Mantel 317

St Patrick's Day is around the corner!  It was time to get my mantel ready.

My framed An Irish Blessing is an oldie but a goodie.  I made it years ago.  I just typed the blessing in Word, printed it on resume pepper, colored the shamrocks, and popped it into a Dollar Store frame.

 A Wish for a Friend was made with the same method as An Irish Blessing.  The shamrock is new this year.  I started out by gluing a page from an old book to a piece of matte board.  Then I just hot glued three heart shaped pieces of felt, along with a piece of crafting wire, to the board.  I dropped it into a frame I already had.  I removed the glass, as I thought you could appreciate the texture of the felt and wire more without it. 


I had some bad luck crafting what I thought would be a great addition for this mantel. 

I thought adding three horseshoes to stained wooden plaques would be a nice addition.  What's St Pat's without some horseshoes?  They looked too grandparenty.  It was a major fail.  Oh well. 

I did manage to slip in one horseshoe.