Mad Hatter for Mad Hatter Day (October 6th)!

This week's challenge at The Outlawz Coloring Challenges is anything "Alice in Wonderland" in honor of Mad Hatter Day on October 6th. Carla, Penny, Karen, Vannessa, and I challenge you to create a project for this challenge. You should check out their blogs to see their gorgeous artwork.

Here's my card with SCACD's The Hatter.  If you like this digital stamp and are an International friend, you can now buy it HERE.

The Hatter was resized in PhotoElements, then printed out onto Neenah cardstock with my laser printer. It was then colored with Copic markers and set aside while I created a background for it.

A 4.75" x 6.75" piece of 140 lb. Mixed Media cardstock (Strathmore) took a ride through my Big Kick (Sizzix) inside the Cuttlebug Clockworks embossing folder (ProvoCraft). Black cardstock was die-cut with the hat, hatband, and cane die from an old QuicKutz Snowman set. The hat band was adhered to the hat, then all the hats were adhered the embossed cardstock using Media Matte Medium (DecoArt). 

When the piece was dry, it was painted with a layer of Carbon Black Media Fluid Acrylic (MFA) paint (DecoArt), then sponged with Ultramarine Blue, Pthalo Blue, and Metallic Gold MFA paints. I finished the painting by stippling Quinacridone Magenta and Transparent Red Iron Oxide MFA paint over top of the other layers of paint.

Sometimes I don't feel like fussing endless to lay out a card, so I visit various websites to find sketches to use. Lazy I am. Yep. This time, I found one that would work at the paper players challenges.  

So, according to the sketch (shown below) I matted the image panel with black metallic cardstock. I found some shiny shimmery blue metallic paper that was embossed with the Clocks embossing plate (Cherry Lynn Designs). This layer was matted with the black metallic paper that had been punched with a Lattice Border punch (Martha Stewart). 

Silver metallic cardstock was die-cut with the chain die from the Rope and Chain die set (All Occasions), adhered to a strip of black metallic cardstock, and adhered per the sketch. The image panel was adhered over these layers.

Gold metallic cardstock was die-cut with an old Pocketwatch die set (QuicKutz), which oddly didn't have a a watch face, though it had watch hands. Never fear! I found the correct size watch face from the Retro Mod Clocks Shapeabilities die set (Spellbinders), which I used to cut and emboss the clock face from green cardstock. I used a gold gel pen to highlight the dots. Gold metallic cardstock was also die-cut with one of the dies from the Decorative Border die set (All Occasions). The clock and the chain were adhered. The card front was adhered to a 5" x 7" black card.

Here's the sketch so you can see how I did!

Thanks for visiting today!

I shall enter this card into the following challenges:

• the paper players challenge #264

• SanDee and amelie's Steampunk Challenges: Top Hats and Moustaches
• Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenges: P is for Steampunk!