One happy day, the Panduro hobby catalogue was dropped in my mailbox. So many neat things in there, I could spend twice my salary every month on everything in there.... And one of the things I saw was a tea pot with built in cup painted with golden and pink colours. I do not know why, but my first thought went to Giò. I got that weird, maybe not even reasonable idea, that I should paint something similar to her. So off I went and purchased the tea pot and the colours.
Actually, the pattern I went for was nothing like the original one I saw in the catalogue, but, guess what, copying stuff is not really my strong side. I remembered I had some nice stamps with some cute flowers and I thought of actually "stamping them on" to the cup and then paint it, which is quite obviously a worthless and impossible idea. So I simply did flowers by hand. The idea would be to start from the bottom of the cup and let flowers go from there to the top of the cup and in some cases to the bottom of the tea pot part of it.
If you look below, you see how the stems go through.
It is even possible to turn the pot around compared to the cup and still have stems matching up in some points.
The top part has also got small flowers all around. The knob is also pink.
Every detail has been bordered with golden relief colour.
This project has been done by using Pébéos Porcelaine 150 colour, Shimmer pink #107 and a similar stick colour for the relief.
After painting, the colour needs to rest for about 1 day at least. As the relief was thick I let it dry somewhat longer. Then you can simply bake it in the oven at 150degrees Celsius for about 35 minutes. I am unsure of whether this is necessary, but to make sure I put it in the cold oven (if I recall it correctly) and let it in there until completely cold again.
Theoretically, you should be able to wash it in the dish washer. But you never know....
I personally felt it was very difficult to get a "sleek colour" really. When painting the colour would go away. But well... who says you need a sleek colour?!
Hope Giò likes it! Actually, her colour is blue rather than pink but you never know! Could not stop thinking about her and a pink tea pot so it had to be pink :O)
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| 6/12-2011 |
If you look below, you see how the stems go through.
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| 6/11-2011 |
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| 6/11-11 |
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| 6/11-11 |
Every detail has been bordered with golden relief colour.
This project has been done by using Pébéos Porcelaine 150 colour, Shimmer pink #107 and a similar stick colour for the relief.
After painting, the colour needs to rest for about 1 day at least. As the relief was thick I let it dry somewhat longer. Then you can simply bake it in the oven at 150degrees Celsius for about 35 minutes. I am unsure of whether this is necessary, but to make sure I put it in the cold oven (if I recall it correctly) and let it in there until completely cold again.
Theoretically, you should be able to wash it in the dish washer. But you never know....
I personally felt it was very difficult to get a "sleek colour" really. When painting the colour would go away. But well... who says you need a sleek colour?!
Hope Giò likes it! Actually, her colour is blue rather than pink but you never know! Could not stop thinking about her and a pink tea pot so it had to be pink :O)
