Barbie has got new clothes as well....

I've been looking for sewing patterns for Barbie doll clothes for ages, but couldn't find any... Knitting and crocheting patterns, no problem... but I wanted to sew something. Then my blog friend Eileen found out, and was really kind and sent me lots of sewing patterns for Barbie... old patterns. They were so much fun to look at... She sent patterns for dresses, skirts, blouses, trousers, swim suit and lots more. It was really hard to choose which one to make first. But my choice was this long dress...

The fabric I used is a bit shiny... and I sewed some flower sequins along the top edge and at the waist...My next choice was this cute dress...

...and I found the perfect fabric for it in my stash... it's the same pattern on the fabric I used as the picture on the sewing pattern... fun! And Maja had the perfect shoes for this dress in her box of Barbie things... I also hand sewed a "pearl" necklace on the dress. I figured it was better to sew it onto the dress, that way it won't get lost (or eaten by certain small people in my family...)

Maja fell in love with the indian dress... so, of course, I had to make that one too. Complete with a paper feather that Maja coloured in...

This was sooooo much fun, and there are plenty of more patterns on the sheets I got, so I'll definately make more clothes for Barbie!!

New clothes for the dolls

I've been thinking about sewing doll's clothes for ages... so when I had a piece of a fleece blanket left over from a previous project, I thought that would make some nice clothing for Maja's dolls. I liked the edge on the blanket and wanted to use it for something... It was perfect for the bottom of a doll's coat....

I saw a nice doll's coat in a book and wanted to make something similar, but the pattern for that particular coat was too small for any of the dolls we have. So I altered a pattern for a doll's shirt that I found in another book, and made this coat. It even has a wee collar...

I didn't have any Velcro for closing the coat, so until I get some, I've just used some pins....

After making the coat, I still had some fleece left, so I made a little outfit for another doll as well...

This little suit has a zipper and a hood... I found the pattern for this outfit in "Sy dukkeklær" by Anne Grethe Gaaserud.

Maja was very pleased with her dolls' new clothes.

A frog and a butterfly

I've made a couple of birthday cards. I wanted to try out my new water colour pencils that I got for my birthday, so I stamped a few images on water colour paper, coloured them in and cut them out... and made them into a couple of cards. It's always nice to have a few spare cards lying about....

On this one I've used the Versa Mark ink for the shooting star background and for the flowers on the yellow stripe. I like the Versa Mark ink.... it gives such a subtle colour... and it always matches the colour you're stamping on. It kind of makes a water mark on your paper/cardstock.

Here you can see it a bit better. I also used a paper with some shimmer in it for the lilac circle.

And of course, the images are coloured in with water colour pencils and gone over with a wet paintbrush afterwards.
The froggy card is already in the mail on its way to someone... Here I've used a lilac Hero Arts shadow ink for the shooting star background.

Both the butterfly and the frog are mounted on pop dots... I like them too... gives the card a bit of dimension...

Thanks for the lovely presents!

Woops... it's been over a week since I last blogged... time flies when you're having fun... and the fun this week was that it was my birthday.... and look at all the goodies I got! (Photo is not even showing everything...)

My 6 year old daughter had written a looong wish list for me. She'd worked on it for quite a few days... "Muuum? Do you want any fabric for your birthday??" and other similar questions was regularly asked during the weeks before my birthday. She took my hubby out shopping for almost everything on the list...

Look at the cute fabric she picked out for me... and she also picked out these stamps...

I'm going to have so much fun with my prezzies... thanks a bunch!