Paper Doll Story Boxes

 

 

Wooden Shadow Box Trays

Basic Grey LilyKate Paper

German Scrap Borders

Wool Roving

 

Select your shadow box and a Paperwhimsy image that will be used for the paper doll.  Keep in mind, you will only need an image from the waist up.  Also select your background papers.

Paint the box in a coordinating color to the background papers chosen.  When dry, use a thinned coat of cream colored acrylic paint, and wash over the color in the box.  Wipe off excess, before dry.  While you have the cream colored paint, wash a light coat over the German Scrap trim, and wipe excess off.

Using LilyKate paper, select two coordinating patterns, cut to the size of the box. Tear one of the papers for interest.  Glue papers to the back of the box.

Attach the German scrap trim to the upper and lower edges of the box.

Trim Paperwhimsy image, and place in the box where you will want to mount it.  With a scrap piece of paper, draw a skirt pattern that will fit inside the box from the waist of the doll to the bottom of the box.  This will be your skirt pattern.  Take the skirt pattern and add ¼ inch on each side and cut pattern out of coordinating cardstock.

Using fancy tissue paper, lace, or crepe paper streamer, glue rows of ruffles to the cardstock skirt.  When glue is dried, fold over the added ¼ inch on the sides of the skirt, for dimension. 

Attach Paperwhimsy image to the skirt, at the waist.  Place in box, and decide on any additional background collage items you want to add.  Such as leaves, doilies, etc.  Also if you want to want add wings to the image, attach at this time. 

When the background is complete, attach pop up glue dots, or pieces of foam core board to the back of the paper doll, and secure in the box. 

Finish embellishing the paper doll with more lace, buttons, and ribbons.  To finish off the box, add collage items to the skirt, or have the paper doll hold something. I also added a little of that yummy wool roving to the bottom of the box to soften the collage, and make it look like the paper doll was standing in a mist.