6 Jul 2019

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

13 May 2019

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.