If you need some last minute St. Patrick’s Day things for today or tomorrow, I hope you will get some inspiration from this St. Patrick’s Day Card and Leprechaun Treat Tubes.  I told you hearts weren’t just for Valentine’s Day!  Just make a little treat or card for a loved one, a friend, or a neighbor for a St. Patrick’s Day wish!

The card is made with Emerald Envy, one of the retiring In Colors. I am not fond of this color at all!  I guess I’m not a “green” person unless it’s a really pretty green!  I used the Heart Happiness Stamp Set to stamp the hearts randomly around the card front. In order to make sure I got each stamp stamped the way I wanted it, I used my new Stamparatus!  The St. Patrick’s Day greeting is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set, which has a greeting for almost anything, and it is punched out with the Classic Label Punch.  I wanted to add some gold to the card so I just tied a little bow with the Gold 1/8″ Ribbon and attached it to the big heart with Mini Glue Dots.

For the candy treats, I used some Treat Tubes I had leftover from the ones in the Holiday Catalog.  I don’t believe you can get those any more, but if you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can order the Something Good to Eat Kit or Refill under Past Kits.  They are filled with green candies, and then the cork top is wrapped with Pick a Pattern Washi Tape to keep it from coming off and spilling the candy!  Wouldn’t want that to happen!

Thanks to some other creative stampers, someone discovered that you could color the Santa in the Cookie Cutter Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set to look like a leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day!  I cut off the curved part of the hat and added a separate square piece of paper, colored green, to make the top of his hat.  The leprechaun is colored with Stampin’ Blends Markers.  I love coloring with these markers!  Then he is punched out with the Cookie Cutter Builder Punch.

I layered the leprechaun on a piece of Gold Foil die cut with the Lots of Labels Framelits Dies. The leprechaun is adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop him up a bit and then the whole piece is adhered to the tube with Mini Glue Dots.  If you don’t own the Treat Tubes, just use a little cello bag or make a little box and then adhere the leprechaun to the front of that,  There are lots of ways to make little candy treats to give someone!

If you are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day on Saturday, March 17th, or if you just want to have a little fun with your family, make something like this St. Patrick’s Day Card and Leprechaun Treat Tube.

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