Monday, May 24, 2010

A Simple Basket

Tonight I am sharing with you a simple little basket that I created for this week's JUGS challenge. It's a Template Challenge. While I was at a stamp show a few months back, I picked up a Purse Basket template with a matching Basket Weave stamp at the Rubber Cottage booth. This is the first time I got to play with it, and it was super easy to create this little cutie :)

I traced the template onto Gina K. Designs Pure Luxury card stock in Soft Sand, stamped it with the basket weave in Memento Rich Cocoa ink, added some shading with my Memento Desert Sand marker, cut it out and assembled. Next, I added a trim around the top edge using some SU! ribbon in Certainly Celery and Scor-Tape. I created my flower using plain white paper flowers - I crumpled them up, distressed the edges, and stamped them with one of the stamps from my Tim Holtz set called Floral Tattoo (such an awesome set for just about anything) in Certainly Celery and So Saffron. I used a piece if the ribbon for the leaves and assembled the whole thing with a button brad. Similar brads were used to attach the handle. To finish the basket, I added an adhesive felt butterfly from K & Co. - is she sweet? Now, what to put inside... Any ideas?

Happy Stamping!

11 comments:

  1. I love baskets almost as much as I love bags!! lol The basket stamp is so awesome, love the way you finished it off.

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  2. This is super,super cute! I vote chocolate for the inside!

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  3. OOOOOh nice - cheery - fresh - fun! Love it Dee Marie! CHocolate, bath products, a few note cards? Looks like it will hold lots of different goodies. Thanks for playing along with JUGS this week.

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  4. Hey Dee, that makes a nice size basket! Wow, I will have to think about all the ways we can share that template! LOL!

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  5. WOWZERS! This is fantastic!!!! yep, I can see chocolate kisses in it!

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  6. How cute! I love the custom basket weave stamp that fits this template perfectly! Your shabby paper flower is de-lish! Thanks so much for playing with Just Us Girls this week!

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  7. amazing, this is so sweet and adorable....have a fabulous day!

    enjoy *~*

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  8. I can't believe that is a basket weave stamp! Your basket is FABULOUS!

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  9. LOVE IT! now I have to go find the stamp and template LOL
    can think of so many ways to use this adorable basket! TFS

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  10. Dee,
    This is really cute! How bout post it's and some pens, would look great on a desk!

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  11. This is sooo cute! I hope that you can play in my challenges sometime :)

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