Autumn Birthday Doll Cards

I was asked to make a 21st Birthday Card for a customer to accompany a birthday doll in Autumn colours for an October birthday.  It had to be something doll based and I was a little at a loss to know where to start.  Then I found Julie Nutting's book on couture fashion paper dolls, that led me to her stamps by Prima Marketing and suddenly I have a whole new interest!  I can once more play with paper dolls.  This was an abiding passion of mine as a child, a new paper doll book kept me quiet a long time.  My Grandma Ida used to go into Chorley to an Aladdin's Cave of a Newsagents cum book shop cum card shop called Rigbye's on Eaves Lane.  This card shop was amazing, you had an occasion and they would have a card for it.  I once bought a special birthday card for my cat!  But they had all kinds of old fashioned notions and that included a regular supply of paper doll books.  One I remember was a collections of fifties outfits for a Connie Francis Paper Doll and this was in the seventies!  Why Connie Francis I don't know but it inspired me to revisit her paper doll collection during my City and Guilds, where I was exploring printing and made the papers all into doll outfits.  You could still find the original paper doll online.  Happy, happy days.  However, the stamps by Julie Nutting are just wonderful, there are so many, in so many styles and you really can make them individual.  It is just so much fun and you get to pick lovely papers and play with them. For once it is me who is raiding Becca's stash, rather than the other way round.  She is being very gracious about it and has even had a go at making an old fashioned victorian school boy, with black hair and cut out cat eyes.  I cannot recommend Julie Nutting's books for inspiration and so many pieces inspired by her stamps on Pinterest.   I enjoyed making these cards so much and they fit so well with my dolls that I think I will continue to make them and slowly add to my collection of Julie Nutting stamps.  This is my first foray into card making for anyone other than family and it is a whole new world of colour and pattern, I hope you like them.