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A Shamrock Card For St. Patrick’s Day

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St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this week so if you want to make a card for someone, you might want to try something like this Shamrock Card For St. Patrick’s Day!

It’s fun and easy to make shamrocks with hearts! You can stamp hearts together, punch hearts, die cut hearts, cut out hearts – whatever you like! Then just put three of them together and add a stem and you have a shamrock!

Shamrocks are a symbol of Ireland and was used by St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint, to represent the Holy Trinity in the Christian religion. Shamrocks are clover, but they must have three leaves to be a shamrock. If there are more or less leaves, the it is a clover and not a shamrock. See, you learn something new everyday!

To make this shamrock on this card, I started with dies, but I wasn’t happy with the sizes. Then I remembered we had two heart punches in a Heart Punch Pack! One is a little larger and has a scalloped edge and the other is plain and is a bit smaller so you can layer it on the scalloped heart.

After looking over the greens, I chose Just Jade Cardstock for the green color of the card. The card base is Just Jade with a layer of Basic White. I punched three scalloped hearts from Just Jade. Just Jade is one of the current In Colors and I like it but haven’t used it much.

For the heart layer, I decided to choose the polka dot pattern paper in the True Love Designer Series Paper. After punching out with the plain heart punch, I colored the heart with both the Light and Dark Just Jade Stampin’ Blend markers. This provides a little interest against the solid heart layer underneath. You could even use the floral pattern on the reverse side for something really different! I almost did that! The shamrock stem is just cut by hand from a scrap.

Before gluing down the shamrock, I stamped a few confetti images with Just Jade Ink around on the Basic White layer. In adhering the shamrock, I glued down the two side petals with Stampin’ Seal and then popped up the top one just for fun with Stampin’ Dimensionals®. The greeting is in the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and is punched out with the retired 1″ Circle Punch that I have. I put a Dimensional under the bottom portion of the circle so that it would be even with that popped up heart shamrock petal. And for a little gold for St. Patrick’s Day, I added a few Gilded Gems.

You can use this card for inspiration or maybe this card from last year using stamped hearts. Wednesday, March 17 this week is St. Patrick’s Day if you plan to do a little celebrating!

St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Card

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St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Card

Get those heart stamps out again and let’s stamp a St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Card! Heart stamps are good for lots of things besides Valentine’s Day and now you see how you can use them for St. Patrick’s Day. You can use any heart stamps you have for different looking shamrocks.

For this shamrock card, I started with a base of Call Me Clover Cardstock. This cardstock is one of the current In Colors that will be retiring in May before the new In Colors come in. These In Colors have had their two-year run. If you need any of them, refills, ribbons, anything with these In Colors, it would be smart to order them now before people rush to get them at retirement time. And if you order in March, you can take advantage of Sale-A-Bration.

It was fun to basically “just stamp” on this card! I used the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Occasions Mini Catalog. Just stamp four of the hearts to make a shamrock, or I have seen just 3 heart leaves to make a shamrock also. It’s easier than it used to be now that we have photopolymer stamps that you can see through. For the stem, I simply used a Blender Pen and picked up some of the Call Me Clover ink in the lid of the ink pad and drew on the stem. You could use a marker or just cut a thin stem.

Instead of just stamping a greeting on some kind of layer, I decided to just stamp the sentiment randomly in between the shamrocks on the card front. The “Have a Lucky Day” phrase is from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. That’s such a great set to own because you can almost always find a good sentiment to use for your card.

Of course, I wanted to have a little gold on my card for St. Patrick’s Day so I chose the Gold Glitter Enamel Dots. You will find these in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog back in the Embellishments section. First I just put small dots around randomly on the card, but then I also thought the center of each shamrock could use a larger gold one. You could also color a dot with a marker to match the shamrock, but I liked the gold in this case.

This card was very simple to make, quick and easy. Plus a good way to use our heart stamps! Don’t think of your heart stamp sets for just Valentine’s Day, keep them handy for other occasions like this St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Card with St. Patrick’s Day coming up on March 17th!

St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

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St. Patrick's Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

If you need an easy little treat for St. Patrick’s Day, you can’t go wrong with this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box. Even if you don’t have the box or don’t want to make one out of paper, you could use a cello bag of some kinds. What is more St. Patrick’s Day than green and gold?

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are great to have on hand. You can put candy inside or a small gift or even just a special note. Best yet, they store flat so don’t take up space so all you have to do is crease and assemble when you need one! Just remember to remove the piece of plastic on them that protects the finish!

I think stamping is so much fun because you can use other images to make something else. If you don’t have a shamrock stamp (and most people wouldn’t!), just use hearts! You can stamp and cut out four hearts or in this project, I just stamped the Call Me Clover green hearts together in a shamrock shape. I just eyeballed it and they didn’t come out perfect meeting in the center but can you even tell? No, because I covered the center with a Gold Faceted Gem. These are sparkly and pretty. For a beginner stamper, a few of these kinds of embellishments are good to have on hand. They aren’t very expensive and serve (sometimes!) to cover up any little boo boo, stray ink, or smudge or at least direct the eye away from it! My little heart stamp is from the Meant To Be Cling Stamp Set. I told you hearts weren’t just for Valentine’s Day! The little stem is just hand cut from a scrap.

The shamrock is layered on a piece of Gold Foil, die cut from a scalloped Layering Circle Framelits Die. Lucky for me, I could fit it all on the front of the Tiny Treat Box! The greeting is from the must-have set, Itty Bitty Greetings. This set comes with 32 stamps and greetings to cover most any occasion. They are small which means they usually fit in the Classic Label Punch so they are easy to use. I cut a flagged end on the tag and stuck it under the shamrock with a little bit of glue.

After you put in your treat, green candy is good for St. Pat’s, tie a ribbon around the box to make sure the lid stays closed and mostly just to fancy it up a little bit more. This is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon, a great all-purpose ribbon to have on hand. The gold edge makes it just a little bit fancy.

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are something inexpensive you can add to your order if you are trying to reach a $50 increment on your Sale-A-Bration order to earn a free product! Remember, with a $100 purchase you may choose either TWO $50 Sale-A-Bration items or ONE $100 Sale-A-Bration item. Spending $150 gets you the choices above plus another $50 choice PLUS Stampin’ Rewards (another 10% in merchandise!). And for big spenders (I mean, crafters), a $250 order gets you all the appropriate Sale-A-Bration choices plus Stampin’ Rewards, PLUS an EXTRA $25 in Stampin’ Rewards! That’s a lot of good stuff!

Make something like this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box this weekend for a little St. Pat’s fun, maybe with your kids or grandkids!