St. Patrick's Day - Card #2

I made 3 of these adorable cards for St. Patrick's Day today.  I used my Cricut to cut out the cute leprechaun!  The cartridge I used is Simply Charmed and I cut out the Leprechaun at 4 inches.

I used a variety of solid colored cardstock (what I would call layering weight - that I had in my stash-it is cardstock from Michael's, Joann's, etc.) and his suit is using paper from the K&Company Sweet Nectar Specialty Paper 6x6 paper pad.

I cut out all the pieces for the leprechaun and put him together and then decided I wanted to inlay him into the background.  I layered several of the white background pieces on top of eachother to add dimension.  I ran the top background layer through my Big Shot using a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

I put some gold paper behind the white to give him a cute and bright shadow!  I then mounted the entire panel onto a card base made out of Papertrey Ink cardstock in Vintage Jadeite.  I love Papertrey Ink and their carstock is divine!  But, had I used PTI carstock for all of the layering my card would have been super heavy - so using a lighter weight cardstock for everything else worked out perfectly!

I stamped a sentiment only on the inside of the card from the Hero Arts Stamp Set.  I love these cards and I hope the recipients do as well.

 

  
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!


Supplies:
Cardstock: White, gold, black, orange layering weight, K&Company Sweet Nectar Specialty Paper 6x6 pad, Papertrey Ink Vintage Jadeite
Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: MFT Hybrid Ink Black Licorice
Other Supplies: ATG Tape, Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive, Martha Stewart Mini Scor Board, Cricut Expression, Cricut Simply Charmed Cartridge, Sizzix Big Shot, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder