Lucky

After seeing a couple of cards created with Papertrey Ink’s Into the Bloom: Clover, I thought it would make a great birthday card for Tracy, whose birthday is on St. Patrick’s Day. At the time, it was out of stock at Papertrey Ink, but luckily a friend had the die set and was kind enough to loan it to me.

I die cut all the shamrocks from white cardstock and used finger daubers to ink blend them in two colors of green ink from Pinkfresh Studio. Ellen Hutson’s Lattice Background has become a favorite of mine, especially white on white. One of the designers for Papertrey Ink had used a circle to hold the sentiment as well as a place to tuck the stems of the shamrocks. I backed the circle from Reverse Confetti’s Lacy Scalloped Circle with a piece of New Leaf cardstock from Papertrey Ink to add some color to the bottom of the card.  The sentiment is from a new stamp set recently released by Simon Says, Lucky Horseshoe. 

After taking the photos for this blog hop, one of the extra shamrocks landed on the card next to the sentiment. It was a lucky accident as the design is much improved with that added element, even though it did necessitate retaking some of the photos. 

This card is off to Colorful Options: Green, Four Seasons Challenge with the great inspiration photo below, and Inspired By: Luck. I’m also adding this to Darnell’s site where her I.D.E.A. for the week is Dies/Die Cuts. In addition, it is the first time I’ve used the set where I got the sentiment.