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The Mad Hatter and Lots of Lace
Filed under Art Projects, Back in Stock, Caroline Ouzts-Hay, Giveaways, Marie in Wonderland, Newsletters
Note: most of the links on this post no longer work, as we moved to a new Web site in 2018. However, you can see the supply lists for both projects on the new site: Marie Antoinette and The Mad Hatter Tea Cup and Fabric & Lace Cuff Bracelet Tutorial.
Before Design Team Coordinator Miz Bella (Kim Ayers) introduces TWO projects by Design Team Member Caroline Ouzts-Hay, let me announce that we are again having TWO Giveaway drawings! More info below.
And I’m continuing the FREE Gift with Order announced on Sunday: Chocolate and Raspberry (in honor of Rhonda Secrist Thomas’ Marie Antoinette Always Loved A Good Party artwork)!
AND… the Collage Sheet Sale and FREE Collage Sheet offer is still going strong! More info about how to get a free collage sheet is below, too.
Mash Up! Marie Antoinette and The Mad Hatter Tea Cup is brought to you by Design Team Member Caroline Ouzts-Hay using the Marie In Wonderland Kit.
Don’t think too hard trying to figure out Caroline’s project by the title of it, or you’ll find your mind might be just as lost in the Valley of the Dolls as mine is! Just sit back and enjoy the fabulousness of Caroline’s latest creation. After throwing around a few different ideas utilizing a tea cup, Caroline decided upon a diorama-type tea cup with the Die-Cut Chipboard Panniers Dress. The dress is covered with an image from the Marie Takes Tea Collage Sheet, adorned with 1mm Micro Beads – Peach Pearl, and 1/8″ Red Satin Ribbon made into tiny bows.
It looks as if the Mad Hatter (from the Mad Hatters Teaparty #2 Collage Sheet) is having trouble deciding which tasty treat to choose from under Miz Marie’s flouncy dress…what IS he doing under her dress? Admiring his festooned table (done with a wee bit of (New and On Sale!) 1/2 Inch Natural Scalloped Cotton Lace)? Only Caroline knows! While we’re all pondering, let’s check out the actual tea cup. The tea cup is covered in paper from the Harmony 6×6 Paper Pad and if you look at the side of the cup, Caroline has embellished it up quite nicely with the (New and On Sale!) Silicone Mold – Architectural Flourishes and cast it with Creative Paperclay. I just love that luscious color palette!
Also interesting to point out is the handle for the tea cup; and I’ll let Caroline tell you about it further:
“I was going to use a really awesome resin casting; but if you take the resin piece out before it is really hard it bends! However when I did that I wasn’t ready to attach it yet and it got too hard by the time that I was. So if you want the ICE Resin handle, then your cup needs to be ready for a handle when you make it. Bend the piece gently and hot glue into place. The hot glue will hold the bend and the resin will harden in that shape.”
There’s a bit more to Caroline’s project but before you head over to her blog to read about it, she stitched together another project for you to look at! Caroline has put together a Fabric & Lace Cuff Bracelet Tutorial that looks fast and easy to put together. Using a heavy base fabric and layering strips of 1 Inch Natural Cotton Lace, 5/8 inch White Zig-Zag Cotton Lace (both of those laces are New and On Sale!, and there’s a Cotton Lace Sampler Set so you can try out all 3 of the new cotton laces), Tulle Netting – 6 Inch Wide – Light Pink, and a few other items. Oooh here’s an idea! If you wanted your cotton lace to be a different color, you could always use the Distress Stains OR the Alcohol Inks to dye them with. At least that’s what I’d do, and have a great time making a big fat mess that I’d blame on my kids when Slim Daddy came home and saw color everywhere. (And/or check out Jeanne’s Tinting Lace Tutorial.)
Of course, you know here at Alpha Stamps, if we’re not sure if something is finished then we just add a little bit more! If you’re going to wear something on your wrist then there has to be something shiny or sparkly as well. There just has to be, it’s a rule! Caroline uses Pearl Rosary Chain and also walks you through how to make your own charms and cuff closure. These cuffs are so easy you’ll be wanting to make one for everyone.
There are two supply lists for you to peruse and two separate blog posts for you to visit. Mash Up! Marie Antoinette and The Mad Hatter Tea Cup supply list and blog post, Fabric & Lace Cuff Bracelet Tutorial supply list and blog post.
ALL Collage Sheets On Sale!
PLUS for every $20 you spend, you can pick out a FREE Collage Sheet! Spend $40, pick out 2; spend $60, pick out 3, etc. The “pick out a free collage sheet” offer has expired BUT check the current newsletter for a NEW FREE collage sheet promo!
More New Lace New and On Sale! | |||
New Metal Goodies (ALL FOUR in today’s Giveaway) – All on Sale! View All New Items | |||
Hooray! The White Rabbit and Lots of Lace Giveaway!
OK… I switched from The Mad Hatter to The White Rabbit, but I wanted to get the new Medium Bronze White Rabbit Charms in the mix!
I picked out quite a few of the items from Caroline’s Marie Antoinette and The Mad Hatter Tea Cup and Fabric & Lace Cuff (note: those are links to photos of all the supplies for each project):
– 1/2 Inch Natural Scalloped Cotton Lace
– 3D Bronze Tea Time Teapot Charm
– Clock Face Buttons
– Heart Sequin Mix
– Mad Hatters Teaparty #2 Collage Sheet
– Marie Takes Tea Collage Sheet
– Mini Heart Tart Cake
– Mini Strawberry Cake
– Raw Brass Flourish
– 1 Inch Natural Cotton Lace
– 5/8 inch White Zig-Zag Cotton Lace
– Pink Ruffled Ribbon
– Die-Cut Chipboard Panniers Dress
AND these goodies not in Caroline’s artwork:
– Metal Birdcage with Tealight Holder
– Medium Bronze White Rabbit Charm
– Bronze Playing Card Suits
– Antique Bronze White Rabbit Charm
– Mad Hatters Teaparty #1 Collage Sheet
– Mad Hatters Tea-Party Paper Dolls Collage Sheet
– LED Tea Light
– Chocolate and Raspberry Gift Kit — and there’s another photo of one of the kits to show the color palette below; but remember: this week it’s anything goes (relatively… I’m keeping everything in a tight color palette but the choice of ribbons, charms, beads, papers is a surprise).
To enter The White Rabbit and Lots of Lace Giveaway Drawings (yes, plural, as I pulled two of these prize packages!):
1. you can leave a comment BELOW on this blog post TODAY OR TOMORROW
and/or
2. you can place an order TODAY OR TOMORROW (all orders will be in the drawing for the 2nd prize package)
The deadline for both drawings is 11:59 pm PST, FRIDAY NIGHT, March 13, 2015)!
Don’t forget to leave your (hello! correct) email address, too, so I can contact the winner; your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.
Please be patient! Spammers try to post crap here a lot so comments are moderated. So if you don’t see your post in the comments section, be patient and check back in a few hours before re-posting it, please!
After midnight, I’ll randomly pick the winners (via Random.org). So check your mailbox on Sunday morning to see who won and for the next Giveaway and Newsletter!
Hey, who won the TWO Marie Always Loved a Good Party Giveaways? That would be KIM AND Joan Myers ! (Note: the second Giveaway was a random drawing from orders placed during the contest.)
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Yes, I am the Queen!
I love the Marie Antoinette and Mad Hatter Mash Up project! And thanks for the chance to win the White Rabbit and Lace giveaways! I have silkscreened the White Rabbit motif onto Valentines and t shirts!
Oh, darn it! I just don’t have the budget this month to buy these wonderful things! So I really hope to win! I love everything! And, by the way, what is the Mad Hatter looking at there? LOL
Thank you thank you– inspiring as always!
Can’t wait to start ordering and playing…
Love your White Rabbit and Lots of Lace Giveaway, especially the charms, buttons and collage sheets The bronze birdcage is delightful!!
oh my goodness look at all the lovely ness.
Oh how perfect this would be to win I am working on an Alice in Wonderland project this very smack dab minute Good look to all
Lace is always good at a tea party!
I love the Mad Hatter / Marie Antoinette mash-up! Too silly!
LOVE, LOVE! This week’s giveaway!
Mad about this one!
Woop,woop! Love a little Mad Hatter and Marie, tooo good!
I am loving all of these Marie Antoinette creations! The lace in the giveaway has me happy dancing! my email is macaskillbarbara@yahoo.com
Would love to be one of the lace winners!
I’m jug at amd about this collection!! Thanx alpha stamps!
I just love all this stuff and would have so much fun playing with it.
That’s simply a mad amount of lace! Clever creations!
Tea, Marie and the White Rabbit! Love the laces!
I am sure Marie has her very own luxury rabbit hole!
Wow, lots of prettys today! I love lace and that bird cage and the hour glass are great! I’ve never had anything Alice related. This would be cool to win.
Double the fun!
Just adorable projects. Thanks for the chance to win your generous and fun give-away!
Now THIS is my style. If I don’t win, I’ll quote the queen of hearts: “Off with their heads!” Hah.
Love Alice AND lace!
Love it! Need it! Want it!
Such wonderful imagination you all have! Fabulous projects. Thanks for a chance to win.
love lace….love all the ideas this brings in my mind…….yes!
I’m Mad as a Hatter for these Giveaways.
We’re all mad here!
Such wonderful ideas. I love your imagination.
This is just perfect for my twin sister! She is the queen!!
Love the Alice giveaways-great lot!
I love the lace! Great ideas! Thanks for the chance to win!
Alice is truly one of my favorites! I would love to win!
Fabulous Alice giveaway. Clever use of the collage sheets.
ooo so fun! I love the lace cuff! The birdcage with tealight is awesome. Thanks again for such an awesome creative boost and chance to win!~kim
Alice – and all that stuff is always exciting!
Cool stuff!
So excited to see Alice in the subject line today – great mash up!
I LOVE this giveaway! Who doesn’t love Alice??
Another great giveaway! What fun!
I’m feeling lucky! Thank you for another awesome giveaway!
Love it! As always, a wonderful and generous giveaway. I’ve got three generations of us that love Alice in Wonderland (me, daughter and granddaughter) so this would be a great package to win!
Would love to win this one. Lots of great goodies.
Just Mad about this great giveaway.
You always have the best give always !
LOVE the teacup and the cup! Awesome!
Wow! What an awesome assortment! Thank you so much for putting these giveaways together. Such fun!
Love all the laces!!!
Mad Hatter is my favorite, would love to win this!
The highlight of my week is entering this drawing!
I just happen to be working on a tea party/mad hatter piece right now so this really sparked my interest. Caroline’s teacup creation is fabulous.
Love at first sight
Tea Party! Love this collection.
This is a wonderful project. What a fantastic give away. Thanks
Simply delicious!
Please throw my number into the mix for another wonderful giveaway!
These kits are just to fabulous, will chase the winter blues away for sure.
You can never go wrong with a white rabbit.
Love this week’s giveaway! Have always loved the Mad Hatter. Your store is great!!!
I love this giveaway! I’ve been making Alice collage boxes and jewelry lately and all these products are great.
Such pretty things…always!
Another fabulous giveaway!
What an amazing giveaway! Crossing my fingers for this one 🙂
What a refreshing change of pace. References to Marie and Alice in one art piece. I never would have thought of this.
Love and adore this giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity to win. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
lovely offering, as always! 🙂 i especially love the birdcage tealight holder!
Lovin’ all that lace!
The lace is beautiful. I would love to add it to the lace in my life. I’ll be traveling internationally all of Friday (through several time zones) so I may not be able to reply immediately if “random.org” chooses me as the lucky winner. (Should be available Saturday though.)
I just made a couple of Alice in Wonderland collages and am not quite finished. I certainly wouldn’t mind a few more supplies!
Someone is going to have a wonderful time wining this giveaway.
Thanks Alpha Stamps for the chance to win!!
We’re all mad here! Love Alice. Thanks for the chance to win.
I so love the queen in her huge red dress! I love alpha stamps way too much…
Oh, please let me come visit Wonderland!
Loving Wonderland!
Ooooh! I love this project and giveaway!
Gorgeous projects by Caroline and a lovely giveaway, thank you!
Best tea cups ever!
Fab projects!! Love the lace cuff & really liking the look of the micro beads on Marie Antoinette :o)
Love Marie and Mad Hatter Tea Party, goes great together! I’ve got to buy the March Rabbit charm. Great giveaway!
The Mad Hatter or The White Rabbit, either name I love it!
the best of both worlds with this project!
Im just a little mad about this giveaway!!
Doesn’t everyone love a white rabbit and a mad hatter? I know I do.
clever use of images
Lovely! Thank you for another opportunity!
So who was madder, the Hatter or Marie???
Let’s have a mad cap tea party!
love, love this giveaway kit. I love Marie A. and that birdcage with the tea light.
Rabbits and the month of March are always linked in my mind.
Lots of pretties today. Love the beautiful.cuff.
Mad as a March hare? Yep, that’s me! I could use some fancy jewelry! or even a bit of tea..
We are all mad here! And we have ESP – I am just about to start my first Alice in Wonderland project and I need those collage sheets!!
awesome giveaway …
I am ready to go down the rabbit hole to explore my inner Alice. Count me in
What a fabulous collection of papers, images and special goodies.
Wonderful!!!!
Hmmm, fun.
I love this giveaway!
What a great mash-up!
You’ve gotta love the Mad Hatter and Marie together.
Cool.
Another great giveaway.
This is blend of my two favorite themes! How did you do that?!
Love it!
So fun!
The Mad Hatter was my costume this Halloween. I had an excuse for acting crazy!
Another awesome giveaway.
Fun giveaways!!
This looks totally fun! Count me in!
Love to win
I keep hope one day I will win one of your great giveaways. Thank you for your generosity
Now that I have found you . . . I am your number 1 fan!!! I didn’t know anyone was as addicted to Alice in Wonderland as i was. I grew up actually, thinking the book was Allyson’s Wonderland . . because my name is Allyson (that is how sadly addicted I am.) OF COURSE, now that I have children and nieces, we now celebrate madness and unbirthdays daily. What a wonderful unbirthday it would be to win one of your contests. What a great site! Keep it up ladies!!!
So cute.I love anything Alice.
Marie sure does know how to party!!
I love all of those pretty new laces!
Love this set!
What a wonderful giveaway!
I have a “thing” about bracelets, and would love to be able to make this cuff….
Lovely giveaway and laces.
Love~Love~LOVE this beautiful project! Thank you for the beautiful giveaway!
what a great combination of stuff!
What a great giveaway! Hope it’s my time!!!!
Lace, teacups??? LOVE IT!!
love lace!
Oh ! Who wouldn’t love the Queen ! or to be the Queen ! Love the creations !
Thanks,
melody
What can I say – Thanks for the bronze white rabbit charm.
I just love these!!!! What fun….
Beautiful – love this.
I love anything Alice, of course, but yours are always so clever.
Beautiful!!!! Thank you for the opportunity to enter!
Tea, Alice, and Marie what could be better? A perfect trio – tres chic 🙂