Paper Doll Love!
Hello and happy Sunday!
I’m so excited to be on the blog today with a fun post featuring Prima mixed media dolls and my awesomely talented friend Nichol Magouirk!
It’s no secret how much I love paper doll stamps! I love dressing them up in fun clothes made out of patterned papers and adding fun little touches to bring them to life! Nichol shares this crazy obsession and totally rocks paper dolls, so we thought it would be fun if we chose a quote and each made a 6×8 page with whatever paper dolls we wanted. The result? Two fun and completely different pages!
“Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine…” – designed by Stephanie Klauck (me!)
For my page, I decided to use the new Aidan boy paper doll stamp (Yay for a boy stamp!!) paired with the new Keira girl stamp. Isn’t he cute?!? ;)
I created a scene for my dolls with papers cut from both dies and my Silhouette Cameo. I love creating fun scenes with life like elements like the picket fence cut from Simon Says Stamp woodgrain cardstock and the tree cut from a fun wood patterned paper. I dressed the dolls in patterned papers and stamped the sentiment directly on the bottom layer of grass.
When I cut out the girl doll, it was too hard to keep her stamped flower bouquet, so I created a new one from the Simon Says Stamp Hi Lovely stamp and die set.
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“Every possibility begins with the courage to imagine…” – designed by Nichol Magouirk
Nichol has been creating 6×8 pages with paper dolls for awhile now, and one of her signature designs is to include Simon the dog in all of her layouts! Look at him in his cute goggles and snorkel gear!
I love that she used the Sea Sally mermaid doll stamp for her design! The water scene was created with various stamps and the new Waves stencil from Simon Says Stamp. The amazing mermaid tail is patterned paper that looks just like scales! I love how realistic her page looks with the fun shells, sand and seaweed added to her design.
The addition of the little fish and bubbles are the perfect touch to complete this amazing page! ;)
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Nichol also created a video of her creating her page:
Thanks for reading!
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Beautiful projects! Great idea to use stamped text as their skin :)
Beautiful cards. They both look stunning.
Love these fabulous Julie Nutting stamp inspired cards!
I’m always impressed with Nichol’s work. These cards are amazing!
I LOVED watching that video of the mermaid and the dog with the snorkel cracked me up.
very cute cards….gives such inspiration!
Lovely! Love the faceless paper dolls, the mermaid was amazing. : )
Lovely cards and so
well designed. I love
Simon in the ocean!
Carla from Utah
Lovely! Love the art journaling page, learning more about art journaling. Really like this. : )
I love how Simon shows up on the mermaid card. I already follow by email.
AWESOME card Stephanie, loved the text paper and your background is too cool!!! Nice to see a card from you :) And for Nichol – you continue to blow me away with your talent, this project is so incredible and I really enjoyed the video, it was like watching magic happen – I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the screen!
Beautiful cards! I love the colors and the pretty mermaid.
I am in love with Julie’s dolls! These pages are awesome. Love them both!
These art journal pages are fun! 2 completely different looks, and both are fabulous!
so totally fun.. love the paper dolls..
Both designs look amazing. I love the little mermaid stamp, she is so cute. Thanks for sharing with us.
Cute cards!
The mermaid is gorgeous!
Love the layout of this journal page. Prima dolls are so fun to work with.
I remember cutting women out of old catalogs and magazines when I was a child and using those as paper dolls. These are so so so much cuter!!!
Hilarious with Simon the dog on the scene! i look forward to spotting him in future posts :) I follow the blog by email.
Sweet cards. TFS
Love the way you both used the Paper doll stamps. You both gave them life. You did such a great job paper piecing and coloring the dolls and their clothes. So creative. Thank you both for sharing.
wow beautiful creations my fave is the mermaid great color
Awesome projects!!
Wow! I love that print on the people! Love this different look :)
So brilliantly ingenious! Love your style :)
OMG! I am soo addicted to these paper dolls. I was in heaven reading this blog post and watching the video. There’s actually a doll that has my name which is a bit unusual, so it’s on my wish list. Thank you!
Simon is gorgeous, every time, can’t wait to see what he’s doing next !!!
I have never really cared for including paper dolls or anything like that in my projects….. until now! This is really clever and cute! Thanks for the inspiration.
What wonderful projects! I love using the text paper as the base for the paper dolls!
So different from what I usually see, it’s really inspiring. TFS.
Absolutely gorgeous Prima Dolls! You ladies rocked the stamps. I love these doll stamps and have so much fun with them. It is inspiring to see other designs with the stamps. TFS!
love this card and saying and thanks for the tutorial too!! :)
Great cards! Glad to see that you can make a couple now! Clear video!
The paper dolls are perfect for an art journal. I love the layouts! (Simon is so cute with his snorkle and goggles! Simon Says needs to make a goggle die for those of us without a Silhouette!)
Awesome cards! I loved what Nichol did with adding Simon to her page!
Nice cards! Love Simon and his little goggles! So cute!
I love Nichol’s card with Simon in his goggles!
AWE!! Simon is adorable, in his little goggles and his snorkel! You nailed it (like always) Nichol!
DELIGHTFUL doll pages, LOVE your scenes, LOVE Scuba Simon, LOVE the quote too!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your sweet inspiration Stephanie & Nichol – it was great to see your creative take on the quote … I have the mermaid doll stamp and look forward to making a fun scene now :)
Those paper dolls are so adorable! The scenes you ladies created rock too! Fun stuff.
Lovely cards! The boy and girl dolls are so adorable and beautiful background scene!
Both are very cute, but I love the mermaid with the snorkeling Simon!
AMAZING projects with gorgeous looking dolls, fabulous sentiments and Simon is an uberfunny detail!!
xx Irene M
What cute cards. The mermaid card is so colorful
I’m so happy there is finally a boy stamp! Can’t wait to get him and play.
Nichol these cards are absolutely amazing!
Fabulous paper doll projects! Great video tutorial Nichol!
Beautiful cards, i remember playing with paper dolls for hours when i was a kid! x