St. Patrick's Day Swing Card

This year for my St. Patrick's Day cards, I purchased a file for a swing card by My Scrap Chick and modified the cut file slightly in my Silhouette Studio Design software. I did some print and cut designs (the sentiments on the card came with the My Scrap Chick file, but the cat with the shamrock balloon is from Creative Fabrika). If you'd like to try the cut file in your electronic cutting maching, here's a link to the file at My Scrap Chick: Shamrock Circle Flip Card - My Scrap Chick. 

I like to make matching envelopes for my holiday cards, so I chose a cute St. Patrick's Day gnome shared by Sabine Harris in my Silhouette Card Making and Paper Craft FB group and a sentiment from Creative Fabrika and printed them on the envelopes. I made 140 of these cards for my mom to send to her group of people she cheers up at each holiday, and I made another 30 for people I like to send to (shut ins, the women in my Bible study group, friends, etc.). For the ones I'm going to give out in person, I added some pearls in various shades of green. The pearls were from Top Flight Stamps where I won a $25 gift card over at the Word Art Wednesday challenge. I bought several different colors of pearls, rhinestones, etc. to embellish my cards. Thanks, WAW and Top Flight Stamps! 

Here's a look at the back of the card. I decided to add more designer paper because otherwise it seemed a little plain with just the white:

Here's the same card using different designer papers:

 Challenges I'm entering: 

Double Trouble Paper Crafting (doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com): Thing 1: fun fold; Thing 2: Entered Creative Creases challenge

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #51 (secretstamper.com): ATW with a fun fold

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG

The Paper Shelter: Inspired by a book: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover (if you like the Black Lagoon series by Jared Lee, you'll enjoy the illustrations in this children's book as Jared Lee did a phenomenal job with them!)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG 

Crafty Catz (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com): ATG

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG 

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/; ATG

Allsorts challenge blog: ATG with option of matching pairs (my card has matching circles)

digidesignchallengeblog (disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com): Circles