You may be asking yourself why anyone would bother doing paper dolls on acetate since it seems it would be just as easy to do them on card stock.
Well, I just really like acetate and the way you can vary the backgrounds by working with different materials on the backside of the acetate image. And you don't have to worry about getting that stamped image perfect every time.
Whiskey Creek now has available a set of five acetate sheets of paper dolls. There is a sheet for each of the four dolls, two boys and two girls. The fifth sheet is a miniature of the four different sets, the perfect size for enclosing in a standard sized card (a wonderful suggestion by Jan Bryant, the RubberRabbit).
Most of the standard coloring mediums rubber stampers use don't work real well with acetate as paints. They streak or puddle. There is a variety of paints call cel-paints that are specifically formulated for acetate, but I did not have any of these or test them on the acetate dolls.
Of the many things I tried as colorants on the acetate, I found I preferred chalks. They allow subtle shading of skin colors, and with the designs already in the clothes, such as the stripes or plaids, there is no need to worry about putting a design in the fabric of the clothes. Only an overall color.
I also liked oil pastels, but it is harder to get an even coat on the acetate than on some surfaces.
With both these techniques, I backed the finished dolls with a light, skin-toned card stock. I used various kinds of glue for this, and found it wasn't particularly effective. The glue simply didn't bond the paper evenly to the acetate, and air bubbles almost always appeared no matter how evenly and completely I spread the glue. I suspect this is the single-sided Xyron adhesive would be perfect. Since I had only the double-sided laminate cartridge, I wound up laminating the dolls.
Jan found plain old inexpensive craft paints her favorite way to color the dolls. Marvy metallic pens worked well, she said, but have to be used on the side without any copier toner since they dissolve toner cartridge.
And finally, how to change the clothes on the dolls? I would imagine the repositional Xyron cartridge would work well here, but haven't tried it. Jan, however, devised a really nifty way to use brads on the boy scout.
Another good suggestion from Jan -- running the dolls through the Xyron with the new magnetic backed cartridge. This could be used to create good refrigerator magnets from the dolls as well as provide a way for the clothes to stick to the doll. If you don't have a Xyron or this type of cartridge, you could purchase sheets of adhesive-backed refrigerator magnet material. As long as the magnetic layer was thin enough.
Whiskey Creek's set of paper dolls on acetate are $15 each, and that includes postage. However, if you would like more than one set, we offer two for $28, or three for $39.
All of our sets of acetate images, including Shakespeare's Women, the Zodiac Symbols, and the plate images, are similarly priced, and you may mix and match the acetate sets for quantity pricing from the available subjects.
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