Designing & Drafting the Court Tennis Shoe

For an entire year, we have collated the materials to design the and draft the first Beauty of Creating court/tennis shoe.  This shoe is to pay homage to the classic K-Swiss and the Adidas - Stan Smith.  These shoes were quite popular during the 80's and I definitely wanted a tribute/inspiration to showcase for our 18" dolls.

This shoe fits both all of the dolls wonderfully! Yes!  Journey Girls and American Girl dolls have a universal shoe that both can wear!  This is a first for Beauty of Creating, as we are working to integrate other 18" dolls from our collection into the workspace!

Here is the final draft:

As first drafts go, you find things that you should have included, and discover hopefully some useful tips to make the next draft run smoother than the first.

This project will not get shelved.  We will continue to work through the kinks and hopefully soon, a few Journey Girls will sport these new court/tennis shoes!