...St Patick's Day Blog hop!!!

So I made a plan to open the blog hop this evening and now that St Pat's Day is here I can't wait!! LOL. apologies to all you sticklers for schedules!! The more I think about it, the more I do feel that I should have planned it to start this morning instead!!! I have such a hard time getting my head around time differences etc that I think I maybe made what's known as a faux pas...huge apologies!lol.
Anyhow, without further waffle let me welcome you to our St Patrick's Day blog hop!!!

Here's how to follow the hop - pop on over to the WMS Forum here and register if you haven't already, it takes just a sec and we don't ask any awkward questions, lol.

Go to the 'Play Room' and you will see the March blog hop posts, one is a list of participants and the other is a thread for chat and the Leprechaun hunt!!!

The Leprechaun Hunt!

As you work your way through the hop you will see that the DT ladies are participating, BUT as I'm springing the hop open early they might be posting later on, you might need to check back!!

Check the DT photos (and mine) very carefully, if you see any leprechauns, note them down and count them all up. Post your Leprechaun tally in the chat thread that accompanies the hop list and I will pick a random winner from the correct answers to win a free Stamp set of your choice, I'll pick the winner on Saturday night!!!

look closely - I've been very, very sneaky!!!



I used one of the free digi stamps from the pack I put together here. Grab one now by clicking here if you don't have it, they're free. Check out this post for how to use.

I coloured my bunch of Shamrocks with copics and mounted it simply on one of the Celtic Lunettes digital paper from my store. The sentiment comes from Celtic Heritage.

The card below I made with some eggs from the Nestie Eggs set!! (currently sold out, more due in a week or so)

I deliberately off-set the centre panel so that my shamrock leaf could overhang the card without overhanging the card, like it Joan?? lol, I was amazed how many folks don't like bits that hang off the sides of cards! I guess it does make posting a nuisance but I think this is a nice compromise for folks like me who like a bit of overspill now and again! lol!!

I used the Victoriana papers that co-ordinate with the victorian egg! love matchy, matchy!

sentiment is from Irish Blessings.




I die cut 6 egg shapes using the Spellbinders Egg dies that co-ordinate with this product and I then stamped them with the little victorian egg.


I layered them together in pairs, right sides together and trimmed off a portion as shown below, when you open them out they make fab shamrock leaves!! lol. I stuck them together in their matching pairs and used them to make an oversized shamrock for my card!

I love how it gives a little border all around the outside edge of each leaf, almost like they had been cut with a special leaf die!! so simple!

Go, try it! I'm going to try some flower shapes this way with the eggs next!!


Now, happy hopping, remember the master blog list is in the forum here.