Good Luck Gnome Flying a Clover Kite for St. Patrick's Day

 Happy St. Patrick's Day! I donned my lucky scarf to share with you this darling gnome who'se flying his shamrock kite to bring you good luck for St. Patrick's Day!

You can make this easy card if you happen to have either Stampin' Up!s recently retired Storybook Gnomes Designer Series Paper that you can fussy cut a cute preprinted gnome from or maybe you have the current Friendly Gnomes stamp set where you can stamp a cute gnome in matching colors to the shade of green Designer Series Paper that you choose. 

My piece comes from the retired Celebrate Everything Designer Series Paper. It is layered on Basic White and Pear Pizzazz cardstock layers on a Basic White card base. I finished up this cutie with four small gold foil punched hearts topped with a gold gem and used some yellow bakers twine with a gold metallic thread in it for the kite string. 

My gnome is mounted on a very retired piece of Pear Pizzazz foil, and the good luck is stamped from the retired Special Moments set. Simple but cute! Give something like this a try with what you have in your crafting stash. 

I hope you'll give this card layout a try and that it brings you good luck!

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Use Stampin' Up!s Cottage Wreath Bundle to Create One or Two Fabulous Birthday Cards for a Dear Friend or Family Member This Fall

Back on October 1st, when Stampin' Up! was hosting their very first free Virtual Event for World Card Making Day, they were demonstrating a fun birthday card idea using the Cottage Wreath Bundle from the July-December Mini Catalog.

On today's post you have two choices for the Birthday Card. Make one or both. My design is up first then followed by Stampin' Up!s information for their card design. The two cards are similar but different enough I wanted to share both with you!

Supplies Needed and Cutting Directions:

Cottage Wreaths Bundle

Crumb Cake Card base cut 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", scored at 4-1/4"

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

Two strips of Flirty Flamingo cardstock cut 3/4" x 5-1/2"

Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper (DSP) cut  2-3/4" x 5-1/2"

2 pieces Basic White for Wreath 3" square

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

Set of Old Olive Stampin' Blends pens

2-1/2" Layering Circle Die

Flirty Flamingo for tag1/4" x 2-1/2"

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Flirty Flamingo for bow 1-1/2" square

Basic White cardstock for inner layer 4" x 5-1/4"

Abigail Rose DSP coordinating piece for envelop flap cut 2-3/8" x 6"

The technique I used for the Die Cut Wreath was to scribble side to side (full width fo paper) with both Light and Dark Old Olive Blends on one piece of the Basic White. You want to have little spaces of the white cardstock showing through. Die Cut the wreath and place it upon the stamped wreath with glue dots.

The rest of the card is pretty self explanatory, follow the photo to create this option. Or proceed below to see Stampin' Up!s version.

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