Dragonsdream tio - Alice and the Rabbit situation

Hello there from the gorgeous one




Yes it's the oh so cute Podgy here today to show you my tag for the current Dragonsdream tag challenge, this fortnightly challenge is one of the bears' favourites, the recipes are always so interesting, and they really get our paws itching to craft. The blog can be found Press paw here

The recipe for the current challenge is Alice and the Rabbit situation. Alice in Wonderland is another cubhood favourite of ours so we were really excited to start. First we had a little fight over who would actually get to create the tag, then the other bears were worn out arguing and agreed to sleep on it and draw straws when they woke up, so I sneaked off to craft this:




With the ingredients for the challenge, Alice - Rabbit - Situation, I decided to take as my central theme Alice caught in the confusing situation of growing and shrinking with every sip of drink or bite of cake she has. My tag shows Alice in a growth spurt after taking a sip from the 'drink me' bottle. I used the tape measures to depict her gargantuan frame.

I found both the tape measures and the phrase 'lengthen or shorten' in a stamping magazine dedicated to haberdashery. I thought they fitted my theme really well. The rabbit is cut from a book of images we have, he's incredibly small to really enhance just how large Alice has become. He's reading the Alice in Wonderland book, trying to find out what will happen next, possibly? Alice herself is our lovely Blade Rubber stamp. The circle button is to show confusion as is the circle background.

I started as usual by distressing my blank tag in blue inks, I then misted over it with glimmer mists and left it to dry. When I came back to the tag I thought it looked a little flat and boring, so ran it through the Cuttlebug, with the circles embossing folder to add interest, and the element of confusion.


I think Alice must have felt she was going round in circles what with alternately shrinking and growing.


These are my images ready to go on the tag



I decided to craft in the lounge, so as not to wake the other bears (I didn't want them to find me mid- craft, I wanted to present them with a fur acompli, or something like that!!)




Our good friend Florence had lent her Alice Octopede stamps to us, so I stamped and cut the 'drink me' bottle and inked it in Broken China distress ink.



Once I'd decided on the placement of my elements I started glueing and sticking.



I just had to pose with my finished result. Hopefully the other bears won't read this post, I told them the bearies came and made the tag!!



With love from the bears 🐻