Digital Two for Tuesday 55 - Join the Party

Well today is the last day of the Alice in Wonderland images and to celebrate all things Alice, our guest host Julia has created 2 amazing projects.  I hope you join the celebration and create something amazing too. I have also found another amazing site with lots of digital images from antique books including Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Check it out Lenny's Alice in Wonderland Site.The images are a nice size. So if you haven't had enough Alice. This is your site.

 Here is Julia's bio in her own words.

"When I was a little girl a liked crafting and drawing/coloring a lot. I think most children like it. Then I grow up…and there was a big gap in my crafting… until September 2009 when I decided to learn how to work with Adobe Photoshop. I discovered for myself the world of digital scrap and loved to play with all kinds of brushes and textures. I also came across blogs of people which did “real scrapbooking”, and I admired it but I thought that it’s not for me… J But the little girl that still lived inside of my soul and loved crafting woke up and said that should try it! I tried… and felt in love with it! Probably it was time for me to get back to what I really am, to myself real…

So I am quite new to this world. I like scrapbooking, cardmaking, ATC, mixed media and altered art and I also like to try something new. As for styles, now I feel that I prefer vintage and shabby chic. I’ m glad that my hobby let me meet a lot of interesting and talented people.

Here is my card and set of tags. They turned out to be a kind of shabby J.

As for the card, I colored the picture with watercolor pencils, distressed them with Tattered Rose and Old Paper. Then I stitched the picture and wordings to a piece of scrap paper, added Prima flower, vintage button, punched Marta Stewart branches and 3D glitter.

On the tags I outlined watercolored pictures with 3D glitter, added wording, ribbons and bead." 

You can see more of Julia's beautiful and inspirational artwork work on her blog Astra-Scrap.

Madhatter Monday

I am just loving these images.  They bring back so many childhood memories.  Remember these images are from the first book so no Alice with a crown images.  Have fun!

More Alice

Here are a few more images from the book.  Be sure to check back every day through Tuesday for more Alice images.  On Tuesday there will be another guest hostesses with a beautiful Alice project.

I'm Late, I'm Late for a Very Important Date

Here are three more of the Alice images.  All of these are from the first book Alice in Wonderland.  Have a great Saturday and create something great.

Go Ask Alice

Here are two more Alice images from the book I found at the flea market.  There are at least dozen illustrations in this early version of Alice in Wonderland.  The book is so old the pages are brown and brittle.  It has been difficult to clean these up.

Digital Two for Tuesday 54

This week we have two images from a very old version of Alice In Wonderland from the turn of the 19th century.  When I saw the book filled with the images we all know and love I knew I had to buy it and post them here.  So this week and next we will be celebrating Alice. This week's guest designer is Susan from Southern New Jersey.  She has an amazing sense of color and design.  You can see more of her work on her blog.  Here is her bio in her own words.

"I have been an artist in one form or another since I was old enough to wield a crayon! I have done all forms of needlework except for knitting. My husband and I have done wood working, he does most of the cutting and putting together I do the painting, I used to oil paint all the time...landscapes. I have done many, many folk art and other crafts, candle making, working with pinecones and sea shells and driftwood etc. I took one semester of "ceramics' in college and found I was better with slab clay than the potter's wheel, LOL...they picked a large Salad bowl of mine to display on site and then it was part of a traveling show.

Over the years since doing Paper crafts and mixed media, I have had a handful of my creations published by ARTchix studios to become part of her collage sheets etc. I have never taken the time to submit anything to magazines, but my friends urge me to all the time. I have won several Scrap book Layout contests. I do go to craft shows with my cards and other paper crafts...stationery sets, etc. I also do a lot of rubber stamping and I make tumbled stone coasters.

I started making ATCs about 5-6 years ago, and then graduating to 4 x 4 chunky pages also. I am an active card maker for "Operation Write Home" which is an awesome organization that the participants make home made greeting cards and they get send in big boxes over seas to our enlisted, so that they have cards to use to send home for loved ones etc. This has become quite a passion of mine.

Some of my work is splattered here and there throughout my blog, and there is a slide show down at the bottom.

Here is a finished ALICE ATC, and an ALICE TAG BOOK (in progress) this is going to be a favorite drink recipe book, that will be gifted to Cora at Two for Tuesday when I am finished with it.

The ATC is colored with Prismacolor pencils and blending pencil, then I used Tea Stain distress ink and Black Soot distress inks to antique it. I then added some Prima flowers and a black rhinestone. I love how it came out, and I hope you all of also.

The tag book pages are made of mica flake card stock I am using Rubber stamps, and Distress inks, printed images and Prismacolor pencils I also intend on adding buttons and flowers and ribbons to this when completed. The front of each tag will be decorated and the back will be a favorite drink recipe."