18 Jun 2020

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

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.