The Snow White Doll
My first attempt at "Customizing" an already made doll body, was with a snow white doll I found in a charity shop. I decided to start by seeing if I could at least create an outfit for the doll. I decided to basically recreate the "Snow white" outfit into my own design.
My first paper outfit design, I just used plain paper because I was simply testing to see if I could make outfit at all.
I just made up the outfit as I went along and taped it together with masking tape because it pretty much matched the paper and therefore blended into the dress.
It took a couple of hours, but only because it was so fiddly and I was making it up as I went along, but I was happy with the result; I knew that I could make pretty paper outfits for dolls, probably with patterned paper.
The second outfit
I removed the first and decided to recreate it, but in the colours of the original Disney snow white costume. (Red, yellow, blue, light blue and brown; But I left out the brown)
I used thicker paper because I was painting on it before using it, but because of that, I made it harder for myself to use. so this outfit also took a couple of hours to make, and I had to use glue instead of masking tape as it was too obvious and messy.
I used tape in certain places to hold the paper down while the glue dried.
I liked the colourful effect, but I would like to make less childishly bright outfits, so it is likely I will mostly use patterned paper (unless there if a colour or style I can only paint myself).
So I felt confident about making doll outfits out of paper, now I just had to experiment with customizing an entire doll, not just the outfit.
