Paper Canteen Creations

Hi Oddies!!  It's the first of the month and you know what that means?!!  A brandie new challenge over at the Some Odd Girls Challenge blog! This month's challenge is one of my favorites...a sketch challenge!  I have been asked in the past if I think that using a sketch somehow takes the creativity away from making a card/layout/project.  Honestly, when I first started crafting years ago, I sort of gave thought to that.  But as the years have gone on I have started to rely on a sketch every time I create as my jumping off point and I let my creativity go from there.  Sometimes I interpret the sketch literally and sometimes you can see the basic elements of the sketch layered throughout the other elements of my project.  So no, I think sketches are an amazingly helpful tool...especially on those days when the creativity is on the low side.  (wink!)

So without further ado...here is this month's sketch challenge:

I have used the crazy adorable Smell The Flowers - Tia clear set for my project today.  I inked her with Momento ink and colored her in with my Copics.

I paper pieced her dress but colored the trim using my markers.  

 After coloring, I used my circle Nesties to cut her out and to create a matte from chocolate brown, textured Bazzill cardstock.  My patterned papers are all from MME - Fine and Dandy and my cardstock is from Bazzill.  I used my MFT Die-namics to embellish this card along with some stitching, jute twine, baker's twine, mini clothes pin and some self-adhesive pearls. 

I finished off the interior keeping it bright and simple:

I do hope you come over to the SOG Challenge Blog and play along with us and this super fabulous sketch!  Thanks for popping by today!

Crafty Hugs!

Meredith