Magnet Paper Dolls

I made magnet paper dolls for Xoey. Using Xoey as the actual doll!

Here is how I did it.

What you will need.

• Magnet Sheets ( Office Max, these were kinda pricey, $13.00 for 5 sheets) {8 1/2 X11}
• Sharp scissors
• Digital camera
• computer with simple word document
• scanner/printer
• cute little girl/or a boy, I might make Xander do it so Xoey would have a friend:)
• Fun outfits. Dresses were easy to cut out.
  

1) begin by gathering up everything you want to have them wear. You wont want to try doing it latter once you start capturing these photos. The camera has to stay in the same position the whole time.
2) Pick a nice natural lighted spot. I took our photos out side in the shade with no shadows. Yet if you decide to go outside, make sure your little one is standing on something solid, We stood on grass and her cute little toes have green grass coming up between them:)
3) Have your little one dress in a plane outfit. We did underwear and tank top. Yet a leotard or a swim suit short shorts some thing tight would work as well.
4) Position your camera and keep it set. You don't want it to move. Use a steady table or a tripod. Keep your zoom set exactly at the same spot for every photo!
5) start by taking your basic doll photo. Take a good one and make sure you know how they had their arms and legs. I used tap on the grass, so she knew how far apart her legs were, we kinda guessed on the arms, yet you could put some tape on something to make it easier.
6) have them dress up in all sorts of fun clothes. Your shirts do not have to match the bottoms, you can cute them to be individual once you print them out. We used some fun hair bows, sunglasses would be fun, hats, boots, shoes, all thing I thought of after:) We did PJ's Too:)
7) Once your done with the photo shoot, get your computer ready. I used a simple word document program. Set my margins, and add one photo at a time. I printed out the Doll one first and made sure it was a good SIZE. If not move your print margins. and try again. Once set DO NOT move the margins. I just deleted the first photo and added the next to the document. printed it out and cut all around the photo.
8) once everything has been printed and cut. I tapped all my items to a 8 1/2 X 11 piece of regular printer paper, and scanned (color copied) to a regular paper. Made sure it all looked good and showed up good. Once I was satisfied with my copy. I placed my magnet sheet in the printer and copied my tapped paper onto the magnet paper. Doing it all this way saves the expensive magnet paper.



Here is the (Doll) Photo One used for the dress


Her hands were the same, yet her face was not, Did not matter, cut it out and worked great. I would have used to boa separate for next time. That way I could have used to skirt by itself. yet this way the boa was laying on the skirt. All thing I learned while doing it.