Today is May Day, around here we call it May Basket Day. I checked it out on Wikipedia and this is what came up:

“May Day was also celebrated by some early European settlers of the American continent. In some parts of the United States, May Baskets are made. These baskets are small and usually filled with flowers or treats and left at someone’s doorstep. The basket giver would ring the bell and run away. The person receiving the basket would try to catch the fleeing giver. If they caught the person, a kiss was to be exchanged.”

As a treat for YOU my friends, I’ve made a couple May Baskets. Since I can’t do the secret door bell ring and dash, I’ll share them as a visual gift to celebrate the beginning of May!!!

This first one uses a template from my Silhouette, very quick project to make, simple stamping and filled with real flowers.

Here’s a close up of the tag. I stamped the flower with the DesignBlock Raindrop background, and the paper basket was stamped with the DesignBlock Flourish. I cut one of my clear stamps to use just the word “Friend”.

Basket By Shari Carroll
Supplies:

• DesignBlock Flourish
• DesignBlock Raindrop
• ClearDesign: Friends
• Soft Leaf Shadow Ink
• Walnut Stain Distress Ink
• Art Flowers Meadow
• Card Button Neutral
• Other: Silhouette, white cardstock, ribbon, string and fresh cut flowers

Here’s another one.  This one uses a little glassine bag with a White StazOn stamped background image.

And a close-up of the flower and pearl accents.

Basket By Shari Carroll
Supplies:

• Dots and Flowers
  
• Summer Felt Flowers
  
• Art Flowers Spring
  
• Art Flowers Summer
• Pink Accent Pearls
  
• Card Buttons Spring
• White StazOn
• Other: Glassine bag, ribbon, string and fresh cut flowers

And finally, I invited Lisa to come play with some flowers today, and here’s her fantastic card.  Lisa is so talented when it comes to working with these Asian dolls, I wish I could make a card like this.  As a tip Lisa says,  “You can emboss in clear even over text!”   Thanks Lisa,  I love it!

Here’s a close-up showing the fine details, including Hero Arts’ gorgeous new Spring Blossom Paper:

Card By Lisa Spangler
Supplies:

• Spring Blossom Paper
• Asian Dolls
• ClearDesign: Friends
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Memories Black
• VersaMark
• White Notecards
• Sparkle Gems Small Blossom

Just for being such good sports and hanging in there with me, I’m going to finish my week off by offering a great GIVEAWAY.  I’m not sure if you noticed, but I’ve used this set on most of my projects this week.  I’ll give out three sets by choosing random comments from today’s post, the cut off time will be tonight at 11:59 PST.  Good Luck and have fun.  I’ll announce the winners Saturday afternoon.

EDITED TO SAY: This giveaway is now closed, thank you!

We will be back tomorrow to celebrate National Scrapbook Day, please come on and join us.  Jennifer has gathered up her multi-talented scrapping friends and will share some of their wonderful layouts for the event.

Remember, you have until Sunday evening at 11:59 PST to get your Mayflower entries loaded into the flickr group pool.

Be sure to join us next week when we announce the five winners of the latest “Win a Day on the Blog Contest!”

Thanks everyone for the fantastic week.  Enjoy the Spring blossoms!

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