Hello crafting friends!
I've been seeing a lot of St Patrick's Day and green challenges in Blogland and since green is my favourite colour it would have been rude not to join in! Come and see what I've been up to:
Just look at all those lucky four-leafed clovers! They were stamped with a very old Stampin' Up single stamp called Lucky Day.
I stamped it repeatedly along the bottom of a piece of water colour paper that had been moistened. Shabby Shutters distress ink was sponged below the shamrocks and splattered with water to create pattern and texture. Once it was dry, I added gold speckles with a gold marker.
The blocky good luck sentiment is from Uniko's Simply Said Blocks, It was inked up with Versamark, heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I snipped it out with sharp scissors and popped it up on dimensionals.
Each shamrock was given a green gem centre to finish the card.
EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
I was thrilled that this card won an outstanding award from CAS Watercolour!
CHALLENGES
I'm linking up with a few challenges. First, a new-to-me weekly challenge that looks fabulous - Always Fun, where the theme is Shades of Green; The Double D Challenge, where there's a fabulous mood board and it's All About The Green and/or St Patrick's Day; The Rainbow Card Challenge where Especially Emerald is the colour of the month; and last, but not least, CAS Watercolour where they are looking for watercolour effects and the theme is Luck of the Irish.
AND IN OTHER NEWS
It wasn't a very lucky day for me yesterday. I went to London and it was windy and pouring with rain so I took a hat. I left it on the train. That hat is the difference between me arriving looking relatively human and me turning up looking as if I had a drunken fight in a hedge!
I've been seeing a lot of St Patrick's Day and green challenges in Blogland and since green is my favourite colour it would have been rude not to join in! Come and see what I've been up to:
Just look at all those lucky four-leafed clovers! They were stamped with a very old Stampin' Up single stamp called Lucky Day.
I stamped it repeatedly along the bottom of a piece of water colour paper that had been moistened. Shabby Shutters distress ink was sponged below the shamrocks and splattered with water to create pattern and texture. Once it was dry, I added gold speckles with a gold marker.
The blocky good luck sentiment is from Uniko's Simply Said Blocks, It was inked up with Versamark, heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I snipped it out with sharp scissors and popped it up on dimensionals.
Each shamrock was given a green gem centre to finish the card.
EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
I was thrilled that this card won an outstanding award from CAS Watercolour!
CHALLENGES
I'm linking up with a few challenges. First, a new-to-me weekly challenge that looks fabulous - Always Fun, where the theme is Shades of Green; The Double D Challenge, where there's a fabulous mood board and it's All About The Green and/or St Patrick's Day; The Rainbow Card Challenge where Especially Emerald is the colour of the month; and last, but not least, CAS Watercolour where they are looking for watercolour effects and the theme is Luck of the Irish.
AND IN OTHER NEWS
It wasn't a very lucky day for me yesterday. I went to London and it was windy and pouring with rain so I took a hat. I left it on the train. That hat is the difference between me arriving looking relatively human and me turning up looking as if I had a drunken fight in a hedge!
