Winner & Honorable Mentions: CHAPTER 23, Anything Goes

Winner!

The randomly chosen winner of our CHAPTER 23 Challenge is Ali of Alipeeps Art, participating from the UK!  I wonder if she will choose any of his wonderful AIW images?  I love the textured white background with bling; the white margin around the beatifully colored image really ties it into the background and I love the layer placement.  Ali, please email me through the link in the left column of my blog, and you are also entitled to display the winner blog badge above!

 Ali will win her choice of three amazing digis from artist Rick St. Dennis!

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Designer of over 100 theatrical productions, Rick St Dennis (Donald McAfee) is also the author of 4 books on decorative painting and contributor to at least a dozen national magazines on crafts and art. St. Dennis has appeared on such TV shows as Home Matters with Susan Powell, Aileen's Crafts and others. He was Crafts editor for Country Folk Art Magazine and sold his artwork nationally through galleries and shows. For a complete bio of his amazing career, see Rick's blog!


Honorable Mentions!

First, we had a number of great entries that featured our sponsor's wonderful images, of both the cute and creepy varieties!

Fantastic tag featuring Rick's Queen of Hearts by Shary of The Other Side of Me Revitalised.

Teacup card with Rick's Alice and Company by Lynne at Her Craftiness. Love the soft colors!

Monster Cheshire

Falling Alice and monster rabbit

Monique of Monique's Dark Arts contributed two horror projects using Rick St. Dennis images; I love her captions!

Wendy of WendyLynn's Paper Whims also a card using Alice and Company, and a second project:

Wendy also created a wonderful pendant with a teabag charm made from a small ceramic tile!

I absolutely ADORE this project by Leintje from the Netherlands. I love projects that feature book text! 

Jass of Happiness Crafts created Wonderland in a teacup, it's charming!

Sue Davies of Sue The Iron created this fab tag with a cautionary lesson on the dangers of making comments on other's bums! Hah!

The mix of colors, patterns and textures on this card by Jenn Borjeson of Stamping Angel Jenn just make me happy!

All those mentioned here are entitled to display the Honorable Mention blog badge!

Be sure to take a look at all the great projects, if I had time I would have listed them all! Note: if you are reading this in email or a reader, you will have to click on the title of the post to view the projects on the blog. 
Please leave a comment before you go, and check back tomorrow for the next challege, sponsored by Simply Betty Stamps!

Winner & Honorable Mentions, CHAPTER 20: Twinkle like a Bat, Shine like a Tea Tray!

Happy Hallowe'en from The Altered Alice!

Our sponsor this month is Smeared Ink, home of edgy, wild and fun designs in rubber and digital forms has released a Wonderland Collection; images are available individually or as a set. The randomly-chosen winner of this month's challenge will receive a $15 shopping spree in their online store.  But first. . .

One Last DT Project!

A two-page art journal spread from Lynne Phelps of Savvy Sisters Studio (me!). It was a real joy to color these complex detailed images despite it being a huge departure from my usual style, LOL! I really enjoyed the way the Queen of Heart's looking glass acted like a window into Alice in the garden and I wanted to have the two images next to each other to reinforce the connection. Here are some closeups of the images and my coloring:

I would love it if you would stop by my personal blog, Savvy Sisters Studio, and leave a comment there for me!

Our Winner:


Our sponsor this month is Smeared Ink, home of edgy, wild and fun designs will give the randomly-chosen winner of this month's challenge  a $15 shopping spree in their online store.   Smeared and Smudged is an online community of rubber stampers and crafters who enjoy using alternative, gothic, edgy, and unique stamps in their designs. We thrive on different and unusual. We welcome the macabre and devious side of things, and most of all, we embrace ALL types and styles of art. Whether or not you “come to the dark side”, your creations should be a reflection of you. At Smeared and Smudged, the most important thing is being yourself. There are lots of ways to interact with the community! [ Ning Community | Challenge Blog | Facebook Group ]

The winner of this month's challenge is #2 as chosen by random.org, so that means that Shahrul Niza of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is the lucky one! Check out her amazing exploding box!

Be sure to visit her blog, Such Pretty Canvas, for many more pictures showing all the amazing detail! Shahrul, please email me through the link in the left column so I can forward your info to Smeared Ink for your shopping spree! You may also add this badge to your blog, linking it to this post:

Thanks again to Smeared Ink for being such a great sponsor!

Honorable Mentions

Artwolf2009 from Munich, Germany brings us this scary entry along with a charming story! Be sure to visit her blog for the tale.

The wrinkled background texture behind these twinkly bats is fantastic. Kudos to Keren Howell of Altered Ego for trying a great new technique!

Leintje brings the very first shaker card to The Altered Alice and shiny metallic gold hearts make the perfect "snow".  The image of Alice with the playing cards flying about is just perfect for a shaker card! I love the way she used the bell jar shape, charming!

I love the quirky Cheshire Cat shape of this twice-altered clock from Blackdragon, who titled the piece The 31 Days of Hallowe'en. The outer border makes me think of board game trails to go along with that theme! Love the hand too!

WendyLynn's Paper Whimsies poses the question "is everyone in wonderland batty?" and I would have to say "why YES!" It made me laugh so it is in for a Mention!

Marcelo Carbone from Brazil and living in Italy, brings us the undead Queen of Hearts and her undead vampire playing cards! Eeeek! He calls this Alice's Hallowe'en Nightmare; who knew an altered doll could be so scary?

I had such fun watching the video by EmeraldQueen of TatteredRoses41 showing the creation of this art journal page Be sure to visit her blog to watch the video!

I am out of time to describe what I like about each project, but everyone did such a great job this month that ALL ENTRIES get an Honorable Mention! Thanks to all our participants for doing such a great job! See the other entries below:
Please leave a comment before you go!

Winner & Honorable Mentions, CHAPTER 19: Lovely Garden and Bright Flowers

Note: My apologies for this post being delayed. I have been in a misery of sinus headaches, allergies and asthma attacks!

Winner:

Abbie of Powered By Fairy Dust is this month's winner! Love this pensive Alice image and that great keyhole image. The yellow flowers are so cheerful! Abbie, please email me using the link in the left column so I can arrange for your prize!

The winner will receive 3 digi images from The Stamping Boutique, which has a wonderful Alice in Wonderland line we will be sharing with you! Tracey Malnoski is the owner and illustrator, and she has previously designed stamps for Unity, InStyle, Squigglefly, and The Digi Shack. Her Stamping Boutique has it all: digital images, red rubber stamps, and themes that include fairytale, whimsy, sentimental, and candy. Please visit the Store and their wonderful Challenge Blog!

Honorable Mentions:

I was THRILLED to see Retta of Foxy's Weblog return with this fab entry! LOVE the garden tea party in a tin. Be sure to stop by Retta's blog to see the accompanying mini album, it is wonderful. Retta is a former design team member, and her blog is well worth a visit for any Wonderland fan!

I loved seeing this card using one of the Stamping Boutique images by Rhonda Miller of Rhonda's Place to Share.

Godzoned (Debbie) of Arty Crafty in New Zealand created this wonderful assemblage on blue flowered tiles. I love the mix of elements on this whimsical piece!

I loved the inky background and vivid white designs on this curiouser garden by Sarah Anderson of The Art of Moodling from Cheshire, United Kingdom.

Ana Caldatto of Scrap da Ana in Brazil created an Alice garden dress form and a Alice Barbie to match!

Be sure to visit Mrs. Beez to see all the closeup details of this wonderful card, especially the green garden fountain surrounded by flowers!

Another charming garden tin, this time from Artwolf2009; I love it!

I had to point out this macabre and funny offering from Monique's Pretty Dark Art; I think this Alice is off her meds and in dire need of some Prozac, LOL!

I'll be back in a few days with the next challenge. In the meantime, browse through all the entries in this month's challenge! I would have listed them all here if I had time!

Winner & Honorable Mentions - CHAPTER 18: Now you see him. . . Now you don't

This month's winner will receive three digi stamps from our sponsor Dilly Beans, featuring the whimsical art of Megan Suarez, famous for her charming big-eyed girls! You can see the digi stamps and collage sheets on her blog, Dilly Beans Stamps. There is also a Dilly Beans design team challenge blog and an Etsy shop with Megan's artwork to inspire you. Dilly Beans offers four Alice-related digi stamps: Alice in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat and some whimsical mushrooms.

The Winner

Our challenge this month was to make a card where things appear and disappear; it could be as simple as a tag in a pocket or something more interactive and fun!

Our randomly chosen winner is Wendy of WendyLynn's Paper Whims, who was inspired by Alice's every changing size. Look!

I love the humor, what a great sentiment! Wendy, please contact me via the email link in the left column. You may also display this blog badge!

Honorable Mentions
All of the entries this month were fantastic!

Ana Caldatto of Scrap da Ana, joining us from Sao Paolo, Brazil, created these fun pocket Cheshire Cats; the pockets are decorated with text cut from an old ex-library book. I love the way she related her project to the way books appear and sometimes disappear from the library!

Debbie of Arty Crafty created another set of pages in her altered calendar. I really LOVE this, all of her Altered Alice challenges this year are in the same altered calendar, with a focus on quotes from the Tim Burton movie, which I adore! The "blood" rimmed claw marks give us a peek at what is to come!

Silvia of BarniesBaustelle, joining us from Germany, created a fabulous waterfall card - when you tug on the ribbon at the base, the layers at the top flip up one-by-one to reveal various images! Please visit Silvia's blog to see photos of all the layers, it is so  much fun!

Keren Howell of Altered Ego, who comes to us from Swansea, UK, created a fun slider card! I love the way the sentiment and the blue butterfly tie in with the Caterpillar.

Karen Goulet of Krafty Kitty Karen created a fun pop-up card, complete with a charming little story!

All Honorable Mention recipients are entitled to display this blog badge!

We will have a new challenge for you next week; please leave a comment before you go!