Happy St. Patrick's Day! (I.D.E.A.S. Calendar E = Embossing)

Hello Stamplings! ☘☘☘

I hope you're doing well as we celebrate the day Erin goes braghless! Wait. What? It's "Éire go brách" and it means "Ireland forever." The Mister is 50% Irish thanks to his sainted mother, so that makes me Irish by association, at least for one day a year. Plus leftovers.

This is week three on my I.D.E.A.S. Calendar, so it's E = Embossing (any which way).

Onefer

The embossing folder featured in this design is an ancient brick wall e/f by Tim Holtz, using the debossed side. It's been in my BOB for a long time because I originally used a very red (you might say a brick red) ink swiped over the whole thing. How to tone it down? I ended up swiping over it with my Dew Drop Brilliance "Platinum Planet" and I was really pickled at the pretty color and sheen that resulted.

I noticed that Just Us Girls (Word Week) wanted "Green" and so did Simon Says Stamp Wednesday, so I pondered through my various leafy choices. I didn't have any sham rocks, so I chose a NBUS die called, "Garden Tub Filler," by The Greetery, cut from a lovely very gated green pp. For the tub, I used The Greetery's "Pretty Pot" die and I managed to find a teeny-weeny Happy Birthday stamp for the sediment. (A good time to once again thank Iliana for the invention of the MISTI!)

After I finished my card with a marker line border, I saw that the Colorful Options challenge for March had a cute mood board called, "It's Not Easy Being Green," with Kermit and friends. The next thing I know, Hammy, who had been on my shoulder looking at the monitor, started jumping up and down and clapping! Any fool knows you can't do that without falling, so he rolled down my arm and into the bag of M&Ms on my lap. I have no idea how they got there, but, of course, they went flying and I had to grab Nellie because she'll eat anything. Phew! Never a dull moment!

Where was I? Oh, yes, I was sharing that Hammy got excited because he has been playing with my little collection of old froggie buttons for years, waiting for this moment to use them on a card! Stanley joined in and together we decided that the climbing frog buttons worked the best for this design. (But first I had to add little eyeballs to the poor little blind boogers with my white gel pen and fine black marker.) The end.

Twofer

This QACAS double-embossed delight was made to welcome the first day of spring on Thursday. A multi-leaf unmarked 1D e/f is layer one. It got squished a little by layer two, which is Simon Says 3D "Leaf Bundle." Coming in at layer three is a sprig of Pink Fresh Washi tape leafy greens and the cherry on top is a sediment tab from Memory Box.

You gotta love a 3-minute egg card! And a design that lets you use any two embossing folders and any type of topper! C'mon!👏👌

Stop the Slump

You will find a linky tool below for this week's I.D.E.A.S. Calendar prompt. If you use any kind of embossing on your card, please link it below.

Thank you to everyone who linked last week to inspire others. I love visiting you, seeing what you create, and pinning your design! Mwah!

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