TODAY IS MAD HATTER DAY!

Over on ALTERED ALICE we are celebrating the MAD HATTER this month with a MAD TEA PARTY!!
All the DT members decided to bring something  Alice-related to the tea party......my choice was the CUPS AND SAUCERS.

 A while ago I saw this post on EFFIES BLOG and so I decided I was going to MAKE my cups and saucers!
Effie had used a template that I had also seen and stored the idea away for future use.......it's here on ANN WOODS BLOG.......be sure and check out the rest of Anns blog....she makes INCREDIBLE owls and other birds!

 So using the template I cut out 6 cups.......I then wanted to do the papier mache covering with old book pages.....but I didn't have the wallpaper paste suggested so went back to my childhood and mixed some good old flour and water paste! It was a messy, gooey process but fun!

 After setting the cups aside to dry.....they took a couple of days to be completely dry.......I painted them with gesso......let dry again and then with paint, some of which I removed with baby wipes so you can still see some text.

 Each cup was then decorated with a different pattern and a black pen.

To make the saucers I cut a small circle, then cut a slit into the circle and overlappeed the edges to give a slightly concave shape.......tape in place and then cover with paper sand paint as per the cups. The concave shape means that the saucers don't sit completely flat.......press them down a little to get them flat enough for the cups to sit on them........I wanted them slightly wonky to fit into the MAD tea party theme!!!