I made an Easter basket!

I've already made my Easter cards for Poppy and Oliver and bought some little solid chocolate Easter eggs but I thought a gift bag would be nice. Auntie Mhairi is going to visit them on Wednesday so I thought that would be the ideal way to get their presents to them without them being wasted in the post. She came out yesterday to get her hair cut so I don't even have to take them to her. Since I don't have to worry about posting I thought I'd make a basket for Poppy's eggs. I saw a lovely basket on Brenda's blog and she had very kindly done a tutorial on it. Thanks Brenda it was really easy to follow, even for me!

I used my new inches Scor-Pal to make it. I won this on Jacque's blog. Jacque had amazing candy recently to celebrate having 4,000 followers (yes four thousand) and I was one of 10 winners. Thanks Jacque I love my prize. Jacque often has candy and her work is absolutely stunning. She is on several design teams and loves her Magnolias, among others! It's always a treat to visit Jacque's blog and see what she's been making.

So here's Poppy's Easter basket.

I used part of a LOTV stamp to match her card and coloured it with Promarkers and added some Sakura glitter gel pen to the butterfly. Don't be fooled by the fact that it looks as if there are lots of eggs in there cos they're sitting on top of some tissue so the photo looks nice lol!

I've already shown her card but here it is again to show how they match.

I hope Poppy likes her card and basket! I love this image it's really cute. I was quite pleased with myself when I managed to ink and stamp part of the image successfully. I usually mess up when I try to do something like this.

I'm entering the following challenges with the basket :-
Lili's Little Fairies :- Anything Goes.
Allsorts :- Photo Inspiration - I used Spring colours and Easter eggs.
Creative Card Crew :- Spring.
Cute Card Thursday :- Happy Easter.

I've made a gift bag for Oliver too so I'll show it to you tomorrow. I've got a day off tomorrow as it's a local holiday. Next week we have to work at Easter but hey a day off is a day off whenever it is, I'm not proud! Tomorrow I'm going to craft but tonight I'm going to catch up with my favourite blogs and my DT commenting. And of course my ironing. Not yet cos Mhairi is taking up a lot of space with her laptop and a box of cd she's putting on her ipod!

Thanks for looking and I appreciate any comments you have time to leave.