Hot Beverage Bar with Strawberry Baskets by Connie Mercer

Winter Hot Beverage Bar with Strawberry Baskets
Curtsey Boutique Desginer
Connie Mercer

 Cold weather is upon us here in Georgia and Connie's idea for a hot drink bar using our strawberry baskets is brilliant. She added our baskets to an enamel tray and then organized her biscotti, sugar and creamer on a sweet enamel tray.

We aren't coffee drinkers in our home, but I think I might do the same with hot chocolate packets, extra marshmallows, and candy cane stir sticks.

She topped her lovely collection off with a chalkboard tag embellished with our burlap butterflies, rolled felt roses, and heart stick pins.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Burlap Butterfly 

Chalkboard Tag 

Wood Stir Stick 

Berry basket

Red Felt Rose 

Red Heart Stick Pin

To see more of Connie lovely work be sure to visit her blog by clicking on her picture below.

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DIY Berry Basket Holder Shadow Box Tutorial with Lisa Spiegel

Berry Basket Holder Tutorial

Original Design : Lisa Spiegel

Lisa shares this ingenious tutorial for creating a shadow box display piece from two of our berry baskets. 

1. Cut a slit in the first berry box, then remove the top half of the box following that line.

2. Using twine, tie the basket you cut to another full size basket creating a clam shell appearance.

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3. Stuff a muslin bag with pillow stuffing and tuck in the bottom basket.  Hot glue red doily to the top basket.

4. Hot glue Fabric Flower, Twine tied button, Felt Flowers and Glassine Leaves punched from Glassine bag to top basket.

5. Fold Glassine bag up two times from the bottom edge.  Use stick pin to attach it to the muslin pin cushion.  Adhere wallet sized photo to the front.

6. Pull apart Red Fabric flower to reveal fabric strip.  Tie around the berry basket and embellish with pins.  Pin Burlap Butterfly to the pin cushion.  Enjoy!

Curtsey Boutique Supplies:

Pint Pulp Berry Basket - Curtsey Boutique	Mini Red Felt Rose - Curtsey Boutique	Bird and Vine Embossed Glassine Bags	Floral Print Ruffle Fabric Flower
Red Polka Dot Ruffle Fabric Flower	Vintage Blue Painted 1 inch Button	Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique	Assorted Dyed Doilies - Curtsey Boutique
Burlap Butterflies - Curtsey Boutique

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Other Supplies:

Pillow Stuffing

Maya Road Stick Pins

Twine

To see more of Lisa's work, click on her photo below.

DIY Halloween Glitter Candy Corn Pine Cones Tutorial by Andrea Amu

Candy Cones Tutorial by Andrea Amu

One day while I was glancing at some pine cones that the daycare children at my work painted, I got an insane idea to paint up some cones of my own to look like candy corn!  Thus, the creation of Candy Cones! 

  

DIY Halloween Glitter Candy Corn Pine Cones
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Andrea Amu

Here I first gathered my supplies.

 Then I got to work painting 3 different pinecones each with sections of white, orange and yellow acrylic craft paint.

Allow each cone to fully dry. 

Apply a heavy coat of spray adhesive to each cone.  (Work on one cone at a time until each is completely finished with next step of glittering).

You'll want to make these cones look as sweet as candy... sugar them up with some glitter!  I used plenty of Diamond Dust glitter by FloraCraft for these cones. 

Now you will need a fabulous container to display these festive cones.  I chose to use a wood berry basket from Curtsey Boutique!  I've embellished mine with a strip of tied on burlap and I've hot glued on two Curtsey Boutique flowers and a burlap star. 

I've also taken a strip of Curtsey Boutique's kraft masking tape and I've stamped Antique lettering on it with the words, "Candy Cones!". Apply the strip to a burlap tag and tie off onto the basket to complete. 

Looking sweet! 

Supplies-

Pinecones

Acrylic Craft Paint

Orange Raffia (to fill in basket)

Spray Adhesive

Glitter

Ink

Alpha Stamps

Curtesy Boutique Products

Assortment of 8 Candy Corn Fancy Blooms

Wood Pint Berry Basket - Curtsey Boutique

Burlap Stars - Curtsey Boutique

Kraft Masking Tape - Curtsey Boutique

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For more of Andrea's beautiful work, click on her photo to visit her blog.

Frog Berry Basket Packaging with Shellye McDaniel

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Don't Forget the Deadline is September 1st.

Frog Gift Basket Set
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Shellye McDaniel

Shellye McDaniel shares the cutest and most novel use for our new berry baskets - frog gift packaging!

To put the frog box together Shellye I painted two of our wood berry containers green.  

She attached them together at the back with hinges and extra-long brads. The small end of a Crop-A-Dile was used to create the holes. 

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Wood Pint Berry Basket - Curtsey Boutique

3.5 inch Heart Doilies - Curtsey Boutique

To see more of Shellye's amazing creations visit her blog, Papered Cottage, or click on her image below.

 

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DIY Berry Basket Pin Cushion Tutorial by Jennifer Cowles

Easy Berry Basket Pin Cushion

Project Instructions:

Take a 4x4 piece of cardboard and put it inside the muslin bag, then fill the bag with batting.

Fold over the open end and insert into berry basket and you are finished.  Tie a fabric ribbon around the basket and insert pins and you have a cute pincushion.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Wood Pint Berry Basket - Curtsey Boutique

Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique

Torn Fabric Ribbon - polka dot, damask, geometric

Pearlized Heart Straight Pins - Curtsey Boutique

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Embellished Berry Basket with Shellye McDaniel

Embellished Berry Basket
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Shellye McDaniel

 Shellye shares a wonderful project today showcasing our brand new pint pulp berry baskets. She even gives a few tips on how to recreate it.

1. Cut a piece of floral foam to fit into berry basket.  

2. Using 'fringe' scissors (or hand-cutting strips with regular scissors) cut strips from paper bags.  

3. Crush shreds with your hands and then apply to top of the floral foam (I used a quick-dry glue to the top of the foam before covering with shreds).  

4. Determine placement for your forks and then insert into the foam. 

5.  Change up the fork display with different photos, recipes or notes!

Curtsey Boutique Products 

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To see more of Shellye's amazing creations visit her blog, Papered Cottage, or click on her image below.