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Happy St Patrick's Day

Hello there and Happy St Patty's Day to you :) A card I recently made at our local CTMH class

Have a fantastic day!
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

Irish blessing

Shamrock Cupcake for Funday Friday Challenge

Happy Friday to you all :) I've had a busy week of tax prep and so glad that it's finished and I can get back to crafting :) The weather here has been getting warmer and we're seeing the snow melting away,  the grass underneath is good to see. With the slow melt the water table should be getting built back up.
So today for Funday Friday challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack is:

This week's Challenge:

"Lucky Clover"

Create a card, layout or project using this week's theme!

 Our sponsor this week is Limited Runs Digital Stamps:

Limited Runs has a wide selection of cupcakes digital designs to choose from I used their 4 leaf clover design.
I used the March Card sketch over at Stick it Down for the layout of my card:

I used a variety of green papers on my card to match the theme of the day and the card.

 Closer view of the cupcake. I used pine green stickles for the clovers and Gold Pearl liquid pearls for the icing (I was impressed how well it turned out looks just like icing :) I was glad to give it a try on the cupcake. The rest of the stamp was colored with bic makers. I cut it with SB Labels Nine and inked the edges with this month's Counterfeit Kit choice of inks: Peeled Paint distressed ink, I also used the ink for the sentiment (SU Teeny Wishes stamp). The sequins are from last month's kit and the paper was in my stash.

Because the card base was double sided paper thought best to use the green on the inside to cover the design and bring in the green of the holiday, added more of the stripe paper and the border element from K&Company adhesive borders. Thanks for stopping by today, I will also be using this card for Counterfeit Kit Challenge: Challenge #2: Irish Challenge.
Now it's your turn to play along with us:

Our Sponsor this week is:

  The winner will win 3 digital stamps of their choice!!!!

 So make sure to play along this week~

  Starts: Friday, March 13th  12:00AM

Ends:   Friday, March 20th 6:00PM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. THREE entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)

Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until February 20th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of February 23th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!

Creative Cutting Challenge: St. Patrick's Day

Hi you all and welcome to my blog,  I'm one of the designers over at Creative Cutting Challenge and it's all about St Patrick's Day this challenge. My card:

Now I tried something new and used Creative Pointe’s Lucky Girl printable,
 
I think this is the first time I used a printable on a card and it was fun to use too. I also used Creative Pointe’s Flower Set 1 
 
With cutting the spiral flower down really really small I found that even the cameo has limitations on what it can cut too, but it worked out in the end, I used some silver stickles and some brads & rhinestones for the center of the flowers on the bottom corner of the art print.
My card consist of a green cardbase from my stash and on that I added the darker green background that was in my stash of green paper, but wasn't a full 12 X 12 sheet. I added the ribbon that I received from a swap a few years ago. Place the lucky girl art work on the lime-leaf background that was punched with a SU edge punch and place 4 of the flowers in 2 different sizes in the bottom corner. I also added 3-d shamrock stickers/ enamel dots that were in my stash.
The inside of the card:

Was another piece of that background paper strategically cut so I would have that doily and postmark to bring something extra to the inside, I also included the Irish Blessing (seemed fitting for this card) from last month's counterfeit kit for the inside sentiment edges inked with CTMH Juniper ink. Added a flag pennant from Elle's Studio from this month's kit stamped with SU Teeny Tiny Wishes set wishing a happy st patrick's day stamped in black ink and a flower cut from the flower set with the silver stickles center and a couple of the 3-d shamrock stickers (and that finished off that pack of stickers :) love using up my stash.

We would love for you to play along and join up for this challenge:

Now we're ready to see YOUR "St Patrick's Day" creations.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU ENTER THE CHALLENGE:

Please make sure that you follow our very simple rules to enter this challenge.  

You MUST use a SVG or similiar electronic cutting file in your project.  CRICUT CARTRIDGE ONLY ENTRIES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE.  Please make sure that you mention somewhere in your post what part of your project was created with a cutting file.  Entries that do not fit this basic requirement will be deleted.

 You all have a fantastic day and thanks for stopping by to see what I'm doing in my little corner of the world

It's All About the Green

Hi and welcome to my blog, I'm the designer today for Card A Day Blog We have been celebrating St Patrick's Day this past week over at CADB, we like to do a month in advance so you have time to create for your holiday and can find inspiration before it's needed. My card is all about the green:

I used a variety of greens for the card, a lime green cardstck for the scallop background and the sentiment cut, a light green cardstock for the card base, a green pattern paper for the background of the card this came from the K&Company Alleghany Plum specialty paper pack (this pack has pretty vibrant color designs and a darker green for the shamrock cut.

The shamrock cut is from the silhouette store: Design #39513 and the one thing I love about the designer software is that you can take that design and in the offset window and create that sweet scallop background with just the push of a button no thinking at all the software does for you, all I have to decide is how big of an offset I would want. I ran the shamrock through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder to give it dimension and added stickles pine around the edge for a glittery look. The background pc was cut from the silhouette also, a Lori Whitlock square that I adjusted for the card base. The sentiment tag came for a set roof tags from the silhouette store too. I used an ATD sticker pack that had the shamrock stickers and the rhinestones. The stamp sentiment comes from SU Teeny Tiny Wishes (this is a great all around holiday mix of stamps to have on hand) and I inked it with memento tuxedo black.

The inside all I need to do is add a white printed sentiment for the inside. I'll have to go look online for an Irish Blessing to put in there :)
You all have a great weekend and come back Monday for Creative Cutting Challenge and  then all week blog hop for 3 Twenty Crafts while we showcase the new stamps coming out.

Lucky to have a Friend like You

Hi, glad to be here today with you all. Welcome, I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. This week is St. Patrick's Day, only a month away but we want to give you some inspiration to make your own cards before the actual day.

 

This card was made at my local scrapbook shop last year during a fun class of making cards. Classes for cards can be amazing cause you usually get to do many cards in a short period of time, sometimes get out of your comfort zone (depending on the card made) and learn a new thing or two.
This card was very simple to make, the leaves of the clover was diecut with a spellbinders heart set the smaller hearts were then dry embossed with swiss dots folder. the stem was just cut for a piece of the cardstock. The background was cut and then punched in the corners. Add a button tied with a bow and the sentiment cut from scraps of the leftover card stock and you got the perfect card to give to that special over St. Patty's Day. If you get a chance and have a local scrapbook store check them out for some card classes today.
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by my little corner of the world....

Luck O' the Irish

Hi All and if your stopping by from the Card A day Blog welcome,
The theme this week over at Card A Day Blog is St. Patrick's Day and this is the card I have done for this theme:

This is how I made it:
This is a complete cricut made card even the base was cut from A Child's Year cartridge.

A Child's Year cartridge has a card feature that I decided to use for this card because of the shamrocks border on it. With the cartridges you just never know what your going to get in sizes sometimes. So I tried 4.25" for an A2 size card and the gap on the mat in the picture above is that card. Height was 4.25" but the width is 3 3/8". So when I did fit to page feature. I got a 7" high card with 5 1/4" width. So maybe a 5 1/2" high card will give me a the 4.25" wide card I was looking for at the beginning. I'll try that for the next card I do and let you know what happens. 

The icon feature on this cart doesn't seem to be part of the card feature. I did the hat in 4.25" and that is what I got a 4.25" high. So I did one around 2" for the card.

Cricut has out a wonderful all around holiday cartridge from New Year all the way through Christmas with most of the holidays in between, Celebrate with Flourish. That is where this sentiment came from. I put a piece of dark green cardstock behind the shamrock border to emphasis the border.
Put it all together add some stickles and rhinestones for the bling and the card is complete. I saved the smaller card base for to use for another card. So if you have a cricut and any of the cartridges that hats the card feature, play around with it. Surprising none of them are alike when it comes to the feature. 

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you have a fantastic day!