Can you find the CAT???

This month on Altered Alice we have the honor of having Dilly Beans as our sponsor...  So you will see some really cute digital images here... 

 Before I show you the finished page, I am going to walk you thru the process...as I get so many questions about how I built a particular page etc.. so here are the facts... 
I started off with my favorite paper of all times... white CARD Stock!!!   nd I stamped some rubber stamps that I had made... I use so many leaves in my art, that these are amoug my fav's...  some archival Olive ink.. and that was done... then I used some Twinking H20's and colored the background...  I love this kind of look...  It is muted but great for the background of this active colorful page... 

Here is a close up of the leaves 

I also used a stencil with a gold dabber to create the branches...  

Sorry I didn't take a picture prior to adding all the other things...   

I have just gotten bitten by the Zen Tangle bug... and can't seem to stop doing everything in Tangles... LOL.. but I love it... so I had to add something to this challenge that I did in a tangle...  so here is my tree...  the 'snake' looking things are really suppose to be roots of the tree... oh well... I get carried away a little bit...  

I did this with a micron pen and then added color pencil to it.. . and then cut it out for this journal page... as I needed the separated limbs for something....   

Here is a close up of the branch... so that you can see all the little circles, and the leaves...  

Also the limbs... which are all done in the same pen and colored pencil.   

I love the tangles in this tree.. I had so very much fun with it all... 

Here is the top of the page , which is all tissue paper that I have dyed with Dylusions... love those sprays...  the colors are so very vibrant...  anyway.. .when the papers are dry, I glue them onto the page... and allow them to go where they want too... 

Okay...  so I created what is better known as a wiper card...  you can find the directions here... on SplitCoast Stampers... It is very easy to make... so I created that and attached it to my page... the reason for that is because I wanted to hide the little cat!!! 

This is  the completed page... but you haven't seen it all yet... The Queen of Hearts and Alice are on their way to play croquet and they are walking to the palace... and Alice kept on feeling like someone was following them... and low and behold... guess who it was???

Here is a close up of Alice and the Red Queen of Hearts... how precious are they???? 

Well there he is.... in postion that you always see this crazy cat... peeking out from behind a tree... LOL...  he is so funny...  I love him.... 

Here is a close up of the little one... peeking out of the tree branches...  I had a lot of fun making this page... and after I finished it, my neighbor and friend Sande came over to play for  a little while... and she fell in love with it... she is an Alice lover too... so she can really appreciate it... she kept on making the cat hide and then come out.. we are truly like two little kids playing!!!  And I love it all.. 

Well... that is the first project.. let me see if I can get this next one up... 

If you have forgotten the name of this particular blog is 

'Can you find the cat?'  

Well can you..??? 

You have to look into all the little cubbies of this configuration box... and maybe you will see him... 

Look carefully now!!!! He truly is hiding!!!  

On the very top of the configuration box, I had to add a Wonderland special... as things in Wonderland are never quite normal... or should I say that they are never quite the same as on this plane of living!!!  So I added a box that was a little bit unlevel!!!!  And put a dragonfly and a mushroom ...  the catterpillar has already turned into the beautiful butterfly... as you can see... 

I took one of those gold butterflies and colored it with alcohol ink and then decorated it with Liquid Pearls...  

A close up is below...   

You can see the Blue and orange mushroom here... a good shot of the two mushrooms... which I made from air drying clay.. and then painted with my Ranger Alcohol ink refillable pens... which I love... I can make my own colors... which I do...  what fun!!! 

A Wonderland configuration box is not complete with out a tea party... but there is no cat in any of these boxes at all..  I colored the little tea party and then added the little brass cup and saucer and tea pot...

My neighbor Sande and I were building these together... she was using the smaller one... but I had already started to make this one... but we were having fun making them..  She has these really cute little tags that she had picked up... and that is where I got this cute little tea pot tag... Thanks Sande...   Nest to that on the left... are the flowers with faces... the talking flowers.. see I told you that nothing in Wonderland is 'normal'!!! 

No cat there either!!!! 

Well here is Sweet little Alice... with the Drink me bottle behind her... and also the key is hanging up too...  but I don't see a cat.... do you???

This little bone china tea set, I bought about 25 years ago... and didn't know why... but I thought it was cute... only a few inches tall... and so cute... so I knew that it had to go into my Alice STUFF... and so here it is... I love it...   It was not made in China... it was made in Japan!!! 

The Queen of Hearts sees that one of her roses is WHITE???? 

What is going on here!!!  But this cute little Queen doesn't seem the least bit upset over that... 

As you can see here... but do you see the cat...??? 

I wonder where it is??? 

I wanted to add more things to this box... but I dont' have any right now... but as time goes on I will add more things to this... But I did add this pretty alcohol paper to this cubby...  no cat here either.. so where is that silly cat hiding now???  you never can tell when he will appear at all... what a fun place this Wonderland is!!! 

Oh Wow... there is he...  all of a sudden he was there..!!!  Well I will be!!! 

Hiding there all the time... I told you he was a crazy one... but how cute is he... 

Well as you can see... I think that they little Dilly Beans are so very much fun...  I know that you will want to have them for your collection of ALICE things... so jump on over here and get them... 

Okay... while I was building my configuration box, my good friend and neighbor Sande had to do hers too... she is the one that got me all involved in Altered Alice...  so I felt it was only fair that I show you her's too... It is so cute...  

Well My charming dial up is at an all time low of 16kbps... very very slow.. but I am getting these pictures up.. but can't move them around or anything!!!  But you at least get to see them... right??? 

 Sande used a piece of plastic and stamped the Queen on it... and then put the white and red roses behind it...  

Anyway...  Can you see the cat in Sande's box...  no one can... because it is not in there yet...  so cute...  the tea cups are all weird... because it is Wonderland...   So wild...  

Hope you enjoy this challenge.... I did... and I love these adorable Alice in Wonderland digital images  ... 

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and have a wonderful day in WONDERLAND!!!  It is a glorious place to play and live... 

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie 



Angel in the Gems

 I wanted to alter a little tin and so I grabbed my Alcohol inks and did so... and then I added a few things... 


I love the look...  


Using some of the metallic ink it really brought them all together...  a few gem stones.. of course they are genuine!!! What ever do you mean...  
LOL... and a few brass corners...  that I used some metallic inks on too...  

Have a wonderfully sweet day and enjoy playing and creating to your hearts content...  

Thanks for stopping by for a visit... and hope to see you again soon...  

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie  

Backgrounds ...YIKES what FUN !

 I had so very much fun with these pages... I hope that you enjoy them too...  I have taken pictures of the process... as the Challenge for Simon Says Stamp and Show is to do our own background...  YIKES... not a problem... get the old journal out... LOL... and start to work on another section...  
I did one yesterday for Altered Alice too... take a look at it if you would like to...  I love making pages for my journal...  and there are certain things that will make it the place to work for the day..  This one was background... I love to do backgrounds of different kinds... and knew that today would be a fun one...  The pictures that follow are the process of many layers of stenciling, spritzing, using liquid pearls for accent... adding flowers I had drawn and cut out and then painted with perfect pearls... (love those misters of that stuff... )  and also just having FUN!!!  That is the biggest part of the process... making a mess and having fun.  

First page is above... LOL...

 The right side of the pages is blues and greens...   This is not a picture of the completed page... sorry I forgot to take it... but you can see the processes below... and put it together in your mind... LOL.. hopefully anyway.. 

Spraying and smearing of paper 

 When I start a page, I smear, spray, spritz, mist the paper with all kinds of colors until I have the desired color... 

 Then I start to add things...  like more layers of color...  Here you can see that I added the dragonfly... which is a stencil that I have used on blouses etc...  I love it... a very old and expensive stencil... but well worth the $
I hope you can see the white leaves...  in spring the leaves come to LIFE... and go from a ghostly stage to VIBRANT greens... which is on the other side of the pages.. . 

 Also the Hand is for PLANTING... which is something that we are doing every day now... today it is root day... which means everything that is a root plant... like a radish, turnip, sweet potato, daikons (chinese radish.. long white thing... delicious... good for cleaning out the liver... yummmmm )  Okay... back to the page...  I also used one of Dyan's Stencils... and create the elongated checkers... love it...  used my Distress ink pads with a blending tool and foam... love that the best.. I have full control over that kind of a thing... when I don't need control of the color... I SPRAY!!!!  And mist...  and let the colors rip!!! 

 Up in the upper left corner I had to put some 'paper' flowers... as Sunday Stamper challenge is to make paper flowers...  So Hels.. I used a baby wipe that i had sprayed with some new Dylusion spray... love the boldness of those colors .... especially for my journal... I am a vivid person in so many ways... 

 So this was a perfect color for these flowers for a couple of reasons... the violets are blooming all over our farm... and it is so very pretty... the pastures are loaded... and so is the back yard... so very pretty...   You can really see the white leaves in this picture... I love the depth that the different colors makes when you stencil... so very different than stamping... lovely. 

 The name of this section in my journal is the COLORS of SPRING... as every color is on here... even yellow.. in the center of the daisies I drew.. I also misted them with Perfect pearls... so very pretty...  


Around the harlequin stencil I have used some of the newest colors... Avocado, and a pink??? don't know the name.. but so very pretty...  This area started out to be a tag, but I didn't like it... so it went into the bin of 'discards' to be used to try other things on... and it finally was used to try the harlequin stencil... and finally it made it to being used... I try and waste nothing in the studio... things are too expensive to toss out...   The letters are from K & Co... and what fun they are to get out of the box and use!!!  They are magnetic like... and cling to the plastic... but I love the look... so I will use them again.. 

 I know this is going to be a long blog... but I have a lot to share... so if you don't want to read... just look... this is where the papers join... as you can see.. I also stamped some words... I love that kind of thing on a background... don't you??? 

 Okay... now over to the right hand side of the pages... on this area, you can see the layers... 
Smearing and spritzing first... then a dark navy used on a stencil... and then stamped with white dabber...then misted with perfect pearls... love it... yikes... what fun is this...

 I had to add a charm... a little dragonfly backed in silver and tied up with a piece of seam binding... my hands are totally destroyed as of now... I don't think you can see any of the original color of my skin at all.. I am a massive MESS... and I love it... I think it is on my face too... dont' want to look right now... 


Okay... my blog just decided that is was not going to let me go down next to this last picture...  so you will have to look down later..   I added another hand... the hand with the eye... (a stencil) and used my black distress ink pad... and the flower was done the same as the other one...  


The leaves are VIBRANT for the spring GROWTH... and all the green GRASSes.. so very pretty...  Everything is ALIVE... I also put a little tiny bird nesting... as they are doing that all over the place... even in an old hat in my garage...  I think I had better shoo them out... an the netting is going up this week-end... so they will not be able to come and go as needed..  


Well hope you enjoyed this...  I had a blast making it... and it will be in my journal for me to see all time...  Colors of Spring... it will be nice to visit this page in the middle of Winter...  


Hope you have a nice day... thanks for stopping by for a visit... and see you later.. I have another page to share with you too..  the last page of this journal...  another one bites the dust...  such fun...
Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie 

My Wish for YOU

My Wish for you is that you have the very best of Christmases ever and enjoy each second of the day...    

Merry Christmas

Love, Light and Peace….Bonnie 

Know Love

Merry Christmas

Love, Light and Peace….Bonnie 

Girl in Red

Merry Christmas

Love, Light and Peace….Bonnie 

Reindeer Joy

Another Tag for Tim's 12 tags of Christmas... Loved making these tags with the charms... 

This one I make a tag type of thing at the bottom...  

I used a Just Right stamp to create the Joy area...  

 The background of the tag was made with Impression Obsession stamps... 

Here is the bottom area... I made the paper behind the Just Rite Tag with Impression Obsession 6x6 stamps... love playing with them...  so very much fun... have you tried them yet???  

I have had friends stop in off and on all day long today... and have totally enjoyed my day... 

Have one more tag to finish... and then going to enjoy a nice dinner that my Hubby is making for me... 

One more tag to go.... 

 

This tag also appears on Inspiration Emporium… so please take a few minutes and check out all the WONDERFUL tags there… they look so different and I personally think there are some there that are not on Tim’s … but check it out…

Thanks Shelly for telling me about this site… I love it… will be going there often…  that is for sure… my kind of site…

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie  

Steampunk Love Letters

 When people get older, they think of different things than the younger set does... so yesterday my mother was talking about Pearl Harbor day.... she remembers it only too well... and we got to talking about the love letters that she has from my Dad... I asked her to send them to me for a Christmas present...  as I would love to have them... So along with these feelings... Tim makes a Steampunk tag today... so of course I had to drag out all the steampunk stuff... and my feelings sort of got jammed all together.. so this is what happened...  


I did use a really nice stamp... LETTERS ... and using the white dabber I created the base for my art tag.... then I stamped my girl from an advertisement...and cut her out very carefully...   and also the tag in the lower left corner... inked and distressed them both...


I took some lace and put some green seam binding thru it... and then started to work on a few other items... like the small mannequin in the upper right corner... I cut that... from a Tim Die cut... and then roughted up the edges... and added a vintage label to it... and a little distress inks...  just enough left on the pads to do enough damage... LOL  

 Note:  When I start to take pictures... I generally use a black mat board... but today when I started to work on the photos I felt they were a little too dark... so I took another set of pictures with the crocheted cloth my great aunt made over 70 years ago... I guess that is a little vintage????  right??? 


Anyway... that is why I have a couple of pictures that are sort of the same... I wanted you to see the difference... 

Okay... so I had to take a closeup of this pretty flower... I love it... it is from Tim's idea-ology collection... and it is from the foliage set...  I used some Raisin Alcohol inks on it... and then added the leaves... which I used a couple of greens on... I think it was citrus and oregano... ???  anyway... I also bent the petals and made into a Christmas Poinsettia flower... in all metal...  love it... it nips at the waist... and with the touch of lace  I just love it... WOW...

 I took a piece of film and melted the center for the top of the tag... and also created a nice pin to hold the light bulb.... 

My letters were colored in Brushed sage... which is one of the colors I used in the background... the other color... what else... Victorian Velvet.... I had to use that ... it is my favorite color ...I used my glossy accents over the letters to give a very nice finished look.    I had just received a bunch of silver wings... so I grabbed a couple and added them to this sweetheart... who is an angel in many ways... 

 I also added a label and bead to a vial for the bottom charm...  a little wire and it was a charm... 


The rusted star... was sanded and some raisin alcohol ink added... and the pin... well love safety pins... so I added a little spool  with some quilting thread and called it even... 


The pen nib is for my Dad who wrote all those love letters to me Mom... I had just been born... and he was missing us both...  Love you Dad... (passed in 2000)  


So that is my tag for the day... but I do not stop there... OH NO....

 I wanted to share with you some of the watches that I have created... I am unable to watch Tim's Video, (dial up does limit me somewhat as to what I see.... so hopefully I will be able to see it some time soon..)  


This one I added some tiny white paper flowers to... and also a tiny dragonfly charm.... which I did color again with my alcohol inks... 

 I think my grandson will get a kick out of this one... 
His name is in there...  along with a little gingerbread boy... and some jingle bells...  
and of course all the snow...

Have to keep on going... a watch for 
COOKIE WATCH... .do you remember when you were a kid and your mom would bake all those wonderful cookies for the holidays... well this is a memory for me... I also kept it going with our kids... use to make 30 different kinds of cookies and give platters to neighbors and friends...  of course the kids had to try them all out to make sure they were okay for giving away.. LOL... Our daughter still says that when she tries something... so funny how some things stick...  So I guess you could say I love making these too.. I have made a couple more... and love making them...  putting them into Configuration boxes is a must too... try one... they are addictive... so buy a couple...  
 

This tag also appears on Inspiration Emporium… so please take a few minutes and check out all the WONDERFUL tags there… they look so different and I personally think there are some there that are not on Tim’s … but check it out…

Thanks Shelly for telling me about this site… I love it… will be going there often…  that is for sure… my kind of site…

Hope that you have a wonderful day... stay busy and out of trouble... and be creative... it is sunny and nice in Western North Carolina today... have to go out and sit for a while... enjoy the weather... 

Thanks for stopping by ... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie