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Please enjoy this break in our Fabric Challenge while we celebrate St. Patrick's Day with our Reporter; Michelle Laycock!

If you are like me and you admire the Celtic designs on Irish dance costumes, then you will love the line of rubber stamps at Scottish Borders Stamping. Today I offer a St. Patrick's Day special Craft Critique feature all about Celtic stamps and also an additional Celtic stamping feature on Ink Artist! Grab an ale or Irish Breakfast Tea and enjoy!

Scottish Borders Stamping has a full line of Irish, Scottish, and British stamp designs. They also carry Medieval, mythological and fantasy designs. Their stamps are available in either unmounted or mounted and they are red rubber and deeply etched. They are a Scottish owned and operated family business based in Houston, Texas. With greeting stamps in English, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh languages, they cover just about all the stamping needs of British Isles fans worldwide.

For those who can only dream of what it was like to be a Medieval scribe creating beautiful illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells, Scottish Borders Stamping satisfies this dream by offering a selection of beautifully illuminated words. These stamps are perfect for using in scrapbook pages chronicling your own family.

Brides who wish to design wedding invitations and accessories with a Celtic theme simply love their selection of Celtic wedding symbols.

For some people, the whole idea of coloring small detailed areas of Celtic knotwork images isn't very appealing. I have a tip that will help you conquor your fears of knotwork detail and bring out your Irish creativity!

My easy tip? Emboss first! That's right, Use a pigment ink to stamp your Celtic image and emboss using either a clear or sparkly embossing powder. Once your image is embossed, the raised lines will keep your marker tip in check, enabling you to keep the beautiful colors inside the lines! Please enjoy a video Tutorial here.

This bookmark was made with a circular knotted stamp image from one of the cube stamps. The cube stamps include 4 different images on one stamp cube. Waterfall cards are ideal to create with the four coordinating circular images on the cube stamps. Take a look at this waterfall card.

The Design Team at Scottish Borders Stamping has created other Waterfall card samples here. Some are colored in, some are embossed and some are just stamped direct to paper.

Ever fancy ordering a clan badge for using on stationery? Make the members of your family "green" with envy when you use your clan badge! Here is a notecard I made with my clan badge "Macpherson"! If they don't have a stamp for the clan you are looking for, they will do their best to have one made up!

If knotwork is not your style, Scottish Borders Stamping has whimsical Irish images to satisfy you.

Design Team member Julia Shanahan from Dublin, Ireland made this fun card: