another creation.....

Ok, so about 4 years ago I was getting ready to take a pic of my DD sleeping when she woke up and gave me that look.  I ran across this pic the other day and the first thought that came to my mind was a quote from the Queen of Hearts; "Off with your head!".  A page is born....off I went trying to find elements from Alice in Wonderland.
 
Of course I think that Helena Bonham Carter's new version of the royal lady is fabulous.  So I searched for images on Google.  While I was looking through images from the film I saw pics of flowers that had faces and thought I had to make some of those.  Then I came across this great little pic of the Mad Hatter on a pocket watch dial and had to have that too!  I have to tell you that I drew a page lay out map including all of the handmade goodies I wanted to add.  The page you see before you is not entirely what I drew or all that I made.  This page has morphed about a dozen times.

I had my DD make funny faces while I took pics and then used my camera/photo editing software and messed with the RGB settings to get the colored photos.  I handmade the carnations out of matching colors and distressed and curled the edges.  The flowers actually ended up being too puffy and I had to flatten them out a bit.  I used grunge board butterfly wings and distressed those and used rock candy stickles to give them a shimmery, sugary look.  I used the same stickles to glue the pic of the mad hatter to an acrylic circle and glued them to the wings.  I used an SVG file and my cricut once again to cut out the frame.  I used red brick and black soot distress inks on it and then used clear embossing powder to give it a leathery look.  Which is kind of does up close.  I cut my DD out of her photo and found a heart themed paper to put behind her.  I used paper from my Once Upon a Time stack for the background as well as the book pages.  I of course, distressed those.  One of my favorite objects on this page his handmade lace that my DH Grandmother made when she was a teenager (pre-1920).  It is fabulous and I decided that it is too pretty to keep in my sewing box, so I added it to my page. I think she would be pleased.

So far I have been doing pretty well with continually doing something creative everyday.  I feel pretty good about that.  Even if I'm not working on a page, I am online looking at things other people made, or making a list of things I want to try, or drawing page lay-outs to try to bring to life later.  So far so good.....