Lucky Shamrock Card

The Lucky Shamrock card I am sharing today is a card that I created for my K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stamping) night and for our Card ministry at church.  Kathy Seals (my up-line) and I started a card ministry at our church last August.  It is called St. Thomas More Hands to Hearts Card Ministry.  We send cards to sick members of our church, birthdays over 60, sympathy cards, shut-in and home bound members and we just added this month welcome cards and new baby cards.  The response to this new ministry has been great so far.  The members are enjoying receiving the cards and our members are enjoying creating the cards and the fellowship with one another.  We could use more help in creating the cards, so if you are local and would like to participate, we meet the first Monday of every month at 7pm and the first Wednesday at 10:00am.   The reason I am sharing all of this is because we try to send the shut-in and home bound members a card each month and if there is a holiday or special theme that month, we like to include that, example last month we sent a Valentine card, for November we sent a Thanksgiving, December, Christmas, etc.  So this month we will send this Lucky Shamrock card in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

So how did I make this very Lucky card:

Recipe:
Lucky Shamrock Single Stamp from the Occasions Mini
So Happy for You Sale-a-bration stamp set
Pear Pizzazz card stock 4.25" x 11" and scrap pieces
Whisper White card stock 4" x 5.25" and scrap piece
Garden Green card stock scrap piece
Pear Pizzazz and Garden Green ink pad
1-3/4" Circle punch
Full Heart punch
Heart to Heart punch
Wide Oval punch
Square Lattice embossing folder
Big Shot
Stampin' Up! glue stick
Dimensionals

1. Punch the 4 large hearts on the scrap Pear Pizzazz card stock with the Full Heart punch.
2. Punch the 4 smaller hearts using the scrap Garden Green card stock with the medium size heart in the Heart to Heart punch.
3. Stamp the Lucky Shamrock stamp with the Garden Green ink pad on the scrap Whisper White card stock and punch out using the 1-3/4" punch.
4. Punch out a wide oval with scrap Pear Pizzazz and then punch a sliver with the punch again on the hole from the previous punch.
5. Stamp the clover from the So Happy for You stamp set in the 2 green colors all over the Whisper White card stock as shown.
6. Glue hearts on the Whisper White card stock as shown in picture, make sure to glue all the edges of the hearts and stem.
7. Now you are ready to run the Whisper White card stock thru the Big Shot.  Place the decorated Whisper White card stock in the Square Lattice embossing folder upside down (stamped and heart side facing down and the words Stampin' Up! facing up.
8. Now isn't that cool.  I think that texture that the embossing produces looks so neat.  Adhere to your Pear Pizazz card.
9. Attach the Lucky Shamrock image with of course my favorite dimensionals on front.

Easy Peasy....Isn't that cool!!  I just love it.

My Mother is Irish and is very proud of that.  My Dad is German.  So I guess I'm half and half!

Happy St. Patty's Day everyone.   Make sure you wear green on March 17.

Hope your week is great!!!

Inky Hugs,

Becky