St. Patty's Card Challenge Fun!!!

Hello crafters!  It's getting close to St. Patty's Day, and what's not to love about a holiday where everyone pretends to be Irish just to use the excuse to drink some type of green beverage, wear green from head to toe, and talk in an Irish accent... hehehe!  Ok, well not everyone, but I sure do love it and better still not only am I Irish but my Hubby's family is too so I have double the excuse right?  Any who, onto my first St. Patty's Day Craft...

The idea for this card came from a Guest Designers use of beads and glam on the front of a mini album over on the Imaginesence Blog Page.  I have tons of beads myself for jewelry making and I loved the idea of incorporating them into my card/scrapping projects.  The diamond accents come from a gift package I won for a 100 follower giveaway, as do the stamps used.  The bottom stamp on the card says, " May good luck follow you wherever you may go" is kind of hard to see in the picture but was stamped with my brown Stampin' Up Ink pad and the little shamrock was colored in with a green marker and then green/gold stickles were added on top.  I punched a circle into the outer front of the card  and used the same circle punch to  cut out the white circle that I stamped the larger shamrock on with my green Stampin' Up Classic Ink Pad.  I then used my Glossy Accents over the top of the shamrock to give it some shine and texture.  I also added small gold stickle dots to the decorative stamp part around the shamrock.  If you look closely you will see that I also distressed the circle with a gold ink pad.  I used the argyle cuttlebug folder to run the green paper through and finished it with a pre-adhesive gold ribbon.

Whew - I know a lot to read, but thanks for taking the time to look!!!

Now onto the challenges to be entered with this card:
Kleirrs Kreation - National Craft Month
Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #3 - use Green, white and 1 optional color ( mine was gold )
Southern Girls Challenge - use brads, gems or dewdrops on your project

Thank you again, and please go check out the above challenge pages to see what others have created!
Happy Crafting!
Lisa