St. Patrick's Day Tea Party

My favorite tea is Irish Breakfast Tea so I do believe that it is time to have a St. Patrick's Day Tea Party.
 

 

You get 2 tea bag envelopes on each page and you can print as many as you need.



 

 

I really like this cup, I love the colors they are so soft and pretty. The cup is part of the Royal Albert line of china made sometime after 1945 in England.

 

Ok, back to the invitations. The card bases are 4 1/4" x 5 1 1/2", the darker green pieces are scraps, I embossed them with my eBosser and the Craftwell Swirtangle embossing folder.  I added a piece of twine to the folded edge and shamrock confetti on the corners.

 

 

PDE Linky Party 2-19-16 Happy St. Patrick's Day

This is a bit early but my next post won't be until after St. Patrick's Day is over with. Over at PDE Linky Party it is always, "Anything Goes".

I had an empty jelly jar that looks like a mug, I thought it would be perfect for this.

 

I used Cricut's Street Signs cartridge to cut the font and Paper Doll Dressup for the shamrock. Before cutting the shamrocks first I used a black Cricut ink to trace around the outside then I went back and did my cut.

 

After trying a few different techniques on the lid I ended up just adding more shamrocks and the green ribbon.

 

Please come join the fun over at PDE Linky Party.

 

St. Patty's Card in a Box

I used two different printables on this Card in a box: St. Patty's Tickets Hang Tags and I used some of the St. Patty's Collage Sheet that I used for last week's rocker cards.
 

 

You get 2 tickets of each design for a total of 10 tickets.

 

You get 2 of each design in 2 different sizes for a total of 12 hang tags. I used 3 of the larger images and 3 of the smaller images.

 

 

If you have never made a card in a box before, here is a Card in a Box Tutorial on youtube for you to watch. They really are rather easy once you make the first one.

 

I printed my printable files onto white cardstock and cut them out then I did my cutting and measuring for the card in a box. The card itself is cut on a cream cardstock, layered with some green and cream stripped paper from Craft Smith (I won it in a giveaway) on the bottom sections and a Kraft paper with green stripes from Core'dinations on the upper sections.

 

Assemble the card, use 3 of the large images on the bottom sections of the card, tickets on the upper sections. I cut out a few shamrocks with my Cricut, first going around the edges with my Cricut Ink, then with the blade. I used a large shamrock to mount a small image onto the embellishment support in the back.

 

 

I used some scraps from the Kraft paper for the supports rather than the ones cut from the cream cardstock because the Kraft paper was much sturdier than the cream.

 

 

 

I used one of each ticket and sprinkled a few shamrocks around. This does fold semi-flat for mailing. Box cards can be used for almost every occasion and are a lot of fun to make.

 

Thank you for stopping by to take a look.

 

 

 

Happy St. Patty's Day

I received a card from a pen pal last week that I just had to give a try so I choose this file from Deena's printables to use with them. I would like to thank and credit Lana in Montana for this card design.

 

You get 12 total images in two different sizes, one of each image in 2 sizes. I used 4 of the large images to create these cards.

 

 
 
I made them all basically the same way, the only difference being the papers. I must confess that I did a little cheat on them, I cut all of the circles with my Cricut instead of my circle cutter.
 
The larger circle is 5 1/2" round, the smaller circle is 4 1/2".
 

 

 

After cutting the circles out, I added some shamrocks with my eBrush to the smaller circles. I did not score the circles, I simply folded them in half then went over the folds with my bone folder and glued the smaller circles onto the larger circles.

 

 

 

 

 

I cut backing pieces for the images from a very heavy cardstock and used a corner rounder on them. I adhered the images to the backing pieces and added some jewels to the tops and bottoms, then glued them to the fronts of the cards along with some shamrocks that I also cut with my Cricut. I used my Cricut ink pens first to give them an outline and to help define and separate all of the greens.

 



 

I used the same sentiment on all of them, which is computer generated. I backed the sentiments with the same heavy duty cardstock I used on the images, rounded the corners, added a couple of rhinestones and glued them to the backs of the cards adding more shamrocks.

 

 

These cards are really easy to create and assemble, I made all 4 of them in 1 sitting. The cards rock back and forth, it's hard to show that in a still picture.

 

The Bazzill Basics paper that I used on 2 of the cards are from a blog hop win and came from Create and Craft TV so I would like to thank them for the beautiful papers (and other goodies I received).

 

Thank you for stopping by to take a look at my creations.

 

Sue

 

 

 



Ewe-N-Me Printables Shamrock Shaker Cards

I was in the mood to make some shaker cards and this file was perfect, click here to go to file:

 

 

 

You get 3 of each saying, 9 total on the page.

I did each one a bit different, if you have never made a shaker card before, click here for a you tube video.

 

For the first card I cut my card base to measure: 4 1/4" wide x 5 1/2" tall. I cut the green layer a 1/2" smaller all the way around and added a piece of washi tape.

My shaker element measures 2 3/4" wide x 3 1/4" high, this is the size the hang tags are when you cut them out. I used some shamrock confetti that I have had for several years inside the shaker. I added a piece of green and white twine to the fold.

 

 

My second card measures 5 1/2" wide x 6" tall, I cut 3 chevrons using 3 different green scraps and embossed them using a shamrock embossing folder I made myself, I also wrapped a piece of green ribbon around the chevrons. I added a piece of green and white twine to the fold.

 

 

Card 3 measures 5" wide x 6" tall, the lighter green layer measures 3 3/4" wide x 5" tall, I also embossed this with my shamrock embossing folder, added a piece of green ribbon and a few sequins.

 



 

St. Patrick's Day Gift Bag and Card

St. Patrick's Day will be here soon and I have started making a few items to share with my friends. Today I worked with the Shamrock Seeds Feedsack Printable

 

You get 3 different sizes and it includes the reversed images to use for iron-ons. I haven't used an iron-on for many years and I had forgotten how easy they are to do.

 

I got out a lot of my crafty toys to make this including both my Serger and regular sewing machines.

 

 

I started with the gift bag, cutting out one of the reverse images and a piece of fabric from my sewing stash.

 

Using the instructions that come with your transfer sheets, print your image and iron it onto your fabric. Then I used my eBrush and one of my shamrock stencils to add some shamrocks to the gift bag. I Serged the seams and made a casing on the top for the ribbon to go through with my regular machine. Then I punched some holes into the casing and ran some green ribbon through it and added a couple pieces of the leprechaun's gold.

 

 

 

For my card I started by spraying my papers with 2 different shamrock masks and eBrush.

 

 

After spraying the papers I cut the card base to measure 5 1/4" wide x 5 1/2" tall, the solid green layer is 4 1/4" inches wide x 4 3/4" tall. The light olive green layer measures 3 1/2" wide x 4" tall and the Shamrock Seeds layer is 2 1/2" wide x 3 3/4" tall. I chomped all of the corners with my Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper using the Scalloped side.

 

 

On the inside I stamped a shamrock and added a vellum envelope full of, "shamrock seeds".

 

 

Thank you for stopping by to take a look at my project, please come again.