Sunday, May 4, 2014

You are NEVER to old to play with dolls

Hello Crafty Friends,

As my post title says... you are NEVER to old to play with dolls.  Several weeks back I saw a video featuring the Prima Mixed Media Doll Stamp and Die combos and I fell in LOVE.  I looked online, but found them sold out.   I put myself on a waiting list at Simon Say Stamps and a couple of weeks ago I got my doll.  I purchased the Halie doll, because of dress.


Yesterday, I finally had the time and energy (it's been a bad week full of sinus headaches) to sit and play with my new doll stamp and die set.  I created two layouts (more on those later) and four dolls.   Here are my babies:


Starting from left to right...

Halie 1 has a pattern paper dress and I gave her "tights", but coloring her legs w/a green copic that matched the pattern paper.

Halie 2 has a pattern paper dress, but what you can't see on this picture is that I separated the bottom part of the dress and inserted a couple of foam squares for dimensional layers.  I also colored the bottom part w/a gray copic that matched the pattern paper.

Halie 3 has the same pattern paper dress as Halie 1, but I cut off the flares of the dress die cut to get a different shaped dress.  I colored the bottom part of the dress w/a green copic that matched the pattern paper and added a large (for her) bow stamp to the front of the dress.  I made a green colored t-shirt, by tracing her upper body onto a white piece of paper, which I hand cut and colored w/the same green copic. Halie 3 also got a new hair do... I used the bangs die cut as intended and made my own pixie cut back hair piece.

Halie 4 has a pattern paper dress and white crop pants I made by tracing her legs onto a white piece of paper.

I LOVE how all four of my Halies turned out.  They each have their own "look".  And I love how super easy it was to make extra stuff for them, like the hair, the t-shirt and crop pants.   Here's another look at them:



Until next time...