HD Meadow Farm - All in a Day's Work

Today I have cards made using the Hunkydory Meadow Farm set called All in a Day's Work.  This is what the set looked like before I started work:

I'll be honest.  This isn't my favorite set.  Trying to figure out how many cards I could get was a challenge.  I ended up cutting ears off some pieces to add to others so they weren't missing ears and I could use them on a separate card.  I got 5 cards from this set:

Now for a closer look at each.

Card #1: 

As I usually do, I started by looking at the AS (Adoreable Scoreable printed card stock) that came with this set.  I decided to cut the bottom part of it into a slimline card.  I had to slice out some of the hazy greenery to make it fit the way I wanted with the same amount of red on each side.  This join was visible, so I added a bit of washi tape over the join.  After gluing the whole to the card front, I simply added a sentiment from the set.  Easy peasy!

Card #2:

I cut the remaining AS into two pieces - one a bit smaller than 5 x 7, the other a bit smaller than A2.  I used the first for the background of this card, and the second for the background of the next.  For both, I matted them with black paper.  Then, for this one, I simply added the main focal piece (with a couple of pieces added to the horses faces for dimension) and a sentiment from the set.  Card #2 DONE!

Card #3:

Again, I matted this piece with black and glued them both on the card front.  Then I added a couple of smaller horse pieces.  I trimmed them around the "collar" parts of their get-ups (not a horse person - don't know names!) and put them in place so they looked a bit like they were hanging their heads over the stall door.  I did have to cut the left ear from the horse in back and move it to the right so he'd have an ear there (figured the other one would be hidden anyway).  I also had to grab an ear from a smaller die cut to add to the right side of the horse in front so he would have two ears.  I then added a second layer of the harness pieces before adding the sentiment (with a sticker "holding" it).

Card #4:

Now it was getting even more challenging.  I only had a small scrap of the AS left!  I found a "cloudy" A2 sized piece of paper in my stash and added the single horse so he looked like he was behind the remaining piece of AS that I used for a lower border.  I finished that border off with a border strip that came in the set and added a sentiment from the set to the upper left corner.

Card #5:

By this time, I had one more set of horses to use up.  Because of the way they are made, there isn't much I can do except align them to the left side (because they're cut off there) and put them behind something (because they're cut off there).  This time, however, I also had a sentiment that was greenish in color so I needed to somehow make that fit.  I found this background piece I had made with a wax resist technique a long time ago.  It would help blend in the sentiment.  Then I needed to find something for the horses to stand behind.  Since the AS was gone, the only thing I could find was a piece of scrap from the die cut sheets.  That worked pretty well - especially when I added the remaining border piece from the set to the center of it.  I had a remnant strip of the background card stock that was plain (no resist there).  I decided it would work well with a strip of gold tag board from my stash to create a border near the top for the sentiment to sit on.  I felt that I needed a little more near the bottom left corner, so cut a couple of red hearts from the tiny scrap of AS remaining, cut another from white, and scattered them there.