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Paper Dolls!!! The scrapbooking market has exploded with Paper Dolls! The products available are diverse, creative, and abundant. Here is a brief sampling of some the greatest products available. |
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One of the newest products available just starting to hit the stores is the Templatots from Leeco Industries. There are four easy-to-use templates available that let you make hundreds of clothing combinations. The sets are the basic, sports, dress-up, and hair and faces. These templates allow you to customize your doll with just the right skin tone, hair style and color, clothing and accessories. |
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The paper doll is sized at 4" tall and the design can be adapted to any age, whether you want to make kids, a bride and groom, or grandparents. Best of all, the clothes in the Templatot patterns will fit most ther 4"-5" die cut dolls on the market. These templates are so popular, there are four new ones in the works for 2001. |
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Sometimes the hardest part about making a paper doll is finding the right paper to make each piece. Paper Adventures has made this selection process much easier with patterned paper designed for the paper doll in mind. These papers are called MatchMakers and each 8 1/2 x 11 sheet has two coordinated prints for clothes. |
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Jill Rinner, the designer of the Accu cut paper doll die cut and paper doll template designed these papers. There is also paper designed for hair and skin color. There are six different colors for hair and on each sheet there are three options - solid, curly, and textured and four skin tone colors. Look closely at the paper dolls in this article. They are wearing MatchMakers clothes! |
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If you haven't seen Joyful Heart Stamp's Debbie's Dolls, you have been missing out. Debbie's Dolls are paper doll stamps. Use a black stamp pad and stamp the doll stamp on skin colored paper (I chose MatchMaker's Blush color). Then, cut around the image along the black line. Do this same technique for the clothing pieces and accessories. Experiment with different patterns. The results are adorable. |
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Now for the easy route. EK Success has created a paper doll system that involved very little cutting and perfectly matched pieces to create a great layout. Paperkins are perfect paper dolls. Once you find a design that fits your picture theme, you just need to glue the doll together (directions are on the back of the package) and strategically place it on your layout. |
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My Mind's Eye has an even easier solution. They have created the Frame-Up's Friends. These cute die cuts are preprinted and ready to go onto a layout. The great thing about these die cuts is that they are designed to go with other page elements by this company. Check out the soccer layout with all the pieces coordinating. The soccer balls, the journal fill-in (New!), and the frame all go with the soccer boy die cut. You can't go wrong with these products. |
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Here are a few more Paper Doll possibilities available. Handmade Scraps has dolls that the pieces are printed for extra dimension. When you piece the whole doll together, it looks very "handmade". Stamping Station has created "Stick Kids". In each package there are several coordinating clothing pieces so you can mix and match and make it right for your layout. Puzzlemates has a "puzzle system" that incorporates Jill Rinner's paper doll design. This fun to use template will allow you to have an organized layout with a cut doll in the middle to match the theme. |
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