Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Money Box

I made this wooden money box for the little girl of the lady who runs my new local craft shop. Molly is 8 and has just finished reading Alice in Wonderland and loved it. I used the stamps from the Oxford Impressions Classic Alice set from LB Crafts. You can't really see in the photos but the background paper is pink, sponged around the edges with pale blue. The scrabble letters were darkened with Distress Ink, edged in black, and covered with glossy accents. Some of the images are on brayered glossy card stock and others on shrink plastic.

The box has a slot in the top for money and the base pulls out like a drawer, with a little knob, so I decorated both sides of this base, the outside with the Queen of Hearts, and the inside with the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. One of the other companies who do an Alice set had the Mad Hatter putting the Dormouse into the tea pot, which I loved, so I tried to piece together this imagery with the stamps I had, and the text from a copy of the book from a charity shop.

The White Rabbit's pocket watch is from the Artistic Stamper Time and Keys set, on shrink plastic, with a piece of ball chain.

I hope Molly likes it - her Mum thought she would.

'We're All Mad Here' Altered Chess Board Wall Hanging

This is my entry for Sunday Stampers 'Alice and White Rabbits' theme. I have altered a folding chess board, using the latch fastening to hang it on the wall, and using the Oxford Impressions Classic Alice set from LB Crafts to depict the Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass story.

I sanded and lightly gesso'd the board, then added Distress Inks and Cosmic Shimmer mists, and edged it with Aged Mahogany. I brayered the shrink plastic sheets with pastel shades then cut them into 6 cm squares and stamped my chosen images, then added some traditional 'Alice' colours using brush markers, shrank the tiles, and edged with red pen. In addition to the Oxford Impressions' set I used alphabet stamps, Time and Keys 1 from the Artistic Stamper, and a crown, chess set, and 4 suits stamps. I adhered them to the chess board in a random fashion as I like assymetry, and added tiny playing cards, and a little test tube bottle, and some ball chain to link the White Rabbit to his pocket watch, and some red wooden hearts. I then finished it off with some travel chess pieces, and turned the white queen into a Red Queen with a red Sharpie!

Here's a slightly more detailed view. I chose shrink plastic as my medium because the scale of the Classic Alice set is quite large and it enabled me to fit at least a recognizable segment of each image into the squares on the chess board. I've added a few gem stones on the crown for a bit of bling.

Stampbord Inlay Box - Alice

This box was inspired by a beautiful Christmas-themed box made by Jean Hardy of Crafty Individuals, in Craft Stamper a few issues back. She had used Stampbord in the inlay section of this wooden box, and filled the remaining gap with cord. I am a huge fan of everything she makes. In this version I have used the Classic Alice stamps by Oxford Impressions, available from LB Crafts. As the scale of the stamps is quite large, I arranged the images across 4 tiles pushed together. The background was brayered, and then additional colour added with brush markers. The box itself has been painted with acrylic paint, then Crackle Paint, and then sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer Mists and rubbed with Distress Inks. There were several areas I wanted to be white such as Alice's apron, so I did quite a bit of scratching back to the clay. There is just something about the Alice imagery I love!