Hermoine Meets The White Rabbit

Oh what fun challenges are going on at The Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog and The Burtonesque Dolls! First of all, our TI challenge is Reel Me In. Design a project inspired by a Summer or Scary movie. Then, at The Burtonesque Dolls, the challenge is to use a "Potterish" character and put them in a Burton movie. I had plenty of ideas for both, but when Christy released the new Wizardette, how perfectly these two challenges came together. I used the PNG of Wizardette and printed her directly over a movie poster from Alice in Wonderland. I flipped her and stretched her a bit to cover the movie advertisement in the upper right corner and still have her standing on the tea table. I don't do alot of digital work (other than printing my images) so this was very exciting to me. (Yeah, I'm easily impressed. LOL) I left her partially off the poster and cut around her. The whole thing is mounted on an 8x8" page from Graphic 45's Halloween in Wonderland.

I honestly hadn't a clue how to color her, so I followed my DT sister Jen's lead (although not nearly as well as she did). Jen had actually requested the image and Christy was happy to oblige. Thank you both for that! I love her! I used a Sassy Studio Designs sentiment. Hermoine seems a little perplexed as to exactly who this rabbit is. Yikes, a spell gone wrong?

Another Sassyland Sentiment for The White Rabbit. Could it be more perfect?

Not a whole lot of dimension here, but that's okay because I think I'm gonna frame it. Go take a look at the fab creations by the Tiddly Inkers as well as those by The Burtonesque Dolls. Inspiration abounds! I had a ball with these challenges, and so will you! I'm also entering it in The Altered Alice Tea Things Challenge. I can't tell you how fabulous the projects are over there. And not just the amazing designers! I'm humbled and a teeny bit intimidated each time I go look, but of course, loving all things Alice, I can't stay away.

And don't forget to come back on Thursday for the exciting Victorian Steampunk Collaborative Release by Tiddly Inks AND Make it Crafty. There's more info HERE, along with sneak peeks and a FREEBIE! You don't want to miss this!

The Burtonesque Dolls Put Me in a Burton Movie Challenge

This is my second post of the day, only because I'm scrambling to join this challenge. If you're looking for the BBTB2 Blog Hop, please scroll down. The Burtonesque Dolls are back in business and I've been trying to play along. This week in particular the prize is something I covet: your choice of 3 of the new Burton-weenies stamps from Simply Betty! The challenge is put an image, any image, in a Burton movie. I had tons of ideas for this one but I just couldn't pull it together. Then finally, when rifling through my Stampotique Stamps, I came across '3 in a Round'. Aren't they cute? Kinda like ET and friends. So anyway, I thought they looked like they might just be peeking out of the scary tree in Sleepy Hollow. So I found a tree on Oct 31st cartridge and stretched it in DS until there was enough room on the trunk to cut a hole for the little guys to peek out of. Then I cut the Headless Horseman from Happy Hauntings. The background is done with Distress Inks. Added some Rain Dot bats and a jack-o-lantern epoxy sticker and there ya go. I got a little slap happy because I'm tired, so I hope you find the computer generated sentiment amusing. Don't they look apprehensive? And wouldn't you be?

The Burtonesque Dolls "Ed Wood" challenge

I've been dying to play along with the Burtonesque Dolls again but somehow my schedule hasn't allowed it. I even have ideas every week but they're often a bit difficult to execute so they don't get done. Well this week I made it! (with several days to spare, Woohoo!) The challenge is inspired by the movie "Ed Wood" so the creations are to be in black and white.

On top of that, Tickled Pink Stamps is sponsoring with the opportunity to win 20's Evie here and 30's Lylah. I couldn't wait to use 20's Evie again. She's such a doll! She's colored with a mix of the cool and warm gray Copics to match the DP from DCWV la Crema Stack. The graphic at the bottom is from First Floor Flat Freebies. I just got my new Cuttlebug folder, Grace's Frame and had to use it. I cut out the center with my Nesties Labels Four. The film strip is also from Spellbinder's. The metal "dream" is from M's and the flower is Prima.

The mats are popped and of course I had to add at least a few adhesive beads. This was a fun challenge. I love the idea of Evie dreaming of becoming a star! You've still got time to play at The Burtonesque Dolls to win your very own Lil Lolitas so what are you waiting for?

The Burtonesque Dolls Creepy Birthday Challenge

Wow, ANOTHER post today. If you're looking for BBTB2, scroll down a bit. I'm on a roll with these challenges having soooo much FUN! This week at The Burtonesque Dolls the challenge was to create a creepy birthday card the Burtons would be proud of. I chose to use the Twisted Tea digi stamp from The Greeting Farm. I've always thought a birthday tea party would be fab, and a creepy one so much the better. I colored the image with my Copics according to the adorable Skull Cupcake digi paper from Tiddly Inks that I shrunk down and cut with my Labels One Nesties. The image is cut with Labels Nine. I made my own striped glitter paper by using strips of Terrifically Tacky Tape and sprinkling it with Doodle Bug glitter. The top and bottom cupcake skully labels are popped and the image is popped a bit higher for dimension. Then all I added was some ribbon, a glitter foam skull, some adhesive gems and Alpha Beads for the sentiment. Oh BUMMER! I missed it! Gotta remember that time difference. Better luck next time, eh?

The Burtonesque Dolls Sweeny Todd Challenge

WooHOO! I got my Simply Betty Stamps in time to use them on this week's Burtonesque Dolls challenge! The inspiration this week is Sweeny Todd, who if you remember, did more than a shave and a haircut with his razor while his gal pal Mrs. Lovette baked some fab meat pies with the remains. (EEEK!) I remember going to see this movie on Christmas Day. Hmmm, not in keeping with the usual holiday festivities, eh? Anyway, I just HAD to use Betty for this and took my coloring inspiration from Betty herself (and the pic from the movie). The challenge is actually to use cutting and distressing tools and I jumped at the chance to use my Zutter Distress-it-All (thanks Glenda for the great price on this!) to grind the edges of just about EVERYTHING here. The DP is Basic Grey, the weird textured stuff is Sizzix Little Sizzles Textures I got at Custom Crops. I used my MS Spiderweb Punch Around the Page topped by the coolest EVER May Arts Ribbon I found at my LSS. The lamp post is Cottage Cutz die, available at The Scrapping Cottage, spritzed with my home brew shimmer mist. I was trying to create a Victorian London scene and the bloody cobblestone street is embossed with the Cuttlebug Tiny Mosaic folder and topped with MS Drippy Goo enhanced with Glossy Accents. (EEEEWWW!)

HeeHee! This was sooo much FUN! Here's a view of the dimension. Now I know some of you are hesitant to join in at The Burtonesque Dolls because you don't think you can follow the theme. I find that the BEST part of the challenge, but if you read closely, all you really HAVE to do is use your cutting and distressing tools so why not give it a try? New challenges come out every Tuesday.

The Burtonesque Dolls Sleepy Hollow and Tiddly Inks Goth Challenges

I almost skipped this Burtonesque Dolls Sleepy Hollow challenge because my last week's card had spooky trees and such and one of my favorite Halloween cards I'd EVER done was a Sleepy Hollow theme so I wasn't sure the mojo would flow. Then I saw the adorable new Katrina at Tiddly Inks designed specifically for this challenge and noticed their Challenge this week was

Going GOTH so I rushed right over to snag her and went to work. Fortunately I found this Headless Horseman image on the net ( from the actual movie duh! it was right on The Burtonesque Dolls. LOL) so I printed it to use as the background. I used a premade card and inked and distressed it with my Distrezz-it-all and cut a mat that actually is the words from Washington Irving's book and used my Nesties Labels Five to cut a window. Then because I wanted MORE dimension I welded the spooky tree from Paper Doll Dress Up to a frame from Storybook in Cricut Design Studio and sprayed it with my home brew glimmer mist and popped it too.

One of these days I'm going to have to use some COLOR on these cute images, but the gray seemed to fit with the theme here. The swirling misty clouds are a ripped up dryer sheet threaded through the tree branches. I did 5 loads of laundry yesterday so I thought I'd recycle a bit. LOL

Here you can see a bit of the dimension. The pumpkin is a brad and Beware was computer generated and cut with Spellbinders Fancy Tags. The challenges at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog are no longer random so if you'd like to vote for my card for last week's challenge you can HERE (you have to scroll down a bit). Thanks so much!

The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #4 and Tiddly Inks #6

I am so excited that the challenge at The Burtonesque Dolls this week is An Affair to Remember, inspired by the fab movie Corpse Bride. I was all set to use The Happy Couple from Tiddly Inks to do this challenge but then I saw Gossmere and fell in LOVE! Don't get me wrong, both images are just adorable but Gossmere just spoke to me and I thought it would be easy to Bring on the Bling (the Tiddly Inks challenge this week) so that's what I did.

I started with irridescent DCWV Luxury Stack paper and masked a moon and inked with Black Soot and Shabby Shutters. The trees are a Cottage Cutz die from The Scrapping Cottage and the Bridal Arch is a Labels 10 Nestie with the MS Spiderweb border punch attached. The edges are blinged up with Perfect Pearls and of course adhesive gems. The tombstone is a Cuttlebug cut and emboss set.

Just look at Gossmere's sweet face! I added a tattered veil and gems to her headpiece and sprayed her with adhesive and sprinkles her with very fine MS glitter but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get that to show up in the pic...bummer.

The flowers are Primas and that cool stuff she's standing on is a sprinkling of Metallic Mica Flakes by US Art Quest. I just love the shimmer and the color was just perfect for this card. I just used some clear tacky glue and sprinkled it on.

Here's the dimensional view. I'll tell you I had a ball building this creepy cute scene. Be sure to stop by The Burtonesque Dolls to check out the fabulous creations by the DT using fab images from Busy Beauties. By playing along you have a chance to win some of those fab images. I was last week's lucky winner. WooHoo! And if you love Tiddly Inks as much as I do, go have a play at the Tiddly Inkers challenge blog too.

The Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #3 and Tiddly Inks #5

I sure am having fun playing with challenge blogs and The Burtonesque Dolls is no exception. This week we are to use skull and black flowers and I just couldn't help but use another ADORABLE download from Tiddly Inks. This is Pinky and she's new along with that fabulous downloadable digi skully cupcake paper. How cool is that?!? I took my colors from the background paper and colored Pinky with my Copics. She's cut out with Spellbinder's labels Ten. The hot pink background is embossed with a 5x7 Cuttlebug folder and the flowers are "wedding confetti" from M's that I colored black with a permanent marker. The glitter skully is foam and I added some rhinestones for embellies. It just so happens that Tiddly Inks has a challenge blog too and this week it's no designer papers (but you can use the digi kind, WooHoo!) so I'm entering it over there too.

And BTW, did you SEE the fab new rubber stamps that Betty ( she's the hostess with the mostest at The Burtonesque Dolls) has done? OMG! They're available for preorder HERE at Simply Betty Stamps so hurry before the first run is sold out. (I've already got my order in!)

Burtonesque Dolls Challenge #2

OMG! The time just got away from me. Here is challenge #2 Burton Chicks for The Burtonesque Dolls. I started this challenge in a completely different direction and decided I wanted to go creepy cute instead. The adorable image is Batty from Tiddly Inks colored with Copics. She's framed with a Nesties Deckle Oval cut out mat which is popped. I used my MS spider web corner and spooky fence border punches and embelllished with May Arts ribbon I colored black with a permanent marker strung through a large eyelet. OOOhh, gotta go post so I don't miss it! I LOVE The Burtonesque Dolls!

Oh Alice! and the Burtonesque Dolls

Oh I can't believe it's Friday! The week is going by sooo fast and I've still got loads to do for next week. Couldn't miss this week's Oh Alice! challenge though, entitled "Little People, Big Wonderland" (which translates into make a card or project for a child.) I thought these adorable Wonderland digi images from The Greeting Farm would be perfect...so sweet! They're colored with Copics (before daylight so excuse that please) and popped on "Baby Boy" DP from Heidi Grace. The sentiments Sassy Studio Designs cut and mounted on petite oval Nesties. The punch is EK Success which I would love a whole lot more if the little embossed dots on the scallops showed up better but I tried to enhance them with my stylus.

I'm also entering this in The Burtonesque Dolls FIRST challenge (WooHoo!) which is stripes. Now normally I'd be trying to do something a bit more edgey for that, but with limited time and figuring at least it's an Alice theme which is currently my FAVE Tim Burton movie, I thought it would be okay. Several of my BBB's (Best Blogging Buddies) are on the DT there so I wanted to show my support for this FABULOUS new challenge blog. New Burtonesque challenges come out every Tuesday there so you still have time to play along.