Dolls on the Run

The dolls are not new, I made them way back in 2009. They're made up of houses and are called housekeeper and housemaid. I was looking thru my digital photos and saw them and thought I would let them escape to the country for a holiday.

Paper Dolls

These are altered paper dolls, I just used the outlines and shapes. They have new faces and dresses. The dress fabrics are my designs, the faces were created on my tablet.

Art Buttons on Art

I have an article in the new issue of Cloth Paper Scissors about making art buttons. Well they are more like recycling than making from scratch. I use old buttons together with art work or found images. These are samples showing some of the recycled buttons. The buttons on the ATC above was actually an inkjet print that didn't print quite right but it was in my stash of papers. So it came in handy one day. The ATC was made from craft vilene and painted with acrylics, then stitched with running stitch and French knots.

The art on the blue buttons below were painted and roller stamped. The background is paper, with bits from a music book and bits of doyley which were both painted. Again hand embroidered.

I used brush pens and liner pen on the button man below. The background was hand painted and roller stamped paper. Button man was made from a book page, painted and applied to the background, then hand stitched.

For the one below I used a found image [not sure if it was from a book, a ticket or something else] which I had coloured with brown ink. I used a bought tag but altered it by applying painted music to it before attaching the button with metal thread.

Paper Dolls [IA]

Inspiration Avenue challenge - Paper dolls.

I've always loved paper dolls and recently my daughter bought me [usually the other way round eh?] this land army doll with various outfits, a pig and chickens. he background photo was taken at Beamish [Open Air] Museum. Click on the image to enlarge.

Terraced

It started as a row of five houses ................

Victorian Staithes

This one is from one of my doodle/sketch books, drawn with pens after looking at a book of old photos.

House Wife Paper Doll

This is another paper doll made from recycled papers [old art work] etc All parts are made in the shape of houses with stitched edges and joined with brads - all moveable parts.

Housemaid Paper Doll

This is another paper doll made from house shapes, this one is joined together with brads, has a pinny & hat made from doileys and is holding a feather duster.

House-Keeper Art Doll

This last year I have done a lot of art on the subject of houses. Most of it is wall art, but this piece is a paper doll made from house shapes which are collaged bits of paper - recycled art work etc and joined with washers.