A Sweetly Sassy Seamaid...

There's a little sneak peek on the Paperbabe Stamp Blog hinting at the new seamaid muses collection launching soon...

Stay tuned, stay magical, there's a pre-sale coming soon.

Enjoy a wonderfully creative day

♥ HuGs Kim

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Looking Through The Leaves...

Thanks for visiting today...

Here's a dimensional piece I created for the current

paperbabestamps anything goes challenge...

I used the new Afro Curly hair die to give this beauty a fun hairstyle. Along with the Body and Head stamps and dies and then for a fun feature the paper brad helped to give her head moveability.

The vintage doll papers were the inspiration for all the die cut foliage.

Copics Used: Skin; E11,13,99, R00,02,21

Eyes; B01, BG72, BV23, N03 Lips; R35, RV69, R21

I would love to enter my make in these challenges...

Pennys challenge ~ AG Using Paper

Avenue 613 ~ Anything Goes

Arty Divas ~ Anything Goes

Addicted to stamps ~ Make your mark

Ttcrd ~ Anything Goes

Colour crazy ~ Anything Goes(copics)

Creative fingers ~ Anything Goes

DVArtist ~ Friday Face Off

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Thank you so much for stopping by,

Enjoy a wonderfully creative

weekend ♥ HuGs Kim x

Spring Garden Jointed Paper Art Doll

 Thanks for visiting... 

We have a new anything goes challenge on the blog today and...

I've made a jointed paper art doll, using the body die along with the portrait head, the hands stamp and dies and the Misty bunches hairstyle, all jointed together with the wonderful paper brad.

I've had this gorgeous 12x12 botanical paper for a while and have been eager to use it as a theme for a doll, so I was thinking it would make a beautiful garden and then the idea of a spring/summer dress, which developed into this 3d dress with dimensional flowers adorning it.

This could be her flying or laying in flowers, it's play time now she's made, I've jointed her bunches too, so everything can move.

I've used vellum throughout, I love the sheer look over the floral patterned papers. So I layered some sticky roll onto the patterned papers before die cutting, I laid the vellum sleeves over the arms to get the sheer fabric look I was hoping for. The rest of her body I decided to add some glitter to the exposed sticky and it worked out quite lovely.

The construction of her dress took a few trial and errors, I wanted the poofy fullness but only applied it to the front, with the back section of the skirt flat, this way she can hang on a wall etc. The pleats aren't glued all the way down I just did the top section under the waistband. Her top has a similar technique, it's been adhered to the top but left loose at the bottom and tucked into the top of the skirt so she still has movement in her waist. 

The tiny flowers are from an old sizzix zinnia flower which have the cutest little flowers, I then shaped and adhered each one. 

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Thank you so much for stopping by,

enjoy a wonderfully creative weekend,

HuGs Kim x

Paper Cut Layered Portrait ~ Paperbabe Stamps Challenge

Hi, thanks for visiting,

We have a new challenge over on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today...

I've had the idea to create a dimensional paper cut piece for ages and using the jointed paper art doll dies and stamps made this so easy to put together. I love that you don't have to make a complete doll with these dies and stamps.

Her torso was cut using the Jointed paper art doll, body die. I then drew around the shoulders on another piece and trimmed with a little flourish to give her a layer of clothing and cover up the joint holes.

For the face I have used the Portrait head stamp and die, I've cut both the face and ears from plain cardstock, I didn't add extra layers to these I just added dimensional adhesive to create a good shadow.

Her hand was cut a few times, trimmed and layered, for example the thumb section is completely cut away with mount not that you can see that though. I created it without any stamping so it would have an unspoilt paper look.

Her hair was a little more involved though, I used the wonderful Aleesia hair template to draw the shapes, I drew the fringe four times and the back about twice. I then cut into the layers to give the impression of lots of flowing hair, trimming some completely away and adding a couple of layers behind her ears so the front wasn't too bulky.

For the face I actually stamped onto the cut face as well as stamping the features onto the back of the small pieces of coloured cardstock and  fussy cut to add some dimension to her face. You can just make out her lashes peeking under the cardstock, I wasn't going to fussy cut all of those lol.

and I would love to enter my project to these wonderful challenges too...

Simon says Stamp ~ layers

Through The Craft Room Door ~ Anything Goes

Cute card thursday ~ Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers ~ Anything Goes

A perfect time to craft ~ Anything Goes

Addicted to stamps ~ Any Occasion

Paper fun day challenge ~ Anything Goes

Pink gem ~ Anything Goes

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Thanks for popping by, I hope it inspired,

Enjoy a wonderfully creative day

Keep safe too ♥ HuGs Kim x

Fae Jointed Paper Art Doll Inspiration

Hello everyone!!!

Hope you're keeping well and safe during this transitional time,

this is the first week both of mine are attending their school/college ♥

seeing as there's still plenty of time to take part in our current AG challenge I thought I would share my fae doll project...

She's settled on some flowers, I've used my copics to colour her, I went for an ethereal blue skin with hints of floral markings and tattoos, using the decorative adornments from the hand stamp set as well as the leaf from the face set.

Her hair I've created from kraft cardstock and have drawn white lines to represent hair, it's in two layers and it can sit on her shoulder or behind her too. The wings are something I am working on, I've based them on my winter fairy wings, which I still love, I've cut them from vellum to keep their lacy delicacy.

Her outfit has been completely made up by die cutting lots of leaves(an old poppystamps poinsettia set) from the vintage doll patterned papers and then layering, I have added a little sparkly detail to the edges, which you might just be able to make out.

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Thank you for visiting, 

Enjoy a wonderfully creative weekend

Stay safe ♥

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