Tut Test Tuesday

Sooooo.... I haven't done the best job of keeping my blog updated. *coughTerribleJobcough* But I'm hoping to remedy that. I've spent a bit of time coming up with some things I would like to share and I hope people will enjoy seeing. So first things first, this will be my first Tut Test Tuesday.

Since I'm just getting started working on this I'm going to use a little bit of my previously posted content but I think it has value. There are all kinds of tutorial for BJDs out there on the world wide web, but there are also TONS of tutorials for many things that could be altered or utilized for BJDs even if that wasn't the original purpose of the tutorial.

A while ago, I was addicted to the swaps on Den of Angels. Like seriously addicted, but it was a lot of fun. One of the swaps that I joined was a Dark Circus swap and I had the pleasure of getting PoeticSoul as my swap partner. PoeticSoul, if you aren't familiar with her has some very unique dolls and she styles then in amazing and fun ways.

Well, for this particular swap her doll victim, I mean lucky participant was her MNM Johnny Depp guy who is the Mad Hatter. So I made a vest, suit coat, staff and of course the HAT.

I did a quick google search and found a pretty simple tutorial that made it easy for me to make the perfect Mad Hatter Hat. It can be found here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Burtons-Mad-Hatter-Hat/

I used cereal box cardboard to make the hat.

After following the measuring and cutting directions from the tutorial, I covered it in a soft faux leather that had a nice texture to it.

The inside of the brim is covered with material from a thirfted man's tie

The decoration around the hat is also from the tie and I made a matching vest from the same material.

I then added a few tie tacks, that I found at my local thrift store, as hat pins. And a floral decoration from JoAnns to complete the look.

Overall, I found the tutorial easy to follow and even easier to convert to dolly scale/use.

Tell me what you think. If you have any tutorial suggestions for me to try I would love it if you'd share them here. Thanks for reading!