St. Patrick's Day Green Beer Mug

Mmmm green beer...

Hey everyone, bottoms up!  I made a really fun home decor item for our annual "paint the town green" event we go to every March 17th. One of the sweet man's coworkers always arranges a St. Patrick's day celebration at the local pub downtown. It usually starts at 11:00 when the bar opens, and goes all day long.  We drink lots of green beer and Guiness. Good times.

This project took the most time to create, I had to modify the "3D Hot Cocoa/Coffee Mug" by Lori Whitlock quite a bit. I made it really tall, and altered the panels to look more like a beer mug.
Next I stamped on the base of the mug with a great background stamp from Tim Holtz. I used the new color "Cracked Pistachio" and some "Squeezed Lemonade"  to give the look of green beer.
I added  frosted film over the whole base as well.
The panels were embossed 2 times each with UTEE

for the other decorations, I used the "3D Leprechaun Hat" from Jennifer Wambach
I cut it out on white paper, so I hand colored everything to make it a bright vibrant green.
The Irish crown was the "Happy St. Patrick's day Borders Set" from Studio Illustrado
I put some foam core in the top of the mug and added some texture paste (beer foam). That actually worked out well, because it acted like "glue" to keep the hat and crown from moving around.
A little more embellishment completed the overall project.

Thanks for checking out all of my St. Patrick's Day projects. If you live in Edmonton, you can come check them out at Urban Scrapbook.  see you soon...

St. Patrick's Day Box Card

Box cards are still a fun project to make. They fold flat for giving and look great on display.  I created this one with a few cut files on my Silhouette.

Again, the Authentique paper line was my choice. I cut the box using the "a2 Box Card-Nautical" by Lori Whitlock (modified of course - nothing nautical about this project haha) I added some shamrocks to the panels as well  "5 clover shamrock set"
Can you see the foam on the beer mug? Puffy paint!

the inside was a combination of a few elements... "nested St. Patrick's day numbers 1-10"
                                                                          "St. Patrick's day borders set"
and "March" was created by me, using a font in Silhouette Studio. I have no recollection of which one(sigh)
The best part was saving the strip of paper you cut off your 12x12 sheet.  Authentique always includes a lovely quote on their end strip - don't throw those away! that's a great bonus item.

Thanks for checking out my post, I will see you soon with another project. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day card

Hi everyone,
Here's the second card I made for St. Patrick's Day.
This one was super simple. The main circle element was a cut file from Echo Park "Happy St. Patrick's Day"
I used the "Background Shamrocks" again, and the Authentique paper line.
A little gold embossing powder finished off the background

I'm So Lucky

Hi everyone!

Here is the first card I want to share with you.
  I started with a silhouette cut file "umbrella kiss" from Studio Illustrato a used black UTEE to create a thick glossy coat.
  Next, I stamped my new Finnabair background stamp in green on a plain white card stock and added a little shading around the edges with the same mowed lawn distress ink.

  The patterned paper is from Authentique.

  The bottom embellishment is another silhouette file: "Background Shamrocks" by Snapdragon Snippets.
It got the UTEE treatment as well but I sprinkled some shabby green embossing powder on it as well. A few more shamrock cut outs completed the card.
I am posting this one on Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge blog: "just a hint of clover

Thanks for looking today, see you soon.