Good morning! Well, I really wanted to get this project posted yesterday, but in the middle of it all I decided to do a video tutorial. Yes, you asked for it and here it is . . . a video tutorial on how to make those paper flowers using Spellbinders™ Nestabilities!
Here’s the flower that I was working on yesterday when I decided to stop and make the video.
Here’s the video on how to make that flower.
and here’s my project using the flower.
For some background on this project, the guys at TwistedPapers.com contacted me right before they were going to upload the colored images of Alice. They thought it would be really cool if I made a project using one of the images with the negative Pyramid (get it . . . . down into the rabbit hole). I’ve been singing
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
. . . . for weeks now! I might have to dig out of the old Jefferson Airplane album (yes, I said album . . . and yes I still have a turntable in the basement just to play them on).
I made the positive and negative Pyramid images using Spellbinders™ Square Nestabilities. After I had the layers made into the pyramid, I decided that the negative image needed more than a card. I went digging through some supplies and found a Grunge Book from my last Tim Holtz class at CHA and used two of the pages from the book. I glued them together and then glued a sheet of Webster’s Pages Postcards from Paris on both front and back. For an additional layer, I printed out a section of Alice in Wonderland from the net about the croquet game (because it matched this image), did a little Wrinkle Free Distress using Old Paper and Vintage photo, then distressed the hell of all the edges.
For some added fun I tore up a few old watches to get some parts that I added to the bottom left. While doing that, I came up with another wonderful idea and have made note to get it done in the next few days. In the image we have the Queen of Hearts so it wouldn’t do . . . I had to add some hearts to the project.
To hang the project, I added some Tim Holtz idea-ology Swivel Clasps and link chain. Thought that was pretty darn clever myself!
- Images: Alice in Wonderland from TwistedPapers.com
- Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; Webster’s Pages Postcards from Paris; BasicGrey Wassail
- Ink: Ranger Vintage Photo and Old Paper Distress
- Accessories: Spellbinders™ S4-232 Blossom Two and S4-126 Classic Squares – Large; Tim Holtz idea-ology Grunge Book pages, Swivel Clasps, Jump Rings, Trinket Pin and Link Chain; Ivory Twill; Ranger Matte Accents; Sponge Dauber
Well that’s all for today folks! As if it wasn’t enough. I’m off junking it with my sister today. Hopefully I’ll find some great alterable junk!
Thanks for stopping by and remember . . . life is short, make the most of the day’s adventures!
