You're My Pot of Gold!

Deanna here with another inspirational post for the CardzTV Gallery blog.  Here is what I have for you today.

I started with a piece of white card stock cut and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base.  Next I layered the shamrock patterned paper on the card. It was cut at 4" X 5 1/4".  I then took another piece of white card stock and cut it to 3 3/4" X 2 3/4".  Finally I took a piece of green plaid card stock and cut it to 3 1/2" X 2 1/2".

My images are from the Simply Charmed cartridge.  I slightly layered the leprechaun over the end of the rainbow to give him the appearance of jumping out of the pot of gold.  I then flattened my images to make them a print and cut. I cut them at 3 1/4".  I assembled my layers and adhered the smaller panel to my card base with foam tape.  I then adhered the images to the plaid layer with more foam tape.

I stamped my sentiment using the CardzTV St. Patrick's Day stamp set.  I die cut the sentiment out with a small speech bubble die and adhered it to my card and the card was finished.

I hope you got some inspiration from this project and will join in the weekly challenges.

Your My Pot of Gold

Hello Cardz TV Gallery friends, Brenda from Friends Craftin' with Friends, and it is my turn to share a project with you. I've really not been in a crafty mood since my husband passed, but I am doing my holiday cards for my grandchildren and nephews. So today, I have some St. Patty's day cards for you using one of Mary's sketch's, you can find it here. I changed up the orientation on the sketch for some, it gives me cards that are all different, even though I used the same pattern papers and sketch. I used the print and cut feature to my Explore for my pattern papers and some of my images. The only images I didn't do a print and cut was the top hat and the child silhouette. For those I used some snippets of left overs. To see close up's of each card go to my blog.  Mary's St. Patrick's day stamp set was perfect for my cards because these kids are my pot of gold in life! They are a pure joy in my life, my husband's as well-he sure loved all his grandchildren. So I still sign his name to their cards to keep his memory alive for them. I hope I've inspired you to make some cards for the people you love and remember Mary has the perfect sentiments for any card on her stamp sets! 

Luck of the Irish

Hi, everyone! I am so super excited to be back on Mary's Design Team! Yay! I must say, it feels good to be back! I missed those girls so much! For my first project being back on the team, I have a card to show you today. I haven't made a card in a long, long time, but I wanted to be sure and mail my daddy a card this week. I chose to send him a St. Patrick's Day one. Here it is!

• Cardz TV Stamps - St. Patrick's Day set
• Sil ID# 55904 - includes Leprechaun hat, beer mug, and horseshoe
• Tag from Walmart
• Sequins added for a little bling & adhered with glue dots 

Don't forget to wear green later this month or someone may pinch you! Which makes me wonder, why DO people get pinched who don't wear green on St. Patrick's day? So I asked Mr. Google and found this from Answers.com.

It's thought that the pinching started in the early 1700s, about the time that awareness of St. Patrick's as a holiday came to the fore, too, in Boston, in the Massachusetts colony. They thought if you wore green, it made you invisible to the Leprechauns, which was good because they would pinch anyone they could see. So the pinching is to warn and remind you about the Leprechauns. 

Pinching those not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day is an American tradition, having really nothing to do with Ireland or St. Patrick Wrong. I have lived in Ireland. The truth is, Irish people think Americans are crazy. St. Patrick's Day is not even remotely celebrated over there as heavily as it is in the US. 

WikiAnswers users share their ideas on the origin:
Many years ago, playful Irish children began the tradition of pinching people who forgot to wear green on St. Patrick's Day and the tradition is still practiced today. 
You get pinched because you're a nonconformist.Pinching gives you a bruise so you can have some green on you.The act of pinching on St. Patrick's day began in America with Irish settlers who tried to get their kids to behave by telling them that fairies would come pinch them.

There you go. Take it for what it's worth. I just copy and pasted it for you. It's interesting, but you know, everything you read on the internet is not always true and completely accurate. Enjoy the rest of your day!

St. Patrick's Day Tabletop Decor

Hi everyone, Maria here from Maria Lina's Creative Designs. Hopefully you are all keeping warm, while trying to stay warm myself, I have been working on some of my St. Patrick's Day décor, treat boxes and more. 

 

For today's project, I made some centerpieces for my tabletop for our St. Pat's Day dinner, I think these will look perfect in the center of the table. I used Cardz TV Stamp set "Happy Days" for the sentiment.

 

I bought the svg file from the Silhouette store #75409, I then added some additional clovers that were left over from other projects. This file is a bit challenging and it does not come with instructions, if needed and I get enough requests, I will do a YouTube video on it.

 

I added some Timeless Twine "Olive Green" around the stick portion of the project, and also added it to some brown buttons as well.

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

 

Enjoy...

 

Cardz TV Stamps

 

 

 Have a great day!!!

 





Card Organization

Hello crafty peeps, I hope you are having a fabulous Saturday. Brenda here from Friends Craftin' with Friends. Today I have a two or three parter for you. I will bring you half of my project this Saturday and then next Saturday I hope to finish it up and show you the finished product. I don't know about you but I'm always late with my birthday cards that get mailed out. It's really been bugging me so I thought I'd make a book to place my finished cards in. With each month having a pocket for those month's birthday's, anniversaries, etc. Maybe this will help me get my greetings out to my loved ones on time. Hey stranger things have happened!! lol Besides it can't hurt to try, right?! So I sat down and designed on paper what I wanted to do. I figured I would keep my pages 8 1/2 x 11 inches and I would have two months on one piece of card stock, and I knew each month would have to have a pocket to hold the cards. Next I would need a place to write each month's dates on and whether it is a birthday or anniversary, etc...So I planned that out in Microsoft Word to be printed later and added to the pages. I got my pages assembled and started putting my papers on each month. I used The Paper Studio "All Seasons" paper from Hobby Lobby. I cut out my months with Designer Calendar Cricut cartridge along with the shadow. I took a 1/2 inch strip of white paper and stamped sentiments from Card TV Stamps. Some you will see don't have any stamping on it, that is because I don't have any stamps for that month. I will have to be ordering them from Mary to finish my stamping. Now what I didn't plan on was my binding when I stamped my sentiments. So some of my sentiments on the left hand side might get a hole punched in it. I plan on binding all my pages along with a front and back cover with my Cinch. I may or may be adding some additional decorations/embellishments to my pages as I go along. So this might turn into a three parter, so I hope I don't bore you!! I have Jan. - June for you today. This is just the page with the paper and sentiments done. The embellishments haven't been added yet, and it hasn't been bound. The Cardz TV Stamps used on today's pages are: Sugar Rush, St. Patrick's Day, Easter Punnies, Easter Blessings, and Think Spring. 

I hope to see you back next Saturday to see this more done on this card organization. I also hope this has inspired you to make a card organization book for yourself! And as always, your comments warm my heart so, so thank you for them. Crafty hugs, Brenda