Materials:
To create a lady vampire or demoness you will need:
- An unnecessary doll.
- Wide and narrow satin ribbons - 5 m each. Lighter.
- Lots of beads, bugles and beads.
- Thick wire.
- Double sided tape.
- Bead needle and thread. Scissors.
- Paints and brushes.
- Fixing varnish and acetone.
- Acrylic threads.
- Polymer clay
New life for the doll: preparation and repainting
Transforming a doll is a simple process, but very labor-intensive, so you should prepare for a number of evenings that you will have to spend with the craft.
To begin with, the old doll hair is removed - it is cut off and pulled out.
You need to wipe off all the factory paint from the face.
Repaint all parts of the doll in the desired color. White paint is suitable for a vampire lady. It is worth repainting after adding all the necessary fantastic details.
Paint the body and face. The doll's eyes are black with vertical white-silver pupils. The dot painting on the face makes the look unearthly.Fix the finished parts with varnish.
The hair is cut from acrylic threads. The strands can be decorated with beads. The process will be labor-intensive: thread each strand through a needle and insert it into the head - two “curls” are obtained from one thread. The hairstyle turns out unusual if the strands are wound around the horns.
Fantastic details
What makes a fantasy doll is the details: horns, elven ears, tail and wings.
Ears: Ears are formed from white polymer clay. The doll's head is soft and it will be difficult to glue them, so it is better to make holes for sewing. Cooked ears - bake too long.
Horns: formed from 6 strips of polymer clay, pressed together in the middle. Then, with a sharp object, the relief and holes for sewing are applied. If there is no black polymer clay, the part is boiled and then painted.
Tail: The tip of the tail is made from polymer clay.
A tail of the required length is formed with thick wire; to add volume, the part is wrapped with thread, pieces of double-sided tape are glued along the entire length and rolled over the sticky surface with a thin tape.
It is better to burn the edges of the tape with a lighter so that the fiber does not unravel. The detail is decorated with beads. You should leave a piece of wire on the tail to secure it.
Wings: made of wire and satin ribbons. In a mirror image, two frames are twisted from wire and wrapped with thick thread for volume.
Pieces of double-sided tape are attached pointwise to the thread, and a narrow satin ribbon is carefully wound on top.
The membranes between the wings are made from pieces of wide ribbons: they are fastened with tape into a sheet.
Scotch tape is used for temporary fixation and to add rigidity. To make the details neat, a diagram of the wing frame is drawn. The edges of the ribbons are burned.Then the membranes are sewn to the frame - this is possible thanks to tape winding.
All irregularities are decorated with beads or glass beads, both on the outside and on the inside.
Finishing touches
The wings and tail are secured to the body with remnants of wire.
The clothes are made from ribbons - you can glue them and sew them directly onto the doll’s body, or decorate them with beads and seed beads.
If the wings are not standing, you can use a trick: fasten the key points of the wing with a thin fishing line, threading it through the head. The doll will stand on a triple support: legs, tail and sushi stick stand. Attach a wire to the end of the stick and apply a camouflage pattern of thread and tape.
Attach the support stick under the tail or at the waist.
