Happy St. Pat's Day!

"May there always be work for your hands to do.

May your purse always hold a coin or two.

May the sun always shine on your windowpane.

May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.

May the hand of a friend always be near you.

May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you."

I love the image above and use it often when doing something for St. Pat's Day.  I recently did a charm swap with a St. Pat's Day theme with my Art Charms Group on Yahoo and used this image along with some of my other favorites.  Each charm could be no more than 1.5" long, so I resized the images to 1" and did an image transfer process to create each charm.  

 

Here are the charms I received . . .   

Top Row, L-R:  Charm by Denise Mitchell, Elaine Paullus, Bella Richey, Bella Richey, Kerri Creasy, and Mary Higby.  Bottom Row, L-R:  Bev Breisinger, Linda DeWitt, Kathleen Leanna, Donna Butcher, and me.

Another one of the Art Charm swaps I participated in this past month was a "Color" Swap with the theme of Green/and Gold. It was perfect for building a charm bracelet along with the St. Pat's charms.  

Here are my charms:

and the charms I received . . . 

Top Row, L-R:  Charm by Bella Richey, Bev Breisinger, Mary Higby, Donna Butcher, Kathleen Leanna, Kerri Creasy, Kathleen Leanna, and Leanne Olsen.  Bottom Row, L-R:  Bella Richey, Pam Hartman, Leannne Olsen, Denise Mitchell, Pam Hartman, K. Carroll, Denise Mitchell, and K. Carroll.