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!
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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How gorgeous! You guys amaze me every single day.
Wow, so vibrant – the flowers look amazingly real!
Very pretty!
This is very very nice!
Wow! This is gorgeous!!
So pretty, the flowers look real. I already follow by email.
Wow!! This is gorgeous!!
Wowee! Absolutely gorgeous!!
nice
Adorable, love the flowers and colors!~kim
Very beautiful and unique.
Gorgeous!
how creative! love the umbrella as a shaker basket. . . the flowers are beautiful on this card. . . .thanks for sharing – it is a lovely Easter card. . . .
I love how she did her flowers by white embossing them and then fill them in with watercolors. The card has so much interest, dimension and is just beautiful.
Oh my gosh – brilliant! Love love love!! Debby is ah-maaazing!
Gorgeous! Debby…we need a video on this one! Pretty Please!
This is so gorgeous!
This is stunning!
So beautiful!! I love the shaker and flowers.
Gorgeous card! Love the watercolor flowers and the shaker is very clever!
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!
Debby ALWAYS comes up with the MOST DETAILED & DELIGHTFUL projects and I AM ALWAYS INSPIRED – THANK YOU for sharing!!!
… off to find the umbrella die now :)
Such a pretty card! I follow the blog by email.
Gorgeous!!! Love the pinks and what a great idea to get more use out of the shaker die…. so cute!
So lovely and NOISY, too! Love how the umbrella became a basket and the posy of flowers is darling.
What a great alternate use for the umbrella shape. I would have never thought of that! Gorgeous card too!!
So springy and pretty!! Love the fabulous watercoloring on the flowers!!
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Debby, what an unexpected idea to use the umbrella as a basket! Your creativity makes my brains work harder)
This shaker card is stunningly gorgeous! Love the vibrant watercolor flowers!
Absolutely gorgeous card! I love the colors!!!!
Great card beautiful flowers!
That card is just gorgeous. Love the shaker. So creative.
What a beautiful Easter card! The flowers look so lifelike and the shaker basket is magical.
Stunning card! Love the combo of die cutting and watercolors and the soft shades of pink and blue are just gorgeous!
Oh wow, this is the prettiest shaker card ever1
Debby is a genius!! This is absolutely stunning!!!
Such a nice idea!
Wow! Jaw dropping gorgeous!! Debby, would love to see a video for this one! To hear the shake.. shake.. shake :)
Absolutely delightful card, Debby. Brilliant watercolouring!
Adorable card :-D
Perfect example of multiple uses for our dies. This is just beautiful. I am a great fan of your work. You just do not ever disappoint.
Stunning card!
Waaaaw this looks so pretty. And what a great use of dies. Hugs! Mojca
Absolutely gorgeous! I am in awe.
Totally adorable. Brilliant!!!
What a beautiful card, Love making shaker cards.
I am totally borrowing this idea! :) Thanks for sharing!
Just gorgeous, Debby! Love your cards- I want to buy everything you’ve used!
Can you say STUNNING? LOVE this!
Fabtastic. Love how you used the umbrella die. So pretty. Hugz
Stunningly beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration and sharing.