ATC swap- it's that time again!

I've signed up to take part in another ATC swap organised by Ali from veryberryhandmade 

I love being involved in these swaps and have received two gorgeous ATCs in the past that I treasure. The theme this time is My Favourite.... Where to begin?!

I start my thought process with my trusty mind map..

I need to do this for two reasons - to rein in my over active imagination (I could spend hours thinking about this and this narrows down my thought process) and because writing things down helps me to rationalise. Animals is an obvious choice for me but as you can maybe see, the list for animals would go on for ever and I'd never make my mind up!

So - first thoughts - stage 2 - some (ahem) rather basic sketches..

I don't know if you can recognise where one of my sketches might be?

Having done this - I'm swinging in another direction that wasn't even on my mind map - get it together Sherry!

I need to think colours too. Some swappers have very particular colour preferences - some don't :)

Last time I incorporated a little bit of crochet too - anything goes! Oh - did I mention that this mini art work can only measure a maximum of 6.4cm x 8.9cm? That's quite teeny tiny :)