CCEE2040 ~ Mad Hatter Day!

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's a brand new month and our CCEE Stampers challenge hostess this month is Frances.

and as you may remember last week in my CCEE post, we are welcoming

Hazel from Handcrafted Expressions and Manal Habib from Miniscraft to our Design Team.

The 6th of October is Mad Hatter Day and the challenge this week ~ 

create a card inspired by the theme … hats, Alice In Wonderland, Mad Hatter. 

So let me tell you ....  I LOVE this week's theme!

OH. SO. MUCH!

My granddaughter, Alice, was named after Alice in Wonderland 

the second my daughter found out it was a girl :) 

Her mommy (my daughter) is a HUGE AIW fan ...

AND ... 

as if that wasn't crazy enough, Alice's birthday is October 6th ... Mad Hatter Day.

It was meant to be!

Okay, enough gushing ....

My card!

I've used a super old stamp from Kraftin' Kimmie called Gabrielle   

and I've had this stamp 10 years :/

The background was created by using another old school product - 

a Cuttlebug embossing folder in Argyle pattern.

I ran it thought a die cut first, and then the EB, and then watercolored it.

The sentiment is a computer generated one as the stamp doesn't have one

and I set is aside wonky, as with the entire card, because not much

makes sense in Alice in Wonderland!

 Be sure to stop by the CCEE Stampers blog today 

and see all the Mad Hatter cards

and link up yours, too, if you have one in the theme!

Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

~Kelly

RSG: Show off your (ugly) paper!

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible

 things before breakfast."

~ Alice in Wonderland

Hi friends!

Oh, I do love the name Alice ...

it's my new granddaughter's name! ♥

My daughter's little girl shares the name with this classic

 and beloved storybook character

and it just makes me smile when I hear it :)

   “I’m late, I’m late! For a very important date!

 No time to say ‘hello, goodbye,’ I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!”

Oh, White Rabbit ~ me, too!

My card was for the Ready, Set, Go Challenge on 4/17

and the theme was:  Ugly paper!

ugly paper??

Now I'm “curiouser and curiouser!”

This was Jeanette's theme for us and this is what she said:

 

 In keeping with the idea of April Fools pranks and the unexpected,

  I want you to use two things on your card:

 the UGLIEST piece of designer paper that you can find in your stash

 (We have them, right? And we never expected to be asked to use those ugly papers!)

 and one of the stamps in your collection that has not yet seen ink, at least not by you.

 It's okay if it's a used stamp you purchased but have not yet used.

  Oh--and please post a picture of the patterned paper before cutting it apart!

Ready? Set? Go!

 This month was a little hard for me ~

as I don't see paper as 'ugly' :)

I either liked it when I bought it or had a specific challenge in mind

or it was a gift! 

So I'll call this: challenging paper!

Here is mine:

 

And finally, my card!

I used the adorable Alice - Life is full of Wonder from Stamp Anniething.

I chose this stamp as the first time inking

for my granddaughter, Alice.

I colored it pink (instead of the traditional blue) to match the dsp.

The sentiment is from another stamp set 

and I thought the wording was fun :)

To see what the other ladies created,

you can see Barb's card here and Jeanette's card here.

 I think I'm up for the next challenge but I could be wrong ...

Because we're all mad here!  :)

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly