I feel like I’ve been in a creative rut lately. Does anyone else ever feel that way? I picked up these fun LUCKY letters a few weeks ago, from The Wood Connection, and I put some paper on them a couple of weeks ago. I ended up not loving the paper that I put on the “K” so I ripped it off, sanded the front of it, and put some different paper on. I like the new paper much better. {I should have taken a picture so you could see, but I didn’t.} When I finally got the paper looking how I wanted it to, I couldn’t figure out how to embellish each letter. I was stumped!
I had originally wanted to make my letter “U” into a pot of gold, but I just couldn’t figure out how to do it, so I didn’t. Maybe by next year I can figure something out along those lines. 🙂 I finally ended up tying some ribbons around the letters.
I made this rosette to put on the “L” and it is my favorite embellishment on the letters.
Since the “LUCKY” looked a little bit lonely up there on my shelf, I decided to head back into The Wood Connection today and I picked up these fun shamrocks, brought them home and finished them to match. After I painted and adhered the paper, I used my ink pad and a q-tip to add some ink to the edges of the paper.
And here they are all up on my shelf. I decided to stagger the letters to give them a little bit more depth, but you can’t really tell in the picture.
Love love love love these!!! Sooooooo fun!!
Super cute!!! Love both projects!
Loved the Lucky letters and did a set of my own. I had a couple ideas for the pot of gold, but didn’t do them myself — instead opting to paint my U gold to look like a horseshoe. Anyway if you have access to a saw you could purchase a block of wood the same thickness from The Wood Connection and retrace the U, but don’t cut out the middle and add a bump at the top to resemble coins; then cut out the “pot of gold” and paint or accent with gold and black paper. My second idea was to add some kind of backing to the U and then clue in the fake gold pieces, but I wasn’t sure how this one would look. I also thought it would be cute to either paint or add a pot of gold made from wood or paper to the bottom of the “C” and then paint a rainbow around the rest of the “C” like it was the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Adorable! I’m not TOO big into decorating for St. Patrick’s either (only did a wreath) but these letters would look adorable on an entry table! Check out my St. Patrick’s day wreath!
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I LOVE that rosette! Plus the ricrac on the shamrock is so cute! Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy!
These are adorable! Love them! Thanks so much for linking them up to Cutesy Monday!
Kathryn
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I love your paper projects – you are so talented 🙂 Love the lucky blocks!!!