I made a trip to the big world last week and found some inspiration (and that coffee I was talking about last week, yum).

Paper dolls by Tim Holtz are die cuts of vintage photos featuring all sorts of people in their finest accouterments.  I din’t know how they would show up in my art, but I knew they would.

Cut to the pile of card blanks I had on my desk, and whammo, a match made in heaven.  Most of what appeared is snarky and fun primarily because I paired the paper dolls with some Dylusions and Stampin’ Up rubber stamps.

But a few are just down right beautiful.

And one is completely terrifying — Happy Halloween, maybe?

The package comes with 107 of these snappy folks, so I see a whole line of cards and notebooks in my future.

Enjoy!