Kia ora Koutou

Happy Easter to all those that celebrate. I have a very sweet, spring inspired Easter basket to share with you today featuring the stunning Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month – December 2018 Softly Spoke’n Flip and Gatefold Card. This die has been designed by Becca Feeken to create beautiful and elegant baskets as well as stunning cards. This basket is perfect for Easter eggs and/or chocolate or even a special gift for someone special.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

I have created the basket following the directions by Becca Feeken here using yellow cardstock as my base. However, I added some pearlescent vellum behind the decorative dies at the top of my basket to allow me to add some embellishments later. I die cut two handles out of gold cardstock for each side of the basket.

I decorated the base of the basket using the Amazing Paper Grace Romantic Slimline Borders Dies out of white and yellow pearlescent cardstock. I then added a strip to the centre of the edge dies to coordinate with the gold handle accents. I used the left over oval from the basket and added it to the front and back of the basket over the decorative edges with foam tape. I die cut the centre motifs out of white cardstock and gold cardstock and added them to the yellow oval and added a gold pearl to the centre of the motifs. To finish the trims I added pearls to the lace edges.

For the flowers I have used the flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies and coloured them with blue ink. I added the flowers to a stem from the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Daisy Dies with some leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies. I die cut some leaves from the same die set from gold cardstock and made a small bouquet with the flowers and leaves which was then glued to the top of the basket as shown. To finish the bouquet I added a bow made from white seam binding.

I stamped the sentiment from the Beccy’s Place Magnolia stamp set on white pearl card with Wow Embossing ink and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I then die cut this sentiment out using the small tag die from the Amazing Paper Grace Cascading Grace die and added it around the bow with white satin ribbon.

To complete the basket I die cut two butterflies from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies out of white and yellow pearl cardstock and the body out of gold cardstock. I assembled the butterflies and added them to the basket with foam tape.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Softly Spoke’n Flip and Gatefold Dies

Summer Label Motif Dies

Romantic Slimline Borders Dies

Cascading Grace Die

Layered Daisy Dies

Other Products Used:

Lawn Fawn Pearlescent Vellum

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Crafter’s Companion Yellow Pearl Cardstock

Crafter’s Companion White Pearl Cardstock

Neenah Solar Crest 80 Ib

Beccy’s Place Magnolia Stamp

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Altenew inks – Alpine Aster

Spellbinders cardstock – Rainforest

White Seam Binding

Dress My Craft Satin Ribbon

Spellbinders Gold Pearls

Wow Embossing Ink

Ranger Super Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder

Pearls from my stash

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Happy Crafting

Patricia