HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Ok, I'm in!  I'm Irish today!  I think what they say is probably true!  Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day!  I've got the cabbage cooking in my slow cooker.  Not a corn beef fan, but sure do love the cabbage! Have a great day everyone!  Happy St. Patrick's Day!  p.s. it was my Son's idea to surround the picture above with the shamrocks and leprechaun hats.  So cool JP!  Thanks for the great idea!

FUN AT LINDA'S HOME

The start of a perfect evening at Linda Murphy's home for a St. Patrick's Day Going Green craft event. Pictured from left to right - Dale Trott, Young Brown, and Hsiao-hui Lin. Everyone is ready to craft tonight and we had a lot planned!
We had a most wonderful evening at Linda Murphy's home last night. We all dressed in something green colored to show our spirit for St. Patrick's Day. Linda made the most delicious salad and soup for everyone. Everyone wanted the recipe. It was amazing. Pictured above from left to right are Diana Hnat and Katie Ford standing and Paulette Hall at the table.
Here are some of the stampers at dinner. From left to right we have Amanda Hindle in the foreground in black, then next to her and going around the table are Rita Gorrick, Linda Kincaid, Pat Nuckels, Carol Hartline and then Janet Aker.
Linda Kincaid is showing the card she is going to demonstrate. You will see that card up closer in a future post. She did a step by step outline for everyone and it really helped to teach the various steps to the card. I love how she simplifies the directions for everyone on some very elegant cards.
Diana Hnat, Janet Aker, and Linda Murphy are water coloring the card that Katie Ford designed for them. Wait til you see the finished project.
Hsiao-hui demonstrated her charmed necklace. I love how you can change the inserts on these. I'm doing a demo on USTAMP with Dawn on polished stone for the inserts for my charmed necklace. I hope you will join me.
Amanda Hindle is working on the adorable bunny card I hope to show very soon. Hsiao-hui demonstrated one of the neatest cards I've ever seen. Paulette Hall is working diligently in the background.
Linda Murphy, Young Brown and Carol Hartline put together Katie's card. This is a real "wow" card coming soon!
Janet Aker is all smiles at the gorgeous stamping job she is completing. Linda Murphy our hostess for the night is off on the left.
Rita has something cool in the bag that you will need to wait a day or so to see what we used these for.
Here I am getting ready to taste these these delicious chocolate cupcakes that Carol Hartline made that we all couldn't resist. They were so delicious. They looked bakery bought and were so festive. They tasted amazing!

A good time was had by all. The food, the friendships, the crafting was all amazing. The next class will be at the home of Cathy Stritch on March 26th - it's my birthday celebration. We will
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St. Patrick's Day Card for Class Tonight

I love, love, love this stamp set!!!! It is Picnic Parade from the SU! Occasions Spring Mini Catalog. It is so cute. I CASED this idea from someone and I wish I could tell you who, but I was checking out some websites and stumbled upon something sort of similar and just changed it up a bit to make it my own. The part I CASED was the animals holding the clover. I don't remember if the one I CASED used the same clover, but this is one gorgeous one from the stamp set Leaf Lines! Have you seen that set? It's got leaves for all of the seasons, and this very lucky clover in it as well. I made the grass by water coloring glorious green ink over the card and then using glorious green marker to make some single grass blades.
Some of the stampers chose to stamp Happy St. Patrick's Day on their cards and the UNDER $10 stamp Go Green. On the cards above, I used the SU! 3 by 5 cards with envelopes to stamp directly on. I love the ultra smooth finish and it makes it really easy to watercolor on or to ink with marker. Colors are very vibrant. Of course I added crystal effects to all of my cards. Crystal Effects makes even the worst coloring job look fabulous - although I think I did ok on my coloring. These cards are being sent to my sister and my parents for a Good Luck Wish for the holiday.
This is a little closer look at the grass detail and my water coloring. This bunny is so adorable, isn't he?
Inside the card they could stamp whatever sentiment they wanted. This set is great because you can earn it FREE for Sale-a-bration time!

GETTING READY FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY

A LITTLE LEPRECHAUN TOLD ME

This is a card we did last year with my stamping group for St. Patrick's Day. We used all punches to make the leprechaun and the shamrocks, except for the stamped images. Isn't he the best? St. Patty's is one week away, so if you want to do any card or craft making, this is the time to try to get some of those projects done.
Tomorrow night - Thursday night....we'll be over to Linda Murphy's home for an authentic Irish dinner. Who can get more Irish than a Murphy? I have a new St. Patty's card to share with everyone there that I'll post early in the day. So if you want to be surprised at class, don't look at the post til after class! The class is called a Little Leprechaun Told Me and is sure to please all in attendance.

We have some great projects planned for class including EASTER Wow's by Hsiao-hui and Katie - look for new blog posts displaying their work this week. AND... Linda Kincaid will be in attendance with one of the best SU! cards that SU! ever covered!!!

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