St. Patrick's Day Gifts!

I'm always looking for inspiration for gifts so I decided to post mine in case it could inspire any of you! :) I made the card (the leprechaun, pot of gold and clovers) with my Cricut, I used the cartridge Paper Dolls, and some left over ribbon. Coloring and piecing together his whole outfit was SUCH a pain though but totally worth it for how dang cute he is all put together! I do have to brag about my little detail in the left hand corner. I cut out 4 clovers in different sizes, colored them and glued them together. I wish the picture would have shown it better but it turned out this really cool 3D effect which I LOVED!

The buckets I got at JoAnn's and filled them with white shredded paper and loaded them with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, which where the most expensive part of the whole thing at $3.00 for a small bag! Seriously! Those marketing people really know what they're doing! They had to be green though so I sucked it up and bought them.

This is the inside of the card. Please excuse my handwriting...I envy every woman who has really cute handwriting! :)

And here is the finished product all put together.

Total cost: The buckets were normally $2.00 but they're on sale 50% off so I scooped them up at $1.00 each. I already had the shredded paper, I got it at Wal-Mart for $3.00 I think. The Reese's were $3.00 (BOO!) but I was able to split one bag to fill up 2 buckets so with each bucket it actually ended up being $1.50. I used ribbon and paper I already had so those were free! :)
Each gift came out to be about $3.00 total.

Who ever will get these from you will be one lucky person! :)

Leslie is the wife of a programmer, the mother of 2 fur babies, and an avid collector of beauty and craft products. Read all her adventures at www.scottandles.com.