A Tisket, A Tasket... What's in Your Basket?

Happy Monday, everyone! While shopping at the CHA Supershow, several of us spent quite a bit of time (and money) at the Papertrey Ink booth. To be sure we all actually used some of our new loot, Leigh O'Brien issued a challenge: choose any basket from Vintage Picnic and fill it with whatever we want! Carole named it our "Mother Button Son-of-a-Basket Challenge." ;)

I saw Rascal Flatts in concert Saturday night (AWESOME!!), and their song "Summer Nights" inspired this card. My favorite line from the song goes, "Summer Nights, everybody are you with me, let that Igloo cooler mark your piece of paradise." So, here it is, my ode to summer: a basket filled with ice cold beverages! :) I used the bottle from MFT's Let's Hear it for the Boys, and I did quite a bit of masking to get all the bottles in the basket. I picked up this October Afternoon paper at the show, so I HAD to use it, too! I paper pieced the basket and colored with Copics. I did some machine stitching around the paper panel and some sponging around the image panel.

Okay, now check out how the other girls have stuffed their baskets!

Leigh O'Brien
Carole Burrage
Joanne Basile
Kirsten DuBosque
Amy Rohl

I hope your week is off to a good start -- thanks so much for stopping by today! :)

Have a great day!
Christina

Stamps: Vintage Picnic (PTI), Let's Hear It for the Boys, Chill Out (MFT) Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa (Tsukineko), Cool Caribbean (SU!) Cardstock: Kiwi Kiss, Tempting Turquoise (SU!), MFT Perfect Paper Panels Paper: Ducks in a Row: Peek-a-Boo (October Afternoon) Other: Copics, Kiwi Kiss striped grosgrain (SU!), Cup o' Buttons summer collection, Eclipse Masking Panels (MFT), twine (PTI), dimensionals, sponge, sewing machine