St. Patrick’s Day is coming Sunday, March 17 so here is a fun St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock card you can make or get an idea from to make your own card. I imagine people will be celebrating St. Pat’s all weekend!

My husband went to an engineering college in Missouri and since St. Patrick was the patron saint of engineering, St. Pat’s weekend was quite the party weekend there – actually the whole week was I think! I guess I went to two of them when we were dating and he was still in college. I think I remember someone (some people?) being thrown into a vat of awful green stuff. We were reminded of some of this disgusting stuff that went on, all in the name of college and fraternity fun back then, when we went back for a reunion and new fraternity house last fall. One of the men was wearing his St. Pat’s jacket from when he was on the St. Pat’s board during college. Apparently it was quite the honor to own that jacket, although technically it must be a biohazard from the tales he told of what was done to that jacket before it was given to him, with the admonition never to clean it! So even though we are not Irish, St. Patrick’s Day holds those college memories for us. I think I have a green garter from the occasion and probably a green sweatshirt or t-shirt or other souvenirs.

If you are Irish or know someone you want to give a card or St. Patrick’s Day treat to, here is a fun card to make. If you don’t have a shamrock stamp, just find some little hearts and stamp those together to make a shamrock! Or punch out some hearts, big or little. Add a touch of gold and a greeting and you’ve got it!

My card uses Call Me Clover Cardstock (pretty appropriate for St. Pat’s, don’t you think?) for the card base with a Whisper White layer. I put a strip of green patterned designer paper along the side. The paper on the other side has alligators from the Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper. I just wanted some strip of green paper so look for whatever you have, but I can say the Animal Expedition Paper is super cute!

Next, I stamped the shamrocks from the Amazing Life Photopolymer Stamp Set. I could have just stamped them in Call Me Clover Ink, but I stamped them in Memento black ink and colored them with my Call My Clover Stampin’ Blends Markers.

The greeting is from the same stamp set. I stamped that in Memento Ink also and colored in the letters with my marker, even adding some stripes and dots for fun. I had a scrap of Gold Foil so I die cut that to fit to add a touch of gold. Of course, I had to add a bit more bling and gold, so I added a few gold Metallic Pearls on the front of the card.

If you are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday or this weekend, make a little something green with whatever you have in your stash! You might be surprised when you look through your stamp sets to find a shamrock or St. Pat’s greeting or balloons you can color green or any number of things. Try something today!

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