Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge - Distressing

Hey Crafty Friends!  Today I'm playing along with Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge #90 - Distressing.  You can come play along with the challenge here on the KK blog! 

I've chosen Eleanor as my gorgeous KK gal to create with today.  I inked Eleanor up with black Momento ink and stamped her once onto a MFT perfect panel, again onto my orange Swiss Dot cardstock and then a third time onto my blue SU! DP.  I trimmed out her dress and distressed it with a nail file so that the dots would stand out.
I then trimmed out the stripes in her dress out of the blue DP and adhered them on.  I also trimmed out her bathing cap from the orange DP and distressed that as well.  I stamped her flowers onto a piece of white cardstock, colored them with my Copics and paper pieced them onto her bathing cap.

Before piecing her outfit together, I colored her in with my Copics.  I added a touch of makeup on her beautiful eyes and added a tiny silver stud for earrings. 

For my papers, I've used SU! cardstock and Flair Designs DP.  All edges have been distressed with my Tim Holtz edge distressing tool, roughed up further with a nail file, crumpled in my hands and then sponged with orange acrylic paint. 

As another "distressing" touch I added real play sand beneath Eleanor's feet and in her beach pail.  I had play sand available from my children's table top sandboxes on hand which was adhered using my Quickie Glue Pen.  It feels super cool in real life!!  I took a very close photo with a macro lens so you could get the "picture".  (LOL!)

I used a couple of my favorite MFT Die-Namics Dies - the doily and my new bracket tab.  The sentiment Smooth Sailing is also from MFT.  

I had SO much fun creating and can't wait to play along in the next KK challenge!!  Till then!!

Crafty Hugs!!

Meredith