Paper Therapy DT challenges, part deux!

Hello!  It’s time for the all-new second round of Paper Therapy Design Team challenges!  This time, a new challenge will be presented on the second and fourth Friday of each month.  If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you then have two weeks to create something and post a photo of it in the Paper Therapy challenge forum. Participants will have their names entered into a prize drawing at the end of the month, making them eligible to win some fun crafting goodies!

Since Easter is quickly approaching, today’s challenge is for you to use a basket on your project.  I decided to use one of my retired Stampin’ Up stamp sets for this.  I stamped the basket and the flowers separately on Whisper White cardstock, fussy cut both images after coloring them, and used dimensional adhesive to let the flowers pop up a bit over the edge of the basket.  The layout is inspired by this week’s Operation Write Home sketch challenge.  Because of the way the flowers were arranged on the designer paper I used, I had to use a mirror image of the original sketch.  I also took the liberty of adding a few layers to help bring out the colors in the designer paper.

I hope you’ll give my fellow Paper Therapy Design Team members some love by commenting on their blogs, and I hope you’ll play along and share your own creations with us!

Supplies for today’s card:
Stamps: Basket Full of Fun (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Marina Mist (SU); designer paper from “Memoirs” 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Inque Boutique)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: grosgrain ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon); Premier colored pencils (Prismacolor); odorless mineral spirits (Houston Arts); standard circle and big scalloped circle Nestabilities dies (Spellbinders)