I don't usually make cards for St. Patrick's Day. When I visited with the Activity Director at the place where my mother lived for 9 years, she asked if I ever did those for Ridgeview. I don't think I ever did, but since my sister is married to an Irishman, I decided to make one for them plus 29 more for the Seniors who live at Ridgeview. A couple of weeks ago I had nothing pushing me, so I made all of them March 3 with ample time to get them delivered.
The challenge was that I no longer had any appropriate stamps or sentiments! When I was on Pinterest, I saw who someone took an SU flower punch with 5 petals and turned it into a Shamrock. Most pictures of Shamrocks have just 3 but I did see one that had 4. Mine didn't turn out looking like a 4-Leaf Clover by doing it with that punch. One problem solved.
I had no holiday dsp to use but fortunately found just exactly the amount of dsp I needed for the card I made. I used 1 1/2" x 5 1/2" strips from papers with several designs that were in the 6" x 6" packages of designer series papers. (And this met my personal March challenge of using retired dsp!)
After cutting all of the square mats for the Shamrocks, I had 1" strips that I used under a sentiment that I did on the computer and printed out. So here are the big reveals..............
If you celebrate St. Patrick's Day even if you aren't Irish, have fun!
2 comments:
Just TOO cute!!
What a kind and thoughtful think to do. I'm sure the residents of the care home really enjoyed these. Some of them may have never received a St. Patrick's Day card before.
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