HD LB of Kittens - Balloons!

Today I have six cards made from some pages from Hunkydory's Little Book of Kittens book. Here's a quick look at the pages I used:

In addition, I used some cutouts from the same Little Book:

Here's a picture of all six cards:

And now for a closer look at each.

Card #1:

For the first card, I simply trimmed the LB page to fit and glued it on the front of a 4" x 6" card base.  I added a cut out sentiment on foam tape, then added some Stickles to the balloon, butterfly, and eyes.

Card #2:

I cut a frame from a gray patterned paper, then inked the edges of my LB page and glued both in place so there was some white showing on either side of the frame.  Once again I added the cut-out sentiment with foam tape.

Card #3:

This time I double matted the LB page - first on orange, then a peach colored print with torn edge at the bottom.  I then glued the cutout of the cat with the balloons in place and added the remaining cutouts with foam tape.

Card #4:

This time I used the inside of the frame from card #2 to form a mat for my focal (which I cut down from a LB page.  Both sentiment pieces are added with foam tape.  The one at the top was fussy cut from a LB page, the one at the bottom was die cut from plain white card stock, watercolored with gray Inktense pencil & water brush, and then stamped with a sentiment from the Hunkydory stamp set called Perfect Pastimes. 

Card #5:

Again I used a gray mat, but all the cut out pieces were glued directly - no foam tape.  THEN, I took a sheet of clear glitter covered sticky backed adhesive sheet and covered the whole to give a sparkly look to the whole.

Card #6:

For this last card, I trimmed the LB page to fit an A2 card.  Then I glued the cat/balloons and flower in place, but foam taped the butterfly and sentiment.  I added a ribbon & brad below the sentiment and a jewel center for the flower (these last additions were to fit a challenge).