Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here's a little something I'm sure you've all seen before: the “Three-Heart Shamrock” It's a classic, and certainly has been done before... maybe over done. My twist on the “Three-Heart Shamrock” uses the same basic elements, but with a little added dimension.

Supply list:

Happiest Birthday Wishes Stamp Set

Wild Wasabi Textured Card Stock

Confetti White Card Stock

Whisper White Card Stock

Perfect Plum Card Stock

Bashful Blue Designer Series Paper

Wild Wasabi Classic Ink Pad

Perfect Plum Classic Ink Pad

Sponge Dauber
Mini Glue Dots
Stampin' Dimensionals

Sizzix Big Shot

Sizzix Framelets Hearts Nesting Die Set (available through Stampin' Up)

Sizzix Adorning Accents Embossing Folders (Stampin' Up exclusive)

The short and sweet version is that I used the Framelets Hearts Set (Sizzix) and cut 3 small hearts out of my Wild Wasabi textured card stock... and threw them into the scrap bin. Then, the next larger size was set over the heart-shaped hole in the card stock, off-center, so that the bottom points of the hearts were about 1/8” apart.

Crank, crank, crank, the Big Shot and voila! A hollow heart. :( Sponge the inner edge of the heart with Wild Wasabi Ink and a sponge dauber....

Snip through the point and criss-crossed the “legs” of the heart and use a glue dot to secure them about 1/2” up from each point.

Lastly I attached a Stampin' Dimensional to a 1/2” punched circle and stuck all 3 heart points to the dimensional, nice an snug, and sandwiched another Stampin' Dimensional on top to secure them together. The backing circle only needs to be as large as the dimensional, 1/2" circle will do. Trim off the excess.

Then I added a little white heart-shape from the same nesting set on top to bring it all together. Ta-da! A refurbished classic. To finish it off, I adhered it to a base of Bashful Blue Designer Series Paper, then a card stock base of Perfect Plum embossed with little hearts. All of that was put on a 5x7 card base in Confetti White and ... a happy birthday banner? Yes, St. Patrick's Day is my mom's birthday, so she always gets green/shamrock theme cards. More motivation for me to be thinking of a new St. Patrick's Day theme each year. :)

All the best,

Kristine