Pink Paislee and Scor Pal Picnic Basket Tutorial

Hi Everyone, it's Lori here , I'm so tickled to be able to share this adorable picnic basket I made using Pink Paislee products and of course my Scor-Pal.  It's a perfect place to tuck a homemade goodie gift for that someone special. I will say Pink Paislee's paper is such a heavy weight you can make this basket with just their paper, no cardstock needed.  Let's jump right into the tutorial so you'll know how to make your own.

Supplies: Pink Paislee Designer Paper Portfolio, Pink Paislee Alphabet Sticker Portfolio,, Pink Paislee Artisan Chipboard/ Hearts, Pink Paislee Artisan Wings , Scor-Pal, Scor-Pal Tape

Other Products Used: Distress Ink, Liquid Pearls, Distress Markers, Velcro Fasterners

Step One: Cut designer cardstock 7" x 8 3/4 " and score on all four sides at 1 1/4"

Step Two: On all corners score from the intersected line of the first score to the corner and fold mountain up as the shown picture.  Once you have it scored you'll want to be sure you crease your corner line well with your Scor-tool for a crisp edge.

Step Three: Apply your super strong Scor-Pal Tape to the inside of the mountain folds and also along one side and glue the mountain together and then to the interior of the box.

Step Four: Cut strip of designer paper to 1 " x 7 " and score at 1 1/2 " x 5 1/2" and fold.

Step Five: Using your Scor-Tape adhere to the middle of your basket.  This is going to add strength but will also give a base for you top.

Step Six: Cut your designer paper 7 1/2" x 4 1/8" and score at 3/4" , 3 1/4", 4 1/4" and 6 3/4".  Fold your  end scores up and your middle the opposite.  Apply tape down the middle of the top and adhere to the middle bar/base of your basket.

Step Seven: Cut a strip 2 " x 10 1/2" and score at 1/2' and 1 1/2" and fold inward and glue together.  Apply handle to the outside of your basket and decorate as desired.

Here a close up of the finished basket 

and here's the finished basket in full again

Light it Up!

Can you believe that we are getting closer and closer to those favorite fall holidays, including Halloween.  Pink Persimmon has the most adorable vintage pumpkin stamp set that I fell in love with when I first saw it.  I made this light box that will sit perfectly just inside the doorway on Halloween night.  

I love the way these little guys look like they are ready to start dancing at any moment.  I used Pink Paislee papers from their Halloween collection last year.  One of those I kept saving and thought this is just plain silly...use it.  LOL

Hope this helps you to get a bit inspired for the holidays that are fast approaching.  Have a great week.

What's Your Take?

Over at the Beary Scrap the current challenge is a sketch.  Let me tell you, I'm am one of those girls who always follows the rules, so when I see a sketch it's hard for me to think outside of the box..meaning if it's in a square shape on the sketch...my project will be square. Sometimes I'll look at other challenges and see designers interpretations of them and think ....REALLY? but honestly I love there take and to see how they creatively saw it. I'm not sure what took over this week with me but I actually thought outside of the box on the sketch and this is my take of it. I can still see the base there and hope you can too, but man I love the shapes in this project.

I used Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden collection for this card. With the clear butterfly stickers I made sure to bend up their wings to give the illusion of flight and to add more dimension. You know me...if it fits in an envelope it's not finished. LOL

Be sure to jump in the challenge yourself and show us what your take is of the current sketch. I can't wait to see. Until next time...have fun, crafts lots and do something nice for someone.


Hugs,

For My Friend...Pavlo

This is a layout I did for a friend of the family...Pavlo.  He is such a wonderful person and moved here from the Ukraine several years ago with his wife, brother and children in tow.  Recently his mother passed away and he and his brothers flew back home to attend the funeral.  It really struck me how difficult it would be to loose your parents and be a world away.  I'm so blessed that I can drive down the road and be at my Mom's in five minutes.  So I started thinking what could I do for them...I was going to bake something, but their wives are some of the best bakers you would ever want to meet...so not such a great idea.  A card just didn't seem enough since I hold them in such high regard...and then I thought I would make a memory scrapbook page that I could frame and they could hang up in their shop...a reminder of their sweet mother who raised such strong Godly men.  So this is what I presented them with and I think they loved it. 

I used some of the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology and Tim Holtz Distress inks as the base page.  Then I water distressed...something new I'm so LOVING...Prisma flowers were used around the picture...OH and I did use the new Photoshop Elements 9 to do a little doctoring to the picture.  Really this is just layers upon layers with paper, sewing, flowers, embellishments and more than anything LOVE.  I truly have been so blessed as of late by SwirlyDoo's, they have inspired me to really take my scrapping to a new level and I believe it shows.  Many of the products I used you can pick up at Swirlydoos and do be sure to check out their gallery also.