An Altered Paper Doll Day

This weekend my sisters and I got together for a belated bday celebration for my sisters Frances and Maryl. We went out to lunch at a fantastic Korean restaurant (Jang Su Jang) in Milpitas and then went back to Maryl's house to make altered paper dolls. My sister Diana and I brought samples and supplies for the rest of the girls to play with.

Below are a couple pictures of the sample altered paper dolls I created.

Thanks to the talented Jackie Peters (http://goodgriefgirdie.typepad.com/blog/2013/05/a-little-mothers-day-giveaway.html/) who shared with us her paper dolls that she made with these adorable dress stamps from Red Lead Paperworks (https://www.redleadpaperworks.com/servlet/StoreFront).

I love the background paper of the dresses...the designs are so 50ish. I found this book with photos of vintage fabrics.

I photocopied several of them and then stamped the dress image on top.

I also stamped the dress on white paper and cut out the collar and cuffs and glued those onto the patterned dress. The other option is to use a white pen to color the collar and cuffs.

I think the eyeglasses really add an element of fun to the paper dolls. I purchased a die cut of different eyeglasses at the recent rubber stamp show I went to in San Jose.

The vendor I bought them from is Impression Obession rubber stamps: www.iostamps.com. 

Pictured below are the paper dolls my sisters created...

As you can see, I also brought the Tim Holtz "Winged Things 1" stamps for my sisters to play with and showed them how to use the copic pens. I love how they all turned out.

The next project was embellishing thank you notes. I found these adorable thank you notes at Michael's in their dollar bins. 

I thought they would be adorable if we we put a sitting girl on the chair. I brought various sheets of sitting girls that we embellished and doodled. I think they came out adorable.

My sister Diana brought along her Julie Nutting stamps and the samples she made...so cute!

Thanks again to Jackie Peters for showing some of her projects made with these stamps. The picture below shows the Julie dolls we made together...more cute paper dolls! My sister Pat had a great idea to put some eyeglasses on these girls...too cute!

What a fun day we had - crafting with my sisters is on my top ten list! My sister Lana was late coming to the restaurant and didn't get pictured with us...sorry.

I hope you all had a Happy Memorial Day!