HD Twilight Forest - Wisdom in the Wilderness

Today's cards come from a Hunkydory kit called HD Twilight Forest - the set called Wisdom in the Wilderness.  Here is the set as it came from Hunkydory:

It consists of a sheet of die cut focals, frames, sentiments and a border, and two sheets of AS (Adorable Scoreable Card Stock).  I've gotten to where when I start working with a set like this, I first punch out all the die cuts, and look at the remaining scraps to see what might be made useful.  Then I cut up the AS sheets, first preserving what might serve as focal material, then what will work as background for other things. 

The first AS sheet in this set has a border panel separated from the rest is a basic purple pattern by a black and white border.  I started by cutting this border out, leaving 2 other pieces - the printed border piece (let's call it A) and the plainer pattern.  I cut the remaining plainer patterned piece into another slimline size (B) and a 5X7 piece (C).  This left me with a few scraps to use on the insides of the card.

The 2nd AS sheet had two clear areas that would make a focal - the right side with the owl in the tree, and the left side with the bats flying in front of the moon.  I cut the right side to make a slimline card (D), and the left to make a landscape - just shy of  5 x 7 (E).  This left another slimline piece across the top (F).

And here are the cards I made using the set & misc from my stash - 4 slimlines . . .

And 3 regular sized cards:

Let's look at each a little closer:

Card #1:

This card uses a piece "B" of the AS, the black and white border, a die cut piece matted with white, and a greeting die cut from white (Creative Expressions mini die called Happy Birthday).  

Card #2:

Next up, is a card using piece "E" of the AS.  It also uses a piece of black Mirri board from my stash as a mat for the patterned AS.  For a focal, I took a square frame from the die cut set and paired it with a smaller rectangle die cut to make a focal.  Then, near the bottom, I added a sentiment from the die cut sheet.

Card #3:

As you can probably see, this card uses piece "A" of the AS - once again matted with the black Mirri.  I took a die cut frame and used it to highlight a portion of the AS for a focal - then added a die cut greeting at the bottom (Stacked Happy Birthday from Creative Expressions).

Card #4:

Here we have piece "D" from the AS.  I simply added a sentiment from the die cut sheet, and half a frame from it as well (cut from one corner to the opposite corner).

Card #5:

Piece "E" of the AS forms the base for this card.  As you can see, I used the border across about an inch from the bottom of the card - then added a black die cut sentiment (same die as card #3).

Card #6:

For this card I started with a black die cut mat (Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles Two - I cut one in white for the inside - not shown - and matted it on black).  I knew I wanted to use the frame on angle as shown behind the focal die cut, but it was too big.  SO, I cut it down in size by cutting it in half from corner to corner, then crossing the cut pieces, sliding them closer together until they were the size I wanted.  Then I cut through the new corners that were created and taped the two (now smaller) pieces back together.  If you look closely, you might be able to see the join top & bottom of that frame.  After I had the frame & focal glued down, I finished by adding a sentiment die cut.

Card #7:

This time I took the piece piece that was just smaller than 5 x 7 and cut it in half on the diagonal .  One piece went on the card front as you see here, the other went on the inside of the card in a similar way.  The focal and sentiment were matted on white corrugated pieces that were left over from a Stampin' Up card set.

More Masculine High Street Makes

I got a request from my Aunt for a mix of birthday cards, so turned to my Hunkydory Little Book of High Street for inspiration.   Here are the 4 pages I chose. 

You may note that I used three of them recently (all but the sports one).  Two of the cards I made previously, I liked so well that I decided to duplicate a couple of them for her (with a few modifications).  Those are the two at the top in the picture below - along with the other two cards I made from this set of little book pages.

Below is a closer look at each.  I haven't yet stamped the message on  the inside of the cards, as I want to use my Mom's stamps for that since they're much better for that purpose than any I've been able to purchase.

Card #1:

As you can see, this is a center step card.  The background is from a coordinating High Street Adorable Scoreable (AS) pack of card stock. The tag is from my stash, stamped with a Hampton Arts stamp from a Clear Layer Words set.  The border & music accents are from a HOTP Scrapbook Dazzles set.

Inside:

Here I have a scrap of the background AS, and more of the Dazzles.  The violin is backed with some gold paper from my stash.

Card #2:

Here scraps of the same background as Card #1 form the background.  A piece of aqua card stock from my stash forms the mat for the focal.  The label that says Happy Birthday, was stamped and heat embossed in white using a stamp from Hunkydory called Perfect Pastime.  The word "GADGETS" was spelled out using pierced alphabet dies in my stash.

Inside:

Inside I have a simple border of scraps from the card front.  

Card #3:

This third card uses a background of more AS from the coordinating set.  After trimming the store front focal, I inked the edges before gluing in place.  The awning is added with foam tape at the top, a greeting tag tucked underneath (from a Hunkydory Little Book of Sentiments).

Inside:

Inside are border scraps and a couple soccer balls and cleated shoes from my stash.

Card #4:

This last card was created with a black glimmer paper background - embossed with a Spellbinders M-bossabilities folder called Imperial.  After trimming the store front and gluing it in place, I added the awning with foam tape at the bottom.  The "Happy Birthday" sentiment is stamped on a scrap of yellow card stock (HOTP stamp from set called Masculine Collage).

Inside:

As you can see, I once again added borders of scraps used on the card front.

Some Floral LB Makes

I really DO like the look of Hunkydory Little Book (LB) pages turned into slimline cards like you see above!  For this post, I have chosen another 4 LB pages to turn into cards - though only one was made into a slimline card (and since I had forgotten I didn't want a slimline card - I made a 2nd card - a side step card using another copy of the same little book page - you can see that one at the bottom of this post as card #5).  You can see the 4 pages below:

The page in the lower left-hand corner is from the LB of Floral Shimmer, but the rest are from the LB of Forever Florals - Summer Splendour.  And here are the cards I made using them:

The blue butterfly one is similar to another I made recently.  My favorite is the slimline card.

Card #1:

I had forgotten that since I was making these for Geof's aunt, I wanted them all a similar size for mailing - and slimline wouldn't do!  But I do SO love the way the slimline turned out!  The main portion of the background is cut from a sheet of Hunkydory Adorable Scoreable (AS) set called Glitter Ombre.  While it has no shimmering glittery shine like real glitter would, it tends to work really well to blend with other colors - like these Zinnias!  

After slicing off the focal portion of the LB page, I cut the lower edge along the border/label.  Next, I fussy cut out the butterflies.  Then I thinly matted both butterflies, the focal, and the border/label piece with black paper.  You can see how I added the border/label piece at the base of the card and glued the focal in place before adding the butterflies - with foam tape under their wings for dimension.

I then made the sentiment piece by die cutting the pale orange (from Spellbinders Labels 28), matting it with a narrow edge of black paper, and die cutting the sentiment from both white and black.  I glued  those, slightly offset, to the  label before adding it with foam tape.

Card #2:

Next up is the Gladiolus card.  This time I inked the card base - using 3 different colors of Distress inks to create a color that blended well with the focal - Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick, Aged Mahogany.  To that, I simply added the intact LB page as focal and a tag with foam tape (cutout from Debbi Moore download - backed with more inked card stock).

Inside:

I used more of the inked card stock for a lower border & added a stamped/die cut lily (Hunkydory Lily Floral Favourites), which I tried to color to blend with the card front.  Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as I would have liked.  I think I used the wrong medium to color it - Inktense inks & water instead of maybe distress inks?

Card #3:

This card is similar to another one I made recently - a Thank You card shown here.  The background is another of those Glitter Ombre AS pieces. The focal was cut into a frame with the butterflies fussy cut.  The frame was backed with white card stock.  The Glitter Ombre & the frame were both inked around the edges.  The first was glued directly to the card front, the 2nd was added with foam tape for dimension.  

The die cut sentiment was made using paper from my stash and dies from Card Making Magic's Ultimate Words (from their Perfect Panels and Lovely Layers collection), then glued in place, along with the large blue butterfly and two small lavender ones (on the words).

Inside:

Another inked panel of the AS, and the last fussy cut butterfly create a border on the inside of the card.

Card #4:

This last card was quite easy to make. I glued the LB page intact to the background card stock I found in my stash.  Then I added another little strip of that card stock to form a border near the bottom of the card.  I die cut a sentiment (Stacked Birthday from Creative Expressions - cut apart) from yellow card stock and glued it in place as you see it.

Card #5:

Here's a card made with the 2nd copy of the Zinnia LB page.  I don't like it quite as well as the slimline, but it works.  I did pretty much the same as for the slim-line - cutting the page down, cutting out the butterflies, matting all with black, adding butterflies back with foam tape.  This time I cut out the entire label about zinnias and matted it with black putting it on the 2nd step as you can see.  I created a greeting label (Stacked Happy Birthday die from Creative Expressions and a die from HOTP 9 Tiny Tags and Little Labels).  I finished with a Dazzles border sticker from a HOT Scrapbooking Dazzles set (don't remember the name).

3 More Little Book Pages

Monday's card was the first of another set of 4 Hunkydory Little Book (LB) pages.  Here are the pages I used:

You saw the card I made from the one in the upper right corner on Monday.  Here are the other 3 cards made from these pages:

Card #1:

For this card, I used some Hunkydory Adorable Scoreable card stock (AS) from a set called Glitter Ombre.  I fussy cut the center out of the LB page - then fussy cut each of the 4 butterflies (2 large & 2 small).  Then I glued the LB frame I cut out, to a white piece of card stock & cut it to size before inking the edges of this and the AS background.  Next, I stamped "Thank You" (from a HOTP set called Thank You!) in purple ink  and then adding one of the large butterflies & the two smaller ones.

Inside:

Inside I added a border of the AS (edges inked), the remaining butterfly, and a stamped message (one of my Mom's stamps).

Card #2: (See previous post here.)

Card #3: 

Once again I cut out the inside of the frame.  This time I was careful to preserve the inside & glued it in place on the card.  Next, I matted the frame in purple and cut a piece of fun foam to fit around the frame.  I sandwiched clear acetate between the fun foam and the matted frame, found some fun shaker elements and then glued the fun foam to the card front with the shaker elements (sequins and "diamonds" from diamond painting) between.

Inside:

 Inside I added a tag I had made previously that matched the inside of the card front pretty well, stamped a quick message using one of my Mom's stamps, and this card was complete.

Card #4:

The final card is a center step card.  The background is from another Glitter Ombre AS sheet - edges inked.  As you can see, I cut the borders off the LB page and used them on the sides.  I trimmed what was left to fit in the center with a narrow border of the AS around it.  I added two layers of ribbon & a ribbon bow to the lower border, and then made a little sentiment for the upper left corner - die cut from the AS with HOTP die from a set called 9 Tiny Tags and Little Labels, and then stamped with a stamp from their Stamp & Punch set of stamps. Edges were inked and clear embossing powder applied and heated to protect the stamped image, before adding to the card with foam tape.

Inside:

Inside I have a couple inked AS strips & a stamped message (using one of my Mom's stamps).

A Card & A Scrapbook Page

Today I've got another scrapbook page and another card.  

Scrapbook Page:

First, the scrapbook page which you can see in the picture above. I don't remember where the pink background paper came from, but as you can see, it was used both for the background, and for the title letters (misc dies from my stash - including 1.5 inch dies from Momenta).  I added purple patterned paper scraps from the HOTP Finished In a Flash kit called Baby Girl.  That's also where the word "crawling" came from (though I matted it on white).  White card stock from my stash, helped as well.  The focal picture was matted on white card stock cut with a die from the Fleur De Lis Rectangles set from Spellbinders.   I hand cut the tag, matted it a couple of times and added it with a rhinestone flower to hold it in place - then added a couple more of those flowers.  

A quick note: I did not have the right size of number die, so I took a "G", trimmed it a bit, filled in the piece that had been cut between one side & the other, and called it good.  For the exclamation mark, I just fussy cut one - started with the center of the "O" in months for the dot of the exclamation mark.

Card:

Here I have a cut-away Hunkydory little book page (Little Book of High Street), with embossed panels top and bottom (Lacy Border embossing folder from HOTP).

Inside:

This is actually a thank you card - and that will be evident when I fill in the personal message.  I wanted to include a gift card, so that's what that blue vellum envelope is all about.  In the upper right corner is a pink needle & thread - stamped from a set called Sew Pretty, which came in a card making magazine.  The pin cushion at the bottom was stamped (Small Stamp from HOTP called Pin Cushion) 3 times in black: once directly on the card, once on blue patterned paper for the main pin cushion piece, and once on pink patterned paper for the little center.I used pink and tan markers to color in the rest that you see.

4 Little Book Page Cards

Today I needed some more masculine cards, so I chose 4 pages from Hunkydory's Little Book of High Street to work with.  You can see the four I chose in the picture below.

And here are the cards I made from them.  I have both a portrait and a landscape style of regular cards, a slimline, and a center step:

And then a closer look at each one:

Card #1:

I used a piece of black paper that was embossed with a metal-like pattern to mat the yellow I used for the card background.  Then the LB (little book) page got fussy cut into little pieces that were then matted on black paper.  The "inside of the shop" is one piece - glued directly to the card front.  The 2nd piece is the outside - attached with thin foam squares.  The 3rd piece is the awning - attached with thicker foam squares at the bottom and directly attached at the top.

Inside:

Inside are scraps from the background & a stamped message (my mom's stamps).

Dimension:

It's not a great photo, but I'm trying to show the dimension caused by the foam squares.

Card #2:

I must admit that these store fronts have challenged me.  I don't want all my cards the same, but it seems so straightforward to put it on a card that is just a bit bigger than the card front and call it good.  If I'm not careful, all my storefront cards will look like that!  So, this one is put on a landscape card.  I put a strip of turquoise to serve as a mat (the background is AS (Adorable Scoreable card stock) from the coordinating card stock pack), and cut a strip of darker teal to cover the sign on the awning.  As you can see, I stamped & heat embossed the words "Happy Birthday" onto this.

I liked the look of matting it and offsetting it (after trimming & fussy cutting the piece), but then I had what felt like too much white space on the right-hand side, so I added the word "GADGETS" on the side.

Inside:

Inside I again offset the border & stamp (from Birthday Cheer by HOTP).  This time so that I'll have room to write a personal message before I send this card out.

Card #3: 

As you can see, this is a center step card.  The background paper is AS from the coordinating High Street set of card stock.  The focal was cut down from the Little Book page.  The greeting is a freebie download from Debbi Moore.  The piano border & notes are Scrapbooking Dazzles (HOTP).

Inside:

More of the same - plus the trumpet dazzle was backed with gold metallic paper.  The stamped sentiment was one of my Mom's stamps.

Card #4:

This last one is a slimline card.  AS from the coordinating set of card stock forms borders top & bottom - they were inked with brown ink & then brown ribbon runs along the top & bottom edge of the focal.  Focal was trimmed on the sides to fit.  The sentiment is a die cut (Stacked Happy Anniversary from Creative Expresions) as are the music symbols (Music Panels from Paper Discovery).

Inside:

Inside is more of the same - plus a stamped message using another of my Mom's stamps.