Altered Alice Challenge - Splendidly Dressed

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This month Stampendous is sponsoring the wonderful Altered Alice Challenge.  For all the details hop on over to the Altered Alice Blog.  The inspirational quote:

"After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!'"-- Chapter 2; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


My project:

I had picked up this little crown awhile ago and it was a great deal.  I was saving the crown for a special project and this was the perfect challenge.  The images are all from the Stampendous Wonderland set.

I stamped the cards and hearts using the Crimson red from Ranger Archival Inks.  I accented the crown with some bits and pieces of trim gems, and lace.  

Alice was stamped in black and colored with watercolor.  I created the base from acetate supports attached to the bottom of the crown and added Websters Pages Lace Panel in the bottom to cover my base and give a softness to the crown.

I love that I was able to use those playing cards. I can't tell you how many half decks we had in our card selection.  I went through and took any deck that was missing more than a few cards and put them in my alterable stash. :)

Hope your Sunday is blessed!

Suzz

I'm Late........

All April the Stampendous team is  celebrating with the folks over at the Altered Alice Blog as their Design Team and ours use the Stampendous Wonderland Perfectly Clear Stamp Set to create some fantastic adventures based on the following quote from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland -
“After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, `Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!’”– Chapter 2; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland


Today I am sharing one of my projects for the Altered Alice challenge:

I took the really fun checkerboard image in the set and repeated it over the background to create a backdrop for Alice.  I used the colors of red and yellow for Alice instead of her traditional blue and white outfit. :)

The card was created by cutting white cardstock to size and using the stamp to create the Ace. 

I thought it would be fun to create a belated birthday card, for one of those times when I was late in sending out my birthday wishes.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Alice & The Rabbit

The Altered Alice challenge this month is to create something that is predominantly blue and yellow, the colors associated with Alice and is sponsored by Artistic Outpost.

I was lucky enough to have the lovely Artistic Outpost Wonderland Collage plate and used it to create a collage of the mad hatter, Alice and time. 

 

The background is a combination of the ledger from the Ephemeral Backgrounds plate and stamping of the words from the Wonderland Collage with a mix of distressing using blue dye ink sponged  and white acrylic paint.

The images and words were stamped using the Versafine blue pigment ink. The yellow was added with a touch of the watercolor pencils.

 

If you use Artistic Outpost's Wonderland Collage in your project, you will receive two chances at the drawing instead of one!  The challenge ends  Friday, April 22 at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4:00) and the winner will be posted sometime on Sunday, April 24 on the Altered Alice blog. 

Thanks for dropping by! 

Suzz

Orange and Turquoise

I saw the wonderful colors for the Stampotique challenge and wanted to play along.  I love the colors of orange and turquoise together. They are so striking.  Stampotique's challenge is to use Stampotique stamps and the colors orange and turquoise. The Altered Alice blog challenge is to create a project with something altered or a dress form and Louise's Tag Tuesday Challenge is to use more than one circle. 

I combined all three challenges and used the  Stampotique  mushrooms and sentiment to create this tag. 

The circles are punched from pattern paper and a backgorund I created using the Layers of Colors Art Stencil Belle Brocade and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Patina. 

Everything is sponged with Ranger Distress Ink Rusty Hinge and Memento Rich Cocoa. 

The butterflies are actually created from the smallest mushrooms. I cut the tops off and used them for wings. (My altered touch along with the fact that butterflies start as caterpillars) All working into the Altered Alice challenge. :) 

Storm update:  We have snow blown into a big pile by the front door which is at least 4 feet high.  The poor dogs are having issues getting outside. Every trip requires me to go out there and shovel away a couple feet of snow and a path. The puppy doesn't like it as she isn't used to this.  The older dog just wants to get out and back in as soon as possible. :) (I know the feeling) 

Have a wonderful day... By the way, I am so happy that our power has held, the heat is on and we are all home safe and together. 

Suzz