Oh Alice I must be crazy!

Ok SO I know I am not the only one out there that is SUPER excited about the new Alice in Wonderland Film coming out in March How do I know this... A whole new Challenge group started all inspired by Alice in wonderland!!!! The Group is called Oh Alice... their premier Challenge was an inspiration challenge, Alice gets Glam inspiration challenge inspired by this fab makeup set by urban decay!

Well I must be MAD as a Hatter because I went crazy with this one! I not only was inspired by the compact I decided to do something I have never done before for the Anyone for Anya challenge group as well.... I made a pop up scene just like the make up box!!! Oh my goodness I must have been nuts!!! not only did I do a pop up which I had never done before, I used my brand new pink cricut expression!!! I used my tinkerbell cart for the 1st time ever!!! and the whole time I have had my wonderland TGF stamp set I still to this day have never made anything with it, so there were many upon many a firsts in this project!!! and to go with the oh alice challenge there is a lot of bling and glam!

so wanna see my insanity!?!?1 ok lets get started just scroll down...

the drawer fits A2 sized cards and envelopes but because of how intense this was to do I have not had time to create cards to go in it but that is the intent of this, not a makeup gift set, but a card gift set!

The ribbons can be tucked away inside the drawer when on display even the back one because it goes through an eyelet in the back so it can disappear and make a great display piece

when you open it you see my interpretation of a mirror with silver glitter card stock and then a clear cello layer with black polka dots popped off of it and topped with a frame, the butterfly's well they are there because the caterpillar did turn into a butterfly right?!?! plus she is in a garden of sorts

the next layer to pop up are these fab flowers, these were difficult because they not only had to fold down but also in as not to be seen when the lid is closed

then pops up some bushes that match the trees in grey tones...very Tim Burton, and of course the mad hatter pops up as well

close up of the hatter and his bling, even made him have makeup like Johnny Depp's character

then Alice the mushrooms and the white rabbit can all come up!

Alice is all blinged up on her stone path surrounded by mushrooms

and yep the white rabbit is blinged out too

oh if you noticed some of the 1st pics have the rabbit back further yep...I didn't like it there so I moved him forward you se eteh final position in these last few pics!

Well thank you all for stopping in and seeing my madness! lol hope you enjoyed it! and I hope you'll stop on by the Oh Alice Challenge blog, and the Anyone for Anya Challenge blog

Anya Challenges!!!

with not crafting in so long it's hard to get my juices back going so I thought I would try a few challenges to help get me back in gear SO this I combined 2 challenges both from the greeting farm!

The Greeting Farm - Farm Fresh Color Challenge

Club Anya Sketch Challenge

I got to use one of my newest stamps!!! I am so super excited about these new pin up stamps!!!I hope they do more in this line, I'll buy every single one! I didn't have guava but I found some similar card stocks, and well I don't have many...well any accept on western sentiments but the one I had thought was so stinkin' cute especially for a pin up style image!

My 1st Anya Ink Challenge

I have never participated in the Anya Ink Challenges but have wanted to for a while SO I finally did! I used my new Anya stamps! I love love love these pin up images! I am a huge pin up girl! love em! And over at Anya Ink the challenge is a color challenge using blue grey and cream! I had just the paper for it! My Creative memories wishes and dreams papers!!! all I did was tame my cream prismacolor parker to color in the white and make it cream. I used the wishes and dreams star punch, and the wishes and dream card kit for the pop out die cuts and the sentiment on the 1st card

on this card I used the same supplies and marker on the paper, but I used a verve stamp for the sentiment

Catching up on a few things

...again! lol well it has been an interesting beginning of a new year!

from getting sick, starting a new part time job, SSD has been booming! and getting bit by a stray dog and loosing the sue of my right hand for 2 weeks

I haven't had a lot of time to craft but I have squeezed in a few small projects lately so I had a few mins so I thought Id spend them catching ya'all up on what I have been up to.

So in Jan my sister asked me for 3 baby shower cards for a group baby shower at her work, She needed a card for a mommy with a boy, a daddy having a girl and a daddy having a boy, so I made this 1st one for the mommy who was having a boy these cards were made dull size so the whole team could sign them

this next one was made for a daddy having a lil girl

and this one for the daddy having the boy

I created this card using one of the SSD image I created, I did this card for v-day and for the release which was Feb 1st ( a bit behind schedule like I said)

Also during CHA The Greeting Farm was having a relay contest and I was playing along. this was the 1st image they gave away, Merian I was super excited about this one! I think it turned out ok

This was teh 2nd image in the relay since v-day was around the corner and I had just gotten this new paper I had to use pink and chocolate!

We also had a Pink red and white challenge over at SSD a few weeks ago and I wanted to play along so I did a quick card using th eoff with your head image we had just released over at SSD

This was the 3rd image in the TGF relay, I have to admit I am not a fan of the critter crew images over there, I am partial to the anya and ians but i think this turned out pretty good? I wanted to make it baby but funky so I used my SU rockabilly papers...love them!

and just before V-day I did a few more cards featuring some TGF images, this one I used dressy Edward and Joyce, and to go with a twighlight inspired idea...the sent says forever

And I had bought flutter Anya so long ago and never used her, and this turned out soooo nice! It's hard to see but there is a lot of wonderful layering on her.

It's a Club Anya Holiday Blog Hop!

So I LOVE The Greeting Farm! and especially Club Anya because Anya and Ian are my favs! especially Miss Anya and My Guy Ians!!! and I am soooooooooooooo excited for tonight! and the release scheduled for tomorrow! As I am sure many of you are who are stopping in on my blog today he hee he... SO I havent had a lot of time to craft lately but I have made sure when I did I was saving up projects for tonight!!! there were more I wanted to do but sadly didnt get to finish =( But it's ok I'll show you what I have for now!

So for starters... I am a part of a cookie exchange with some of my family and freinds this year though I have not baked my cookies yet (want them to be fresh) I did want to make cards to go with each tray. There are 12 of us participating this year so I needed 12 cards... about a week ago or so on the CA blog someone showed us how she colored her images and photocopied them to make things faster....well I combined 2 TGF digis (I cropped out the gift from the birthday ian one and placed it on the Odette image) I then colored it all in Photoshop and printed out 12 copies at the size I needed! I was so excited because it went sooooooo much fast being able to print them instead of coloring 12 of each (of course I prefer to color when I have the time to do so but since I didnt it was a great alternative!)

This is what she looked like when printed

the card is created with a combination of TGF papers and SU papers, and the sentiment was by SU as well and the flowers were primas

Here are all 12 cards lined up together.... I didnt finish the insides yet but they will each include a recipe card inside for the cookies I am making

So next up.... I love the xmas sweeties set from TGF love love love them!!!! I am trying to make all my christmas cards with them.....for starters I am trying to make them all different but as it seems I might be running out of time I might be resulting to the photocopy option he hee but for now ....here are a few I have done so far

So teh last project I have to show off for now I did just for today!!!

Now before I show you, I want o give credit where credit is due.... Joni Did a whole series of these fabulous magazine houses and totally inspired me to do some of my own. I had a few left in my stash to play with, but I am a fairy tale kinda girl and did wizard of oz, peter pan and little red riding hood, and well I'm still waiting for further tgf fairytale images so I hadnt done any more houses =( since the 1st 3...well I decided I could do a special one just for christmas (hubby likes to have magazines in the bathroom ....wierd to me....but since thats where he likes to keep them I figured I could make seasonal ones to keep them in and hide them that will decorate teh guest bathroom as well ... when I started I thought of Gingerbread house but well as it progressed it is just a christmasy kinda house but I still love it!

So anyways like I said I wanted to give credit where it was due....this project was inspired by Joni's orginal idea but I made it my own

So we have lil santa Ian popping out teh Chimney and his sleigh waiting on the roof for him with many more houses to visit..... As Santa Ian was placing the presents under the Tree Mrs Claus Anya was ouside giving teh outside a lil something special as well!

Yes this house is in a Christmas candycane forest lol

yep those are lil lights dangling under the ice crystals and peppermint candies hanging from the bow

more peppermint candies and candycanes adorn the house along with the lights and a wreath hangs on the front door

and yep Mrs Clau Anya is all Fabulous in her Bling!

SO if you wanna join in the hop and get all the other stops head back over to the Club Anya Blog for the rest of the list

Have a Happy Hop!

Lindsay

SO I don't think I mentioned it last post but last weekend I was out of town. I went with my church's confirmation program to chaperone and lead groups etc it was so much fun! (I love workin gwith the youth! and my hubby was part of it too and that makes it 100 times better when the one you love supports you and does this things with you!) we were in the mountains and there had been snow before we got there and it was beautiful!!! ICY lol everyone was slipping a lot, but when it came time for free time and they got to sled it was wonderful. Chris and I got to a group together and we had a small group of 4 young men and I couldnt have asked for a better group! I mean for teenaged boys that is lol they were kinda quiet in the beging but grew and opened up as we went along and though they tried to fight some rules from tim eto time overall they were a great group of boys they were just trying to be "cool" ya know how that is lol so anyways last weekend was wonderful!!!

This week has been total chaos!!! lol trying to unpack and do laundry etc from the trip....starting to pack (we are finally buying a house!!!! and hoping it to close mid jan!!!!) so since the holidays make it hard to have time to pack and move I figured I better start early! lol so I am trying to start packing things we dont need this next month like the crystal and china and book shelves etc.... also I am painting glasses for a friend for her bridesmaids gifts I need to complete by jan...I am doing 2 custom shadow boxes I was comissioned to do that I want to have done before christmas....I was just asked to sew 6-8 costumes for the church for thier philipino group my friend who is getting married her mom needs her mother of teh bride dress hemmed and her sister needs her briedsmaids dress hemmed and a lining added....I have a family and friend cookie exchange i have to start baking for next week lol ....and last weekend I was asked to do some cuts on my cricut for this weekends retreat so i have to cut out 75 suns!!! seems simple enough but its 4 layers of piecing!!!! times by 75!!! and 2 of the pieces only fit 1 per sheet and the others only fit 2 per sheet so it takes forever!!!! I literally sat all day today just cutting and gluing suns and writing all the kids names on them and I still have about 20 more to finish cutting and gluing etc lol I must be a glutin for punishment lol....and on top of all this I am trying to make my christmas cards....plus a diff set of cards for my cookie exchange, plus change of address/moving cards for jan when we move so all our family and friends will know our new addy etc goodness goodness goodness!!! lol

but I think it will be ok, I think thrive on chaos lol

So I am hoping that with all that is going on I can try to squeeze in here and do a post from time to time because well that is a lot of creative work and so I hope to show some of it off to you all. so I thought I would start with a few cards I did a week or so ago and never got to take pics of ...also on mon the 14th I am playing in the TGF blog hop, so I will have bunches of TGF goodies to show off then!

but for now I still have lots of great stuff to show off...

when I saw this image at All that Scraps I had to have it!!!

I also go tthis one from all that scraps...these were both digi images and I love them! with this one I thought it was way too cute so I made an ornament with it it is double sided the same on both sides, and I will probably attach to a gift for someone this year or something but for now it is hanging out on my tree lol

So I decided to save any christmas projects I am doing using TGF images until the 14th, however I thought I could show off the other TGF projects I have been doing.... SO I bought teh dressy miss anya set teh day it came out lol but hardly got to play with it so I had colored this beauty and she just sat and sat waiting to be placed on a beautiful card so I went through my paper stash and found this perfect CTMH paper that matched her coloring exactly! so yay I finally made her a card!!!

This too was colored a while back and just sat ( sometimes when I am stressed or bored I like to color images and well sometimes I forget to do anything further with them)...this one I was so happy with I used colored pencil and odorless mineral spirits and I think it turned out pretty good it was one of the 1st I did using that technique the papers are CTMH and SU as well as the sticket accents

Now if you know me at all you know I bough tthese 2 the day they came out as well lol I love the miss anyas and my guy ians!!! they have to be my favs for sure!!! ok this one is winter but i made it over a week ago and HAD to show you he hee it is simple but I really love it! the ribbon is my fav! I love chocolate brown! and olive greens too!

ok I guess that is it for now! I will have more soon I promise though.... I altered some card display boxes and just have a few finishing touches and Ill post pics of those then as well so keep an eye out over the next few days to a week or so lots coming up!