Mad Hatter Hat and Boy Layout

Hello everyone

Today I am sharing a project that I made for the Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo 2013 in Brisbane, so you will see it there IRL if you pop by.

The theme in our class room is the Mad hatters tea party, so I thought it would be great to make a hat from Scratch as you do !!

To start with I created the hat with blotting paper! yes it sounds strange, but I wanted it to be soft and flexible, the top is a lid from an old small hat box, which gives it strength.

Then I spray painted it black and coated it with texture paste over a Prima stencil. Then I have painted with metallic paints and glimmer mists, and finally wiping gold paint over the raised textured areas.

Then I set about decorating it with Imaginarium chippie, and things I had on hand, I literally went mad with the embellishment. Below are some close ups ..enjoy!

Other Materials

Rhinestones

paper flowers

gesso

texture paste

ribbons

lumieres paints

gold paint

Couture Creations material flower

Scissors

Hand made hat pins

cotton spools

buttons

small jar

tags

tape measure

white bunny

prima flower sprays

petaloo flowers

clocks

Handmade Halo metal trinkets

spotted & blue feathers

Micro beads

playing cards

mini mushroom

cards of eyelets and clips

green tara leaf flourish

small bird

florists fibre for bird nest

braid and pleated ribbon

pink organza

thimble and plastic needle

and any thing you like ...

Imaginarium Chipboard

Boy Layout

And now for a layout, I love the colours in this photo of my middle boy, the Autumn leaves on the ground are just so colourful. So I wanted to play with those colours and make a kind of landscape for the photo to sit in. The base is plain cardstock which I have altered with texture paste and stencils, also I have adhered bamboo skewers, beads and paper towel to create loads of texture. Once dry I have painted with gesso and then spritzed with glimmer mists Marigold, Cross your heart and Turquoise. I love this kind of mixed media background, I use it all the time and each time it will come out different, then you can build your layout on that using the colours and textures to guide you.

We have chickens and guinea fowl, and I just love the spotted feathers, so I wanted to make a feather just like the guinea fowls. First I painted it black, ink or paint it dosnt matter, then flicked white linen dylusions over the top. Then use a white paint pen to make more obvious spots and lines around the sides. Coat with dimensional magic, it looks fantastic I think.

I chopped the top off a fence, as I used the top in another project, but waste not want not and used the remainder in this layout. Notice the small beads set into the texture paste and the liquid pearls near the title.

I love dragon flies, this one I have painted with green lumiere paints, then splots of blue and micro beads to the centre. Once the micro beads are dry wipe over with lumieres again.

With the dandelion, I painted with Crushed Olive Tim Holtz Distress paint, dry, coat the tops with dimensional magic and apply micro beads. When dry, smear gesso onto micro beads, and the stems, add white paint pen to highlight and add spots.

Imaginarium Chipboard