Hi Friends,
Today I am sharing my last cards for St-Patrick's day for this year. I hope you have found some ideas in my cards if you have to make a few of them to send out. But I think it was a fun one to make for the first time and will probably try to make a few next year too. It is fun to send cards and surprise someone who has not seen it coming. hee hee
So for today's share here they are (2 recipes for you today):
Showing different angles so you can see the crystal lacquer effect on the clover leaves
Recipe
Another spur of the moment made from scratch background in playing with ink and stamps.
White whisper CS for card base, white textured linen CS, Spellbinder octagonal set, swirl die cut from stash, MS clover leaf punch, inks, half pearls, tacky glue and snail runner.
As you can see this is another straight forward card to make starting with the background, once it is to your liking, it is adhered to the card base and then the next layer is cut to desired matting size then the octagon is cut in the middle of this layer to be adhered as well then I added the embellishments as you see them until it was eye pleasing. Finished with the half pearl touch and I had my other St-Patricks day card which can also be used for a Good luck card.
My next and last card for this occasion is next:
That was a quick card, rare ones I make, but I liked the look once it was all done. The ink bottom gives a great finishing touch to the card.
Recipe
Easy peasy! White whisper Su card base, white linen textured CS. Green ink one hue of choice. Sponge dauber. Oval punch from SU. MS clover leaf punch used as a mask. Good luck Sentiment from rubberstamp stash.
For the clover leaf in the oval technique, with my punched out leaf I placed the leaf in the position I wanted it in and sponge daubed my way around the leaf to leave a white impressionand finished off the green throughout the oval and inked up the white edges where the leaf is. I tried to mask the leaves so it was in different positions as a trio. I stamped GOOD LUCK in the leaf for the middle oval.
As for the inking the bottom of the card. That was done on a separate layer as a practice canvas but it turned out the way I wanted it to look so my practice canvas ended up being my final piece to this card. I tried to give it a degrading color effect. Darker from bottom to lighter as I go up. This degrading look is a good thing to practice as you can use this in many cards, in my case I use it when I do some watercoloring and need a background nature like effect, sunsets and such.
I hope you enjoyed, thanks for stopping and love love love your comments!
Have a fabulous day everyone.