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Today’s Printable Paper Doll Inspirations: Owls, Victorian Ballgowns, and Platform Sandals
Happy Halloween!
Halloween always feels like it is a holiday ripe for paper doll activity. It’s all about costumes, after all. So, while I abandoned themes last week, I will be returning to them this week. Each day this week there will be a different Marisole Monday & Friend’s doll and her bird themed masquerade ballgown.
Meaghan is starting us off with an owl themed paper doll masquerade dress which was the first of the dresses that I designed. The sketchbook page of this gown on Instragram went up a few months ago, but it can take a long time for things to be finished. My goal was to capture the idea of an owl without being specific to species, so the buns on her head are supposed to be like the owl’s ears and the layers in the skirt give a sense of wings.
Due to the width of the skirt, I would strongly recommend adding some floating tabs to the back of it. Her wig is designed to work with my usual method of pasting the back to the front and leaving a pocket for the dolls head. Here are the full instructions. I really should do full instructions on floating tabs, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Now, tomorrow there will be a flamingo and after that, I haven’t decided which ballgown will go up next.
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i love the bird theme ~ what a GREAT idea!
Thank you, Boots. You know me- I like a good theme. 🙂
This theme is so cool for a masquerade and the owl dress is gorgeous. 🙂 Happy Halloween, btw, to everybody!
Thank you, Kate.
Beautiful! The bird theme is really clever.
Thank you, Julie. It’s been fun to draw them all.
They are so pretty! I hope you make more masquerade themes.
I love the loon.