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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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Debby for being our guest!
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wow—love this!
WOW! This is breathtaking. The watercolor effect is stunning. Debbie is a master!
Oh wow, I so feel like spring is in the air
Like this idea of using the umbrella for a flower holder shaker card. I have an umbrella die and will give this a try.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Wow!!! Stunning card :)
Amazing! Wonderful way to think outside the box! Love the flower holder!
Absolutely beautiful! What an inspired idea to use the umbrella die for the basket. And the way you did the graduated color on the flower petals is genius. Stunning card all around!
Gorgeous. Fab colouring and amazing use of umbrella die.
what an amazing idea
Wow! What a clever idea!! Fabulous shaker card, love the stunning design and the colours!
Such beautiful depth of colour in the petals, carried throughout the shaker ingredients, Lovely with the Easter die cut!
WOW! This is beyond amazing! Gorgeous, gorgeous!
I am in love. Just beautiful!
Absolutely beautiful.
OMG WOW Your card is Gorgeous and when I read what you used to created your basket I was blown away with your ever so clever and creative ideas……You totally outdid yourself and definitely did one super outstanding creative job. Lucky so lucky person who gets it they are in for the treat of their life….and girl this card ain’t going anywhere but up on a mantel or an easel to be displayed….it is gorgeous!! YOU so ROCK!!!!
This is just beautiful!! I need to try to make a shaker card!
AACCCKKK! Oh my goodness, my goodness, Debby – you’ve truly outdone your normally- fantastic self this time!! Off to add this one to my [very long] list!!
=] Michele
FANTASTIC card!
What an absolutely gorgeous card- just spectacular! Makes me look at my dies in a whole new perspective. Thank you for sharing.
Wow this is beautiful
Oh Debby, this is just gorgeous!
Wowzers! Debbie’s card is absolutely gorgeous! Love this!
Such an eye catching card! I want a bowl full of Spring, too, so I will be making this card.
Debby, Debby, Debby….This is BEAUTIFUL!!! and ingenious!
This basket is so spring looking and I love the shaker basket with the flowers! Great job.
Debby this card is so gorgeous! Just the touch of spring I needed to see.
WOW! What a fabulous Easter card! I just love the watercoloring on the flowers. So gorgeous. Thanks for the inspiration. :D
OH la la!! Who’d have thought to upend the umbrella – why Debby, of course :-)
ABSOLUTELY beautiful – in awe!!
Love the card and the awesome new ways to use the die cuts!!
debby always creates the most beautiful and clever cards… this is just another stunning example of her creativity!
Gorgeous card! I love the colors and the way the shaker card is used is just so cool!
Those flowers are absolutely gorgeous! Love the white embossing with the water colors!
Debby, your work is amazing. Love your water coloring. I just bought this set and have only used it once so far, but definitely going to try it with the water colors now! Wishing I now had the dies to go with!
This is such a beautiful, unique card! I wish someone would do a video tutorial on how to make it!
So very pretty!
Beautiful!! Love the creativity with that die, gorgeous work! :)
What a beautiful card. Very lovely colors. Love it.
Absolutely amazing! Such a beautiful card and stellar technique! Wow.
LOVELY!!!! Beautiful Easter card! What a great idea!! Thanks!
Spring has arrived!
This is beyond stunning, just fabulous!
This is so pretty! Such unique shaker card. So creative
Wowsers! that is just gorgeous!
Beautiful card!! Awesome idea on how to get more out of a die!! TFS
Truly amazing.
This is absolutely adorable!! LOVELOVELOVE it!!
That is a work of art – so beautiful.
As always what a masterpiece created by the amazing Debby Hughes this card is so lovely.
Was inspired by you & I made a St. Pat Day Shamrock shaker style card using my umbrella die. I’ll post it to my blog soon & come back and provide the link in case you want to ck it out. I was not sure how you got the foam to adhere to the thin places of the umbrella die. I cut an umbrella piece with scissors larger than the die for the front and placed the acetate die cut out umbrella after cutting small pieces of foam adhesive to go around the edges of the umbrella.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
What a beautiful Spring card – and how creative to use the umbrella upside down for a basket – amazing . . .