St Patricks Day Challenge Card

The Challenge:  You're challenged to come up with a Saint Patrick's Day card/box/layout/project, whatever. You may only use SHADES OF GREEN. You may use dark green, sea green, blue-green, hunter green, olive green, mist green, lime green, etc. etc... but ONLY green. No white. No black. No other color but GREEN. Any text must also be green. Ribbons? Green. Buttons? Green.  (For bonus points make the envelope green, if you're making a card!)  It's the ultimate monochromatic project! ;)

The Challenger: Ted at Happily Ever Crafter

This one took a little thinking for me.  I knew I wanted to do a four-leaf clover...but it needed to be a little more special than that.  Here is what I came up with and how I put it together!

First, I created the four-leaf clover svg using Inkscape. I then put the svg into SCAL.  I used SCAL to shadow the clover at .25 increments so that my clover would have 4 layers.  After cutting the clovers on my Cricut I sewed a cute button onto the middle.

I created the base of the card in SCAL.  Within the basic rectangle I put in my text.  I wanted to give the card more dimension. 

After cutting the card on the Cricut I put a dark green piece of paper behind the text.  To get the middle pieces of the "b", "e" and "o" I placed the discarded letter in its hole, put some glue on the center piece of the letter and put the puzzle together.  Once the center piece was in place I removed the rest of the letter.  (It worked better than I explained it).

I'm really happy with the finished product.

Turtle Card Complete!

Wow. That was really quick! I made the SCAL file last night when I had this genius idea. But other than that it took me like 10 min to make this cute little card. The only thing I need to perfect is it's size. It ended up being about 2x4 inches...about half the size of a normal card. But it's still cute! Here are some photos of the card. It is the first shape card that I've made.

My 1st first was creating the SCAL file that cut a shape card. My 2nd first was having multiple pieces of paper being cut at the same time.

I then put the green paper through my new CuddleBug to give it some dimension. I then glued the two pieces of paper together, added a facial expression and it was done! I told you it was quick and easy!

So cute!