My Alice Tag Book Swap covers are coming along. I did a small painting of Alice and of a door, then glued them onto a page from the Alice in Wonderland book printed in 1923 that Beth gave to me. Then, I took it to the copy store.
I hope that isn't considered cheating? I'm doing some hand work to each copy. The door is cut open, and behind that, I'm gluing a small rose picture. To the back, I've added blue flocked wallpaper.
For a title, I kept it simple, and just wrote "Alice" in blue metallic ink on red labels and glued those on. How nice that Kathy
sent all those boxes of labels to me! Perfect timing, and just what I needed for these tags!
I've also ordered little bottles and heart shaped keys to tie onto each tag book.
Since I want a book to keep for myself, I need to make up some tags too. I think I have more than 6 done now, but its hard to stop! This is such a fun theme, the possibilities are endless.
For this one, I painted the tag metallic gold, then painted the mushroom with watercolors, markers, and inks. I cut the text from the book to make the "ground" for Alice to stand on. She, the pipe, and the caterpillar are cut from a colored page of the book. I glued them down, then drew in the tube for the pipe. It was just too tiny to cut out.
But of all the tags I made, this is my favorite. Its very simple and flowery, and the illustration that I cut from the book was just so pretty as is, I didn't do much to it. I simply glued it to flowery wallpaper and added trim, velvet millinery blooms, and a heart charm.
My plan was to limit the swap to 60, but I was hit with a ferocious bug of some kind and didn't move off the sofa for 24 hours, and in the meantime, the swap numbers grew. So, I've decided to keep it open a bit. The More the Merrier! I will allow in a few more, if you haven't joined yet.
I need to order more little stoppered bottles for the cover, I only had 60. Since the swap numbers passed 60 while I was zonked out, I am ordering more. And I'd be happy to have even more swappers join in.
Here are the details, if you want to make 6 tags for a book.
If you are already in the swap, please upload your photos to this Flickr group.
And if you need some wallpaper to complete your tags, I have added some really pretty ones to the shop.
I also listed some millinery tid bits. I don't waste anything! Hey, there isn't any more old stuff being made, what is left in the world is all there is. So, I use odd petals here and there, and thought I'd share some in case you like to do that too.
Because there is nothing like using the good stuff. This bit of lace was just a remnant, but isn't it pretty tied to a package I sent out this week? A little bit of something pretty, and old, magically transforms a plain package into something special.
Have you seen this!!???
We get to be mermaid sirens! Kim is throwing another one of her fantastic art affairs. And I have said to myself over and over that I really need to attend one of them, but the timing has never been right. Well, this time it was! I signed up today. My pal, Carol is going with me, and I have my fingers crossed that Beth will too.
Anything is more fun if Beth comes along.
I hope you'll be there too? Info here, if you want to come!
