EASTER BASKET
Present your Easter treats in this beautiful basket. Why not use the label as a card topper too! The design can easily be adapted, why not change the topper and use to give a gift for a new baby? The design would work in blue too!
LABEL Trace
Step 1
• Place a piece of plain parchment paper over the pattern and with a white pencil, trace the oval, small circle and whiskers.
• With a black fine liner pen, trace the rabbit and colour in the blacks of the eyes.
Colour
Step 2
• Remove your work from the pattern, colour on the back with Polychromos pencils and blend with Dorso oil as follows:
Nose and inner ears - light purple pink Outer ears, face, eyelids and chin - cold grey III
Step 3
• Turn your work over and using sharp Polychromos pencils, add shading to the front as follows:
Inner ears and nose - fuchsia, blending with a little light purple pink
Face, chin, eyelids and outer ears - cold grey IV, blending with a little cold grey III
Emboss
Step 4
• With the Pergamano wheel embossing tool, emboss the whiskers.
• With a 4.5mm embossing tool, emboss the whites of the eyes and teeth.
Perforate/emboss
Step 5
• With the Pergamano mini semi-circle perforating tool, shallow perforate around the traced oval and inside the traced circle.
• With a 1.5mm embossing tool, emboss inside the semi-circle perforations.
• Re-perforate deeply with the mini semicircle perforating tool.
• With the PCA fine WIST perforating tool, perforate around the inside of the oval.
Cut
• With parchment scissors, cut between the outer semi-circle perforations.
Mount
Step 6
• Erase any visible white pencil lines.
• With an oval die, decorative edge scissors, straight scissors or craft knife (I used a Spellbinders Nestabilities deckled edge classic oval die), cut out an oval of grey card measuring 7x9cm.
• With one strand of pink embroidery thread, stitch the parchment to grey oval, through the WIST perforations.
• With a hole punch, punch a hole through the grey card, inside the perforated circle.
• Thread pink embroidery thread through the hole.
• Fix a second piece of oval pink card to the back of the label to hide the stitching.
PARCHMENT PANELS (MAKE 4) Grid work
Step 7
• Place a piece of plain parchment paper over a Pergamano bold straight grid and work the grid work according to diagram 1.