Wonderland Vignette - Sizzix Ch 2

Whoooooooooooooo are yooooooooooooou? I made this Alice in Wonderland inspired vignette with two of the newest Tim Holtz Sizzix chapter 2 releases - Artsy Stems and Abstract Faces.

 I recorded myself as I planned and made this project, so I compiled it all into this walk-through tutorial.

 To begin with I covered the sides of a large Idea-ology Square Vignette Box with the Abstract Faces scribbles cut from Distress Kraft Heavystock. Put a thin layer of Collage Medium Matte on the box, then press the die cut into it and make sure it is securely fastened onto the box. Next cover with Collage Medium and smooth it out with your fingers. Repeat with another die cut until the outside of the box is completely covered.

Then paint the outside of the box with Villainous Potion Distress Paint. Once it is completely dry, rub Shaded Lilac Distress Cranyon over the paint and rub it into the crevices with a slightly damp finger.

 Paint the inside with a mixture of blues, keeping the darker on the outside edges and the lighter toward the center.

 To make the toadstool, cut two of the rounded triangle shape from Watercolor cardstock. Then cut the bottom off one of them using the bottom of the die as you see in the photo above.

 

 Here are the various bits I used to make the main toadstool and caterpillar parts. I hand trimmed around the circle (head) and segmented piece I used for its body.

 

 I colored the pieces for the toadstool this way. The two scalloped segments will be layered to make the stem.

All of the pieces like this were mostly cut from left over pieces of green heavystock and cut apart in various ways to make blades of grass.

 

Another die cut that was trimmed to make various blades of grass. I got three blade shapes out of this piece if you count the piece that falls out in the middle of the blade.

 Here is the toadstool ready to be put into action in the vignette.

 For the toadstool I cut one of the half-circle rocks in half so it would poke out on both sides and then I added some of the grass strands I made. I use a variety of things to make pieces have dimension and for this one I cut a piece of thick foam. Another thing you can use is old bingo or scrabble chips, or layers of chipboard scraps,

 

Here is the piece put together as we have it so far. Now we need the flowers out front.

 

I cut a few extra Artsy Stems from the green heavystock and then cut them each along the top to cut off the flowers and make it seem like a vine.

 

I attached the vines, stems, and grass to the front and back of the rock and then made a little easel to hold it up at the front of the vignette box.

Here is another set that shows the grass, vines and stems with the rock.

To get them to stand up I used the easel and the edge of the vignette box as you can see here,

 

Here is the finished product from the side.

 

I added a Word Plaque from the recent Tim Holtz Idea-ology release, colored it with Mustard Seed Distress Paint, and then attached it with Idea-ology Tack Nails.

 

I discussed in detail in the video how I made the caterpillar. As I said earlier I used the segmented shape and circle from Abstract Faces to make the shape of the caterpillar, then cut around them with scissors. The horns are the knockouts from the lips, the arms and feet are the ends of one of the eye lashes, and the face is just jumbled together from the knockouts.

 

One more detail I added was the Idea-ology Word Key that says Curious because Alice keeps claiming things are curiouser and curiouser.

 

I used the same Mustard See Distress Paint to make sure the details stand out.

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Have a creative day,

Tami

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