Thursday, March 03, 2011

Seeing Shamrocks!


When I saw today's Angel Company blog hop subject... Seeing Shamrocks... I was a little worried.  Even though my son was born on St. Patrick's day, I still don't have any stamp sets with shamrocks, and by the time I saw the blog hop post it was too late to order one.  So...  as necessity is the mother of invention, I looked through my Angel Company stamps to see what I could "alter" and I came upon this adorable lion holding flowers.  This was always one of my very favorite sets when I was a demo for the Angel Company...  I think I even have a picture of one of the cards I made with him on this computer.  Hang on.  I'll look.

Anyway, for today's "Seeing Shamrocks" card, I stamped the flowers again on another piece of cardstock, after stamping the image in Memento Black.  Then I cut out around the flowers and drew in some Shamrocks right over the top of them. I colored with Copics and Promarkers and my sentiment is from the Thousand Thanks hostess set.  My sketch is from the Paper Pretties Challenge, and my card has a four-legged friend (well, I think he looks friendly anyway!) for Charisma Cardz.
here he is in all his glory from a few years ago - with his flowers rather than shamrocks and pre-copics. ☺



Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings!

Tricia

18 comments:

Risa said...

Adorable and brilliant! I remember when you were a demo with TAC! Those were the days. ;) Both cards are fantastic Tricia.

Sandy said...

Love how you changed the flowers to shamrocks and I love this stamp. I must pull it out one of these days.

Debra Miller said...

I loved this set too. Great cards!

Christine Pennington said...

So stinkin cute!!!

StampingbugKerry said...

So so cute! Love that Lion with shamrocks!!!

Chelsea said...

Wow .. Love this rendition! Perfect!

Paula-Kay Bourland said...

Very cute card!

Angela K said...

Adorable!!

Anonymous said...

Adorable

Holly said...

LOVE this card! Beautiful!

Unknown said...

How adorable! Great job changing the flowers to shamrocks!! And love your coloring, too!

Heather said...

The lion and shamrocks are a perfect pairing! You did a specTACular job!

Trish said...

Great card, and I'm no "li-on". lol I couldn't resist.

Chris said...

I still have this little guy! Love your hand drawn shamrocks...wonderful touch!

Clare Brown said...

I love how you changed the flowers..very crafty. thankyou for joining us at Charisma this week and please pop by again soon.

Alaine said...

Very cute cards. The two cards have the same focal element, but look so different! Thank you for joining the Paper Pretties Challenge this week.

Chris said...

love your lion, thanks for playing with us at Paper Pretties.

Sandy Ang said...

That lion with a bouquet in hand is such a cutie. Love for you to link it up to my challenge here http://angsandy.blogspot.com/2011/03/sandys-challenge-3.html