HD - 4 pages from HD LB of Perfect Planet

Today I used some pages from Hunkydory's Little Book of Perfect Planet - 4 pages made 4 cards.  Here are the pages I started with:

I used these pages and materials from my stash to make these four cards:

I'll show a closer look at each below.

Card #1:

I COULD have just made the frame and put the full LB page behind it, but instead I die cut the page using the same die as for the frame (Spellbinders Essential Modern Ovals).  After embossing the card front (Tufted 3D 5.5 x 8.5 embossing folder from Spellbinders), I added the framed picture.  I suspect when I figure out the occasion or who I'm sending this to, I'll add a greeting of some kind.

Card #2:

Blue wallpaper is the background for this card.  As you can see, I used circle dies for the focal, sentiment, and mats - specifically Double Stitched Circles from Kat Scrappiness. The sentiment was from Sassy's LLC and the first mat from that was some hay bales paper from my stash. I finished the card with a few silhouette cat dies.  The larger one is from Spellbinders Country Road Collection - the die set called Garden Builder.  The smaller ones - both here and on the inside are from a small set of cat dies from Impression Obsession.

Inside:

As you can see, I just created a border on the inside using a strip of the wallpaper and a bunch of the silhouette die cut cats.

Card #3:

This card used the gold oval I cut from Card #1 as a mat for my focal - die cut with another die from the same set.  The sentiment is again from Sassy's LLC - matted in gold using another die from the Double Stitched Circles set from Kat Scrappiness.  The background was created by embossing a piece of yellow card stock using an embossing folder from Cuttlebug called 5x7 African Weave.  Using a brown Distress Ink called Vintage Photo and a foam applicator, I added brown to the raised areas.

Card #4:

As you can probably tell, I worked hard so that my cards didn't all just look like a Little Book page stuck on a card.  This shaped card was probably my most unusual.  I used dies from a set called Stitched Hearts from Creative Dies Designs.  I scored & folded a piece of black card stock and then cut it with the top of the die just hanging off the edge so the fold remained intact at the very top of the heart.  I then cut another complete one to serve as the card front and glued it in place on top of the folded heart shape.  I cut two smaller hearts from white card stock.  One went in the inside to provide a place for a message.  The other was colored using foam applicators with: Spun Sugar Distress Ink,  Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink, and Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink (picking up the colors from the focal's background as best I could) and added as a mat for the focal on the card front.  I then added the heart shaped focal (again cut using a smaller heart die from the set).  Finally, I added a little sentiment from a Hunkydory Little Book of Essential Sentiments to complete my card.