Magical Monday - Let's make a basket!

This is my project for TMITA/PPC blog. Sue Welsh brings use this week's challenge of making a paper basket or altering one. I made my own and did my own thing. I made a template which you can find in this post.

For my basket I started with a double sided 12x12 patterned piece of paper. I used the 2 scalloped nestability for the top flap found on each side that is white. I cut these in half and then placed them around all four sides. Before placing them on the sides I punched holes in the scallops to give it more of an eyelet lace look. I wove my basket with the other side of the patterned paper (see instructions below). I gathered lace the length of my handle and glued it on and placed the ribbon on top of that and attached my handle after the basket was put together. I added the tiny pink poms poms around the top edge and then added the pretty bows to each side of the handle. I placed an image on each side and then layered flowers on the other two as well. I found that cute little pink humming bird at Michael's and thought it would be so pretty sitting on the handle and found the cute fuzzy chicks at Hobby Lobby which I might add that Avery just loved!



I also made my first side step card to go with my little basket. I carried the theme of the basket to the card. I have seen these type of cards many times and I have always loved the ones I have seen so I gave it a try. The end result was much smaller then I expected, but I was still pleased with the card. You can find the instructions for this card here.



Quick Woven Basket Tutorial:

This is a picture how I divided my paper and of the lines I cut to make this quick woven paper basket. The finished basket ends up measuring 4x4 square.


1. Start with either a 12x12 piece of card stock or a doubled sided piece of atterned paper.

2. Score into nine 4x4 inch squares.

3. Cut along the lines that say cut (4 times the middle squares). They measure one inch each across. This will be the part you weave with the other paper.

4. (Note) The flaps/squares on each corner will fold inward to be the inside of your basket. The lines that don't say cut will be the lines you fold.

5. Cut 16, 1x4 inch pieces of paper that you want to weave with. I used the other side of my patterned paper. You will need 4 strips for each side.

6. Weave each side. Pay close attention with the first woven piece when moving on to the second side, because if you are using a different color or another pp you will want it to be alternated on the next flap so the weave looks like it is carried on the next side when you close up the basket. (does that make sense?)

7. After all sides are woven, glue all the ends on those pieces to secure them in place. (do this on both sides of the paper; inside and outside).

8. Now fold the flaps upward to start forming your basket and the large squares found on the corners that were not woven fold in so that they become the inside of the basket. I placed glue on the flaps before folding in so I could hold them in place while the adhered. I always use Aleene's quick dry tacky glue, it adheres really quickly... I love that stuff. Do that on all four sides.

9. This is where I cut 2 large scalloped nestibilities and cut them in half and used them for the top edge of the basket under the pink pom poms. You of course could finish off your basket however you want.

10. Cut handle the desired length that you would like. I cut mine about 1x11. I glued mine to the basket as well, but you could certainly attach with brads or ribbons or anything creative. I glued on my gathered lace and let it dry before attaching it to my basket.

11. Embellish however you want, have fun!

I think this would make a fun project for a child. If a younger child did this you could make all the cuts for them and let them do the weaving and gluing. These would also be fun to make and maybe place some spring flowers in and give as a gift if you were visiting someone on Easter Sunday as well.

I had a lot making my basket and card! My children are on spring break this week, so I imagine this week will fly by!!

If you want to check out my store for some more great images, please stop by Paper Cupcakes and check out the new images that just arrived~ you can find them HERE.

So, I say... have an "Eggs-traordinary" day!!

Magical Monday - 1,2,3 Create

This week's challenge over at TMITA/PCC is brought to us by Olga Jewell. The challenge is 1,2,3 Create. Which means using 1 Paper Cupcake image, 2 Ribbons and 3 Buttons. This is my take on it. The image I used is "Happily Together" which was one of the give-a-way images for last week.

So, I have my one image "Happily Together" by Paper Cupcakes, 2 ribbons; the purple ribbon going across the poms poms and then I made my second ribbon into a bow, hope that works, and then my 3 buttons in my flowers. I used my Bic Mark-its to color the image. I really liked how this card turned out it just feels so happy to me. :O)





Here is a card I made last week when my mom came over. We made pop-up cards because she wanted do the challenge card. This is my pop-up card that I made that day. I decided to use 3 smaller images and and I colored them with my Bic Mark-its and added stickles to the bunnies. I really liked how Kim added her stickles on her bunnies so I did the same on these bunnies.



This is the inside and the bunny pops up, but it is kind of hard to tell, but the image is fairly large so I had to keep it somewhat close to the back so although it pops up it only sets about an inch from the back.



Mondays are one of my busiest days to get things done, so thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Non-traditional Card Challenge

The challenge over at TMITA/PCC is brought to us by Kim. She wants us to make a non-traditional card. I made a slider card. My friend Curt posted this type card on his blog recently (found here) and he found it on Heather's Blog which you can find here. She has posted the instructions and a video on how to make it. It was really very simple and my card is super cute in real life. So, I gave it a try. I did make my slits a little longer because I wanted to add my other bunnies to the second and third tier, but that was easy and I did it as I went along. I used my Bic Mark-its to color it and used all scrap paper to make my card, which I love. Added some stickles, the ribbons and the flower and called it complete.

Well, that's it for me! I would suggest you make one of these, it was a lot of fun and mine turned out really cute and like I said it was really pretty simple as well. So, hop on over there and check it out.

Magical Monday - Color Challenge w/ metal

This week's challenge over at TMITA/PCC is brought to us by Danielle Lord. Since this image is for St. Patrick's Day, you can see where why the challenge went where it did. :o) Green & Gold for the colors to be used outside the image and a twist to add some metal somewhere. I wish you could see my pp better because it has some foil type lines running through it, but they really don't show. I heat embossed the swirls you see in the background and just added some gold brads for my metal twist. Not sure if I am really thrilled with this, but I started making it about 10:00PM this evening, so... it is what it is. Although, I really love the little saying that is on the front. So, I might make another and do something else. I rarely send cards out for St. Patrick's day, so I made my sentiment so I could use it as a more everyday kind of card.



Well, that's it for the challenge and these next two cards I made for a few of my girlfriends that had birthdays. Of course they are late birthday cards, but I am telling you my time just is flying these days and I just can't seem to get ahead of it with all I have to still accomplish. ((big sigh)) Anyways.... enough whining, this first image is "Designer Cupcake" by Paper Cupcake Stamps and can be found in my store here. I must say I am satisfied with both these cards. I mean after all who doesn't love a good cupcake?!?



This image is called "Magnolia Cupcakes" and it too can be found at my store Paper Cupcakes.


May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.

Magical Monday - Sketch Challenge

Here is the card I made for the Magical Monday Challenge which was a sketch brought to us by Patti Nelson this week. I have had a sick little boy since Thursday, Saturday is when he started feeling better. Thank goodness, but it certainly adjusts your time in a different direction. For this challenge you could use any cupcake image. I used the image "For the love of lipstick". I have not finished the inside, but it is going to say "When is comes to friends, you're just the right shade" I took this pic last night, so I will see if I can get a little brighter one. I colored my image with my color pencils and Avery helped me pick all the colors. There were a few rejects in his choices, but for the most part he did well! :O)



Well, that's it for me today, now I need to get moving on finishing some paintings I am hoping to deliver this week. So... have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Free Digital Image - "Lucky Bear"

This weeks image from Paper Cupcakes is this cute little bear image called "Lucky Bear". This weeks challenge is brought to us by Nilla and she asked us to distress. I distressed the edges of my paper with my scissors and then I also crumpled my paper and then pressed it back out. I really like this look on my cards. My sewing machine has been messed up for years with the tension so I figured I could use it because that would fit the look! :O) I so love real sewing on cards, so I got out my machine. I wasn't exactly sure how I wanted to use this card in regards to a sentiment, so I went with this little chipboard word that said "charmed". So I will most likely use it as a friendship card. Needless to say since I wasn't sure how I was going to use it, I have not finished the inside yet. There it a little tag that comes out that is under the image. I thought I would place the word "friends" on it, but haven't yet decided. I used glossy accents on my shamrock and the bear's nose and I also added some on the dots of the flowers on the green paper. Both papers are Paper Studio. I just loved it paired with the orange card stock.

Well, thanks for stopping by and I would feel very "charmed" if you left me a comment of lovins! :O) Have a charming day!

Some More Cards...

These were some cards I stayed up late and made for some of my dear friend's birthdays, I didn't use any images and just did all paper. I made my own template for the card and just went from there. I really loved how they turned out. That's it for now, because I am extremely tired and off to bed early. I will be back with more details at later.

Magical Monday - Lace & Circle

This week's challenge over at TMITA/PCC is to use any acquired image from Paper Cupcakes and to use a circle (image in a circle or sentiment in a circle) and some lace (either paper punched or real). I used my image in a circle and and used some red lace my mom gave me (thanks mom!). I really wanted to use this image "Perfect Friendship" and so I did. I knew right off I wanted it to be really colorful, because I had this sentiment that I wanted to use with it. I made my own template for this card and this will have been my forth card made with it (hopefully I will post the others this week). I colored the image with my Bic Mark-its and inked all the edges with a variety of cats eye chalks. I made my lollipop flower and added Stickles to the edges. I also ran some thread through the lace and gathered it and just built it from there. The punch is Martha Stewart and I bought this primary colored paper stack this week. I always seem to want some primary colored pp, but don't really have any. DCWV has a lovely one and it will work so nicely for my boy layouts, kid cards and some brightly colored card like this one.







Well, that's it for me for today! Hope you had a nice Valentine's Day, I certainly did!! Thanks for stopping by and double thanks if you left me some loving comments!! Have a colorful day!!

Some More Cards...

Just dropping off some cards that I made weeks ago. The first two are using images from my store Paper Cupcakes. So, if you haven't been by my store you should stop by and check it out and also look through the gallery as well. There are a lot of really great projects in it made by some really talented people aka the Design Team aka my friends. "oD

This first image is called "Just Because" I really like this image, but then I find myself saying that a lot after I use them all! It is the first time I have colored a lot of my images if you see them here. I must say it is kind of fun too, to color them for the first time or to see what someone else does with them as well, if I have never seen them used before. Well, I have a lot of them out there like that, so why don't you stop by and buy a few and show me what you can do with some. Also, stop by my blog over TMITA/PCC you can find the link on my side bar, just click on the icon and maybe join in some of our weekly challenges.


This second image is called "Teddy Bear Sunday" I think he is soo cute and super cute all colored up (see, there I go again!). I added some glaze on the lower part of the drips, the cherry and on a few of the dots on the pp; it looks so cute in real life.


This third card I made for a friend that had a baby back in December, OK, I am really slow about posting these, but she didn't even receive it until January! I bought the 3-D sticker of the animals, because, well, you can see how cute it is and so this was a really super fast and easy kind of card. Mindy loves buttons and has an addiction for them so I made sure I added some buttons! She probably is pulling them off and re-using them... LOL.. nope probably not, she has a stash load of them that she probably doesn't need to do that!


OK.. it's late, I have a few more pictures to upload, although they are not my projects I do want to do a special posting, but it is getting late and I am going to bed. Everyone else is already in bed and the house is nice and quiet and still, so I think bed is where I need to be as well!!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look and special thanks if you left me some lovins, I so love reading it!!