Easter Shaker Basket
Hi readers! Happy Saturday to you! I’m always so excited to see what the genius Debby Hughes comes up with each month for our collaborative creative uses posts! Debby is really speaking to me with this creation, and I imagine I’m not alone on that! It’s so tempting to look forward to Easter which also means SPRING! Read on for the details!
Enjoy!
Hi Debby here :D I’m going a little shaker card mad at the moment! Love all the interactivity, sparkly beads and just pure fun! Looking at the new Hop To It release there are a couple of dies intended for shaker cards – the Kite and the Umbrella. The latter die is not just great for Umbrellas but also makes a nifty basket for spring flowers :D
To start I loosely watercolored a panel for the background with Gansai Tambi paints. While that dried I stamped the flowers in Versamark on more watercolor card and white heat embossed. By adding a generous layer of water on each petal before dotting in the paint at the base of the petal, the water blends the paint out allowing beautiful graduated color. While the flowers dried I cut the Umbrella Shaker die from the background to create the negative space and again from more watercolor card to create the white basket. A piece of acetate and some foam adhesive created the well behind the basket to fill with delicious beads and sequins.
Once the flowers were dry I trimmed them out and gave them a dose of Wink Of Stella and Star Dust Stickles and then piled them into the basket keeping them in place with foam adhesive. Finally I cut the Easter die from white card and adhered overlapping the flowers :D
You should’ve heard the noise when I was making this card ….. shake …. shake …. shake! I couldn’t resist giving it a test run!
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Brilliant! To use that umbrella as a basket was brilliant. This card is so gorgeous. Those watercolor flowers are beautiful and I love shakers!
WOW! What a stunning shaker card!!!
I love what Debby has done here…a wonderful use of the umbrella die.
Wow. This shaker card is beautiful!! The flowers are absolutely gorgeous!
Wow, this is gorgeous … the flowers are so beautifully coloured … and I love that shaker basket! Anita :)
very creative use of umbrella die plus she turned it into a shaker! one of my favorite style cards. thank you for sharing
stamping sue
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Wow! This card is the absolutely, utterly gorgeous!
Stunning card. Absolutely beautiful.
Gorgeous! I just love how Debby always comes up with new creative ways to repurpose the supplies she has.
Those flowers are out of this world!
Wow, That card is so pretty! Debby always comes up with such great ideas.
Wow! Absolutely stunning! x
Pretty card! How smart to use the umbrella as a basket!
Absolutely stunning Debby! Such a clever way to use the die too – I love everything about this card and I love the flower stamps too, just gorgeous and thanks for sharing Karen x
This is a gorgeous and innovative shaker card. Debby always does such a magnificent job.
So beautiful. So creative. You can’t get better than this!
Just amazingly Beautiful card !!
OH MY GOODNESS ~ so beautiful ~ LOVE THIS Debby!!!!!!
Wow! That is genius! This is such a pretty card!
WOW WOW WOW, absolutely STUNNING!!!
This card is totally amazing! The watercoloring, the shaker element, the clever use of the umbrella die… Wow!
Wow Debby! This is the most beautiful and most creative shaker card I’ve ever seen! Brilliant!
Debby, this is such a super card…. You wow me each time with your wonderful creations. Awesome!
Wow, such a stunning card, a fabulous and the most creative design, love it!!!
Beautiful!! Debby is amazing!!
I was wondering where the shaker part was. What a clever way to incorporate the shaker element!
This card is beautiful!
My jaw hasn’t dropped in a while, but after seeing this gorgeous WOW card by Debbie, I am awe struck! Debbie, you are genius!
Debby is brilliant at seeing alternate uses for stamps and cards. This is gorgeous. Reading through her instructions, it looks so much more complicated than it actually is. In my book, that makes it perfect!
This is beautiful!!!! Never would have though to do that!
WOW! Absolutely beautiful! What more can I say? Thank you for sharing your incredible talents and creativity.
BEAU-TIFUL!!!! What a great idea! love-love-love the flowers!!! TFS!
wow! wow! wow! BEAUTIFUL!!!! I so wish you’d done a video….it would’ve been cool to see this beauty come together!
That is UBER GORGEOUS! Who wouldda thunk to switch the umbrella like that & make a shaker? FAB!
WOW this is gorgeous! Outstanding coloring and yummy shaker!!!! LOVE this! ♥
This is so pretty! Love your umbrella shaker basket. Brilliant idea!
Such a pretty and creative card. Beautiful flowers and the upside down umbrella for the basket works so nicely :)
Gorgeous card. Thank you for sharing the details.
WOW – this is absolutely stunning! I love love these flowers.
Oh, my goodness, you are so clever, Miss Debby! Love your gorgeous, watercolor flowers and what a fun and creative idea to use the umbrella die for your basket! LOVE THIS!!!
What fantastic idea! This is just a beautiful, wonderful Easter card. Love Debby’s cards because of all the wonderful design and beautiful coloring.
Absolutely gorgeous!!! Would love a video showing the process.
Great use of the dies available to you – the upside down umbrella vase is ‘genius’. Love this shaker card – you will be making someone very happy when they receive this fun card
Very clever idea for that flower bowl. Love it.
The flowers are beautiful. Lovely basket.
thanks for sharing
Wow!! ;-)
BEAUTIFUL card, Debby. Wonderful, creative use of the basket die!! Love the soft watercoloring and the new style shaker card!! So inventive!!
What a gorgeous and fun card. I love the colors.
I love Debby and all her creations! This one is genius!
OK, as if you didn’t know, Debby is a certified genius and this card proves it.