{"id":5453,"date":"2023-03-21T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:02:08","slug":"having-fun-with-leprechauns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=5453","title":{"rendered":"Having fun with Leprechauns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you all eat corn beef and cabbage and look for leprechauns?\u00a0 Nor did I, however, I did have fun with leprechaun cards!<\/p>\n

Last month at the Shoebox event, Jo Brooks was the hostess and we made two St. Patrick’s Day cards to which I added leprechauns to delight the hearts of the grandkids!\u00a0 The Whimsy stamp set “Lucky Leprechauns” had\u00a0 fun images to stamp which were even more fun to color!\u00a0 I just put a leprechaun over the greeting on Jo’s design- sounds like a trick a leprechaun might do -popping up just anywhere!<\/p>\n

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I added two more on the inside and stamped a couple leprechauns on a separate sheet to send in the envelope for the little ones to color.<\/p>\n

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The shamrocks and greeting are from the Stampin’ Up! ‘Lucky Clover’<\/strong> stamp set.\u00a0 I just colored the back of the stamp to say ‘sending love’ instead of ‘sending luck and love’.\u00a0 Jo’s black and white plaid\/dots and those bright green sequins were the perfect accents!<\/p>\n

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Jo’s second card was as beautifully designed as the first:<\/p>\n

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I just modified the inside with a leprechaun and the ‘Lucky Clover’\u00a0<\/strong>greeting!\u00a0 It was fun to have two different color schemes on the cards!\u00a0 \u00a0Thank you, Jo, for a fun time and two great cards!<\/p>\n

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Having just purchased a Mini Minc Machine for foiling as well as a roll of bright green foil, I designed a few cards using the Whimsy “Lucky Leprechauns”<\/strong> stamp set and the Whimsy Toner Card Fronts – 8 to a pack, 2 each of 4 designs.<\/p>\n

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The toner fronts from Whimsy are a full A2 card size so I had to cut off a strip to have a border on front so I used that strip on the inside of one of the cards.\u00a0 ‘Sending Love’ is from Stampin’ Up!’s Lucky Clover<\/strong> set, the ‘Lucky to have U’ and the ‘happy St. Patrick’s Day’ are from Whimsy’s Lucky Leprechauns<\/strong>. The front leprechaun is on a craft spring for extra fun!<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Cute!\u00a0 But you could have just put a green hat on me!<\/a><\/p>\n

Hmmmm…… let me think about that.<\/p>\n

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I tried to catch the beautiful foiling on this next card front:<\/p>\n

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It is a white card toner front from Whimsy on a gold foil layer on a black base.<\/p>\n

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I know; maybe that is why foiling is not promoted very highly by some.\u00a0 Trust me, it is beautiful in real life.\u00a0 I used an oval to cut out the ‘Happy St. Patrick’s Day’ on the second card front from Whimsy so I could use it next year and yet have a matching\u00a0 border for the inside of this card.<\/p>\n

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The greeting is from Stampin’ Up!’s ‘Pansy Patch<\/strong>‘ stamp set.<\/p>\n

\"\" You should name your leprechauns!<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s see, the bowler hat, the top hat and the beanie hat?\u00a0 How about O’Pat, O’Reilly and O’Gill?<\/p>\n

Which hat do you like best?<\/p>\n

I used Copic Alcohol Markers for the coloring:<\/p>\n