Off with your head

I still love the Alice In Wonderland sets from Visible Image, but the Queen of Hearts has always been my favourite.
I coloured her using Promarkers and a gold pen to highlight the crown and jar lid. I mounted pieces of gold, red and white card with red hearts on to a 6x6 card blank.

I fussy cut both the Queen and the jar, then stuck them to the front of the card.

Finally I stamped the words from the set onto white card, cut them in odd shapes, then mounted them onto red and gold card before sticking them to the top of the finished card.

Tea For Two

I know this may seem a bit late but I totally forgot to post this box, which was actually a Christmas present for a friend who I work with.

She is a very talented artist and is really making a name for herself in the crafting world, including getting her work onto the television as a designer for Visible Image.

This is an Artist Trading Block and is another piece from the brilliant Calico Craft Parts it measures 4" square.The first thing I need to do was glue together the bottom and three side pieces, I couldn't attach the front and top because I needed to get my hand in to glue everything inside.

I painted the outside of the box using Turquoise Dylusions paint before lining the inside using Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland papers.

I used three cotton spools and circles of card to create the table and chairs, adding cups, a teapot and a potion vial to the 'Tea Party' scene.

I attached the front and top, then added the drawer hand onto the top and the charms on the front.

Little box of secrets

This is an older piece that I had totally forgotten about. Once again I have used an Alice In Wonderland stamp from Visible Image.

The box top is a piece of square Stampbord, I lightly inked the whole thing using various blue Distress inks, then I used a keyhole mask with a darker blue. I stamped Alice onto the dried background, then took the colour back on her tights, apron and skin, I finally added a pale pink onto her skin to give her a bit of colour.

I painted the entire box pale blue and added the Good Times onto the side using another Visible Image stamp and some white WOW embossing powder.

We're All Mad Here

I have waited ages to use this stamp set, the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland has always been one of my favourite characters, even before Johnny Depp played him.
I used another favourite character as inspiration for the colour scheme, the Joker from the original Batman film, he gave me the green, purpl and orange of his clothes.

I coloured him in using my Promarkers, then cut him out ready to go on my card.

Next I took three pieces of 6x6 cards, one black, one green and one purple, cutting each piece slightly smaller than the last. Taking the black piece of card I started by stamping the Ha several times in Versamark and embossed them in orange using WOW powder, then I stamped the scribble circles using Versamark and ebossed those using orange WOW powder.

You'll notice that there a few little marks on the black card, I hadn't noticed there were a couple of pieces of powder on it and this is the result of brushing off embossing powder when it is not completely set (I had to be careful with the yellow circles so I didn't burn the orange words) I did manage to fix the problem with a little black Promarker. Phew!

Finally I stamped the words that also come with the Hatter onto separate pieces of white card and mounted these onto a piece of green and a piece of purple.

More Alice In Wonderland

 This are the invites to my girls birthday party. It's an Alice In Wonderland themed party. The girls are both dressing as Alice and all their friends are all coming as different characters from the book.
These invites were done using Alice themed stamps and a Couture Creations embossing folder called Tea Party. I used the folder with a piece of core'dinations card - blue lightening.