I *heart* St. Patty's Day!

Hello!

Happy Friday!  Yay! 

As some of you know, I am lucky enough to design the QuicKutz Club projects for Pages From the Heart - which is an awesome deal!  Lifestyle Crafts/QuicKutz sends me their new release and I figure out a fun project for Kathy's club members - it's pretty fun! 

For Valentine's Day, QuicKutz released their Sweetheart Line - which was super cute!  My favorite part was the nesting hearts - but take a look at these super cute dies!

Aren't those cute?  I love them!  I think I'll use the donut's for my sister-in-laws bridal shower card - they're doing donuts in place of a wedding cake!

Kathy was giving her club this die as their Club Die...

It's a Heart Doily die - so pretty!  You might be thinking that a heart in February is a pretty easy product to work with... except that the club was AFTER Valentine's Day.  Ugghhhh.  I didn't want to make a Valentine's project that no one would be able to use for a year!  So, I grabbed my hearts and thought, "Hmmm, what else can I made with hearts?".  And then I made this!

A Shamrock!  Perfect for our next Holiday, St. Patrick's Day!  I used this die...

Which is a Nesting Heart Die - you get 5 nesting hearts in this package!  And I used the largest and 2nd largest dies to create my shamrock petals along with the doily heart.

I also used the QK Nesting Circles to cut out 3 rolled roses for the shamrock center, used a manila tag and some fake cream flowers.  I gathers shimmery tulle and placed that behind the flowers/tag/ribbon.

So cute, huh?! 

For the stem I used a kabob skewer and covered it with paper.  I glued the stick onto the back of the shamrock and covered it with a circle glued on top of the stick for support.

That's it!  I'm feeling pretty lucky, how about you?

Have a great day!
Andrea

Lucky Me Banner

Here's another upcoming class being held at Pages from the Heart!  It's a banner - perfect for St. Patty's Day or any day, exclaiming your lucky life! 

Each banner is sewn together by hand (my hand!), each one will be original with different sewing patterns on each!  I used burlap behind my shamrocks, which I sprayed with Smooch Emerald spray before gluing on Glitz paper.

i sewed on the green ribbon as well, we WON'T be doing this in class, I just wanted to extra stability since this is a sample and it was traveling a little!  The houndstooth ties are fabric that I sewed onto the canvas.  I think that for the class, I'll have some buttons and flowers to adorn your shamrocks with!  I also sprayed each of the canvas banners with Glimmer Mist in Creme de Chocolate - I liked how it added a little dimension!

Please call Kathy at Pages from the Heart if you'd like to sign up for this class!
Andrea