Basket weave panel tutorial

     It's my turn again to do a tutorial for The Kraft Journal and as promised I'm going to show you how I made that basket weave panel for my Saturated Canary Dorothy card I posted last week.  I've used some Light Kraft Cover Weight cardstock and chipboad to create the panel.  You'll also need a ruler and  X-acto knife or some type of cutter and some distress ink.

      For the panel I made, I cut 1/4" strips from the cardstock.

     I also cut a panel of chipboard 1 1/2" wide by 5" long.  Using my glass cutting mat, I lined the strips up on the grid, adding strips for a total of 2" which I taped down with scotch tape.  This photo shows the first strip woven in already.

     Continue weaving in your strips until you have an extra one at each end totally 5 1/2".

     Try to butt the strips up against each other as closely as possible for a tight weave.

     You'll notice this phot looks different.  I had forgotten that I wanted to use some distress inks on the strips to get a multi-colored weave effect so I pulled the strips I'd already weaved out, inked them and started over.  You could do this with different colored cardstock pieces for a different look.

     Once I had the pieces weaved to the 5 1/2" length, I flipped the piece over (still taped down) and glued my chipboard piece to the back lining it up with the strips so that each side had one strip extra hanging off.

     Once the glue was dried I could remove the extra strips and trim the long ends down.

     I then added some double sided adhesive to the back side and began folding the strip ends over.

     Once everything was folded over and secured down the piece looked like this.

     Here's another look at the card I made with it.

     I wish more of the color variation was showing, but I'll know better next time.  Hope you'll give this a try.
     Happy crafting!