Some stuff I have made

                            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

"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.......

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

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

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

-- Chapter 5, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

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

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

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

Here is my inspiration for you:

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

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

                                                        I though this would be a fun picture.

                                                                     Just another look

                                                                        A little closer

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

Graphic 45 Design Team Entry

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

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

This is all about projects using Graphic 45!

Wish me luck in this new Journey!

Project 1 - Halloween in Wonderland tray

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

Project 2 - Halloween in Wonderland card

Project 3 - A Proper Gentlemen Shadow Box Collage

Notice the extra shading on the Watch

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

My Dad

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

Project 6 - Steampunk Debutante Dress Form

This was so fun to do

Project 7 - Halloween in Wonderland Card

                                                Project 8 - Domestic Goddess Layout

                                                                  This is a picture of my Mom and Great Grandma

                                                         Tag out of the root beer pocket

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

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

                                                                 Pull out journal tag

Project 9 - Christmas Past Black Envelope Album

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

Project 10 - Halloween in Wonderland Collage Book

Made out of old files

I chose my favorite pages, not the whole book

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

Project 11 - Le Cirque Clutch Purse

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

                                                                         Back side

                                                             Magnetic snap closure

                                                                  Few extra looks

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

Project 12 - Collage, painted altered art, then waxed

Project 13 - Le Cirque Night Light

FUN!

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

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

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

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

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