I’ve finished the underskirt for my art doll and I really like the way it turned out even after all the challenges it posed. So now on to the jacket … red silk dupioni for the jacket, with a front lining of rich gold thai silk – she has expensive taste! One of my very […]
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My art doll still doesn’t have a name yet. Maybe after she has some clothes she’ll tell me what it is. The embellishing of the underskirt begins. First adding some art lace edging to the bottom of her skirt using water soluble stabilizer to support the decorative stitches. Then a piece of machine needlelace; lacework
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I recently began working on an art doll and you can see where I began here. Now, lying amongst the silks and satins on my cutting table, sometimes she looks dejected … … sometimes she looks hopeful … She has a strong personality despite her SpongeBob Squarepants body shape. But she’s waiting quietly while I
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From time to time I like to challenge myself by creating new ways to use my favorite fabric embellishing techniques. For this project I chose to make an art doll which is something a little out of the ordinary for me. I chose not to draw or paint a face mainly because I’m not all
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Remember this recent tutorial for removing backgrounds in Photoshop Elements when I showed you how to go from this to this Well that process just got a little easier. I don’t know what I was thinking when I took this photo using my old cutting board for a background instead of my new one. (sigh)
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I don’t know about you, but some photoshop elements techniques I only use once in a very long while. And of course you tend to forget how to do things after a while, memory being the way it is and all. I’ve found the best way to remember how to do things in photoshop elements,
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