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Hallo Everyone!

Hope you are having a 

good day - I'm rushing

about getting nowhere

so I feel at least one of

us should be having a

good time..............

Here is Jane Castle with

an ingenious way of

saying "thank you" ....

"For my project today using the new 

Distress Oxide ink pads I would like to share 

with you a present I've made for a 

very dear friend of ours.

 Every time he visits and has a cup of tea 

he makes very complimentary comments 

about our blend of tea 

( a mix of 3 different types we blend ourselves) 

so I felt it was time to give him a bag of his own 

but wanted it to be more than just a bag

As I tend not to throw anything away 

that 'might be useful' I raided my stash 

and found an empty cardboard inner 

from a ball of wool -- perfect!

I cut a piece of white card 7cm deep 

but longer than I needed to cover the tube. 

Then cut a tag from the some card using

 the middle size die from BoBunny 

nested tag dies. 

Both of these pieces of card were then coloured 

by swiping them through 2 colours 

of Distress Oxide ink that had been 

placed on the craft sheet and sprayed with water.

I continued doing this and adding more water 

to the card when needed until I achieved 

the effect I was after. 

I used my heat gun to dry between layers 

so as not to end up with a muddy colour. 

The lovely chalky effect builds up with the 

addition of spritzed water, leaving for a few seconds

 and then dabbing with some kitchen paper.

Once these were completely dry I masked 

off the stencil and added Grunge paste through 

the word tea onto the tag using the 

wonderful stencil by Scrapcosy from PaperArtsy. 

The centre of the card for covering the tube 

was stamped using the main image from 

PaperArtsy ESC03 in Vintage Photo and then 

heat embossed with clear EP.

Using the same stencil I then added some 

of the hessian effect to both pieces. 

Then using the sprig of flowers stamp from 

the same set I inked the stamp with Vintage Photo, 

wiped the flowers of ink with kitchen paper 

and then added some Fossilized Amber ink to the stamp 

using a sponge so as not to contaminate

 my new ink pad. This was then stamped onto 

the card each side of the main image.

The sprigs of flowers were spritzed with water 

and left for about 12secs before dabbing with kitchen paper.

The centre image was lightly rubbed with 

some Treasure Gold before trimming 

to the correct size. 

This was then attached to the cardboard tube 

with extra strong doublesided tape.

The Grunge Paste tea on the tag had the 

clean stencil replaced and was coloured 

using Fossilized Amber and Vintage Photo.

A cellophane bag was filled with the tea mix and tied 

at the top using the tag and some stripped down hairy string!

This was then placed inside the tube.

Well that makes a bag of tea look a little bit 

more interesting for a gift I think.

 Lets hope our friend likes it."

Items Used

Distress Oxide Ink Pads 

(in Broken China, Vintage Photo and Fossilized Amber)

 Smooth Card

PaperArtsy PS051 Stencil

PaperArtsy Stamp Set ESC03

Nested Tag Dies

 Grunge Paste

Treasure Gold in Renaissance

Extra Strong Double Sided Tape

Empty Shetland wool cardboard tube

Hairy String

And a Bag of Tea!

Well, that has improved my day

thank you so much Jane

That really is a lovely present

and I'm sure your friend will

be thrilled to bits with it

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx