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Magazine Collage Paper Dolls
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Feb 21, 2025
Make magazine collage paper dolls for art journals, collage journal and more. Learn how to make whimsical and fun DIY paper dolls from magazine cut outs. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPdD0ifkS1vKYPs3zgDx3YQ/join
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[Music]
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hi everyone anth kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you how to make paper dolls for
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collages for magazine collages for our
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journal pages and so on so I have here
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just a piece
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of card stock paper this is the length
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of my page so whenever I want to make a
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paper doll I try to make it this high so
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it will fed my page so I have here a
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magazine I've already gone over it once
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just to see what I can get from
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it and first of
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all I have here a head that I
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found and I really like this
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dog here so we're going to do something
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with this dog and her head I think I can
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fit it but we'll see after we cut
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everything this is a Hebrew magazine so
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in Hebrew we look over the pages we go
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through the pages from right to left I
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know it's a shocker but this is how it
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is this is definitely something that I'm
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going to
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use we'll see in a
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minute there are not too many photos
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here on this specific magazine but I
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wanted to show you that you
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can make a paper doll even with a
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magazine that doesn't have a lot of
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photos this is kind of nice although her
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hand is
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fuzzy and you don't see the other hand
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so she'll be very
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short
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this is really good with the dogs we
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might need to I might do something with
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those we'll have to
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see when I create a paper doll I always
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try to look
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for a body of course that is interesting
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that is doing something has an
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interesting angle or interesting clothes
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or interesting
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shape something about it is not boring
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and then I look for a
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head that I can match to the body and of
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course later
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accessories this is cute I might use
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that oh this is even a
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better a better photo of the
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dog that will look
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perfect her hat even matches his body so
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I think I'm going to use this dog with
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this head
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let's just rip it
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out
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and well I'll have to give up the lion
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because the lion is exactly where the
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dog's head is so we'll have to
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compromise on
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that um there is also this dog but since
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it's on the fold it's not
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good
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[Applause]
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this is a good head because of the angle
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we might want to keep
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that this is a really large
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head don't like that too
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large okay so this is I got this from
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another magazine but I like his head to
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go with this girl so we'll cut that out
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too
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I like her head because she has a really
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funny hair like a really big afro so
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I'll probably cut that out
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too and his body is good it's always
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good to mix female and male body and
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heads so maybe I'll cut that with her
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head we'll
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see this is a nice angle where she
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holding
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the necklace like this so this can be a
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good body and it's not too long or Too
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Tall you see you can find something in
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every every magazine her head is really
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pretty and her eyes are good so we
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might sometimes I like to add eyes to
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the face different
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eyes so those eyes are really good cuz
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they look straight ahead they look
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forward opposed to this These Eyes where
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they have an angle they look to the side
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so this is good maybe for a different
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head food is really good for accessories
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like hats like
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batons this is really good the hands
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with the fork and the knife this is good
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because you can
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replace like if you look at this this
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way you can replace the knife with a
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person like the hand is holding the
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person or something that is good I'm
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going to cut that out
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too and then even a cup of tea can be a
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cute hat for somebody on the
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head this is cool I don't know what we
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can do with it this something we'll have
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to think
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about M this is a good head with with
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the hat already and an angle so this can
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be really really pretty this can also go
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with the dog we'll have to see we'll
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have to cut it and then choose what we
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want
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to use these are really good all of them
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but what I have here is two
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legs that I got from a different
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magazine a while back whenever I see
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something cute I just cut it I don't
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know when I'm going to use it
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so we have this girl
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here and we have this girl here that can
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fit so this one doesn't have a hands it
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looks pretty weird so I might go with
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this with this
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girl to cut her upper body for
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this this one is a nice angle this one
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has a nice angle but then you'll have to
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figure out the head
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head this is a good head and good
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eyes good eyes here as
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well let's see what else we have
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here not too much ooh this can be good
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for
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backgrounds the crackers the crackers
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here
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this can also be good for
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backgrounds if you cut this piece or
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this piece can be good for
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backgrounds okay
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so I'm going to be back after I'll cut
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everything Julia Roberts is here too so
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I'm going to come back after I cut
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everything and then we can
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continue Okay so I'm
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back
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and I've
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cut the pieces that I
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wanted so these are the basics so now
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let's start matching those bodies
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and um heads so here she's sitting on
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something I left this for a while as for
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now I don't know yet what I'm going to
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do with it so Will Wait so what we need
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to do first we are going to off with her
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head I'm going to keep that head maybe
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for something
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later now he has a
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neck I'm going to cut the neck slightly
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longer because I don't know yet how it's
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going to
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fit
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okay so what I want to do
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is make his neck
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slightly
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narrower so it will fit and then what
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we're going to do is also cut along the
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collar of her
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coat so his neck can fit in there
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instead of hers
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so
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now you
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see that's a perfect fit okay so always
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leave a space to put your
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glue and then you'll be able
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to position it any way that you want I'm
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using tacky glue that dries
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clear and that is a perfect perfect
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match don't you
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think so this
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is step one now let's do the dog
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so I'm going to cut along his leash here
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so the
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neck and I'm going to keep that head of
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course for future
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use
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and now we're going to see how her head
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matches ooh
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perfectly so
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first we're going to get rid of
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this side here we don't need
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that and then sometimes it's better to
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glue and then
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match oh
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Okay match I mean in terms of cutting
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the paper
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around the borders where it should
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go so let's
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see how it
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looks this
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is that's why I also like using liquid
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glue because now I can
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move so
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now I can cut
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her neck and his legs
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[Music]
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slightly here also and maybe we'll put
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another
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leash up here I really like
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this let's
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just
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okay wow this is so cool so this is our
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doll number two so for this lady what I
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did I cut her arms between the arms and
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the
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legs cuz I don't want the legs but I
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still don't know
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how
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okay so you can cut at least
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here and
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then I can go ahead attach it and then
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later
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on cut around
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it so I'll be sure that I
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cut the right size that I
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need when you make paper dolls they
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don't have to make sense they can be
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completely Whimsical
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illogical
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and unrealistic and that's at least
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that's what I like to
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do if you want to create
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better suited let's
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say oh by the way you
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can color
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this with black PCA you don't even need
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to cut it and then she'll match
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perfectly but I think I'm going to cut
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her
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anyway cuz there's a line
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here that will look
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perfect let's just cut that
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out and on this side as
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well okay really like how it turned out
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if you don't like this bit
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here we can cut it slightly like this
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okay look at that now what I want to do
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is replace her head so we're going to go
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look for a
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head but let's do him her
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first
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so again we need to cut his head
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out like the scarf that he
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has he has around his
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[Music]
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neck so we're going to keep the
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scarf and you see I've cut her neck
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longer so I'll
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have wow this looks really let's put her
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hair like this woo exactly it fits so
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well of course his shirt and clothes are
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kind of boring going to ju it up a
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little namely we're going to add detail
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okay so that looks kind of boring
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because they fit so perfectly it looks
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like this is this actually her
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clothes so what we're going to
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do is add new
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eyes so when I use
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eyes there are two
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ways you can
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either cut them both as a pair
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and then add them like
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this
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or and then the problem is that the nose
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doesn't match and then it doesn't look
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good hope you can see let me put it
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closer so if you want to add eyes like
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this to the face then the noses need to
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fit and they don't fit here so what I'm
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going to do is just cut the eyes so I'm
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going to cut away the
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nose and
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then this is kind of
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small and then add the
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eyes so this is eye number
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one now when you work with eyes like
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this that you
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add you you
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can decide on the
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angle of the
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eyes they can go up they can go
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down they can go any
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direction so let's
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see
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okay so now she's starting to look more
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interesting I like her face
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now okay let's go back to our magazine
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and see what else we can find first we
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want a new head for
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her maybe I'll find a another dog head
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this one is will be too
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big and then I also want to find some
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accessories I did cut this think I'm
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going to cut these two and make them
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into
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wings so there's
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that and then what else can we ooh this
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is too small this head
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and we also need I need some
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hats something interesting to add as
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hats hats can be basically
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anything so what we have
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here we have this
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head it will be too
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small these dogs are too
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small this can be a good hat
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but it's kind of big remember I have my
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scale it might fit I don't know this can
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be a good
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hat
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let's cut that
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out you know what I'm going to take the
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entire page and cut both both of
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them
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and then we'll
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see maybe
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this
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head don't have his ears and no I don't
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like this
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head what do we have
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here it's a pretty
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color this is really good for
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backgrounds this purple and green
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kind of
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neat what else can we get from
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here I did cut her
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head but I think it will be too
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big for
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her although sometimes putting a really
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big head on a small body is kind of cool
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so we'll see
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this is might be a good
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head let's try this one what's on the
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other side you
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can
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okay now what can we take something from
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here they're all circles which I don't
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like as
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much do like those
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hands not maybe for
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this collage but for future
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collages I'm going over the magazine one
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last time taking out any everything that
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I think I'll
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use and then I'm going to throw it away
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otherwise I'll have so many magazine you
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have
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to not
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continue once you took everything you
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need then you can throw away I think I'm
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going to use these oranges and lemons in
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some
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way I like
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those and maybe
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this
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mint can be a nice sort of ribbon on the
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head we'll cut that too and see how we
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can incorporate
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that anything
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else
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I like her
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head but not enough to cut it
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out this is a nice angle but I have
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something similar so I don't
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want that as
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well her head is
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nice maybe we'll use her
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head we'll cut all the heads and then
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we'll
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decide what
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else these are too
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big this is nice this can be sort of a
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hat forgot to check the other side
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before I cut but it's
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okay these bottles can sometimes be a
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body but
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the color is
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not pretty enough o and these
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textures for the background definitely
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taking
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those don't know when or how I'm going
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to use them
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yet but I will definitely use them so
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I'll be back when I finish cutting
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everything
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okay so I've cut the other pieces and
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now we can see what we can use them or
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not use them for so first I want to
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change her head and I think I'm going to
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use this head
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here
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first going to cut away her
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head and then we're going to see how
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this
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head oh that is is
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perfect
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okay so we are
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just like I said always cut excess so
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you'll have something to
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glue okay so you see her head is
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bigger but it's
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okay
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just okay so now she looks
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perfect now this
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guy I think I'm going to add a new
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color
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so we're going to to cut away one
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lemon and then add it
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here yep really like how this turned
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out
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now I have here another head which I
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didn't use for her so I'm going to keep
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that
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head now she I think is going to
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get a
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hat don't like this
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hat or maybe like
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this
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no let's remove this
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this and then she's going to have like a
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turban on her
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head I hope that is not too high no it's
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exactly
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right okay I like her we're going to add
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some stuff to
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her shirt maybe to the hat with PCA pen
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now what about him is he ooh like
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this
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okay this is
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cute a sombrero of some sort this guy
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may need a little bit of hair so what
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I'm going to do I'm going to cut
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her head in half and see
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if I can add some hair so you see how it
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can
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manipulate ooh I like him her them you
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can manipulate whatever we need so we'll
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have hair body head
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eyes all from the
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magazine okay so this he's ready she's
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ready let's put them
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aside the dog is ready
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so these
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are our paper dolls that we created
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today going to come back later in the
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future to show you how I create pages
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with these paper dolls really hope you
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