MY IRISH ROSE WARNING

This may be my last St. Patrick's Day project for this season.  It also may be my favorite.

 Rather vintage looking isn't she?  I guess that's one of the things I love about holiday decor....it gives you a theme that any style can fit into.  Believe it or not, that sweet looking girl in the frame arrived in my mail box as a warning.  That's right, a warning.  A warning from a friend no less.  It came as a beautiful handmade postcard from my friend Donna at Distressed Donna Down Home.

 It was a beautiful card (the image came from The Graphics Fairy) and you wouldn't normally find her frightening, but the warning was that "the St. Pat's are coming" and I should be watching my mailbox.  I don't know what the means....but I'm kind of afraid/excited to check my mailbox every day.  I'm a little bit terrified that she's going to send me some of those creepy "Frozen Charlottes" that she's so fond of.  I mean, with Donna, you never know....she did send me these zombie sheep at Halloween.....

 

However, I couldn't resist using that pretty postcard in a project, especially since I had a frame that seemed perfect for it.

 Back when I made the Valentines French Toile Frame for the Inspiration Cafe, I also snagged a 4 X 6 frame for the same price.  Such a deal...but it was way too white and shiny for this girl, so I used 3 different colors of craft paint and some antiquing gel to age it until it looked like this.....

 You can see that I cut the girl out of the post card and added a piece of green non-woven fabric paper for a textured background.  (If you don't know what non-woven fabric paper is, you can read about it HERE.  Awesome stuff.)
All I needed now was a little embellishment.  I decided on some vintage buttons.  It's possible that I got carried away with the buttons and may have forgot the lesson that "less is more".   

 I have so much fun every time I open that awesome box of buttons that I can't help myself!  They were a gift from another blogger and if you want, you can read about it HERE.  So the whole time I was working on this project that old song "Wild Irish Rose" was stuck in my head.  I'm not going to post another video song, but I'm finished with this project and the song is what I think of when I look at this girl in the frame.

" Her glances are shy when e'er I pass by
The bower, where my true love grows;
And my one wish has been that some day I may win
The heart of my wild Irish Rose."

 Thank you Donna!

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