...Day 3 post 1 Faux Fun circles

Good morning and welcome to day 3 of the samples before the big release on Thursday!! Don't miss the festivities, call back here to the blog on Thursday, to see the stamp sets revealed and do the DT blog hop!! There will be prizes up for grabs!!

After you've had a peep at this little project you might like to pop over to see what Lisa and Lynn have made with the new stamps!! - ooh and pop over to Anya's, although she is not officially peeking today you might like to see her card, it's divine!!

Yesterday I showed you the new stamp set Spring Baskets, today I'm giving you a peep at Faux Fun circles. One of the TWO circle sets releasing on Thursday!!

Apologies for using the knitted circle again but I love it so much and as Anya says, the knitted texture just seems to fit in with any project!

Today I thought it would be fun to show you the stamps from Faux Fun used to dress up a basket! You can see on the tag above how I stamped the knitted circle and then used a slightly smaller circle (from the Spellbinders large Classic circles) to trim it out so that the stamped image 'bleeds' of the edge of the circle. I love how this can make the cream card circle appear to merge with the ginger coloured mat. I then stamped the little wreath image in green inside the knitted circle and used a copic marker just to dot the little berries in a shade of blue. Inside that I stamped an egg and coloured it to match my chocolate foil wrapped eggs.

I made a secondary tag cut with a Spellbinders tag die and stamped with a sentiment from L'il Buddies, (also releasing Thursday). I dressed it up with a tiny sprig which also comes as one of the little accessory stamps in the Faux Fun circles stamp set! There are 8 accessory stamps in the set as well as the 7 circle frame stamps! The circle stamps co-ordinate with the Spellbinders Classic circle dies. I sized them around the Small Classic circles set but of course they can be used with the larger circles dies too, it's just a matter of what size of border you prefer around the stamped image. Some of the smaller circle frames also co-ordinate with popular punch sizes!!

On the sides of the basket I used the co-ordinating branch element on the decorative cream panels, I like the slightly 'regency' look this gives to the basket.


This is obviously a tall basket, and I love the proportions of the long base with footed stand, however, like the stamp set, there is another version of this basket, call back later today to see it in my second post!!!


Inside the liner, you can see that I used an egg stamp to make a subtle pattern. A fancy fiskars border punch finishes the edge of the liner beautifully!


So, does it tickle?? and what do you think is coming next?? lol