Memes Art Place

3rd Cosmo Cricket Project

2012-02-16T00:01:00.001-06:00

This is the 3rd project I am going to share with you.

I was walking in the thrift store one day and had seen this white house with a horrible ugly stuffed doll inside. It had glitter all over it, it was horrible! However, I loved the little white house box and thought someday I could do something with it.

Well Now was the time to pull it out and make a sweet little wall hanging for a little girls bedroom.

I used the new Cosmo Cricket Tea for Two line. This had 3 holes at the bottom of it and I had no idea what the holes would have been for, so I took 2 tacks and painted them to match and put one of the flowers from Tea for Two over the 3rd hole. This is how it looks today!

ENJOY!

Spool Fun

2012-02-14T00:01:00.000-06:00

This is another project I did for Cosmo Cricket. I love the way these spools came out. So fast and easy to make. You can use them as picture displays or name place holders. How fun for a little girls tea party.
I hope you love them as much as I do.

Oh and the cute little girl, that's my cute little Clara. She is growing up so fast.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Valentines Day!

It's time to share

2012-02-13T00:01:00.000-06:00

This week I will be sharing the projects that I made for the Cosmo Cricket booth for CHA (Craft and Hobby Association).

I absolutely fell in love with this line. It is called Tea for Two. It has the best patterns. It has a very vintage feel to me. I would love to see this line come out in fabric. I will be the first one in line. This would make the cutest quilt or little girls dresses.

Speaking of dresses, I made a dress form out of the sizzix die by tim holtz. Then folded a skirt to dress the form. I think it came out so sweet. I love the yellows and blues, they are fabulous together. It's funny, while CHA was going on I was seeing pictures on Facebook and different blogs of the projects I made. It was strange to see others put the pictures on their site.

If you have not seen this collection by Cosmo Cricket you must! It is amazing!

So here is a tag I made!

Make sure you stop by Tuesday for another project.

CHAPTER 12 - Challenge Hearts!

2012-02-12T00:01:00.002-06:00

"First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS." -- Chapter 8; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Since February contains Valentine's Day, we are challenging you to show us your HEART (or hearts), in whatever form you'd like to interpret that!

Our sponsor this month is The Octopode Factory, who is offering a $30 Etsy shop gift certificate to one randomly selected winner.The Octopode Factory has amazing and unique images born from the fertile imagination of Lily Chilvers. The Etsy Shop carries her digi stamps and collage sheets, and she has large and small rubber stamps available through her blog. Be sure to check out all the incredible Alice in Wonderland characters and digital stamp sets, and visit! And for fun and inspiration, be sure to visit Lily's blog and The Octopode Factory Friday challenge blog, or TOFF for short!This is a very short month, so you have only until Friday, Feb. 24 to submit your entry! As always, projects that feature Wonderland will have two chances at the prize instead of one. Multiple entries are fine, but each must be on a separate post. Please join us!

Graphic 45 Design Team Audition

2012-02-08T23:25:00.012-06:00

Well it's that time of year again, and I am up for the task. This is my audition for the Graphic 45 design team. I love the vintage feel of Graphic 45 and it remains one of my favorite brands on the market. I remember meeting the gals from Graphic 45 a few short years ago at Scrapfest. I loved them as much as I love the papers. So here is what I like to do with Graphic 45 papers. ENJOY! My first try at a movie-be gentle

HOME DECOR -
THE MAGIC OF OZ

CARD FOR A FRIEND

THIS IS TRULY MAGIC!

THIS IS A INTER-CHANGEABLE NECKLACE!
SO FUN!!!!

HOME DECOR-HAND TINTED CORK BOARD MADE NEW AGAIN VINTAGE LOOK FAN-EACH BLADE STITCHED WITH LACE FRONT AND BACK, THIS FAN CAN OPEN AND CLOSE. not EVERYONE HAS A FAN LIKE THIS. HERE IS A PIECE OF DECOR FOR THE MEN,
GREAT FOR THE OFFICE OR IN THE DEN,

HECK NOW THEY HAVE MAN CAVES IN THE GARAGE.

LAST IS A CIRCUS CLOCK. JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT! I HAVE ENJOYED MAKING EACH AND EVERYONE OF THESE PIECES. THE GENTLEMEN PIECE HAS BEEN MADE MORE THEN ONCE, IT IS A WELL SOUGHT AFTER GIFT.

A PS.......I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THE PURSE I SENT YOU GUYS, MAYBE THAT CAN COUNT A LITTLE ALSO.

Thank you for letting me share my take on your papers. If I had some of your metals, oh the places we could go with those! I really need to get some of those.
Thanks
If you have time I would love to know what you think! Please leave me a comment, I would be ever so greatful!

CHAPTER 12 Challenge: Hearts!

2012-02-05T00:01:00.001-06:00

"First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS." -- Chapter 8; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Since February contains Valentine's Day, we are challenging you to show us your HEART (or hearts), in whatever form you'd like to interpret that! Our sponsor this month is The Octopode Factory, who is offering a $30 Etsy shop gift certificate to one randomly selected winner.
The Octopode Factory has amazing and unique images born from the fertile imagination of Lily Chilvers. The Etsy Shop carries her digi stamps and collage sheets, and she has large and small rubber stamps available through her blog. Be sure to check out all the incredible Alice in Wonderland characters and digital stamp sets, and visit! And for fun and inspiration, be sure to visit Lily's blog and The Octopode Factory Friday challenge blog, or TOFF for short!

This is a very short month, so you have only until Friday, Feb. 24 to submit your entry! As always, projects that feature Wonderland will have two chances at the prize instead of one. Multiple entries are fine, but each must be on a separate post. Please join us!

I am on Cosmo Cricket Blog!

2012-01-30T15:10:00.003-06:00

Head over to Cosmo Cricket blog and see one of the projects I did for them.

So excited!

I still am pinching myself, thinking I have samples at CHA. (Craft & Hobby Association) WOW!

Thanks for stopping by.

I will post pictures as soon as I can.

Chapter 11: STRIPES!

2012-01-29T00:01:00.001-06:00

Winners Annouced!

"At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.So you'll go VERY quickly through the Third Square--by railway, I should think--and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee--the Fifth is mostly water--the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty--But you make noremark?''I--I didn't know I had to make one--just then,' Alice faltered out."- Chapter 11, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Happy new year! When I think of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, I always think stripes and plaids. Lewis Carroll does not mention the patterns they are wearing, but so many illustrations and movies have clad them in mismatched stripes and patterns. Your challenge this month is to use STRIPES.

CRESCENDOh. There is an online shop selling all kinds of things including charming CRESCENDOh clear stamps, including the Alice in Wonderland by Danita set that the design team is showing off. But the heart of the site is all the stories; stories by artists of all kinds, stampers, quilters, paper crafters. Each shares a tale of how art has changed their life. For some it is a joyous outlet, but for many others it has been a way to stay afloat in times of tragedy or grief. As I thought about this challenge, the theme of STRIPES seemed appropriate. Stripes decorate circus tents and tents of the knights of old. Stripes are birthday wrapping paper and elegant Regency wallpaper. Stripes are the traditional garb of prisoners, and stripes are also how the marks of a whip are described. Stripes can represent so many different things, and the creative process has been many things to the people who have contributed stories to the CRESCENDOh site.

Winners are annonced today! Go check to see who won this challenge from all the great entries!

Go check out the Altered Alice blog!

Chapter 11: STRIPES! Week 3

2012-01-15T00:01:00.001-06:00

"At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.So you'll go VERY quickly through the Third Square--by railway, I should think--and you'll find yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee--the Fifth is mostly water--the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty--But you make noremark?''I--I didn't know I had to make one--just then,' Alice faltered out."- Chapter 11, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There Happy new year! When I think of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, I always think stripes and plaids. Lewis Carroll does not mention the patterns they are wearing, but so many illustrations and movies have clad them in mismatched stripes and patterns. Your challenge this month is to use STRIPES

Jenny Doh, formerly the managing editor of the famous Stampington publications, has started an artist's community website called CRESCENDOh. There is an online shop selling all kinds of things including charming CRESCENDOh clear stamps, including the Alice in Wonderland by Danita set that the design team is showing off. But the heart of the site is all the stories; stories by artists of all kinds, stampers, quilters, paper crafters. Each shares a tale of how art has changed their life. For some it is a joyous outlet, but for many others it has been a way to stay afloat in times of tragedy or grief. As I thought about this challenge, the theme of STRIPES seemed appropriate. Stripes decorate circus tents and tents of the knights of old. Stripes are birthday wrapping paper and elegant Regency wallpaper. Stripes are the traditional garb of prisoners, and stripes are also how the marks of a whip are described. Stripes can represent so many different things, and the creative process has been many things to the people who have contributed stories to the CRESCENDOh site.
Author Jenny Doh is donating a signed copy of her latest book, Art Saves, which is not only full of eye candy but is also full of the stories of how art changes lives. "Discover not only the HOW but also the WHY, through the stunning projects and unique stories of 20 exciting multi-media artists." Thanks so much to Jenny for contributing such a meaningful prize to start off 2012!

Enter your project featuring stripes by Friday, Jan. 27. The winner will be announced the following Sunday. As always, entries that feature Wonderland will have two chances at the random drawing instead of one. You may enter as often as you like but each entry must be on a separate post. All posts must mention and link back to the challenge.

This week my art piece is a mixed media plaque. It has been a tough week, I have been sick with pneumonia, I have been sick since before Christmas. It hit me hard this week. I was also asked to make some projects for CHA using the Cosmo Cricket line.

So here you go here is my project for this month of stripes

I took a 6" X 12" board and gessoed it and painted the background. Set aside to dry, took mini canvas and added paper from graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland, also set aside to dry. I then took to coloring my images with colored pencils. Blending with Gamasol. I love these little images. I could color them over and over again. I cut them out and then adhered them to the little canvas. I Have not put a finish on this as I think I will be adding a coat of wax to it. I think it will look fabulous with wax. I could not put it on now as my lungs are weak.

Here are some close ups of the mini canvas

Here is one that I was just playing with. It is kinda of a "Where's Waldo"

So that's it for me this week. I am hoping for a feeling better kind of week for me. It is time.

Now off you go......check out this weeks inspiration by the Altered Alice design team members. Then go get your stripes going and join in on the challenge.

BIG NEWS!

2012-01-11T10:48:00.000-06:00

Big News I am telling you when I was contacted I fell off my chair. So what is this BIG NEWS? Well I could tell you or I could give you a hint! Which should I do?.............

That was a pretty big hint! Cosmo Cricket/Advantus has asked me, yes me to do some designing for them! Yes I am over the moon excited! So Fed-ex did a drive by yesterday and they dropped this off.

Yep a box full of Cosmo Cricket new stuff, like brand new hot off the press goodness!

That is all that I can show you, however if you go to Cosmo Cricket blog, they are starting some peeking and will start showing bigger peeks next week. So hop on over to Cosmo Cricket and see what they have going on. I have to go, I have some stuff I gotta do! You know like samples for CHA-Winter. Did I just type that? OMG! I still am in a dream state! And don't wake me, cuz I don't want to wake up. Wish me luck! Thanks for stopping!

CHAPTER 11: Stripes! Week-2

2012-01-08T00:01:00.001-06:00

"At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.

So you'll go VERY quickly through the Third Square--by railway, I should think--and you'll find
yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and
Tweedledee--the Fifth is mostly water--the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty--But you make no
remark?'
'I--I didn't know I had to make one--just then,' Alice faltered out."
- Chapter 11, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Happy new year! When I think of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, I always think stripes and plaids. Lewis Carroll does not mention the patterns they are wearing, but so many illustrations and movies have clad them in mismatched stripes and patterns. Your challenge this month is to use STRIPES

Author Jenny Doh is donating a signed copy of her latest book, Art Saves, which is not only full of eye candy but is also full of the stories of how art changes lives. "Discover not only the HOW but also the WHY, through the stunning projects and unique stories of 20 exciting multi-media artists." Thanks so much to Jenny for contributing such a meaningful prize to start off 2012!

Enter your project featuring stripes by Friday, Jan. 27. The winner will be announced the following Sunday. As always, entries that feature Wonderland will have two chances at the random drawing instead of one. You may enter as often as you like but each entry must be on a separate post. All posts must mention and link back to the challenge.

Before you go I want to share a picture of my g-daughter on Halloween. I have not shared this yet.

My very own Alice having tea as the Mad Hatter watches over her!

(Just wanted to share that)

Next time I will share a piece of Art that she had in an Art Show. (Alice related)

Now off you go......check out this weeks inspiration by the Altered Alice design team members. Then go get your stripes going and join in on the challenge.

Interuption on the blog!

2012-01-04T21:16:00.000-06:00

Oh my GOSH, over at Studio L3 Linda is having people make tim a birthday card. That is this weeks challenge. Not so hard, right?
So when I heard that it was tim's birthday on the 7th, I had to get right on this! Some things are just more important. So I dropped everything....even the article I had hinted to. Still shhhhh!
Here it is........tim's birthday card!
(I hope he likes it)......(is it worthy of the master?)

I covered the paper with a vinyl, did some stitching, staples and what I am most excited about....the

letters I did. (the little bottle is cute)

Closer look at the letters. They were metal letters that I painted, then put on some Rock Candy Distress Crackle and then I distress inked and then.....I embossed them!

I HEART them! I really do!

Another close up

Oh and just had to show you the letters again. LOVE!

Inside is a simple note to tim!

Happy Birthday big guy!

I should have waited to take pictures in natural light, like tomorrow, but I was to excited!

A NEW YEAR!

2012-01-02T14:49:00.000-06:00

I have been busy! I know, it does not look like it by the looks of my postings! The holidays came and went so fast. I made almost every gift I gave this year. Yep! i am pretty proud of that!

I made tons of ornaments! Had great fun soldering! I forgot how much I like to solder. I have painted, made cards and now I am back on the Altered Alice design team. I have a custom order of 12 cards that I had to make and get in the mail. Done! Now I am working on my next project for the Altered Alice and I am starting to write another article for a magazine. More on that later. That is hush, hush!

I will keep this updated much more. It is one of my goals for the year. I just get caught up in the art and forget to blog about it. If you guys could see everything I do you would be amazed and ask why didn't you put that on the blog, oh and that too, and that.......you get what I mean. I just get to wrapped up in it.

I will leave you with a few pictures.

We all need Thank you cards in January, right?

These two are made with 7 gypsies Lille 6X6. I bought this a while ago and have not had a chance to play with it, so it turned into some nice thank you cards. Of course I need to distress each one. Everyone knows I need to distress pretty much every little thing! Thank goodness for Ranger/Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous.

Not a great picture but you get the idea. I only made 2 Christmas cards this year and this is one of them.

Yes, shame on me!

Inside

I will be back on Thursday and show you some ornaments! Hey they were also on Ranger's facebook page!

CHAPTER 11: Stripes!

2012-01-01T00:01:00.001-06:00

"At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, 'A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.
So you'll go VERY quickly through the Third Square--by railway, I should think--and you'll find
yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and
Tweedledee--the Fifth is mostly water--the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty--But you make no
remark?'
'I--I didn't know I had to make one--just then,' Alice faltered out."

-- Chapter 11, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Happy new year! When I think of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, I always think stripes and plaids. Lewis Carroll does not mention the patterns they are wearing, but so many illustrations and movies have clad them in mismatched stripes and patterns. Your challenge this month is to use STRIPES

Author Jenny Doh is donating a signed copy of her latest book, Art Saves, which is not only full of eye candy but is also full of the stories of how art changes lives. "Discover not only the HOW but also the WHY, through the stunning projects and unique stories of 20 exciting multi-media artists." Thanks so much to Jenny for contributing such a meaningful prize to start off 2012!

Enter your project featuring stripes by Friday, Jan. 27. The winner will be announced the following Sunday. As always, entries that feature Wonderland will have two chances at the random drawing instead of one. You may enter as often as you like but each entry must be on a separate post. All posts must mention and link back to the challenge.

CHAPTER 10: A Lewis Christmas Carroll to All!-My Turn!

2011-12-18T00:01:00.006-06:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Altered Alice! This month the design team brings you their holiday wishes, and we invite you to send your holiday greetings to The Altered Alice. You have until Friday, Dec. 23 to enter. The winner post will either be a little early or late, as the last Sunday of the month falls on Christmas day!

Our prize this month is a $40.00 gift certificate to Custom Crops, the premier online retailer for crafters of all kinds. From Accuquilt to Zva Creative, adhesives to vinyl and everything in between, Custom Crops offers a huge selection of the products you've been looking for at competitive prices with fast, friendly customer service.
To celebrate the season, we bring you The Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. Notice the left panel where Lewis Carroll and Alice kneel to pay homage to the newly born Christ in this wonderful Nativity scene! Our quote this month is actually contained within the window, do you see it?

The window was designed by the stained glass artist Geoffrey Webb, a must-see for anyone that loves Wonderland. A wonderful Christmas poem by Lewis Carroll is shown in the center three bottom panels, which include characters from Wonderland - the White Rabbit, Dodo, the Caterpillar, Mad Hatter, and more!

My December challenge is my own version of the Cheshire Cat, with his BIG cheesy grin! I did a
tri-fold Christmas card. The 1st thing I had to do was draw a Cat fitting to be the Cheshire. This is what I came up with. Hope you all like it!

My Christmas Card to all of you!

Front of the card

Open to the second fold

Inside of card

Just some close ups

What products did I use? I used my own drawing and lettering.

Red paint was from Creative Inspirations.

(They were our sponsor in august and I was unable to be a part of the last few months, so I used it here)

I also used the Ranger's Winter release of Distress Inks Iced Spruce.

Snowflakes are from a cube stamp that I have had for a while, don't know who it is from.

Also used colored pencils for the color on the Cheshire Cat.

Oops, and some Stickles for some sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by.

Wishing you a Happy Holiday!

CHAPTER 10: A Lewis Christmas Carroll to All!

2011-12-11T00:38:00.002-06:00

Our prize this month is a $40.00 gift certificate to Custom Crops, the premier online retailer for crafters of all kinds. From Accuquilt to Zva Creative, adhesives to vinyl and everything in between, Custom Crops offers a huge selection of the products you've been looking for at competive prices with fast, friendly customer service.

To celebrate the season, we bring you The Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. Notice the left panel where Lewis Carroll and Alice kneel to pay homage to the newly born Christ in this wonderful Nativity scene! Our quote this month is actually contained within the window, do you see it?

We look forward to seeing your holiday greetings, so send us a Christmas Card! If it features Wonderland, you will have two chances at the randomly awarded prize instead of one. Multiple entries are fine, but each must be on a separate post.
Please go to the Altered Alice blog and enter. Don't forget to leave some love for our designers this week!
Next week I will be showing you my Holiday Greeting, will it be Alice? Mad Hatter? oooh the Queen herself? You will have to visit next week to see, until then have a great week!

CHAPTER 10: A Lewis Christmas Carroll to All!

2011-12-04T02:00:00.007-06:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Altered Alice! This month the design team brings you their holiday wishes, and we invite you to send your holiday greetings to The Altered Alice. You have until Friday, Dec. 23 to enter. The winner post will either be a little early or late, as the last Sunday of the month falls on Christmas day!

Our prize this month is a $40.00 gift certificate to Custom Crops, the premier online retailer for crafters of all kinds. From Accuquilt to Zva Creative, adhesives to vinyl and everything in between, Custom Crops offers a huge selection of the products you've been looking for at competive prices with fast, friendly customer service.

To celebrate the season, we bring you The Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. Notice the left panel where Lewis Carroll and Alice kneel to pay homage to the newly born Christ in this wonderful Nativity scene! Our quote this month is actually contained within the window, do you see it?

We look forward to seeing your holiday greetings, so send us a Christmas Card! If it features Wonderland, you will have two chances at the randomly awarded prize instead of one. Multiple entries are fine, but each must be on a separate post.

Please go to the Altered Alice blog and enter. Don't forget to leave some love for our designers this week!

Anything Goes

2011-09-05T17:01:00.000-05:00

Anything goes! Yep that's what they said at Simon Says Stamp and Show. So this is my anything!

I put together a Western Shadow box of my Great Nephew. I used some of tim's products, which include

Distress inks, number plate (plaquettes), hanging sign die cut, swivel clasps and last but not least his paper. The piece of wood, barbed wire, rusty nails all gifts of the earth around these parts. Oh and grungepaper and some distress embossing powder (tims).

It is kind of hard to take a picture of glass.
(just my opinion)

Close up of sign and rusty nails

OUCH!

This is hard to bend! Let me tell you, I scratched my hand a bit......even a little blood! But none got on the paper! That's what counts!

Hop on over and follow the blog at Simon Says Stamp and Show, they call it Stamp-tember Blog Hop. You will like what you see!

Hope you enjoyed my play of the Wild Wild West!

I'm back in Colorado

2011-08-10T20:42:00.000-05:00

I am back. It was a very hard trip to take. We left Colorado for a mini vacation and my father passed. The trip home felt like forever. Many things running thru my mind.

There were many moments of laughing and joking, crying and laughing again. I did get to spend time with family and friends. It was wonderful to see, hug and talk with the g-kids.

Funny Funny Farris

Farris was giving out the rules! Must have been good the cow is even listening!
Look at that little finger....giving the what for.....

This is hilarous! Farris wants a purse.

Okay she picks out a couple!

and a couple more!

and MORE!

The other arm needs some????

NO Papa......I want them ALL!!!!!!

This is just one armful! LOL!
She only got one, even after all that!

Clara and James at MOA
Mall of America

Rainforest Cafe

James turned 7 while I was there!

That was just some of the pictures of my trip to MN. I have come back here to Colorado and I am being whisked away to the mountains for some camping and horseback riding, some fishing and some gold panning. So I will not be sharing any art for at least a week. But I will leave you with one of my favorite pieces.

gave this away.............to non other then tim holtz!

Off to go pack for what I am sure is going to be an adventure.

I did not tell you I am afraid of heights did I.

Mountains are very high!

If I am on top of the horse on top of a mountain.....how high is that?

Oh MY!

I will always LOVE you!

2011-07-26T23:50:00.000-05:00

Hey Dad this one's for you!

My Dad taught me how to laugh at myself and with others!

(and those of you who know me know I like to laugh!)
My Dad taught me how to fish!

I can bait my own hook even still to this day.
No worm is to squirmy or leech to slimy not for me.

My Dad let me get my 1st pets.

(even if I put it in a waffle cone)

I brought a puppy home and told him it costed for free!

I got the puppy!

My Dad let me dress up!

But I think Mom had to OKAY it!

My Dad let me walk and talk in his shoes!

My dad walked me down the aisle to get married.

Yep! I love my Dad! and he loves ME!

God saved some amazing wings for this angel!

Rest in Peace dear Dad, you will be missed! Thanks for the special memories! I will always cherish your Dr Appointments.....they were the best days. Afternoon drives, talks and most.......the time spent with you!

I love you!

Chapter 5-Week 3 Tea-things

2011-07-17T00:01:00.002-05:00

`And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, `he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.' A bright idea came into Alice's head. `Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she asked. `Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: `it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.' `Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice. `Exactly so,' said the Hatter: `as the things get used up.' `But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice ventured to ask.

The Mad Hatter's tea table was full of tea-things, with place settings all the way around and many teapots and teacups. Your challenge this month is to have a teapot or teacup on your project, and, as an option, to use something OTHER than a stamped image as your focal point!

That's because The Altered Alice design team will be showing off with digital collage sheets from One Crabapple [Etsy Store Blog], which has of the most interesting and different Alice in Wonderland categories I've seen! The winner will have their choice of five collage sheets from One Crabapple!

Here is what I have done with Collage sheets...Go Ask Alice The Tea Party Queen Page 2 & Through The Looking Glass Toadstool Tea Party Page 1

This is the front cover. I have gessoed, painted, stained, chalked, cut and glued. I started with some thicker chipboard and cut a hole into it for the window. This gave it a shadow box look to it. I a layered the papers to keep it looking as if Alice is looking out the window. Perhaps waiting for someone?

a closer look

even closer!

The inside pages were done much the same. I do have to say I did get some inspiration from my team mate Sue Roddis. I love the way she does her journal pages.....you can see them here. So this is my attempt at a sort of journal page, but not. The reason? It is only the front cover and these to pages. No journal.

I did use letters from tim holtz. I just could not do my own lettering and show it to the public.
Nope could not do it!

I hope you enjoyed my attempt at a sort of journal page. I just had to try!

I did learn I do like the smeary look the chalk gives over the paint and ink. I will be using that a lot more!

Now go check out what the others have done this week, then get to work on your own artwork and share it with us. Who knows you might just win 5 digital sheets from One Crabapple. Your choice!

July is a long month, so you have almost four weeks to enter your project! Plenty of time for even our stragglers to play along, just be sure to enter by 11:59 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC -4:00) on Friday, July 29. The winner and honorable mentions will be announced the last Sunday of the month on July 31.

Chapter 5-Week 2 Tea-Things

2011-07-10T00:01:00.001-05:00

`And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, `he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'
A bright idea came into Alice's head. `Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.

`Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: `it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'

`Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.

`Exactly so,' said the Hatter: `as the things get used up.'

`But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice ventured to ask.

The Mad Hatter's tea table was full of tea-things, with place settings all the way around and many teapots and teacups. Your challenge this month is to have a teapot or teacup on your project, and, as an option, to use something OTHER than a stamped image as your focal point!

July is a long month, so you have almost four weeks to enter your project! Plenty of time for even our stragglers to play along, just be sure to enter before 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time, GMT -5:00) on Friday, July 29. The winner and honorable mentions will be announced the last Sunday of the month, July 31.

Halloween stuff

2011-07-09T13:03:00.000-05:00

I have been working on some stuff again..........that's Halloween stuff if your wondering.
Everyone knows how I love Halloween. I won't talk much just pictures.

Post Card size 4 X 6

Cute wall of pumpkins!

Pretty Dracula?

Scarecrow

Witch

Still need some stuff done before final pictures, just wanted you to see what I am up to!

Challenge-flourish

2011-07-09T09:00:00.001-05:00

tag Made with many layers
back stamp Unity
Flourish Stampabilities
distress inks
hand dyed crinkle ribbon Stormy sky
tim's tissue tape inked with Stormy Sky

Simon Says Stamp and Show a Flourish!
So if Simon Says, I do it!
And so should you! Go over and get the details!

Close up of bird and key
Bird die Tim Holtz
cut out of muslin and inked with Stormy sky Distress ink
Stamped with tim's stamp

Hope you enjoyed my tag!

CHAPTER 5 Challenge - Week 1: Tea-things

2011-07-03T00:01:00.001-05:00

`And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, `he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'

A bright idea came into Alice's head. `Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.

`Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: `it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'

`Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.

`Exactly so,' said the Hatter: `as the things get used up.'

`But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice ventured to ask.

The Mad Hatter's tea table was full of tea-things, with place settings all the way around and many teapots and teacups. Your challenge this month is to have a teapot or teacup on your project, and, as an option, to use something OTHER than a stamped image as your focal point!

That's because The Altered Alice design team will be showing off with digital collage sheets from One Crabapple [Etsy Store
Blog], which has of the most interesting and different Alice in Wonderland categories I've seen! The owner and artist is taking care of some family priorities, so if the store is closed when you visit, just put in your email in to be notified when it reopens. It is well worth waiting for I promise; most of the design team members had a difficult time making their choices and a couple of us needed all of everything in the Alice category! The winner will have their choice of five collage sheets from One Crabapple!

July is a long month, so you have almost four weeks to enter your project! Plenty of time for even our stragglers to play along, just be sure to enter before 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time, GMT -5:00) on Friday, July 29. The winner and honorable mentions will be announced the last Sunday of the month, July 31.

Showing some Metal

2011-06-25T13:31:00.000-05:00

Simon Says show some Metal......Not super creative, however sometimes simply is better.

I used Ten Seconds Metal and some of tim's letter's added some wire and I have cute wall decor.

I took the metal, embossed with one of tim's folders. Cut red sheet tape to fit metal and stuck to small canvas. After it was set in place I took some Golden fluid brunt umber light and brushed it over the embossed image, then wiped it off. Make sure you leave some in the grooves. Let that dry, which does not take long. Added the letters and the eye screws and the wire and that is it.

Close up.....love this look..in person it looks like leather.

You can join in the fun at Simon Says Stamp and Show some Metal, click on highlighted area and GO! You can do it!

Celebrate Mad Hatter Day with a MAD TEA PARTY - Week 3

2011-06-19T00:01:00.001-05:00

Look what I have brought to the tea party!

Don't they look simply scrumptious?

Tea Cakes, yummy!

Tea sandwiches!

Our generous sponsor this month is The Artistic Stamper.

They are offering a£15 pound voucher for The Artistic Stamper stamps! They have a WONDERFUL online store that offers free worldwide shipping on orders over £35 and they carry loads of my favorite brands. The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog offers amazing inspiration and interesting challenges, so be sure to visit! Jennie has kindly provided our design team with the Mabel Lucie Attwell Mad Hatter Stamp for our projects this month. It will be interesting to see how everyone applies their own style and vision to the same image!

My project for the Tea Party is my little Tea Lamp.

I think this is still in the works, I like how it looks.....but....I think I want to find some tea cup charms to hang around the lamp shade. I did try to use some trim, but it was not doing it for me. Was a bit to much!
I have taken the Stamp that was provided by The Artistic Stamper and stamped it onto tissue paper. I then colored the image using watercolor pencils. I then applied fluid matte medium (Golden) to the tissue and to the shade, smoothed it on. I also stamped sayings onto tissue and added those also to the shade.
Here it is lit and not lit. I like it both ways.

Lit close up

Sayings close up

More Sayings

Not lit close up

Keep your eyes peeled at garage and estates sales. This was a $2.00 brand new light.

Bargain!

Now if you started here, I want you go to the Altered Alice blog and check out what the other designers did with the same stamp!

Grungy Monday-tag

2011-06-18T14:21:00.001-05:00

I know it is Saturday, but that is what the challenge is called.
I just wanted to share another tag I have done with Grungy Monday at Studio L3 Challenge.

Tim had done this technique back in 2008. It is good to get a refresher every now and then.

You can check it out on Tim's blog here. Click here

Here is my tag..............

I used shabby shutters, vintage photo, and mustard seed distress inks. I used a few different sets of stamps. Some snaps and gotta add the mini staples and bang up a a bit. I love to scratch and grunge. One of my friends calls me her grungy friend. LOL! You know who you are!

Another shot on a different background

Make sure you stop by tomorrow for my Altered Alice
project! I think you will like it!

Have a great Saturday!

Challenge-Torn or Distressed

2011-06-14T13:25:00.000-05:00

I think I am getting into these challenges. Last week was the first time I had ever done a challenge, I kinda liked it. So now I am back again doing another!

This one is for Simon Says Stamp and Show.

They wanted torn or distressed, I have given them both!

I have used tim's papers and his stamp and his inks and his memo holder, brads, hammer, alterations die, metal corner, and last his distresser. Ha it would have been easier to say what was not his. (ribbon, pearls) (oh and tape) LOL!

Even sitting on filmstrip from tim.

3 brads hammered for extra texture.

You should join in this challenge they have a Simon Says Stamp gift certificate up for 1 lucky winner!

Hope you enjoyed my torn and distressed card.

Ps.............I was published........see post below if your interested!

Good News!

2011-06-13T01:01:00.001-05:00

I have been published!

Funny how I found out. I was reading some emails from a "all things tim" group and a lady was talking to the group about the Somerset Studio Gallery summer 2011. she proceeded to say that there was some artist (ha get that artist) named Donna Budzynski that did a mini Halloween book that had some neat ideas and inspiration. Whoa......she was talking about me!

So that is how I found out. I have moved twice since I sent that mini book in, changed my phone number. (T-mobile does not work well in Co) And had to get a new email address because if you do not have comcast you can't keep your email address. WHAT? So they could not get a hold of me even if they tried.

So needless to say I was bouncing off the walls Friday night and could not sleep. I was up first thing in the morning and was at Barnes and Noble to get my copy. (or 2 or 3)

Thanks Somerset Studios for choosing me! With all the Art they get a day it is amazing to me that I have been lucky enough to be chosen each time I have submitted.

So do you want to see some pictures? sure you do! Who reads the blogs anyway? It's all about the pictures not the articles!

I will show you the cover, that was in the article, but I will only show you the pages that were not printed. If you want to see them you will have to take a gander in the Somerset Studio Gallery. But there is some pretty good stuff here.

Paper is Cosmo Cricket Haunted. Lovvvve this paper! Lots of distress inks, crackle paint, gears, pins, memo pin, elastic.....and much much more......

Cover

1st page

2nd page

3rd page

4th page

9th page

11th page

12th page

13 th page? back cover Scary?

Let me know what you think I would love to know! Comments always appreciated!

Thanks for stopping by.

Celebrate with the Altered Alice!

2011-06-11T23:59:00.005-05:00

Join Us for a MAD TEA PARTY!

It's off the page!

There are two Mad Hatter Days every year, and one of them is this month! In the United States, October 6th is Mad Hatter Day as we abbreviate our dates as month/day. In the United Kingdom, Mad Hatter Day is June 10th as they abbreviate their dates as day/month. So what do these dates have to do with the Mad Hatter? In the original Tenniel illustrations, the Mad Hatter has a price tag tucked into his hat band. It says "In this Style 10/6" which, for us ignorant Yankees means ten schillings and sixpence, or half a guineau back in Alice's day! So Mad Hatter Day falls on 10/6, and here at The Altered Alice, instead of choosing between date systems, we just celebrate twice a year!!!

Our generous sponsor this month is The Artistic Stamper, and they are offering a £15 pound voucher for The Artistic Stamper stamps! They have a WONDERFUL online store that offers free worldwide shipping on orders over £35 and they carry loads of my favorite brands. The Artistic Stamper Team Blog offers amazing inspiration and interesting challenges, so be sure to visit! Jennie has kindly provided our design team with the Mabel Lucie Attwell Mad Hatter Stamp for our projects this month. It will be interesting to see how everyone applies their own style and vision to the same image!

The challenge this month is to create a project to celebrate the Mad Hatter, AND to bring something to our Mad Tea Party!

My project will be here next Sunday!

So find something fun to bring to our Mad Tea Party, and show & tell when you link your project that celebrates the Mad Hatter! You have until Friday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4:00) and we'll announce the winner of the £15 voucher for The Artistic Stamper stamps on Sunday, June 26! And Happy Mad Hatter Day from The Altered Alice!

Tag your it!

2011-06-07T14:27:00.001-05:00

Hope you are having a great day in your part of the world, it is beautiful here!

I wanted to share a tag that I put together for
Simon Says Stamp & Show a tag challenge
http://studiol3.blogspot.com/2011/06/grungy-monday-10-distress-ink-o-rama.html
shabby, grungy,dirty.....whatever you want to call it.......it is all on the tag!
So here it is.......

Yeah, pretty much all tim holtz's kind of stuff......http://www.timholtz.com/

A little of this and a little of that....................

Even a needle and thread...............
Check out the shine and sparkle on the kraft glassine skirt..............

I used so many products:

Alteration dies.....sewing room.....tag maker.....ornate (for the skirt)

Distress inks

Stamps......haberdashery......mini ornate....shabby french (all stampers anonymous "tim")

Perfect pearls

Hope you enjoyed......see you soon!

Celebrate Mad Hatter Day with a MAD TEA PARTY, Altered Alice Style!

2011-06-04T23:58:00.001-05:00

Join Us for a MAD TEA PARTY!

There are two Mad Hatter Days every year, and one of them is this month! In the United States, October 6th is Mad Hatter Day as we abbreviate our dates as month/day. In the United Kingdom, Mad Hatter Day is June 10th as they abbreviate their dates as day/month. So what do these dates have to do with the Mad Hatter? In the original Tenniel illustrations, the Mad Hatter has a price tag tucked into his hat band. It says "In this Style 10/6" which, for us ingnorant Yankees means ten schillings and sixpence, or half a guineau back in Alice's day! So Mad Hatter Day falls on 10/6, and here at The Altered Alice, instead of choosing between date systems, we just celebrate twice a year!!!

Our generous sponsor this month is The Artistic Stamper, and they are offering a £15 pound voucher for The Artistic Stamper stamps! They have a WONDERFUL online store that offers free worldwide shipping on orders over £35 and they carry loads of my favorite brands. The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog offers amazing inspiration and interesting challenges, so be sure to visit! Jennie has kindly provided our design team with the Mabel Lucie Attwell Mad Hatter Stamp for our projects this month. It will be interesting to see how everyone applies their own style and vision to the same image!

The challenge this month is to create a project to celebrate the Mad Hatter, AND to bring something to our Mad Tea Party! Here are the design team's party contributions:

So find something fun to bring to our Mad Tea Party, and show & tell when you link your project that celebrates the Mad Hatter! You have until Friday, June 24 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4:00) and we'll announce the winner of the £15 voucher for The Artistic Stamper stamps on Sunday, June 26! And Happy Mad Hatter Day from The Altered Alice!

Chapter 4 - Week 4

2011-05-21T23:59:00.002-05:00

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'

`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'

`I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.

`Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'

`Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.'

`Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. `He won't stand beating.'

-- Chapter 7, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Time marches on so it's time for a new challenge, and the challenge is to make something that represents TIME! Take your time, you have until May 27 at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4:00) to show us YOUR timely creation!

Our sponsor this month is Fresh Brewed Designs, and they have some fabulous Alice in Wonderland digi images that some of the design team will be using. The randomly chosen winner of this month's challenge will receive five digi stamps of their choice from the Fresh Brewed Designs store!

While it is not required that you use Alice in Wonderland images, we do encourage it. Entries that feature some aspect of Wonderland will be entered twice for the prize drawing!

Now head on over and enter your art for your chance of five digi stamps from Fresh Brewed Designs.
Go to the Altered Alice blog to enter.

On another note, want to share the newest member of the family around here.

This new baby is a girl and here name is Zena. She gives her mom a run for her money. She is very, very active and a little trouble maker.

Just wanted to share.

Have a great day!

Chapter 4-Week 3

2011-05-14T23:01:00.003-05:00

TIME

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'

`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'

`I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.

`Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'

`Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.'

`Ah! that accounts for it,' said the Hatter. `He won't stand beating.'

-- Chapter 7, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Time marches on so it's time for a new challege, and the challenge is to make something that represents TIME! Take your time, you have until May 27 at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4:00) to show us YOUR timely creation!

Our sponsor this month is Fresh Brewed Designs, and they have some fabulous Alice in Wonderland digi images that some of the design team will be using. The randomly chosen winner of this month's challenge will receive five digi stamps of their choice from the Fresh Brewed Designs store!

While it is not required that you use Alice in Wonderland images, we do encourage it. Entries that feature some aspect of Wonderland will be entered twice for the prize drawing!

My inspiration this month is something I have never done before. All this stuff was sitting on my desk and I thought....try it! So here is the outcome......

I knew when I spotted this design from Fresh Brewed Designs, I had to have it. It speaks to me. So when I looked at it and the theme was TIME, I have so many people that I miss since I have moved to Colorado I knew excatley what I needed to say.
Time stands still without you! I guess somethimes thats the way I feel. The tear, yeah, I shead some of them from time to time.
Okay enough of the soft stuff......how to do.....
Fluid matte medium is the whole key to this piece. I took a piece of cardboard and brushed the medium on added Graphic 45 paper "A Proper Gentlemen Collection Timely Point of View". Again brush medium over it and apply some muslin over it and ontop of that brush more medium over it to get all of the air bubbles out and make sure it is really stuck down. (ha at this point I was wondering if this was even gonna work) I had pre traced the design from Fresh Brewed Designs onto some plain white tissue paper and now applied that over the muslin. Be very gentle with this part, once the tissue paper gets wet it get very fragile. Some wrinkles add characture. Let all of this mess dry.
After it was all dried I just took a paintbrush and some Ranger's Distress inks and painted it like a water color. Then outlined it and then distressed the outer edges and thats it. I think that I will be trying this a bit more as I liked the way it turned out. This is something you could do a lot with. You could really crumble up the tissure for more texture. Get a lighter piece of muslin so that it would show thru more. Off to do some sewing.....thanks for stopping by.

Sorry blog went uo late......technical difficulties........ME!
I put in the wrond date, duh!

WOW!

2011-05-11T13:42:00.000-05:00

WOW!

It has been a crazy time around here! I had my daughter and g-daughter out for a visit. In a flash that was gone and I had to make a trip back to Minnesota. My Dad was ill and I had to go visit him. It was Easter. A foal was born. Gheez......where does the time go?

I have no art to share, no, not a piece! But I have a few cute pictures from the month.

Farris and I on a horse!

Papa and Farris looking at the butterflies!

Not to close Papa!

I love this one!

Country Girl

Farris not so sure about coloring eggs..........

Clara and James watch as she keeps dropping the eggs and breaking them.
They all look so happy!

Easter was spent here.

Easter Dinner

These were so good we did not stop to take a picture.
Eat first take picture after!

Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis Minnesota

Charms and her new baby Thor

Resting

Nap time

More later!

Off the blog for 2 weeks!

2011-04-05T12:40:00.000-05:00

I am off the air until this little cutie leaves to go back home!

SORRY!

Some stuff I have made

2011-03-23T16:56:00.000-05:00

                            Here is a clock I made out of a wood cage I had found at Hobby Lobby.
                                                           I think this came out so cute!
                                                         Paper is Graphic 45 Le Cirque

                                          Here is a circus card I made with the same paper.
                            I love how the lion is jumping out of the circle and busting the paper.
                                              Adds excitement and dimension to the card.

Close up of the lion.

Another shot

Inside of card

I know you have seen the purse but here are a few better shots

Love this purse!

That's my sharing for the day. Have a great DAY!

Hall of Doors

2011-03-20T00:01:00.012-05:00

"There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!' She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.

There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again."

-- Chapter 1, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This month's challenge is to use a door or doors, and preferably for the door or doors to open and close so we can see what lays beyond! While it is not required that your project include Alice in Wonderland, we do encourage it. If your project features Wonderland you will get two chances in the prize drawing instead of one!

We are thrilled to announce that The Octopode Factory is our March sponsor! We are celebrating because Lily has moved into the world of rubber! That's right - RUBBER STAMPS! Lily started with her quirky digital images, and she has gifted the design team members with some of her wonderful Wonderland digital sets. Most of the digital images we will be using are those that are now available in rubber.

One lucky winner will win a $30 gift certificate for digital images from The Octopode Factory's Etsy store! Enter by Friday, March 25 at 8 p.m. Eastern time (GMT -5:00) and a winner will be announced on Sunday, March 27. Show us your DOORS!

I want to personally Thank Lilly for donating these images for me to use I enjoyed each and every one of them!

And now for some inspiration from ME!

This project is brought to you because my other one.......decided to drink my 60 ounces of diet coke!
Yep, you know what they say.......don't put your projects where your drinks are!!!! Because evidently your projects get thirsty ans absorb all of the liquid you give it and MORE!

So this is what I came up with on short notice......Not so original

BOOK OF DOORS

I started out cutting chipboard out with tim holtz tag die. Then for the top of the door I used one of his edge dies. Then of course ran his wood grain emboss envelope on every door. I used the tag die cut for the welcome plaque also.

Mushrooms, I did some drawing to get those. Imagine that, me drawing? Then colored with colored pencils and watercolor pencils.

Cheshire Cat had to be in a tree looking for Alice!
He is so cute, in that oh so original Octopode way!

                                               The Queen also could not find Alice, so she
                                                    got pissed and said off with her HEAD!
                                 (Who named her the Queen of Hearts?, that's what I want to know)

Of course the White Rabbit is always running around telling everybody

YOUR LATE! YOUR LATE!

We had to stop by and get some potion!

Again a little drawing was done here.

A door with in a door. Check out that mini door handle.

Who could it be?

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.....ho hum!

And finally Alice has been found she is in the last door.

Along with the quote that we are working from.

Last look at the cover.

The End

What did I learn from this journey? Put your POP on the other TABLE!

Because it is a late night and early morning working on a whole new project!

Hope you enjoyed my lesson!

I Spy.......

2011-03-15T21:35:00.000-05:00

Wow, it has been a while! What have I been up to? Well a little of this and a little of that. I will show you some random pictures. This is what I Spy..................

This is that big black bull I see every morning

How would you like to run into him?

He is HUGE!

I would love to refurbish this Little House on the Prairie

All inclusive, even with a prairie dog, see him?

I love these little suckers

Yep, I brake for these.

They make em big here!

Look at the size of this tumbleweed!

And another

Get to see these guys every day to!

Yes I have been doing some stuff, kinda went a little west in these

They call this horse love

She is hugging a stud!

More on Sunday! It will be Altered Alice time. So come back and check me out!

The Altered Alice CHAPTER 2: Hall of Doors

2011-03-07T13:48:00.000-06:00

Hall of Doors

"There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, `Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!' She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again."

-- Chapter 1, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This month's challenge is to use a door or doors, and preferably for the door or doors to open and close so we can see what lays beyond! While it is not required that your project include Alice in Wonderland, we do encourage it. If your project features Wonderland you will get two chances in the prize drawing instead of one!

I am thrilled to announce that The Octopode Factory, the slightly mad brainchild of 17 year old artist Lily Chilvers, is our March sponsor! We are celebrating because Lily has moved into the world of rubber! That's right - RUBBER STAMPS! The Octopode Factory will have both digital stamps AND rubber stamps on some of her most popular images, which includes most of her AMAZING Alice in Wonderland images!. Read about the new range of Octopode Factory rubber stamps and how to order. Lily started with her quirky digital images, and she has gifted the design team members with some of her wonderful Wonderland digital sets. Most of the digital images we will be using are those that are now available in rubber.

One lucky winner will win a $30 gift certificate for digital images from The Octopode Factory's Etsy store! Enter by Friday, March 25 at 8 p.m. Eastern time (GMT -5:00) and a winner will be announced on Sunday, March 27. Show us your DOORS!

Start thinking about what doors YOU will take us through as you design your own challenge projects! Enter them on this post before 8 p.m. Eastern time (GMT -5:00) on Friday, March 25 and we will announce the winner on Sunday, March 27. In the meantime the design team will be back each Sunday with weekly Wonderland inspiration!

Check the Altered Alice blog to see who is up this week with an very inspiring project. I promise you will be glad you did.

My project will be up the third Sunday of the month.

Final Week-Changes in Form or Dress Form

2011-02-26T23:01:00.001-06:00

"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

2011-02-21T00:55:00.000-06:00

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

2011-02-12T23:01:00.000-06:00

"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

2011-02-09T00:43:00.000-06:00

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!

I 've been busy

2011-01-28T14:29:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone, I just want you to know just because I have not posted much does NOT mean that I am not working on things. In fact, just the opposite! I have been busy, busy, busy!

Although today I did have to run and get another one of these!

When I moved to Colorado some how this was left in storage, oh the HORROR that any of my

Ranger stuff be in storage!

How can I melt wax or Utee with out this? Oh the agony!

(good thing is when I get my stuff, I will have 2 of them, nothing wrong with that!)

So here is a little collage that I have been working on, not quite done, but almost.

I am just gonna give you a few sneak peeks.

Here is something that is in the works.

Oh and this one is gonna be cute!

One of my Favorites right here, do you recognize the paper?

Yep it is Tim's, I am making a bag.

(Details in another broadcast, can't show you everything)

But I am loving it!

Well that is about all I have for today. I do have a great shadow box I am working on with Graphic 45 papers and some TSS Metal. But I will save that for another day.

Oh, I have my Altered Alice project well under way and it will be ready soon. So make sure you start checking on the Altered Alice Blog starting Sunday! This is gonna be fun. Each week a few of the DT will debut there projects and you have a whole month of DT projects. What's better than that? Well that means you get the whole month to do the same challenge and enter to win a prize. Now that is fun.

I am heading back outside, yes I am. I am from Minnesota and I have just moved to Colorado recently, so I am so used to very dull cloudy, cold, snowy, did I say cold? days. Today is January 28th and I was driving and had to watch out for motorcycles, yes motorcycles in January. WOW! It is 65 and SUNNY and I have pictures to take and waxing to do and I am going to do it OUTSIDE!

Thanks for stopping by......leave me a message tell me if you like what you see. I would love to hear from you......I get lonely without my home buddies I left behind......I am trying to get involved here in some art groups, but man it is hard to find them.

Talk to you soon.
Give out a smile, who knows you might get one back!

CHAPTER 47: Back down the Rabbit Hole...

2011-01-22T00:01:00.002-06:00

A final post from our "Mad Hatter" leader Jess...............

Greetings, Friends!

Today is a BITTERSWEET...although MOSTLY sweet post for Oh, Alice. It has been almost ONE YEAR since I got this crazy little idea one night to dedicate a blog, and a Saturday each week, to Alice in Wonderland because of my deep love of the characters, story, and mostly just Alice. Over the weeks to follow, I was blessed with an AMAZING "Twisted Team" of sisters, some who've gone on to other things, some who've stayed since the beginning, and some who have been with us for a while now-ALL of who I think the world of...and here I thought I was the "only" one who was THAT crazy about all things Alice until I found out that well, there are LOTS of you out there just like me. How cool is THAT?!

All that considered, after careful consideration and thought, some of us had decided that it was time to head back down the Rabbit hole and as some of us have done so, we found a lovely fork in the road.

Oh, Alice will be closing it's doors this week, but will return next week as The Altered Alice, a blog that our Twisted Thirteen member Lynne Phelps has started and will continue on from here. There is nothing to fear! The Altered Alice will still be bringing you FABULOUS challenges, lovely excerpts from our beloved chapters that tell us so much about Alice's world, and we have alerted our sponsors about the new Blog name and format, so hopefully you'll see some familiar faces VERY soon!

Here are a few words from Lynne about what you can expect at the Altered Alice:

"In Wonderland, Alice learned that everything changes so the important thing is to be true to yourself. That is true for the Alice in Wonderland challenges as well, which will be changing and growing in new directions under the next Mad Hatter, our own design team member Lynne Phelps. The Oh, Alice! challenges will now be hosted on her Alice in Wonderland artwork blog, The Altered Alice link: http://alteredalice.blogspot.com.You will find our same familiar challenge Chapters but they will be in a new monthly form, beginning on the first Sunday of the month and posting the winner on the last Sunday of the month. The design team will provide weekly project posts to inspire you along the way! "

Without further adieu, I'd like to thank all the members of the Twisted Thirteen who will be hanging out in Underland with me for a while, taking a much-needed break, and to the ones who will be continuing on with The Altered Alice, you know we won't be far from your blogs!

Last but not least, when I started this blog, I had NO idea that in just a few short months, we'd have over 400 followers. In fact, I was shocked. So it is with HUGE amounts of thanks that I want to let our readers/players know how much I appreciate YOU! Be sure to FOLLOW "The Altered Alice" right away so that you do not miss out on the first challenge or any new prizes coming their way!
On that note, let's get to this week's CHALLENGE:

This week's mission is to travel "Back down the Rabbit Hole" challenge-back to the beginning-Create a HELLO card (for OR a "Goodbye" card-it's all about what it looks like on the other side of that Looking Glass, right?
The DT has once again been blessed with a WONDERFUL assortment of Nikki Sivils papers and embellishments to work with as Nikki has graciously supplied the DT with, as well as a WONDERFUL prize pack for ONE lucky winner (winner will be announced next week on the Altered Alice challenge Blog and also you must link your creations THERE.
In addition to creating a HELLO or GOODBYE card and entering it over at The Altered Alice, the NEW Alice in Wonderland Challenge Blog, don't forget to "FOLLOW" the new "Altered Alice" blog where next week's challenge AND the winner of the last Nikki giveaway will be drawn!

Here is the card I made for this challenge..........

   Wait....I am going to travel to "The Altered Alice" DT.....so I made a HELLO card
                  But........I had to say GOODBYE so I made a twisted kind of card.
                          I guess that would make it appropriate for this challenge!

So here it is.......................................

Good luck to all of the Twisted Sisters in whatever endeavors come our way!

Make sure you start checking over at "The Altered Alice" Site, where new themes and challenges await!

Chapter 46: Queen Alice

2011-01-15T00:01:00.024-06:00

"Hush-a-by lady, in Alice's lap!
Till the feast's ready, we've time for a nap.

When the feast's over, we'll go to the ball -

Red Queen, and White Queen, and Alice, and all!"

~ "Queen Alice", Through The Looking-Glass

We here at Oh Alice, hereby cordially invite you to meet Iracebeth the Red Queen of Crims and Mirana the White Queen. Iracebeth and Mirana are sisters who couldn't be more different: while the White Queen is kind and gentle and is loved by everyone, the Red Queen's answer to everything is "Off with their heads!"

To honor our Royal Highness's, we challenge you to choose which Royal Court you would want to have rule over you, the Red Queen's or the White Queen's???

So the challenge this week, if you should choose to accept it, is to create a card/project that is either mostly white or mostly red.

This week's Oh, Alice challenge is being sponsored by Baby Bud Designs!

"The Baby Bud illustrations you see in the shop have been drawn ‘free hand’ by the artist and owner, Mary Anne Wainright. There is never any computer re-imaging involved. Their quirky little imperfections are what make them original, unique and whimsical and reminds the viewer that they were created from the heart."

Baby Bud Designs has not only generously let the DT use her images, but is also offering the winner a choice of TWO digital images from their Baby Bud Designs Etsy Shop!

Here is my choice: Meet Chloe

I used October Afternoon paper, layered Chloe's dress and colored the rest of Chloe. Added a tattered flower I made of scraps of paper and felt, glued a flower button on. Then a little sewing on the card to finish it off. Hope you enjoyed my take on Chloe.

You have until Friday, January 21st, 8pm CST to submit your creations on Oh Alice. We look forward to seeing which Queen will win!

A NEW YEAR!

2011-01-01T00:01:00.039-06:00

A NEW YEAR...Lots of NEW sponsorships...and a WORD of THANKS...
Hey EVERYONE!

We hope that you are enjoying a little hiatus from the hustle and bustle of Christmas and New Year's and cannot WAIT to resume our challenge on January 8th! 2011 is going to be bringing you some EXCITING new themes, challenges, guest Designers, and TONS of new sponsorships thanks to my awesome coordinators, Margie and Tasha!

I want to thank EVERYONE for their support of Oh, Alice as we are coming up on a year of challenges-I cannot BELIEVE IT! It wouldn't be possible without you and without my AMAZINGLY TWISTED team :)

On that note, we are just stopping by today with a note of THANKS for all of our valued players and sponsors!!

All of our projects today are done using NIKKI SIVILS papers and embellishments...and not only are we SO grateful for that, we are THRILLED to announce that NIKKI SIVILS will be our first sponsor of 2011 and we have a HUGE surprise for you all NEXT WEEK, right here at Oh, ALICE!

Stay tuned and until then, please accept our SINCERE Thanks:

Picture overload......

For this card I used our sponsors paper, it is called "Something for Everyone" this paper is fabulous!

The paper is by Nikki Silvils, we just can't thank her enough for donating such a great product.

I also used Tim Holtz Rosette die, stamp, plaque & postage alterations die.

May your New year be filled with Health, Happiness, and Love.

And lots of ART!

Chapter 44: Curiouser and Curiouser!

2010-12-18T00:01:00.000-06:00

`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); `now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!' (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). `Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I'm sure _I_ shan't be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can; --but I must be kind to them,' thought Alice, `or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas.'

Hello from all of us here in Wonderland! This week we are Curiouser and curiouser to see if you are willing to play along with our weekly challenge. The challenge is a simple one, and one that most of us should be able to play along with, we would like to take Wonderland and turn it into a Winter Wonderland! Yes, that's right.....put your boots on, hats, mittens and lets play in the snow! Alice, with a hat on? Rabbit in the snow? Anything that reflects a Winter Wonderland. Have fun with it!

This week we are being sponsored by SUGAR NELLIE/FUNKYKITS. They are a fabulous company and you really should go over and take a peek. The prize for this week will be 1 set of 6, yes, I said 6 of Leanne Ellis Alice in Wonderland stamps. I sure wish I was in this on this one. This set of stamps are fantastic!

I know a lot of you did not have to do much to get into the mood of a Winter in Wonderland, many had it for real. So with that being said I am sure we will have some great works of art in this weeks contest.

Here is my Winter in Wonderland

Is she not the cutest little thing ever?

I think she looks like she lives in Winter all the time. I was lucky enough to win

her with some other really great stamps from The Greeting Farm.
"Fuzzy Wuzzy"

I had these snowflakes I had purchased from my local scrapbook store in MN called the Pine City Scrapbooking and Retreat. Great place if you are ever in northern MN visiting and want to go to a store and hang out, stay overnight and have a blast. This is the place.

Hope you enjoyed, come back soon!

Now put your winter hat on, think Winter in Wonderland and play along! Go add your card on

"Oh Alice" and play along!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT members have made this week.

Quick share

2010-12-16T22:33:00.000-06:00

Just wanted to share a card I did yesterday!

It is for my G-son. It reminded me of when he had his hair done a while back.

What cha think?

I think it is a good match.

That's it for today, be back Saturday with OH Alice.

I'm here

2010-12-14T14:11:00.000-06:00

Well it is official, I have moved. Yes, I am now out of MN and boy just in the nick of time. They were hit hard, with a lot of snow and now the cold. The Metrodome buckled, streets were not plowed, that's when you know it is really bad. I forgot to ask if the mail was delivered. Hummmm?

Well my new life is certainly different from my city girl life. Oh MY! Do you want to know what I hear around here?

Moo, Moo, Neigh, Neigh, quack, quack, ruff, ruff, meow, chick, chick, eeee-haaa (is that what a donkey says) and cock a doodle doo. At night you can here the coyotes, wolves and fox.

Do you want to see the sights......

Bales and bales of this stuff!

The dog that is gonna eat my dog, that is if the
fox, coyotes or wolves don't get her first!

Tractor

Water pump (thank God I don't have to pump water) LOL!

Oh and this is what I see out the front yard

Yep, right out the front door. Also note the blue sky, yet you can see the snow cap mountains

Well enough about that. I have to get back to unpacking my stuff, so I can get some cards done!

Anyone see my inks, stamps?

OH JEEZ!...............I can't find my distress inks!!!!!

I can not function without them, HELP!!!!!

CHAPTER 43:CHRISTMAS-GREETINGS. [FROM A FAIRY TO A CHILD.]

2010-12-11T00:01:00.009-06:00

LADY dear, if Fairies may

For a moment lay aside

Cunning tricks and elfish play,

'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.

We have heard the children say—

Gentle children. whom we love—

Long ago, on Christmas Day,

Came a message from above.

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,

They remember it again—

Echo still the joyful sound

"Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Yet the hearts must childlike be

Where such heavenly guests abide;

Unto children, in their glee,

All the year is Christmas-tide!

Thus, forgetting tricks and play

For a moment, Lady dear,

We would wish you, if we may,

Merry Christmas, glad New Year!

Christmas, 1867.

Welcome down the rabbit hole once again my friends. This poem by Lewis Carroll was found in the back of a copy of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. In researching the history of this poem I found the All Saints, the Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. The 3 centre panels contain verses from this Lewis Carroll’s poem. The window was designed by the stained glass artist Geoffrey Webb and depicts a Nativity scene, at which both Carroll and Alice are present. This is a must see for anyone that loves Wonderland.

For our challenge this week let's get into the Christmas spirit. The challenge is to use red, green, + one color. You can still use other colors for hair and skin. Just make the main use of color red, green, + one.

Our wonderful sponsor this week is Pixie Dust Studio. The lucky winner will receive your choice of 2 digital images.

I need to tell you....this was hard for me. My mind was going here and there and a bit everywhere. What the heck am I suppose to do? So I started one.......then switched to another route, but I will show you both.
1st one is the one I started the stopped...so it was close to done.....so here is that one

Silly me.....was a cutting fool.....I was cutting everything out.....what was I thinking?
Here is a closer look.

For this card I felt as soon as I added the yellow/gold, I went over the red &green + one rule. In my world white is not a color, however to me the kraft paper was a color. Over thought? Maybe....
Now here is the second one.....you choose the one you like.

Red and Green + yellow gold....background paper is Graphic 45....colored with colored pencils and watercolor pencils.

So get your Santa hat on, turn on your favorite holiday music and get crafty for your chance to win your choice of 2 digital images! Remember, you have all week to play this challenge! Link your project to the Oh Alice! Challenge blog by midnight, Friday, December 17th to be entered in the drawing. Happy creating!!

Please link to the exact post, not your overall blog/site address. Flickr, Ning and other locations are acceptable so long as they are open to the public. Winner selection based on a random draw.

Chapter 42: The Flowers Are Talking

2010-12-04T00:01:00.014-06:00

`O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, `I wish you could talk!' `We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: `when there's anybody worth talking to." Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice -- almost in a whisper. `And can all the flowers talk?' `As well as all can,' said the Tiger-lily. `And a great deal louder.' Hello from all of us in Wonderland! This week we would like you to have a go at making your own flowers! So get fun creating, we can't wait to see what you come up with! This week we are being sponsored by 'Some Odd Girl', who have gorgeous Digi Stamps that the DT have been luckily enough to create with this week. So get creating your own flowers for your chance to win some of your very own ' Some Odd Girl' Images! You have until Friday the 10th of Dec to play long with us!

I was so excited to create something with 'Some Odd Girl' digi stamps, so many to choose from and all of them so cute. But when I came across 'Mae as Alice' I knew she was the one for me!
So here is Mae, she has been teamed up with some Cosmo Cricket. I water colored and colored penciled her. So cute!

The edges were cut with tim holtz's alteration dies. (I love those)
Have a great day and don't forget to see the rest of the team at 'Oh Alice' for more inspiration.

CC Card

2010-12-01T20:12:00.000-06:00

Short and sweet today!

Here is the card I said I would share with you.

I used Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather Paper. I used CC tiny type letters and add just a bit more glitter (stickles) to the ornaments, which are also by Cosmo Cricket (CC). Pretty simple! I added the ribbon to the ornaments after I tried different string and just was not happy with them. I like the look of the ribbon so much better.
Hope you had a great day!
Be back soon!

Santa's Closet

2010-11-30T16:10:00.000-06:00

I thought I would share a shadow box I have been working on.
I think this came out pretty darn cute!
If I do say so myself!

I wanted to show you a close up........this way you could see that the objects are popped off the paper.

Did you notice the cute little hanger? Well 2 hangers?

I made it......see when you can't find those things you know you have......you can do anything!

Last picture........this is outside the shadow box frame. I used Mitten Weather from Cosmo Cricket. See the little snowflakes? A friend of mine used them on a ATC card and let me in on the secret......(thanks Erin)........it's the mini garland for the mini trees, you just cut them apart.
Shhhhh.......it's a secret!

Hope you have enjoyed your visit!

Have a great day! I will share a card tomorrow!

CHAPTER 41: Off With Their Heads!

2010-11-27T00:54:00.002-06:00

CHAPTER 41: Off With Their Heads!

`Let's go on with the game,' the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the croquet-ground.

The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen's absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment's delay would cost them their lives.

All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting `Off with his head!' or `Off with her head!' Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.

Welcome back to the land of wonder and where the saying, 'Off with her head' is a regular statement! Well here in wonderland this week, that is exactly what we want you to do. This week we want you to take your stamps and yep you guessed it,'Off with their heads'. So we are asking you to alter your stamps and mix it up a little by giving them a new head or body. Ohhh this is going to be sooo much fun seeing what you come up with!!!

Sorry.... just could not get the stamps to cooperate with me this week! To much turkey?
So I am showing you a dress form I did a while back.

I figured it is a good example of.....off with your head!

Up for grabs this week is a Scor Buddy from the lovely people at http://www.scrappingreatdeals.com. So off with their heads for your chance to win this awesome prize. You have until the 3rd of Dec to play along with us.

CHAPTER 40: Hooka Are You?

2010-11-20T00:01:00.002-06:00

CHAPTER 40: Hooka Are You?

"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."~Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,Chapter 5

Welcome to the mad world of Wonderland! Once again we are here to inspire you to create great things! The Caterpillar (Absalom) was the wisest creature in Wonderland. At least he thought so, and so did most of the others.

He is a fascinating character because of his wisdom, and his lack of understanding metamorphosis. Kind of a weird oxymoron, don't you think? Our challenge this week is to use either a caterpillar or a butterfly in your project. If you'd like to go one step farther, use a definition or dictionary paper in your design (any subject is fine).

If you are fortunate, you may find yourself wisely winning your choice of three 4x6 reprints from our sponsor, Maigan Lynn Beaudoin Shaw . FanTASTic!! Maigan is such a delightful artist, and the team appreciates the chance to work with one of her images!
Here's what I came up with to inspire you:

I used colored pencils and gamsol. Colored the image in.

She is the most colorful mermaid Alice I have ever seen!

I wanted her to have some sparkle so I added some glitter to parts of her skirt and to her beautiful tail! You can see it better in the picture below.

Here is just one more shot of the card at a bit of a different angle.

Remember, you have all week to play this challenge! Link your project to the Oh Alice! Challenge blog and HAVE FUN! You have until Friday Nov. 26th at 11:59 CST to get inky and enter to win! Happy creating!!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great creative week!

Chapter 39:

2010-11-13T00:01:00.006-06:00

Chapter 39: Nothin' but Tea and Time...

"Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. `I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.

`The Dormouse is asleep again,' said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose.

The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its eyes, `Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.'

`Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.

`No, I give it up,' Alice replied: `what's the answer?'

`I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter.

`Nor I,' said the March Hare.

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'

`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting IT. It's HIM.'

`I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.

`Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'"

Greetings friends in Wonderland!

Today we have a fun challenge for you based on a lovely inspiration piece that the Mad Hatter herself just might "need" one of these days!

But first, a BIG warm WONDERLAND welcome to Tracy Evans, our November/December Guest! Tracy has wow'd us with her projects for a while and we are thrilled to have her here at our Twisted Table.

This week, we have an inspiration piece, again from one of Jess's favorite designers, Tarina Tarantino.

It LOOKS like a watch, but in this case, the face of "Father Time" is the Mad Hatter himself. We can just see him, shouting out from this beautiful piece and startling it's owner "YOU HAVEN'T EVEN MET TIME!". Boy, it sure feels like that some days..time simply moves TOO QUICKLY to catch!

Here is my fabulous card for this week! (wow did I say that?) Yes I did! I said this because without the inspiration from above I would have never done this and I think it is great way to send a card with a photo. I just saying, this is fabulous! I have taken a $1.oo (4 quarters or 10 dimes or better yet 100 pennies) frame and turned the meaning of a gift card into a "gift card." Huh?

You will see.........So here is my card.......

Inside my card.....but never mind that!
This is what you need to see. I just cut a slit (okay I could have cut it straighter), this is where the frame easel slides into and sits. So when the person you sent this to.....receives it.........they can take the frame out and display it. How fun it that!

Just the frame. I did alter the frame a bit. It was a little bright for me so I toned it down with some acrylic paints rubbed over it, then wiped off.

Who would not love to receive a picture in a card like this? They would think this was so neat! So with the holidays on the way, are you gonna use this idea?.............. I am!

Go check out the rest of the DT inspiration here "Oh Alice"

Have a bedazzler of a time this week, creating after this piece! Until next week...

What have I been doing?

2010-11-10T18:29:00.007-06:00

I have not posted this week, ummmmm, been busy?
I have been working on so many things, somethings we (I) forget to stop and play show and tell.
I have to work on that!

I have been consumed in this ATC I am working on. The goof ball that I am, decided I should stamp, color, and cut out each and everyone. No big deal, right? Do you see the area near her head, little piece by her hand and dress, the even littler piece by her cape and broom. Yep cutting all that out also.

So, are you wondering why is this lady working on a witch when Halloween has passed? Because my ATC group is getting together this month and everyone is assigned a month and we will then make a calendar out of the ATC's. Cool, huh? October is my month. So I have most of these cut out now...but it has been time consuming.

Then I have glimmer misted, distress inked, stamped, distressed again then painted...to make the background for the ATC's. But I am not showing you the finished project, at least not till next week.
I have also been working on some mixed media, painting.........his body started as book pages.

Same here.......don't like this one....but have to share the good with the bad.

Messing with words around the tree.......Just like to see how things look...play is the only way you find out!

So there ya have a small peek into what has kept me from posting.....Well, a small peek is right cuz my desk looks like a bomb went off. I think I have 20 projects going all at the same time.

Anybody else do this? Or is it just me?

Thanks for stopping!

Have a creative day and go make a smile!

CHAPTER 38: Tickets, Please!

2010-11-06T00:01:00.007-05:00

CHAPTER 38: Tickets, Please?

`Tickets, please!' said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage.

`Now then! Show your ticket, child!' the Guard went on, looking angrily at Alice. And a great many voices all said together (`like the chorus of a song,' thought Alice), `Don't keep him waiting, child! Why, his time is worth a thousand pounds a minute!'

`I'm afraid I haven't got one,' Alice said in a frightened tone: `there wasn't a ticket-office where I came from." And again the chorus of voices went on. `There wasn't room for one where she came from. The land there is worth a thousand pounds an inch!'

-- Chapter 3, Through the Looking Glass

Greetings friends in Wonderland! We are FULL STEAM AHEAD into November and today's challenge is JUST the ticket! Our ride this week is sponsored by our own Tasha who is generously donating a $15 gift certificate to Stamping Bella (in honor of their cute new Alice stamp) which will be awarded to one randomly selected winning traveler!

But before we get started, there are some changes at our twisted tea party table! We are bidding farewell to longtime design team members Jen and Suzi, so please leave them some extra love as you visit their last Oh, Alice! DT posts. We will really miss their superb talents! Donna, our amazing October guest designer, is stepping up to the table so we are back to our twisted thirteen. Welcome Donna, we are so glad you are staying where it's always time for tea! Be sure to check back next week for to find out who our guest designer will be for the holiday season!

So, do you have YOUR ticket ready for a ride on the Wonderland Express? Our twisted sis Lynne is the conductor this week and she says you can't travel with Oh, Alice! if you don't show us your ticket! You can make a ticket, use a ticket stamp, use a real ticket. Use one ticket or a whole row of tickets! So hop on it and get YOUR ticket ready to take a journey through Wonderland!

So for my card this week I decided I would try and sketch my own Alice. What I did not do is make her small enough, so I thought I could scan her and make her smaller. (Bright idea) Well her lines did not come out as clearly as a stamp would, so I will have to work on that. But all in all she is cute.

My ticket, I used my tim holtz stamp and die cut. The metal memo pin is also tim holtz.

The wool rolled flowers I made to add to the card. (I learned to make these at our monthly ATC meeting)

Final look at Alice.

Now get ready to travel with these inspiring examples:
Jessica
Andrea
Emma
Erin
Gloria
Jen
Ky
Lynne
Margie
Peggy
Randi
Sammi
Sara
Suzi
Tasha
We know you are all wondering who won last week's FABULOUS prize of a set of Elaine Cox Alice in Wonderland stamps, donated by our generous DT sister Ky! Our randomly selected winner is Connie Paxman, please contact our Mad Hatter Jess to claim your prize. Here is a peek at the winning entry:

It's time for you to get those tickets ready so you can travel with us on the Wonderland Express! You don't want to be left behind as this train leaves the station, so enter your new creations by 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12 using the InLinkz tool at "Oh Alice". Good luck, or maybe we should say Bon Voyage, as we can't wait to see where your creations will take us!

CHAPTER 37: Halloween in WONDERLAND...

2010-10-30T00:01:00.001-05:00

CHAPTER 37: Halloween in WONDERLAND...

Hey everyone!

We have a "just for fun" post today here in Wonderland that doesn't follow a book excerpt or poem...just a good ol' fashioned HALLOWEEN theme!
After all, tomorrow IS Halloween and it's time to showcase some fun projects, and many of us are using the Graphic 45 special line of papers, Halloween in Wonderland!
It must be Halloween, my post is on the wrong side? What's going on?

BOO!
This week I have used Graphic 45 (for my 45th time this season!) I swear I have used it a lot!

But I really like it, it gives me so much inspiration.

For this card, lots of layers, I used tim's alteration's die, up cycled cardboard, Spellbinder die, layered them all up. I then water colored Alice and the Cheshire cat. I figured the cat wanted to sit on the fence so I free hand cut the fence out. (very simple, no rocket science here) I thought it would be kind of creepy to have the hand reaching through the fence as if to grab the cat. So spooky! Tied some colored twine around the card and added the little pumpkin. Oh and a little bat, poor thing I almost forgot about him.

Here is a closer look at the hand reaching for the Cheshire cat.

Ohhhh Spooky!

Hope you enjoyed the card this week!

We really hope you enjoy our projects today and that you feel like playing along! Today our VERY generous DT member Ky is offering up a set of Alice stamps by Elaine Cox! Even more of a reason to get creepy or crafty this week and show us what you can do!

So get your card done and link it to: "Oh Alice"

Be sure to stop by the blogs of my TEAm Mates:

Jessica Andrea Emma Erin Gloria Jen Ky

Lynne Margie Peggy Randi Sammi Sara Suzi Tasha

Leave some love notes ~ you know you want to!

Happy Halloween!

Few Quick Projects and My ATC

2010-10-28T18:17:00.007-05:00

I had to come up with some quick projects last night, so this is what I came up with.
Here are a couple candy holders made with Cosmo Cricket "Matilda"

I love this one!

Here is a larger treat bag! These were so quick and easy!

Here is the little gift card that goes with the bag above.

And on to my ATC for October. I used a playing card for the background. I scratched it up with a file and put some translucent paint over the card. You really can't see it in the picture.
I then took molding gel medium and started to make my cat. This was a little tricky as it stuck to the paintbrush and did not want to come off in the right places.

If you look at the cheeks they are raised, little on the ears and around the mouth. I wanted this cat to be dimensional, without being to bulky. I then had to wait a day for this to dry (I hate to wait, but I did). Then I painted the eyes, mouth, cheeks. Added the bow tie and put some good ole crepe paper on, then added the strip of paper with tim holtz tiny attacher, I know I always have to mention him somewhere, but I use his stuff in pretty much everything I do.

Here is it all done. I made little bags to put them in this month. I thought it was just a cute touch! I love they way these turned out. One thing I would do next time is to sand off a little more background, I think the cat would have shown better. But all in all I love him!

Thanks for stopping by........Got time leave a comment let me know what cha think. You know we all love our comments! Okay I don't always leave them. Fair is fair! But you can always become a follower!

CHAPTER 36: CHESS - CHESSBOARD - CHESSMEN

2010-10-23T00:01:00.004-05:00

CHAPTER 36: CHESS - CHESSBOARD - CHESSMEN

"They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,' Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little `Oh!' of surprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. The chessmen were walking about, two and two!

`Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,' Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), `and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel -- and here are two castles walking arm in arm..."
--Ch. 1: Through the Looking Glass

The challenge this week is again the brainchild of DT member Lynne-to use some aspect of the game of chess! You might want to use a checkerboard pattern, or feature a King, Queen, Knight or Castle (Rook), or some other aspect of the game we haven't thought of - we just need to be able to clearly see CHESS in your creation!

We are THRILLED to announce that there's a prize this week, too! Thanks to our generous sponsor, PAPER MANIAC, this week, they are giving away a set of Artistic Outpost Alice in Wonderland mini-stamps AND a sheet of E.A.D. Designs Stickerz! How awesome is that?

Here's some inspiration from the DT before we 'pawn' you off on your own to create this week:

This week I used last weeks gate fold, added Graphic 45 paper and a rosette, a bit of elastic ruffle. Just could not find the right saying, so I came up with my own. That's it pretty simple card.

Checkmate! Have YOU met your match? You have until FRIDAY, October 29th to enter your creation and throw your hat (or should I say, crown?) in the ring for this awesome PAPER MANIAC prize this week! We'll announce the winner her in Wonderland during our next challenge!
See you soon!

Go see the rest of the fabulous DT cards at:
http://aliceinwonderlandchallenge.blogspot.com/

2010-10-21T21:32:00.010-05:00

I took my G-Kids to Zoo Boo! We had a great time. Zoo Boo is held every year at our local, still free zoo. They decorate the zoo with cut outs and pumpkins and cornstalks.

Many people in costumes and they hand out candy to the kids.

It is geared towards the younger child. So much fun!
However I do have to show you one picture that I took

that I thought turned out pretty cool(no children in this picture)

Okay on with the show! This area was themed in Africa!

Can you guess who is having tea with Alice?

Farris is a little smitten with this zebra!

Here they are with the bear

The wolves

Here is my little dinosaur

Here is the tail
So cute it wags as she walks!

On another note........some great blog candy at

http://alteredalice.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-candy-from-donna-printers-tray.html

The Altered Alice

2010-10-19T21:36:00.005-05:00

I want to share a very special place...............Why is it special "you ask"?
This is a place where your mind can be taken in a whole new direction. You will look at things, art differently. Sometimes when we see, we really don't look! It is kinda like not listening, but you hear something, you just don't know what that something is.

This place is called The Altered Alice, it is a place where you will find art in the altered form. The person behind this blog will describe the art in a way that if you just looked at it you probably would not have noticed. Her vision of the art and descriptions are as if she is one with the art. This person is Lynne, and she has started this new blog, not just for her but for all the altered artist who love Alice.

Lynne has made this blog amazing. The graphics are fabulous, I love this special place. Altered Alice has just been around a short amount of time, but Lynne has had quite a few fabulous artist's already on the blog. I am telling you it is pretty neat place to go! Who knows you may just find a new favorite artist. So enough of my babble, go visit her here I know you will love it.
http://alteredalice.blogspot.com/
I guess I should mention I am a guest right now!

2010-10-16T00:01:00.001-05:00

CHAPTER 35: Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Wonderland's Door

"Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.

Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked.

`There's no sort of use in knocking,' said the Footman, `and that for two reasons. First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.' And certainly there was a most extraordinary noise going on within--a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.

`Please, then,' said Alice, `how am I to get in?' ~Chapter 6, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Hey everyone! It's a beautiful day here in Wonderland and we are BACK with another challenge! Have you ever felt like Alice? Not sure which door, window, or keyhole will be opened or closed next? Not sure which direction you're going but curiouser and curiouser about them all?

What a PERFECT opportunity to explore some new avenues,and walk through new doors we bring you at Oh, Alice this week. That's right! Your challenge this week is to create a card or project using a Door, Gate, or Keyhole. Now, you can also get creative and do a gatefold technique, etc. As long as we can see it's a "Gatefold" or that there is a door, gate, or keyhole somewhere on your project! How FUN is this?

The best part? There's no time limit to play this week, so have fun and here's to opening lots of new doors in the future!

This is what I came up with this week......I made a door with a large keyhole and added a handle. Alice is waiting for you to enter. I water colored the door to look like wood.

Here is the key hole up close.

Here is the inside....I thought it would be fun to add a table that un-folds as you open the card, then the table would not be complete without a teapot and cup on it. The stamped image is water colored.

Hope you enjoyed my card. It is a little more on the altered side of card making, but still fun!

Now go check out the rest of the "Oh Alice" gals and see what fun stuff they came up with.

http://aliceinwonderlandchallenge.blogspot.com/

tim holtz....alteration dies, emboss folder

stamps.....TJ Designs

Paper.....7 gypsies, graphic 45

Halloween garland

2010-10-14T12:20:00.006-05:00

How about I share a Halloween garland I put together last night?
It is kinda fun........I used Tim's new rosette die and I love it!
This rosette on the right was just being goofy. As fragile as skeletons are..........the arms fell off a few and I stuck them in the rosette.....kinda creepy fun!

Here is the garland!

Imagine 7 fabulous feet of this, that is how long it is.

I love the way it turned out. Hard to get a picture of the whole thing as the wind is blowing it all over today.

Hope you enjoyed my spooky garland. Very quick and easy to make.

Thanks for stopping by.

Play day!

2010-10-12T10:48:00.003-05:00

Hello Tuesday, play day for me! I will be playing with some paint, glue, scissors, paper, ink and other fun stuff. Just like I was back in kindergarten, without a care in the world. (If that were only true)

But hey, on to some really fun news, well okay, fun for me and my Dad for sure! I have been published again. This time it was in Somerset Memories, and I am featured on the last page. Okay it is the last page, but you know what they say.......save the best for last!

The last page is always for an artist remembrance page. I did a piece about my Dad. It made him shed a few tears to see it in print. For him that is pretty good considering he was looking at things thru glasses and a magnifying glass and still could not see things well. He had some eye surgery done in both eyes and now he can see with just glasses. So he was able to read my story. That meant the world to me.

Okay, enough of my ramblings. Check it out if you have the chance. If not for my article, for all the other artist who make wonderful art. Donna Downey has a featured article, 6 pages of her wonderful creations.

Thanks for stopping by.
Off to make me smile!

Chapter 34: A Mad Tea-Party

2010-10-09T12:01:00.000-05:00

CHAPTER 34: A Mad Tea-Party

`And ever since that,' the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, `he won't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.'

A bright idea came into Alice's head. `Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?' she asked.

`Yes, that's it,' said the Hatter with a sigh: `it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles.'

`Then you keep moving round, I suppose?' said Alice.

`Exactly so,' said the Hatter: `as the things get used up.'

`But what happens when you come to the beginning again?' Alice ventured to ask.

~Chapter 7, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Awesome Wonderland greetings to all! First of all, let's congratulate our WINNER from last week's text challenge. Congrats to Laurel! Send a note to the Mad Hatter, Jessica, for details on how to claim your Greeting Farm single!

Can you believe summer is fairly over? It's time to change from iced teas over to hot teas. I love autumn and all the wonderful warm drinks, wonderful sweaters and gorgeous colors it brings. In Wonderland, it was perpetually tea time and I could live that life for a long, long time!

Your challenge this week is to explore things that could make up your tea-time activity. Use tea bag folding in the construction of your project. This is a great resource: Tea Bag Folding. Anything relating to time would pair perfectly with this challenge, but isn't a requirement! Show us your fab folding abilities, doing it Alice-style!

You have until midnight Central time on Friday, October 15th to complete your project and link it up to the Oh Alice Challenge blog. You don't want to miss out on your chance of wining a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey papers! The clock is ticking - don't be Late for TEA!

This is what I came up with for this Challenge...........

Papers: Graphic 45, origami paper, silver charm

Hope you enjoyed your stay. Go make a card to enter this challenge, you will have fun!

Enter here: http://aliceinwonderlandchallenge.blogspot.com/

More of our Visit

2010-10-08T16:49:00.004-05:00

Here are a few more pictures of our visit to Colorado. Farris enjoys life in Colorado so much! She has the horses to ride and pet, she rides the 4 wheeler, the kitties, dogs and the rooster crowing......all of this makes her laugh and giggle so much. It is so fun to watch her face with awe and wonder!

She sure missed her Papa.....she cried and just clung to him when she saw him this time. Just so Papa knew she meant business, she would follow him everywhere! He was not leaving her sight, and he didn't for 9 days. She sure loves her Papa!

Here are pictures of Farris enjoying the 4 wheeler with Uncle Bill.

I have been replaced by a HORSE!........This is Rick's new girl.

I do have to admit, she is pretty darn cute!

But really........do we need to have picnic's with her?

Here I am snuggling with another one of the 27 horses on the ranch.

(I had to take my own picture as Rick was busy with his other girl)

(oh and did you know.....horses don't care if your hair and make up are done or NOT!)

Make sure you stop by tomorrow for the weekly "Oh Alice" challenge.

See ya tomorrow!

Having Fun in Colorado

2010-10-05T21:24:00.008-05:00

No art today, sorry.......................But, we are having fun here in Colorado!
Today Farris, Chris and I went to the Children's Museum of Denver. Farris had a blast. It was geared for the toddlers and she was climbing, as she loves to do. She climbed a tree, went down the rabbit hole, and played with squirrels. But her absolute favorite was the bubble room! We were in there the longest. To be honest I think I enjoyed it as much as she did.

Here she was laughing so hard!

Garden of the Gods was on Sunday. We all had a fabulous time.

Here are a few picture from Sunday!

Hope you enjoy the views!

Thanks for stopping by........Will see you soon!