July Materials Swap - Birds

 

Once again I have a card created for a materials swap.  As I've mentioned before, this is where we create a card - saving a set of duplicate materials to send to a swap partner.  This time the theme was "BIRDS".  And here is the set of materials I used in creating this card:

The set of supplies includes: 3 papers - two I had in my stash from HOTP, and one that I printed from a Crafts U Print freebie.  I added another small paper that I stamped on - from a Fiskars Special Delivery stamp set.  Then there was a Hunkydory Little Book page from the Little Book of Memorable Moments.  Then I added a couple of sentiments and a border from a Hunkydory Cute & Cuddly Whopper Topper book.  The last thing is a 20" or so piece of thin white string.

Card Front:

And here's the card I made with those materials.  As you can see, I fussy cut various elements of the little book page to create my own scene using the "sky" colored printed paper.  I matted this on the dark yellow dotted paper, then the lighter yellow gingham.  I finished the card front by trimming the silver foiling off the sentiments, then adding them as you see in the picture.

Inside:

Inside I used leftover scraps, and the border piece (from which I also removed the silver foiling) to create some borders top and bottom.  I added the fussy cut balloons from the little book page - to which I added pieces of the string.  I fussy cut the little baby outfit & put it in the bottom right-hand corner before stamping a sentiment to complete the inside of my card.

Next up is the card I made from the materials my swap partner sent to me.  Here's a picture of them:

Before putting the card together, I needed to plan my card so I made good use of my materials - since it's against the rules to add anything other than ink or other media or adhesives.  

First, I needed to decide how to use the card stock panel & focal panel.  I decided that most of the card stock panel would be used for the inside of the card, but I needed to cut out a section of it so it would fit properly.  I saved the strip I cut out of it to use for the bottom of the card front.  

 

Next, I wanted to die cut some greetings from the brown mat material - cutting them from portions that would be covered by the other elements of the card.  Dies used were Stacked Happy Birthday from Creative Expressions and 5 x 7 Card and Box set by Card Making Magic.

 

Then I was ready to put together the card front.  First the brown background was glued in place - then the leftover strip of card stock from the inside.  Next, I put foam tape on the back of the focal (which I had glued to a piece of white card stock and then trimmed to the size I wanted), and placed it as you see.  Finally, I added the buttons.

Inside:

Inside, I simply added the modified printed card stock piece - and then added the greeting to the middle of it.