WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Dear friends, I want to thank you all, for your kind friendships through

the year, very soon , gone. It is always a joy to see you here, and to 

read your comments , and you are all treasured in my life !!

This is from Christmas Eve, with all the candles lit , all over.

And here we were on a beautiful tour , on the island, climping 

up to 70 meter over the water , it was a very lovely and happy day !!

My darling grandchild with me, on Christmas Eve , with the tree

behind us, still not with the candles lit .

And with this frosty,-  in Danish called :Student Carnation ,

because of the tiny size it has, - I will welcome January , and

wish you all Happy New Year , and all the best of health and 

and love, for the coming 2019 .

Many hugs and much love to you all,

Dorthe 

A BLESSED CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL !!

My dear friends , with this creation I wish you all a very Merry and Blessed Christmas .

Being a member of   https://mixedupcreative.com/ I got very inspiret of a creation made

by Lena Holmström , and by her tutorial shoving ,how she carve into a book , in this shabby way,-

and I made my own version in this old Danish book. 

Maria and the child greeted by lovely deer in the wood , behind the deer is a piece of

the Nativity of Jesus ,in French , and a branch - and pieces of lace,  flowers and berries on the side of Maria and Jesus  , 

My dear daughter , the grandkids and her x-husband will all celebrate

Christmas here with us, and them arriving today, I think it is time to wish

you all the most beautiful Christmas , as time will not be spend much 

online while they are with us . 

Much love and hugs to you and see you

before the New Year is celebrated 

Dorthe 

Another ATC Christmas coin, a tag and decoration in my home !

I used one of Laura`s ATC coins  for this Christmas ornament , together 

with her lovely Greyboard wings, and amazing gold paint .

The fabrics was laying around on my table and just found a place here . 

(You can click all photos to see a bigger version ) 

And this tag was send to a lovely friend Donna , whom lovingly

carved and gifted me the beautiful fern stamp,- and from another dear friend

Lynne , I was gifted the little angel stamp.

I`m so very grateful for my friends !!

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Here one of my white tiny winter dolls, she is out 

with her little bird, sledging ,

Here is another one , hanging from, an apple branch.

They are made of wool and wear felted coats both .

I hope you are not too stressed , now with only one week left for Christmas ,

I have to admit I`m stressing a bit, and am sorry if I`m not so much 

around , as usual .

I wish you all a lovely and cozy week !!

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

Christmas is soon here !!

One of many cards I have created this year for friends, 

this one for a Danish friend.

I used different dies, and only white and gold .

This is my windowsill now filled with Christmas, from many

friends, some things bought and other are gifts, but they are all loved,

and being enjoyed every year !!

And my Advents wreath , with first candle lit last Sunday . 

before I added all the trees and other decorations , there.

I hope you are all cozy, and enjoying December !!

Love and hugs,

Dorthe 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Wishing my dear American friends, and everyone else celebrating Thanksgiving,

a wonderful day ,evening and weekend!!

May your dreams ,come true, for the next Thanksgiving, and

may you all, have only good experiences the coming year !!

Hugs and love

from Dorthe 

Sunday tour ....and collage

Dear friends , a part of a collage , made, using Lynne`s newest stamps, and

an older one too- I love her  style as you well know ! 

They are to find here , if you are interested in buying them :

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/search/for/lynne/

Yesterday my husband and I visited a beautiful part of  the island,

to see the glory of nature, while still leaves on the trees.

We also walked the beach and found a lovely handful of stones with

holes in, made by the Baltic Sea through years and years .... they 

were brought home , and will be hung on a string, later.

Here the sea, - it was very windy  yesterday, and lots

of whitecaps on the seat , cold but beautiful.

I hope you all had a lovely Sunday, and wishes you all the best for the coming week .

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

A little play it teabags .

I have saved used teabags for several years, and today I just had to try using

some, for a little collaged creation.

It is so lovely to sit with tiny creations, and find scraps from

earlier pieces, which are useful now.

As you can maybe see there are 8 different things

added to the bag. I hope you like it .

Happy rest of the week to you all, and 

thank you so much for visiting .

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

MYSTERY AWAITS

Yes a little mystery from me, today, now getting closer to Halloween .

The base is a Chunkie  from That`s Crafty

 https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-mdf-chunkies-6-x-6-pack-of-2.html

where I just did not use the front. 

Apart from that, also the brick stencil , texture paste and spray colors --

, Lynne`s stamp of wildflower, and text  ,-plus the raven ,

are all their own products. The sweet Tim Holz girls are also bought there.

I used Lynne `s wildflower as background , together with old lace,  

combined with torn sacking , the sweetest mini pumpkins, and

some favorite nature finds , and it was finished .

I hope you like this little and not too scary Halloween creation.

Wishing you all a very lovely weekend , dear friends .

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

Velvet lace and paper.

Hello friends, 

I `m here with another mix of my favorite ,-papers and fabrics.

I found the beautiful velvet on a fleamarket, and knew I could use it .

Also here I started with one of the embroidery cartstock with premade

holes to sew in . 

The beautiful head stamp, is a gift from my dearest friend, Lynne,

and the dried flower from another very dear friend, Sharon.https://www.instagram.com/shoofly400/

The paper doily is also a gift ,and also from a dear friend,

Sherry ,- thank you to all 3 of you, for your constant support

and beautiful friendships . 

As you know I love Lynne`s Affirmations, so had to use one here, too. 

I hope your weekend was a good one, and that you are ready for the new week

to come . 

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

My first post for long, showing my old style !!

A little new creation, with some favorite materials, old torn fabric ,

a dried leaf, and a lovely image.

I found the tag in a local shop, made ready for embroidery, and
used it for my fantasy flowers.
It was first sprayed with diluted brown paint.

The lovely face was adhered together with the pearls

and on top a corrugated cardboard crackled first , I added

the leaf and word, from one of Lynne`s stampsets.

Sequins 

Here a close up , for you. 

I hope you like my collaged card -

Tomorrow evening my dear grand kids will arrive here,

with their father, for a 4 days vacation, so once more I will

be away from blogs , and also fb. But will try to visit

now and then. 

A happy weekend to you all, thank you for visiting me,

it means a lot .

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

EACH PETAL IS A FLOWER SHARING JOY

This sadly will be my last DT post for Laura That`s Crafty.

I have long been fighting stress, and things, related to it, so

I made a hard decision , to step out of this wonderful job .

It is with heavy heart, but also with the hope of feeling better¨,

with no deadlines in my head!!

Thank you Laura so much for choosing me, and for your help 

and kindness , it has been a real pleasure to be on your team, and to 

try out , all your `s and Grahams , wonderful products !

Thank you also to the most kind and sweet team members ,it has been

a pleasure working with you, and get to know you !!!

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As always you can find more photos and my long explanation :-) of

how I did, over here : 

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2018/09/each-petal-is-flower-sharing-joy-by.html

Thank you from my heart to all of you whom followed me in this adventure,

with kind and loving comments , you all have a place in my heart.

I will go on creating , for my own pleasure, and will not leave my own blog,

so I hope to see you here again.

Thank you dear friends. 

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

WHISPER SECRETS INTO THE WIND !!

I`m here with the first autumn theme for That`s Crafty Challenge : Forever Autumn   https://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.com/

The choice was to start using one of  the MDF panels onto which

I painted white and while wet added a little black, to achieve this grey tone.

When dry  I used the beautiful swallow stencil using Black gesso dapping with

a hard brush.

I left to dry, and meanwhile onto a find from my garden, a dry leaf, smeared 

a little of the gorgeous Antique Gold. A greyboard leaf was stamped with 

one of Melina`s doodled leaves , Lime Lustre was painted in the doodled frame,

and Antique Gold and Metallic  Rose Gold painted onto the leaf.Also a tiny berry

branch was painted white on the berries ,and a dot of gold, too.

The swallow now dry was given details with white and gold smeared together,

and a white dot for the eye. On two edges I used the Stitch stencil, with a blackFine liner .

The Affirmation was partly stamped directly on the left side panel , and onto two pieces of

scrap paper from my table .

Also a piece of rusted fabric , ( a lovely gift from Lynne ) was found on the tabel,

and adhered to panel. On top the leaves and the branch- and lastly the stamped paper scraps.

I hope you are not tired from reading , lol. 

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

Materials used :

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-mdf-panels-pack-of-3-6x6.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-65ins-x-75ins-stencil-swallow-tc7018.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-lynnes-affirmations-set-10.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-bits-and-pieces-greyboard-sheet-acorns-and-leaves.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-8ins-x-8ins-stencil-stitches-tc8041.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-gesso-black.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-metallic-rose-gold.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-metallic-antique-gold.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-white.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-black.html

From my own stash I used:

Piece of fabric, paper scratches,a dried nature leaf .

This Challenge starts at 11am on Wednesday 5th September.

And there will be fantastic creations , from my DT friends , too.
The winner of this challenge will receive a £30 voucher to spend in our online shop and our Top 3 will receive a stencil/s of their choice from our own That's Crafty! brand.

Please make sure to read our challenge rules before entering. We will unfortunately have to delete entries that do not follow the rules.

FILL YOUR DAYS......

First Monday in September and a new little view

of this weeks blogpost for That`s Blogging Crafty ,

I used some of the new gorgeous Lustre Sprays ,

and as you can see here, they are really giving an

amazing shine . 

I hope you will see more, and therefore click the link:

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2018/09/fill-your-days-by-dorthe-hansen.html

Wishing you all a wonderful Monday , dear friends.

Hugs and Love 

Dorthe 

THEY CARRY SECRETS ON THEIR WINGS

They truly does carry secrets of beauty on their wings, the

gorgeous dragonflies - and I have tried to capture some in this

piece for That`s Blogging Crafty.

As you know, you c an see more over here-

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-carry-secrets-on-their-wings-by.html

Technique and used materials , so please have a look .

I hope you like my sneak peek ....:-)

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

THE POWER OF YOU IS UNSTOPPABLE !!

Here I am with number two part of the August Challenge 

over here : http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.com/

This time using a piece of the fantastic white cardstock from the Journal Kit , for the background, 

onto another scrap paper cardstock, I stamped one of Lynne`s lovely wildflowers, in Archival ink,

and after sprayed with the Flat Matte Aqua , diluted with water.

Onto another scrap this time from a greyboard tag I cut in two,

not long ago, I painted White, 

and when dry stamped Donna`s cute dog - he was painted with different

brown watercolour pencils , and a "tree trunk" painted on his left side , with

a few white doodles -

Melina`s beautiful butterfly was stamped ,twice, onto

ricepaper, ,also from the Journal kit, sprayed with Aqua Flat Matte, they were fussy cut and adhered together

with the Gloss gel Medium , making it a bit stiffer , and bendable .

The butterfly was painted details , using a white Posca pen,

and around the perimeter of the wild flower scrap I smeared

some of the Chestnut Brown . 

A piece of Corrugated Cardboard from the kit ,and a gauze piece ,were both also sprayed with 

Bluebell  Flat Matte- and after dry layered onto the cardstock, -the gauze under the wildflower piece , and on top the dog, now , with a little lace piece  with added flower. 

Butterfly was adhered to right upper corner.

Lastly Lynne`s Affirmation was stamped to paper also treated with Aqua , cut into 3, and adhered .

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

This challenge will run until 10am, Wednesday 5th September. Our next challenge will start at 11am on Wednesday 5th September.

The winner of this challenge will receive a £30 voucher to spend in our online shop and our Top 3 will receive a stencil/s of their choice from our own That's Crafty! brand.

Please make sure to read our challenge rules before entering. We will unfortunately have to delete entries that do not follow the rules.

For this Challenge, we'd like your entries to feature animals of some sort on them please.

Materials used

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-a5-mixed-media-journal-kit.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-lynnes-wildflowers-set-2-a5.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-lynnes-affirmations-set-6.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-the-poppy-daisy-collection.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-doodled-butterflies-leaves.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-flat-matte-spray-aqua.html

https://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-flat-matte-spray-bluebell.html

SEEK BEAUTY ...

A sneaky peek for today`s blogpost over at That`s Blogging Crafty 

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2018/08/seek-beauty-by-dorthe-hansen.html

If  you want to see some more pictures, and read a bit , you can just 

click the link, which will take you there. 

There are also all kind of projects from the rest of the team, to enjoy :-)

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend

Hugs and love

Dorthe  

EXPLORE THE WONDERS THAT SURROUND YOU ....

Dear friends, writing this, we have another sunny day here, and not as warm

as before, but this will not last , end of the week the temps, will come to 30 and more again.

Never the less here is my new sample, for this week  one 

of the fabulous chunkies , decorated on both front and bag.

If you visit here :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2018/08/explore-wonders-by-dorthe-hansen.html

You can see more photos, and read my how to !!

I would be happy to see you there, . a beautiful new week

to you all, and always thank you for comments here, on my blog, too.

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

HIDING........

Dear friends, we have a new CHALLENGE over at 

http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.com/

This months it is called : ANIMAL MAGIC 

and as you can see I used one of Donna Grey`s wonderful quirky stamps,

of her cat Fred. 

I started painting a greyboard panel with  Ivory , and when dry used the  Decorative Leaf

stencil , using Texture Paste ,  and onto the paste I sprinkled  Baked Texture , Ancient Amber,

and left to dry .

I then found a smaller pannel, I wanted to stamp Fred the cat onto, and chose to do it on 

the with of panel, and after cut to fit the size of the big panel.

I painted it with Mint and when dry stamped Fred using Archival Ink,

for the ink not to bleed . He was colored using watercolor pencils, in brown

tones. I wanted him to hide behind curtains, and ferns, and had a piece of rusted teabag

paper, on my table, which was perfect . 

(you can rust papers, rolling them around some rusted items, place them in a container

and add a little water and vinegar- )

I tore the paper to fit the panel and adhered with a very thin layer of adhesive .

After I stamped the fish bone , from same stamp , in 3 places, and defined the eyes and 

fish heads a bit , using white Sharpie.

The stenciled leaf now dry , was heated with my Heat Gun to change to a beautiful golden raised texture, and after , sprayed with Lustre Spray Aqua , which again

was sprayed with water to make it run a bit , down the panel.which was left to dry.

In between I stenciled some letters, -spelling Hiding - onto a reused brown paperbag, using Texture Paste - after dried they were cut out .

Fred panel was now adhered to the middle long panel ,

and the Fern stencil used to create a little fern hide away around him, 

using Chestnut Brown paint dabbed onto the stencil , with a dry brush.

Lastly the letters were placed on top and button of panel , and black 

ink smeared around the perimeter .

If you had the patience to read it all, I thank you , and send you

all good wishes for today. Please read below, if you want to be a part of the challenge ,

and have fun !!

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

Now remember : The winner of this challenge will receive a £30 voucher to spend in our online shop and our Top 3 will receive a stencil/s of their choice from our own That's Crafty! brand.

Please make sure to read our challenge rules before entering. We will unfortunately have to delete entries that do not follow the rules.

Materials used :

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-whitegreyboard-panels-45x9-pack-of-5-square-corners.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-whitegreyboard-panel-2-pack-of-6.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-mini-stencil-fern-ms013.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-65ins-x-75ins-stencil-decorative-leaf-tc7007.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-8ins-x-8ins-stencil-alphabet-tc8001.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-the-freddy-friends-collection.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-mint.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-chestnut-brown.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-ivory.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-lustre-spray-aqua.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-light-texture-paste.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/emerald-creek-seth-apter-baked-texture-ancient-amber.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-purpose-glue.html

From my stash:

rusted tea bag paper- old brown paper bag .

THESE WINGS .....

Hello friends, how are you ? 

Here is another peek from my Monday creation,

from That`s Crafty ,- you can see the whole make

over here, and read how it was created  :

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2018/07/these-wings-by-dorthe-hansen.html

I hope you will enjoy it .

I played with some gorgeous new products , which I think ,you 

will love to try !!

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

DAYDREAMS SHARING JOY ...

Another terrible hot Monday - going up to 37 degrees in Denmark, 

I don`t think I have ever experienced that, before ....... and far too

hot for me- ( Sorry sun-lovers ) . 

But anyway here is my sneaky peek for today`s blogpost 

overt at That`s Blogging Crafty 

https://thatsbloggingcrafty.blogspot.com/2018/07/daydreams-sharing-joy-by-dorthe-hansen.html

You can visit the link, if you want to see more, and read how I created this

little panel , filled with  summer joy !!

I hope you all can handle the weather !!

Hugs and love 

Dorthe 

EMBRACE THE QUIET MOMENTS

DEAR FRIENDS,  we are on round two, in this months CHALLENGE :

CLOSE TO NATURE .

Here is my panel this Wednesday .  

I hope you would like to play with us, and maybe win a price .       

It is a tag ,onto which I first stenciled , using the Abstract Grid, around

the perimeter , dabbing with Buttercup paint.

I found two old lace scratches, lying around , and placed them one under the other.

Then I stenciled the leaves using Texture Paste , and partly covering

the old lace. 

When dry one of the beautiful roses from the rose stencil, was

also added using Texture Paste, and on the bottom the grid stencils was

used again ,with texture paste, too.

After all dried ,I mixed Flat Matte spray Rose, with diluted Chestnut Brown,

onto my craftmat- and with lots of water added it to the panel ,very carefully, 

not to cover the grid.

Also I draw lines, around roses and leaves to give more attention to them,

using a gold brown aquaralle pencil,- and leaves were dabbed with Butternut and white 

paint here and there.

Onto scratch of old book paper, I stamped one of the new Affirmations

created by Lynne .

Lastly another piece of the old lace was attached to the tag hole on top. 

If you would like to be a part of this challenge, please visit 

http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.com/

The winner of this challenge will receive a £30 voucher to spend in our online shop and our Top 3 will receive a stencil/s of their choice from our own That's Crafty! brand.

Please make sure to read our challenge rules before entering. We will unfortunately have to delete entries that do not follow the rules.

For this Challenge, we'd like your entries to feature Summery images on them please.

i HOPE TO SEE YOU OVER THERE

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

Products used :

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-surfaces-whitegreyboard-tags-pack-of-6-10.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-65ins-x-75ins-stencil-roses-tc7029.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-8ins-x-8ins-stencil-abstract-grid-tc8023.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-65ins-x-75ins-stencil-skeleton-leaves-tc7002.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-clear-stamp-set-lynnes-affirmations-set-9.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-buttercup.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-chestnut-brown.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-flat-matte-spray-rose.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-multi-surface-paint-white.html

http://www.thatscrafty.co.uk/thats-crafty-light-texture-paste.html