This is first doll I made. I guess I may be a little slow, but it only just occurred to me that if I stamp the dress on patterned paper, then it will look like a patterned dress. We really need a light bulb. I thought that in her beautiful dress, hat and shoes, yellow rubber gloves somehow seemed appropriate. And what better to wash than a couple of spoons. It all makes sense to me. I like giving my dolls elbows. If I was going to make her whole arm move, I would stamp the top of the dress twice so I could cut the sleeve caps off and attach them to the tops of the arms and then cut most of the sleeve off the dress leaving a shoulder as an attachment point. Next project, give her a bowl and make her stir something in it.
As a child pop-up books were my very favourite. I don't remember them lasting all that long. With a younger brother that enjoyed ripping the heads off of the few Barbies I had, I imagine the pop up books suffered an equally undignified end. As an adult, I can spend hours figuring out how to make things pop up, or move on the front of the card. I think I missed my calling as a mechanical engineer. Paper presents its own unique challenges when it comes to making things move. I recently worked up three cards for a class at Bizzy B's. One just moves by allowing it to move. In one I made Marie Antoinette ride a penny farthing bicycle.
