Kingfisher - The Enchanted Forest

My collaboration Blythe with Liquiriziadolly - Martina the glittering Kingfisher. 

She made her extravagant debut at "The Enchanted Forest" 2014 Blythecon Barcelona and is now available for adoption through Laura.

Contact Laura Liquiriziadolly for more information on Martina the Kingfisher!

Starlight Dress for BJTales

Starlight Dress

Soft white tulle embroidered with icy hearts, eyelet lace, delicate lace sleeves and hem.

A sweet dress for the limited line of BJTales dolls: Alyona

I will be taking 4 pre-orders for this design.

Orders can be placed in my shop, with production to commence in mid-May.

Starlight Dress Pre-Order

Ghostly Ballerina Fairy

The ghostly Fairy Ballerina takes her place on the dusty stage each night, though the theatre has stood crumbling and abandoned for years. She twirls and leaps, skips and hops, pirouetting to the empty audience, spiders and rodents appreciating her lonely dance with tiny beady black eyes and inquisitive twitching whiskers. No grand orchestra accompanies her solitary dance, yet the music plays loud in her ears, echoing like the beating of a heart... she takes her bow at the end, to a silent applause alive and grand in her delicate memory. 

Gossamer organza dress in pearlescent oyster shades. Puffs of tulle and silk, shredded lace and threads dotted with tiny glass beads whispering along the hem and neckline. Two miniature eyelets close with a pink cord at the back-waist, leaving a dropped open back to this elegant theatre frock.

To fit the beautiful BJTales dolls by Lidia Snull including: Alyona, Aericia, Phantom.

Ghostly Fairy Ballerina Frock

~available~

Royal Songbird

The Songbird, prized for her melodic singing voice, is hosted in her gilded cage, decked with rare jewels at the Royal Palace. Here she sings for Kings and Queens, for babe's who will rule vast lands. She sings in her golden voice of lands yet to discover, or foreign castle's, and sometimes she sings of the freedom she's long forgotten.

One of our most detailed Songbird Corsets so far - satin brocade in cream and caramel shades of gold, paired wit imperial purple organza. The front features strings of cascading beads paired with a matching necklace, accented by a delicate gold-trimmed bow. Trims in honey and golden hue's accented hemline's and the spine, laced together with a delicate custard-coloured 1mm ribbon. 

Truly an extravagant and elegant piece for these highly sought after elite art-dolls.

The Royal Songbird is created to fit the beautiful and highly limited line of Resin Enchanted Dolls.

~available~

Champagne Songbird

The songbird, prized for her enchanting and melodic voice is asked to perform again and again, taking listeners to far-away places, breaking hearts with her notes and weaving dreams with her words.

The latest couture creation from the House of Orchid's Designs has been hand-crafted to fit the exquisite new limited line of Resin Enchanted Dolls.

The Champagne Songbird design is a high-waisted skirt-corset with ruffles and decadent trims in varying shades of gold, ivory, and creams. Ivory lace is formed over a hand-painted stiff canvas structure, a matching necklace of beads circles her delicate neck.

A lace-up back ensures a skin-tight fit for the resin beauties, tiny beads decorating every aspect of this glorious corset.

~Available~

Enchanted Darlings

How lovely are these beautiful photograph's taken by one of my clients? Her gorgeous resin Enchanted Dolls wearing two of our Orchid's Designs custom made gowns. Delicate honey-golden layers of French lace, silk, chiffon and organza make up these beautiful dressess, created specifically to match the honey and amber complexion's of these two resin sisters.

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Citrine - Custom Blythe - Available

Citrine - the discoverer of Lost Worlds

Custom Blythe 001 by Orchid's Designs

Garbed in her shining bronze armour, Citrine is a fearless and curious adventurer. The youngest daughter of distant royalty, she shed her life of pampered luxury to go after her heart and instincts... 

wherever they may lead.

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Citrine is a custom Blythe by Orchid's Designs - the first for adoption. She is a base SBL Bait, with advanced facial carving to give her a brand new look: extensive nose and mouth work including a full carve-through and carved teeth, philtrum, nostrils and shaped nose; her eyes, forehead and chin have had light sanding-alterations. Her face has been completely painted with artist pastels, watercolours and acrylics to bring her to glowing life. 

Painted with Monika Viktoria's own signature style, Citrine has heavily blushed cheeks, cherry red lips, a rosy nose, and delicate blonde eyebrows elegantly shaped. Her eyes have had special attention paid, with tiny catlike eyeliner and many layers of pastels finely sealed. She has tiny beautyspots dotted over her pretty face, marks of her unique personality. She has two-sets of specially selected stock chips (hazelnut and coral) and two hand-painted metallic chips (Pompeian Red and Golden Tawny), and her eyelids are painted metallic bronze, whilst custom eyelashes fan her pretty eyes. She has been given the sleep-eye adjustment, as well as gaze correction. She has a tiny golden bell and a special brass vintage-style cameo pull-ring featuring a Blythe illustration by Monika Viktoria sealed under liquid resin glaze.

Her hair is her original SBL scalp (NOTE: unfortunately her hair came with a slight fault. A selection of the strands close to her scalp are "frizzed" - they are hidden underneath her helmet when she is fully dressed in her costume. They may be repairable with a professional hair spa, but I do not know. For this reason the price of this doll is significantly lower.)

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~ Costume ~

Citrine comes with her special OOAK character costume. A 6-piece ensemble that is completely unique to this doll. Citrine wears: 

~ lace ruffled leotard with seductively low back

~ fishnet and lace socks with cute bows at the back

~ a sturdy pair of Miss Yo vintage-style boots 

~ lace collar ruff lined with tawny ribbon and tiny golden beads

~ Corset frock in my signature "songbirds" style, with lace skirt, beaded hemline, and thin ribbon lace-up

~ Adventurer helmet - entirely covered in bronze sequins and beads, lined throughout in brocade, strings of beads at the back and small chains looping through her cheek-armour-plates.

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Citrine is now available for adoption.

$760 USD

(Postage Included WW)

contact: info [at] orchidsdesigns.com

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For more photographs of Citrine please visit her Facebook album or her Flickr album

Doll Couture Fashion Sketchbook

I am incredibly excited to unveil a project I have been working on secretly - a new fashion sketchbook I designed and illustrated!

www.orchidsdesigns.etsy.com

The "Dolly Fashion Sketchbook" was created for all other Blythe and "Big-Eyed" Doll fashionistas, designers and seamstresses. Realising all my own designs were scattered around on scraps of paper and throughout various sketchbooks, I wanted to create the perfect sketchbook for keeping all my couture designs together. I embarked upon this project, and am so happy I saw it through, as I think it turned out fabulous! 

Here is the official write up:

The Dolly Fashion Sketchbook

by Monika Viktoria

The "Dolly Fashion Sketchbook" is the must-have for all dolly fashionistas and designers!

Created by illustrator Monika Viktoria, the designer and seamstress behind the elegant haute couture brand for dolls, Orchid's Designs.

Hand illustrated using Monika Viktoria's signature style, the Dolly Fashion Sketchbook features a big-eyed cutie template to sketch adorable dresses, flirty frocks, elegant evening wear and one-off couture creations for your dolls! Each page has room to jot down your design notes, inspirations, swatches for colour palette, and room to paint-in your dream eyes.

The Hair-Salon features three templates for you to trace so that your girl has the perfectly styled hair to match each look.

For all future editions, new products, and special offers, follow Orchid's Designs online!

Web:  www.orchidsdesigns

Shop:  www.orchidsdesigns.etsy.com

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/orchidsdesigns

Cover Illustration by Monika Viktoria

www.monikaviktoria.com

I have the first 15 copies available right now in my ~Etsy Shop~ 

After this first 15 are sold the next pre-order will open for a delivery of October (after the UK Blythecon 2013)

Template Pages

Example shot of the template-page for costume designs

Template Pages - blank and from my personal book

If you are a Blythe-Blogger, I'd be very interested to hear from you! 

I'd love to reach as much of the Blythe community with this new sketchbook to help designers!

write to: info [at] orchidsdesigns.com

Quartz Ballerina Dress for BJTales Pearl

A tiny little ballerina twirls and spins beneath the gleaming glow of the moon, her only stage-slights. She jumps and glides to an audience of crickets and moths, her cheering crowd, and bows modestly at the end of her performance, the long limbs of an old willow draw close as her lush green stage curtains. The night air hums and buzzes afterwards, a no finer performance has ever been viewed in any gleaming marble opera.

Vintage lace in the softest peach hue forms the tight-fitting bodice, accented with strands of ivory beads. Icy ruffles of the softest tulle for her tiny tutu, with a shabby-chic bow of lace and cream feathers at her dropped waist. The Crystal Ballerina dress is for the tiny being who dreams of the Opera, but performs on a simple, yet beautiful stage.

The Crstal Ballerina dress will fit the tiny BJTales Pearl and Asrai sculpts, and look darling on any of the colour variations. A snap closure and ivory bow at the back secures a tight fit for her bodice.

~ available~

There is a version to fit the smaller BJTales Mouse as well ~here~

Design Sketches

A big part of my creative process starts with drawing. Orchid's Designs begin their lives as thin pencil lines on paper. Many of my designs are hidden away in my sketchbooks, waiting patiently for their day of glory to be fashioned out of silk and antique laces.

With Blythecon UK approaching, many of the designs are being drafted into patterns, soon to be unveiled.