ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE

The last challenge this year, and as the titel say you can do anything you want ,this time.

Isen`t that fantastic !!

I desided to use one of the shrines - and prepared it by adding gesso all over inside and out .

When dry, I sprayed with Infusions Sleight Blue, on the background , and also painted the top wall with Chestnut Brown.

In the bottom, I added crumpled tissue paper, to form a hill, and painted it with white.

I added dry moss ,and larch branches to the hill top, and painted the branches with a little white ,to look as if snow landed there.

Two sizes of Christmas trees, were painted first with gesso, and then added texture paste. Also 4 little snowflakes were painted white. A bigger one with the Metallic Antique Gold ,and the same for the 

Happy Christmas, words. Both snowflake and the words, had two coats .

A  greyboard deer was painted with Chestnut brown mixed with a little white , -gold details were added to its bag, and ears.... and also around the Christmas tree`s shapes. 

I newly was very inspired by a post somewhere, (cant find it now, and therefore can`t give credit to the one showing it) but she created icicles using a hot glue gun, and I had to try it on this , I managed to make some hanging from the ceiling , they were also painted white.

The last things to do, was adhere trees, dear and snowflakes to the shrine. The words were adhered on top of white painted lace , and tiny cones from nature to the hill . 

Now if you want to have a chance winning this wonderful voucher .

you please go to the page : http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/ read the rules, and create from your hearth .

Wishing you all a merry Christmas 

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

Materials used :

That`s Crafty :

Shrine   Rounded top 4.84ins x 6.44ins x 1.52ins 

Bits and pieces greyboard  Reindeer,  Christmas Sentiments,  Pine Trees, small and large Snowflakes 

Texture Paste 

Gesso

Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive

Multi Surface Paint : Chestnut Brown, Metallic Antique Gold, White 

Infusions Sleight Blue

Diamond Dust

Other :

Larch branches , moss , cones from the wood,. 

Tissue paper , Lace 

IT`S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

This is my last That`s Blogging Crafty post this year!

Thank you to all of you, whom kindly have been following this new  adventure.

That you visits every week, has been so lovely, and I`m very thankful .

This time, as usual it will be only this sneak peek here, 

and the rest of the post is to be seen over here :  

: https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/12/its-most-wonderful-time-of-year-by.html

I wish you all a very Happy and Merry Christmas ,

----but will be back next week with the CHALLENGE sample :-)

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

A FEW CARDS SEND TO FRIENDS, AND ALREADY RECEIVED !

Christmas cards, for dear friends, 

very different , but in my usual style of  papers mixed with laces .

This one I`m using the new stampset , from 

http://www.rubberdance.com/whimsical-winter

created by Donna Grey , I love those mittens .

Almost only fabric and laces , detailed with 

paper buttons and greenery , both die cuts !!

And another card with two new die-cuts. I love the church and the 

Sue Wilson leaves die .

Here they are used in another wintery card ,together with 

nature barks . The Affirmation is from Lynne :

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-lynnes-affirmations-set-3.html

I am sure you are all very busy , just like I am, but wish you a peaceful and lovely

weekend . 

Hugs and love, Dorthe 

LET YOUR BEAUTIFUL HEART SHINE THROUGH

Here I am with my Monday post for That`s Blogging Crafty , again!!

This is the sneak peek for the creation , 

---yes you see right, again a little Christmassy , I must admit :-)

As always if you want to see more you can click this link :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/12/let-your-beautiful-heart-by-dorthe.html

And on That`s Blogging Crafty , you can ,also, see all the other DT members

amazing creations.  One new each day - and always something fabulous .

I hope you are all enjoying the before Christmas - time , we easily gets

stressed this time of year, and I also have to tell myself to relax, in between.

 I truly hope you can, relax and enjoy , too.

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

LOVE

We have a wonderful Challenge over at :

http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/

called : This the Season ( Everything Christmas Related )

And as you can see I went all in with a Golden Christmas !

For me Christmas is all about the message of love, 

And I started this with a MDF Panel, -painted it white, then used the most beautiful tree Stencil , Bare Tree. I used a mix of brown and white paint and carefully painted through the stencil. After I used Texture Paste , and one bubble from the Bubbles stencil, to create Christmas baubles hanging in the tree.

While left to dry I painted the greyboard snowflake, dove, and text, with 

the gorgeous Metallic Bronze. On top of the snowflake I used another Dinky Stencil :Bubbles,

to create texture, and on the one wing of the Dove yet another : Feather.

They were both used with Texture paste, and left to dry.

The tree now dry ,was in some places given Crackle paint, and again left to dry.The baubles painted with the bronze, and the dove and snowflake, as well. I mixed green and black to add to the bough of peace, and to inside line the love-text .Snowflake had little dabs on the tips, and the whole perimeter of the panel was dabbed ,too. To the dove it was painted into the wing pattern.

After the tree had dried it was overpainted with thebronze, again, showing lovelt crackles. I added torn lace -one of my favorite materials - to the lover left part of the panel, adhered it, together with a piece of dried moss from nature and a piece of fur, making a warm nest for the dove. 

All bits were then adhered , to panel and a sari silk ribbon attached after making two holes, with my Crop A Dille.

I hope this gave you appetite to create a Christmas piece for the challenge, also, 

 the  voucher , would be a lovely gain , to use in January .

Have a wonderful weekend, dear friends.

Hugs and Love Dorthe 

Materials used : 

That`s Crafty : MDF Panels 6x6

Bits and Pieces Grayboard sheets : Christmas Sentiments and Snowflakes - Christmas Birds 

Dinky Stencils : Bubbles TC 005 -  Circles TC003 - Feather TC 098 

Stencil : Bare Tree TC 7006

Multi Surface Paint : Chestnut Brown- White - Black - Metallic Bronze - Green

Texture Paste  - Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive- 

Distress Crackle Paint: Rock Candy -  and Distress Ink : Weathered Wood

Other :

From my stash , piece of fur- dried moss- old lace - sari ribbon 

SPRINKLE STARLIGHT

Yes, first Monday in December , and I`m here with a very Christmassy 

make, using That`s Crafty stencils, greyboards, and paints .

Here you have the sneaky peek.

I have to apologise for the photo, as all this yummy metal colors 

are very difficult to get real, in color and shine .

I hope you, all the same , will take a quick look , over  here :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/12/sprinkle-starlight-by-dorthe-hansen.html

Thank you for your visit, they mean a lot to me.

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

CAPTURE PRECIOUS MOMENTS

Here I am back again, another Monday has arrived, and my DT creation is to be seen

over at That`s Blogging Crafty.

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/11/capture-precious-moments-by-dorthe.html

As you know , it is only a sneak peek here,- 

It is a little Christmassy and created on one of Laura`s Acrylic panels !

Thank you for looking and commenting, it means a lot to me.

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

QUIET  STRENGTH

 Challenge : - Green with Envy (make green the main colour)

Green is the color of hope , we say in Denmark, and of springtime, and beautiful nature, when on it`s fullest in summertime . Even in winter we bring inside the beautiful green Christmas tree .

So this CHALLENGE over at : http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/  ,is filled with possibilities for you to take part .

My example , is a very simple creation, using one of the White Greyboards  panels , smeared over with Green, mixed with a little Yellow ,---- the lace was adhered after dry, and also painted with the mixed green/yellow  . when dry I used the Light Texture paste over the Feather stencil, - using white mixed with a little chestnut  brown  .                             

Also a little amount of the wonderful Texture Sand paste was smeared onto the panel on top of the feather , and left to solid dry.

On a piece of craftpaper I stamped half the Affirmation from Lynne`s set 4 ,cut it out and adhered it to the top panel ,using a green fineliner , to line out the perimeter.

Chestnut Brown paint was diluted with water, and with my finger smeared over the feather , and the perimeter of the tag. Also to the lace , was added a little, to give shadows of interest.

The texture paste was over painted with the beautiful Pearl paint, and a piece of nature bark was adhered to right side panel .    
         

Now , if this gave you a desire, to create your own Green challenge piece, and maybe win this  Voucher– all you have to do is hope over here :  http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/ to read the rules, and create your own art piece .

                                     

                                          

Thank you for visiting me, it always brings big pleasure to me.

                                                              Hugs and love

                                                                    Dorthe

Materials used :

That`s Crafty :  Dinky Stencil Feather, TC098

           -              White Greyboard Panel-2

            -              Multi Surfaces Paint : Green -  Yellow -   Chestnut Brown – White –

            -              That`s Crafty Meltallic Paint , Pearl

            -               Texture Sand Paste

            -               Light Texture Paste

            -               Lynne`s Affirmations Set 4

From my stash :  Lace , Nature Bark , reused craft paper .

COLOR YOUR MAGICAL WORLD !!

Another Monday post from me, showing the coming wintery feel, after a cold , cold night!

Most of you know, that you can see more over at That`s Blogging Crafty,

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/11/colour-your-magical-world-by-dorthe.html

so I hope to see you there, as this is only a sneaky peek .

I wish you a lovely new week, all.

Hugs and Love 

Dorthe 

THE DAWN AWAKENS !!

Hello dear friends, have you ever wandered the woods an early morning, watching

it come to life ?

Here is the possibility , as that is just what I tried to create.

As you know, only a tiny piece, is revealed here, 

but you can see the rest over at 

That`s Blogging Crafty ,- here :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-dawn-awakens-by-dorthe-hansen.html

I hope you all had a lovely weekend , and wishes you a beautiful

week to come.

Thank you for your supporting me, here, and on the DT blog, 

I appreciate it so very much !!

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

DANCE ON THE BREEZE OF LIFE

One of Lynne`s amazing Affirmations, which I used, to create for this weeks challenge
over at  :  http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/  .

The CHALLENGE is STENCILS  , and wow, so many possibilities with all the stencils to choose from over at Laura`s shop :   http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/

I started with a White Greyboard  tag 

sprayed with Sleight Blue , when dry I added Vintage photo to the perimeter, and highlighted also in between with the Salty Ocean, and Teal , then stenciled the beautiful Dinky stencils ,Bubbles, and Fossil, using different Oxide Inks.

The Hummingbird, and feather were both stenciled onto prepared cardstock 

fussy cut, and after details were painted with fingers, also using Oxide inks, and fine liners 

black and brown. 

Lynne`s wonderful Affirmation, was stamped onto old paper, cut up and adhered to tag, with bird and feather.- a piece of colored lace first added to the top tag !!

In the bottom tag,  a great new medium Texture Sand Paste was smeared out, and painted with diluted and mixed paints of Chestnut Brown and White . Also around the fossils , feather, and bird ,I painted this .

When all dried, I adhered remnants from the sea, picked up, on my walks from the beach,

here is cord and seaweed together with a straw .

You know you can take part in this challenge, yourself, with the possibility to win the price of this Voucher.

Just pay a visit there, to read the rules , and send in your wonderful creations !!

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

Materials used :

That`s Crafty White Greyboard Tag

Dinky Stencils : Bubbles TC005

Fossil TC081

Feather TC 098

Hummingbird TC0095

Lynne`s Affirmations , set 5

Multi Surface Paint : Teal, Chestnut Brown- White

Texture Sand Paste 

Distress Oxides, : Salty Ocean

Cracked Pistachio

Vintage Photo

Iced Spruce

Archival Ink : Jet Black

Infusions: Sleight Blue

Fine Liner : Black and Brown 

From the stash : dyed lace, seaweed, cord, straw , and dyed cord 

OUR STORIES ARE OUR JOURNEY

A lovely Monday , starting a new week , filled with new possibilities  :-)

And one of them, for me, is to be here showing you a tiny peek of this

Monday`s blog post over at That`s Crafty :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/11/our-stories-are-our-journey-by-dorthe.html

You can see the whole project, if  clicking the link , and also read

how I did !!

                                          I am thankful for your comments, and for 

your visits , over there, too  : 

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

SPRINKLE STARLIGHT

Good day to you all,

another Monday has approached , and I`m back with a little fairy ,throwing the light of the stars ,down from the sky, to us !

As you know there are many more pictures over here :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/10/sprinkle-starlight-by-dorthe-hansen.html

where I`m also explaining what I have used , and how !!

There are new lovely products from That`s Crafty, which you can see here :

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/

---both Grey board pieces,  stencils , and not to forget Lynne`s  so beautiful new  stamp sets !

I hope  your week will be a good one.

Hugs and love

Dorthe

CHALLENGE : FLORAL FANCY- (EVERYTHING FLOWERY )

I`m here with my Friday challenge , to show you my idea of a FLORAL FANCY .

http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/

I used a White Greyboard panel ,which I first sprayed with Infusions 

to male a airy background.

All the Bits and Pieces Grayboard pieces : 

Funky Flowers, Fairy, and Hummingbird , were painted with white acrylic, and the flowers and bird were run through the Big Shot inside a Sizzix embossing folder, and after I smeared

Distress Oxide over them, using my finger, and 3 different Oxides (see below)

The leaves were painted with the same paint and Oxides, and the tiniest fairy , and bird too.

Along the lower edge I added Texture paste , mixed with green paint , through the Dinky Stencil : Leaves , to add a feeling of fallen leaves . When dry I smeared a bit of Vintage photo onto them here and there.

Lynne`s new beautiful Affirmation , from Set 6 was stamped onto a piece of old book page.

Around the panel I gave the frame a little Vintage Photo, too, and then adhered some vintage lace died with Infusions, and Teal Multi Surface Paint, both on top and button to the panel, giving an idea of clouds and green filed. 

All the bits were adhered with All Purpose Craft Adhesive ,  I created details with a black Fin e Liner, and a white Posca pen .

With the Metallic Paint Pearl I also gave a little shine to the flowers , the bird and the fairy wings .

Looking at my work table, just in front of me were some Hot Glue Gun "pearls" from an earlier work, and they fitted as little decoration for the flowers after having been painted, too .

The last thing to do, was adding water to White paint, and by "hitting " the pen carefully ,over the panel, making  a little snowfall !!

This is my try - I really hope you also want to give this great challenge a try, as we all love flowers, Don`t we !!!!!!

The Challenge runs for two weeks, so plenty of time,-- and as many of you know , by now, there is a great premium of 20 Pound to use in Laura`s shop, for the winner 

 :

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/

I wish you good luck, and a wonderful weekend !!

Hugs and love Dorthe 

 Materials used:

That`s Crafty White Greyboard Panel

Greyboard Bits and Pieces : Funky Flowers , big and small - Hummingbird and Fairy .

Multi Surface Paint : White- Teal- Green- Chestnut Brown

Metallic Paint : Pearl

All Purpose Craft Adhesive

Lynne`s Affirmation Set 6

Dinky Stencil- Leaves   TC086

Distress Oxides : Vintage Photo - Iced Spruce -Salty Ocean

Archival Ink - Hydrangea

Infusions : Sleight Blue

White Posca Pen  - Black Fine Liner 

From my stach :

Old lace dyes with Multi Surface Paint, Teal and Infusions , Sleight Blue

Sari Silk , and Hto Glue Gun " pearls , lol.

DREAM- BELIEVE- WISH

Hello , dear friends ,
I`m here with my Monday Post for That`s Crafty blog post ,
and as usual ,what you see , is only a sneaky peek, from the whole project !! :-)

Maybe you would like to see it all over here :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/10/dream-believe-wish-by-dorthe-hansen.html

All the other DT members, are also ,showing their fantastic creations,

one of us , each day !!

We love having visiters  :-) 

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

TREE`s ARE POEMS ......

A little detail from my Monday post over at That`s Blogging Crafty ,

this week rather autumnal , as you can see. 

I love the embellishments from Laura`s  web-shop , they are such good quality,and can take water and paints in big amounts. 

Here is the link to follow if you wants to see the whole panel !!

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/10/trees-are-poems-by-dorthe-hansen.html

I hope to maybe see you over there , again.

Thank you dear friends,

and hugs and love

Dorthe 

GET YOUR SPOOK ON :-)

HELLO CHALLENGE !!!

We are going to get spooky ,lol habe a closer look here, on all the other DT`s spooky creatione : 

http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/

I used a little panel , painted it first with green and white paint, 

left to dry, and then mixed brown and white, to as very light brown/beige tone, which was painted 

all over the surface .

Onto that I smeared a thin layer of glace, left it to dry and then with the thinned brown paint, 

painted all over the surface, --- left do dry to create crackles !!

Then I stenciled first the Harlequin using brown Archival Ink,     Coffee  --and then

the 12 o`clock from the Cog Clock stencil.-- the craw background and 

Flight of the Bats  all with Archival Ink Jet Black  

I found a dry rose branch,  and still with two thorn `s- adhered it together  with

some dried nature straws, to the right side panel, making it look as if one craw just landed in the nest.

I had some tiny pumpkins , very mini , from a flower shop, which I adhered

together with 2 scratches of black fabric , and a piece of tulle swiped around the panel to give texture .  You could use tiny pinecones , or other nature finds , as substitute for the pumpkins !!! Two rhinestones were attached to the tulle on top, and to the "flower" . 

Jet Black ink was dabbed onto all edges !! 

I hope you like my not too spooky panel :-)

And I hope you will play ,and have the great chance to win 

Hugs and love Dorthe 

Materials used : 

That`s Crafty Greyboard Panel 2

Dinky stencils : Crows TC049 - Flight of the Bats  TC035 -Harlequin TC019 

Cog Clock TC8007

Multi Surface Paint : Chestnut Brown, Black, White, Green 

Paper Artsy Fresco Finish Crackle   Glace

Archival Inks : Coffee- Jet Black 

From my stash : Black tulle, black scraps of fabric, and pumpkins !!

END OF SUMMER

Summer has ended for sure, and for this Monday`s post over at That`s Blogging Crafty,

my mood , made me create a late summer wreath , using lots of their wonderful 

embellishments in grey board , together with some lovely fabrics, and much more .

You can see more HERE : 

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/10/end-of-summer-by-dorthe-hansen.html

and read how I did it :-)

I hope you are all well, out in the world 

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

IMAGINE BEAUTY

Hello to you , dear friends,  can you tell what this is ??

Yes you are right,- the sneeky peak for my Monday 

Blog post over at That`s Crafty 

I hope you wants to have a look , and see my

"show and tell "  .

If you have , here is the link  : 

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2017/10/imagine-beauty-by-dorthe-hansen.html

Thank you for now, and see you around,

I wish you of course a new wonderful week .

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

FOREVER AUTUMN

Yes Autumn is really here , and this new challenge 

over at That`s Crafty Challenge Blog , asks for your creations

about  FOREVER AUTUMN , isen`t it a lovely titel !!

http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/2017/09/forever-autumn-challenge.html

My own contribution started onto a Rounded  corners panel , which I 

first sprayed with a very thinned Infusion in Terracotta ,left to dry and oversprayed

with Sleigh Blue, also thinned a lot.

After dried I dabbed with Distress Oxides  : Vintage Photo with a little 

Iced Spruce on top here and there . The beautiful Dinky Stencil Spider Web was used in the

upper left corner , using Iced Spruce ,and in right corner I added a thin layer of 

Distress Crackle paint ,Clear Rock Candy , and left to dry .

Embellishments were painted with the lovely new Multi Surface Paint ,

in Green - Red- Chestnut Brown and yellow, to try capture the

wonderful autumn tones.

The tall flower also had a coat of the Crackle paint and so did the butterfly and one of the toadstools .

After it had all dried I smeared Distress Ink Walnut stain onto the crackled places, and wiped off the extra ink .

I felt something was missing in the lover part of the panel and used

another great Dinky Stencil : Harlequin , also with the Iced Spruce.
Not too easy to see here , sorry !!

Then all the Embellishments were adhered ,onto scraps of lace

some dyed with the Infusions , -- the Butterfly and toadstools got copper thread 

details ,to highlight a bit , and tiny cones from the wood were added too.
If you want to see details, just click the pictures :-)

Thank you if you followed me to here, dear friends ,

You know there is a gift waiting for you, if you take part in the
CHALLENGE  OVER AT http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.dk/2017/09/forever-autumn-challenge.html
 so go ahead and create something : FOREVER AUTUMN . - ,and read
the rules over there  :-)

And see all my teamies amazing samples, too !!

Have a wonderful weekend , all
Hugs and love
Dorthe

Materials used : Rounded Corners Greyboard panel 2
Embellishments, Bits and Pieces  : Autumn and Birds & Wings
Stencil Dinky : Harlequin TC020 and Spiderweb TC028
Multi Surface Paints  : Green-Chestnut Brown -Red - Yellow
Distress Oxide : Antique Linnen - Iced Spruce - Vintage Photo
Infusions : Sleigh Blue - Terracotta
Distress Crackle Paint , Clear Rock Candy
Black gesso
Distress Ink  . Walnut Stain
Multi Purpose Craft Adhessive
From my stash : dyed Lace, and mini cones