Alice in Derland - Black and Gold

Not a typo, the title is deliberate. It describes the way my brain is (not) working :-). Well, the Altered Alice blog has a great challenge this month and it's "Anything Goes", so I got out my lovely new Tim Holtz embossing folders and my favourite IndigoBlu Alice I stamp set and started to play. This is the result...

"Alice in Derland"

A sheet of gold mirri card is embossed and painted over with black acrylic paint using a finger. After a couple of minutes the top surface is buffed with a sheet of kitchen roll to reveal the gold embossing, leaving plenty of paint in the recesses to give a lovely aged effect and show off the embossing beautifully.

The background card blank is decorated with distress inks and a mask made by running an acetate sheet through the Gears die and spraying the back with ReMount.

"Alice in Derland"

Each of the stamped images is coloured using Distress Markers and a watercolour brush. Some of the inks are applied directly to the paper, and others are diluted with a little water before applying. Once coloured, the images are cut out, shaped with an embossing tool, and mounted in place using Pinflair.

"Begin"

The sentiments are stamped onto thin white card with archival ink and diecut & embossed before colouring & edging with distress inks to match the background, edging again with a gold metallic promarker, and fixing in place with Pinflair for plenty of extra dimension. This sentiment is probably my all-time favourite. Such a succinct description of life!

"Curioser"

This picture shows the background layers quite well. The rabbit's gold watch was enhanced with gold metallic promarker around the edge and a few dots in the middle. The extra gears are cut from some scraps of mirri card, embossed with the steampunk folder and decorated with black acrylic paint before mounting with Pinflair.

"Mad Hatter"

This guy has the same initials as me - maybe that's why I like him so much :-) I love the way he is just floating above the action looking down on all the proceedings. I gave him some gingery looking sideburns to match his jacket. I can never resist placing him looking down at Alice and Alice looking up at him when I use both images on the same card. Curioser and curioser.

Ingredients:

IndigoBlu stamp set "Alice I"

Sizzix Tim Holtz embossing folders "Pocket Watches and Steampunk"

Sizzix Tim Holtz M&S die: alarm clock

Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Die: Gadget Gears
acetate mask made using the above die

Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Die: Weathered Clock

Spellbinders dies: Labels, Ovals, Scalloped Ovals

cardstock: gold mirri, black 160gsm, white 300gsm, white 160gsm

Distress Ink Pads & Markers: Scattered Straw, Old Paper, Antique Linen, Black Soot, Broken China

Adhesives: PVA, Pinflair dimensional glue

Acrylic paint: black

Promarker: gold metallic

To be eligible for Creative Craft World's Challenge, you have to mention it in your blog post, so cosider yourself mentioned :-)
Entered for the following challenges:
Altered Alice - Anything Goes
CES Challenges - Anything Goes (sorry to see you going)
Simon Says Stamp and Show... Your Favourite Stamp
Creative Craft Challenges - Anything Goes
Just Tracys Crafts - Anything Goes (sorry to see you going too)
Creative Craft World - April Mini Challenge