3D Shamrock Card

One final green push before St. Patty's Day on Sunday....

Today I wanted to share a fun way to add some dimension to your card without having to buy those expensive 3-D stickers.

First I started off by spritzing up a sheet of cardstock with various shades of green ink....

Cut a 2" x 11" strip off the sheet of cardstock.  One 8.5x11" sheet will make 4 of these shamrocks or you can use the extra green paper for other projects.

Stamp the green strip of cardstock with a few "Irish" feel stamps.  All of these stamps are by Just For Fun Rubber Stamps. 

Now make a crease every 1" of the cardstock.

Accordion fold the strip of paper so you're left with a nice little bit ~ approx. 1"x2".  Draw 1/2 a shamrock on the top of the stack as shown in the photo.

Now cut away the excess paper but be sure not to cut through the folds!  This is very important...if you do you'll have lots of individual shamrocks instead of a chain!

Once you've cut away all of the excess you'll be left with a nifty little chain of shamrocks!  Since the paper was 11" long you'll end up with a half shamrock at the end.  Simply snip this end off.

Flip the shamrock chain over and add glue on every fold but the first half and last half on the chain.  (where the X's are add glue)

Smoosh all of the halves back together and you'll end up with a cute little 3 D shamrock!  Now all you have to do is ink up the edges and it's all ready to be added to a card, scrapbook layout, gothic arch or ATC, etc.

And here it is on my card....

Fun huh?

It really kicks your card up a notch or two with this simple little addition!