Thursday, February 23, 2012

Thankful Thursday St. Patty's Blog Hop

Hi Everybody!

Welcome to St. Patty's Blog Hop featuring the Thankful Thursday Design Team! Hopefully you just came from the talented Cheryl over at http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/. If not, please head on over to see our hop hostess Jenny at http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/ so you can start from the beginning. We don't want you to miss out on any awesome projects. :)

Here's the hop line-up in case you get lost along the way:

Jenny ~ http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
Sharon ~ http://www.simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/
Heather ~ http://paper-junkie.blogspot.com/
Bobbi ~ http://rockgirlcustomdesigns.blogspot.com/
Leah ~ http://www.leahscarddesigns.com
Lola ~ http://purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com/
Cheryl ~ http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/
Sandra ~ http://sweetpeascards.blogspot.com/

So, for this blog hop, I had originally planned on making a wreath, but I couldn't find a styrofoam wreath shape to start with in my town so I will have to pick one up next time I get to a JoAnn's or Michaels and I will still try to make one and post it later. Anyway, I had to come up with a different project. I decided to make a shirt for my 11 year old son to wear to school on St. Patrick's Day.

My husband has Irish background in his family so my kids love to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and make kind of a big deal out of it. I realized that I don't have a cricut cartridge with a shamrock on it so I printed one out from the internet and used it as a pattern to cut the shamrock out of my iron-on fabric. I then colored the shamrock with markers. I also typed out the word "Lucky" in a paint program, printed it out on paper and used the paper letters as a pattern to cut out the letters from the iron on fabric. I also colored the letters black.

I then ironed it onto the t-shirt I bought for my son. Here are the pictures I took.



After I finished it, he told me he wanted me to add "I'm Irish" to it. I guess we'll see if I can get that added to the bottom before he wears it to school. :)

Here is a close-up of the t-shirt......



I hope you like my project. :)

The prize for this blog hop is a $15 gift voucher to papercraftingworld.com.


Now head back over to Jenny's blog at http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/ and at least leave a comment, but we'd also love to see you all come up with a project to link up also.

Thank you for joining us for our design team blog hop and stop back real soon!

12 comments:

  1. I can tell that you son is quite happy with his St. Patty's day shirt. Great job!

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  2. That will keep him from getting pinched St. Pat's day. :) Fun!! :) Janis
    http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/

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  3. super fun idea, your son looks excited to wear it to school. I look forward to seeing your wreath. thanks for sharing

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  4. Great Idea !!
    Shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com
    scrapbookingforfun@msn.com

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  5. What a Super Idea!!!Love it!!New Follower!
    http://craftingwithcreativem.blogspot.com

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  6. That is such a great idea... love the shirt...

    Leah
    http://www.leahscarddesigns.com

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  7. What a cute shirt. I could use one of those.

    linda
    lmkindell1@verizon.net
    lindashappyplace.blogspot.com

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  8. Cute shirt! I'm sure your son can't wait to wear it to school! Thank you for sharing!

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  9. What a great project. never would have thought of it.

    marg0006@verizon.net

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  10. I love your son and his new shirt, kinda reminds me of one of my sons!! Their great at this age!!

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  11. Hi Sandra,

    Great little project. I love how you made the project work despite not having the right cuts! Wonderful job!

    Hugs, Cheryl @ CardsbyCG.blogspot.com

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