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Better shows you how to make a beautiful inexpensive paper doll costume. All you need is glue, wrapping paper, brown paper, and ribbon.

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Host: Paperdolls were a big hit when we were all kids so today, Yvette shows us how you can transform yourself into one this Halloween. Yvette: This adorable paperdoll costume is a cut above the rest and all it needs is a few very simple supplies. So what you want to do first is determine what the look of your dress is going to be like and the length. So here’s a finished one right here and you can see, I went for a very modest length, but of course you can go a little bit more risqué is you want to. I’ve actually drawn my pattern onto some craft paper but it’s important to make sure that you’ve included tabs on your dress because then it will really look like a paperdoll so you can do two tabs at the top, you can add some tabs at the bottom, whatever you feel like. That’s why I’ve got it written on my craft paper here and I’ve got my craft paper over Foamcore. I just taped it right on to some Foamcore. This is special Foamcore though because it’s got this adhesive sticky back to it like this so you just peal it off and it’s ready to go so it makes it very easy to work with. So I’ve got my adhesive side actually underneath and I’m just going to use an X-Acto blade and cut out my dress pattern. So I’ve got my whole dress cut out, ready to go so now, I’m going to flip it over and what I’m actually going to do is because I’m going to do a little empire waist, I’m just going to cut through the adhesive there so I can two different patterns, one at the bottom of the dress and one at the top. So now, comes the fun part. It’s time to decorate your dress and you know you can do whatever you want. This is just gift wrapping paper. You can use whatever you happen to have left over so what you’re going to do is you’re going to actually peel the adhesive liner off and then start smoothing the paper over it and what we’re going to do is you’re going to do that sort of backwards and forwards motion to make sure you get every air bubble out. Perfect. And then cut around afterwards, make sure I get all my little details. So I’m ready to put the top of my dress on with my other wrapping paper but before I do that, I just want to do the same thing I did over here to the empirewaist to kind of score the tabs because I’m actually going to put white paper on the tabs so that they look like real paperdoll tabs. And then I’m going to peel back my adhesive and then with my other paper just kind of line it up make sure you got enough. I’ve already cut this one to the approximate size. So I’m just going to peel this off and do the same thing. Kind of sweep as you peel so that it ends up being nice and smooth. And then I’m going to just now kind of cut around the shape of the dress so that I’ve got it all ready to go and cut out. So I’ve got my dress pretty much 90% there but now, how are you going to wear the dress. Here’s how you do it. You start out with these little clips, you can get these at any hardware store. And they come with some double stick tape for the back of them. So you’re going to stick these on to the back of the dress like this. One and two and then with a little bit of ribbon, you’re just going to tie some ribbon around and give yourself enough space to stick your head through and there you go. You got your dress. Pop on some tights, a tshirt and some shorts. Hey maybe even some bloomers and then you’re dressed and with a little blush, some cute freckles, you’re a living doll. Host: And join us tomorrow on Better as we turn one breakfast treat into a real sweet costume.