Kokeshi Doll Shadow Box

The next step was to color their kimonos. I looked at a few pictures online and just painted in some simple designs. I didn’t have a pink or light blue marker on hand. I found a simple solution. In order to get the paint flowing through the tip you have to pump it on paper a few times. If you do it too much, it will leak out. Which, under normal circumstances, is to be avoided. It worked to my advantage here. I pumped the red and white markers out in little pools onto a piece of scrap paper. I mixed them together till I liked the pink, then using the red marker picked up the color. Don’t worry about ruining your marker. It can be rubbed across paper till it returns to its normal color. It does not absorb far back into the marker. Although, you will use up your marker quicker this way. I would recommend using the darker marker to pick up the color when using this method. You could use the lighter but it seemed to take more rubbing to get all the other color off.

When I was done designing their clothes, they needed a sealer shower. I liked them on the shiner side, so I used the gloss spray. A little ribbon and I could move on to the hanging shadow box. It was a file I cut in my electronic cutting machine. I used my ZIG 2-Way to glue the box together. Worked up really fast.

I thought the dolls needed a little scenery. I kept it simple because I wanted the focus to be on the girls. I cut the blossoms out of white card stock and used my Kurecolor Twin in Dark Pink for the larger petals and ZIG Memory System Scroll & Brush in Pure Pink for the small ones. I glued the smaller to the larger and added them to the branches with a few that looked like they fell.