Hi! A little shout out from PTI (for my cards
HERE) always makes my day! I'm back with another card for
PTI's Make It Monday #11 Embossing with dies. I had actually thought of this idea first before my little 3x3 cards but somehow couldn't get it together until tonight. I had a hard time with colors and then the layout and it just took me some time. I don't know if I'm completely happy but I do love what I created with the dies.
I made a little Easter basket with dies! The bottom portion of the basket was made with PTI's Mat Stack die 1. I cut it out with fine linen cardstock and then trimmed it down to the size basket I wanted. Then I took the rick rack die and embossed it to look like a woven basket. Maybe you need to stretch your imagination a bit to see it. Then I took some circle nestabilites to make a handle which I also embossed with the rick rack die but just sort of randomly for the woven look. I also inked up the edges a bit. I made the thin orange rick rack from felt but instead of cutting the whole width I just placed the felt lower to cut it thinly. And I used removeable scotch tape to keep the dies from shifting when I cut.
I used the Easter egg from the Tag-its set and masked a whole bunch of the eggs together. I layered the basket over the whole mat stack 1 die cut and over mat stack 5 as well. I think if I had gotten my most recent order with the hibiscus burst felt I would have used that color instead of orange zest but I'm still waiting.
Thanks for reading and hope you're having a great weekend! We'll be heading to Old Navy for what sounds like a great sale. Hope it's not too crowded.
