My Pot of Gold

Hi!

How would you like to find your very own Pot of Gold?  Well, here you go!  

I made this little template last year for St. Patrick's Day and filled it with gold coins. This is such a cute little holder and you could easily make it into a Halloween cauldron too.  Hope you like it!

I'm also including my template(below) in case you'd like to make some too!

Here's how I made it: I traced my pattern on black cardstock and scored the rim. Using a sponge I swiped White Craft Ink from the outsides toward the middle of the pot, to give it a bit of dimension. I punched out a gold piece with the Word Window Punch and shaped it with my fingers to look like a handle and attached it with brads using my Cropadile.

Once this was done I put a little white craft glue along each side edge and put it down on my craft table with a book over top of each side to hold it together while it dried...very technical! LOL!  (The white glue is stronger than sticky strip and when you add the gold coins it needs to be a strong hold)

While it was drying I cut a small rectangle of white and green cardstock and ran it through my crimper. I cut the crimped pieces into small strips. When the pot was dry I added the strips and 3 gold coins into it. For the flower, I used a Martha Stewart punch, but you can easily use the flower in the SU set 'For All You Do' which I now have {g} it looks like a four leaf clover to me!

Supplies I used:

Cardstock: Black, Whisper White, Glorious Green, and Gold

Ink: Whisper White Craft

Accessories: Crimper, Word Window Punch, Cropadile, Gold Brads, Martha Stewart Flower Punch, Green Rhinestone

Here's the Template

Enjoy!  Thanks for stopping by!

Judy