fresh & fun

Cambria Turnbow is a sweet friend of mine. She is an amazing artist and comes up with the cutest projects. For one of those project she wrote the tutorial on SCS today. I had to try my hand on this adorable little basket myself.

This basket comes together in a matter of minutes.  For real!!!

I think even with the scallop patties, the entire project took me 30 minutes.

You got to love fast, cute projects like that.

For tha patty covers, I stamped four images from Pun Fun in Black Stazon on Shimmery White cardstock. They were colored with Aqua Painter and Bashful Blue, Wild Wasabi and Groovy Guava ink.

The patties were from some Easter Candy. I don’t like Peppermint and chocolate together. I am a picky eater. But everyone loves regular chocolate, right?

The patterned paper is from the Jersey Shore Designer Paper pack. The basket base is plain old Whisper White cardstock.

The edges were scalloped with the corner rounder and the handle is Double Stitched Wild Wasabi Ribbon. The ribbon was threaded through holes I made with the horizontal Slit Punch and is held together by Bashful Blue Brads.

I didn’t add a sentiment just yet. This can be for a birthday party for a little one as well as a little Welcome baby gift. Aren’t those Pun Fun image super cute even punched out with the circle punches???? I just love that set (Just in case you haven’t noticed yet. I promise I will use other sets soon!).

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

Oh…and if you decide to make one of those darling baskets, link to this post so I can check them out! I tell you…they are super fast and absolutely adorable!

I have to say that I love inspiration challenges.

It gives you a great starting point.

Saturday’s inspiration piece was an image of a blue room.

I pulled out these colors from the image: White, Brocade Blue, Close to Cocoa (dresser top), Always Artichoke and Cameo Coral (wreath). With all the hearts in the image I knew I had to through one in. I also wanted to add a lacy feel to my card.

I knew Blue and White had to be the main colors of the card, since they were definitely the major colors in the room.

So I looked through my designer paper and found this great blue paper from the retired Darling Doodles Designer Paper.

As for hearts, I knew right away that I wanted to use the one in my new and so far untouched Just Because set.

I stamped the heart in Black StazOn on watercolor paper and colored it in with Aqua Painter and Classic inks (Cameo Coral, Close to Cocoa and Brocade Blue). I distressed the edges and layered it on a 1/4″ bigger also distressed piece of Always Artichoke. Of course the image needed a border of some kind so I added paper piercing…AGAIN. LOL

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Brocade Blue cardstock folded in half followed by a 4″ square of white cardstock.

The Darling Doodles Designer paper layer measures 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″. I think the Close to Cocoa Prints Designer Paper layer measures 1 3/4″ x 3 3/4″. I am sorry I can’t say for sure. It’s already mailed out. I scalloped a thin strip of Cameo Coral and scalloped it with my corner rounder. In each scallop I added an Artichoke brad. 5/8″ wide Brocade grosgrain ribbon was tied around the vertical strip.

The main square still looked a little blahh…so I added Faux stitching with my white gel pen and paper piercing. Last I stamped the sentiment in Black StazOn directly on the designer paper.

Colleen Kidder sent me this gorgeous Baroque Motif cards.

Thank you so much, Colleen. It looks wonderful!