Sometimes in Digital Scrapbooking it is nice to add a little bit of history to our scrapbooking pages. Then when others enjoy our projects they also might learn about the thing we are scrapping. Since St Patrick’s Day is coming up I thought I would scrap a big of history with my scrapbooking project.
If you want to know more about St Patrick’s Day see the info below and maybe it will inspire you to scrap a bit of history into your next digital scrapbooking project too!
History of St. Patrick’s Day
People all over the world honor St Patrick of Ireland. Some places have parades, some commemorate the holiday with Irish food, others wear green to celebrate the patron Saint.
Who is St. Patrick?
According to some historians, St Patrick was born in Britain during the 4th century, but was then kidnapped and enslaved 
by Irish raiders when he was a teenager.
Later he escaped his kidnappers and returned to Britain and became a priest. He later chose to return to Ireland as a missionary, in order to help spread the teachings of Christianity to pagans.
According to Irish folklore, he also used a shamrock to explain the Christian concept of Trinity to the Irish. In spite of continuous opposition from the native leaders, he continued to evangelize for thirty years while baptizing newly converted Christians and establishing monasteries, churches, and schools.
He died on March 17th and was canonized by the local church.
In America, St. Patrick’s Day was first publicly celebrated in Boston in 1737 where a large population of Irish immigrants resided.
Nearly 200 years later, the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in the Irish Free State was held in Dublin in 1931. During the mid 90’s, the Irish government also began a campaign to promote tourism in Ireland on March 17th.
For many Catholics, they quietly celebrate this day of religious observance by 
going to mass, however, for others, St. Patrick’s Day slowly evolved to become a celebration of Irish heritage.
As the years passed this holiday has been come to be associated with the legendary shamrocks and many other Irish symbols like leprechauns, wearing green, drinking and so forth.
Other places that join in on this celebration include Japan, New Zealand, Argentina, and Canada, along with many cities across the United States.
In fact, did you know that more than 100 St Patrick’s Day parades are held 
across the United States?
Want more history? Check St Patrick’s Day via History.com
Also, watch the DVD and learn more! See ~ The History of St. Patrick’s Day DVD
Scrap St Patrick’s Day
It is fun to get some photos and scrap your St Patrick’s Day traditions and on some pages include a bit of the history too!
Have a nice day and Happy Scrapping!
Get some Digital Scrapbooking Supplies for St Patrick’s Day:
Digitally scrap all of your St. Patrick’s Day traditions and the fun with the kids this year using the St. Patrick’s Day Digital Scrapbooking Kit. This Digital Scrapbooking kit is is filled with bright green papers and dipped in good-luck shamrocks! It also includes unique, golden digital coins with clever Irish sayings, and a pot filled with golden treasures; perfect for attracting any true, gold-hungry Leprechauns this holiday!
St. Patrick’s Day is now not only celebrated by just the Irish, but by anyone who wants to “think green” and find some gold for themselves! Use this fun St. Patrick’s Day Scrap Kit to digitally scrap the children in their green outfits, or perhaps making some St. Patty’s day crafts and leprechaun traps. However you use this kit to scrap, you and the kids will have a blast doing it and love looking back remembering all the fun you had on this very special day!
As you digitally scrap all of your St. Patrick’s Day traditions with the kids this year, use the St. Patrick’s Day Embellishment Kit to add extra detail and luck to all your digital 
scrapbooking projects!
The St. Patrick’s Day Embellishment Kit is specifically focused on all the fun stuff: adorable digital embellishments! From good-luck-shamrocks, to black cast-iron digital frames, and a golden pot of gold filled with treasures… the St. Patrick’s Day Embellishment Kit would make any true leprechaun proud!
St. Patrick’s Day is now not only celebrated by just the Irish, but by anyone who wants to “think green” and find some gold for themselves! Use this Embellishment Kit to sprinkle detail on your holiday projects, and to add a little St. Patty’s Day personalization to you and your digital scrapbooking pages.
Other Scrap Supplies and Kit:
The Lucky Green Quick Page Album Kit 1 (8.5×11″) is packed with St. Patrick’s Day and Irish luck inspired Quick Pages and also includes a FREE Bonus: St Patrick’ Day and Irish inspired WordArt! This kit is the perfect solution for creating beautiful digital scrapbooking pages for journals, albums and recipe books! Also, these pages are 8.5×11″ size perfect for home printing or turning into a PDF Album and email to family and friends!
This Quick Page kit is perfect, not only for St Patrick’s Day scrapbooking, but also great for creating every-day digital scrapbooking pages for any lucky or Green-themed project! Use this kit to create photo albums, journals, travel albums, recipe books, and more! The Quick Page Kit comes with a Quick Page that can be used as the cover for Journals, Albums, Recipe Books and More!
Digitally scrap all of your St. Patrick’s Day traditions with the kids this year using the St. Patrick’s Day Digital Scrapbooking Quick Page Kit. This Quick Page kit is filled with bright greens, sprinkled with good-luck-shamrocks, and even has several pots of gold at the end of the rainbow! Just add photos and you have a digital scrapbooking page!
The St. Patrick’s Day Quick Page Kit is exactly that… quick! Spend most of your time enjoying the holiday, looking for leprechauns, and wearing green to avoid those nasty pinches; then remember this year’s precious holiday memories with a kit that scraps fast!
Use St Patrick’s Day Custom Brushes in your Note Card design:
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Our training comes with not only videos about brushes in general, but how to load brushes two different ways to use in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, and the benefits of both ways!
Also, our Brush Training comes with another video tutorial just about using Custom Brushes, (tips and tricks) so you can really enjoy them in Digital Scrapbooking Projects and Crafts.
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