May Swaps

Once again, I have cards I made for May swaps on the message board I frequent.  The one you see above is the card I made for the materials swap - which needed a transportation theme.  Here are the materials I used - and what I sent to my swap partner:

Materials include a 5 x 7 card base and envelope, a piece each of white and black card stock, a sentiment printed from Sassy's LLC greetings, a stamped image on white card stock (from a Motorcycle small stamp from HOTP), some gold dotted red hand made paper, a piece of stone-look Hunkydory Adoreable Scoreable card stock, some scraps of a subtle red patterned paper, and a sheet from Hunkydory's Little Book of High Street.

And now for a closer look at the card I made:

I started by cutting up the LB page a bit.  I cut out the delivery guy on the scooter, cut off the awning, and then trimmed a bit on the sides and bottom of the remaining.  As you can see, I started by using the dotted hand-made red as a mat (cutting out the center of it to save in case I needed it later).  I cut a piece of white card stock to A2 size and proceeded to create my scene:

• Glued the narrow strips of red patterned paper on the side
• Added a strip of the AS to create a stony "road" 
• Adhered the main piece of the LB page that remained
• I matted the whole panel on black (once again cutting out the center and reserving it to use for other matting needs)
• Using some of this saved black, I matted the awning
• I attached the awning by gluing it at the top and adding foam squares at the bottom.
  
• After matting scooter guy on white, I added him with foam tape.  
• I rounded the corners of the sentiment and matted it before adding it as you see
• Finally, I glued fun foam to the back of the whole panel and added it to the card front.

Inside:

Inside I used a leftover strip of the dotted red and fussy cut the motorcycle to embellish it.

Materials Swap - Partner's Materials:

My partner sent two balloons in her kit - one that was colored and one that wasn't.  I chose the one that wasn't colored and added my own colors.  (Her coloring looked better, but I wanted specific colors.)  Anyway, here's the card I made using her materials:

I used the blue patterned paper for the background, and tore a strip from the green to form grass.  You can see how I added the other elements.  I DID stamp the little raccoon on a scrap of the materials & colored him with Inktense pencils before fussy cutting (stamp from Heartfelt Creations - I have matching dies, but didn't bother!).  Everything was glued on except the balloon which was added with foam tape.

Card Swap - theme is water:

I really got a kick out of using this page from Hunkydory's Little Book of Memorable Moments as my focal for a "water" theme.  I hope the recipient enjoys it as I did.  To make it, I cut the page in two pieces by cutting around the bathtub & feet, leaving the front part intact.  I glued the top part to a piece of white card stock that would serve as a mat.  Then I added the cut off piece - glue at the bottom, foam tape around the far edge of the bathtub and the feet.  For the patterned paper background, I cut up an old card blank from HOTP.  After adding my prepared focal, I die cut "Happy Birthday" from both white and black (die is a "Mini" from Creative Expressions).  After layering them with the black underneath - offset a bit to form a shadow - I glued it as the greeting toward the bottom of the card.

Inside:

After adding pieces of the leftovers from the card front for borders top and bottom, I used a stamp from Crafter's Companion Compendium - the sheet called Birthday Female - to add the sentiment on the inside.

Digi-Swap:

Finally, here's the "digi-swap" card I made - using printouts of digital papers.  As you can see, I added a bit of colored card stock, ribbons from my stash, and a Sassy's greeting to complete the card.  Dies used were from a Spellbinders' set called Decorative Labels One.

Digi-Swap #2:

I have found I like to make sure I've finished up the printed digi-papers rather than leaving them sitting in my stash - they seldom get used that way!  So, here's my second card using up the rest of the printed digi-paper (except for small scraps that I can EASILY throw away!).  I actually like this one better than the first - and I worked far harder on the first.  That's just the way it is, sometimes.  I again used Decorative Labels One dies and Sassy's greetings.  The green was scrap that I found in my stash.  The flowered mat was cut from the panel of the previous card (hole hidden behind the focal).