Cheers to Green Beer!

Hi All!  Well, my new St. Patty's Day stamps did finally arrive, hurray!  But again, while I was still waiting for them to be delivered, I came up with another St. Patty's Day card idea.  I mixed a few stamps together that were already in my collection using a masking technique that I learned from a great tutorial by a fabulously talented designer, Ms. Julie Koerber.  If you get a chance you must go and check out her blog and her gorgeous cards!  As for my new St. Patty's Day stamps, they will just have to wait till next year.. 8-)

Believe it or not,  I used two different stamps for the main image of my card.  I think they blend together pretty well, considering they are from two different companies.  First I stamped the small beer mug from DRS, I purchased from Addicted to Rubber Stamps, onto Flourishes' Classic White using Memento Tuxedo Black.  Next I stamped it again onto a sticky note and cut out my image to create a mask.  I placed the mask over the first small beer mug I had stamped and then chose a clover stamp from Flourishes' Irish Blessings clear stamp set to stamp overlapping the small beer mug image.  I then removed the mask and voila!  It looks like the small beer mug is sitting in front of a lovely flourish of clovers.  Pretty cool huh? 8-)
I then added my sentiment, also from Flourishes' Irish Blessings clear stamp set.  I colored up my main image with Copics and used some white liquid applique to make the beer foam extra foamy.  I matted up my main image using some of Hero Arts Foliage cardstock  as well as some gorgeous floral Digi DP from Anita Richards Designs featured at Two Peas in a Bucket. I embossed one of my Foliage panels with my Cuttlebug using the CB Swiss Dots embossing folder and I embossed the edges of my main image and floral Digi DP using my score pal, to create a nice finished look.  Then I just popped my main image up with some dimensionals and added a cute little bow to finish it up.

May the luck of the Irish be yours & Thanks so much for dropping by! 8-)