St. Patty's Day Card

I've been busy making cards for the ladies at work. Here is one of my designs. I just love this leprechaun. It is a stamp by Inkadinkado. He is so fun to color. I used prismacolor pencils and gamsol. Then I highlighted the buttons with White Opal Liquid Pearls. They were also used for the dots on the card corners. Stickles were added to a few parts of the image to give him some bling!

Warning....Slightly Adult Content...St. Patty's Day

I couldn't resist these stamps when I found them on Hambo Stamps. I have a strange sense of humor anyway and this guy made me laugh. It is a little "off color" so to speak but for an adult St. Patrick's Day card I think it's great!



OK I WARNED YOU....



Isn't that funny? Anyway.... I stamped the image onto Stampin' Up Whisper White cardstock and colored with Prismacolor pencils. I cut the image out and mounted him using pop dots. The Warning sign was stamped the same way. I used a white gel pen to add the dots around the outer circle. I also got to use my new EK Success border punch "Dotted Wave". These new punches are terrific. I highly recommend them. They punch easily and with the new design that lets you lock them down for smaller storage I'm very happy with them.

BTW...Hambo Stamps is an Angel Company and the back of my card has their "Image by Hambo Stamp" stamp on it. Check out their site for some funny and terrific stamps. They stamp very crisp and have a lot of "different" types of stamps. I am not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy customer!

St. Patrick's Day Duck!

I got in a really silly mood yesterday while organizing my clear stamps. I saw this duck and since I had just finished putting away my St. Pat's day stamps I put 2 + 2 together and decided he would make a fantastically silly St. Patrick's day card. I crack up every time I look at him. His expression and those glasses....LOL Anyway, the duck is from an Inkadinkado mini stamp set. The sentiment is a Studio G set (#26). The large shamrocks are a $1 stamp I found at Joann's.

I did this card almost entirely with clear embossing powder. I stamped the duck using Colorbox black pigment ink and heat set with clear embossing powder. I colored him in using a yellow embossing pen and sprinkled clear embossing powder over the duck again. Heated it up and quickly sprinkled the embossing powder one more time. When it was heated and cooled he has a very thick, shinny, yellow color. It almost looks like plastic.

I stamped the shamrocks with the Colorbox black pigment ink and heat set clear embossing powder over them also. I colored a few shamrocks in using a green embossing pen and guess what....more clear embossing!

Lastly I stamped the sentiment and embossed that too! My poor heat gun really got a workout on this card!

I added green Liquid Pearl drops to the corners to finish it off. Doesn't this duck just make you smile?

My New Years Resolution is to decorate the inside of my cards also. I have a lot to learn about doing the inside, but I'm trying!