Alice In Wonderland Tea Party

Several weeks ago my friends that were in the Alice journal swap with me got together for a tea party. We finished working in each others journals and created paper crowns and ATC cards.

The tea party was at one of the members homes and she had it done up right. Catered by a special lady who made the most wonderful food, and I wish I had her info so I could pass it along to you. I am sure if someone wants it I can get the info for you. Email me for that.

Below you see the table set up. The food was placed on the buffet to the right of the table.

Bunnies and large globe candle holders were the center pieces.
Beautiful cups and saucers for tea. Each one was a different pattern.

The host made cute little place setting cards for each of us.

Wonderful food was served. This was pumpkin cake pieces and cheese cake tarts.

The buffet table set up.
More desserts! Lemon tarts and heart topped brownie bites.

Cucumber, chicken salad and cream cheese sandwiches.
Chocolate covered strawberries.

On to the goodies! The journals and party favors!

This was the door prize. It is a box of handmade cards.

The crown is on the front of the box. All wrapped up!
These were my party favor boxes. Inside are soldered necklaces with an Alice image.

These are some of the crowns. The pattern is the same but each one of us did something different to the paper. The first one is covered in fabric and organza flowers were added to it. The second one is decorated with paint and colored copied images. My crown, the third one has ink as the base color and a color copied image of the Queen with the words "Off with his head" glued to it. I added some stamped swirls and glitter. The fourth crown is covered in paint and glitter. It has color copied images of Alice in Wonderland book covers.
This is one of the trays we purchased for holding our ATC's.

On to the journals!! I have photographed some of my favorite pages from each members book.
These first few photos are a small accordion book put in Melody's journal. It has pictures of the characters from the Alice movie by Tim Burton and quotes to go with them. Details have been added in some form on each picture. Check out the tiny buttons on Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum's suspenders.

Other side of accordion book.
Great use for a coin holder.

These are pages from Mary's journal. Red Reigns here!

This page is fabulous! My photo with the close-up of the crown did not come out. The crown has lots of texture on it.

This is the cover of Mary's journal.

This is Donna's (the other one) journal.
Love the colors used on these pages. The orange holey item on the right hand side under the photo of the Mad Hatter is a vegetable bag.

It was a challenge to find images that were different. We did not want us all to have the sames pictures in our journals. Searching the Internet was a plus to finding unusual images.
This is the back of one of Donna's pages. She has a wonderful eye for putting colors together. Plus using textures!

This page is in April's journal. Dimension and color were key on this page.

Mary loves quotes and I think all the pages she did in our journals have them. They add a special touch!

These are pages from Anne's journal. She has not bound hers yet. Look at these unusual images.

This photo does not do this page justice. The pink color is wonderful.

This page has some of the Graphic 45 Alice paper on it. If you have not seen that series of paper you need to check it out. It has a Halloween theme to it.

Finally this is my journal. The front cover anyway.

I had my Mom make a bag from Alice material I found at a quilt store. The book fits perfectly inside.

Accordion book inside my book
This picture believe it or not came from a calendar.
I just love this picture! I can not remember what April told me she colored it with but it is wonderful.
Very dimensional page. Love the collage background.

This was a fun swap. We all did such a great job with the artwork created for each of the journals. Ending it with a tea party was the icing on the cake!

More Alice Pages

Above is pages for April's book. Below are the ones for Anne's.

I am done with everyone's journals. Just have to wait till I get mine back to see what has been done in it. Can't wait!!

More Down the Rabbit Hole

I finished the pages in Melody's Alice in Wonderland journal last week. On the first one I used my Silhouette machine to cut out a teacup. Then printed legs from a digital kit I have so they could be coming out of the cup. I used tulle for her skirt. The second page was done with an image from the Internet. I added stickles to her dress and the Prima flowers to the left of the page. Both are simple but came out good I think.

First Alice Journal

This is the first of the Alice journals I have received to work in. I painted this background using acrylics and a credit card. The border, Madhatter and the Rabbit are from a digital kit I bought online from Scrapbook Graphics http://www.scrapbookgraphics.com .

I sewed the mushroom using some brightly colored fabric I have and put batting behind it to make it more dimensional.

The flower spray is from Prima. I did add some stickles to some of the flowers.

This has been fun and I am waiting on the second journal. We swap again on the 15th.

Alice in Wonderland Journal Swap

I joined a swap with the theme of Alice in Wonderland. Here is the journal I created. This is the front cover. I found an embroidery hoop with a wood grain finish and it worked perfect for the clock. There is plastic on the hoop to enclose it and I placed watch parts inside. So they move around like a shaker box. I made the clock face on the computer. The journal is made from a book and I took out the pages from the inside. Covered the the spine, front and back with papers and bookbinding cloth. I made a compartment to hide a card. From the front of the book you see a "pull here" tab when the card is in and the book is closed. In the picture above the card is pull out for viewing.

The spine has a bottle and I placed a "drink me" tag on it. I also placed some clear charms on the spine. The inside end papers are more decorative papers and the signatures are placed in the binder mechanism for easy removal.
The card on the right in this photo is the actual invitation to the swap. Pretty cool isn't it? I found those white roses in the wedding section at Hancock Fabrics. They are on netting and made from ribbon. Loved them and thought they would work great in my journal, but I could also use them in another book.
The little book on the right of this page is one that the hosts put together for us participants. It tells us who we are passing the journals to each month and the timeline to keep us on track, and other important info we need.

This is my "sign-in" page. Each person that works in my journal will decorate a teapot, then place it in the harlequin patterned pocket. I also typed up a greeting and directions for working in my book. I left it open and the participants can do any technique they want.

We swapped last Monday so I received my friend Donna's journal, and will work on it this week, I hope. We have a month to complete the books each time we switch. Should be plenty of time to get them done. Of course life sometimes gets in the way, and you never know when you might get behind. I will post her journal after I work in it.