Final Week-Changes in Form or Dress Form

"Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. `Come, there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!"

-- Chapter 5, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Well, just like Alice we have been through a change in location and changed form from weekly to monthly, but the challenge chapters remain familiar despite all these puzzling changes!

This is the last Sunday.......So the Winner will be announced at the Altered Alice blog.

Is it you......did you enter?

And now for the big news - STAMPOTIQUE ORIGINALS is sponsoring our first challenge with a $30 gift certificate for one lucky winner, and their design team is going to play along! Be sure to visit their Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog where you can play every week! They are famous for artist Daniel Torrente's quirky characters, but they actually have many artists and quite a few different styles. Jo Capper-Sandon is my favorite with her wonderful mushrooms, and other lines include Janet Klein's flower characters (click next a few times to see them) that remind me of the garden of living flowers! There is something to please everyone at Stampotique Originals!

Here is my inspiration for you:

I took Moth Fab (love her! she is fab!) I put her on a lamp post base. Her legs and feet gone. She has turned into her own dress form. I think she turned out marvelous on her post.

I used 7 Gypsies paper and the lamp post is also from 7 Gypsies. Photo corners, tim holtlz alteration die, some bead ribbon, flower from Recollection and a little piece of leftover trim. Of course you need the Moth Fab Stamp from Stampotique Originals in order to duplicate this baby. You will be in love!

                                                        I though this would be a fun picture.

                                                                     Just another look

                                                                        A little closer

Now go to the Altered Alice blog and see this month's winner.....Is it you?

Graphic 45 Design Team Entry

Everyone who knows me, knows I have a top 3 to 4 companies I use a lot. Well one of my top companies is having a DT call. I am trying out for it! Nervous, scared, and that's okay.

                                     If we never try we will never know what could have been. 

This is all about projects using Graphic 45!

Wish me luck in this new Journey!

Project 1 - Halloween in Wonderland tray

(This was donated to the Altered Alice blog as a prize)

Project 2 - Halloween in Wonderland card

Project 3 - A Proper Gentlemen Shadow Box Collage

Notice the extra shading on the Watch

Project 4 - Hanging Collage - Mix of G-45 papers & flowers

My Dad

Project 5 - Hand dyed muslin w/stamped Le Cirque Elephant Pillow

Project 6 - Steampunk Debutante Dress Form

This was so fun to do

Project 7 - Halloween in Wonderland Card

                                                Project 8 - Domestic Goddess Layout

                                                                  This is a picture of my Mom and Great Grandma

                                                         Tag out of the root beer pocket

                                  Don't throw the package out....NEVER...makes for a great tag

                                               It's covered now......just wanted to show the back before it was covered

                                                                 Pull out journal tag

Project 9 - Christmas Past Black Envelope Album

I will show you a few pages, or it could get long

Project 10 - Halloween in Wonderland Collage Book

Made out of old files

I chose my favorite pages, not the whole book

                                                             Yep this is how I feel about trying out.....LOL! 

Project 11 - Le Cirque Clutch Purse

Yes, I said purse. I love this. I wish you could touch and see how beautiful this is in person. I will explain a little on how I did this. I took vinyl and put it over the paper, then attached the paper to Grungepaper and stitched it all together. This was so fun.

                                                                         Back side

                                                             Magnetic snap closure

                                                                  Few extra looks

                                                       How cute is this.......soooooo cute!

Project 12 - Collage, painted altered art, then waxed

Project 13 - Le Cirque Night Light

FUN!

Project 14 - and the final is a card made from Once Upon a Springtime

Thanks for stopping by.......Would love to hear what you think.

Maybe one of these will have to become a prize for someone. What do you think about a giveaway?

Wish me luck, I am going to need it with all the great designers out there!

Note to Graphic 45.............If I you think my clutch was cool, wait till you see what I have in store for the final cut! LOL!

Chapter 1 - Week 3 Changes in form or Dress forms

"Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.


It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. `Come, there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!"

-- Chapter 5, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Well, just like Alice we have been through a change in location and changed form from weekly to monthly, but the challenge chapters remain familiar despite all these puzzling changes!

Here is how the new monthly challenge will work:

1st Sunday of the month: The new challenge will be posted with the link tool, and a few of the design team samples will be posted.

2nd Sunday: Additional design team samples will be posted.

3rd Sunday: The last of the design team samples will be posted.

Last Sunday of the month: A winner will be announced and some of your projects may be given an "honorable mention".

We are starting a week early with the February challenge because we didn't want to leave you with a gap, so we will spread the design team samples over four weeks and the winner will be announced on February 27th. You have a whole month to submit your creations, so we are hoping that a lot more of you will decide to play along!
To reflect all these puzzling changes, the challenge is to make something that features a dress form, OR to make something that changes in form! While it is not required that your project include Alice in Wonderland, we do encourage it. If your project does feature Wonderland you will get two chances in the prize drawing instead of one!
And now for the big news - STAMPOTIQUE ORIGINALS is sponsoring our first challenge with a $30 gift certificate for one lucky winner, and their design team is going to play along! Be sure to visit their Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog where you can play every week! They are famous for artist Daniel Torrente's quirky characters, but they actually have many artists and quite a few different styles. Jo Capper-Sandon is my favorite with her wonderful mushrooms, and other lines include Janet Klein's flower characters (click next a few times to see them) that remind me of the garden of living flowers! There is something to please everyone at Stampotique Originals!
Here is my inspiration for you:

First up is my Stampotique Sweetie who has gone through some changes, she started pretty simple then she added some style..........you be the judge!

This beauty is called "Gooseneck" just so you know.....I love her!

This is where Gooseneck changes a bit.

These are the 1st thru 4th..........
1st Gooseneck is very plain, 2nd a bit more daring with her make-up and the dress has a iridescent color added. Now the 3rd, she is getting a little sassy one might say...darker eye shadow and her dress with sequins and glitz. But we get to the 4th she is getting even more color......and by the 5th......

She is totally rockin' it! Gooseneck has her gauze dress with glitz, added her heavy metal and that hair piece was just for her!

This is the inside of the card. I figure you could say Congratulations, you have come a long way!

 I had so much fun with this stamp from Stampotique Originals, I will have another one for you next week! Yep, next Sunday I will be working with Moth Fab!

Please give Stampotique a visit, it is worth your time!

On to my next piece...........it is a 5X7 collage

 I thought it would be fun to know why Alice was LATE, it's because she was still in the shower and had not gotten dressed yet. You see it is still hanging on the dress form waiting for her to get dressed. (like many of us women getting ready, we need just enough extra time to fluff) So I started with a board and started to layer by layer add little things to create depth and wonder. I have paint, tissue paper, stamps, rub-ons, drawings, paper, marker all layered on. The dress I used paper and cut it out and then layered the apron over it. I added a tissue paper ruffle to the bottom of the dress. After all done it was time to wax this baby and add my metal findings. Of course a butterfly was a must, Cheshire Cat, but of course. Then a metal A for Alice and a key. Now you have my piece for this challenge.

 Close up of the rabbit

 Cheshire Cat in a Tim Holtz plate

A clock with a metal A

I hope you have enjoyed my interpretation of this weeks challenge. I know I have. I really enjoyed working with my new Gooseneck Stamp. I love her....did I tell you that already?

Thank you Stampotique Originals for sharing!

Thanks for hopping by. I really appreciate it! Really I do!

Proper Gentleman-Graphic 45

Hey everyone!

I promised to be back and I fell off my blog, SORRY! Had a health issue with hubby to deal with. So here I am back again. He is on some meds and will be checked soon.

Okay, what I have been up to? Hmmmmmm.......little of this and that. I have done my project for the Altered Alice blog. My project goes live on Sunday, so keep an eye out for that! Plus I will have a bonus project, yep a bonus. Reason? Stampotique is our sponsor and has offered the DT stamps for projects. You can bet I am all over that. They have some great stamps. Love them! You can check them out here, or click on the name Stampotique above (or here) and that will take you over to visit.

We have other DT members projects over at the Altered Alice so go take a peek and leave some love!

I used to live in MN not so long ago (3 months ago) and many know that every year Archiver's sponsors Scrapfest. At Scrapfest you get to meet and rub elbows with some great companies and great artists. I was lucky enough to get into a crop with Graphic 45, I was also lucky enough to meet owner Diane and her two beautiful daughters. It was a great time. I was gifted with some paper and a Halloween bag kit! Love Graphic 45, anyway I received some paper from the Proper Gentleman line and this is what I did with it.

This first picture is of a small canvas I covered with some TSS embossed metal. I added some paint over the metal, then wiped it off right away, then sanded it ever so lightly. Added some of Tim's metal embellishments.

This picture is just to show how I framed a small punch out from the paper line and more metals were added here.

And here is the whole picture. It is hard to take a great picture with glass, but this does not have to much glare. I like the way this came together. Very fun for a gentleman's office, don't you think?

This was very fun!

Hope you enjoyed and we will see you soon.

This weekend is my Altered Alice projects!