Pretty Pink Posh - Lucky Charm

Hi there,

As promised on my Decorative Shamrock blog post, I'm back with another St Patrick themed card showcasing a mash-up of recent and older items from Pretty Pink Posh. It was super fun to put up those colorful Shamrock Borders, I love how nice and bright the whole card turned out!

I started off by cutting a large Pinking Rectangle panel out of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock, I masked the stitched edges off with washi tape, covered the panel with shabby shutters oxide ink and then created a cute pattern using the Mini Checker stencil along with mowed lawn oxide ink. I mixed copic opaque white ink with water and added splatters all over the panel with a slim brush, I did the same with fossilized amber distress spritz and then the same again with rustic wilderness oxide ink. When my panel was dry, I attached it to a dark pink 5,5 x 4,25 inches panel using 1mm foam tape, and then stuck that dark pink panel to a white card base using liquid glue.

Next I cut five Shamrock Borders out of green cardstock, trimmed the borders so that each of them had five clovers, cut colorful clovers out of papers from the St Patrick's Day 6x6 paper pack by Echo Park using two other Shamrock Borders dies, and attached those clovers to the borders using liquid glue and 1mm foam squares. I mixed copic opaque white ink with water and added white splatters to each border using a slim brush, did the same with liquid stardust, and then stuck the five borders to my Mini Checker panel using 1mm foam squares.

I cut a large Eyelet Diamond panel out of vellum, added white splatters to it and set it aside to dry. I used the Lucky Holder Additions die set to cut the hat pieces, the coins and clovers. I also used dies from the Valentine Bucket Additions die set to cut hearts, stuck a heart in the center of each of the largest clovers using 1mm foam squares, added white splatters and liquid stardust splatters to each clover, added white splatters and fossilized amber distress spritz splatters to the coins, assembled the hat pieces, and then attached everything to my Eyelet Diamond panel using 1mm and 2mm foam squares.

I stuck my vellum panel to the card using 1mm foam squares again, and then worked on my greetings. I used the Lucky Shadow die set to cut the shadow piece out of white cardstock, and the word "Lucky" out of white cardstock three times and out of gold glitter cardstock one time. I attached the three white "Lucky" words on top of each other using liquid glue, stuck the gold glitter word on top, attached the whole piece to the white shadow using liquid glue again, and then stuck the word right below the hat and clover cluster using 1mm foam squares.

I white heat embossed "You're my lucky charm" from Lucky To Know You on light pink cardstock, cut it using the matching die, and attached it below "Lucky" using foam squares. Finally I picked white hearts from the Valentine Hearts confetti mix and glued a heart in the center of each of the smallest clovers.

PRETTY PINK POSH SUPPLIES

- Lucky holder additions die set

- Eyelet diamonds die set

- Shamrock border die set

- Lucky shadow die set

- Pinking rectangles die set

- Valentine bucket additions die set

- Lucky to know you stamp set

- Mini checker stencil

- Valentine hearts confetti mix

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Oxide inks: shabby shutters, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness

- Copic opaque white ink

- Liquid stardust by Lawn Fawn

- Fossilized amber distress spritz

- Clear embossing ink by Lawn Fawn

- Fine white embossing powder by Hero Arts

- Happy St Patrick's Day 6x6 pattern papers by Echo Park

- Vellum by Lawn Fawn

- Cotton candy cardstock by The Stamp Market (greeting)

- Storm cloud cardstock by Lawn Fawn (hat)

- Textured canvas dark pink cardstock by Lawn Fawn (card base)

- Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock (background)