Lucky Liam Layout

Hello!  Today I have made a layout for St. Patrick's Day.  My kids love to set animal traps(no need to worry about animals being injured, these traps just contain the animals) out the night before St. Patrick's Day. They have done this every year for 6 years, except for last year.  Last year they got a very special gift delivered, a little brother that was born March 13th, but he didn't get to come home until the 17th.  I think they were so excited about the new addition they forgot to set their traps out.  They scatter Leprechaun food (just gold/green glitter and oats) in the yard and around their traps.  Sometimes my kids make up snare traps and other contraptions also.  They have been known to place carrots, chocolates or any thing they think may entice the Leprechaun into their MANY traps.  The following morning they find "gold" dollar coins, gold/green buttons, strips of fabric (that ripped from the Leprechauns' clothing) and sometimes red hair.  They get so excited when they find the letter and coins that Liam leaves them for their trouble.  Yes, their leprechaun has a name, Liam, and he is mischievous.  I used several MCT dies for this layout.  I even convinced the kids to give me a few of the buttons that they have found in their traps in past years.  They would not give me any of the gold buttons, those are too precious, but they did give me some of the other buttons.  They did tell me that if they found some pieces of his clothes, I was welcome to a couple of those.  Those are treasures also.  This is what I came up with:

I embossed my title, Lucky Liam.  I even used several sentiments from the Christmas MCT stamps on this layout, the 98% nice and 2% naughty and the Believe.  They were so cute on the layout.  I made a brad with coordinating paper with my i-topper and used that brad to create a flower. 

I made a envelope with a MCT die to hold all their little memories.  I embossed a portion of the envelope and then used ink to color the design.  I must say it turned out gorgeous.  I also created a tag and punched a hole, that I will lace with some of that promised fabric.

I only used my Cricut to cut the clovers and the small grey silhoutte of Liam.  I inked the edges of all the photo mattings, clovers, tags and Liam.  I stamped an image over Liam so that it would appear that he was trying to hide in the brush. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by to take a look.  I am submitting this into the Cuttlebug Spot Cute as a Button Challenge and the MCT Smashy Challenge.

Margaret

Hello!  Today I have made a layout for St. Patrick's Day.  My kids love to set animal traps(no need to worry about animals being injured, these traps just contain the animals) out the night before St. Patrick's Day. They have done this every year for 6 years, except for last year.  Last year they got a very special gift delivered, a little brother that was born March 13th, but he didn't get to come home until the 17th.  I think they were so excited about the new addition they forgot to set their traps out.  They scatter Leprechaun food (just gold/green glitter and oats) in the yard and around their traps.  Sometimes my kids make up snare traps and other contraptions also.  They have been known to place carrots, chocolates or any thing they think may entice the Leprechaun into their MANY traps.  The following morning they find "gold" dollar coins, gold/green buttons, strips of fabric (that ripped from the Leprechauns' clothing) and sometimes red hair.  They get so excited when they find the letter and coins that Liam leaves them for their trouble.  Yes, their leprechaun has a name, Liam, and he is mischievous.  I used several MCT dies for this layout.  I even convinced the kids to give me a few of the buttons that they have found in their traps in past years.  They would not give me any of the gold buttons, those are too precious, but they did give me some of the other buttons.  They did tell me that if they found some pieces of his clothes, I was welcome to a couple of those.  Those are treasures also.  This is what I came up with:

I embossed my title, Lucky Liam.  I even used several sentiments from the Christmas MCT stamps on this layout, the 98% nice and 2% naughty and the Believe.  They were so cute on the layout.  I made a brad with coordinating paper with my i-topper and used that brad to create a flower. 

I made a envelope with a MCT die to hold all their little memories.  I embossed a portion of the envelope and then used ink to color the design.  I must say it turned out gorgeous.  I also created a tag and punched a hole, that I will lace with some of that promised fabric.

I only used my Cricut to cut the clovers and the small grey silhoutte of Liam.  I inked the edges of all the photo mattings, clovers, tags and Liam.  I stamped an image over Liam so that it would appear that he was trying to hide in the brush. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed the layout and thanks for stopping by to take a look.  I am submitting this into the Cuttlebug Spot Cute as a Button Challenge and the MCT Smashy Challenge.

Margaret