Something New for St. Patrick's Day on our Office Holiday Tree

It's time to redecorate the office holiday tree

again.  This month of course is

St. Patrick's Day, so I've taken off

all of the Valentine glitter, romance, reds and pinks

and changed it out for greens and gold.

In addition to the little leprechaun hats,

pots of gold and shamrocks

(see last years tree post here)

I've added gold horseshoes for 

a wee bit of Irish Luck!!

To make these I cut horseshoe shapes from

white foam board and glued on

gold holograph paper which was

actually a large gift bag found at the

Dollar Store.

Whenever I'm looking for a specific

decorative paper and can't find it 

the Dollar Store Gift Bags are my "go to".

Gift bags are made with sooo many pretty papers

so use them like art paper.

Just cut off the bottoms and sides and you

have a decorative paper many times

even larger than the typical 8 x 10 or 

12 inch square decorative art paper.

You end up with 2 sheets for $1.00!!

After I glued the gold paper onto the 

horseshoes I poked holes

through with an awl.

Then threaded a glittery narrow green ribbon

to tie a bow at the top.

Have a wonderful St.Patty's day!

You may also be interested in my Blarney Cake

and Shamrock Cut-Out Sugar Cookies recipes.