Friday, March 9, 2012

Little Bit Irish

There is a saying, which I used on my card, that goes, "Once a year, everyone is a little bit Irish." In my case, I have Irish ancestors on both my Father's side and my Mother's side. This week's challenge at Card Crafter's Circle (http://cardcrafterscircle.blogspot.com/) lends itself to the upcoming Saint Patrick's Day. The theme is green and orange, and your creation can follow a St Patrick's Day theme, or it can follow the colour theme of Orange and Green. You can mix both if you wish. We are excited to introduce a new sponsor to our challenges,  KPM DOODLES.  Our randomly drawn challenge winner will receive their choice of TWO SETS of images from the KPM DOODLES collection.

For my card, I used this little girl holding a tin of lucky 4-leaf clovers. I printed her onto X-Press It card and colored her using my Copic markers. I then paper pieced her little dress, hair-bow and shoes. I used a classic oval Spellbinder die to cut out the completed image, adjusting for the pail so that it went "outside" the oval. I then used the scallop oval die and cut an orange scallop for the matting. I used a white card base and put a layer of orange patterned paper on top of it. I then cut a solid green piece and used a Fiskar's border punch along the bottom. On top of that, I placed a green dotty paper. To complete my card, I added a piece of gold ribbon, two small green buttons, some green Stickle on the Shamrocks (clover) and my sentiment (which I matted with the green).

This was a quick little card, but a fun way to celebrate the "little bit of Irish" in all of us. Hope you will join us this week at Card Crafter's Circle and share your design.

Challenges:
http://www.papercraftstar.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/challenge-87-lucky-st-patricks-day.html - Lucky St. Patrick's Day
http://doyoustackup.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/dysu-62-go-green.html - Go Green
http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/ - St. Patrick's Day
http://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/ - Cute as a Button
http://pixieduststudiopixiechallenge.blogspot.com/ - Show Us Your Irish

8 comments:

  1. This little lassie is wonderful in her paper pieced dress! Love the gold ribbon!

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  2. She's adorable, Jenee......I love the way the pail is over the frame...really makes it pop. I never seem to get that right..haa! Lovely "bit of Irish". :D

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  3. What a fun card, Jenee, love that sweet image! Thanks for joining us at the Papercraft Star lucky challenge this week.

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  4. Ah this is super what a great card, I love it, thanks for playing on MAWTT this week, Hazelxox

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  5. Your card is so cute Jenee! I'm so happy you shared it with us this week at Papercraft Star!
    Kindest regards,
    Jennifer

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  6. This is sooo sweet! Very pretty color combo! Thanks for joining us at DYSU.

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  7. Aww this is really sweet Jenee. What an adorable image! Gorgeous papers and I love the beautiful ribbon and cute buttons!
    Thank you for joining us at MAWTT and Good Luck in the Challenge!
    Hugs Sue xx

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