Today I went back to the Hunkydory Flight of the Butterflies collection - this time the Antique Emerald set (from which I must have used some of the adorable scoreable card stock and one of the toppers). To this I added some leftovers from other sheets in this collection, as well as a few die cuts from a HOTP set and other items from my stash. Using these items I created six cards.
Card #1: (above) I found the printed AS (adorable scorable card stock) in this set rather challenging. The printed pattern really only looked good one way, but cutting it to fit a card front and having the butterfly tags intact was challenging. Also, the die cut elements were vertical, and horizontal ones would have been easier for standard card sizes. At any rate, for this first card I chose to make a standard sized card and just cut a little off the sides of the tags so it would fit. This meant there was no room to spare to add a mat, so it went on the card just plain. After inking the edges, I added a vertical die cut piece, a sentiment, and a butterfly from my stash (it does NOT have blue on it - that's just what the camera saw when photographing the holographic butterfly!).
Inside:
Inside I used another piece of the AS & a die cut sentiment from the kit.
Card #2:
I didn't like this focal with the AS provided, so decided to make an embossed background for it. I used an A2 embossing folder called Butterfly Swirls (Darice), and Peeled Paint Distress ink. Since it was an A2 folder, it didn't really fit for a 5" x 6.5" card, so I did two things to make it work. First, to do the embossing, I had to cut front & back apart & tape together from the side instead of the top! Second, I added strips of green glimmer paper where the embossing ended since it looked really weird without them! The die cut is matted on a piece of gold poster board that was die cut using a die from Decorative Labels Eight (Spellbinders). The sentiment is from my HD Little Book of Essential Greetings.
Inside:
Similar elements form the inside, but this time the mat was cut with a die from Luscious Labels One (again from Spellbinders).
Card #3:
This background was created by combining a piece of the AS with a border die cut from the kit and a piece of green paper from my stash. After matting this on gold poster board, I backed the die cut (from the set) with a piece of gold poster board that had been cut with a die from Fancy Tags die set (Spellbinders). A few Jewel Dazzles (HOTP) complete the card front.
Inside:
Inside is more of that prepared & matted background - this time with a Scrapbooking Dazzle butterfly (HOTP).
Card #4:
Because of the orientation of the AS & the die cuts, I ended up making several tall cards to fit in standard business size envelopes. This is the first of those. In addition to elements from the card kit, I added gold poster board, ribbon from my stash, and Jewel Dazzles.
Inside:
Inside we have another die cut from the set, a strip of gold poster board with a snippet from a border from a different HD set to create the sentiment. Butterfly is from the dollar store (and does NOT have blue on it - trick of the light), and the "trail" is outline stickers.
Card #5:
For this card I used a die cut panel (gold poster board cut with a Leaf Panel die from Simply Made Crafts). The focal was pieced together from a die cut and border strip from the set along with some gold poster board. The sentiment is another die cut from the set.
Inside:
Inside I wanted a bit of green, so took a scrap from the die cut sheet & backed it with gold poster board to create a border. The tag is from the kit - accented with a piece of ribbon from my stash.
Card #6:
The focal is a Hunkydory die cut, but I'm not sure if it was originally from this set or from another. At any rate, it's matted on a die cut piece from a HOTP set and embellished with die cut leaves from that same HOTP set (not sure what it was called). The background is pieced from leftover pieces of AS and edged with gold poster board. The sentiment is another die cut piece of gold poster board (Fancy Tags die from Spellbinders) and matted on a piece of green card stock from my stash. The sentiment itself is a leftover piece of a border strip from another HD set.
Inside:
More of the same inside finishes this 6th card.
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