Naughty Alice

 I really like the advert for Naughty Alice by Vivienne Westwood 

and wanted to make it into a nice piece of "art" for my downstairs bathroom

As I was unable to find a cheap ornate frame to go

 with my vision of what I wanted to create 

I decided to make my own

I tried to "stiffen" a crocheted doily with wallpaper paste 

but that didn't work at all 

So I painted it with a few coats of black gloss to make it go hard 

and blend in with the frame 

 Then I  measured up what size pieces I needed 

and tried to get the pattern the same on both pieces that I was going to use

 I then hot glued the pieces to the corners

 To make it look like this

 The edges of the advert were a bit rough after me tearing it out of the magazine.....

yeah yeah, I know I should have cut it out but I acted on impulse!

anyway, I bought some ribbon the same colour as the printed border and hot glued it on all the way around but not until I had glued the advert to a pretty sheet of paper 

 After assembling it all this is the result!

I'm rather pleased with it.

Now just to get time and energy to coincide 

and I will paint those walls a nice red.