The Wearing of the Green 8x8" Deco

Happy Saturday! Hope all of you are well. We cannot find toilet paper at the grocery store or even Amazon, but otherwise fine so far. Last week I shared some St. Patrick's Day round coaster art and yesterday I shared 2 themed cards with you. Today I am sharing an 8x8 Deco I made to hang to display in our home for the holiday. This should conclude my Lucky Charms obsession for a while save maybe another coaster or two. We'll see.

The deco is an 8x8 inch piece of thin chipboard upon which I adhered some pretty old patterned papers: Foof-A-La Spring Pageantry and Scenic Route Winter Bellevue Script (which is kinda fitting since this holiday is technically still in the Winter...but I always consider it the first one of Spring). I cut 2 of the Script paper's corners off diagonally with a jagged tear ruler thingy so it looks torn and then I ink-distressed with a dark pink inkpad. Next I added strips of some thick fabric Foof-A-La ribbon in 2 different designs that I'd bought as part of the collection.

 Time to collage. I fussy cut all the images I'd found to use on Gecko Galz' Blarney collage sheet.  Then I inked the edges with my trusty Color Box Chestnut Roan chalk ink before arranging and adhering my little scene. I have had the green and the yellow shiny soft plastic flowers for years and they've always reminded me of clover so hey, time to use as such. I added green rinestones to the center of the green ones and then a rinestone to the shamrock inside of the heart image.

 I layered some paper pink flowers with a yellow brad and adding them to opposite corners for the finish.

Just for grins, here is back of my Deco. I glued a Graphic 45 patterned paper collection chipboard back to the back of the chipboard I used for the front, originally to give it more strength and it already had a nice decoration as I had previously sanded it down and decopauged on some white tissue paper to it. Most of my decos have ugly unfinished backs (I tell myself future projects - ha!), so if I can make them look good enough by doing this in the future, I will. Testing always in progress, heehee.)

 The rest of my pics...

And close-up of the emerald rhinestone in the shamrock...

Hope you found this worth your while. Thanks for visiting! Hope your weekend is lovely, XOX.

CHALLENGES:
1.   Gecko Galz March Customer Blog Challenge: Once Upon a Springtime -- I have used Blarney collage sheet images.  

2.   Gecko Galz March Facebook Challenge: Use words/writing/text  -- In addition to the words on the collage sheet images, I used script pattern paper.

3.   Art Journal Journey March Theme: Green
4.   Di's Digi Design Challenge: Embellish It Awesome -- I've used lots of flowers and some rinestones and brads, too.
5.   Outlawz Monday Greetings Mar. 2-15: Greetings + Green Reigns
6.   The Paper Funday Challenge #15: AG + Opt. St. Pat's Day
7.   A Vintage Journey March: Celebration Time Come On! -- My Vintage style project celebrates St. Patrick's Day AND AVJ's 6th Anniversary/Birthday. :-)

8.   ABMTTC Extra Challenge #March - Anything Goes
9.   Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper March 2020 Challenge -- I've used 2 patterned papers.
10. More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes with optional Green -- I've played the GREEN option.
11. Crafty Creations March Challenge (#407) - Anything Goes
12. Aud Sentiments #246: Feminine + A Sentiment
13. TTCRD Challenge 10th March 2020 Anything Goes
14. Scrapping4Fun Challenge #162: AG + Opt. Flowers -- I've played the Flowers option.
15. Classic Design Challenge #3: AG
16. Crafts Galore Encore March Challenge #73: AG
17. Moving Along with the Times Challenge #116: Anything But a Card
18. YSBP March Challenge with My Besties: AG