St. Patricks card and Challenge

Oh my oh my oh my................Did you ever have one of "those" crafting days?  Well let me tell you about mine.  I wanted to enter the Throwback Thursday Challenge with a St. Patrick's Day card using the PDDU cart for the cut.  I also wanted to make a standout frame card.  Well the cut was fine.  I found that I didn't have any double-sided paper appropriate for my card so I taped two coordinating piece together before I cut my square.  OK so far right?  Well everything went along fine until I decided to glitter my shamrock.  I thought "I will use my glue pad to get good coverage" HA!  First the shamrock got stuck to the pad, and I had to peel it off.  Next because I peeled it off, my hands were all sticky.  (Did I mention that I hate sticky?) Ok so now everything I touch is getting sticky...glue pen, tweezers, ATG STICKY!!!!.  I put the glitter into a container for easier application and now the container and spoon are............you guessed it...Sticky.  Now my hands are not only sticky but have green glitter stuck to them.  I can't get the shamrock off my fingers to apply to the card and my craft mat is covered with STICKY green glitter.  Thank goodness the doorbell rang and friends arrived cause I was either going to cry or run hysterically through the neighborhood.  I shut off the light and walked away.  We had a good visit after I spent 10 minutes getting all the sticky green glitter from my hands.  Did you know fingernail polish remover works well for this?  So this morning I cleaned up my mess and took a photo for you all.  I am not overly thrilled with the outcome but after all that I was determined to put it up on the blog.  Here it is.

This is a 5  1/2 square card

All layers are cut 1/8 inch smaller so I just have a tiny boarder.

The frame is made with a 4 1/4 square.

I did the inside frame first and just increased the layers by 1/8 inch

Shamrock cut at 2 inches.

Glitter by Martha Stewart.

I inked all the edges with Tim Holtz peeled paint.

Honestly, I think it looks better in person than in the picture, but so be it.  Today is another day and I am going to Michaels  50% off coupon.  Yeh!  Hope you like it.

See Ya later.......................play nice

Hoppy St. Patrick's Day

Hi there everyone.  Just put together this cutie for the Cricut Cardz Challenge #63 HERE.  The challenge is to make a St. Patrick's Day card using any colors and no shamrocks.  Well I tried to think of what else might be wearing the green for St. Patrick's and came up with the frog from Create A Critter.  I bet it IS EASY BEING GREEN on St. Patrick's.  He looks very hoppy..............er I mean happy.

Recipe:

Cardstock from generic stash

DSP from last years K&Company 8.5x8.5 holiday stack

Card from George and basic shapes -2 welded at 5 inches

The frog and all his part was cut at 3 inches.

Pot of gold and hat are from PDDU

YIKES! I deleted the program before writing down their sizes.................sorry

I used my gypsy and just kept increasing the sizes to fit the frog.

I was going to give him the orange beard too, but his cute little cheeks are just too puffy.  It did not look right.  Oh well I never saw an orange bearded frog before anyway.  Hope you all like it.  Let me know

See ya,,,,,,,,,,,,,,play nice.