HD Meadow Farm - Walkies

Today I have another batch of cards that were made from a Hunkydory set.  The kit was called Meadow Farm Designer Deco-Large, and the specific set was Walkies.  Here's a look at the set I started with:

Deco large sets usually consist of one and a half sheets of die cut pieces (many of which are just parts of things in weird shapes - designed to layer on top of the main picture on the half-sheet), and one piece of printed Adoreable Scoreable card stock (AS).  This one was no exception as you can see in the picture above.  To this, I added stuff from my stash to create several cards.  I always challenge myself to see how many cards I can get from a set like this that is designed to create two cards (one with the layered pieces and one from the AS).  This time I got 7 cards from these materials:

 

As usual, I started by choosing the pieces I thought would work for focals.  That determined how many cards I'd make.  Often I make cards that are 5 x 7 in size, but this time they are all A2 sized.  

Now for a closer look at these cards and how I made them.

Card #1:

Usually I start by making the easy ones, but not this time.  This first card consists of one of the layoring pieces on a small piece of sky AS.  I aligned the piece right along the lower edge of the sky.  Then I took a border piece of the AS and a border die cut and taped them one on top of the other.  The space between these two pieces needed to be filled in with little scenery die cuts (which then had to be trimmed to align properly before gluing everything to the card front.  I used three more die cut pieces from the set to complete this card - 2 corner pieces and a sentiment piece.

Card #2:

Then I decided to make a couple that were fairly straight forward.  This one was cut to 4 1/8" wide, then a piece was cut out near the top and the top border taped to the rest, giving me a piece that was 4 1/8" by 5 3/8" with borders top and bottom.  I added a small bit of border sticker to serve as a "hanger" to hang the die cut sentiment (from the set).

Card #2:

Next up is another piece of AS - cut in a similar way as the last one, but horizontally.  I added the dog - which was a die cut piece.  However, to get his leaf covered foot to align with other leaves, I needed to use a craft knife to slit around the pink flowers so his front feet could be tucked behind them.  I finished with another die cut sentiment from the set.

Card #4:

This one is a bit unusual!  I had all these dog head pieces and really didn't want to use them as layers on my cards - so I came up with the idea of putting them all in a big basket (basket made using Stampendous Pop-up Kitties stamp and dies).  After getting them all situated in the basket, I glued the whole to white card stock and fussy cut around to form a white mat (so they would stand out from the background better.  The background paper, by the way, was a scrap from some old HOTP paper.  Before gluing the paper to the card front, I wrapped it with a ribbon to create a border that would hold my sentiment.  The sentiment is one from Sassy's LLC.  I inked the edge of it with maroon ink.

Card #5:

This one is a fold-back card.  I only had a narrow piece of the AS left and decided a fold-back card would make good use of it.  I added the die cut focal - gluing it just to the left fold-back part, then added some die cut corners on the other side.  A star-shaped greeting from a Hunkydory sentiment book completed this card (just glued to the focal so the card will still open).

Card #6:

This one started with a piece of marbled blue card stock cut just smaller than the card front.  To this, I added a top border using part of the AS border and a die cut border strip.  Then I created the bottom part by putting the dog die cut in place, then filling in with misc landscape pieces.  Finally, I trimmed all those pieces to the original piece and added a layered Sassy's LLC sentiment.

Card #7:

This one again started with a dog piece with rounded bottom - as most of them were.  I found a cloud-scape post card in my stash and decided it would be great for the card front.  This was a bit trickier than the last one because I couldn't just glue additional landscape pieces and then trim - I had to trim to fit as I went so they would fit within the border.  Before gluing the panel to the card front, I ran a piece of ribbon around it for a border.  After everything was glued down, I found another Sassy's LLC sentiment - rectangular this time.  After inking the edges, I glued it in place on the border ribbon.

SO, there I have SEVEN cards from one of these sets.  That may be a record for me!