Take a Word – It´s all about the Hat

At Take a Word is the theme “It´s all about the Hat”. I´ve worked with the Kit´s from Tumble Fish Studio. Here is mine, thanks for looking.

Take a Word – Angels

At Take a Word is the theme “Angels”. I´ve worked with the great Digital Kit´s from Tumble Fish Studio. I hope you like it and thanks for looking.

Three Muses – Circus

At Three Muses is the theme “Circus”. I have worked with the wonderful Freebies form Rian. Here is my work, thanks for looking.

Take a Word – Mail

At Take a word is the theme “Mail”. I´ve worked with the great images from Paper Whimsy. Here is my work, thanks for looking.

Take a Word – Turquoise

At Take a Word is the theme “Turquoise”. This is my favorite color so I must play. I play digital. I hope you like it and thanks for looking.

Chapter 11: Stripes

“At the two-yard peg she faced round, and said, ‘A pawn goes two squares in its first move, you know.
So you’ll go VERY quickly through the Third Square–by railway, I should think–and you’ll find
yourself in the Fourth Square in no time. Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and
Tweedledee–the Fifth is mostly water–the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty–But you make no
remark?’
‘I–I didn’t know I had to make one–just then,’ Alice faltered out.”
– Chapter 11, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

Here are my two ATC´s as Inspiration for you. I hope you like it.

Happy new year! When I think of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, I always think stripes and plaids. Lewis Carroll does not mention the patterns they are wearing, but so many illustrations and movies have clad them in mismatched stripes and patterns. Your challenge this month is to use STRIPES.

Jenny Doh, formerly the managing editor of the famous Stampington publications, has started an artist’s community website called CRESCENDOh. There is an online shop selling all kinds of things including charming CRESCENDOh clear stamps, including the Alice in Wonderland by Danita set that the design team is showing off. But the heart of the site is all the stories; stories by artists of all kinds, stampers, quilters, paper crafters. Each shares a tale of how art has changed their life. For some it is a joyous outlet, but for many others it has been a way to stay afloat in times of tragedy or grief.  As I thought about this challenge, the theme of STRIPES seemed appropriate. The tents of the knights of old were striped, as are circus tents. Many flags are striped and so are rugby shirts, so stripes can symbolize belonging or affiliation. Stripes are birthday wrapping paper and elegant Regency wallpaper. Stripes are the traditional garb of prisoners, and stripes are also how the marks of a whip are described. Stripes can represent so many different things, and the creative process has been many things to the people who have contributed stories to the CRESCENDOh site.

Author Jenny Doh is donating a signed copy of her latest book, Art Saves, which is not only full of eye candy but is also full of the stories of how art changes lives. ”Discover not only the HOW but also the WHY, through the stunning projects and unique stories of 20 exciting multi-media artists.” Thanks so much to Jenny for contributing such a meaningful prize to start off 2012!

Enter your project featuring stripes by Friday, Jan. 27. The winner will be announced the following Sunday. As always, entries that feature Wonderland will have two chances at the random drawing instead of one. You may enter as often as you like but each entry must be on a separate post. All posts must mention and link back to the challenge.

Klick here for the other wonderful inspiration work of “The Altered Alice”.

This was my last work for the Altered Alice Challenge. Thanks Lynne for all.

CHAPTER 9: Autumn Colors in Wonderland

“`Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.

Nobody moved. `Who cares for you?’ said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) `You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’

At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face.”

– Chapter 12, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

I wonder if the Wonderland story took place in the Fall of the year? Autumn has arrived in the northern hemisphere. Just as Alice recognized the court characters as playing cards, the trees are losing their cloak of green chlorophyll and showing their true colors of gold, burgundy, scarlet, chartreuse and orange are emerging. Your challenge is to show us a project drenched in fall colors!

Our prize this month is an A5 sized unmounted stamp set from IndigoBlu (a £13 value), or an equivalent amount of A6 stamps. IndigoBlu is a fantastic new British stamp company that makes “Quintessentially English Rubber Stamps” right there in England.

The design team will be working with these two fantastic Alice stamp sets, titled appropriately “Alice I” and “Alice II”. Most Americans don’t know what A5 and A6 mean so I’ll just tell you, these sets are really big!

I encourage you to go visit IndigoBlu.com. All stamps are on sale right now with their introductory pricing, but that won’t last forever, and the designs are all wonderful! In addition to the introductory discount, the Head Honcho Alfie says

“The Altered Alice readers can take an extra 10% OFF during the challenge; just use coupon code AlteredAlice in the voucher code box at checkout!”

Thanks Alfie!

Enter by Friday, November 25 (day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday); our randomly drawn winner and the honorable mentions will be announced on the last Sunday, November 27. Multiple entries are encouraged, but each must be on a separate post. As always, entries that feature Wonderland in some way will get two chances in the drawing instead of one.

CHAPTER 7 Challenge: Text as Nonsense

Alice didn’t dare to argue the point, but went on: `– and I thought I’d try and find my way to the top of that hill — ‘ `When you say “hill,”‘ the Queen interrupted, `I could show you hills, in comparison with which you’d call that a valley.’ `No, I shouldn’t,’ said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: `a hill can’t be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense — ‘ The Red Queen shook her head, `You may call it “nonsense” if you like,’ she said, ` but I’ve heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!’ — Chapter 2, Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Using text as pattern is a trend right now that I really love. Your challenge is to use text as nonsense – not to read but as pattern on your project! Of course you can still have words or sentiments, but we also need to see text used in a non-reading way. I have a stack of old books and dictionaries that I use for this purpose.

Our sponsor is Stamp Attack, a British company that is well known (among other things) for their fantastic Alice stamp plates which have sold to customers all over the world. In fact, Helena Bonham Carter, the actress who played the Red Queen in the Tim Burton Alice movie, purchased sets of Alice stamps from Stamp Attack, which were then delivered to the studio! Enabler alert: Stamp Attack offers speedy worldwide shipping for only £1 on unmounted stamp orders, so go on and check out their beautiful stamps!

The winner will receive a Stamp Attack gift certificate for £13.50, which is equivalent to one of the stamp plates that the design team will be using!

You have until Friday, September 23 to enter your creation and the winner and honorable mentions will be announced on the last Sunday of the month, September 25. All kinds of projects are welcome, they do not have to be “altered art” and as always, entries that feature some aspect of Wonderland are given two chances instead of one in the random prize drawing. You may enter multiple times as long as each project is on a separate post.

We are also saying goodbye to our current crop of guest designers, so please leave them some special love this month as their projects have been FABULOUS! Thanks so much ladies, you have added so much to The Altered Alice! And stay tuned, there will be some special design team announcements next month too!

Here is my Inspiration, all other work from the Design Team can you see you on Altered Alice.

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CHAPTER 6 Challenge: Painting the Roses Red!

‘A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, `Look out now, Five! Don’t go splashing paint over me like that!’
— Chapter 8, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 

The cards were painting the white roses red to avoid angering the Queen of Hearts, so your challenge is to use PAINT on your creation! Of course you can paint it RED like the design team will be doing, but you can also use other colors. You need to tell us what item was painted, what technique you used, and give us a mention and a link of course!

We are sponsored this month by Creative Inspirations [Store | Blog], makers of wonderful shimmering paint which comes in almost 60 colors, including clear iridescent Fairy Dust. They also carry hot fix Jeweled Inspirations and Metallic Inspirations; I am particularly intrigued by the latter as they look like brilliant nail heads. The Altered Alice design team will be using Garnet paint, a bright sparkling red, and I hope the Creative Inspirations design team might decide to play along! The winner of this month’s challenge will receive five colors of their choice.

Be sure to enter by 11:59 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC -4:00) on Friday, August 26. The winner and honorable mentions will be announced the last Sunday of the month on August 28.

Here is my Inspiration, all other work from the Design Team can you see you on Altered Alice.

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Sunday Postcard Art – Number One

Bei Sunday Postcard Art ist das Thema “Number One” Hier ist meine Interpretation, danke fürs schauen.

At Sunday Postcard Art is the theme “Number One”. Here is my interpretation, thanks for looking.