T Stands For Cup of Tea

This will be my final T post hosting Art Journal Journey in February.  However, it's yet another entry for Try it on Tuesday's Go Green theme.

I started with one of my favorite backgrounds: 91% isopropyl alcohol and Staz-on reinkers.  I used Dove Gray and Forest Green to achieve the subtle background colors.  I then stamped three sets of handmade stamps (made from styrofoam cut to heart shapes with patterns created using a ball stylus).


I spent four weeks off and on coloring this tea cup. 

It's the most ambitious coloring I've done.

When I realized I needed more colors than my water soluble crayons provided, I used my water color pencils to add to what appeared to me looked like a heart on the cup.

I sewed this saying I found in my stash to the page using variegated thread.

I fussy cut the cup

and, using an awl, punched a hole in the edge of the cup.

After a lot of fidgeting and a couple of words one doesn't use in public, I finally was able to thread the tea label string through the tiny hole. I secured it on the back using double sided tape.

I had already added hearts to both sides of the tag, so either way the tag fell, it would have a heart.

Thank you beyond belief for joining me for T this Tuesday.  I hope to also see you at Art Journal Journey and Try it on Tuesday.  

Now I've shown you mine, please show me yours.  By now you probably know the "rules," but in case you don't, please show something drink related. It can be photos, a place you visited, movies, tea cups, coffee mugs, a tea or coffee service, postcards, books, magazines, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, ATCs, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Please share below and Bleubeard and I, along with the rest of the T gang will be by to visit.   Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday, and not just this year.


Also, I would be remiss if I didn't remind you to dig up your Second on the 2nd. It can be any post, any genre, any length, as long as it's been published sometime in the past.