St. Patrick's Day 3-Leaf Clover Yo-Yo Cards



Mom's March Card

These little 3-leaf clover yo-yo's were fun to make. For two of the cards I used the large yo-yo quick maker by Clover and for the sweet heart teddy bear card I used the xtra-large quick yo-yo maker (Clover does have a Shamrock quick yo-yo maker but at the moment it is one I haven't purchased, yet). 

To make the 3-leaf clover I used one of my quick yo-yo makers then once I completed making the yo-yo I took my threaded needle and went down through the center of the yo-yo (gathered hole) and then brought the thread up and over the outside edge of the yo-yo and back down through the center.  I repeated this step until I had three even petals and then I took the needle back through the center one more time to the back side of the yo-yo and knotted and cut my thread. For the balloon string I used the DMC Memory Thread.  This was the first time I had a chance to work with the Memory Thread and I found it worked really well for this type of project.

From my collection of rubber stamps I pulled out my two teddy bear stamps and my basket stamp.   If you look closely at the hand of the bear holding the three clover balloons you can see that I added dimension by making a small cut and inserting the thread through the hand.

Heart Bear 3-Leaf Clover Yo-Yo Balloon Card

For the teddy bear with the heart I stamped first on a green design paper and cut out the heart and center of the ears and then stamped it again on brown paper and cut out the entire bear and then glued the heart and ear pieces in place.

For the basket I threaded a large thread with cotton pearl and did a running stitch along the top and then added a bow.  The stems of the 3-leaf clover are made with the the DMC Memory Thread.


3-Leaf Clover Yo-Yo Flower Basket

When I started this project I only intended on making one card but as I was going along and laying out the pieces it just became too easy to go ahead and make three cards.  Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!