St. Patrick's day is coming up

Corned beef and cabbage.

YUM!

And adorable leprechauns too.

GOT THIS FROM THE INTERNET!

How adorable is he and HOW COME I CAN'T

COME UP WITH CUTE STUFF LIKE THIS ON MY OWN.

Seriously.

So that little sticker sheet was used to put

stickers on the inside with the sentiment,

No photo of that,.

And no I didn't use the piles. 

Shapes are amazing actually and I find I can make stuff

with shapes as opposed to lifelike.

So to make the shamrock - actually clover on the hat.

Hearts.

I used QK cookie cutters and rectangles

were whacked on the cutter.

I also in looking at this photo it needed a background

which is why if you look above I went

a little nuts with a shamrock stamp.

Used Peeled Paint and a really old hero arts stamp.

 

I *heart* shenanigans

Picked up this adorable paper at my local

scrapbook shop and couldn't wait

to use it.

 I really didn't have to do much to the paper

and I really love this one that had a huge shamrock

on it.

Put some layers behind the photo and fussy cut some

shamrocks out, then, tossed some washi tape on.

Added some bling to the shamrocks, backed

the sticker as a title and tada!

Very fun!

Mixing a bunch of greens

And I'm not apologizing

because it seemed to work.

I wanted this paper because it wasn't in your face

and I had the shamrock paper which was.

For some reason I whacked a chunk out of the background

paper so the only way to use it was to

cut into 6x12 size.

Love it.

 I fussy cut the shamrocks out because they

were totally adorable and

just used a strip as an anchor.

 The title came in a PL card (again with that I know)

Do you find you get on a streak with something?

Anyway I first cut the words in strips

and it didn't really ring my chimes so I fussy

cut each letter.

Love that result.

I also got to use a bunch of enamel dots too.

Woohoo stash going down.

Studio Calico, Paper Studio, Evalicious enamels.

Cards....

It's the month for cards however,

I don't do cards well but I don't think the grands care.

I used up all my St. Patty's day & Easter stuff

from past years so I went on the

hunt at Michael's and Hobby Lobby and quite

frankly I was disappointed in both

but mostly with M's. 

M's had nothing - no paper, no stamps, nothing on sale

as they always do for either holiday.

HL had papers and that was it - which kind of surprised

me I was hoping for a bit more on Easter.

And it wasn't because I waited until late either.

However, there was other stuff for St. Patty's Day that

I put to use with HL paper.

And the coins were a bonus - and not chocolate - it'll be

up to the parents to inform the kidlets

it ain't real gold LOL.

Stickers on a page

Stickers have come a long way baby and I have always

shied away from the obvious.

However, I wanted some shamrocks for

a St. Patrick's day page because well...I'm Irish so.....

I waited until well after St. Patty's day

to look for anything Irish. 

So there were no stamps, no punches nothing but stickers.

I bought 3 packs just in case.

Shamrocks and words and shamrocks oh my.

So I did lift a concept of Ashli's over at Purplemailbox. 

I love her butterfly page, the layering, the paints.

ooooooo well I sort of did that here - only somewhat backwards.

LOL.

I know you're surprised.

I layered on the stickers and I wasn't shy about it. 

They were transparent so using any dimension on them wasn't 

going to work unless there was a backing applied.

Which looked stupid.

And that is why there is that huge patch of washi there

covering up what didn't work out.

Gotta love washi.

So I used some gesso and watercolor paint. 

Studio Calico came through with the paper, alphas and

the Paper Studio stickers.

But not necessarily in that order.

I like it.