Marisole Mondy & Friends: Black and White Printable Paper Dolls

First of all… More Black and White Marisole Monday & Friends printable paper dolls (but you’ll need to scroll down…)

Secondly, Check out the new layout. It is still in progress and I’m still messing with it a fair bit, but I have high hopes for eventual success with it.

What happened was that I updated my version of WordPress and updated my old theme. Well.. that messed up the formatting and I decided that the right thing to do was finally bite the bullet and redo the entire thing. So, the blog looked schizophrenic for a few days while I tried out new and different themes. Right now, the theme is Mantra and I can only say good things about it. I judge a theme on how much of the CSS I have to rewrite myself and with Mantra the answer has been… shockingly little. Just a few small tweaks to the code. All in all, a very nice and clean theme.

Anyway, I’m not sure how I feel about the new layout, so feel free to comment and tell me what you think.

As for today’s printable paper dolls… I’m posting some more previously colored Marisole’s in black and white. I think they look charming. They’re all very modern though some of them are two years old.


marisole-BW-Autumn

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Well, I did a series of seasonal paper dolls- or at least I thought seriously about it- and this one was for Autumn. You can see the Autumn Chic in color and I forgot to give her a background pattern, though I’ve fixed that in my black and white version. Paper dolls without backgrounds just look so sad and empty to me.


marisole-BW-Candy-Coated

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Being someone who loves alliteration, I called this paper doll set Candy Coated Couture, which made more sense when she was full color. I think she’s a great example of the importance of mixing neutrals into a colorful scheme to increase mix and match clothing options. Plus did I mention that I love most of her clothing? Now that she’s available in black and white and I think she’s just as cute.


marisole-BW-Enchanting-Evening

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So, now Mia is getting into the act. Here she is off to prom or maybe some sort of red carpet event. I never wear an evening gown in the real world, but paper dolls aren’t meant for the real world, are they? Enchanting Evening in full color is another paper doll where I forgot to put in a background image. It bothers me, though not enough to fix it. I should really fix the apstorphe in Streets of China first… that’s the one that really gets to me.

Anyway, let me know what you think of the new theme and check back later this week. There will be another update. I’m not sure when yet… but it is going to happen.

12 thoughts on “Marisole Mondy & Friends: Black and White Printable Paper Dolls”

    • Thank you Kat. Maybe I should offer a prize to anyone who can name them all… Of course, then I would have to be able to do it and I don’t remember all of the ones I used.

    • I really like it, but I have to confess that I have some decent knowledge of CSS and HTML and can read an PHP document, so I never know if it would be “easy” for other people.

  3. i just spent a full day going over everything and i am very impressed though i feel there could be a bit more historical items. this you would not find everyday, such as pilgrim, revolution, and pre-civil war. that would be awesome. the new theme is very nice, it makes it very easy to tell what you are sharing. thank you for your efforts.

    • I’m glad you like the paper dolls, TashaWhite. Historical dolls are rare because they are very time consuming to draw. Modern stuff takes a lot less research and as a historian, I don’t like messing up.

  6. I like the new layout too, although I haven’t looked at the whole site yet for all the changes. I love the PD clothes background image & the new header is pretty sharp as well.

    • Thanks Corissia. It’s grown on me… I had some problems with it for the first week or so, but they’ve been mostly sorted out now.

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