National Craft Month Week 3

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!

This week Jessica is our Contributing Designer for National Craft Month.  She made this wonderful "Lucky" Banner.

Step one. Using Nancie Rowe Janitz's Ole Ireland mini kit, print (1pg) Shamrock, (2pg) Stout, and (1pg) Stripes.

Step two. Using a cereal box, chipboard (etc.) cut out 5 shamrock shapes. AccuCut sells shamrock shaped die cuts in a variety of sizes.

Step three. Adhere Ole Ireland Stout paper to shamrock shape using Perfect Paper Adhesive. Trim paper to fit shamrock.

Step four. Cut Ole Ireland Stripe paper into 1.5" strips. Distress one side using Tonic Paper Distresser, if desired. Fold one strip at a time, distressed side OUT, into a circle. When the circle is complete, staple, glue, tape (etc.) to hold shape.

Step five. Adhere the circle to the shamrock. (The circle doesn't have to be perfect! Mine are all different!)

Step six. I used an EK Success paper puncher to punch circles out of the Ole Ireland Shamrock paper. Outline the shape punched using a like color (brown/green), and ink edges with VersaMagic Tea Leaves. Adhere letter, then attach to shamrock using a 3-D pop dot.

Step seven. Attach each shamrock to ribbon. (I used Maya Road's Pine Green Scallop Ric Rac.)

Step eight. (Optional.) Using Dianne Rigdon's Lucky You kit, print and attach rainbows.

Step nine. Hang and enjoy!

Super Cute Jessica!  Thanks for sharing with us.  You can check out Jessica's Blog for other great tutorials.

~Tiffany~

Comments

[Keely Yowler]

Beautiful banner!

[Jackie]

Very cute :)

[Sheri Twing]

Very creative Jessica! Love it!