Birthday DAK's

I signed up to do birthday DAK's with my yahoo group - Fabric in Altered Art as a way to force myself to use more fabric in my art.  I found this doll idea in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine the Sept/Oct 2009 issue and it had a post it note marking the page and I had left it sitting on my end table(okay for a year and a half) so I wouldn't forget it completely. I try to mark what I want to go back to and will look over my marked articles occasionally to see if I want to try

anything. This time I actually made something!!!

The article is called "Art Doll Evloution"

by Debbie Crane, page 26. So here are my first

versions of these cute little dolls.

Butterfly Dotee Doll

Well what can I say? Catterpillars do turn into butterflies you know! I found battenburg lace butterflies at a nearby Goodwill store for 25 cents and they were the perfect size for the wings of my butterfly dotee.

Caterpillar Dotee Doll

This one was a lot of fun, I enjoyed beading quite a few legs onto this caterpillar dotee.  This is for a swap on swap-bot, and yes I joined the dotee doll group. Can't wait to see what everyone else has come up with.

Cupcake Dotee Doll

This dotee was a lot of fun and I like the bead I found for the tail.  It is a polymer clay bead shaped like a piece of cake. I picked up several "slices" of cake at the Madison Glass Art and Bead Show

the year before last. No real plan, just couldn't resist the cuteness factor, and I think they were just the perfect touch for my cupcake dotee.

Fabulous Frogs and Toothsome Toads

Frog ATC swap - drawn with black Sharpie pen, colored with Copic markers.

Flashy, Flirty, Funky, Fancy Flaminoges

Flamingo ATC swap cards. Patterned paper, gel pen, and rub-ons.

My first dotee doll

Here she is, my first attempt at a dotee doll.  This one is for a Valentine dotee doll swap, the only requirement beyond regular dotee doll specifics was that this doll have a heart on it somewhere. I had this cute fabric that had hearts on it, added a heart shaped button and on the back I used two pierced felt hearts for wings.