A couple of St. Patrick's Day cards...

 

This card used up some scraps--yay! I took out my hexagon punch, grabbed some green and orange scraps and punched about 10 of them. 

I started gluing down my the hexagons in the upper right-hand corner, angling them down to the lower left-hand side. This left just enough room for the heat-embossed sentiment at the bottom.

I have a die set for a leprechaun with a great hat. The leprechaun is quite large, so I only die-cut his hat for this card. And--yay, again!--I used a few more scraps to cut out each of its parts.

This photo seems a little skewed (I took it an an angle), but I wanted to give you a closer look at that great hat. It's been popped up on dimensionals and I added a gem to the middle of the shamrock.

I used my computer to print out this sentiment for the inside.

For this card, I used a new (NBUS) wreath stencil. I used a couple of different ink colors to get some shading on the leaves. The wreath is quite large so only a little over half of it fit onto my card front.

Because I used an NBUS stencil, I'm entering this card in this month's challenge on the NBUS Challenge Blog site.

I heat embossed the sentiment and then added gold Nuvo Drops to each of the dots in the wreath design.

Once again, I printed out a sentiment for the inside. 

I've looked for some interesting St. Patrick's Day stamps, but there really isn't much out there. I make a number of these cards for the thrift store--they seem to sell well--and I send one myself, so I wish there were more choices when it comes to the sentiments. Thank goodness for computers!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl