A Cuddly Christmas - There's Snow-One Quite Like You!

This time I have cards from the Hunkydory A Cuddly Christmas collection - the set called There's Snow-One Quite Like You!   Here is what the set looked like when I started:

As is normal with a standard (not deco) set, this set had a sheet of die cuts and two sheets of AS (adoreable scoreable card stock).  To this, I added things from my stash to make a total of 8 cards:

While I'm only showing the card fronts here, they ARE finished on the inside - mostly with scraps, but some die cuts were used there as well.  Below is a closer look at each card front.

Card #1:

For this first one, I just used a piece of the AS for a backdrop and added a focal image and sentiment - easy peasy!

Card #2:

 

This one was also pretty straight forward - a piece of the AS (I inked the edges in gold) along with a border strip (split behind the sentiment because it wasn't quite long enough) and a sentiment piece.

Card #3:

 

I chose to make this one a birthday card because I didn't think the artwork was particularly Christmasy - even with the colored lights.  The background was created from pieces, so I added the ribbon to hide the join - then added the sentiment (from a Hunkydory Essential Book of Sentiments).

 

Card #4:

 

This time I made a fold-back card because I was dealing with leftover pieces of the AS.  I used the wider strip on the folded back card front and the smaller strip on the right hand side - along with a border strip.  As you can see, I enhanced the small reindeer square die cut by matting and framing it to create a stronger focal.  I then added the sentiment to the lower right.

Card #5:

 

For the cards made with the blue AS, I cut most of it to create four A2 panels.  This gave me two pieces that were just the blue print and two with borders on them.  It also left me with a strip of striped AS that I used later.  For this one, I just took one of the panels that had no border on it, inked the edges, and added the focal and sentiment.  

 

Card #6:

 

This card uses the other plain blue panel, but I used the cut off strip top and bottom - along with scrap from the die cut sheet - to create borders.  Once again I needed to enhance the focal square - which I did by cutting a piece of scrap from the die cut sheet that gave me the frame shape.  There were a few places where I used a gold Sharpie to "fill in" missing gold foil.  The sentiment added to the bottom right completed the card.

Card #7:

 

By this point I didn't have much left beyond the two bordered pieces of AS - both of which had gold Sharpie drawn around the edges.  I DID have a long border strip, so I took part of that to add a bit more interest to the border.  I also had the sentiment.  I went looking through my stash and found this little elf-like creature that I decided would work for a focal.

 

Card #8:

For this last one, I added the remaining border piece at the top - then found a printed greeting in my stash and mounted it on gold before adding to the border.  For a focal, I found this printed and fussy cut person sledding and added it to the lower right as you can see.