I absolutely love Alice in Wonderland and was thrilled when a last minute spot opened up in this swap. With little time to carve a stamp and create a card I decided to look for really cool rubber stamp images and find one I could carve. When I found the image of Alice reaching up for a key it looked really unique, so I decided to try carving it. It's not a huge stamp; but, it took FOREVER to carve due to all the little cuts that had to be made. I also had to find the image of a keyhole and key to go with the Alice stamp; but, they were pretty easy to find and carve.
For the outer layer I used black paper and coated it with Tim Holts Black Soot Crackle paint for a cool textured effect. For the inner layer of paper, I covered the paper in two different Tim Holtz distress stains (broken china and peackock feathers) and then I sprayed it with Dylusions spray ink in White Linen to tone it down a bit. Next I stamped a really cool damask type rubber stamp on top in black to make a really cool custom made background paper.
I very carefully cut Alice out (omg this took eons to do for the whole set of cards) and colored her in with Tim Holtz distress markers. For the keyhole I used a blending tool and some Tim Holtz distress ink in Victorian Velvet to to color the paper and cut that out as well. I glued both Alice and the key hole down with a glue stick and used the key stamp for the back of the card.
This was a very time consuming card to make for a last minute sign up. I loved the way it turned out in the end though so it was totally worth the effort.
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