Happy St Patrick's Day!

Happy St Pat's to all my friends...Irish or not!

Inspired By #10 Feeling Lucky

Hi everyone!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge, and I chose to do an eclectic collage-style card, something I haven't done for a while!  It's almost one layer...the little tag and row of hearts are the only add-ons!  Here we go:

Almost all the images I used here are from an Artistic Outpost set called A Lovely Day; I just love their vintage style!  I stamped everything in Emerald Envy, stamping off the lighter images and using my Misti to get a good, clean, dark image for the bicycle and the sentiment:

I also used some Emerald Envy cardstock to diecut a row of hearts, and added a few more floating out of the bicycle basket!  I cut out a little tag and adhered the cut-out letters of "a lovely day" and added a brad and a wee piece of Emerald Envy ribbon:

 And here's the photo that Laurel provided for us as a prompt:

Isn't that a happy little scene?!  I'm also entering this in the Cards in Envy Green Things challenge, too!  And truth be told, below is the first card I made for the challenge, but changed my mind after it was done:

I used the jar and sentiment from Jar of Love and the shamrock from Itty Bitties, embossing them in white, and then added florals from Bouquet Bunch.  A little doily is behind the jar, although it's hard to see, and it's all on top of a note card.  It's still cute and I am sure I'll find someone to whom I can send it!  Thanks for popping in today!  I hope you'll play with our pretty green challenge and share your creation with us at Inspired By!  Stay warm and safe today!

A little horsin' around; good thing Wayne is a good sport!:

TSOT311 and SUO169 A Lot of Green

Happy Friday, peeps!  I rarely make St Patrick's Day cards, but when I saw the SU Only Challenge this week, which is "Celebrating Green", as well as the Try Stampin' On Tuesday sketch with the option of plaid, I just had to pull out this golden oldie stamp set, Gift Givers!  So here's the sketch:

And here's my card!  

I had already chosen the green plaid paper from the Warmth & Cheer pad before I even saw the plaid challenge!  I stamped my little leprechaun on some watercolor paper and colored him in with an aquapainter and inks:

And how cool is it that our stitched ovals fit the sentiments from Teeny Tiny Wishes?!  I stamped, punched and diecut this sentiment for the inside:

I also added some embossing with the Cable Knit EF, some Gumball Green stitched ribbon, and a couple of mats in Garden Green and Basic Black!  I had fun making this one!  Thanks for stopping by!

My nephew Tim stopped by earlier in the week to give us an estimate on some work he may be doing for us; while he was taking measurements, Cassidy decided to draw his picture on the driveway:

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We liked how his hair and his beard sort of encircled his head!  But the funniest part was when Uncle Timmy actually got down on the ground to compare his likeness!  Not bad! I think his legs might be a little too scrawny, though!

Enjoy the blessings of the day!

Project Details-All Products Stampin Up Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Gift Givers (ret), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Garden Green, Watercolor, Warmth & Cheer DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Garden Green, Soft Sky, Calypso Coral, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Gumball Green ribbon (ret), Zig Painty Pen (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Squares Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Aquapainter, Cable Knit EF

TSOT Vintage St Pat's

Happy Tuesday, all!  We've got another sketch from Try Stampin' On Tuesday, with the optional theme of St Patrick's!  Here ya go:

I don't have too many St Patrick's Day stamps, but I have collected a few digital images of vintage St Pat's postcards, so I printed one out to use for my card today:

My base was Naturals Cream, embossed with the Elegant Dots EF; my banner is Glorious Green (remember that color??) and Basic Gray on which I stamped a grid (Simon Says Stamp) and then filled in each grid with a shamrock from Itty Bitties....you can see some gray shamrocks on the digital image itself.  The sentiment is from Sprinkles of Life, and it was stamped in Garden Green on a banner diecut from the Large Numbers die....I shaded it a little with some Sahara Sand ink to make it look 3D:

I think this little Irish lass is quite fetching, don't you?!  I hope you'll play along with us today--you have two weeks to participate and you can show your card off on the blog or on the TSOT Facebook page--either one is acceptable!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Cassidy sportin' a new hat Mommy crocheted....hot off the hook!

Enjoy your day!

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

I have been a wee bit under the weather….right now, what voice I have sounds rather like a fog horn!!!  So hopefully I’ll feel like stampin’ soon!  Enjoy this fine day, if ye be Irish or not!  I’ll leave you with this sweet vintage postcard image!

St Patrick’s Day Projects

Phew, happy Friday, everyone!  This week needs to be OVER!  I am looking forward to some warmer temps this weekend!  Since my sister already received her little St Pat’s gift, I can share it with you now:

This is another little altered Altoids tin, decorated with some vintage St Pat’s images I gathered from around blogland!  I have to admit that the inside of this one is not as well-done as I would have liked.  I need to color the edge of my cut images so they don’t show white; I really dislike that and I didn’t realize how bad it looked until I saw the photos.  Better next time!  Anyway, here is the inside:

I used some generic DP I had in my stash for the backgrounds, along with some green clover metallic decorations I had hanging around.  Since I had a dearth of St Patrick’s Day sentiments, I was wondering what to do….then I remembered I had a nice set on My Digital Studio, so I printed a few out and added them to the inside!  I had so much fun with them, I did a miniature collage and printed that out for the back of the tin:

I added some gold hearts and green rhinestones, just for fun, as well as overstamped it with the Linen background stamp (ret), just to give it some texture.  Then, I added a few more sentiments and enlarged it, printing it out on a standard piece of cardstock, and made a little collage poster to hang on my wall (well, it’s not hung, it’s actually tacked up with a couple of cheapie thumb tacks I had hanging around!!!):

DH actually commented on this….and he never notices ANYTHING like this!  I haven’t used MDS for a while, so it was fun to play around!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy:  “DON’T TAKE MY PICTURE, GRAMMY!”

Lots of Green!

Yay, it’s Friday!  I have a couple green cards today for you!  The first is a St. Pat’s card, and it is for the Papercraft Star challenge this week:

I printed out a vintage St Patrick’s Day postcard and mounted it on some green cardstock and DP from MME:

There is hardly ANY stamping on this card!!  Just this tiny little tag, from another postcard, cropped and cut out, on which I added a little shamrock from Itty Bitties:

This is also for the Just Add Ink challenge, which is to “just add green”!

My second card is a birthday card for my nephew, and it uses scraps from the above card and an image from The Alley Way:

I colored my little frog with Copics, cut him out and popped him up;  the sentiment was punched with a circle punch and then sponged through a smaller mask for a fun effect!  The inside of the card has a computer-generated sentiment:  “We would never frog-et your birthday!”

This card is for the Kraft Journal’s Lucky Green challenge as well as the  Retrosketches sketch 54:

Thanks for visiting today!
Cassidy is learning to play with a glue stick, stickers and punches!  She really likes putting the punched pieces back into the cardstock, like a puzzle!  Smart kid!

ColourQ180

Top ‘o the morning to you!  LOL, it’s not St Patrick’s Day yet, but Arielle’s ColourQ challenge is a good one to get you primed for it:

Oh my goodness…..wouldn’t you LOVE to have this bracelet?  Swooooon!  I went in a totally different direction, though, pulling out a retired set called Gift Givers (should NEVER have been retired, IMO!) and made a sweet little candy treat for the special day:

I used my Big Shot to cut a Glorious Green Apothecary Accent diecut, then embossed it with the Clouds EF, folded it in half and paper pierced around the edge.  A small cello bag was filled with some Lindor truffles and the diecut was stapled to the top.  His jacket was paper pieced; I colored the image with my aquapainter and inks, and popped it up with some dimensionals; finally,  I added a little curly gold ribbon to match the gold coins!  Although I do think I will go back and make his cheeks a little “redder”…he’s a bit too pale.  What do you think?

And there were three truffles in the package….I’m trying really hard to resist that lone one sitting on my desk, LOL!

Can’t wait to see how you interpret these colors and inspiration photo!  Show us your stuff over at the ColourQ blog, and check out the other fun creations our Courtiers have created!

I haven’t had Cassidy for a couple of days so I don’t have any pictures, but I do have a picture of the sheet cake from our associate pastor’s ordination on Sunday night:

as well as the table decorations…those daffodils give me hope that spring IS coming!

We had over 100 people for dinner at our church and I am happy to say it all went smoothly and there was plenty of food for everyone! 

Thanks for visiting today!

Happy St. Pat’s Day!

Since tomorrow is the Color Throwdown challenge, I thought I would post this card today.  I don’t think I have ever actually sent someone a Saint Patrick’s Day card!  I have made a few samples, but I don’t know that I actually gave them to anyone!  Anyway, this card will be going to one of my fun customers who is always so generous with her crafty creations!  It uses a retired SU SAB set as well as a couple current sets:

The Garden Green panel was cut using my Big Shot and the Scallop Square die; I ran it through once, then repositioned it so that two scallops on the side were beyond the cutting area, then ran it through again to achieve the rectangle.  The hearts from Polka Dot Punches (retired) were punched with the Large Heart Punch; the small glittery heart is from I {Heart} Hearts---I colored in the word “love” with my GG marker, then punched it with the Small Heart Punch.  The background is the jumbo wheel, Cornelli Lace and the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  I found a poem on the internet and printed it for the inside:

Those cute little shamrocks are from Holiday Blitz—a great set to have!!!  I hope your day is full of blessings as well!!