Goodbye To Wonderland...

It's the final chapter over at The Altered Alice and the theme is 'What a beautiful dream it has been'
Here is my version of Wonderland.
The background canvas has been coloured in PanPastels. I must admit that before I added my characters it did look like Teletubbie Hill :-)
The top layer is mountboard that has also been PanPasteled.
All of the stamps are by Stampotique and are available here

Isn't Chessy a cutie lol.
So for all you Alice lovers check out the inspiration and join in at The Altered Alice.
I'm also entering this into Country View Crafts How Does Your Garden Grow
and
Fashionable Stamping Anything Goes.
Thanks very much for looking x 

Off With Her Head!!

Yet more romance for February, this time courtesy of Tim's tags of 2013. Lot's of improvisation this time, as there seems to be a lack of stash in the old romance department.
I don't have his Queen of Heart's stamp so Stampotique's Queen of Hearts, stepped up, together with the letter Q, a heart stamp and the dreaded stamp positioner.
I've also used co-ordinations card and Tim's embossing folders.
Unfortunately even surrounded by hearts and romance Queenie has reverted to type, and so her only comment is 'Off With Her Head'

This was done with Tim's chit chat stickers (adventure is now just venture 'cos it was off with its 'ad' :-)
I'm also entering this into this months Altered Alice challenge which is Romance in Wonderland. Nothing says' I love you' more than a head in a basket.
Thanks very much for looking and have a great weekend x 

You've Been Framed

Over at The Altered Alice the challenge this month is red white and blue.
I started by gessoing then painting my little frames with Dylusion paints. I then stamped them with the tiny stamps from my Cherry Pie Art Stamp plate.
Note to self if I ever do this again, you can unscrew the little attachers before you start painting - this would have made cleaning them up soooo much easier lol.

Alice has been coloured in prisma pens.

The Queen has been stamped onto some text paper.

More prisma's for Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Do you like my beautiful display stand, it started life in the kitchen as a mug holder, then made it's way into my craft room for me to hang my scissors from. I have about 6 pairs but could never find any, so mug tree to the rescue lol.

Head on over to The Altered Alice for lots more of the red, white and blue.

Thank you very much for looking x

Dum And Dee's Excellent Adventure

Wonderland's all very well and good, but we all need a change from time to time, so Alice and Co have had a day out in Old London Town (cue Phantom Raspberry Blower - you had to be there lol)
The monthly challenge at The Altered Alice is 'Going Postal', so I've made a postcard to commemorate their visit.
My card has been Pan Pastel'd in blues, magenta - lurve this shade, and greens. The stamps are a mixture of Clarity (that's the ATC sized postage stamp top right), Tim Holtz (postcard) Cherry Pie (all of the Alice stamps) Kanban (London and the cancellation stamp). The main image stamps are Creative Journey and Artistic Outpost.
You can imagine the state of my craft room with this load of stamps out, and the bin in overflowing... I wanted to do this on glossy card with a brayered background, but after getting smudgy fingerprints on 5 or 6 I gave up and reached for the Pans. I love the crisp image Versafine gives, but I always smudge.
Check out the amazing artwork at The Altered Alice, and thanks very much for looking x

Hello Hello I'm Back Again!!

....and what have they done to Blogger while I've been gone!! Honestly one week off with a poorly computamabob and everything changes!

This is in my Moleskine, and hurrah I've got past page 1 and it's all still intact. The background has been made with Pan Pastels, using just 3 colours 'cos I havn't got many. The old me would have put a 'yet' on the end of that, but having looked round a Uni with my youngest on Saturday I'm on such a spending ban, and I think I really mean it this time. Not only will he come out of it thousands in debt, but Neil and I may have to sell body parts too!!

Anyhoo, I've used my new Stampotique Alice stamps on this (don't get me started on how long it took Parcelforce to deliver these) lots of stencils for the flowers and leaves, and Pink Paislee rub on's for the silvery bits.

I'm entering this into the following challenges

The Altered Alice - Splendidly Dressed

Stampotique - Oodles of Doodles

Pan Pastels - Add A Flower 

Thanks very much for looking x

Are You Dreaming Of Rabbits???

Is the question being asked by Alice's therapist who I think looks remarkably like Dr Bunsen Honeydew  of The Muppets fame. If you look back through my blog you will see that I spent a lot of my childhood watching the Muppets lol .
The challenge this time over at The Altered Alice is The Best Butter as in the colour buttery yellow. My journal page has been painted in various shades of yellow with Eco Green and Dylusion paints. It was well gesso'd first as I've taken the plunge and bought myself a Moleskine, so I am now officially trying this art journaling lark :o). I've used my favourite Cherry Pie Alice stamps together with Stampotique. I don't know where Dr Honeydew is from but he's a clear stamp and I love him. 

Thanks  very much for looking and check out The Altered Alice where there's lots of brilliant  real art. Have a fab weekend x

It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights....
Click it, you know you want to lol

Alice Comes Out Of The Closet

I tend to stalk challenge blogs for a while before I pluck up the courage to join in, and this time the unlucky victim has been The Altered Alice

which celebrates all things Alice in Wonderland. The challenge this month is to use hearts. I've used a chipboard box that I got as part of a set from The Range and painted it with white acrylic. The heart and crown stamps are from Cherry Pie Art Stamps and I've had these for a couple of years now but  have hardly used them.

I covered the lid in various tissue and washi tapes, then decided that I would rather have acetate in the middle, so cut it out with a craft knife. I may as well have used a knife and fork for this - an expert with a craft knife I am not! I stamped some acetate from the same stamp set and stuck it to the box lid, then embossed the edges to try and cover up the mess I had made in cutting it out :o)

This is the inside of the box, again using the Cherry Pie stamps of Alice and the Queen of Hearts.

And this is how it looks altogether, in real life you can see the Cheshire Cat up a tree grinning down on them. I really enjoyed making this even though it's another of those 'what are you going to do with that' thing lol.

Thanks very much for looking x