Time For Tea Collage

Hello folks, hoping you've all had a good week and I'm sure like me that you're all looking forward to the weekend. I need mine as I've had a very busy week and can't wait for a rest.
Being Friday, we have a new challenge for you over at Polka Doodles and this week Daniele has chosen a theme very dear to my heart - Shabby Chic/Vintage and I've taken the opportunity to make something really different from my collection of Polka Doodles CDs and created a mixed media canvas.

For my canvas I tried out something I haven't done before which was to print out all the papers and elements for the collage on to canvas (I used a canvas block from The Works - very cheap but believe me when I say it works really well!).
The items used are as follows:
The gorgeous teacup and the 2 cup text - Sugarplum Daisy CD
Time for tea text - A Double Sprinkle of Kraft CD
Blue stripe design - Pretty Sweet CD
Yellow Dot Design - Magical Winter CD
Pink Large Dot Design - Magical Winter CD
Pink Polka Dot Design - Pretty Sweet CD
Deeper Pink Polka Dot Design - Pretty Sweet CD

I worked out the shapes for my crazy quilt style pieces on paper first and then ripped the shapes from the printed canvas. I added wonky stitching (I'm really out of practice!) in dark brown to some of the pieces.
I painted my 30cm square canvas with cream acrylic paint and inked some of the edges with umber ink. I then added some pieces of rectangular tray doily which I distressed with the brown ink pad to the canvas base.
I cut out the teacup and inked it with the brown again and then cut some flower from muslin using a Marianne flower die and layered these up with circles roughly trimmed with pinking shears and tiny buttons in the centre.
I assembled the canvas as you see, adding more pieces of doily and buttons together with the fabulous 2 cup text (I have to say here that in my case EVERY day is a 2 cup day!!!) and the time for tea panels.
It really isn't that hard to make and the only tip I can give here is that the paper designs print out paler on the canvas so if you give it a try do bear that in mind as if you want a fairly strong colour, you'll need to choose a darker shade of paper.

Challenges for my canvas:
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Tandastamps Challenge - Beverage
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything But A Card
The Cheerful Stamp Pad - Time For The Queen's Tea - Any 2
Paper Crafting Journey - Vintage
4 Crafty Chicks - No Stamping

Hoping that you all have a lovely weekend.
Hugs, Fliss xx