Winter Wedding Doll

My paverpol winter wedding doll is finished! And its only 1:00 in the morning!!

Christmas projects

I am playing with Paverpol again. This year I have a couple of ornaments to make for doll club and a wedding doll challenge.
I started with white lace and "arranged" a wedding dress from the wet paverpol'd lace. You can see the face and veil at the top...I haven't started them yet.

I started 2 tassel dolls also as ornaments for the gift exchange. You can search this blog under the paverpol tag for a tutorial I did 2 years ago making these ornaments.

Victorian Tassel Ornament Tutorial

I made these tassel ladies as a gift and several people asked me for a tutorial, so here we go....

Supplies:

Paverpol (available at lisasheaven.com) order it before freezing temps hit your area as the product cannot freeze during shipment or it will be ruined.

Beaded Tassels: I got mine at Cost Plus World Market, but many Christmas stores, Bombay Company and other places have inexpensive tassels.

A scrap paper face: I have a picture of one here you can copy (I own the original Victorian piece it came from)

Fabric for draping: I used chiffon with glitter dots on it.

Trims: Wired ribbon, trim, Christmas themed embellishments, silk flowers etc.

Plastic garbage bags and plastic ties.

Start by covering your work surface with plastic..I used the garbage bags. The Paverpol will not stick to it. Arrange your tassel on the plastic.

Cut a small rectangular piece of fabric...think of it as a "scarf" for your doll. I used several different sizes but about 8 inches long by 3" wide seemed to work best.

Dip you fabric in the paverpol and use your fingers to wipe it off. You can use gloves or not.

Arrange the wet paverpol around the top of your tassel. Make sure you keep the top hanging loop of the tassel free so it can still hang.

I arranged my fabric under the tassel and then brought the ends of the fabric forward, around the tassel and "wrapped" it.

You will need to arrange the ends of your wet fabric in a "pose"...maybe your scarf is being windblown and the ends stick out, maybe its wrapped with the ends tucked under...use you imagination and play with it. You have about 15 minutes to pose it...maybe longer. I find the wet paverpol is easier to work with after it has started to dry.

Remember to leave a space to tuck your head in the scarf area...I forgot to take a picture before I put the head in!

If you need to cinch the scarf, use a plastic tie...this will not stick to the paverpol. I left mine on the table to dry over night and then hung them up to dry the 2nd day...I found it took 2 days for them to be completely dry.

Once the paverpol is dry it is time to add your face. I used a face glued on a bottle cap. These are available at scrapbooking shops or on-line. You can also just use heavy cardboard to glue your face on to...then cut it out and glue it into the pavepol "hood" you have made.

Now you get to embellish to your heart's content! I used wired tinsel trim and white iridescent silk flowers.

Once you are done...hang her on your tree!

Have fun making your own Tassel Ladies!

Paverpol Pins Finished

I finally finished these pins up for the quilt show next week. The knit fabric really held a lot of Paverpol and dryed more "plasticky" then I would have liked...so I basically used them as a collage base....worked out pretty well.

Paverpol Pin Dolls

I need to make some pin dolls for a club fund raiser...so I had an idea to get out the Paverpol again and play around. I have had these commercially made faces for ages...so I thought it was time to use them. The fabric has been painted with paverpol and draped around the face...its still wet so stay tuned to see how they come out!

Paverpol Lady is Done!

She is done! I decided on a winter theme and used mica flakes and tinsel to finish her off. I love vintage Christmas decorations and all the new "vintage style" decorations they have now. I can't wait to put her in with my snow babies!

I started this little lady doll last month...you can see her beginnings in the earlier posts on this blog (or under the word "paverpol")

Paverpol Lady gets a head!

I added a head to the little paverpol lady.
I was going to paint the face but was playing with my victorian scrap stash and decided to give her a paper face instead. I think this face is a bit small for the scale of the doll, but you can get the idea.


Next comes the embellishing but it may be a few days before I have time for that. I think she is coming along nicely!


I also spray painted the entire doll white.

I started with a foil ball, then covered it with airdry clay. Once that was dry I added a paverpol soaked papertowel head wrap.

Playing with Paverpol

So many people are interested in learning about Paverpol that I took a bunch of photos at a play day at my house.




We made little ladies out of paper towels and water bottles!

They will be spray painted later.

Liz dips paper towels in the paverpol.

Little water bottles from Costco.

Finishing Valentine Doll

In January Sherry Goshon taught her "Peace" doll at my doll club's retreat. We had so much fun! My doll was
close to being finished but needed a headdress and a few finishing touches. I had a craft day at my house this weekend and pulled out the Paverpol and finished her up!