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!

Paper Christmas Trees & Scarf/Gloves Gift Set

We made these at one of my mixed media art group meetings. Had to punch about 100 circles from 1" to 3" in size. Really a fun project.

I made this fleece scarf and gloves set the other day as a birthday present for a friend. It turned out great. Bought 2 yards of black fleece and got about 7 scarves out of it. Found gloves at Target and added the lace trim, buttons and seam binding ribbon to each. A nice easy gift for someone special.

Bats & Flowers Oh My

Aren't these the cutest things?! We made these at my last rubber stamp club meeting. One of the members, Traci Hutton http://www.art-t-dolls.com/index.html designed them especially for our group. They where fun to make. Mine is the one on the left in the bottom picture.

I bought these flowers from Heidi Swapp. She has an Etsy shop now http://www.etsy.com/shop/blossomcouture . They are made with a clip on the back. So you can attach them to the neck of your shirt or wear them in your hair. I have been using them on my shirts for Halloween all week.

Happy Halloween!!

Paper Cowgirl - A Wicked Tea Part 4

On to the class projects! This is the packet that the coven book supplies came in. See what I mean about details?! The teacher was Lisa McIlvain. She has a blog so go check it out http://tarnishedandtattered.blogspot.com/ . Great project! Mine finished is below.
Front of the book box.

Inside the book box.

This was Ann Denise Anderson's project. She had a major role in the success of this event besides teaching for sure. Cooking all the food and the decorations were from her personal stash. What a lady! Check out her blog http://whimandfancydesigns.blogspot.com/ .

But her project was made from paper clay. It was a vintage noisemaker. We sculpted a cat head on a ping pong ball. I definitely am not a sculptor! But it was fun and mine didn't turn out half bad. Ann Denise is the Queen of crepe paper! I took another class from her before and learned how to ruffle crepe paper on a sewing machine. I don't think there is anything she can't make from crepe paper.
Another one of Ann Denise's noisemakers.
My finished noisemaker.

This class was called Crone's Cottage Pendant. It was taught by Lesley Venable. http://www.flatwoodsfolkart.typepad.com/flatwoods_folk_art/ . She made ahead for us these house shape bezels from clay. We collaged inside then added a tin type photo on top. Then she sealed it with the Ice Resin.

Another project was taught by the Event Organizer Queen herself Cindy Mayfield. Look at her blog for other photos from the event http://papercowgirl.blogspot.com/ . Her project was a book made from cereal boxes. Do not throw those things away! They make a great substitute for chip board. It was called A Shadow Book of Prudence Caulders. We ran behind on time so we didn't get to start the little book but she gave us the supplies. I hope to get mine done soon. I will post about it when I do. Her sample was really cute! I forgot to get a photo of it though to show.

All the projects were fabulous!
Working on projects and visiting with friends. It was a great creative day!

If you get a chance to go to a Paper Cowgirl retreat, please do. It really is a great experience! There usually is one in the Summer and it runs several days. There is even a vendor night. I attended the last show but only on the vendor night. I didn't get to take any of the classes. I hope to next Summer and the dates for it are June 9th - 11th, 2011.

This Fall retreat was a one day event. What a day it was! Thanks to all the teachers and Cindy and Ann Denise for a fabulous time! I appreciate all the hard work!

Paper Cowgirl - A Wicked Tea Part 3

We were to make our name badges and there were some really creative ones! I blogged about mine last week. Here are some of my favorites. Loved this one with the skeleton!

This is my friend Debbie's. Novel idea to use wire to write your name! Love the cheese cloth behind it.
This little kitty was sooo cute! Tu tu and all!

This reminded me of the high school mums you see during Homecoming. Grace even said that is where she got the idea.
Half a glittered pumpkin! Works for me!

There was a contest to see who could collect the most glittered clothes pins. I won! But I had help. Three friends gave me their pins. I ended up with 42 total I think. I won this cute ribbon which has a great saying on it, "Some things just require cake".

One of the friends that gave me her pins has a booth at the Dove's Nest http://thedovesnestrestaurant.com/ in Waxahachie. It's a great place to shop. I believe she has this ribbon and others like it in her booth. She had given me some before when I was visiting her at her home. So I gave my winning ribbon to one of the other ladies that gave me her pins. Actually I have shown these ribbons in an earlier post here on my blog. Check out the May 3rd post for these banners.

Paper Cowgirl - A Wicked Tea Part 2

There were three rooms of tables for us to work at. I believe there were 22 ladies there. This room was the largest and held three tables.

The room I was in had two tables with places for three at each table.
This was my table. Our places were marked with paper sacks with our names on them. So simple but perfect for this. Look at the brooms tied to the backs of the chairs. Lots of details!

There were a bunch of treat bags and goodies at our places for us. The witch shoes, a crepe paper hat, a sack made into a broom. Really cute! It had candy of course in it and several other goodies for us to take home. There was a notebook with pencil for taking notes.
Window in my room. Oops I forgot to get a photo of the front room table.

This was made by one of the organizers of the event and she is the Queen of crepe paper for sure! These had different vintage characters on a box which held candy. It was mounted on a stick. Each of us received one.
On to the candy bar! This hutch had jars with great scary labels attached to them. Each held different candy and we were to take the candy with us. It was out all day to pick from. You can also see in this photo the characters on the sticks stuck into a holder sitting on a chair. That is Zultan in the far corner.
Some of the candy in boxes. I forgot to get one of these. Wonder what was inside?

Some of the great labels.

Candy in jars in another display.

Scones for breakfast anyone? They were really delicious. Rose petals were placed on top of them. There was also a fruit salad and orange juice and coffee to drink.

Lunch is served. My plate. All the food was to die for! One of the teachers, Ann Denise cooked it all. I had to have one of those skeleton brownies!
The corn chowder was so good! And I have to get the recipe for the two salads, pasta and a broccoli with raisins one.
Lunch buffet set up.

No detail was left out. Even our tea glasses were decorated.
Dessert table! Cupcakes and cookies galore!

Here are those brownies!