Time for Tea....Altered Popjes

The title of this post relates to the cute doll faced girls drawn by the lovely Manon, who recently gave a free class at Flutterbye.ning.

I decided to make one of these girls for this weeks Butterfly Effect challenge of Tea/Coffee, and put her in my altered book:D

I simply covered my page with this scrummy piece of Tim Holtz design paper, which cried out to me "Time for Tea?"
I drew a pencil sketch of the doll face(didn't show up enough on photo) and started too colour with promarkers....

Painted over with a layer of watered down gesso.....
then added black outline.....all as instructed by Manon :D
But I picked up the wrong pen...and the black ink bled every time I caught it....
so I very carefully built up the colours with markers and gesso(making sure each layer was dry)
got "miffed" at all the smudges and coloured over with pastel pink.....
before adding a final layer of gesso. Not very happy with the finished surface, but we all make mistakes...doesn't mean it's useless.....
I thought "surreal", and made her into a teapot :D
I painted the dp with a dry brush and gesso to age it a bit more, and over stamped with a fabby tea cup stamp that was a gift from Stef aka Glitterbabe, using TH's distress inks in faded jeans(blue) and Aged Mahogany(red).
The fabric was from a Dezinaworld Treasure Lucky bag, and I thought it would make a pretty outfit for afternoon tea :D
And every teapot needs a cosy :D

Here she is in my altered book.....
and I think she turned out pretty cute :D

Enjoy :D XXX