A Little Late, but in the Mix

I almost messed up my record of not having missed a Bloggers Challenge since I started playing about 2 years ago. I'm late, but I did make it. The current challenge is Frosty and Friends. I think I may have waited too long to post since Frosty seems to have melted. All of the stamps except the hat/birds are from Kitchen Sink Stamps. The hat and birds are from Stampendous. As soon as I saw the hat stamp I had to have it. It reminded me of the Mad Hatter (and you know I'm an Alice in Wonderland addict).

CHAPTER 10: A Lewis Christmas Carroll to All! Week 2

(Warning--very long post, but hopefully worth your time)Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from The Altered Alice! This month the design team brings you their holiday wishes, and we invite you to send your holiday greetings to The Altered Alice. You have until Friday, Dec. 23 to enter. The winner post will either be a little early or late, as the last Sunday of the month falls on Christmas day!

Our prize this month is a $40.00 gift certificate to Custom Crops, the premier online retailer for crafters of all kinds. From Accuquilt to Zva Creative, adhesives to vinyl and everything in between, Custom Crops offers a huge selection of the products you've been looking for at competive prices with fast, friendly customer service. To celebrate the season, we bring you The Lewis Carroll Memorial Window at Daniell Chapel in England. Notice the left panel where Lewis Carroll and Alice kneel to pay homage to the newly born Christ in this wonderful Nativity scene!

The window was designed by the stained glass artist Geoffrey Webb, a must-see for anyone that loves Wonderland. A wonderful Christmas poem by Lewis Carroll is shown in the center three bottom panels, which include characters from Wonderland - the White Rabbit, Dodo, the Caterpillar, Mad Hatter, and more! Our own design team member Sue Roddis visited this chapel and gave us permission to show her close-up photos here,

We look forward to seeing your holiday greetings, so send us a Christmas Card! If it features Wonderland, you will have two chances at the randomly awarded prize instead of one. Multiple entries are fine, but each must be on a separate post.

Now for my inspiration:

I thought that I would help to celebrate the holidays Alice style with ornaments for the tree. I decorated each of four ornaments front and back with images from Alice in Wonderland. I stamped each image with archival ink and set them with Workable Fixativ. I painted each of the images using Creative Inspirations Paints which gives the image a nice shimmer. Finally, I used my gold dabber (Adirondack) along the sides to give the antiqued look. Happy Holidays to all.
Stamp credits: Stocking left - TJ Designs right - Stamp Attack; Diamonds both - Artistic Outpost; Snowmen both TJ Designs; Stars both - Oxford Impressions.

12 Tags of Christmas -- Day Eight

Tag 8 from Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas was a bit unusual, but a lot of fun. It's a steampunk Christmas tag. There's nothing like a gear Christmas wreath to bring out the holiday cheer. Even the steampunk guys got into the spirit with holly on their hats. Yep, Tim does have a very creative mind.

12 Tags of Christmas -- Day Seven

Tag seven of Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas is beautiful and elegant. The glassine holly leaves really look fabulous and the stamps from a joyful song stamp set are so beautiful. The background technique with the ghost stamping is a great one to remember.

12 Tags of Christmas -- Day Six

Finally getting a chance to load my Tag 6 from yesterday's Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas. The technique was painting on embossed metal and distressing.. I had to make a few alterations. I didn't have the texture fade and for the most part my dabbers don't work. I wanted to stick to Ranger products, so I used liquid pearls painted on the areas. At first I thought that I had made a big mistake and would have to find another paint. However, after sanding, distress inking and embossing, the tag looked pretty cool. Oh, by the way, Tim's punch was amazing. It punched a hole in the metal wreath like it was paper.

12 Tags of Christmas -- Day Five

Today's Tim Tag put together alcohol inks and his holiday reflections stamps. It's a cool technique, but I need to practice it a little more. IRL you can read the words somewhat. I think I was afraid to rub too much or my ink wasn't inky enough. Well, practice makes perfect. Using the branches from the regal crest dies was great for creating the wreath. Again I'm entering my tag on the Inspiration Emporium challenge blog.

Non-traditional Christmas Card

Purple and teal are great Christmas colors, don't you think? The current challenge on the Stampotique Designers Blog is to create a non-traditional Christmas project. We couldn't use red or green. My colors came about because I received a package taped with the snowflake packing tap. I just had to use it somewhere. I just coordinated my colors with the tape. No red or green!