NEW PAPER COLAGE- AND WONDERFUL FLEAMARKET FOUNDS

Lately I bought some new materials, to play with, -among them something called Inka gold,

some Distress  Acrylic Paint dappers from T.H. and something called Terra..a 

gel like medium super cool to use with the stencils!

I used a very loved Paper Whimsy image- and some Tim Holz dies I borrowed from my dear friend Bettina- the flowers and the gear--also added an old  watch wheel!

Here you can see the wonderful effect created with the Terra and a stencil!

I sewed with gold thread around the sweet girl, and added the Inka gold to the 

stenciled parts! Please Click the photoes for bigger pictures!!

Yesterday I attended the first bigger fleamarket here this year! And I was very'

very pleased with my finds!!!

Look here at all the wonderful  old wooden pieces- I love such things!

A close up of some of them! and two silver salt/pheffer shakers.

An old bowl- very tarnished -with a smaller inside... I love when 

they look old and used!

I also found some beautiful lace pieces -

two table cloths with lovely embroidered flowers,-an old box-some 

pearls  and zinc key holes..

Isen`t those old handmade laces amazing!!

Brought home a roll of wall paper ,too- it will look beautiful in collages,

with it`s satin finish!!

And the last thing I will show is an old box- normally used to store

the silk stockings from dayes gone by----but here used to fill older 

sewing notions inside!!

I love to open up such a treasure box!!

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What have you experiensed and created this weekend- my

treasured friends??? I would love to know!!

What ever it is, I hope you have had-and have a beautiful sunday!!

Here it has been grey and rainy since yesterday evening- and 

I`m very pleased with that, as our garden was so very dried up!!

I hope you are all having some happy hours and sends you 

warm hugs, and love.

Dorthe-xx

SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT!

Every year for christmas I have some orders for Vergin Mary and  the Jesus child!

And also this year- so I thought to make them early, -for my costumers to

have them ready for displaying in real good time!

Here is one , in tones of green- 

with the child securely sleeping in her arms!

And here in blue tones! Both dolls are app.50 cm ( 20inch) high, and very often 

ordered also with Josef, and next year the 3 wise men!!

I hope they will be well recieved, in their new homes!

This is the beauty of nature just now,-the photo taken in a wood near my home!

And here the evening view behind my shop,- some few evenings ago!

Beautiful sunset over The Baltic Sea!!

I have had a beautiful Mothers day- with the most wonderful weather, -the Nightingale 

has arrived on our property, and sings all day and night!!

And my dear husbond made me a lovely breakfast ,and bought me

those beautiful roses!

I hope you all ,also have had a wonderful sunday, I am grateful for 

your sweet and kind comments on my blog, and for your friendships!!

And I send you smiles, with

Hugs and love-

Dorthe

MORE GELLI PRINT !!!!

On this number 2 try with my Gelli plate, I used a bit more colours, as you can see,

and therefore my collage was also very much more coloured than I 

normally do!!

Here a close up of the part with the Gelli print.

And those 2 photoes shows the sheets before I cut into the one on top!

I used stensils this time, and tried a feather ,too.

Here the whole collage,- truly outside my comfort zone with all those colours!

But I kind of had to add the heavy cotton background, and then

to create the flower with almost equal amount of colours!

To wish you a beautiful week I want to show you this sweet fellow, living inside the stach of my

husbonds chopped wood, isen`t it just cute?

Well we know it will grow, and later eat our salat and greenery in

the vegetable garden , not so sweet then!!!

Can you see the sun??? Yes it is here, so I send you all lots of

sunny hugs ,and love ,too, thanking for all your wonderful comments on my last post!!!

Smiles, Dorthe

MY FIRST GELLI PLATE ART PIECE, -AND MY FIRST FUSIBLE WEB PLAY !

Woohoo I recieved my Gelli plate yesterday, and had to try using it ,even just for a single sheet of paper!

I used plain copy paper, and only a mix of brown and white,

This is my finished piece, as you maybe can see I used a heavy old

handknitted lace piece on the plate ( and added 2 of the real pieces of it  ,too)

It came out pretty lovely ,I think...

The rest of the pattern I achieved by adding water to the paint and then 

press the paper onto the plate, which made the colour kind of run because of the

oil in the plate,and gave this sweet pattern. Please click the photo for a better look!

The other playful piece I made was inspired from a free download from 

http://www.clothpaperscissors.com/  last week, where they showed how to use

fusible web as background for thin paper napkins-and other papers....

Here is the sheet I fused- stamped ,painted and .....

The feeling is the same as of a lovely soft piece of fabric!

And here after cutting in smaller pieces a card made on embossed cardboard

adding a piece of corugated cardboard, laces and tulle!

This is another piece from the sheet where I used one of JUNES  

http://dezinaworldstore.blogspot.co.uk/   beautiful freebies from her

shop-  :  the little girl, so waiting for spring and summer to arrive!

Just like we do here !!!

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So very  welcome to you new followers, I`m kind of in a stressed period now,

but hope to visit all of you in time !

HAPPY 1 MAY !!

I wish you all precious friends a happy rest of the week.

Love and hugs,Dorthe

SAY HELLO TO MY MERMAID

She just arrived to spend summer in my Baltic Sea :-)

She is a lovely red head- waiting to relax in the soon warm water!

For now she is resting while the sun sets beautifully, in my 

back garden view.

I want to thank you all for the most wonderful comments you

left on my last post about the book I made,- you all

made me very happy, THANKYOU SO MUCH.

I hope your weekend is lovely and filled with happy hours!

Love and hugs

Dorthe

MY BOOK IS FINISHED -AND I`M VERY PLEASED WITH THE RESULT-

This is the  final result from my workshop made from dear Nellie`s 

wonderful DVD where she shows and covers every aspect about making a book,

filled with whatever you choose yourself.

I wanted to incoorporate nature from my surroundings, together with old

lovely laces and embroideries. I also added smal pieces fitting this ,which was send to me from friends

in blogland- !!

Here you can see the spine made from laces ,a piece of bark,and old embroidered white fabrics.

Opened up to see the whole cover!

A stone heart I found on the beach ,paired with a lovely blue 

pearl bough my dear friend LIZ send me  thank`s dear friend---The 3 sisters

kind of reminds me of my two sisters and me, approximately the same age!

long time ago!

Bird copied on tissue paper,with a driftwood piece..

Beautiful stamped feathers and butterfly gifted me from my dear BETTINA

Thankyou kære ven!

A beautiful leafe found together with my dear daughter some years ago- the bird also a gift from Bettina, 

---a teabag- and so much more!

Here a spread with a pressed Orchid flower behind mica flake,a piece

of rusted metal from the beach, a bird and driftwood on the other page!

Photo I painted on,- and decked with a piece of embossed plastic!

The inside cover of the front page. 

Wonderful findings from the beach-

And sweet gifts from dear TERRI :----feathers,button,shell and little tags, bow

and tulle,too--fitting perfectly to this project, thankyou dear Terri!

Here the bound and finished book standing on my outdoor table,I

so love all the wonderful laces and fabrics you can see spilling out!

And last the back cover also with a bit of tulle sewed to this

amazing spine, learned from NELLIE

I`m so happy having made this book, after Nellie`s workshop dvd- Thankyou my

dear friend, you are a wonderful teacher and a stunning artist!

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Now for the next 4 dayes, I will spend my time with my grandkids, so there will not be

much time for blogging- therefore I wish you all a happy weekend-

and send you many smiles and hugs.

Love ---Dorthe

LOVELY GIFTS FROM SWEET BLOGGING FRIENDS!

This was the wiev over the fields last night before going to bed,-

isen`t it so very beautiful?  As you can see the trees are still bare ,and nothing

green have appeared yet,-I hope it will soon show!

These last weeks I have had beautiful gifts in my mailbox, and this so

wonderful and lovely little hanger came from my also so lovely friend

LYNNE  from ADORN. 

See the driftwood she used -it came from "my" Baltic Sea, and am now returning back,to me. 

I love this sweet collage.----Lynne also send me a piece of pretty lace,

but the photo came out very bad, so I`m not showing that.

I know you all know her, but if some of you have not visited her blog 

please click the link, to see all her amazing creations.

Thankyou my dearest friend, for your beautiful art, and even more your

beautiful friendship.

And from another dear-and danish friend-

BETTINA 

I got this beautiful giftbag, and a bunch of wonderful stamped and coloured

images, she had made at home,before visiting me! Yes we are that close,

in distance on our little island,that we can visit :-)

Isen`t it beautiful- I love the embossed bag,with Bettina`s so 

lovely flowers. Thankyou my dear ,sweet friend, so much!

Please also visit Bettina`s new blog,to see her wonderful creations,in felt ,paper and fabric!

And another surprice came from CHERYL http://cheryl-cherylscreativeatcscards.blogspot.dk/

The sweetest woman I met on Facebook.

Cheryl, just send me this book because she is a  very kind woman!!!

It is filled with her wonderful handmade and hand stamped pages, with

beautiful adds of butterflyes and birds, 

Amazing tecniques, 

And beautiful pages. I was so touched to recieve this ,

dear Cheryl,-THANKYOU so very much my friend.

Those of you ,not knowing Cheryl, please visit her blog by clicking

her link above!

There will soon be an envelope off to your adress Cheryl  :-)

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Thankyou also to my new followers, you are all so very much appriciated,

and also your comments makes my dayes brighter and warmer.

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Today at last we had a beautiful warm day, not much sun, but so

lovely warm, that I could keep my door in the studio open for ceveral hours ,

so wonderful!

Now it is evening and dark, here, and I will wish you all

a wonderful day / evening and send you

love and hugs

--Dorthe