Mad Tea Party

It's New Year's Eve and we are breaking in 2013 with a crazy week of projects this week with Simon Says Stamp and Show.  Do you love a good tea party? Do you like to break the rules and do your own thing? Use wild colours and a bold design, take the theme literally as I did or break all the rules and send 2012 out with a bang and one Mad Tea Party. There are no rules!

Ring in the new year with a Mad Tea Party, raise your tea cup with me and enjoy the New Year with a refreshing cup of tea.

No Mad Tea Party is ever complete without a quirky tea cup, tea always tastes better in a tea cup. I always associate blue with Alice's dress and so my cup was coloured with broken china Distress Ink and covered with book pages from an Alice in Wonderland book. My Alice In Wonderland characters are courtesy of Crafy Secrets Greetings From Wonderland Stamps, coloured with blue, neutral, red/yellow Pitt Pastel Pencil. There is nothing finer than a refreshing cup of tea!

I began by covering a piece of thick card with book pages from an Alice in Wonderland book, adhering with Glue n' Seal.

I then die cut my 3D tea cup from the card using a Sizzix die and coloured with broken china Distress Ink to coordinate with Alice's dress. Fold as directed on the score lines and add tape to adhere. I used Wonder Tape as it is much stronger and holds everything in place securely.

Once I adhered everything into place it was then time for the fun part of decorating all the sides of my 3D tea cup.  I added Greetings From Wonderland from the Crafty Secrets stamps, stamping with black archival ink and colouring the edges with broken china Distress Ink. I added a tea cup charm for added interest and dimension.

I added the Mad Hatter to a fragment charm, colouring him with Pitt pencils and ageing the edges with vintage photo Distress Ink adding a red heart to each corner and a brass tea cup attached with a jump ring. I also added a brass tea cup and some natural twine to the handle along with a tag stamped with Let's have some FUN.

I added HATTER to memo pins adhered with Glossy Accents to add another little quirky touch to my tea cup.

Alice has been added to the inside of my cup and I also stamped her on to acetate to get a reverse image so that she appeared from both angles when my cup was turned around. She has been given a regal touch with a crown. Alice has also been added to the reverse side of my cup along with the White Rabbit and the sentiment I'm late, I'm Late, I'm Late.

For more great ideas please pop over to the Simon Says Stamp and Show blog and take a look at my fellow team members they have created some inspirational projects. Remember there is also the chance to win a $50 prize from Simon Says Stamp.  I always look forward to seeing your creations each week.

Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment, much appreciated.  Enjoy your week. Tracy x x  

Products Used:

Crafty Secrets Greetings From Wonderland Stamps
Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils - Blue, Neutral, Red/Yellow
Distress Inks - Broken China, Vintage Photo 
Archival Inks - Black
Ranger Glue n' Seal
Wonder Tape
Blue Moon Teapots Meal Charms
Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Fragment Charms, Jump Rings, Memo Pins
Neutral Twine
Glossy Accents