I’m having so much fun with the new line of red rubber stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry also known as pegstamps.com. I bought this travel mug at the Dollar Tree and thought I’d use it as a Christmas gift. I started looking at it and thought, “I should have my own decorated mug!” The first thing you will want to do is take the mug apart by unscrewing the top black portion and remove the papers inside. Clean thoroughly. I traced the template inside on a piece of copy paper and cut it out. I used the MISTI to stamp on. I took the template and pushed it up against two sides of the MISTI so if the paper moves, you can put it back where it was originally if you need to re-stamp it. I had a problem where I had stamped my images once and didn’t clean them enough so had a light outline of my stamps so had to re-stamp anyway, so I get to show you how to fix it. I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and took the Rubber Stamp Tapestry set called “Lots of Pots” and used the tea pot and the teacups and stamped them onto the template closer to the bottom of my paper so I have room for the flowers on the upper part of my design. I decided I wanted to use a background image using an old Stampin’ Up background stamp that was called Harlequin.. I used Memento Dew Drops Desert Sand for my background color. Because I used a background stamp, I needed to make masks for my teapot and teacups. You do that by stamping the image on a piece of post-it note and then trim it out. After you trim it, you lay it on the stamped image on the template. Make sure you don’t cut out inside the handle of the teapot as you want to make sure you can see your flowers that you’ll be stamping. I took the template out of the MISTI and inked the background stamp and laid the template face down onto the stamp inked with Desert Sand. I moved the template to where the stamp ended and re inked the background stamp, and stamped the rest of the background. I decided to color in my pot and cups with Dew Drops first around the edges and as my shading color with Grey Flannel and then London Fog to fill the rest of the inside of the pot and cups. I used a blender pen from Dove (check on Amazon for the set that includes extra nibs and a bottle of blender fluid. Here’s a link to it.
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I pulled out the different peg stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry that I wanted to use and I put them in a star shaped ice cube tray so I can easily see them and they stand up straight and I really like this system when I’m stamping with them. I started with the branches that I wanted to put in each pot called Sprig Crackled and I use Dew Drops ink color Expresso Truffle. Using the line on the side of the peg, I stamped the image in each piece at least once. In retrospect, I maybe would have not stamped this into the cups and just made them flower filled instead. I still liked how my cup looked, but thought you should consider not using the branch in the cups.
I used Potter’s Clay with Open Dogwood Cluster stamp as it is my biggest stamp I’m using. Always go biggest to smallest when using peg stamps. I used Dianthus Solid Left and Tangelo ink and stamped three (at least) on each of my cups and pots. The next stamp I used was called Berries six on a stem and saw that the edges needed trimmed. I started with Lady Bug and didn’t like the red so switched to Stampin’ Up Real Red ink which looked better with the colors in the project. I used the blender pen and used another Stampin’ Up ink called Pumpkin Pie and colored inside the dogwood stamps. I used Cantaloupe Dew Drop and put little dots inside the dogwood flowers as well and then went onto foliage. I used a stamp called Foliage Leaf and Olive Grove Dew Drop and placed the leaves all around the image. I’m using other foliage stamps and went to Strawberry Leaf stamp and Northern Pine Dew Drop and stamped them around. (This is when I accidentally dropped the second dew drop onto the bottom of my project, jeepers!) I used another stamp called Maidenheart Fern down onto the side of the pots with Olive Grove . I used a pinwheel flower with Daffodil Delight ink from Stampin’ Up to fill with a tiny flower. To fix my spots where I dropped Dew Drops onto the project, I used a green patterned washi tape to cover it making sure to line the edges so when you make the template into a circle to fit inside the mug, the edges of the washi meet. I think it worked pretty well. All you have to do now is make the template into a circle and slide it inside the clear plastic outside of the mug then put the black inner lining inside and screw it closed.
This is an easy project and one I hope you try with your family. I thought it was a lot of fun (other than the problems I created for myself) and really like my mug.

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