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Hi Everyone! As Jen del Muro's February Guest Designer at iheart2stamp, I am here today to share my sample of this week's Sketch For You To Try. Please be sure to visit Jen's site for complete details, as she is offering a huge prize package to one lucky participant.
Here is my take on this week's awesome sketch:
I made this Happy St. Patrick's Day card for my son's sweet red headed, Irish girlfriend April :) Here is April in the photo below all dressed up in her Irish dancing outfit - wig & all! 
When I lived in Buffalo, NY - there was the Annual St. Patty's Day parade & it seemed like the entire city would shut down, all the bars sold GREEN beer & the restaurants served Corned Beef & Cabbage! As the saying goes "Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day!"
You can imagine how happy I was to find this sweet Hampton Art "happy St. Patrick's Day" stamp in the $1 bin at my local craft store :) Who doesn't love a bargain?
After stamping the 4 leaf clover image & coloring it with the various Copic Markers mentioned below, I cut the out with a super sharp scissors & curled the edges a smidgen for a 3-D effect! I would love to know if you celebrate St. Patrick's Day?
That's all I have for today, I hope you can play along with Jen's fun sketch! Please be sure to visit Jen & the SFYTT DT to see what ALL the girls have created for inspiration: Amy Rohl, Amy Sheffer, Leigh O’Brien, Susan Liles & Kelly Lunceford. Be Sweet!
Ingredients Used: Stamps: Hampton Art sentiment stamp, Stampabilities Shamrock Paper: DCWV DP, Stampin' Up Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Papertrey Ink Rustic White Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers: YG 63 Pea Green, YG03 Yellow Green, 0 Colorless Blender Sprinkles: Spellbinders Scalloped Square & Long Scalloped Rectangle dies, Offray ribbon, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, button & twine from stash, Husqvarna sewing machine
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So cute. :) Happy early St Patty Day to you too.
What a sweet and darling card!!
Freakin' Amazing (notice both are capitalized)! This is such a unique card! I love the shamrocks; they literally jump off the page! April really looks the part! Thanks for sharing with us!
With every click of my mouse, I see more and more beautiful things here! This is gorgeous! Totally inspiring! I need to case this masterpiece!
Great card, Mona...
I can certainly relate to the hometown parade, green beer and corned beef & cabbage...but having an English husband who has an Irish mother & father, they make sure to remind me that corned beef & cabbage is an AMERICAN celebration...they had never heard of such a thing!
TOTALLY fun card - love it - Chicago tends to celebrate St. Pat's pretty much all over the city. Love the sketch! Great job as always - your take on the sketch is so fabulous! Stitching and scallops and bottons - OH MY!
Super cute card...and what a darling girlfriend :0)
Awesome looking card! Love the vibrant colors and the shamrocks that you colored so skillfully! You talent is unending!
Fabby St. Patty's Day card. YOur card will bring smiles to this beautiful Irish lady!
Blessings,
Kim xXx
Great colors and magnificent shamrocks! I love how you layered them; they look almost 3D! I think this is the happiest St. Patrick's Day card ever! April looks great in her costume as well!
I love this card with those awesome shamrocks! St. Patrick's is one of my favorite holidays and you did a fabulous job with this card! Big hugs to you!
Love your St. Patty card its so cheery!
Your JUGS card is awesome too! I just adore your flower I'm gonna have to try that!
Awesome St. Patrick's Day card! Love how you made those shamrocks so interesting and gave them dimension! Clever and creative!
Happy looking card! Love the shamrocks!
This card is so cute as is April! Both are truly Irish! I love your shamrocks too, like everybody else!
Fabulous looking card! Love your clean design, beautiful embossing and those shamrocks are so perfect! I'm in love with your fab blog!
Darling card, Mona! Love the St. Patty's theme. You totally worked this sketch! Great job!
What a great bargain you found, love what you did with it TFS XXX
Gorgeous card, too! Makes me want some cornbeef and cabbage or at least some cold green beer! Great job Mona, and tell April that I love her outfit!
Great rendition of this interesting sketch! I love the colors and of course, who wouldn't love your fabulous looking shamrocks! You are a whiz with those Copics!
Gorgeous!
This is a dazzling card! Your take on this sketch is so inspiring! I love the way you colored your shamrocks! They are beautiful! Your entire blog is beautiful! TFS!
FABULOUS Mona... That photo looks like the sweet girls that live up the road from us.. they do this dancing too.. it is FUN to watch!
have a GREAT day!!!
Love the card and the layout! April looks so sweet in her Irish regalia. Thanks for sharing. Take care, ~Diane
We still celebrate here in Buffalo, Mona! We go to the Irish Center in So. Buffalo to see the Irish dancers and listen to the Irish music! Is your son's girfriend from Buffalo? That dress looks really familiar! I don't drink green beer, but I do drink Harp and dh drinks Guiness! Such fun!
Love your card, btw!
No i am not from buffalo lisa. Im from Arizona but the school I dance with, McTeggart Irish dancers, is all over the united states and that is my class costume for competition and performance dance. Thats for all the nice comments about me. Mona you did such an awesome job on the card! True ST. Patty's day spirit and green my favorite color!! I love it mona!! You are the best card maker i know!!
much love
-April
Mona--It sure is great to be part Irish in Buffalo. St. Patty's Day is just around the corner. Love the background you set those awesome shamrocks on. This is one great card to pay tribute to a great Day. April looks great that outfit--Let's start the dance. Sue M.
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