I was super excited when I opened the Lawn Fawn Charity Grab Bag I ordered last December to find the adorable Simply Celebrate Spring stamp set! Of course, in December my creative thoughts included nothin’ but snow and cozy ambiance, but other than a few flower sets, my collection greatly lacked spring themed products, especially for “true Spring” occasions like graduations and the theme of today’s card (and this week!): St. Patrick’s Day!
I’ve likely never created a St. Patrick’s Day card (in my life), but they’ve always appealed to me – bright, happy, and full of one of my longtime favored colors: GREEN! Plus, I was positively dying to use the new scallop frame dies I ordered from My Favorite Things for my birthday recently – they are awesome in that they give you a big some of points for your birthday and I’ve been searching for dies like this for some time – so I grabbed ’em and got a discount – and had them at our door within THREE days! Holy smokes, MFT! THANK YOU! (And always – thank you for the jelly bean! I adore that and the happy tissue paper – it’s an extra delight to open a package from your company!!!)
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make but I’ve turned out several lately! This card is another Labor Day creation in which I combined 
the card so I chose to run the sentiment vertically alongside the main image, and fill the rest of the area with a “no frills” ribbon arrangement.
When I saw it, the first stamp that came to mind was “Foxy!” Also, I was lucky to score the Stampendous set with my 50% off at Michael’s coupon last week. I love deals!
him three times in chocolate chip ink and used the gamsol magic technique (I use plain ol’ Crayola colored pencils and generic Baby Oil rather than the hard-to-find and rather pricey Gamsol and special colored pencils) to color each image. Then, I cut out each piece with a craft knife, cutting the second layer by leaving out the tail and the third layer by leaving out the ears and the hind legs. The result makes him really pop off of the card at you, and I’m please with how it turned out! For the circle that Foxy is mounted on, I sponged More Mustard ink on plain white cardstock. That by itself didn’t seem to stand out enough off of the chocolate panel, so I added another layer of white cardstock behind it.
but I find it works well for many of the cards I create! The sentiment was stamped on white cardstock and I used a notched corner punch to take the semi-circle off of the edge to add interest. I also used our Fastenator for the first time to add the two silver embellishments on the lower edge of the teal/mustard panel. When I originally “finished” this card yesterday I had left it at that. However, when I came back later to photograph it, it looked like something was just missing, and I couldn’t think of what that was. This morning I remembered my fun “Argyle Factory” set I purchased from Clear Dollar Stamps several years ago and haven’t had the opportunity to use much. PERFECT! I got a little goofy with my spacing when I stamped it the 2nd time so I tried to repeat that mistake with the 3rd stamping to make it look intentional. Hopefully it doesn’t look too sloppy!
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