IRISH LOVE week- Day #6

Here's an idea for a more masculine take on a St. Patrick's Day card using the bold combination of Glorious Green, Basic Black & Whisper White, plus a splash of Kraft.



What's that black string, you ask? It's a small piece of retired Black Twine. The absolutely delightful natural-colored twine we have now used to come in black, so I decided to try a little piece of it on here.

The lovely border is of course our Sale-a-bration punch. Cannot get enough of this punch- so dang cute and only available until the end of this month!


One more design to go of IRISH LOVE week!

IRISH LOVE week- Day #5!

Back to Irish Love week designs, though as I write this I am leaving my Irish Love to head to the east coast. Believe or not, Homemade Smiles is more of a side gig for me, so it's off to DC for work for a few days.

Nevertheless, I bring you a fabulously fast, yet rather sophisticated & cute, St. Patrick's Day design today:




The Chocolate Chip base with the Old Olive & Certainly Celery layers on top thata are slightly raised with dimensionals make it seem like a framed piece of Irish art to me. The cute little stamp? It's the Go Green image. I colored in the words with my Chocolate Chip marker and the clover with my Old Olive marker. Easy easy, yet a pretty nice design, if you ask me :)

That's all for now... time to board this plane!

IRISH LOVE week- Day #4!

Welcome to Day #4 of IRISH LOVE week!

Here's a fun & funky, sort of trendy & eco-looking version of a St. Patrick's Day card for your viewing pleasure:



What do you think? It again, uses the heart-to-heart punch (which is sooo handy, and clearly not just for Valentine's Day) combined with the sale-a-bration border punch for that cute scallop edge along the top.

Other supplies used include: Basic Black, Whisper White, Bashful Blue & Old Olive cardstock, along with a small piece of twine and my trusty Basic Black marker to color in just the word "happy" on my BEE Happy stamp that is a hostess freebie from the "Picture This" stamp set in the current Occasions Mini catalog.

Have fun and check back tomorrow for another design idea!!

How Cool is THIS?!?!?!

Remember this card from Day #1 of IRISH LOVE week??



Look what it inspired!!



This cute cute card was made by "stampinsam" a fellow stamper on Splitcoast Stampers. You can see some of her other creations here. Very talented person and I'm so honored she used my card as inspiration. Thank you stampinsam!

Have I inspired YOU to make a St. Patrick's Day card??
If so, please let me know! I'd love to see your creation :)

Check back for tomorrow for more ideas!

Smiles,

IRISH LOVE week- Day Three!

Happy Day #3 of IRISH LOVE week!

Check out this Clean-And-Simple design using the new Go Green stamp:


I love love love the Kraft card stock for card bases. It's a nice sturdy weight, matches just about everything AND has awesome perfectly coordinating envelopes.

The border punch is the beautiful free sale-a-bration punch with Glorious Green paper behind it to really make it pop and stand out against the Kraft background.

Thanks for stopping by & check back tomorrow for day 4 of IRISH LOVE week!

IRISH LOVE week starts tomorrow!

In honor of my wonderful husband and his Irish heritage, tomorrow will start our IRISH LOVE week here at Homemade Smiles.

I'll be posting a new St. Patrick's Day card idea every day this week.
Here is a sneak peak of the fun ideas coming your way-


... check back so you can make your own homemade St. Patrick's Day cards to send to the lucky people in your life and spread a little IRISH LOVE!