Happy St Patrick's Day!

Hi all, and Happy St Patrick's Day to you! I never mark this day usually or make any cards but I had to make this card, not for a DT project, but just because I wanted to use this new image. It's by Crissy Armstrong and it's called Young Leprechaun. I thought he was really cute and wanted to have a go at colouring him. I'm a bit off my stroke with colouring but I'm trying to keep my hand in, lol.

I merged him with a couple of background digi stamps from Make It Crafty: the Rainbow Dandelion and Petals & Palings (which is one of my all-time fave images).

I used copics as usual, and an off-cut of some Papermania paper. The leafy die cut was a gift from my friend Jean, the bow was made from some fabric from my friend Elaine, and the fabric-covered brad was in some candy I won from the wonderful Kevin. I downloaded a celtic-looking font from Dafont.com to make the sentiment, and just added a few gold sequins to complete it. I tried to include some gold in the image and embellies because the Irish flag colours are green, white and gold/orange.

I haven't entered any challenges for absolutely ages, so I'm gonna put this in a few:

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Add a sentiment

Fab N Funky Challenges - Luck of the Irish

Inky Impressions - You're my pot of gold....use gold and bling (gold flower sequins)

Just Inspirational Challenges - Photo inspiration (I chose the St patrick photo)

Just Some Lines - Spring Cleaning - at least 2 items over 6 months old (actually everything on my card is over 6 months old, the paper is a couple of years old and I've had the sequins for years! lol)

Kaboodle Doodles - Show us some green

Rainbow Lady's Challenge - St Patrick's Day

Sassy Cheryl's Challenges - Wearin' of the green

Simon Says Stamp - A bit o' green

Sweet Stamping - Use lots of green

Wags N Whiskers - Luck of the Irish

Have a great weekend all, and happy crafting!