Alice, The White Rabbit and a Situation. . . . .

The challenge at Dragons Dream TIO is to create a tag using the following recipe:

  Alice, the White Rabbit and a situation - also, use at least one stamp

My heart sank initially because I don't possess any Alice stamps or indeed stamps that could be used to  improvise! In fact, I've only appreciated the book since I've become an adult - as a child I didn't like it and my own daughter wasn't keen either.

The 'digi' stamp idea came to mind but that was a bridge too far (no offence to those that use them!) so in the end I trotted off to the charity shop to find an Alice book which I could use for images. I'm not into chopping books up but I've decided that buying one in a charity shop and then mistreating it is OK because I've contributed to a charity and the book gets a new lease of life. . . . .

Enough rambling: I decided to make a 3D tag which shows a little room beyond a door - very tricky - and I also changed the script a little for my 'situation'. My situation is this:

    The Queen of Hearts makes the White Rabbit a prince; Alice grows wings after drinking the potion and they have an argument about who is in the most enviable position. Alice states it's her because she is free to go where ever she pleases, whenever she pleases, due to her new wings. The Rabbit of course says it's him because he has a crown (just love the look of him wearing a crown!) and is therefore able to do anything he pleases, whenever he pleases AND it doesn't matter if he's late because everyone has to wait for him. . . . . . I can just image how many far fetched situations they could get into whilst trying to prove they are the winner in this argument!

Silly I know, but we're all allowed to dream aren't we. . . . . . .?

I'm also going to show my work at:
Try It On A Tuesday who this week have an 'Anything Goes' challenge.
Fab 'n' Funky who ask for 'Anything But A Card'.

Here's what I made:
(apologies for so many photos but I wanted to show all the bits and pieces of the design - also failed miserably to get them in the order I wanted!!)

This image shows the two 'walls' in the little room before the tag was constructed. The left wall was made by stamping a brick design using stamp rubber off cuts. The 'mortar' was achieved by embossing with crystal powder. The colour was kept light to counteract the other darker wall. The clock was stamped and inked. The dragonfly was stamped with distress markers, cut out then crackled with rock candy. The cards are a reference to the original story and were cut from the charity shop book. The dark wall was created with dylusion inks and stencil with the help of a white gel pen.

The completed tag showing Alice crouching to go through a little door which leads to a small room. Some clocks and the words 'tick and tock' are stamped into the corners - this links to the original story and the Rabbit's fixation with time.

A side view of the tag - shows that the whole piece is basically triangular in shape
(side dimensions are not equal). Sorry but this was a pain to photograph and is not as good as it could be!

This image gives some idea of the 'room' behind. The rabbit was cut from the book;  his crown has had microbeads stuck to it and some little gems as jewels - love the way his ears stick up through his crown! In true rabbit style, he has a pink eye!

More wings (so love them!) which were stamped onto acetate and embossed with crystal powder and cut out - quite a lot of the powder stuck to the wings around the design but I liked the effect so decided not to do them again. Alice also has a die cut flower in her hair which was coloured with dylusion inks, stamped with crackle stamp using chalky ink and a gem in the centre.

Lollipop flowers made the same way as the flower in Alice's hair but secured to bamboo sticks and attached. I wanted the flowers larger than life to fit in with the Alice tale.

The tag was embossed with a Tim folder, the centre of the design was partially cut out to make a door for Alice to go through. After embossing, the tag was inked with dylusion and distress inks. Some embossing enamel was randomly applied over the embossed card. In this image you can see another die cut flower in the corner but this one has no stamping only colour.

The sentiments are intended to make the reader develop their own answer to the question posed. These were made using a label maker and then inked with distress (easier than connecting laptop to printer, cutting out, inking etc.!!).

Hope you like this little bit of fun! I've really enjoyed making it. Why don't you have a dream and link up a creation to DragonsDream? The Design Team work is worth seeing even if you decide not to enter!

Thanks for looking.