MAD Tea Party - A Fanciful Twist's 6th Annual Mad Tea Party!

Good day, all! It's Tea Time! I look forward to A Fanciful Twist's annual Mad Tea Party all year long! I am so excited to participate again this year. I just recently moved and have not found all of my Alice in Wonderland goodies, so I concentrated more on the confections than the decor. Come on in and take a seat; have some tea, grab a sandwich or two, some cupcakes, and a slice of cake! There is plenty for you all!

Don't mind the toadstools and pick up a cup. Any cup you choose is fine.

Here are some delectable almond chicken salad sandwiches.

Feeling devilish? Here are some deviled eggs for you.

Would you like some Green Pea Salad? It's delicious!

Mr. Hedgehog has been visiting as well. He loves hiding behind the tea pots as he nibbles on his treats.

Do you prefer iced tea? Here are some chess-shaped ice cubes to cool you and your tea.

So many sweets to choose from! Here are some Banana Peanut Butter Cup cupcakes.

Perhaps you'd also enjoy some Lemon Cream Cheese cupcakes. 

 

We have Vanilla Meringue Cookies as well. 

 

Clean cup, clean cup! Move down!

Oh, these are wonderful Strawberry cupcakes. Please have some!

And of course, what's a Mad Tea Party without a towering cake? This one is Chocolate and Strawberry.

We are so happy to have had you over! Thank you for stopping by!

If you would like to win the Queen of Hearts card above, please follow me and leave a comment. If you are already a follower, let me know in your comment. I will do a random drawing for the winner on July 18th.

See you all at the other tea parties!

It's a Mad Release!

Hello, everyone!

Please accept my apologies for this post being late. I had it ready and all but it did not post as it should have.



Today is a wonderful day for a release! A "Mad" release! Two companies, one amazingly fun group of images! Simply B Stamps and Little Miss Muffet Stamps are teaming up for a fabulous blog hop for this release. Check out the details here at SBS. There are going to be contests and prizes as well, so be sure to stop by.

This is what I created for today!

I hope you like what I created. I know you all will love playing with these images! I had a blast putting them all together for these projects!

 

Please visit the rest of the DT's blogs (From both SBS and LMMS), to see what other wonderful projects were made with these!



SBS http://simplybettystamps.blogspot.com/

Carla http://carlasstampingspot.blogspot.com/

Mette http://danishstamper.blogspot.com/

Donna http://granniville.blogspot.co.uk/

Petra http://kunterbuntcottage.blogspot.com/

Audreyhttp://hippieaud.blogspot.com/

Irene http://irenescardcreations.blogspot.com/

Kaylou http://kayloucraftyblog.blogspot.com/

Aeryn http://www.aerynkelly.com/

Margreet http://margreets-scrapcards.blogspot.co.uk/

Shelly http://minkiespaperparadise.blogspot.co.uk/

Åsa http://www.scraphorse.com

Stephanie http://mycardshack.blogspot.co.uk/

Karen http://mycraftycupboard-karen.blogspot.co.uk/

Zoe http://makeitcrafty.com/crafts-blog/

Nathalie http://passionnementcartes.blogspot.fr/

Rachel http://rachelspaperwishes.blogspot.com/

Barbara http://forgottenscraps.blogspot.co.uk/

Trish http://scrappintillthecowscomehome.blogspot.com

You are HERE --> Celina http://scrapvamp.blogspot.com/

Corinne http://wishuponascrap.blogspot.com

LMMS http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/

Mad Tea Party 2012!

Hello, all! It's finally here! The 5th Annual 'A Fanciful Twist' Mad Tea Party! Click here to visit Vanessa at A Fanciful Twist, to see her magical tea party, and the long list of others who are participating with their own online tea parties!

This is my third time participating, and I can tell you that it's loads of fun. I love seeing all the creativity that everyone comes up with; not only with food, treats, and decorations, but also with stories, prizes, and crafts. I do hope you will enjoy yourself here and every other stop in this party hop!

Welcome to Scrap Vamp's Tea Party!

First thing first, let me introduce you to the guest's on my list.

The Queen of Hearts:

The Mad Hatter:

Here are the Queen and Hatter, with the Hatter being his silly self!



 The White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat:

Here are the White Rabbit & Cheshire Cat with Alice!

An Un-Birthday Party Guest:

The Ace of Spades:

The March Hare:

A Pink Flamingo (taking a break from playing croquet):

 And The Tweedles (Dee and Dum; don't know which is which):

Now that you have met everyone, let the party commence! Here we see the beautiful Alice peeking out from behind the table decorations!



 With all the mounds of decorations and food, it's a wonder we can see anyone at all!



The hedgehog is hiding today, so that no one decides to use him as a croquet ball.

We have a lovely topiary cake that may be a bit askew, but it tastes wonderfully just the same! Inside the layers are chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry with creamy & sweet butter cream icing... Yum! Have a slice or maybe two, there's a lot to go around!

These little playing cards are standing in formation, ready for someone to snack on them.

Alice is busy readying a crown. Could it be a gift for the queen or one for herself? The Tres Leches Trifle near her sure looks delicious, and those sandwiches, too. Help yourself!

Have a cup of tea or two, along with all the treats, before you take your leave. I hope that you enjoyed your visit here and that you'll stop by some time to catch up!



Now for a little project that I created especially for this occasion!

I created this mini album using the Alice in Wonderland collection of stamps from Simply B Stamps. If you look carefully in the tea party pictures, you may spy these characters on the table here and there. This little book is up for grabs! Just become a follower, or let me know that you are already a follower, and leave a comment. I will use random.org to choose a winner on August 1st, which will give everyone enough time to stop by! Thank you for visiting! 

C.S.I.? & Wonderland

Hello, all! Who would have thought that C.S.I. could tie in so beautifully to the scrapbooking world! Today I want to share a project I completed for a new site. My fellow Diva from scrapbook.com, Drea, showed me this new scrapbooking site called C.S.I. (Color.Stories.Inspiration.). Each week this site posts "Case Files" that give you a chosen inspirational image, color palette, elements, and journaling ques. Fabulous and fun!

CSI is a weekly scrapbooking challenge that inspires you to try new colors schemes and to tell your stories. Our Case Files provide inspiration that will get you thinking about scrapbooking in a whole new way.

CSI is all about inspiration and sharing and, most important, fun! We can't wait to see the stories you'll tell and the art you'll create!

Tonight at 11:59 p.m. is the deadline for this week's challenge and I only just found out about the site this morning. But once I saw the case file, I had to complete a LO for it! Lol. Here is my page for Case File 01.

Wonderland Layout.  Case File 01. This is something I am MAD about. The journaling reads, "I can admit that ever since I was a little girl I've had an obsession with everything related to Alice in Wonderland.And now that I am grown, I can finally indulge in that obsession." The photo is of the tea party I had on June 25, 2010. I used pins, numbers, repeated stamp on background, and tea cup accents. I documented something mad and wrote the journaling on a tag (behind the top hat).

Wonderland Close Up. This is a close up of the Wonderland layout that shows the flower cluster, some of the tea cup embellishments, top hat, pins, pocket watch, and tag.

This and That

Hello, all! I've had a busy week, what with papers due, housework, kids running amok, and a fabulous tea party. I finally have some time to sit at the computer and post a few layouts I have been working on. I've got two pages I completed with my June Scraps of Darkness Welcome to the Jungle kit, one using the DCWV Lemon Flower paper stack, and one I completed to celebrate my Mad Tea Party.

Back in Black layout. Using my Scraps of Darkness June kit I created a page for the Stalker Challenge over at SOD about a music group, artist, or poet that got you through a tough time. This will also be for the Lyric Challenge over at scrapbook.com; the topic bring AC/DC. I did this page of my heavy metal shirts from my younger years. Heavy Metal got me through a tough adolescence and a stint of rebellion. I distressed the papers from the Bo Bunny Zoology Line and used Slate Glimmer Mist and Stiletto Glimmer Glam to paint them black. I used bottle caps and some Rock stickers from my stash. The title letters are colored black with alcohol ink in Pitch Black.

Birthday Wish 19 layout. This is a page I created to record my eldest daughter's recent 19th birthday. I scrapped the pictures of her cake and her blowing out the candles. I used my Scraps of Darkness June kit for this one as well and went for an 80's rock theme. I used a lot of Stickles to make doodles on the page and used ribbons from my stash to crisscross over the papers. The flowers are Petaloo and from the kit as well. The title letters are Thickers.

Bloom layout. This is a page I created for several challenges: the Monochrome challenge (yellow, with the twist of a Lazy Summer Day), the Too Much is Not Enough challenge (flowers), and  the Scissors, Paper, Ink challenge. I used the DCWV Lemon Flower Stack for this page and the photo is of a rose that bloomed on a lazy summer day. I fussy cut all the flowers you see on this page and tore the papers (no straight cutter allowed). I used Mustard Seed Distress Ink to ink the edges. And I printed the title using my computer.

Hatter layout. This page is to celebrate the Mad Tea Party I had this past weekend and for a couple of challenges: the Monochrome Challenge (Your favorite rose color, with the twist of Lessons from the Garden), the Technique Challenge (embossing, handmade embellishments, and doodling) and the Welcome to Wonderland Challenge. This is my daughter dressed up as the Mad Hatter. Most of the products used on this page came from one or another Scraps of Darkness kit. The corner chipboard flourishes are from Dusty Attic and the black flourishes around the photo are cut with my Cricut Expression and the October 31st cartridge. The title letters are foam Thickers with some liquid pearls.

Hatter close up 1. Here you can see various different flowers all dyed red with Glimmer Glam in A Positive and Glimmer Mist in Scarlet. The butterfly was embossed then cut out and dotted with Black Diamond Stickles. The rose bud is handmade with red ribbon and the heart is from a floral sprig I bought on clearance.

Hatter close up 2. The paper is from Prima's Mistables Collection and the checkered ribbon is from my stash. I used some Prima mini roses and some Petaloo flowers I dyed red.