Clover Stencil Making ~ My Creative Time Just Cards

 Hello.  The My Creative Time design team is sharing card project ideas.  Today, I am sharing a St. Patrick's Day greeting card using handmade stenciling using clover die-cuts. 

Sentiment:  Happy St. Patrick's Day

This card was fun to make using MCT dies and stencil making from one clover die.  I love the bright and sweet look of the finished card.

St. Patrick's Day ~ My Creative Time Gift Card Giving

 Hello.  The My Creative Time design team is sharing gift card giving projects.  Today, I am sharing a St. Patrick's Day inspired gift card holder, money holder or wine tag. 

Sentiment:  Happy St. Patrick's Day

This is a gift card holder and/or a gift tag with little green 4 leaf clover accents.  It is perfect for St. Patrick's Day gift giving as party favors, a gift card holder or as a money holder or wine tag.

Creative card borders with foiling.

Today, I am sharing an idea for creative card borders.  It is always fun to create different looks with simple layers.

Sentiment:  Blissful.  Have a beautiful day.

For this card, I trimmed top and bottom borders and placed them in layers.  You can always use one or both or different shapes.  The top portion was stamped and then foil was added using a laminator.  Color was added to the open leaves.  Then I fussy cut the leaves to make a fun border trim.

The bottom sentiment panel was die-cut, stamped and foiled.  And in the center, I added a vellum sentiment panel to soften the look.  

Tip:  I recommend adding color prior to foiling.  With a stamp positioner tool, stamping and coloring can be done and then re-stamp with watermark ink and heat emboss prior to foiling.  Otherwise, carefully add color outside of the foiled areas.

I made a quick video tutorial showing the process for this project.

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YouTube:  Gaylynn NeatThingsBtq

Here is another look at the same card.  The foil shines and changes the look with movement.  The foil color is green but looks more like lime with different light.

Supplies:  Unity Stamp Co. Beautiful Forever & Ever 1/2019 KOTM, Gina K. Designs grass green foil, MFT die-namics, vellum, adhesive gems, YourStory laminator, Copic markers Y26, YR23, Y21, W3, W5.

Wishing you the best for the year ahead.

Gaylynn

48 Hour Flash Sale at My Creative Time

Good morning & welcome to another "48 Hour Flash Sale!" at My Creative Time.  This sale is for 48 hours ONLY that is going on right NOW & will end on Sunday,  March 4, 2018 @ 7am PST.

We have an AMAZING new die that Miss Emma is showcasing on her blog!! Go here to see more: http://www.creativetimeforme.com/2018/03/48-hour-flash-sale.html  Don't forget to use the code FLASH at checkout to get 20% off of your entire "in-stock" only purchase!

I introduce to you:

4 Leaf Clover Tag Die

GIVEAWAY!

Leave your comments for a chance to win a $25.00 Gift Card to the "My Creative Time" store! Don't forget to leave a way for us to contact you "just in case" YOU are the LUCKY winner! Good luck!

Now, head over to Emma's My Creative Time blog for all of the details and project inspiration.

Don't forget to use the code FLASH at checkout to get 20% off of your entire "in-stock" only purchase in the My Creative Time store!

Enjoy your day.

Gaylynn

Four Leaf Clover for St. Patrick's Day

Here is a St. Patrick's Day themed card with a four leaf clover.

Sentiment:

Four leaf clover.  One leaf for Hope.  One leaf for Faith.  Another for Love.  The last for Luck.

This is a simple and cute little 3-D clover that is paper pieced.

This sentiment goes perfectly with it.

With only a couple of layers and trim, this makes for a great card to help welcome Spring or to send St. Patrick's Day wishes.

Here is a quick tip video tutorial.

My YouTube:  Gaylynn NeatThingsBtq

And here is the card up close:

Link Up:  Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Supplies:  Unity Stamp Co. Lucky Ones, doily, patterned paper, twine, brad, foam tape and Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

Bring on Spring!!

Good Luck Horseshoe Shaker Card

This one was made special for friends who are moving away.

Sentiment:  Good luck.  Good things are going to happen.

This is a shaker card featuring a horseshoe and four leaf clovers.

I think this would be great for encouragement, going away, school or St. Patrick's Day.

Link Ups:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge ~ A Bit O' Green

Curtain Call Challenge ~ Key Lime

The Card Concept #50 ~ Shamrocks, Patterns and Greens

I chose the Shabby Chic Style for this card.

Supplies:  Lil' Inker Designs stamps and dies from Vintage Ink, Send Pretty Greetings, Stitched Mats Circles and Stitched Mats Rectangles Dies, sequins.

Thanks for visiting.

Something Green for St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This is the calendar page I made for the month of March.

The inspirational sentiment is:

Live for today, hope for tomorrow.

May the luck of the Irish be with you!!

Leprechaun Friendship Bear

Today, I am sharing this teddy bear design with a leprechaun friendship theme.  This is the start of a new designer challenge over at My Creative Time.  Nikki's theme choice for this challenge is "embossing", either dry, heat or both.  

The front sentiment is "Top O' the mornin' to you" and the inside sentiment is "Lucky to have a friend like you!" 

This little bear is perfect for St. Patrick's Day, but I wanted it to be a friendship card. Emma's sentiments fit so well for either, I think.  I used the Diamond Plate dry embossing folder for the bear's frame background.  I chose this decorative paper because of the sunburst look which goes great with the sentiment. The colors are green tones, yellow, gold and white. I had this pretty glitter ribbon and used it for the trim.  This was finished by a touch of glitter glue added to the pot of gold and hat.  

Tools used include:

My Creative Time Curly Label Die, Stitched Curly Label die & I Believe In Leprechauns stamp set, glitter glue, Cricut Teddy Bear Parade Cartridge, Unity Stamp Co Samantha Walker Ornate Artisan Stackers stamp & Spellbinders die, light green glitter ribbon, Cuttlebug, Diamond Plate embossing folder, BasicGrey paper, distress marker, and adhesive.  

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