Picnic-alicious!

This picnic basket is a little “Hello Summer” project I made for myself—which I never do! We’re actually going to drive up to the Parkway next weekend, and I thought this would be perfect for that! As soon as I saw this basket at World Market (one of my FAVE places to stock up on weird stocking and basket stuffers and unique containers!) I knew it must be covered in Lime Rickey!! They are seriously a perfect match, and the basket was only about $6.70! I cut the paper to fit the inside panels of the basket’s lid, and then treated it like a card layout. I printed the text on my computer and cut it out using the Top Note die. I added stamps and added some circles cut from punches. I stamped the heart in Riding Hood Red and then filled in the white spaces with Sunny Shimmerz and a watercolor brush. The heart and arrow are attached with dimensionals. I made matching napkin rings by taking plain wooden napkin rings simply by adding paper and stamped images to them. I decided to use real napkin rings as the base so that I could get more uses out of them. The picnic blanket was also a World Market find, and lucky for me matches the Lime Rickey, too!

All of the Basic Grey items, Ribbon, Adhesive Rhinestones and Shimmerz can be purchased at Limelight Papercrafts!

Ingredients: Stamps: Basic Grey {Whirlie Arrows, Whirlie Whirls}; Cardstock: SU! {Whisper White}; Decorative Paper: Basic Grey {Lime Rickey}; Ink: SU! {Riding Hood Red, Green Galore}, Staz-On {Jet Black}; Accessories: Limelight Papercrafts {5/8” Textured Ribbon Orange/Yellow}, Shimmerz {Sunny}, Kaiser Craft {Self-Adhesive Rhinestones}, SU! {Sizzix Top Note Die, Dimensionals}, World Market {Picnic Basket, Picnic Blanket}.