Pot O' Gold Collection: Patrick Layout by Melinda Spinks

Hello Doodlebug peeps... it's Melinda with you today and I'm closing the week with another Pot O' Gold project. St Patrick's Day was always a day of frivolity and much celebration as it was my father's birthday, and yes, his name was Patrick. Sadly we lost him to cancer and St Paddie's Day has never been the same for our family.

There were so many cute patterned papers with this collection that I decided I had to come up with a plan to use them all... I went with patchwork!

I always love hand stitching on my layouts so I decided I wanted a four leaf clover stitched over the patchwork to act as a backdrop for the photo of my Dad. I printed out a template to use as a guide for the stitching.

Once I'd finished the stitching it was all about embellishing... which just happens to be the most fun part of any project! I couldn't resist the super cute little froggy and the new matte finish on the sprinkles.

I really wanted to use white alphas on my layout but they fused too much with the background so I dabbled with a little splash of water colour to allow just a hint more of the lettering to stand out. Then the layout seemed unbalanced so I added a touch more water colour to the top of the layout to even things out.

Well that's it for this week's Pot O' Gold projects, however, be sure to stop by next week for some bright and beautiful ideas using the new 'Swiss Dots Petite Prints'.

Pot O' Gold Collection: Paper Shamrock Shadow Box by Tya Smith

Hi there Doodlebug fans -it's Tya here and it is my turn to share with you my Pot  o' Gold project. I decided to add a little "lucky" decor to my walls  for St. Patrick's Day with this fun shadow box. I am using the 12x12 Black Shadow Box for my project.

This project was totally inspired by something I have had on my St.Patrick's Day Pinterest board for a while now so I was really excited to give this technique a try. I followed this tutorial from The Craft Patch and it was so quick and easy which is the name of the game when it comes to paper crafting in my book :) 

For my paper strips I used (7) 2x12 inch Grasshopper Swiss Dot Petite Print, (7) 2x10 Lucky Stripes papers and (7) 8x12 Good Luck papers.  After I got all the paper strips glued together I added a couple of limeade doilies to the front of the shamrock. I cut the "Love" sentiment from one of the squares on the 4x4 square pattern paper sheets. I pop dotted the sentiment up for some added dimension.

I placed a sheet of Clover Patch pattern paper in the background of my shadow box.  I also added a strip of Lots of Luck Washi Tape to the top and bottom of my shadow box. I then hot glued the entire shamrock to the background paper.

 

To decorate the shamrock, I added a couple of cute Leprechaun girl and boy stickers from the Icon Sticker sheet as well as a cute little flower, round shamrock sticker and the pot of gold and a few gold coins. I also added a shamrock Sprinkles shape and a couple of matte Bright Sprinkles to spice it up a bit. Aren't the little leprechauns so cute? 

I loved making this project! It went together so fast and it makes me so happy to see the cute smiling faces of the Leprechaun boy and girl! Hopefully I have inspired you to make one of these fun shadow boxes for your own St. Patty's Day decor - thanks so much for stopping by! Happy crafting!