Q: What is Irish, comes out in March and stays out all night?
A: Patty O’Furniture
I wish I could say I wrote that joke. Alas, it is not mine, but I give it an A+.
St. Patrick’s Day (SPD) is sneaking up on us this year. It’s March 17 – that’s next weekend! Better get those SPD cards in the mail, pronto! OK, so maybe you have never sent out SPD cards before, but that’s no reason why you can’t do it this year. What’s that? You don’t have SPD stamps? Again, no reason why you can’t do it this year. I’ve made a [gorgeous] St. Patrick’s Day card that you can make without a stitch of SPD stamps or accessories. Take a little bit from your Christmas stash, take a little bit from your Valentine’s Day stash, and you’ve created yourself a St. Patrick’s Day greeting. Here goes:
Use your Christmas Stash. When Christmas was over, you retired your Be of Good Cheer Designer Series Paper until next year. Well, I’m giving you permission to pull it back out and reevaluate the out-of-season uselessness of it. This Gumball Green background is from Be of Good Cheer – no snowflakes or Christmas Trees, so why not?
Use your Valentine’s Day Stash. I know that using hearts to make a clover is not an “out-of-the-box” idea – that’s how we’ve made them since elementary school – but I love them here. I scored a strip of Gumball Green card stock and used the Full Heart punch to punch three clover leaves along the lines. Before folding the hearts, I paper-pierced the insides of the hearts.
Use your Other Stash. The sentiment (from the all-purpose set Teeny Tiny Wishes), is snipped with paper snips and mounted on a Gumball Green Ticket Duo Builder punch. The stem? It’s the branch (leaves snipped off) from the Bird Builder punch.
Stamp sets: Teeny Tiny Wishes Papers: Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, Be of Good Cheer Inks: Gumball Green Accessories: Full Heart punch, Bird Builder punch, Ticket Duo punch, Occassions Paper-Piercing Pack, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Brian
Perfect Shamrock Card, Brian! As an Irish Lass (is there an age limit to call one’s self “lass”?),
it really bugs me when I see four leaf clovers trying to be passed off as shamrocks! 🙁
With the crazy winter I’ve had so far, I will be in a BIG hurray to make my SPD cards.
Your design was just what I needed to see pop up on my screen this AM! Thanks, Brian! You’re a dear leprechaun 😉
Yes!!! It is the 3 leaf shamrock on a spd card, not a 4 leaf clover. Thank you.
Lovely! I-rish I thought of it first! pa dum dum. 🙂
So, so, so, so, clever!
Brilliant joke – and card! I love the way you’ve broken up the white to show off more gumball green. Simple but effective!
Look how clever you are !! I have used the hearts before but, you reminded me to pierce them and to use my polka dottie Xmas paper … I was just looking at my Perfectly Preserved Jar last night and trying to decide if I wanted to use it for shamrocks for SPD or jelly beans for Easter . I think you made my choice for me ! BTW….love the riddle …. Can`t wait to use it One of my grandsons is gonna flip… You know I just ordered the piercing thingie …. next card for the card swap might be full of holes ! (giggle )
You are so resourceful Brian, I love this card, I love all the different items you used to put together this fantastic SPD beauty. It’s really, truly amazing how the wheels in your mind work, thank you for sharing this gift with all of us.
Great that you used so many SU accessories. Quick and simple card to put together. I don’t send out SPD cards but with simple layout I just might this year. Woke up to an 8 inch blanket of snow and ice this morning. Spring where are you!!!!!!!
Top of the mornin’ to you O’ Brian. Great St. Patty’s Day card. I didn’t even realize the awesome polka dot paper was hiding in the drawer with the Christmas paper. I will pull it out to use for St. Patty’s projects. Happy stampin’!
I’m pretty new to your blog, Brian, but I am still wondering. . . how do you think of such fantastic cards day after day? I love this one!
Such a cute card and a glorious, fun idea! I wasn’t gonna make SPD cards, but now I am. We card crafters will single handedly save the USPS from extinction…..LOL
I see your wheels are o’turning again, O’Brian!! Great job and love the split of white! Looks almost like a ribbon betwixt them! So smart you are! Gotta case again, love!
Hugs!
This is so sharp! I love the polka dots with it all.
Beautiful card. Irish you were beer.
This is a great idea,use what you have to make a dynamite card! Thanks.
Hi Brian:
You are BRILLIANT! I do have to tell you this, your joke is what my friends would call
A Grace Groaner! I love those kinds of jokes and know that when I repeat it I’ll get big smiles with a note saying “another Grace Groaner” and I’ll tell them no, not a Grace Groaner just some Brian Banter. LOL Believe it or not, I never saw hearts turned into a Shamrock. I absolutely LOVE this card. It’s crisp, clean and oh so eye catching. Thanks Brian, you’ve made me smile yet again.
I love this card! I especially like the paper piercing on the hearts and the stem. I wasn’t going to make SPD cards, but now I just might have to!
I am a bit behind again but have to comment on your beautiful St. Patty’s Day card…loving all of that green, but most especially that you pierced each heart…fabulous!
I love this card. My co-worker has a St. Patrick’s Day birthday and I am going to make this card for him! I really enjoy your work and your style. Just read your “about” section and it was really fun. Thanks for the effort you obviously put toward your blog. I look forward to seeing what you have each day!
Love it!
Brian – Thank you so much for this inspiration for 2014 SPD cards. I send St. Patrick’s Day cards every year and just thought this morning that I would have to buy another stamp. With your great card, I have everything I need to get started. Love it.