Fashion Styles and Paper Dolls

Using Fashions from Vintage Catalogues & Magazines:

• Use the old cut-and paste method to create new paper dolls from old sources.

• Scan into your computer and manipulate them to fit your selected dolls.

• Use computer techniques to customize paper dolls for gifts or gain.

• Use fashion ephemera for research and to • Identify publishing dates of paper dolls.• Design ideas for new paper doll art.

Creative use of Fashion Art with Paper Dolls

• To make a custom paper dolls

• Put a photo of a person on the body of a vintage paper doll

• Combine original doll art with photos of costumes

• Combine elements of vintage PDs (trims, borders, backgrounds) with a new design

• Make memories &/or make money!

SNEAK PREVIEW!

Betty Hutton Paper DollIncorporating Photos of Film Costumes)=

By Judy M JohnsonFor Paper Studio Press

Due October 2008

Paper Dolls Shall Always be Linked with Fashions of the Day or:

• As representation of a period in history

• As a portrait of a famous person

• As a portrait of a loved on

• As a teaching tool

• As art

• As a device to revive happy memories and

• To ENJOY!

Sources

• Web searches for “Vintage” or “Historical” fashions or costume.

• Search museums with costume collections• Search sellers of vintage costume.• Look for vintage catalogues and fashion

magazines at flea markets & antique shops• Buy inexpensive CDs on eBay already

loaded with period images.• This program is designed & copyrighted, 2008, by

Judy M Johnson www.papergoodies.com