Alice Day 2022

Hello, I hope all is ok with you today. It is July already, and in the UK the first Saturday of July is always Alice day when fans of Alice celebrate. In July 1862 Lewis Carol was boating on a lake with Alice Liddel and her sisters when he told them a story, which of course became Alice in Wonderland. 

I began by watercolouring a background, and while that was drying I started a lot of fussy cutting of little Alice characters from one of the gorgeous Graphic 45 Alice papers. I scribbled  some quick toadstools on some copy paper and coloured them before adhering to the page. My little Alice characters then jumped on to the page. There were some disagreements about who wanted to go where  but they soon all agreed and settled down 

I stamped the quotation, “ How long is forever, sometimes just one second”  which is one of my favourites. 

Our Alice Tea 

Thank you so much for visiting, take care Covid numbers are very, very high xx

I would like to enter my Alice Day art journal page into the following challenges. 

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour

Paperbabe Stamps Anything Goes  

More Than Words Wonderful

Wonderland is certainly wonderful! 

Alice Day Challenge

My Alice Day Journal Page 

This year Alice Day is on the 3rd of July, there are some wonderful events happening in Oxford this year. I hope to be able to visit Oxford for Alice Day, one day. More information can be found about this years event at The Story Museum. 

In 2018 I started a little crafting challenge to celebrate Alice Day. For the last few years it has been kindly held on Facebook at UK Stampers. 

The prize for the random winner.

I am sharing some of my many Alice makes below.

Stay Safe xx

Happy Alice Day

Today is the official Alice Day, it is of course a totally virtual day this year but there is lots happening online at the story museum.

I have altered this old Alice book to celebrate the day.

Thank you for visiting, and I hope that you are staying safe xx

Win Stamperia Alice Stamps

Hello, thank you so much for visiting.  Alice Day is on July 4th this year, it will of course be a virtual celebration this year. You can discover more at https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/about-us/alices-day-1

This year Sid from UK Stampers has happily agreed to have another Alice Day Challenge. The gorgeous Stamperia Alice stamps (shown below) have kindly been donated as a prize by Charmed Cards and Craft. Just Create something with an Alice theme and upload it to UK Stampers, and you could be the lucky random winner! 

I have made my little canvas above using this set of stamps.

Thank you for visiting. I would like to enter my Alice canvas into the following challenges 

Penny Black Favourite Stamps, Alice is always a firm favourite of mine !

Stamping Sensations make it colourful

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality

Hello, I hope you staying safe and well. I am sharing an Alice in Wonderland card today, with one of my favourite quotes which is by Lewis Carroll “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

I created the background with water colors and also used them to colour  Alice and the flowers.

I would like to enter it into the following challenges.

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Paperbabe My Quote Challenge

Stay safe, and hold on to hope xx 

Alice In Wonderland Tea Party

Wouldn’t it be nice to be in Wonderland right now! With this in mind I have made an Alice InWonderland Tea Party using Calico Craft Parts. I love to use the blank mdf  pieces as I can decorate them anyway I  want, and I can use them in so many different ways! I hope you can pay Alice a visit  today to discover more, she is over on the Calico Craft Parts Blog.

Take care and stay safe xx 

Alice In Wonderland

I have of course returned to creating an Alice In Wonderland whatnot again. It will be the first of many this year, as 2020 is the anniversary of Sir John Tenniel’s  birth 200 years ago. He was the artist who so beautifully illustrated the Alice books.

I turned one of Tim Holtz hare dies into the white rabbit, and several of my other Alice stamps joined him too. I used watercolours, and polychromo pencils for my colouring.I used a little piece from a paper doily to make Alice’s  apron. 

Thank you for visiting xx 

I would like to add Alice to the following challenges.

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Artistic Stamper Words
Happy Little Stampers with Dies

Artist Trading Coins

I have been creating a lot of artist trading coins recently, they can be quite addictive! Artist trading coins are 2.5 “ circles, which are decorated in any way imaginable. They can be made from mdf, chipboard or thick card. I have been using the mdf ones, but I have recently ordered some blank chipboard at coins for a change. You write your usual artist details on the back as you would for the more traditional artist trading cards. You then of course swap them with other  artists.

I thought I would share some of my coins and ideas.

I edged the coins above with pearls.

I heat embossed these Classic Pooh stamps. These stamps were some of the very first stamps I owned.

I edged them with some bead gel.

I heat embossed these flowers, and added little pearls to them, and edged them  in more white pearls.

I created the background for these coins by making a lace design on my gelli plate, and laying the coins down onto it.

I covered these coins with some vintage pages from an Alice In Wonderland book.

Heat embossing various stamps to create a little scene.


Back to Classic Pooh to conclude.Thank you for visiitng xx

Happy Alice In Wonderland Day !

Happy Alice In Wonderland Day! You can find more details about this special day here 

To celebrate the day I have made this tea party scene. I used Alice and the White Rabbit which I made with air drying clay used in a mould. I painted them with acrylic paints. You can’t have the tea party without a Mad Hatter, so I drew him and coloured him with watercolours. 

I added lots of little Wonderland details underneath the table.I stamped a tiny Queen of Hearts playing card, and a “Drink Me “ tag to tie onto the little bottle.

I found the little tea set at Spitafields antique market, I don’t think it is actually an antique though!

I stamped some rabbit paw print marks onto the base of the table 

I must dash now as there are jam tarts to make for our Madhatters tea today, and lots  of decorations to put up. 

I would like to enter this little scene into the following challenges 

Artistic Stamper Celebrating Women

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Lost Coast Designs Celebrate it

Alice In Wonderland Inspiration

Hello, I hope all is well with you. We  have sunshine here today, at long last!

Today I am sharing some of my recent Alice In Wonderland makes, incase anyone needs a little inspiration to enter the Alice Day Challenge at UK Stampers which is kindly being hosted by Sid. 

This card features one of my favourite quotes. 

Alice Artist Trading Coins

I used some of my Alice clay mould characters on some tags. I wasn’t thrilled with how they came out, I may try resin in the moulds next time.

A simple Alice card, made with gorgeous papers from Craft Box. These papers are included in my prize for the winner of the Alice Day challenge.

I hope I have inspired you to join in with the challenge. Take care, and thank you so much for visiitng xx

Alice Day Challenge

This year Sid of UK Stampers on Facebook is kindly hosting the Alice Day Challenge. The wonderful goodies above are for one random winner. Including one pad of 6x6 fabulous papers by Craft Box and one Snip Art Card frame. Looking forward to seeing all of the lovely Alice makes. Alice has lots of different themes, tea parties, roses, toadstools, cards, hearts, hares  rabbits and lots more... 

Alice Day  is on 6th July this year, and the random winner will be announced then xx

Thank you to We Love To Create and A Vintage Journey for selecting my Alice In Wonderland book as one of their top 3 choices. Xx

Thank you for stopping by xxx

Alice In Wonderland Book

Hello, and thank you for stopping by. Today I am happy to be escaping to Wonderland. 

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

 Lewis Carroll

I used a papier-mâché  book from Hobbycraft, on reflection I wish I had purchased a better quality one as this one had lumps and bumps, and was not very sturdy. I covered it with beautiful Alice rice papers and paint. I also added a white rabbit as he wanted to be followed into the book. 

I had never used moulds before, but when Stamperia released their new Alice range and it included moulds I of course had to get them! I used clay many years ago, but it was clay which had to be baked in the oven, and I made things freehand. So air drying clay and moulds were all new to me.After many attempts I decided to use one of the white rabbits which did not turn out too badly, some of them were dreadful, and looked a bit frightening ! I used acrylics to paint him. 

To cover the inside of the bookI used  pages from a vintage Alice book and stamped over them with playing card suits and other whatnots from my large collection of Alice Stamps.

I fussy cut the beautiful scenes  from the Stamperia papers and folded them and assembled it into the book so they would pop out when opened. I worked it all out on copy paper first :  )

I had fun adding lots of embellishments, hanging some down from the top of the book etc.

Thank you for popping into Wonderland today, and I hope you enjoyed your visit xx

I would like to enter my Alice book into the following challenges.

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Vintage Journey Book It 

Love To Create Anything Goes Mixed Media

Down the Rabbit Hole

Who would like to follow me down the rabbit hole today? Where it is a world of wonder where people are kind, respectful, considerate and law abiding, and treat others how they would like to be treated themselves?

I used Paperbabe stamps and templates for my White Rabbit. 

Jane Davenport has just released prompts for Mad March Hare, and Alice sketches. I am going to try and join in and complete the prompts. I won’t be up to sketching/painting every day but I will catch up eventually!

I hope all is well with you, and thank you for visiting xx

I would like to enter Down the Rabbit hole Hole into the following challenges.

Daring Card Makers Mad March Hare

Artistic Stamper Colour It Green

Alice and Mad Hatter Canvas

Hello, I am back in Wonderland today, probably the best place to be!  Today I am sharing a mixed media canvas featuring Alice and the Mad Hatter.I used Paperbabe templates for the bow, hat and clothes, and drew the facial  features. Of course I  used my favourite watercolours on everything! 

This is one of my most favourite quotes by Lewis Carrol “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality” So I was thrilled to see it as a stamp at Lost Coast Designs.

I used several gorgeous Alice collections on this canvas, Bo Bunny and Echo Park. Have you seen the new Alice collection by Stamperia, it is stunning! 

Thank you for visiting today, hope to see you again soon. If you have time, please leave a comment so Alice and Mad Hatter know you were here!

I would like to enter this canvas into the following challenges, thank you.

Artistic Stamper Heart It 

Penny Black Anything Goes

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Alice Day Winner

Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun with my first Alice In Wonderland Challenge, and created such wonderful projects! Random.Org has selected a winner and it is Number 1 Sid.   Congratulations ! Please email me at gillslap AT yahoo.co.uk with your details to receive your wonderful prize.

Sid’s Winning Tag as chosen by Random org.

I do not have any new Crafty makes to share today. So instead  I thought I would share some photos which I took on 1st July during our Guinness World record Largest Cream Tea Party hosted by Mary Berry.

Of course the table was beautifully decorated as the event was held by Cath Kidston.

I wore my Cath Kidston Alice In Wonderland dress!

Mary Berry looked beautiful and elegant as always.

We broke the Guinness world record !