I was so excited to find out that the International Quilt Festival in Houston Texas Oct 30th-Nov 2nd 2008 will be host to a Make It University with Cloth Paper Scissors magazine! Make it U is an open studio area for collage arts and crafts with demonstrations and participation in the art process. Also, what really excited me is a large Artist Trading card swap, ATCs, that will be going on at the show so I cracked open my Atc goodies and got to work making some Holiday inspired cards. My mom and I go every year and hope to see some of you Pinkdilla fans there!

After playing around with all of my alice in wonderland images and stickers I turned them into some cute cards. I had the most fun with my Stampington’s Angel of music stamp, I just cut the wings out of the image and dabbed some alice blue ink on her gown. Voila! She is a really good alice impersonator! I adored her sitting on the edge of the windows, I painted and inked a silver german dresden arch and cut out a window from a playing card and placed them over a stamped tree image. What’s really fun is sticking her with all of the different characters and sticking some teacups and teapots in there too.

I was so honored and delighted to be asked to add a page for the Somerset Studio Thank you collaborative book as a thank you to the editor of Holidays and Celebrations 2008 for including our artwork in that issue. The theme was “you as a child” and so I added one of my favorite photos and decked me out in Alice in wonderland gear! The project was headed up and put together by Candace Martens, a fellow artist and blogger. You can check out her blog Here.

My alice-inspired page

Page in the book