curiouser indeed!

for week two of the "secrets and hidden things" challenge at lunagirl moonbeams i wanted to do something kind of whimsical.  i was thinking that the alice in wonderland story includes secrets and hidden things so i turned to one of the alice collage sheets from lunagirl.  i colored the image of alice pulling aside the curtain with promarkers and cut it out. but i wanted her to find something a little more surprising than the queen's garden. so while the mysteriously smiling cheshire cat looks on, here is what happened in my alice scene...

whoa, what is rudolph the red-nosed reindeer doing behind that curtain? i guess he is telling me i'd better get going on making some christmas cards.

the alice, cheshire cat and "curiouser" all came from the lunagirl sheet.  the background was a freebie karen at lunagirl provided on her blog a month or so ago.  the rest are little things i had laying around.  i decided to link this card up to the "humour" challenge at dream valley challenges  and also to the "animal antics" challenge at the squirrel and the fox challenge blog.

happy week!  love to all.

more tag love

the sweet image for this tag was a freebie from over the rainebeau blog.

background "french script" stamp from stampin up.
i'm linking up to crafting when we can "love" challenge and to dream valley challenges "valentine" challenge.

love to all!

getting transparent (with buttons!) at the cheerful stamp pad

the new challenge at the cheerful stamp pad for the next two weeks is "transparent."  i had some clear buttons i've been wanting to use so i thought i'd try using them as connectors for a paper doll dancer.  i decided to make a canvas (my third if you are keeping track...).  this one is 8 x 10.

the paper doll pieces came from (now closed) paula's kits club.  i made the torso with paper i had already.  i used clear buttons on her arms.  i ended up not using them on her legs because of the skirt.  i used additional clear buttons for decoration. it doesn't show up perfectly in the photo i took.  this didn't turn out exactly how i had it in my head but it is a fun piece.

i was blog-hopping around and learned at jack's arty crafty kreations that there is a challenge at dream valley challenges to use buttons however you like.  so i'm entering this piece in that challenge.

have a lovely week.  please consider joining the challenge.
love to all.