I have been up to so much sparkly fun. I just can't wait to share it. I hope you enjoy it, as much as I did. I had this idea swimming in my head, so I tried it out today, and voila, I think it is a whole lot of fun, and oh so easy!!
You see that shamrock brooch there? Well, I invented a fun and super easy way to make it. I created a PDF cutout for you!! Not only that, I have some FREE PDF Saint Patrick's Day Greetings for you too! I always want to think up ways to say thank you, and add some easy fun to our lives…
I decided to created all different sizes and colors of shamrocks, and layer them… You know, how once a year, you are in your car and realize it is St. Patrick's day, and then you wish you had something cute to throw on? Without having to dress in all green? Well, here ya go…
There were very fancy ways to attach the shamrocks to eachother. However, I decided, if you are going to make them with your kids, or whip one up for yourself to wear, it should be super duper easy. Especially if you are going to make more than one, maybe for friends?
The PDF file you will be able to print out (especially good on nice thick white cardstock) is shown below…
Make sure to Click on this link for printable version.
(give it several seconds to open)
Here is how to get started…
I made two brooches. One with really silly bright colors, and one with some wonderful fine glitter. Some glitter I had, and some is part of Martha Stewart's wonderful glitter selection. Plus, I used a bit of the vintage sterling silver glitter too. Only a little though, I am very stingy with my vintage sterling glass glitter 😉
First I cut out all of my shamrocks… (meanwhile the hot glue gun heated up)
Then, I started layering them, adding a tiny pearl of hot glue in the center. Layer biggest to smallest…
Once all layered, I give them a firm push in the center, to make sure they are really stuck together.
Then, I give each shamrock, starting with the top one and working to the bottom one, a little fold, to make them a bit more 3-d…
Once they are all folded up very gently, and look like this, I am ready to attach a safety pin to the back.
My advice, attach the safety pin before you embellish… I found that the center of the upper backmost shamrock is the best placement for the safety pin… I used a smallish safety pin, so it would not hang off the edges.
You can use those specially made brooch back pins that you can get at any craft store. The kinds that simply have to be glued to the back of the brooch. However, I chose a simple safety pin, because I wanted this to be easy, easy.
So now for the fun part! Glitter! I looove glitter! You will need some Elmer's glue (or any craft glue) and a small paintbrush.
Make sure you have all your glitters out too. I also used Mica flakes on the super colorful brooch. Get out any fun stuff you want to use! I started embellishing, with the middle, but you can start anywhere you'd like…
You will then simply, use your paintbrush to paint glue on the petals of the shamrock. I painted the glue on, and glittered little by little. With each individual petal. As, the glue dries fast, and if you do more than one petal at a time, you might not get good glitter coverage…
You will notice that the color of the flower shimmers through, even if you cover it with silver or gold fine shimmer. In person, you can still see hints of the green, which is really pretty…
As you work along, your brooch will start to look like this…
Once you are completey done, let your shamrock brooch dry really well. The drier it gets, the prettier the glitter sparkles. You can also add a giant stone to the middle of your flower, or a button… Anything really, even an old rhinestone earring that you just have one of?
Now wasn't that so super easy and fun??? I know, they are a little, well, let's face it, alot sparkly, but they are so much fun to make! I was thinking that if you didn't want glitter, you could draw designs on each shamrock with different pens and markers? Or use each shamrock to outline each size on different papers, then glue the papers on to each shamrock and then simply assemble it, so you have a collaged shamrock. That could be really really fun.. You could use doilies even. I have to play with that idea too!
By the way, I did later play with the collaged brooch idea, and included it at the end of this post 😉
I know, you are going to think I have totally lost it. However, I also have some Free St. Patrick's Day cards for you. I know it seems early, but really it isn't, time goes by so fast. Before you know it, you'll barely be printing them and it will actually be St. Patrick's day. So, I am giving you a head start. I love sharing Free cards! They are sooo much fun to make!!
They look like this…
Click here for your printable PDF file of your very own Free St. Patrick's day cards. From me to you!!
You will also be able to find the Free Brooch PDF and the Free St. Patrick's day PDF in the right hand side bar. SO you don't have to look for them later…
Okay, I better go before you come hunt me down for the longest blog post ever!
Also, the winner of the Valentine post drawing, as chosen by the random number generating machine, is Jenn Lui!! Yippeee for you!! E-mail me Miss Jenn!!
See you soooooooon!!! V
Update:
Here is an alternative to sparkly brooches… Collaged brooches…
A new idea I thought up for making those fun Paper Brooches…
Cut out all of your shamrocks that you have printed on cardstock (printable PDF here)…. Then take pieces of paper, and trace each shamrock onto a different piece. So that you can make a collaged paper brooch… Then cut out each colorful paper piece, and glue it to the appropriate shamrock, and assemble as before…
And even try using those pin backs I spoke of before (or use a safety pin)…
And, use some of your button stash for a center…
Voila, isn't this soooo pretty!! I love it!! A wonderful alternative to no glitter!
Have a blast!! Can't wait to see what you make!! V
Miss Vanessa! I do truly appreciate your Joie de vivre take on life! I absolutely love your glittah pins but I am I must say, hopelessly inept with this sort of thing. Picture glittah and glue and scissors flying all over the place….all bad! While you on the other hand make it look oh so easy! 😉
I do LOVE your St. Patrick’s Day cards though and so I thank you for yet another free gift! For some strange reason St. Patrick’s Day is a bigger deal to me than say Valentine’s Day!
The pins are fan-tabulous! So sparkly and pretty!
Wow, your really on top of things, Miss V! St. Patrick’s projects already!! I’m seriously impressed!
Have a fanciful week and thanks for the great tutortial for the pin and the card pdf’s!
Love and hugs
and the luck of the Irish for us all
Love Jeanne
Oh, your the sweetest pea on the pod, Miss Lovely! : ) Just look at those beautiful brooches and all the Irish glee!! 🙂 What a treat!! 🙂
Thank Youuuuuuuu! : )
Vanessa, you are so good to share your wonderful creative ideas with all of us! Love the Irish cards and the shamrocks. Very clever. And the glitter – well who doesn’t love glitter! Fantastic St. Patrick’s Day treats! xoxox
Oh wow! I will be doing this one with the kids for sure.
xox
Gillian
Do you ever sleep with so many ideas swirling? I love your brooches! Thank you for all the freebies Curiosa 🙂 Surely nobody would pinch you!
Love your shamrock brooches, they are so beautiful, simple and effective! Hey, do you celebrate St.Patrick’s Day over there? Great cards too, thanks for showering us with your freebies.
thanks so much…i can’t wait to make some shamrock pins…
You are the sweetest blogger! Thank you so much! I will be making these!!!
OMG you are so sweet!!! What awesome, beautiful, fantastic gifts you have made for us!!! THANK YOU Miss Vanessa!!
You are the BEST to share your incredible talent here with us all!!!
Lots of fun stuff and lots of great ideas being generated in my little head!!!
x…x
Hi, Vanessa,
How lovely! Thank you for sharing your talent with us!
That is just about the cutest shamrock I’ve ever seen! I’ve already printed them out and am going to make one to wear. Thank you! You’re the sweetest person….and so giving.
Wonderful Venessa!, I’d love to print out some of those Cards but my Printer is Kaput. I think I will draw some of my Own. Your cards are so Fanciful and Whimsical (my fav words) but I always end up buying Christmas Cards and never celebrate Valentines by St Patricks, theres a Thought!
Great another Holiday to Celebrate. But we all nead Holidays!
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Ohhh…fabulous with all the lovely sparklies!! My mother has green eyes so she thinks that totally counts as wearing green. Methinks she cheats. These look fun to make though!! I am also loving the little cards…I so wish my crazy printer worked…I will have to steal over to my mother’s house soon and print myself up a batch!!
Adorable pins! Thanks for sharing the How To, what fun!!!!!!
haha! very fun and very irish altogether,
I am not going to be in ireland for the second year in a row and so am going to miss Patricks day. Probably just as well really, its quite bad for my health, we generally all go to a pub and play music (sometimes even getting paid for the privilege) and drink all day. Keeping up the stereotype!
I remember growing up and the parades were terrible! but now its really good fun with fireworks and all.. (unless its raining)
Wonderful shamrocks! Very fun! I love the St.Pattys Pic! very cute, but no “Erin go Bragh”? LOL Great post, and I love that you showed us how to make the pins!
Love Erin~
Ahhhh! I love that! Thanks for the tutorial!
hey that’s a great project, just love the shamrock brooch, must try this out, especially as I’m part Irish 🙂 Glad I found your blog, Catherine x
Thank you for the crafty fun! This is the kind of mess I like to make! I can do this one with my daughter…glitterific! Plus I love St. Patty’s Day. My Dad is 100% Irish…
It is official you are the sweetest and most generous person I know…thank you 🙂
Our last name is Boyles and when our Son was 8 years old we had to break the news to him that we were not Irish and that our name with the s added was English…that was a sad day for him because St. Patrick’s Day was his second favorite holiday…behind Christmas.
I love the sparkly shamrock brooch! I shall have to try it for myself. I always deck myself out to the nines on St Patrick’s Day – it’s one of my (many) favourite holidays!
Oh Vanessa this is so wonderful! Thank you so much for all of the fabulous St. Patrick’s goodies. I love St. Patrick’s Day! I’m going to make these brooches for all of my friends and family.
Hugs,
Karla
thank you darling…sweet of you to share your st paddys love w/us blogfolk 🙂
That brooch is so lovely and original. You never cease to amaze me with your imagination. Thank you for being so generous with sharing.
The shamrock heart is outstanding. And you are so holiday proactive…great!
OMG!! I am screaming with pure DELIGHT! This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! Just beautiful!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! This is XTREMELY generous of you!!!! I love it!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!~
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Vanessa, your so Awesome!!!!!!
Love, love, loving the brooch!
Looking forward to making one with my daughter. Thanks for the tutorial!
xoxo
Debbie
Thank you for the love! The Love! THE LOVE! and the hard work and time that went into creating those lovelies for us! I am blogging it tomorrow. You are a wonderful treasure! They make me grin every time I look at them! I am visiting the folks up in Augusta,Ga and am loving the daffodils and crocus and bricks and columns! Its so pretty here!
Oh, ps,I am going to Lexington, SC to meet Amanda Button on Friday and we are going to wear wings and hang paper lanterns in her garden and make crafts and these shamrocks will be on the agenda! Between bites of fairie cakes and Madeline’s we will be giggling and talking about you and looking for gnomes and mushrooms and fawns….someday maybe we can all meet! wouldn’t that be grand?
Vanessa, these are so fun 🙂 My family name is Irish but I never celebrate St Paddys day (mostly because, like you said, I don’t remember in time!). This year I will!
Hi Vanessa, I so love your art. Thanks for the darling cards. I made a little valentine on my blog inspired by your darling Valentines.
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If you want wonderful Celtic St. Patricks music and video to go with it check out my husbands
http://www.myspace.com/jdharpguitar
I made the video in Ireland where John tell the true historic story of St. Patty. He wrote the music on the celitc sites in Ireland.
Thank you, thank you for your cutie little blogs.
These are so fun! You can never have enough sparkle, as my shoe collection will show! 🙂
Top O’ the Mornin’ to ya, Lassie! You shamROCK and ROLL(roll in glitter..hee hee). Merci for sharing a shamrock with such sensational sparkle!
You rock!!!
Thank you so much!
As soon as I can I am printing the shamrocks and make my own glittery brooch.
Thank you Miss lovely Vanessa!
Oooooh! You know I love a craft project! I am going to go get a new ink cartridge today! Love it all! Thank you!
What a wonderful tutorial! Love it! thank you! xo natalea
YAY…I love these. Thank you thank you
you really are in a giving mood…i am having some freebies the next two weeks…you just beat me to it…hugs, r
I so love the shamrock pin… thank you so much for sharing the step by step photo’s and the shamrocks ready to print out… They will make awesome gifts for my blogging friends and my family…. I have had a blast going back thru all of your blog!
Three cheers for Glittery Shamrocks!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
Hip Hip Hooray!
(imagine glitter and confetti flying up in the air with each cheer)
I ALWAYS forget to wear green. I’m thinking I should start a tradition of two pints of guiness in the evening to make up for getting pinched all day 🙂
Cheers!
Miss Vanessa, what clever little pins you made! They are just adorable! Now if I make one in green I won’t get pinched. I hate getting pinched.
xo
hello- dear 1 from across the ocean- you are so kind to share- and your glitter is so yummy-we are in some sorta heat wave and then it rains-nanna and i are sitting here about to have afternoon tea – come over. singing and skipping love jo.
That is so cute! My mother in law is irish and born on St. Patricks Day. She would love this.
Wow, what lovely stuff you have on your blog! These shamrocks are a wonderful idea!! Can’t wait to get started…and ooh, what a glorious mess it will be!
:)Annette
You really are The Best 🙂
Lucky Luck to you!
I received your gorgeous print and stopped by to see what creations you were working on, and Oh my. What an adorable shamrock and the cards are enchanting. How generous for you to put together a tutorial and PDF files too. Thank you. Karen
Hi Vanessa!
Hope you are well Diva! ‘-)
Blimey…COOL shamrocks & sending GREEN beer wishes your way…albeit EARLY!!!
XOXO
Chris :-D)
I’m going to sound like a complete freak, but I HEART you. I found your blog from OWOH & I’m addicted. Thanks for all your fun PDF’s. You are so generous to share your work & tutorials.
Thank you!
Nerissa
Hey Vanessa! Just stopping in to visit and wanted to share something with you…
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These rock! I’m going to re-post and give these a try myself. Thanks!
OOH thanks so much for those shamrock printables and the cards. I am making these today.Bless your heart for giving us these.
Thank-you so much for the PDF’s. I cannot wait to try the shamrocks.
I loved these, I’ll have to try them very soon. Thanks for sharing them 🙂
Vanessa-
I finally got it together and re-created the sparkly shamrock brooch! Take a look and thanks again!
Hi! My daughter & I made these and now we can’t stop!! We are on our 7th set I think…. Thank you so much. It is always a wonderful feeling to find something your 14 year old wants to do with you!
I am new to all this “blog” stuff so I am going to figure out how to send you pics…email maybe? I’ll figure it out. :0)
its really creative……i loved ur work…
*gasp* Just saw these posted on the CRAFT Blog and wandered over to see–GORGEOUS! I’m loving the sparkly idea, and perhaps will make one to satisfy my need for something for St. Patty’s Day! 😉
I saw this linked on Craft and seriously love this. How could I not? It has holiday cheer, glitter, and it’s easy.
You are awesome!
Thanks!
Saw this thru Craft mag’s ezine and it’s beautiful! I am a scrapbooker, and instead of making a brooch I would love to make an embellishment to use on a scrapbook page. I love how it’s different colors and sparkly, not your typical shamrock. 🙂
Corinna
http://www.myscrapbooklife.com
These are wonderful. I can’t wait to make them.
I love the sparkly shamrocks! I wish I would have seen them sooner 🙁
I made the shamrock pins with my third grade class. They loved it!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks that’s so wonderful, i like it the way you create.
Thanks so much for the pdf of your beautiful artwork!! My daughter and I added some green paper and glitter and sent them to loved ones!! Your blog is simply stunning!!! I am in awe and inspired!!
You can see our cards on my blog at
http://www.gooseandbinky.blogspot.com
Have a great week!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Lisa
How sweet of you! Thank you! Have fun!♣
Aw, cute!
Hi Vanessa…my friend, Deborah at Midlife Poet encouraged me to send you this message to show you how I used your darling free St Patrick’s day cards to make some little gifts for my family…I just loved the images and they worked out perfectly…Come on over and see my post…Hope you like what I did with them! I have some other photos that show them better…but take a look…
Stay Cozy, Carrie
ooh awesome 🙂
Beautiful! I’m looking forward to making a few of the glittered ones with my girls, and have shared a link with my fans on Facebook. Thank you! Jenn/Rook No. 17
those are so fun. I especially like the collage ones. 🙂
LOVE THIS SPARKLY Shamrock and the cute cards. Many Thanks 🙂
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