St Pattys Club Card

Today I want to share my St Patty's Card.  I am Irish - you all know it - maiden name was O'Reilly :)  So disappointed that SU just does not have much out there for St. Patrick's day.  So I made my own.  I took our small heart punch and punched little hearts out of three different green DSP patterns.  Each heart was folded in half and the crease was dipped in Tombow and then attached to the card so the leaves pop up a bit.  Put three of them together and you have a Shamrock.

The stems were used by using the cardboard circle from one of our spools of ribbon with Wild Wasabi.  We attached one of our tiny brads to the center of each Shamrock.  Added a little linen thread - and a sentiment -and what a great card.

I love the look of the delicate clovers - hope you do too! ~Maureen

St Patty's Bears

Just a quick post today to share a great idea I found on (where else?) PINTEREST.  How cute is this - they shared using those window clings on your pitchers as a cute decoration.

So on St. Patty's I put these little guys on my coffee thermos carafe and ice tea pitcher and I love how they look.  Now I've got to find some for Easter :)  Hope you thought it was a cute idea too.  ~Maureen

Lucky Me!!

Hi all - well - as I've told you before I'm a bit Irish - my maiden name was O'Reilly.  So I love St. Patty's day!!  As we speak there is corned beef and cabbage cooking in Guinness in the crock pot for dinner.  So today I wanted to share a St. Patty's card we made at my last cards Stamp Camp.  It uses the single stamp from SU! "Lucky You".  When I mounted mine, I cut it apart, so I could mount the shamrock separate from the Lucky - just to make it easier to stamp them alone.

 

The colors are Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Old Olive.  The middle shamrock is punched out, mounted on the scallop and popped up on dimensionals.  The we added a few gems and LUCKY!!  I have seven brothers and one sister - and had the best intentions of making these and getting them stamped and out to all of them by today - but guess what - that did  not happen :)  So I sent them a picture of the card in an email :)  Oh well - maybe next year.  So for St. Patty's here is my Irish wish to all of you!

The luck of the Irish to ya!! See ya soon!! ~Maureen

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

Happy St. Patty's to all my family and friends!!

No secret to a lot of you - but my maiden name is O'Reilly - so I take St. Patrick's day very seriously :)  By the time you see this post the Corned beef and cabbage will be cooking in the crock pot and the Bailey's will be chilled - my kind of celebration.  What you might not know is I have seven brothers and one sister - and with our last name I really have to remember them this time of year - so here are the cards I made this week just before I popped them in the mail.

Aren't they cute - I love the look of Black with Garden Green - hope they all like them!

Wishing you all a great day filled with rainbows and the luck of the Irish!! See you soon! ~Maureen

St Patty's Banner

I LOVE St. Patrick's Day - it may be because I really like the color green - rainbows - clovers - gold :)  or it may be because my maiden name was O'Reilly!  Whatever it is - for me it is FUN!  So this week I made this cute little St. Patty's day banner to put up in my house.  It's ALL Stampin' Up! - the string is our Hemp twine - the shamrocks are made out of three heart punches, creased in half to give some dimension.  The stem is the branch from the bird punch and the buttons and ribbon are also Stampin' Ups!!!  So you can see why I LOVE their products.

The medallions are made with the Designer Rosette Bigz XL Die in the current Occasions Mini - when you use this die it cuts one edge with points and one edge with circles cut out; and the rosette ends up about 9-10" in diameter.  So I just cut the strips in half to make two smaller medallions.  I love the way it turned out.

 

The paper is Stampin' Ups "First Edition" specialty paper.  I love this stuff as books and newprint paper are all the rage - but who wants to cut up a book or get newprint all over your fingers.  This paper mimics that look, is printed on two sides, and is a bit lighter weight than our other papers - perfect for this look.  I hope you can see the detail on this close up.  I made another for a gift, and added the large pearls the centers of the buttons and it looked great.  I might go back and add them to mine!  Thanks for stopping by - see you soon!! ~Maureen