Happy St Patrick's Day!

Hope you all had a fantastic day today celebrating St Patrick's Day. I got to meet up with the Ft Meade ladies today for some lunch and shopping. I just couldn't get together and let everyone leave empty handed so I made some goody bags last night.


I made some shamrock spritz cookies and packaged them up in a cello bag.


I used Riley Moose on this cute bag topper and colored him with my Copics. I am realizing that while I have a large variety of markers it is now time for me to start collecting more colors for shading. I am also happy to have finally used some of my St Pat's ribbon that has been in my stash for the past 3 years.


Now look at the bag topper itself. Do you see the layers? I didn't use the Top Note die, instead I found a very similar shape in the Accent Essentials cartridge for my Cricut. I can now make the cute projects that everyone else is making AND use layers. I just saved myself some money by having the Cricut. Now I know how I will finance those new Copics.

Details:
Stamps: St Patty Beer Riley Moose by Hanna Stamps
Paper: Certainly Celery, Green Galore, PTI white, Delicate Dots dsp by SU!
Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Copic Markers, Glossy Gel Pen, Stardust Gel Pen
Accessories: Ribbon, Cricut Accent Essentials, Cello Bags

I was invited to participate in a cookie exchange with my neighbors, and since I am the new kid on the block I really wanted to WOW them. First, I made some yummy snowball cookies shown here.


Then I had to make a card to share the recipe.


I used this weeks Sketch Challenge from SplitCoastStampers.com always an easy way to make a great card. The base is Soft Sky, and the next layer is stamped with Not Quite Navy and Groovy Guava on Very Vanilla layered on Not Quite Navy card stock. I used the flourishes from Priceless as all my images. The next layer is some Groovy Guava Prints DP layered on Really Rust card stock. Who knew that Really Rust was the compliment to Groovy Guava? Again I stamped the flourish with Not Quite Navy on Very Vanilla and mounted it on Not Quite Navy card stock and then tied some groovy guava stitched ribbon around the image. I finished the card with 3 silver brads on a word window punchout. I used my slit punch on the inside and slid a 3x5 index card with the cookie recipe inside. I figured the neighbors could then use the card for any occasion they would like.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Priceless
Ink: Not Quite Navy and Groovy Guava
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Soft Sky, Groovy Guava Prints DP, Very Vanilla,


Cookie Recipe:

Snowball Cookies
2 cups all purpose flour 2 cups finely chopped pecans ¼ cup sugar	1 cup butter softened 1 teaspoon vanilla Powdered Sugar
Preheat oven to 325* Yield 3 dozen In large mixing bowl combine all ingredients except powdered sugar. Beat at low speed until well mixed. Shape rounder teaspoonfuls of dough into 1” balls. Place 1” apart on cookie sheets. Bake for 18-25 minutes until lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes. Roll in powdered sugar while still warm and again when cool.