Vintage Halloween Flapper - Page 2

 I hope everyone is having a great October! We spent the weekend apple picking with the kids and my parents, as well as celebrating our 17th wedding anniversary! It was a lovely weekend! 

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I have come across some wonderful vintage Halloween ideas in my research! Adding crepe paper to pre-existing clothing was a common way of creating a costume. I'm not sure exactly how that worked but I came across an ad for these crepe costumes and just LOVED it! 

I briefly thought about a limited color scheme for the whole Halloween set, but as I colored I realized I just didn't like that. With this, I added a bright green with some hints of pink to create a vintage inspired cat sort of like this one:

I didn't like the hat in my reference image and created a floppy hat instead. Stay tuned for more downloads every Thursday for the rest of October!

Happy Halloween with a Vintage Flapper - Page 1

Surprise! I have a short series of Halloween paper dolls for the month of October. I decided to post on Thursdays for the month since Halloween is on a Thursday. Just makes for a nice, even distribution.

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I don't know about anyone else, but my September was just a mess! The kids went back to school and immediately got sick. My youngest son brought home a cold that left me with a horrendous cough for more than two weeks. And then the poor kiddo had minor but emergency surgery. He's fine but it was a crazy month....

This might look familiar to anyone who attended the recent Paperdoll Convention. I gave a workshop called "Fashioning a Flapper" where we used pre-cut papers to design fanciful flapper dresses for this doll. It was a lot of fun, especially for my first-ever workshop. 

I really liked this doll and just didn't feel like I was finished with her. I also knew that I wanted to get back into the habit of posting here more regularly. So I decided to color her in and see where it went. As I was coloring it, I came across vintage 1920s and 30s Halloween costumes and decoration books. 

 

 

With these and others as my inspiration, I started putting together a lovely paper doll! Today's page has the doll and a daytime outfit. The rest of the month will be Halloween costumes. I'm hoping to tinker around with this and turn it into a book at some point. For now, enjoy a download every Thursday for the month of October!