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I have just uploaded this really cute Alice themed ear wire in to my Folksy shop HERE
How amazing are my new Indigo Blu stamps :D I got them at their launch at Port Sunlight last week and fell in lurve!! Only problem is I want the whole range of stamps LOL :D
Ok so how to :D
I started by covering my cute little house in a piece of text from my Alice book .
I stamped over the whole thing with my crackle stamp in coffee archival ink and left to dry.
Next I stamped the ruler along the edge in black ink, masked the edges and coloured with wild honey distress stain - two swooshes and it was done :D
I coloured the rest of it with barn door distress ink pad and added a clock and an ink blot stamp in black archival ink.
I stamped the white rabbit on to a separate piece of paper and coloured with promarkers and stuck it to my house with Claudine's matte medium.
I masked the rabbit off and sprayed the watch with gold cosmic shimmer mist but found this dulled the stamped image too much. I decided to stamp the watch section again on to acetate and when dry cut out and glued over the original stamped image with a little glossy accents.
I added the tiny type letters and glossy accented them and left to dry overnight so I wasn't tempted to stick my fingers in to check if it was dry LOL :D
I added walnut stain distress stickles randomly to add a little subtle sparkle around the edges carefull applied with my splodgey finger :D
Alice was stamped onto white shrink plastic with coffee archival ink and coloured lightly with pencils - the colour intensifies so much when it shrinks so if you are too heavy handed it looks awful.
I left a tab at the top of Alice when I cut her out and punched a hole so that she could dangle in the bottle.
Once shrunk with my heatgun I added little eye hooks to the cork of the Tim Holtz bottle and attached Alice with a jump ring .
I threw in a teeny key then put the cork in and wrapped the neck of the bottle with bakers twine and added a hand written tag.
To attach it to the house I drilled a little hole and threaded a piece of wire through then wrapped this around the eyelet in the cork.
I also made little holes at the top of the house to add more wire to hang the piece up.
I am going to enter this in to the Altered Alice challenge this month fotr the theme of time :D
Hope you like it :D
Hugs'n'snogs,
Julie xx
Ok,back to the mirrors :D
Well this started life as a plain wooden shrine frame which I coloured with Tim Holtz broken china distress stain - ooooohhh these babies are so cool :D the colour is so intense and it works lovely on raw wood like this :D
Now you might be thinking the dabber top is a little bit big to fit around the detailed areas?well your right! so all I did was squeeze some of the stain on to my non-stick craft mat and painted it on with a paint brush :D
When it was completely dry I glued on the pieces of my Alice book I wanted to use with Claudines matte mediumand inked lighlty with the stain.
I added stamped Alice images with black archival ink randomly all over the frame, then highlighted the edges with viva decor inka gold.
Now for a bit of alchemy - my metal charms were all silver so I brushed on more inka gold to change the colour, which I also did with my resin keyhole :D
The Mad hatter image was coloured with promarkers and distress ink pads.
I added a key on a screw in eyelet then added some distress stickles.
All the embellies were stuck on the matte medium - its amazing as a glue as nothing budges!! Ihad my reservations when Ifirst tried it as its so light it doesn't feel like it will do anything but its just so strong!!
The embellies I added to my i-pod cover are still rock solid and it gets plenty of abuse in my bag LOL :D
Are you all ready for the royal wedding??
I'm really looking forward to seeing the event and most of all can't wait to see the dress :D
Hugs'n'regal snogs,
Julie xx
