Handmade Printed Basket

• Basket
• Sponge
• Water-based acrylic paint
• Paints according to your design
• 1 - Potatoes
• Plate
• Brush (optional)

• You can make use of an old-basket in your house or buy a new one according to your desire.
• Wipe the basket with wet sponge.
• Paint the basket with water-acrylic paint and make it a single base color.
• Cut a potato in two halves. Slightly mark with pencil an outline of petal shape.
• Cut the outline design ½ inch deep form the rest of the potato. Scrape out the extra potato.
• In the same manner take out the shape of leaf from the other half of the potato.
• Put some paint on a plate and dip the potato-petal structure on it and test the petal print on a piece of paper.
• If it is okay then follow the same process and design prints on the basket with the same potato-petal structure.
• If you want to make a big flower on your basket rotate the potato stamp and put prints on the gift basket.
• For leaf print use different color.
• To give it a more natural look you can paint stems using a small brush.