StencilGirl® Doll Makeover Collaboration Challenge

Hello StencilGirl® and stencil lovers!

Tina Walker here today with a new Collaboration Challenge.  This month, we are ALTERING DOLLS!  How might someone go about altering a doll?  Simple!  Alter the doll's clothes, alter the doll's accessories, or even alter the doll's physical body!  And yes, this can all be done with stencils!

The challenge was simple - take a gently (or not gently) played with doll, and get creative with stencils, techniques, and more.

Let's get to the reveal!

TRACY KRUEGER 

How freakin' cool is this!?!? I love it, AND, I could totally see a celebrity rockin' this outfit!

Here's what Tracy had to say about her project:

"For this project, I knew she HAD to have tattoos (like me) so I was inspired to find stencils that could easily be tattoos.  My doll had clothes that really weren't conducive to being stenciled so I hand made everything she has on (except shoes)!  I absolutely adore how she came out!"

Stencils Used:

StencilClub Jan 2022  

Trefoil Rieven Glyphs 

Seeds 

DEB CORDER

SO, SO cute.  I love her eclectic, authentic self!  You do it girl!

Here's what Deb had to say about her project:

"I started with a box of doll heads I bought from an Etsy seller. This head caught my eye because she was completely bald but still wearing earrings—can you relate?  I pictured her as a tattooed girl in a hand-embroidered dress.

I used a 100% cotton kitchen towel as the base for the hair, body, and dress. For the hair, I tore the towel into 1/2-inch strips, tied knots in the middle, sprayed them with Dylusions Ink Sprays, and glued the knots to the head.

The body started with a basic doll pattern, but I had to enlarge it a bit to fit the head. Nothing scientific—I just kept penciling around the pattern until the proportions looked right! Before assembling the body, I stenciled the tattoos to the fabric. Because I started with a white towel, I used Dylusions Ink Spray to make the skin pink/tan. The finished doll is stuffed with lentils and Polyfil. The lentils add weight to her lower body parts to help her sit.  The legs and arms are also similarly filled.

For the dress, I used the “Layered Salad” stencil by Terri Stegmiller. I stenciled different colors onto the kitchen towel fabric and then hand-embroidered the design areas. Once the embroidery was finished, I laid the doll on the fabric and sketched a simple sheath dress pattern around her.

I’m so happy with how my tattooed BoHo doll turned out!"

 

Stencils Used:

Layered Salad 

 

PATSY BUCCY

 

 

She is so dark and mysterious.  I love that!

 

Here's what Patsy had to say about her project:

"This is a sad rainbow girl, inspired by the shirt she came with.   It is hard for me to make happy art these days. I used Stencils Girls “Lots of Dots” for her dress.  She will probably evolve a bit more; I hope to find a coffin in the Halloween aisle and do something with her then.

loved the stencil and the colors remaining on it after I used it, which made me want to the stencil in an art project.:

 

Stencil Used:

Lots of Dots 

 

 

Now on to mine....

 

Before I reveal my doll, here's a little BTS look at what she looked before her makeover, during her makeover (just for fun), and her finished, Victorian Inspired Self.

 

Take a good hard look at the BEFORE and AFTER! 

 

 

 

I bought her and a few of her closest friends at an auction and since she was a larger size, I could really alter-her-up! 

Just a funny little pic of her while I was prepping her body for her makeover!  

 

Drumroll.....

 

 

 

We can pause right here - it's okay to scroll back up - check her out! ;) 

 

 

She HAD TO HAVE a vintage-inspired backdrop...so stencils to the rescue. 

 Although her stencils 'parts' are subtle, so is BOLD in every way! Are you wondering how I got her hair to stand up and how I painted her body?  I used Powertex products throughout.  Interested in learning more about how Powertex works and how using it with your stenciled projects really elevates your dimensional work into the sky!

 

Stencils Used:

Church Window 

StencilClub Jul 2023 

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

I hope you have a wonderfully creative, and STENCILFIED week!

 

XOXO