Happy St. Patty's Day

Hello,
I needed to make my St. Patrick's Day cards to send out and the theme fit a few challenges perfectly.  These are the challenges I entered my cards in.

1) Bitten by the Bug 2: Shamrock and Green Challenge - make a project using a shamrock and the color green.
2) Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog: #101 Luck of the Irish - make a project using a shamrock or the color green.
3) Krafty Girls: #2 Feelin' Lucky - St. Patrick's theme project.
4) Whimsical Wednesday Challenge: #45 Going Green - Incorporate the color green in your project.

Now that that is out of the way onto my project.

 First up I cut all my pieces on my Cricut.  I used the Pilgrim hat from Designer's Calendar since I don't have a cartridge that has a leprechaun on it.  The hat is cut at 3".  I also used Designer's Calendar to cut the shamrocks at 1".  I used the Cricut Craft Room Basics to cut the fancy edge labels and its shadow at 3.5".  The green patterned paper was from Me & My Big Ideas "Explorer" Paper Pack.  Since I didn't have enough of all one pattern to make all the cards so I cut 8 in one and 8 in the other.  The green patterned paperis the shadow but after cutting them all out I wish I would made the white paper the shadow.  Oh well...next time.  I chose to make these cards A2 size with a Kraft cardstock base.

 On the inside of the cards I used a Studio G stamp and a dark green Studio G ink square.  I just love the little swirl in the message.

 Here are my completed cards.  I glued the golden yellow paper to the back of the hats and used Studio G gold glitter glue to go over it.  While that was drying I used a polka dot background stamp to stamp a darker green ink onto the little shamrocks.  I am a big fan of polka dots so I love to use them.  I also used my Cuttlebug to emboss the white cutouts with polka dots.  Once everything was dry I glued everything together.  I used a pop dot to pop up the shamrock.

 I also added some faux stitching on the hat.  In these pictures you can see the sparkle from the glitter glue. 

Overall I enjoyed how they turned out.  Hope you enjoyed these.

Recipe:
Card Base: A2 - 4.25 x 5.5"
Fancy Edge Label & Shadow: 3.5" (Cricut Craft Room Basics)
Pilgrim Hat: 3" (Designer's Calendar)
Shamrock: 1" (Designer's Calendar)
Studio G gold glitter glue, stamps, dark green ink

Have a Magical Day!!

Minnie Mouse Layout

Hello,
This layout is for the Colors of Love challenge at Whimiscal Wednesday.  The challenge is to create a card or project using red, white and one other color.  I decided to use black as my other color.  As I've mentioned before I love Disney so the first thing that came to mind for the colors red and white was Minnie Mouse.  I've been making a lot of cards lately so I wanted to switch it up so for this challenge I decided to make a scrapbook layout.

 Here's the layout I created.  I love these colors together.  I added some bling from my stash on some of the picture mats.  Can you spot the hidden Mickey??

 This is the close-up of Minnie.  I love the polka dot paper that I used for her dress and bow.  It's just so cute and fun.

 Here's the close up of the page title.  This title along Minnie is from the Mickey and Friends cartridge.

Here's the Hidden Mickey I was talking about.  I created it with bling from my stash.  I thought the black and white polka dot paper was a great addition to the page.

Recipe:
Minnie Mouse Title: 2 1/4" (page 88)
Minnie Mouse: 4 1/2" (page 92)
Picture Mats
--6 1/4 x 4 1/4" & 6 x 4"
--5 x 2 1/2" & 4 3/4 x 2 1/4"
--4 1/4 x 4 1/4" & 4 x 4"
--5 x 2 1/4" & 4 3/4 x 2"
Ribbon and Bling: from stash

Have a Magical Day!!