Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Are you "thinking green"?

I just had to come up with a card just for St. Patrick's Day and since I had these great Nikki Sivils products it was fast and easy.
The horseshow is cut from one of the patterned papers from the My Sweet Cherry Pie collection. The shamrock is three heart punches punched from one of my currect favorite papers, this green gingham from Nikki Sivils. And the sentiment is a stamp from the same collection by Nikki Sivils.
I wanted my card to have alot of white on it so I embossed a piece of white Core'dinations with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.
And, I just had to try my hand at the Unscripted Sketch for this week paired with my brand new paper purchase, Quite Contrary from My Mind's Eye.
Does this combination look like SPRING or what? The two prints are really both sides of one piece.
The label sticker is from the same collection, love how well it matches. The flower was white so I sprayed it with Memories Mist in yellow to make it match better.
I used my Martha Stewart punch for the little border along the bottom and that is finished off with a row of pink rhinestones.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

LUCKY ME card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Patterned paper, cut up shape and sentiment stamp – Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Fiskars rounder punch
Sandpaper
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Heart punch – Family Treasures
Brads

THANKS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Patterned paper, stickers – Jack & Jill/Quite Contrary/My Mind’s Eye
Thickers – alphabet
Martha Stewart border punch
Rhinestones – Heidi Swapp
Machine sewing
Flower – Prima
Memories Mist spray
Sandpaper

15 comments:

  1. these look great linda, you really know how to work the nikki sivils paper. I love the soft color palette you used in the second card. happy st pats day xoxo sam

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  2. These are both adorable - but I am really diggin' that shamrock card!

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  3. I never got aroung to a St Patricks Day card...yours is adorable. I love the stitching on your second card, too. Very pretty.

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  4. So so adorable Linda love that green check!!

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  5. Total spring, total happy, and I love the "lucky me" saying. :) Happy St Pats Day!

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  6. good grief these are so cuuuuute, love that st. patrick's day card so, so much linda! happy st. patrick's day to YOU!

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  7. These are absolutely wonderful Linda! I just love that gingham shamrock!

    (-: Heidi

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  8. WOW fabulous cards! Love the core!

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  9. Awesome card. It's so fresh. I love the papers you chose. Thanks for playing along with US this week.

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  10. I love both cards thanks for playing at Unscripted sketches this week
    LIz
    Unscripted DT

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  11. Gorgeous cards! I love your take on this weeks US sketch. The stitching, the colors, the flower, all of it! It makes me happy! :) So glad you joined US this week! Hope you'll play along again soon!
    Steph
    Unscripted DT

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