St. Patrick's Day Shaker with Cardstock Warehouse

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a fun and festive shaker card? I started by stenciling shamrocks using Lucky Clover and Pine Needles Distress Oxide Inks, then added a splatter of Starry Colors Pigments for a bit of shimmer. After trimming the panel down to 3-3/4" x 5", I layered it onto a dark green shade of cardstock before adhering it to an A2 card base. This background sets the perfect stage for the shaker element!

For the shaker, I die-cut the Shamrock Shaker Die from Evergreen and Gold Touch MirriSparkle Cardstock and filled it with Lucky Charms and St. Patrick’s Day Clay Confetti. I then stamped, colored, and die-cut images from the Best of Luck Stamp Set, bringing the card to life with OLO markers. After assembling everything, I added the final touch—a stamped sentiment inside using Onyx Black VersaFine Ink. This card is packed with shimmer, texture, and a bit of Irish luck—perfect for sending St. Patrick’s Day cheer!

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Lucky to Have You St. Patrick's Day Card with Scrapbook.com

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with a handmade card full of shimmering greens and gold? For this project, I combined a mix of Scrapbook.com’s stamps, dies, and papers to create a festive and elegant "lucky" card. I started by stamping the "lucky" sentiment from the Sweet Heart stamp set in Green Oasis VersaFine Clair Ink onto a patterned paper from the Charming A2 Patterned Cardstock Pad. To add some extra texture, I flicked black shimmer splatters over the sentiment before adhering it to my card base. Next, I die-cut the largest frame from the Nested Stitched Scalloped Frames set using Holographic Mirror Paper and popped it up with foam adhesive for a bit of dimension.

For the embellishments, I cut various sizes of shamrocks using the Nested Four-Leaf Clovers Die Set from a green papers in the Sherbet Cardstock Pad. To add a touch of nature, I stamped sprigs from the Spring Sprigs set in Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink, then colored them with Colorista Art Markers before cutting them with the coordinating dies. I arranged the sprigs and shamrocks around the frame, layering them for depth. Inside the card, I stamped "Happy St. Patrick’s Day" from the Celebrate Expressions stamp set in green to complete the festive theme. As a final touch, I added Gold Glitter Pops of Color around the card for a little sparkle. This card is the perfect way to spread a bit of luck and cheer—whether you send it to a friend or display it as festive décor!

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You're So Lucky Box Card with Pretty Pink Posh

Hi, friends! Last month I made a Valentine’s Day Box Card and I was inspired to create one for St. Patrick’s Day as well! I started with all of my die cutting of the Scallop Box Card Dies and Stitched Shamrocks Dies from different shades and paper types of green cardstock. My Scallop Box Card base was die cut from a solid green cardstock, the scalloped pieces from white cardstock, and the Stitched Shamrocks from a mix of glitter, shimmer and solid light green cardstock.

Using the Layered Shamrocks Stencils, I ink blended different shades of green ink using the Pinkfresh Studio Over the HIlls Ink Cube Bundle onto the scalloped die cut pieces from the Scallop Box Card Dies. Once I was happy with the shamrocks, I also splattered on some metallic gold watercolor and set them aside to dry.

Next I colored in the pot of gold, gold coin, rainbow and shamrocks from the Lucky Stamp Set with alcohol markers, then used the Lucky Coordinating Dies to cut them out. I also stamped the “Lucky” sentiment and solid shamrocks in dark green ink on white cardstock, and “You’re So” with the same ink on a Sentiment Strip cut from light green cardstock.

After assembling the Scallop Box Card together, I layered in the Stitched Shamrocks, stamped images from the Lucky Stamp Set, and a few clay shamrocks from the Lucky Charms Clay Confetti. My sentiment was layered onto the front of the Scallop Box Card with a Sentiment Strip banner behind the “You’re So Lucky”. You can watch my full tutorial down below!

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You are the Pot of Gold Card with Trinity Stamps

I'm getting in the St. Paddy's Day mood with this card! I love the mixing of sentiments in the Real Treasure stamp set from Trinity Stamps and that you can add in the Coordinating Cut & Foil set for some hot foiling. I used the "Pot of Gold" sentiment foil plate and then embossed the first part of the sentiment onto the pot of gold. I started with doing all of my hot foil and die cutting, then used Distress Watercolor Pencils to color the parts of the rainbow and little clovers.

I then assembled the card and added the "You are the" with gold embossing powder to compliment the gold foiled sentiment. I made my background with the grass die from Outdoors Borders and Scene Builders Slimline Die Set and clouds from the Rainbow Shaker Die Set. I hope you enjoy this card and it brings a little luck to your day!

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Spring Holiday Tags with Scrapbook.com

If you have seen any Scrapbook.com Livestreams with Laura and Cody, you probably know that Cody is a wonderful tag maker. I was inspired to make some tags with some holiday stamp sets. Now, I know these two holidays have passed at the time of filming and making these tags, I think it's a great way to have inspiration for cards when they come back around next year! In my video below, you can see how I add Distress Oxide inks to watercolor cardstock. I also splattered on some glitter brush pen ink and then die cut them with the Yay Tag die set.

The images were stamped with alcohol marker friendly black ink and white cardstock, then colored in with my Ohuhu Art Markers. I fussy cut all of the images and added them to the tags after I stamped the sentiments in matching VersaFine Clair inks. The gnomes are adhered with foam adhesive and the smaller images were added with wet glue and a couple with foam adhesive, too. I die cut the tag circle die out of Rainbow Glitter Paper and added them to the tags.

Finally, just a little bit of Pops of Color in a Gloss that ended up taking on some of the Distress Ink colors to blend in which I thought turned out pretty cool. I hope you liked these two tag ideas and you'll save them for inspiration for the next Spring when these holidays come back around again!

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Cereal Inspired Shaker Card with The Sassy Club

I just love the Feeling Lucky stamp set from The Sassy Club! How cute is this leprechaun and all of the smiley marshmallows? I just can't! I colored them up with Ohuhu Art and COPIC alcohol markers and used my Scan N Cut to cut them out. I also used one of my backgrounds I made with my new stencils from A Colorful Life Designs (check out that post here).

My video down below shares how I used my Nested A2 Arches Dies to create a shaped card as well as making a frame to hide the foam for my shaker card. I also shared how I arranged the images and added my sentiment. I hope you like this card and even though St. Patrick's Day is long over, you still find some inspiration with this adorable stamp set.

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Lucky to Know You with Ink Road Stamps

This card is literally a smorgasbord of supplies! I dug through my stash of products and used up some items that have just been sitting there waiting to be used. St. Patrick's Day is not a normal holiday that I make cards for, but since I made my Lucky Charms cards, I wanted to make a few more because it was just so fun to play with rainbows! 

My kraft notecards are 4x5" and from Target probably years ago... They come with envelopes and they ended up being pretty cute as the card bases for these cards. Next I stenciled shamrocks with Lucky Clover Distress Oxide and die cut out some scalloped rectangles. Next I added some Twisted Citron as well as more Lucky Clover to the edges of the panel and then splattered on gold watercolor as well as Lucky Clover Distress Ink with water.

Once this panel was dry, I attached it to the card base. I had some leftover shamrock pieces from die cutting my rectangles, so I added some small strips to the inside of the cards. Next I stamped my rainbow and sentiments with Rain Forest VersaFine Clair ink. The white banners are leftovers from a kit that has been in my scraps box also forever, so I used those to stamp the sentiment on the front of my card. The rainbow and shamrock were stamped on mixed media paper so I could do some watercoloring.

I embossed the rainbow with clear embossing powder since VersaFine is an excellent ink for embossing. Then I embossed the polka dots with clear embossing ink and gold embossing powder. I love the layered gold dots with the green! Using colors from all three sets of Distress Watercolor Pencils, I colored in my beautiful rainbow, starting with green since those little four leaf clovers looked so cute with dark green on light green.

Finally, I popped up my rainbow with craft foam and glued my banner to cover the bottom of the rainbow. I added a few gold embellishments (also from a box of unused embellishments) around the rainbow just for some extra shine! I ended up making five of these little notecards and sent them out to some crafty friends who would appreciate some colorful kindness in their mailboxes!

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Lucky Charm Cards with Trinity Stamps

Lucky Charms is my favorite cereal! I just love the mix of the cereal with marshmallows and even though it's pure sugar, it's such a fun treat. When I saw these two stamp sets from Trinity Stamps, I knew I needed them! While I don't usually make St. Patrick's Day cards, I thought I'd make just a few to send out, but these are perfect for any time of year if you're a cereal fan like me.

I initially started out with the idea to make just one card with a shaker, but as you'll see in my video today, the paper I chose along with the bright sequins was just a bit too much. So I decided to make two cards for today's video (thank goodness I stenciled a large piece of paper for two backgrounds)! One that is a shaker card and one that is non-interactive. 

The shaker card leans pretty heavy into the rainbow and gold theme for St. Patrick's Day, while my other card could be used for any time of year. But, they're going out of the holiday this year! Let me know if you send out cards for this March holiday and if are also a big cereal fan like me. I'd love know your thoughts on these stamps, too!

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