with a sanding block before giving it a nice dust down.  Then the TH vintage photo distress ink and a make up sponge came out and I gave it a good distressing (you should see my fingers I do so love to get mucky).  I then over stamped with a gorgeous delicate floral border, before adding some additional embellishments.

The image was stamped, coloured with copics, and then given several liberal coats of high gloss embossing powder, before being thrown in the freezer, now at this point I decided to take a snooze, I asked the husband for half an hour and he forgot me.  Luckily for me it only added to the cracked glass effect on the image, that then was scuffed up a bit more with the TH ink

The image is called 

CHAMOMILE TEA

available here

Now just a few close ups for you

the little draws

The little tea roses and the laced and pearl edged cracked glass image

Some of the pearls decorating the corners where the flowers are not, I also added these around the bottom.

I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave me such inspirational and kind comments, and this then allows me to hop on over and visit you in return.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Dream Valley Challenges - Earth Tones

Fashionable Stamping - Embossing (on the image to get the high gloss for the cracked glass effect)

Let's Ink It Up - Distressing

One Stitch At A Time - Anything Goes

The Craft Place - Anything but a square or rectangle

The Stamp Man - Shabby Chic / Distressed

Wag's N Whiskers - Anything Goes

Shelly's Images - Anything Goes

I Brake for Challenges - Anything but a card

Just keep creating - Anything Goes

hugs

xxxxx