When I saw these little Japanese Dolls in Papercraft Inspirations Magazine this month - I just had to try to make them myself! Aren't they cute!

They use just circle and oval punches.

What You Need

Card Base : 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 (or 11 x 4 1/4) folded cardstock to make a 4 1/4x 5 1/2 card

Mats: 1 piece 5 1/4 x 4 (I used black for this one) and 1 piece 5 x 3 3/4 complementing colour to the DSP you are using.

Vanilla Mats: 2x3 1/2    2 5/8x1 1/2     2 5/8x1 7/8

For body and dress: 3 ovals - using the wide oval punch

For face: 1 circle of vanilla using 1 inch punch

For hair: 1 circle of black using the 1 1/4 punch, trimmed as in the above picture, or for the doll with her hair up in a bun - 1 circle with the 1 inch punch and 1 with the 3/4 punch

Chosen stamps, inks, markers, eyelets or brads, crop-a-dile, adhesive, dimensionals

Instructions

Stamp your images onto the 2 5/8 vanilla cardstock.  Punch holes and set eyelets or brads.

Stick ovals together as in picture. Turn over and then feed back into the wide oval punch, using the base oval as a guide, punch again.

The feed the oval into the punch from the bottom - and trim off a litle of the 'egg' shape - you can do this with scissors if you are not comfortable using the punch.

Stick whichever hair design together to the head, and then to the body. Stick all your mats onto the card as in the pictures. using a black marker, draw on eyes and mouth. Click HERE for instructions in PDF

Comments (16)

1 Friday, 29 May 2009 06:31

Christyne

This is absolutely brilliant!  I will DEFINITELY be saving this for future reference.  Thanks!

2 Friday, 29 May 2009 08:31

Anne Pavlosky

Kirsteen, these are just so adorable.  Well done.  I can't wait to make up a few of these cards.  Thanks for sharing.  

3 Friday, 29 May 2009 09:07

Elaine de Montmorency

Kirsten,
They are so beautiful.  I love that magazine too, but we are slow getting it over the pond.  Thank you so much for sharing

4 Friday, 29 May 2009 12:42

penny c.nelson

Kirsteen, How adorable these cards are    Happy to hear from you.  Thanks for sharing how to make these. Penny

5 Friday, 29 May 2009 18:50

Anita

These are soooooo cute!  Thanks so much for the great tutorial!  This is a great way to use up some retiring DSP!

6 Sunday, 31 May 2009 09:26

Carla

Hello Kristeen,

I saw the doll mentioning in the may-number, but we always get it a few weeks later here in Holland.
Like your cards very much.
Thanks for sharing

7 Tuesday, 30 June 2009 20:20

Jonna

This is fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing. A great idea for demos.

8 Saturday, 04 July 2009 13:00

Debi Pippin

I plan on using these to make a cute box set too.  You are brilliant and thanks for sharing.
Debi pippin

9 Monday, 20 July 2009 15:32

Jamie Pyles

Hi Kirsteen! Love these dolls! Soo cute:) Thanks for sharing! Take Care Jamie

10 Thursday, 23 July 2009 09:15

Carol Linden

ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE !  Thank you so much

11 Saturday, 25 July 2009 08:08

Wanda Williams

These are TOO adorable!!!  I can't wait to try them.  Thanks for sharing!!!
Wanda

12 Friday, 31 July 2009 16:52

Debby

These are so cute! Thanks so much for sharing how to make them :-)

13 Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:29

shannon

waaaaaaaay cute!! arigato for showing us the girls and your talents!

14 Thursday, 20 August 2009 08:03

Judy Rowland

This is an AWESOME tutorial!!  Thank you for taking the time to make it so detailed.  I cannot wait to try creating my own Japanese dolls. I also LOVE the cards you created with the dolls.  Could you tell me what stamp set you used for the flowers/branches?  I definitely see a CASE here.  :) Thanks again for the inspiration!!  You ROCK!!   Judy

15 Thursday, 08 October 2009 18:03

Bronwyn Eastley

These are just so adorable.  I can't wait to try them out with various DSP's.  Thanks so much for sharing your creativity.

16 Sunday, 09 May 2010 16:10

Terry Schultz

OMG these are just the cutest designs.  My daughter will be on tour in Japan this summer to Irish dance, and I will send her a "sayonara" card and making scrap pages with your creation.  Thanks so much ;-)

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