PIF Teacup from Keke

Today is the 17th, three days after receiving Keke's tea cup she made for me I found out she made all of these embellishments...the cookies, loaf of bread, knife, place mat, mini teapot, tea cup,...etc. How cool is that.

Wrapped up in this pretty paper with a pink bow
Was this pretty altered Alice in Wonderland teacup
And a bonus bag of images, tea and chocolate Hershey kisses.
Thank You so Much Keke it is adorable!

I ate the chocolate immediately

And I will be making a cup of tea next!

It's that time of the month. So the timing was just perfect.

Two for Tea?

I made this Alice in Wonderland themed altered tea cup for the PIF swap with Mad Tea Party Mail Art Group. This altered tea cup was forward to Stephanie Watt. Hope she'll like it and that it made it to her all in one piece.
UPDATE: She recieved her Alice Tea Cup. And she liked it. But unfortunately the saucer broke in half so she had to glue it back together. So much for careful packing.
The one Stephanie did for her pay it forward partner...(not me) is really adorable. She made it into a pin cushion. I have seen it in the Mail Art group where she posted a picture of it. I don't see it posted on her blog. So I guess you'll have to take my word for it. I personally think it is way cuter than mine.

The Alice Tags from My Swap...

Are arriving! Our deadline was Oct 5th. Most of the tags have already arrived. Just waiting on one more tag for the collection to be complete. I can't tell you how wonderful it is to swap with swappers who are on time. With life and work and other commitments, I thought how nice to be able to give the ladies six weekends and five weeks to work on their Alice and Wonderland Charaters for their tags.

This is what they came up with.

Deborah's White Rabbit

Missy's Dutchess

Nancy's Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Terry's Dormouse
Elaine's Mad Hatter
Renee's Alice
Debra's Red Queen My Cheshire CatRebecca's Queen of HeartsBecky's Caterpillar
The Participants and links to their blogs
Alice...Renee (Recieved)

White Rabbit...Deborah

In keeping with her character ...is late for a very important date

(Recieved December 7th 2009)

Dormouse...Terry P. (Recieved)

Chesire Cat...Me (Recieved)

Duchess....Missy (Recieved)

Red Queen....Debra (Recieved)

Caterpillar...Becky (Received)

Mad Hatter...Elaine (Recieved)

Queen of Hearts...Rebecca (Received)

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum...Nancy (Recieved)

My Proto Types For Alice Swaps

Dover Alice in Wonderland image, Decorative paper and accents,

Spell binders die cuts, lace, gold stickers, rub on word, clear dimensional letter A

gold German scrap, ribbon and rhinestone.

Chesire Cat from Disney, Spell binders die cuts, rhinestones,

recycled clear plastic packaging, pop dots,

Blossom Bling, hand cut flower shapes from decorative paper,

and pleated paper with ribbon accents.

Tag was sprayed with a glimmer mist.

Lavish Victorian Parlor Rooms Collage sheet from Land of Enchantment,

Tim Burton White Queen Image Digitally merged, Chess piece image found online.

Stamping and white embossing , decorative lace, white ribbon, sequins and pearls.

Tag was walnut stained and then sprayed with a glimmer spray.

I didn't have enough gold stickers or sequins, or pearls and not enough rhinestones to go around. So the ones I did for the swaps had to go without. I like embellishments but I have to be realistic with the cost. They look nice without but this is what they could of looked like if budget wasn't a word in my everyday vocabulary.

Mad Hatteress

I recently signed up for the Alice in Wonderland Mad Tea Party Mail Art Group. And signed up for the PIF (Pay it Forward) Paper Doll Swap to get my feet wet with this group. This is what I came up with rather quickly. Squeezing it in amongst other things I have in my schedule. The Tea Pot was found on line (www.elmspuzzles.com/fulton.html ) I used Catherine Moore's Character construction stamps. Glitter , Rhinestones, lace, decorative papers, brass tea bag charm, feathers, brads, stickers and ribbon. I took creative licence and changed the Mad Hatter into a woman...hence the name Mad Hatteress. This one will be going out to Blanca.

Hosting My First Tag Swap

Image of Alice found online the background is from Itkupilli

Participating in Tag Swaps can be alot of fun.

Meeting new artists and exchanging our little works of art.
I'm Looking for 9 Ladies with blogs to participate plus me.
All ten of us will exchange with all that sign up.

I'm also looking for ladies that take pride in their work

and are excellent about deadlines.
I have listed several of the Alice in Wonderland characters to select from.

First come first serve but there are plenty yummy characters to choose:
Swap sign up is now closed. 8/29/09

Alice...Renee

White Rabbit...Deborah
Dormouse...Terry P.

Cheshire Cat...Me

Duchess....Missy

Red Queen....Debra
Caterpillar...Becky
Mad Hatter...Elaine

Queen of Hearts...Rebecca

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum...Nancy
Let's add these two chaps to the mix. You can picture them both or separate.

Once you have selected your character you can start

doing the research, Tim Burton, Disney, Traditional illustrations from the Lewis Carroll...you pick your image and papers and embellishments
I've chosen the Cheshire Cat.

My tag will be 3 1/2" x 6" cut out of mat board.

It will mostly be all the same with the exception of

perhaps switching up some embellishments.

Please make your tags 3 1/2" x 6" out of mat board or the like.

I would prefer that you do the same.

So no one will feel ...

"Oh, I wish I would of received that one."
Once the sign up is complete a deadline will be selected.

So we have plenty of time to put into these Alice in Wonderland tags.

Feel free to take the Swap Badge to put on your blog linking it to my blog.

http://terrisbloomingideas.blogspot.com

Please e-mail me with your E-mail and

Snail Mail address information

BloomingIdeasMI@aol.com

Mad Tea Party Book

Here is a Peak at a book I've been working on for over a year.

I'm really close to putting it together...perhaps with all this

Alice in Wonderland interest

I'll wrap it up this year. Stay Tuned.

I posted this especially for the Alice in Wonderland Mail Art Group

I have been accepted to join.

I just noticed it has been set up for so long that I see I did not glue her glove on well enough.

I'll have to take care of that.