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| From line drawing stamped image to dressed paper doll. |
Have you discovered Julie Nutting's wonderful paper doll stamps? I bought a couple and didn't realize how addicting they are! In a very short time I have accumulated 10 dolls! No, it isn't sending me back to second grade, but it did bring back the memory of a shoe box full of paper figures in my second grade desk, way back when.
I enjoy piecing outfits for Rita and the other dolls in my collection. Here are the steps I use to make truly original fashions for these wonderful paper ladies and some gents!
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| Stamp doll on Copic Paper. |
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| Color with Copic Markers (I used E000, E00, E11, E15, YG13) |
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| Cut out. | | | |
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| Print Skirt on two pieces of printed paper. These papers are from Nana's Kitchen Matstack. |
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| Cute skirt out, if you can't fit the piece in one print, do it again for the parts that you had trouble with and cut out. |
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| Decide which parts are the skirt and which is the inset and cut those out. |
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| Glue pieces together. |
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| Adhere outfit to doll. |
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Adhere dress fabric to back of doll, in case the background is narrow and the doll shows on the sides. Please note that the doll was cut narrow, where I did not need it to be and the dress is adhered to the main form. Editing note: I was reminded that I usually edge all my dolls with a black marker giving them a finished more professional look! Thanks for the reminder Debbie!
Have fun enjoy your new hobby! I have plans for some dolls I have made, just waiting for Xmas when I might be getting the two books written by the artist Julie Nutting. Happy Holidays!
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3 comments:
Thank you for sharing your post with information about how you paper pieced using the Rita doll stamp! I LOVE creating different outfits using the various dolls I have; and have been sharing them the past few months on a couple of the Facebook groups. I've also been doing swaps and have received some amazing works of art...now, I need to figure out a way to display them so they don't get messed up!
I will check out more of your posts soon!
These dolls are addicting. I bought my first one during the Blitsy Black Friday sale and was immediately hooked! I received 4 others yesterday. Thanks for sharing your techniques because I want to learn as much as possible.
I started collecting the doll stamps about 2 years ago so needless to say I have just about all of them and I love them all. The fact that they are all so unique and different with what I call different personalities, is what makes them so special. You did an excellent job at showing how to paper piece. The one thing I did learn from watching my first video by Julie Nutting on making the dolls, is that after she cuts the doll out, she takes a black Faber-Castell big brush artist marker ( I bought mine at Hobby Lobby w/ coupon so it was less than $5) and she outlines the outer edges of the doll with the marker. It kind of makes them stand out more & this is a JFYI...:-)
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