Completed Teacup Mirror

Hi there!

Happy Memorial Day to all my American followers! 
Check out the bottom of this post for a link to some free printables.

Just popping in to show you the completed Teacup Mirror I made for a Fundraiser. I showed you some of the progress in a couple of earlier posts, so this is a continuation of the process along with the completed mirror. 

These are very time consuming, fiddly and frustrating to make, but the end result is so worth it. The photos really don't do it much justice because they truly do look nicer in real life. 

Anyhow, I'll just post a bunch of photos, carrying on from where I left you.

In the photo above, I placed the cups in different positions and had pretty much decided to go with mostly this design. However, when you put them together, things do change. I use a pencil mark for guidelines.

Here most of the cups are glued on and awaiting embellishment. At this point I removed the mirror because it was dirty, so I continued without it in there.

I've used rhinestones to embellish on most of my other mirrors, but this time I used pearls, which I felt was more in keeping with the flowery teacups. Most of the cups had some gold on them which didn't look good with the silver rhinestones. I added a cup and saucer, some buttons, a spoon which I had to fix. There was nothing on the top of the spoon, so I glued on a little heart charm, exactly like the one on the bottom of the frame.

Here's a close up of the spoon. I'm realizing I shouldn't have put the same heart charm so close to the spoon...oh well, too late now! I don't think people will notice it right away. Shhhh...

Some more embellishments close up.

Almost done....thankfully...I have to make a card for my sisters anniversary and she'll be here Wednesday. Plus I want to make a soap cake and a Dutch Apple Torte before they get here.

Okay...are you ready for the completed Teacup Mirror?

I have an acetate butterfly which will be glued onto the top right cup. I couldn't decide if I wanted it on there, but after seeing the photo, I think it needs it.

I do not have a digi for you today, but I do have a link to some free printables that are themed for Summer and July 4th. Check out Blooming Homestead to get those! I'm sure you'll find more interesting things if you take the time to look around her site, and please do right by me -by leaving her some love!

Thanks for stopping by! :0)

Blessings, 

Carmen

Teacup Mirror and Envelopes

Here is something I made last year out of recycled teacups. I absolutely love this mirror, which currently hangs in my kitchen close to my Dutch blue delft plates, etc. I am thinking about making these to sell, but am concerned about shipping costs and wondering how practical it would be to even try to ship these. In the meantime I thought I would share these photos with you.

Here is another craft I did a while ago. These little pockets are made out of regular envelopes. You close the flap and cut the envelope in half, cut the open corners and fold it back. Then you add patterned paper and flower embellishments. Easy!

Then I took my Zutter Bind It All and bound them into a little book with photos of my grandson....I'm a very, very young grandmother...really I am! ;)

I did the chipboard letters with a special embossing technique created by Marion from A Piece of Craft. I really like the effect which I think looks very masculine. If you double click on the picture, it should enlarge it a bit so that you can see it.

I made my mother and mother-in-law each a mini album last Christmas of all their grandchildren. One of the things I worked into each page was the meaning of their names, and in their baby page I included the date they were born. It was a big hit!!

Since then, another one of my sons married, and the other son and daughter-in-law had a son. So why am I telling you this? Well, I'll be doing up a couple of 8X8 pages for each of them very soon and hope to post them here.

Until then,