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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Sunday Sketches - Patriotic Paper Dolls

It's Sunday, and it's also Memorial Day weekend, and we are feeling quite patriotic here in the studio.
I have been playing around with the idea of paper dolls, thanks to my bloggy friend, Brian!
I love the idea! ..and Madeline the Mouse, sure will look good in all of the outfits I am designing for her!
My kids love the idea, too... they have been coloring their own this morning.




I still need some tweaking here and there, but it's Sunday Sketches,
so I thought I would share what I have so far....
I hope you enjoy these...if you print them onto heavy cardstock, you can have fun coloring,  cuttng and playing around...maybe paste her inside your journal or bring her on a picnic!


Have a great weekend!
See you at Sunday Sketches

31 comments:

maddyrose said...

What a cute idea. Leave it to you to come up with something like this. Makes me want to do Santa paper dolls, or Mrs. Santa paper dolls. Have a great Memorial Day.

Jehanne's doodles said...

Oh she is soo cute, and I love her choice of undies :)
Have a great Sunday!

Joni Nickrent said...

How fun! Love paper dolls and have many good memories of playing for hours and hours! Your Millie Mouse is the perfect little mouse model!

Brian Miller said...

yay! that guy that had the idea is brilliant...lol. ok so your paper dolls are brilliant...cool to give them the chance to color their own clothes too...hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Unknown said...

oh what fun!!! I love paper dolls ...I haven't made one in ages!!! will have to add this to my list of fun things to do !!!

Beautiful work and Happy Memorial Day!!!!

WrightStuff said...

Heather your beautiful painting arrived - I will treasure it! Thank you!!

Madeleine looks very smart in her outfit. I am glad she is so patriotic - despite her love of La France!

Anonymous said...

what a sweet project,, I love it,,

Christine said...

Happy Memorial Day Heather, cute cutouts to share!

Julia Christie said...

What a great idea! And a perfect setting for dear Madeline! I love this! are you going to offer them in your etsy shop?

Love all these fresh ideas!!!

Smiles and hugs
xo

Morph Waffle said...

So cute, I love paper dolls and little sweet mousey patriotic paper dolls, very awesome!

EVA said...

Wonderfully cute! So much more you can do with this idea (LOTS of outfits!) Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Debbie said...

What a great idea, and she is so sweet! Happy Memorial day!

Unknown said...

Love this...paper dolls must be on a come back... I let my before school care kids play with some of my paper dolls that I had cut out... they loved the idea of making clothes to fit the dolls.... and I thought the kids would think it was a bit old hat... but to them it was something new and sooo cool.....

Cynthia Schelzig said...

tooooo darn gone CUTE..thanks so much,,,my niece will have a blast with this!!

Betsy Brock said...

What a great idea! I loved paper dolls when I was a girl!

m7 said...

it's cute how you name your drawing-people..and how your children can play with your work..lovely :)

lissa said...

great idea and looks quite fun.

have a great day.

Alexandra MacVean said...

Heather....ok now....can you save some of the brill ideas for us!!? :) hahaha

Really though, very cute idea. I know my niece would just LOVE this.

Hugs!

Marlene said...

Heather I love the idea of Madeline as a paper doll. Thanks for the sweet comments on my Eminem sketch, wish I could take credit for the perspective but I am looking at a picture of him my granddaughter picked out for me to do.

Redeker said...

this must be fun to design!!

Tammie Lee said...

ah, how cute. your art is perfect for paper dolls, such a great idea Heather!

Sabina said...

This is too cute for words! Now I hafta do a paper doll post, too--lol. Seriously nicely done and certainly time appropriate.

Gerri Herbst said...

So very cute. I wish I knew a little girl! Happy PPF.

Kristin Dudish said...

This is so much fun Heather!!! I love this idea :) How excellent to have a Madeline that can travel with me (maybe I'll introduce her to my gnome! ha!)

Enjoy your weekend...
xo
Kristin

Abby / Linda said...

This is such a refreshing idea! I just love it! Paper dolls! Great!

Joanne Osband said...

Very clever and fun way to spend the day, thank you!

Lynette said...

Great idea! So many things you could do with it. Love your mouse!

Rebecca Anthony said...

These are perfect, what a great idea!!

Sinderella's Studio said...

ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!!!! I want to cute her out and play!!!
cheers, dana

Crystal said...

Adorable Heather. We must be channeling each other because I am printing a felt (paper doll) pattern) I recently designed this week. Your Madeline doll is just adorable! :-)

Hannah said...

What an adorable idea! I had so much fun with things like this as a kid. Love it!