Kiss Me, I’m Irish

Hello crafty friends!! Happy (early) St. Patty’s Day!! It’s time for a brand new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

A Bit O’ Green

We are showcasing Pretty Pink Posh Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

I almost forgot how much fun it is to play with alcohol inks!! Especially when you have no expectations. Which I’ve learned it the way to go, for me personally. I used to get frustrated because I had a different picture in my head of how my final outcome would look and it just never lined up for me. But now, if I go in with no expectations then I’m never disappointed! Hey, it works for me.

I used several different shades of green, which I’ve linked all of them below, and I just went to town. I left some areas white and on the darker sections while my ink was still a bit tacky, I added some gold foil by simply pressing the foil onto my panel and burnishing it a bit and then pulling the foil away. It left me with this gorgeous marble looking foil.

After my background was done, I used the Shamrock Shaker die by Pretty Pink Posh and some gold glitter cardstock to cut out this beautifully large shamrock. I decided to cut it out a couple more times using green card stock just to pop it up a bit off my background panel.

My sentiment is from Pretty Pink Posh’s stamp set called Lucky. I heat embossed it with green embossing powder and then I used the coordinating dies to cut out the Lucky and two additional layers to add some dimension.

The sub-sentiment is also from the Lucky stamp set and I heat embossed this part on green card stock with white embossing powder. I popped it up using some foam squares. I didn’t feel like this card needed any additional embellishments so I simply rounded the lower left corner and I attached it to a top folding card base.

I thought it would be fun to make an additional card but this time turning the shamrock into a shaker card since that is the name of this die, Shamrock Shaker die.

I made this one exactly the same, except I added the shaker element.

Ok, this is so cool. As I’m sitting here in my craft room typing this blog post, I stopped to look out my window because I saw that the sun was finally starting to shine today (it’s been raining all day) and right outside my window is this BEAUTIFUL rainbow!!! Fitting for the post I’m writing. I only wish I could photograph it, but they never quite look as magical in picture as they do in real life. But I still wanted to share that with you. Thank you so much for stopping by today. Have a great day!