2-Minute Treat Bag

Here's and quick and easy festive bag, you can easily make today.

Just print out one of the fun images from the Kiss Me I'm Irish Graphic Set  (on sale for just $1 during our Dollar Sale).

Fold into 3rds, leaving a half inch border for sealing the side. Adhere at the bottom and tab at the side and fill with your favorite green treat!

Irish Pride

Show your Irish pride this St. Patrick's day and dress your home in shades of green! This Ombré Shamrock Wall Hanging, is a fun gorgeous way to give your house some Irish flair.

Materials:

Luck of the Irish Cut It Set or grab it in the Gettin' Lucky Cut It Bundle, still on sale for just $4
Cardstock (several shades of green)
3-D foam dots

Directions:

Using shamrock image no. 8 from the Luck of the Irish Cut It Set, cut out 5 or so shamrocks of each shade of green paper. Use the foam dots to give the hanging some depth and adhere to a piece of cardstock.

Cut out and assemble image no. 10 the Kiss Me I'm Irish banner. Using foam dots adhere to the top of the hanging.

Frame and use for fun, St. Patrick's day decor!

Looking for another fun use of the Gettin' Lucky Bundles?  Check out this fun Pot of Gold from Joanna at I love 2 Cut Paper!

Leprechaun Trap

With a few minor alterations, you can use this Leprechaun Hat to make your own Leprhechaun Trap! Simply elongate the hat in Illustrator (or other similar program). You can even do it in Make-The-Cut! Make sure you size the circles and belt to match. I then copied hat piece A and cut off the end to create piece B. I also created a 2nd smaller circle to be the top of the hat (piece D).See below image of the altered pattern.

 Cut the pieces out and glue the tabs on A to piece C. Adhere piece B to the topmost portion of the hat (see photo below).

Now cut out and adhere belt and shamrock. Lay smaller circle on top (this is the trap part so you don't want to glue). And lastly, every leprechaun needs something to lure him into his trap, so used some gold coins or scrunch up some gold foil and adhere to the top. Have fun and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

St. Patrick's Day Inspiration

We've had some amazing posts recently with some fabulous St. Patrick's Day ideas and inspiration. Check it out:

St. Patrick's Day Treat Boxes from Jin at Under a Cherry Tree, see her how to here:

St. Patrick's Day Subway Art Card from Capadia Designs, check out her tutorial here:

Leprechaun Hat Cupcake Wraps from Joy's Life, see how here:

Friday Freebie: Kiss Me I'm Irish Mask

Head on over to LD to get your FREE Kiss Me I'm Irish Gorilla Kissing Mask! Free until Sunday at midnight, MST. Don't forget about our St. Patrick's Day Sale where all lucky product is just $1-2 until Sunday.

Save 35% when you spend at least $15 with coupon code: MarchMadness and you will
save 55% when you spend at least $40 with coupon code: MonsterMadness.

Easy 3-D St. Patrick's Cupcake Toppers from any Graphic!

St. Patrick's Day is a time to celebrate, eat, and make everything green and fun. Liven up your cupcakes with these adorable 3-D toppers!

You can use pretty much any graphic or cut it, but since I'm totally in love with the new Kiss Me I'm Irish Collection, there was no other option for me! You want to begin by laying out the images you want to print and cut. Every program is different, but essentially you will need 4 images for each topper, with 2 images being a mirror image of the others:

Go ahead and print and cut out, then you will want to score them each in half. I used my bone folder and board. It went super fast, and I did it by laying two on top of each other front to back, scoring both sides. When the two were done, I would lay the 3rd on one of the first two, and repeat the process and so forth.

You will then glue together the corresponding sides:

And continue to glue until all four pieces are attached together to make one topper:

Push a toothpick through the bottom, and your done!

New FREE Pagemap!

We've got new pagemaps FREE and available for download. Have fun creating new layouts and let our pagemaps be your guide! Get your 12"x12" pagemap here, and get your 8.5" by 11" pagemap here.

We used our 12" pagemap to create this fun layout on the left using our new Kiss Me I'm Irish Collection on sale until Sunday at midnight, MST.

We'd love to see the layouts you are making! Go to our IDEA section on LD and share your creativity with us!







See our video tutorial on how to use our pdf pagemaps:

For a video tutorial of making a digital layout using a pagemap with Illustrator or Inkscape and Photoshop click here.

For a video tutorial of making a digital layout using a pagemap and just Photoshop click here.
12"x12" pagemap:

8.5"x11" pagmap:

It's your lucky day, we've got extra savings for you!

New product just in time for St. Patrick's Day and "lucky for you", you'll have plenty more reason to get our new Kiss Me I'm Irish Product and the new Just My Luck and Lucky Duck Alphabet!

This product is more than "lucky". It's versatile. Don't press your luck and wait too long to shop. All our "lucky product" is on sale now for $1-2! Sale ends March 17th.

Save 35% when you spend at least $15 with coupon code: MarchMadness and you will
save 55% when you spend at least $40 with coupon code: MonsterMadness

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Thursday's Tip: 3-D Leprechaun Hat from Joy's Life

Looking for a fun St. Patrick's day craft? The amazing Joy, has converted the hat from the Gobble Gratitude file and added some beautiful celtic embellishment to create this fun hat! A perfect for decor or hiding some fun chocolate coins inside. Check out Joy's tutorial and giveaway she has going on here!

Thursday's Tip: Shake Your Shamrocks!

I stumbled across this rad shirt from Urban Outfitters, but unfortunately I was too late. It was all sold out!

Sold out?!? No problem! In less than an hour, with just a few cheap supplies. I was able to recreate it!

Materials:
T-shirt
black and green acrylic paint
Textile Medium
Freezer Paper
Charmed Life Cut It Set
LD This and That Font
Paint Brushes/Stencil Brushes
Iron

Begin by laying a sheet of freezer paper on your cutting mat, and cutting out the bottom layer of the shamrock from the Charmed Life Cut It Set using your favorite digital cutter. I sized them to about 3 1/2 inches wide and spaced them about 3 1/2 - 4 inches apart. I typed out "Shake Your Shamrocks" using LD This and That Font. The final size of the phrase was 10 inches wide by 3 1/2 inches tall. I also cut this out of freezer paper as well. If you don't have a digital cutter, you can also use and exacto knife to cut everything out.

Once everything is cut out, lay on your shirt and iron on using the highest dry heat setting.

The shirt is ready to apply the paint, just make sure you stick something inside the middle of it because the paint will leak through. My cutting mat was the perfect size! You need to mix 1 part of textile medium to 2 parts paint. (You can also just use fabric paint).

Apply the paint carefully, using a sponge or a paint brush. You can get different effects with each one. Make sure you are using straight up and down works strokes. The freezer paper works amazingly well, but straight up and down will help insure not getting any leakage underneath just in case you had a spot that didn't stick down all the way.

When its dry, you can remove the freezer paper. I also chose to do a little flecking because I liked the messy effect of the Urban Outfitter shirt.

And the finished product!