Alice in Wonderland Card and Bookmark With Felt Mad Hatter’s Hat

Welcome back for yet another project for the Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

I have an amazing gift set to show you today, and I’ll warn you in advance that this will be a long post. If you only want to see the card, I won’t hold it against you if you scroll down to the end. : )

For those of you who are staying, here’s the Alice in Wonderland Card and Bookmark I made for a friend who loves the story that includes one of the most famous tea parties in literature:

And, yes, that’s a picture of the real Alice – Alice Liddell – who was the inspiration for Charles Dodson’s books (You might know Dodson by his pen name: Lewis Carroll).

In case you’re wondering, the smaller book is Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and the larger one is More Annotated Alice.

Let’s start with the Mad Hatter’s hat that I made from felt. Since I cut it freehand, rather than draw you a template, I took a picture on a grid so you could freehand your own.

            

There’s some extra felt for the top part to make it end up fatter than the bottom. Place a dot of Fabri-tac on the felt and start winding the felt around a headpin with a sequin on it (to keep it from pulling through the felt). You will want to leave enough room for the full width of the felt when you get there. Once finished, use a dab of glue to hold the end. Glue the smaller circle on top and trim to fit. Glue the larger circle on the bottom.

You will want to put your ‘sash’ of ribbon on first, before rolling the sides up and securing with a dot of glue. (Ask me how I know! Lol!!) Then shape the top of the headpin into a charm loop. There are plenty of tutorials on how to do this on the net.

I cut off some rounded head pins for the hatpins, printed out the chit to tuck under the band ,and put some small feathers in the opposite side to finish it off.

Materials used for the bookmark:

That rabbit is just a little something I found in a bin at Michaels, but what’s cool about him is that, in true Alice in Wonderland fashion, he will grow up to 5x his size if you put him in water and shrink back when dry. I just pierced his ears to add the jump rings and glued on the clock with E6000.

The ‘drink me’ potion is just a couple of drops of water and glitter in a green flask.

Some other things I altered for this bookmark…

The glass cat charm needed a grin and, since the glass accents are dimensional, I pulled out my Pebeo Cerne Relief and drew one in. Once dry, I gave him some pearly whites with a Viva Decor Perlen Pen.

 

the bookmark itself was textured silver.

I wanted a mossy ‘grouting’ and bright cobblestone look, but the alcohol ink kept bleeding onto the green patina I was using, so I ended up going with the bright textured interior.

Supplies used for the bookmark:

• The Jewelry Shoppe findings: Textured Bookmark
  • Ranger Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink – Wild Plum mixed with:
  • Ranger Vintaj Glaze gloss metal sealer
• Kunin Felt Eco-fi Classicfelt – Red
  • Interesting fact: This felt is made with a polyester fiber made from recycled plastic bottles.
  • Beacon Fabri-tac Permanent Adhesive
  • Cousin Jewelry Basics antique gold headpins (1 flat, 5 round heads)
  • Neat & Tangled Lucy’s Little Things Chocolate Truffle Mix – sequin
  • Misc. Feathers
• Celebrate-It Grow Your Own Rabbit
  • Bead Landing Found Objects clock charm
  • E6000 adhesive
  • Advantus Corp Metal Chain – Victorian antique brass
  • Fundamental Findings 8mm jump rings
• Bead & Art of Lighthouse Point, FL  glass cat bead
  • Pebeo Cerne Relief – Black
  • Viva Decor Perlen Pen – Ice White
• Bead Landing Found Objects bottles (green)
  • Stampendous Gold Halo Mix Glitter & water
  • Coats & Clark Metallic Decorative Thread
  • Tagboard from a Bead Landing Charm
  • Pigma Micron 08 pen – black
  • Ranger Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink – Currant mixed with:
  • Ranger Vintaj Glaze gloss metal sealer (for the top of the cork)
• Bead Landing Pemberly: cup and saucer charms, cameo charm
• Bead Landing Charmalong Teapot charm
  • Plaid Liquid Leaf – Classic Gold
• Bead Landing Charmalaong crown charm
  • Ranger Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink – Currant mixed with:
  • Ranger Vintaj Glaze gloss metal sealer
• Bead Landing Charmalaong key charm
• Beads:
  • Nicole’s Bead Shop 7mm silver flower bead
    • Ranger Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink – Currant mixed with:
    • Ranger Vintaj Glaze gloss metal sealer
  • Darice 4mm gladd beads
  • Bead Shop 4mm glass beads
  • Nicole Craft Cat’s eye beads
  • Bead Gallery copper plated butterflies bead, cloisonne bead, glass bead, pink cat’s eye bead, blue aventurine bead, antiqued silver plated rondelles, Czech faceted glass bead, pink glass butterfly, 8mm pink ceramic flower round, 3x4mm faceted rounds, goldstone bead, 8mm carved rose bamboo coral bead and 4mm bamboo coral beads
  • Cousin 4mm  Rose Gold stardust bead
• Beadalon #1 copper crimp beads
• Darice 26 gauge copper wire

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For the card, I used the color scheme from MarkerPOP’s Challenge #117: Desert Pastels:

What a sweet little Gorjuss stamp set and I really like that Graceful Borders die set!

Supplies used for the card:

• Santoro Gorjuss Sweet Tea
• Spellbinders Shells Duality dies
• Spellbinders Graceful Borders: Graceful Eyelets & Graceful Frame Maker
• Core’dinations cardstock
• Memento dye inks: Tuxedo black & Rhubarb Stalk
• Copic Markers: C1, 3, 5, 7; E000, 00, 02 04, 51; R20; RV02;V12; W1, 3, 5; YG61
• Pebbles, Inc. Pearlescent Chalks Jewel Tones
• iCraft Therm-o-Web: Sticky Dot Runner & Sticky Tape Runner – permanent adhesives

I’m playing along with the following challenges… click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun…

• Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop (both the card and the bookmark)
• Marker Pop Challenge #117: Desert Pastels
  • Edited to add: Thank you, MarkerPOP for the privilege of being a top pick! 
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Things with Wings (The feathers in the Mad Hatter’s hat on the bookmark)
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: >1 die or punch
• Simon Says Stamp Work-It-Wednesday: Spring (the set)

Thank you for hanging in there through this extra long post! I hope you liked the gift set as much as my friend did!

I hope to see you again real soon!

~D.Ann

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