Mushroom Teacup Garden

 So the mushroom obsession continues with my Mushroom Teacup garden. I do believe I’ve doomed myself to creating mushroom projects forever, I’m just having way to much fun!

So I love teacups and I love mushrooms so why not put them together right! Teacups are so fun to do projects with. I started off by using foam to fill the teacup and building on it to get the shape I wanted above the lip of the teacup. I then used moss to cover the foam, spill over the edge and cover some of the saucer so it gave the idea of it kind of being taken over by nature. I love my copics and I love a challenge so I decided to cut all the pieces using Tim Holtz dies out of strathmore smooth bristol paper. This gave me a nice think base for all the pieces. I then started coloring everything in with my copics, long process but worth it. If you didn’t want to do the coloring portion you could just use colored paper. I then started assembling the pieces in sections and mounted them on crafting wire with hot glue so that I could put them in, in sections. 

This was such a fun project to make!

I used a ton of thinlits dies. 660955, 663087, 662702, 665215, 661206, 664581, 664361. I hope I remembered them all. I love mixing and matching dies so I often get going and it’s one from here and one from there and before I know it I don’t know what I’ve used or where it goes lol

The Mushroom Forest Clock

 So I kinda have a mushroom obsession, ok well maybe that’s an understatement lol. Perhaps I need a twelve step program! So I kept looking at this Tim Holtz clock that I have and kept thinking it was meant for something fabulous, but what? So I decided to go with mushrooms and hence the mushroom forest clock was born!

I started off by priming and then using modeling paste to create texture. I then painted it all in acrylics and gave it a patina effect! The back panel on the inside is painted to look like a forest in the background to give the project depth and a sense of a small forest being trapped in the clock!

I dug through some old supplies because let’s face it we all have a stash that we are saving for a rainy day right! So I used an old prima vine that I had. I created the leaves using a Tim Holtz leaf’s dies and inked them with Tim Holtz inks to look like fall leaves. Inside is real moss and foam mushrooms. 

And voila the mushroom forest clock!