T Stands For a Rose With My Coffee

 

 You will find me at my dining room table today.  I'm calling on my Coll-AH-ge Two altered book for my drink inspired post this week.

I'm drinking coffee and sharing this single flower in my coffee cup.

  

The single flower is for Sheila, aka Orange Esmeralda's theme, our host this month at Art Journal Journey.

The rose and cup are stencils, so they qualify for Try it on Tuesday's latest challenge theme which is Use a Stencil or Two. The stray hair is mine.  It's too long for cat hair.  Of course I didn't notice until I took the photos off my camera.

The rose and cup weren't the only stencils I used, though.  I got out my molding paste and colored it with gold paint before I pressed it through a stencil.  The background was supposed to be light pink to red ombre.

I thought it was important to show all the products I used to create this coffee inspired art.  Note the white stool (lower right bottom) I normally stand on to photograph my art.

On the left are my wonderful watercolors I won from CJ.  Both stencils were gifts from Mia (Craftartista).

I used Golden Molding Paste and Golden iridescent gold fine fluid acrylic to create the pattern on the left side of the spread.

 

The rose and cup were created using Galaxy gel markers.

 

The pen colors have such expressive names: plasma pink, earth blue, and terrestrial teal.

As I explained earlier, I created this in my Coll-AH-ge Two altered book.  It was originally to go in my Scraps altered book, but it was too large for it.  I had to place it in the much larger one instead.  I used 9 X 12 (22,9 X 30,5 cm) watercolor paper that I folded in half before I painted the watercolor on the page.  I measured the amount of paper I would need for the cup and rose.  I then began by watering down the red watercolor, then gradually adding more until I got the brightest possible.  When the watercolor was dry, I mixed the molding paste with way too much gold fluid acrylic.  I then applied it to the two sides.  Once they were dry, I added the cup and rose.  I covered a lot of challenges today, including T Tuesday, Art Journal Journey, and Try it on Tuesday.  Please join Bleubeard and me at these other challenge blogs, too.

 

Now it's your turn to share your drink related post.  It can be gifts you received, photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, mail art, junk mail, catalogs, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, 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.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and most assuredly not just this year.