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Play dress up with your own personalized paper doll necklace!

For this week's Crafter To The Stars I'm making a paper doll necklace for crochet designer, Twinkie Chan!

Posted by Cat Morley from London, United Kingdom • Published 7th May 2013 • See Cat Morley's 1145 projects »

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Step 1
Start by picking a full heigh image of yourself and opening it in your favourite software editing program. I used Fireworks!
Step 2
Trace around the outline of your body with the lasso selector tool.
Step 3
Choose the Select Inverse option from the menu.
Step 4
And then select Delete to get rid of the background.
Step 5
Now we're going to draw around the outline of the body using the pen tool, leaving a small margin. Add a few paper doll style tabs along the way.
Step 6
When you're done, select the Basic Dash style for your outline.
Step 7
Your doll is ready. Now let's add some accessories.
Step 8
Take a photo of one of your accessories, chop out the background and scale to a size that matches your doll.
Step 9
Line the accessory over your doll and chop off anything that doesn't fit.
Step 10
I had to chop off the top of the scarf to give it a snug look around the neck.
Step 11
Keep going until you have a complete range of accessories.
Step 12
Print out your doll on to a magnetic sheet. I also included a little wardrobe to keep the spare accessories in. You can download my template above, if you'd like to use it.
Step 13
Start by cutting out your doll with a pair of scissors. Leave a small tab at the top.
Step 14
Punch a hole in to the tab at the top.
Step 15
Cover the back of the doll in glue and stick on to a piece of white felt.
Step 16
Cut out the doll and punch a hole through the felt to match the hole on the doll.
Step 17
Open a jump ring and slip through the hole.
Step 18
Slip on to a necklace chain and close the jump ring.
Step 19
Continue cutting out the accessories. You don't want to leave a white border on these and you won't be backing them with felt.
Step 20
Keep going, using the wardrobe to keep everything organized.
Step 21
Dress up your doll and wear with pride!