The most lovely gift of friendship .

 

 

My dear friend Tracey from 

hotchpotchcreations.blogspot.com

Send me these beautiful and gorgeous gifts for

my Birthday 

The loveliest heart , with the most adorable flowers 

Hand sewn wit pearls , and the wonderful mix of fabrics and laces . 

The two cards equal beautiful, here the  flower snd bird card, 

I love it so much , and so admire Traceys painting of

both flowers  and bird . Isent it gorgeous .

And lastly there was this tiny brooch in felt. 

Im overwhelmed Tracey with all the beauty

You send me .

Thankyou so much dear friend . 

Hugs and love to you all

Dorthe 

ECO-DYED PAPERS AND A COLLAGE

I wanted to show you some of my latest Eco-dyed papers 

so here goes ....

I used different leaves and a few flowers, 

below rose leaves , which always gives a lovely print, for me .

I don`t remember all , but  I used old book pages ,khadi paper, 

and old  envelopes .

This is beautiful in real life !!

Here I used Alun leaves  ( Heuchera) which tends to

give this beautiful tone . 

This is a bough from an Elderberry, still with green berries.

Another rose leaf ,- and below I used tiny Daisies,

giving this print ,which I love . 

And below on e of the collages made using a print as 

background .

  I made it following this  class  http://fracturedangelics.indiemade.com/catalog/online-class

 The link should hopefully take you to her online classes ,and this 

Botanical Collage  Miniclass.

It is a wonderful experience to dye with nature items, and to follow 

Kate in showing and doing how to !!

Have a lovely weekend- 

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

A NEW LITTLE FOLDED BOOK

I was inspired online to create this folded tiny book ,- not too easy

to photograph , and I don`t know if it makes any sense for you,

                                           

But here you can see how the pages are getting smaller

each time it is opening up a new page .

some close up, 

the two smallest pages 

I`m sorry the colors are not optimal here -

here close up of the cluster 

I stay in my romantic mood as you see, and have used papers

from Papergarden-fi again (most of  the faces ).

I created little clusters and tags and embossed the white paper napkins 

which gives beautiful results .

I hope it gives an idea even it is a bad picture , but by clicking the photos,

 you can see bigger pictures. 

I hope you are all doing good and wish you a lovely new week .

Take care

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

SHOWING YOU A FEW MORE PAGES IN MY NELLIE BOOK

Hello , again, I hope you are all well out there .

Here are some more pages in the little book , and as you can see, they

are all created with torn papers and bits of fabric, again. 

The flowers I have made are after inspiration from https://www.sigitascoffeestains.com/ and seen

in one of her you-tube tutorials , Thank you again Sigita.

Here I used an old envelope , once given to me by

Anni , and originally send from the island I live on , to someone

near Copenhagen .

There are more to come , meanwhile I hope to stay safe , and 

wish all of you the very same !!

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

First two spreads in the Nellie book and a beautiful gift

As some of you know nelliescreativetouch.com have generously offered 

A free class , which I was lucky to be a part of ,-- you can read more about it here :

https://www.instagram.com/p/B--BWxNA4BH/ but it might have closed by now !!!!!

These are spreads from ithe inside book ,and most are little clusters I created 

I used many different bits and pieces .

This beautiful gift arrived to me from my dear friend Marie 

marie-lostbirdstudio.blogspot.com

Isent it Amazing , a folder Holding lots of beautiful tags . 

I love all she created for me 

Wonderful tags in inside lovely pockets 

Im sorry if this looks Strange , but Im forsed to blog from my  phone 

as I cant suddenly download my photos to my computer . 

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Dearest Marie thankyou so very much for all this goodness

You are a wonderful artist and friend. 

Sending you all hopes for you staying safe

Love and hugs

Dorthe 

The almost last pages in my journal -

HAPPY EASTER to you all , I hope you spend cosy , safe and lovely days ,

even we spend them at home and alone , most of us. 

Here are the next five spreads in my junk-journal ,

The materials are mostly the same , as described in the first post

of this ,-  here I also used a piece of an old floor cloth , lovely tattered ,

you see it near the bird-  (please click the photoes for more clearly see the details ) 

Maybe you can see the little handrolled flower, which I was inspired

to flatten , after watching one of  : Sigitacoffeestains   you-tube ,-to make it more suitable for a journal, - Thank you Sigita . In right page you see a tiny tag peaking out from a pocket .

Here a ruffle on the left on top of old paper, and to the right a little pocket

with another tag inside .

Handmade flower and yo-yo ,  a bit of slow-stitching 

laces and machine stitching .

And for now the last one , papers from  The Paper Garden again

(see link in my earlier post )  paper napkins and more machine stitching .

I`m not satisfied with the photos, but hope you can see better when clicking them .

I also hope you are all safe and keep going, in this our new world. It gives heavy 

thoughts , and even tears on some days, and therefore this community is so important

for so many of us, sharing our creations, and thoughts , thank you for being there !!

Hugs and love Dorthe 

PAGES FROM A NATURE JUNK BOOK-

It seems rather a long time since I was here,, but wanted to

show you what I have been trying to distract myself with through the 

last many weeks, of covid-19 worry .

The book is made with old coffee dyed papers, and envelopes , and here

are the first 5 spreads . I used old pieces of papers, and fabrics, from my 

paper and fabric junk-boks - handmade flowers and tags. 

If you click the photo, you will have a bigger image . 

And papers from https://papergarden.fi/gb/ a lovely Finnish shop .like

the Lily -of -the -Valley above and others. The birds are all from

an old nature journal.

The stamps are from FB : June Mac ------and the tree stamp below ,and some words

are https://lynnesbowsandbelles.wordpress.com/

and SOLD IN https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/checkout.html

There are little clusters like the one below flower rosettes

and old book pages, already yellowed by time . 

I so hope you are all safe and well ,-- here we try the best and

only goes out for a walk every day, and not meeting many persons .

Take care dear friends, all over the world, we are in this all together

and we will stay positive , hopefully, with a daily creative time . 

Hugs and love

Dorthe