There are many ideas that can easily be adapted for other holidays, Spring parties or even a Rainbow Birthday Party!

St. Patrick’s Day Decorating

• St. Patrick’s Day Mantel with Rainbow Tissue Flowers and a Free Lucky Printable Banner
• Luck of the Irish Door Hanging
• Rainbow Pinwheel Wreath

St. Patrick’s Day Dessert

• Irish Cream Push Pops and Trifle
• Green Velvet Cupcakes with Candy Clay Shamrock from Cupcake Chronicles Newsletter
• Leprechaun Cupcakes
• Shamrock Cookie Sandwiches shared on Lifetime Moms
• Mint Oreo Truffles
• St. Patrick’s Day Cookies
• Irish Jello Shots
• Key Lime Dessert

Rainbow Treats

• Mini Rainbow Cupcakes on a Stick
• Mini Funfetti Sandwich Cookies
• Rainbow Oreo Pops
• Rainbow Cupcakes in a Jar shared on Lifetime Moms

We are kicking off this fun Rainbow Week with a little present for you! Charlotte, from The Paper Cupcake created the cutest Rainbow Printable Banner for you…and it’s FREE! Hang tight…keep reading…and I’ll share the printable at the end!

Last year, I shared several recipes with rainbow colors, the Rainbow Cupcakes and Rainbow Jello were definitely the most popular. And still are, so I thought it would be fun to put together a few more ideas with Rainbows, but this year kick it up a notch.

Do you remember the chalkboard on our Winter Mantel? Well, it’s proven once again to be such a fun decorating tool with the St. Patrick’s Day Mantel.

The Rainbow on the Mantel, really started with a vision from Doug this time, and then kind of evolved. We originally started the plan with a metal rod and some balloons, but after chatting a bit about how it would look and checking out the price of balloons, we changed our minds a bit and went with the Tissue Paper Flowers.

We kept the metal rod idea, but after trying to get the flowers to look right for quite awhile, we got rid of the rod and simply attached the flowers to the chalkboard.

Then came the writing on the chalkboard. Since the look of the St. Patrick’s Day Mantel was fun and whimsical, we decided to just randomly write words that are related to St. Patrick’s Day. I used the brilliant tip that Gina taught me when using chalk…wet the chalkboard and use wet chalk…simple!

What do you find at the end of a Rainbow? A Pot of Gold…of course…

We found the Pot filled with beads and gold at Walmart and the Leprechaun was left over from last year’s St. Patrick’s Day Mantel. Here is what I used to decorate with…

St. Patrick’s Day Mantel Supplies:

• Tissue Paper Flowers – learn how to make them HERE
• Chalkboard + chalk – remember to wet the chalkboard and use wet chalk {just soak the chalk in a damp cloth}
• Pot of gold {available at Walmart}
• Leprechaun
• Lucky Banner – print it out – THANK YOU to Charlotte from The Paper Cupcake
• Hang banner with twine and mini clothespins

So here’s the deal with the Rainbow Printable Banner…

First…head on over to The Paper Cupcake Facebook page and tell Charlotte how much you love her! And thank her for the printable!

Then..come back and click HERE, save and print the banner for your St. Patrick’s Day decorating!

Follow along as we share 17 days of St. Patrick’s Day Food and Fun…

• Day 1: Food, Decorations and Sweet Treats Round-up from 2011
• Day 2: Luck of the Irish Door Hanging
• Day 3: Irish Cream Push Pops & Trifle Recipe
• Day 4: Inspiration from Pinterest

A little Luck of the Irish decorating for you today

The one day of the year, you can celebrate being green…whether you are Irish or not!

Even though I shared my St. Patrick’s Day Mantel last year, I changed it up a bit, so I thought I would share it again.

1.  I started with a green gingham piece of fabric and a wired shamrock garland. On the front of the Mantel, I added the garland that I made last year. {directions below}

2.  Then on one ended I added St. Patrick’s Day Subway Art that I found at Today’s Fabulous Finds via Organize and Decorate Everything.

3.  Some plastic grass and a green vase to add color and texture, were added on the other end

4.  And in the middle, I added a bowl and mug that I bought several years ago at Hobby Lobby

Then came the small items

1.  Another cup that I found at Hobby Lobby

2.  Then filled it with plastic gold coins {simple trick if you don’t have enough to fill the mug, fill with paper or plastic bag, then just add coins to the top}

3.  And a Leprechaun to add a little more whimsy and luck

St. Patrick’s Day Garland

Do you have cookie cutters stashed away that don’t get used much? Put them to work with your crafts too!

You will need…

• Shamrock Cookie Cutters
• Green Construction Paper
• St. Patrick’s Day Printables {sources below}
• Ribbon
• A Sewing machine or glue

Trace shamrocks using cookie cutters onto construction paper. Print and cut out St. Patrick’s Day Printables {sources below}. Measure your ribbon the length you need for your Mantel or shelf. Then lay out the shamrocks and printables, and sew them on to the ribbon.

If you don’t sew, you can simply glue them onto the ribbon. Did you know Elmer’s has an amazing new line of craft adhesives? We have been using them for Casey’s Science Fair project.

St. Patrick’s Day Subway Art

Subway Art is all the rage now! I love all the different ideas there are…

For the Subway Art I used on the Mantel, I simply printed it out and slipped it into a frame. The frame has a little gold on it, that ties into the St. Patrick’s Day theme and the gold coins. I found it at Today’s Fabulous Finds.

1.  from Duct Tape and Hot Glue

2.  from Itsy Bitsy Paper

3.  from Krazy Craft Lady

4.  from Amy Tried It

 St. Patrick’s Day Printables

• Cupcake Toppers
• How Does She? Printables
• IShare Printables
• Tip Junkie

Linking to…Made by you Monday , Transformation Thursday, Saturday Night Special, Saturday Seven, Sundae Scoop

I know, I know…who is that crazy lady that’s decorating her mantle again? After having so much fun and such a great response for my Valentine Mantle, I just had to decorate it for St. Patrick’s Day. While I usually decorate for every season and every holiday, I don’t usually decorate too much for St. Patrick’s Day. I guess this has turned into a new tradition, coming up with a different mantle to share with you for every holiday.

Once again, I have broken down each step, to give you a play by play, easy to decorate, mantle.

1. Begin by gathering your supplies and decorations, since I don’t have too many actual St. Patrick’s Day decorations, I really needed to think outside the box on this one
2. I added some green gingham fabric
3. And a wire with shamrocks on it

1. I typed the Irish Blessing out and added shamrocks on the top and bottom, backed it with some green scrapbook paper and framed it
2. On the opposite end, because it creates good balance, I added a green vase with dried green hydrangeas (this was the first of my outside the box thinking)
3. This is how it looks when you place a large item at each end

1. I added some plastic grass (I know, weird, but it added color and texture)
2. I started collecting holiday dishes a few years back, so I do have a few St. Patrick’s Day pieces, the crystal piece is shaped like a shamrock
3. Then I filled a small crystal vase with green Jolly Ranchers (thinking outside the box again, I just searched the house for anything green)

1. I added my other dishes, the bowl gave me a little problem, as it wouldn’t stay up. I started with a small crystal plate (not in the picture) and had the glue gun heating up (yep, old blue to the rescue again ) Then I sat down to the computer and next to my monitor was this little candy dish, empty of course, it worked perfect to hold the bowl and I didn’t even have to use the glue gun.
2. Then I added my little wooden leprechaun
3. And decided the candy dish/bowl duo needed a little color, so I added a piece of fabric with shamrocks on it

1. Then while folding laundry in my bedroom (inspiration comes from many places for me) I happen to remember some jewelry that I had. So I added the bracelet to one end
2. And a shamrock that used to be a necklace (funny how we hold onto things for such a long time)

So, there you have it…another fun Mantle. And the best part, I spent $-0- on it.

Do you decorate for St. Patrick’s Day? How about some green food for dinner? You guessed it, I will be sharing our St. Patrick’s Day Dinner in a couple weeks.

Sorry for the pictures being all wonky, they are giving me a bit of a challenge right now.

This post linked to:

~St. Patrick’s Day Party hosted by Created By Diane

~Made by You Mondays hosted by Skip To My Lou

~St. Patrick’s Day Party hosted by Somewhat Simple

~Frugal Friday hosted by Life As Mom

~Frugalicious Friday hosted by Finding Fabulous

~Get Your Craft on Thursday hosted by Life as Lori

~Works For Me Wednesday hosted by We Are THAT Family