Alice In Wonderland Wall Art

Welcome to a wonderfully adventurous edition of the TM blog as we sing from the top of Tigerlily Towers and slide down the rabbit hole straight into the Mad Hatters Tea Party.

Today's post is all about "ALICE" and if you haven't guessed yes I do mean Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland is by far one of my all time favorite fairy-tales and it will come as no surprise to you all that I have created a whole range of Alice inspired projects.

This particular project is reinvented version of the original, the original design started out on a greetings card. The card I chose was buff and I will cover the card in another post, but it was out of a desire to create the growth potion effect that is a fundamental part of the book. The part where Alice grows so big that those of a certain size would only get to see her legs and skirt.

So I thought long and hard about how I could re interpret this effect on my card, with several rough sketches, numerous templates... I finally settled on a design, which is below.

But as time went on I felt it was lacking a little and so I reinvented the wheel to improve on my original concept for the card as featured below:

This I feel is a crisper design and the machine stitching just add that extra bit of finishing that the previous card didn't. 

 
From here I went on to create stitched version in a shadow frame. ALTHOUGH it received much acclaim and many were purchased... I was not 100% content with the proportions.

Finally I decided that it was the size of the frame and the lack of frame/mount. So I completely re-designed the wall art to fit a square shadow frame with a crisp mount. This meant that the proportions of the felt design were much smaller but somehow this worked much more to my satisfaction. I then wanted to add a little something extra, so I riffled through my own personal collection of Alice memorabilia and a fitted an Alice themed playing card into the frame. I can't take any credit for the playing card, but I do feel its the perfect partnership for the design.


So here is the new frame...

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Alice in Wonderland Adventures Greetings Card

A totally adventurous and awesome welcome awaits you in our latest blog addition, live from the top of Tigerlily Towers... we are  going to slide down the rabbit hole again, but we have armed ourselves with soft magical Alice style cushions, to soften our way over the bumps!

In today's post I wanted to share with you the re-invented/upgraded version of the already popular Alice Greetings card.

Here is the original.

Following on from that, I wanted to change the style of Alice's Skirt to fit more efficiently, so with a little re-shaping and re-sizing we finally go there. The key difference between the two cards is that it is stitched and stitched to the card itself.

So without further delay here is the updated version which I think is fresher and more contemporary. What do you think?

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Mad Hatters Greeting Card

Well "we are all mad here!" Especially when we haven't had our daily dose of tea and cake! Wonderfully mad and cakey welcomes to you all. 

Another adventurous edition of the TM blog

As we are having a bit of an Alice theme I simply couldn't get away without sharing the latest version of the Mad Hatters greetings card. 

As with all the previous Alice inspired projects this one too has had a bit of stitchery, pokery added to it. Though Sadly you can,t see it too well in the picture, I chose black thread, but up close and personal it gives it a nice textured edging. 

Need we say more other than Ta Dah!!! 

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Time for Tea & Cake Felt Wall Art

Well you guessed it lovely felt folk, its another wonderfully adventurous edition of the TM blog.

We had a bumpy ride down the rabbit hole last time so we thought we would come straight through the looking glass this time.

Today's blog is a follow on from the Alice in Wonderland inspired Wall Art. Time for Tea & Cake wall art/decor is also a re-invention from the original which can be seen below.

Again this cake theme started life on a greetings card and then translated to a shadow frame.

Like the Alice frame, proportional this was not sitting right with me and I felt, if you pardon the pun, there was just a little something missing. As I had already re-invented the Alice Frame I was pretty confident that I could make this work for the cake and will be testing out on the mad hatter design too. Add in some decorative stitching to the front and viola its been reborn! Again fitting a playing card from my own personal collection of memorabilia... and I have a lot... just seemed to give it that something extra.

So here it is, what do you think?

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Time for Tea & Cake Felt Greetings Card

Welcome, welcome and welcome to the latest slice of the Tigerlily Makes blog.

We are all about cake today, felt cake actually which is great as it is totally calorie and fat free!

As many of you will know I have done this design before, though this time I wanted to add something a little extra and re-invent the design.

The key difference here is that the cake wedge has been stitched directly onto the buff card, I love stitching paper onto card and I think it has given it that something extra. A little more dimension and interest. Its then finished with beautiful flat back pearls and a printed sentiment.

Need we say more about this other than, here it is!

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Alice In Wonderland - Its Always Time for Tea!

Oooo gosh... I'm late... I'm late is just one of the many phrases and sayings that has inspired my passion for all things Alice In Wonderland.

As a Child it is something I remember reading fondly along with The Hobbit and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe! I was forever being told off for daydreaming and not concentrating on the lesson in hand! But you see I have always had a creative mind, always taking me off to magical places and a dreamworlds where anythings possible.

My passion of all things magical continued into adult hood where my thirst and need to be creative just grew and grew. I love the storybooks of yester year and loved reading to my son when he was a child. Reading to my son every night was the most favorite part of the day, as was it his... my son being a child with dyslexia and having a book read on a daily basis was a great help to his academic development.

So with such a long love affair with the magical story telling and imagery around, it was only going to be a matter of time that I would create Alice inspired fully felted creations.

Time for TEA is probably my most favorite saying out of all the Alice phrases, I think mainly because I am a tea-aholic! There Iv'e said it and also coming from a very long line of Welsh ancestors... tea was always what solved every problem, every thirst and every celebration. There would always be a pot of tea on at my Grandma's and Great Grandma's house and it was always served from a pot and in china tea cups. Some would say that its a very British thing, for me its always been a very Welsh thing!

So inspired by this magical book and all her characters, I have created my own nod to Alice, I hope that she and her author would be proud of these interpretations... and so now there's only one thing left to do!

Lets fill the pot!

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