Happy St. Patrick's Day

Here is my St. Patrick's Day card this year.  This picture does not do it justice!  It is beautiful (if I do say so myself).  You cant see it from the picture I misted the entire card with a Champaigne Shimmer Mist Spray.  To make this Shimmer Mist Spray just take a small spray bottle (maybe an old Stampin' Mist bottle) and fill it 3/4 the way full with rubbing alcohol. Add 5-6 drops of Shimmer Paint and shake well to mix. Hold the card about arms length from the spray bottle and spray a couple times to coat the card. It will look wet at first but the rubbing alcohol evaporates and leaves a beautiful shimmer!

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - Medallion, Happy St. Patrick's
Card Stock - Whisper White, Certainly Celery
Ink - Soft Suede, Certainly Celery
Accessories - 5/8" Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch, 1/16" Circle Punch, Glimmer Brads, Sponge Dauber, Designer Label Punch, Dimensionals, Champaigne Mist Shimmer Paint

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Here's a little Irish luck to fill your day.  An oldie but a goody, using the heart punch to make a clover.

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - Define Your Life
Card Stock - Whisper White, Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Basic Black
Ink - Garden Green
Accessories - Silver Brads,Small Heart Punch, Crop-A-Dile, Big Shot, Square Lattice Embossing Folder

A Popular St Patricks Day Card

I have been having a great time in my stamp room this week!  Monday I made 8 12x12 layouts for my wedding scrapbook.  My plan is to create a bunch of layouts and then one weekend sit down with my layouts and pictures and match up what I want on each page.  (I will be taking over the living room floor for this but my husband doesn't know that yet.)  I thought this would be way easier then trying to think it through one page at a time.  Once I decide what pictures will go on each page then it is just a matter of cropping, attaching and embellishing! 

Tuesday I started prepping for my Stamp-A-Stack this weekend.  I have 10 women coming.  This is a new group for me, they all live in one community and invited me it to teach them.  I am very excited and can't wait to meet them!  With 10 people making 12 cards each I have my work cut out for me.

Yesterday I got a little bit done but had company over so not much.

I also received a Stampin' Up! shipment Tuesday... TOYS!  I can never wait to get home when I know there is a wonderful box of Toys just waiting to be played with.  In my box of toys was a wonderful stamp set that, as a Demonstrator, I got to preorder before anyone else!  I will have more on that in the days to come so stay tuned.

For today's project I needed to make one more type of St. Patrick's Day card before the holiday has slipped by us.  This is a very common technique using the Heart Punch to create a clover.  It is very simple to do and great for those who need a last minute card.  For the stem I just hand cut out of Always Artichoke.  To give the card a little more dimension I brushed the edges with the Always Artichoke Stamp Pad.  I pulled my handy single stamp Go Green out for my saying.  I have got a lot of good use from that stamp :)

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - Go Green
Card Stock - Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Ink - Always Artichoke
Accessories - Heart Punch, Paper Snips

February Stamp-A-Stack

Another Great Stamp-A-Stack.  We had so much fun!  Check out the great cards we created!

I found these Adorable 3x3 Thank You cards here and loved them SO much I just had to make them.  They were a hit at the class as well.  To learn to make envelopes for this cards see this post.

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - With All My Heart
Card Stock - Whisper White, Pretty In Pink, Bashful Blue, Apricot Appeal, Certainly Celery
Ink - Basic Black, Pretty In Pink, Bashful Blue, Apricot Appeal, Certainly Celery
Accessories - Scallop Trim Border Punch

 

This is a great technique that I wanted to teach my group.  I found the idea for this card here.  Once again I was using ideas from Rose.  She is incredible.  This is a reverse mask technique.  Using the Butterfly Punch I punched the image out of cardstock.  I then laid it onto the card front.  I stamped the image and then sponged color.  When you remove the mask you have a butterfly!

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - Vintage Vogue
Card Stock - Whisper White
Ink - Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red
Accessories - Linen Thread

We did a great little St. Patrick's Day Card as well!

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - Go Green; Three Little Words
Card Stock - Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink - Always Artichoke pad and marker
Accessories - Heart to Heart Punch, 3/16" Black Gingham Ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch

Another St. Patrick's Day Card

Once I started using the Go Green Stamp, the ideas started flowing.  Here is another card using that stamp. 

It is very simple easel card.  The tag is attached using dimensionals, because I love a card to have dimension to it.  If I had it, I would have added the 1/4" Grosgrain Bravo Burgundy Ribbon around the belly of the card.  But it works as is as well.  The Mellow Moss DS paper used is from the Patterns Pack DS Paper III, a Level 1 hostess gift.

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - Go Green
Card Stock - Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Bravo Burgundy, Patterns Pack DS Paper III
Ink - Always Artichoke
Accessories - Scallop Edge Punch, Tag Punch

St. Patrick's Day Card

Happy President's Day!  I am jealous of all you that work for a company that gives you the day off.  Me I am in the office wishing I was home in my craft room.

Here is another card using the Go Green Stamp from the Occasions mini catalog.  This is a St. Patrick's Day Card.  I made the card 3x3 which I just love!  Go to my Making Envelopes Tutorial to see how to make an envelope for this card with the materials you most likely already have.

I have three versions of this card.  It is the process I went through to figure out exactly what I wanted.  What are your thoughts?

I really liked this card; however, I wasnt sure about the crystal and the white seemed bland.

I rubbed the edges of the white in Always Artichoke.  Solved that problem.  My clover is still a problem, it seems boring and goes off the edge of the card.  Plus I drew leaves on and I wish I hadnt.

Okay I brought the bling back.  Thought it was too boring without it :D  Think I'm in love with it!

Supplies:
Stamp Set(s) - Go Green single stamp
Card Stock - Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Whisper White
Ink - Always Artichoke (both pad and marker)
Accessories - Heart to Heart punch, Crystals I found at a craft store