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| Estelle an original articulated paper doll by Marla L. Niederer |
I’ve been engaging in paper doll exchanges through the Progressive Paper doll group on Facebook since last fall. It has been such fun group and a good way to stretch my creativity. For the most recent exchange themed Enchanted Garden I created a paper doll named Estelle and a Little Book of Enchantments to go along with her. Estelle was inspired by my long love of Tuck Comb Grodner Tal dolls.
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| Estelle an original articulated paper doll by Marla L. Niederer |
If you are unfamiliar with Grodner Tal tuck comb dolls, they were wooden carved dolls with tuck comb hair ornaments hand crafted in Austria, Germany, and Italy. A very small version of the dolls, often coarsely carved were the peg woodens that were jointed with a wooden peg joint.
Many
of these dolls also had tuck comb hair ornaments and were sold for a
penny. Queen Victoria was quite fond of
the peg wooden dolls and spent many hours dressing her delightful collection.
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| Estelle an original articulated paper doll and Little Book of Enchantments by Marla L. Niederer |
Since the theme of the paper doll project was
Enchanted Garden Estelle became a fairy with dragonfly wings. The entire paper
doll was hand embellished with metallic ink, archival ink, and sealed with
satin acrylic medium before cutting. In order to make Estelle jointed I used
miniature brads that I hand painted to match her dress and skin tone.
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| Estelle an original articulated paper doll and Little Book of Enchantments by Marla L. Niederer |
For
the presentation of the doll I was absolutely fascinated with a pop-up book
video tutorial presented by Einat Kessler on her blog and on her YouTube
channel.
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| Little Book of Enchantments by Marla L. Niederer |
I
had never made a pop-up book before and found the concept intriguing. There are so many different ways to create
one!
Going
along with our project theme, Enchanted Garden, I decided that there was no
better way to enter an Enchanted Garden than to go through a beautiful antique
wrought iron gate embellished with flowers.
I designed and cut out the gate and decided to have the doors open to
give a 3D embellishment to the first two pages of the book. The flowers adorning the gate and used to
adorn the rest of the book were prints of watercolor flowers that I had painted.
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| Little Book of Enchantments by Marla L. Niederer |
The backgrounds for the first two pages of the book and the second two
pages of the book are prints of a watercolor sketch I painted of a view from my
studio window. The water fountain, used
in both the first and second two pages of the book, was a print from a
watercolor sketch I painted of a beautiful garden on Boldt Castle Island close
to where I live. The greenery used to
embellish the book was also from a watercolor painting that I painted and made
a print of.
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| Estelle an original articulated paper doll and Little Book of Enchantments by Marla L. Niederer |
The
watercolor and ink fairy embellishing the last two pages of the book is a print
of one of my original works of art. I
also designed the pockets which hold Estelle the paper doll.
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| Estelle an original articulated paper doll and Little Book of Enchantments by Marla L. Niederer |
The images for the book were hand embellished with metallic ink, archival ink, and sealed with satin acrylic medium before cutting.
I
also designed and hand painted the original bookplate that I then made a print
of to use for the front cover of the book.
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| Little Book of Enchantments by Marla L. Niederer |
I hope you enjoy Little Book of Enchantments as much as I have enjoyed creating it.
And
if you would like to make your very own Estelle, she is now available as a
digital download in my shop. You can
find out more about the download by clicking on the picture below.
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| Estelle an original articulated instant digital download paper doll by Marla L. Niederer |
If you wish to see my self-study classes you can click on the picture below.
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| Self Study Classes by Marla L. Niederer |
If you wish to see
all of my free video tutorials on my OrsinisAngels YouTube channel just click
on the picture below.
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| Free Video Tutorials by Marla L. Niederer |
To see all of my
free tutorials click on the picture below.
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| Free Tutorials by Marla L. Niederer |
To find out more
about me just click on my picture below.
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| About Me |
Until next time…….
Warm hugs,
Marla
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