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.