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