Challenge- Rustification

Rustification.........Hmmmmm.....I can Rusty! Or at least I can make it look rusty.

Simon Says Stamp and Show has a CHALLENGE so here goes......

Let's give it a try.......I CAN do this!

What happens when you take masking tape, a heat gun, distress embossing powder?


                                   Rustification!

 

Here it is....A rusty Crypt..Look the trick or treaters are passing by.

 Hope they don't stop in.........

Here is the SPOOKY inside!

 This is the ONLY time glue strings are a GOOD thing!

 Mr Bones wants to meet you! He really does........Check out that picture...it changes!

 More pictures......this was made from a wood pencil box.

 Here is a really good one of the Lenticular face!

 Check out this spider and her web!

 Mr Bones up close and personal!

Thanks for stopping by.........leave a comment and tell me did I make it RUSTY? 

Halloween Tray

I have been busy, bust, busy!

It's October and you know what that means........Spooky Halloween month.

I love Halloween!

Just look around on Facebook, Blogs and Pinterest

I am not the only one who

LOVES

HALLOWEEN.

I recently became a member of the Design Team for Glue Dots® and I thought I would start my Dottess Reign with this Spooky Tray.

So Cute and Spooky at the same time!

So take a look at the tray I made using Glue Dots®!

 This tray is plastic.....$1.99 from the grocery store, how cool is that? I just love this paper!

The paper is Echo Park Paper Co. "Chilingsworth Manor"

 Close ups....because I just knew you would want to see it closer.

 A bit closer.

 and of course I have to show you the cute trick or treaters!

Would you like to see the instruction for this tray?

Go to http://www.gluedots.com/holiday/halloween-/happy-halloween-decor.html you can get full instructions!

You can see this on Pinterest and pin it http://pinterest.com/pin/198651033534727465/

There will be more treats coming soon!

 “I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.”

 

It's time to share

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.

Anything Goes

 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!

Challenge-flourish



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!

Challenge-Torn or Distressed

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!

Tag your it!

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!

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!

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?

A NEW YEAR!

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!