Shake Your Shamrocks! by Janet

It's going to be St. Patrick's Day soon so I decided to make a card for the occasion before it's too late! I have a couple friends who get such a kick out of me sending them St. Patrick's cards. And why not? They are fun to make and give!

Art Impressions has a super fun set for the holiday called 5006 - Shan-rock Set. I chose to make the leprechaun the focal point of my card. He's doing a good Irish jig for the occasion. I also colored and fussy cut out the hat, shamrock, pot of gold, and the beer mug. It's hard to tell in my photo but I stamped the coins on gold metallic paper, cut and pieced them into the pot. 

To make this card I used the 5061 - Square and 5063 - Rectangle Double Stitched Dies to make windows in a piece of 4" x 5 1/4"cardstock from 6009 - Basic Green PP. You can buy dies that will cut windows out but why do that when you can make your own with your Ai stash of dies? Because they are double-stitched, the windows are framed in stitches which provides a professional and finished look. 

I heat embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder and then glued the window panel on top of a piece of dark green cardstock. I put gold glitter cardstock behind the pot for some added interest. The finished window panel was glued on a white A2 card base. I mounted the images using foam tape. The final step was to add three gold stars as accents.

I hope you get to shake your shamrocks this St. Patrick's Day! Thanks so much for joining me here at the blog. As always, please visit the Ai Store for the products I used and all the things you need for your card, journal, and tag making projects. Happy creating!

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