Alice ATC's

I love all things Alice and all things Wonderland so when Leigh, the Design Team Leader at Lost Coast Designs asked if I was joining an Alice ATC swap hosted by Marion, I said of course!  I had maybe 3 days to make and get them in the mail to Germany but I made it :)  Please click on her name to see the All Things Alice Blog Swap on Pinterest.  Now to let you see them and tell you a bit about them.  First, here they are:

I cheated a bit and started with a patterned paper then stamped with White Rabbit, Hatter, and Cat (set also includes Rabbit with Watch).  For the background stamps I used Cracked Tree, Cracked Grass and Sky also from Lost Coast Designs.  I used Lindy's Shimmer sprays in green, pink, and gold. the characters were stamped, colored, fussy cut, and glued onto a patch of Faber Castell's Bead Paste and some cheese cloth sprayed with the pink shimmer. I added some glitter glue to the grass and stars and the bead paste glitters and soaked up the green spray creating a lovely sparkly place for the stamped images to play.  Then I popped on some brass embellies for each.

Hope you find you Wonderland!

Showcase Sunday at DLD

I hope everyone is enjoying our Showcase Sundays as much as the team is enjoying have a play with all the fabulous kits!  I am like a kid in a candy store and this candy store gives you a freebie when you visit....how fun is that?  So on with this collection called "Sorbet" and it is as yummy as it sounds. I did a digital tag and printed it out and added some seed pearls and string and ribbon.

I like the ease of placing and sizing everything in Photoshop and then printing it out to embellish a bit makes it even better for me.  Please go by the Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog and check out everybody's take on this lovely kit!  And pick up your freebie :)

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April's Head to Head Challenge at Dragons Lair Designs

"Zoodles" is sooo cute!  This kit is for our Head to Head Challenge on our Fan Page HERE.  You pop in the Dragons Lair Designs Store and buy this kit and enter it in the photo album on the Fan page and if you win the next kit is yours free :)  Everyone who plays gets a loyalty point and those add up for a shopping voucher, too!  I have 4 grand -pups whom I adore and this was a fun make for me.

The papers are adorable  and that pup is just realistic and you want to pet his head, really!  I used a chippie with "LOVE", of course, because they are so loving and forgiving never holding a grudge.  Maybe one day I will learn from my grand-pups and past faithful friends that I still love.  Wonderful teachers and example setters they are :)

Please take a look at our sites, blogs, and pages and especially the store which has had a fabulous remake by the talented Janette!  And remember our April Challenge is going on still with the easy theme "Anything Goes" so come see us and link up with you fantastic make!  Link is HERE  Thanks for taking time to visit "Zoodles".

 

• Dragons Lair Designs Store - A fantastic range of digital downloads
• Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Bookmark us and come back regularly for inspiration
• Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog - Challenges starting the 1st Friday of every month with different themes, please come along and take part
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• Dragons Lair Designs Etsy Store  - Another location to get hold of our range of digital downloads
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Midway Point at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge for April "Anything Goes"

Anything Goes?  Yes, not much easier than that, right?  And you still have until the 25th to get those makes in for a chance at some shopping fun at Lost Coast Designs, so get up ...right after you take a peek at this...and head for the linky HERE :)

I am in love with something else.  These little mini grunge fold up books.  They measure 2 x 2 and seem impossible to do what they do but they work with very little effort.  I used Distress Inks and crumpled and wet and inked, then repeated.  The covers are cardboard :) squares covered with the paper then stamped to make sure the image is in the right place but I waited until I had put it all together to stamp my front so it fits the grunge title very well!

Stamped with Winged Skeleton from Carmen's Veranda 

Picado Skull, White Nose Sugar Skull, and Day of the Dead Headdress Lady from Lost Coast Designs

Cracked Tree and Crows Border from Lost Coast Designs 

Hope you give one of these a try!  They are super fun and you can look on Youtube under "mini grunge book" and it will tell you how to do it :)

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Some Newt on the Blog!

Surprise!  The missing sentiment for my frog card appeared today!  So on with the show for the "J is for Joke" theme at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers if it hasn't close, OH NO!

Stamps were on a super sale at Michael's and I tossed the packaging when putting them in my album, yikes again!  Sentiment is VivalasvegaStamps! and is a shifty little thing :)

Entering in The Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers J is for Joke

ATC'S for Fun

The sisters over at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers are the last few days of the theme "J is for Joke".  I had my whole card made when the sentiment stamp ran away....dismay!  But I had in the wings, a couple of stamps for two ATCs (would have liked to have made three but wasn't pushing my luck!) so that is how these came into being.

I don't know if CAS ATCs exist but if not now they do :)  I stamped with rubber from VivalasvegaStamps! from a pound o' rubber grab bag and colored with Spectrum Noir markers.  A little red Distress Ink edging and done.  Not my frog make but hopefully when the sentiment comes home he will fit a challenge at the Sisterhood!  

If you haven't checked them out you should because they will make you smile and feel good for a bit even if you are a Snark :)

Entering in The Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers Challenge theme "J is for Joke"

Color Crazy Time with Whimsy

At the Anything But Cute Mixed Media Challenge for March the theme is "Crazy for Colour" (notice my spelling...believe me it is right to spell it this way where I live :) and I wanted a chance to finger paint with some new Dylusions paints!  Such yummy, scrumptious colors, indeed!  I made a journal page using one of my girls I drew months ago that I found "a" sketch pad as I was tearing a sheet of paper out to start.  Good timing.  She is whimsical but not happy so in my book not cute.  The wording got lost in the blue but that kind of fits the theme of this page, too.

I also wanted to play at Art Journal Journey where the theme is "If You Go into the Woods" so I added the blue Distress ink gauze rolled flowers as she is lost in a sort of dark Wonderland that is somehow affected by the O's and 1's of the binary "woods".  A place that I quiet often get lost in much easier I think than I would in a real forest!
 

I would like to enter this in the following challenge:

 

HERE 

And at Art Journal Journey "If You Go into the Woods"  (gauze flowers and dark Wonderland themed page to fit the challenge theme)

ATC Around the World Challenge

The challenge at ATC Around the World  is:

 

# 15 Everything goes with option use a stamp
Anything goes opt. Use Letter Stamp

 

It is my first time playing here and I used a stamp with letters on it from Lost Coast Designs.  It is a tarot card stamp "Diva of Midnight Summer Dreams" and it is a new release.  I had to trim it down to ATC size but I am happy with it.

 

 

 Thanks for stopping in and having a look at her!  I am entering her in:

ATC Around the World Challenge #15

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers L is for Legend

The mere sight of the man brings that song to you head playing over and over again.  See a bunch of birds and you might just duck for cover!  A hotel on a hill?  Not me!  Yes, the man, the legend, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock of television and movie fame and the stuff nightmares are born of!  I have thrown almost all of my stamps at this one, each time thinking that is enough then seeing another and popping it down, too.

Alfred is a Carmen's Veranda stamp aptly named "Alfred Hitchcock Standing" and his shrine is also from Carmen's Veranda and is the "Large Skeleton Shrine".  The various skulls, bones, birds, and splotches (could they be blood?) are from various stamp sets from Michael's all recently put on sale to my great fortune :)  Hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane if you are old enough if not get Netflixs and catch up!

 I am entering this at the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers L is for Legend

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers DT

I always troll by the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers to see the theme and say I must play only to get behind and not do it.  Imagine my surprise today when not only was the new theme listed, well, has been for a bit! but also a call to ask to join the sisterhood!  OMG!  Stamping with an attitude all the time?  Could this be a real thing?  After pinching myself black and blue, I got busy with my card to lay at the feet of the Sisterhood.  Without further dudes, I mean adieu, here it is.

Yes, that about sums it up.  Keep up the grand work Sisters!  The world needs a break from all of the seriousness and some snark is needed in the right places! 

Star Wars!

Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge is ...wait for it....STAR WARS!  I had to play this one even ran to Etsy by ran I mean typed and clicked to get something, anything Star Wars.  Seriously, I was going to get all artsy and have a play with the theme but come on, it is Star Wars, need I add anything else to that?  So here it is with all the Force I could muster!

Thanks to the Etsy seller who I have forgotten their name!  It is a combination of images from a downloadable sheet inked and then some Salty Ocean stars out there in the Galaxy!  I am obviously entering this at Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge theme "Star Wars" :)

It's Time to Bloom More Flora and Fluffies at Lost Coast Designs!

We all know there is someone watching their watch to tell the tulips to rise and shine it's spring time and who else?  The white rabbit of course!  He is always keeping an eye on the clock and who better to keep the flowers in line for their big show stopping event?  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda have some awesome Alice stamps and I used another one from the "Rabbit, Cat Face, Hatter, and Rabbit with Watch" along with an awesome new release of a 5 inch tall "Tulip".  I used them to copy our fearless leader Leigh just a bit (well, more than a bit LOL) and made a cut away card.

Along with a fabulous embossing folder gifted me at Christmas I added some Gelato blue metallic on the "Spray Webbing" background stamp also a new release. The little bunny in the corner is mine from way back when and he wanted a bit of the spotlight, too!

You have until April 3rd to link up your bunnies and/or flowers at the Portal HERE.  Please read the info and rules while you are there :) and your make has to have a rubber stamped image on it, cause that is what we do LOL!

As always, come join us at the Portal and our Facebook pages and LIKE us and play along!  We have challenges every month and lots of extras you can keep up with on the Portal.  All linkys are below to take you to the fun!

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Lost Coast Designs

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                                                                     here!

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 Entering The Artistic Stamper "Spring Time"

Eclectic Ellapu March Challenge Purple Team

Flora and Fluffy Tails Event at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

I just love Alice in Wonderland as you may know so when the subject of those chocolate bunnies and fluffy bunnies came up I was all for the White Rabbit to herald in the Easter season or Spring or whatever you fancy him to herald in!  I love the simplicity of the wonderful stamps at Lost Coast Designs they take me right back to my books as a child.  So onto some pages from a foreign language book retrieved from the dump at the 2nd hand book store I stamped him and put him in a fancy frame that he deserves along with the word "Sweet" from the Misc. Words set also from Lost Coast Designs.  If you indulge yourself with anything this month get that set!  It is so versatile I use it almost every time I stamp! The White Rabbit I have comes in a set called "Rabbit, Cat Face, Hatter, and Rabbit with Watch"

 

Come join in the fun and check out all of our fun sites below with the linkys!  And play in our challenges there is always one going on so play and win!

You have until April 3rd to link up your bunnies and/or flowers at the Portal HERE.  Please read the info and rules while you are there :) and your make has to have a rubber stamped image on it, cause that is what we do LOL!

 Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

Lost Coast Designs

Carmen's Veranda

   Like our Facebook pages and enter our challenges there :)

here

and 

here!

AND our brand new Fan Page LIKE us and join us in the fun!