HD Pop-a-Topper Fabulous Florals

Today I have 5 cards I made while crafting with my mother who is currently in rehab after an amputation.  It was an opportunity to see what I could do with a very limited set of supplies and tools. I pulled a couple of sheets of Hunkydory Fabulous Florals Pop-a-Topper, misc paper scraps and card stock that coordinated with them.  I also added some doilies, and some pre-stamped sentiment strips and Sassy's LLC strip sentiments.  That with card blanks was all I had except cutters/scissors, ruler, pencil, and glue.  These first 3 cards are A2 sized, while the last two are 5 x 7's.

Card #1 (above): I used a piece of card stock for matting, cutting out the center of the back mat to create the forward square mat.  The patterned paper was a scrap of some printed digi-paper.

Card #2:

Even though I didn't have a die cutting machine or dies with me, one of my scraps was a piece of red paper that had been die cut using a Spellbinders Labels Four die.  This scrap worked well for a mat for my focal - which was then matted with a doily before being glued to the two patterned paper pieces matted background.  I finished with one of those pre-stamped strip sentiments.

Card #3:

This time, my scrap of paper wasn't big enough to make a normal background, so I cut a couple of strips off the side and spread them out to form a bit of  a border strip.  I also cut a couple of pieces of doily to create interest in two of the corners.  Though I didn't have a cutting die to create mats for my focal and sentiment, I found that if I placed the corner of the HD pieces in each corner and fussy cut around them, I was able to create mats that worked well.  In addition the the HD sentiment, I added a small stamped sentiment in the upper left corner.

Card #4:

I didn't have a large piece of white card stock - something to rectify for future such endeavors - so I found one of my ugliest patterned paper scraps that had white on the back side and used it to mat the piece of red.  I once again matted most of my pieces to complete the card you see above.

Card #5:

Here I used a couple of scraps & a cut piece of doily to create this final card.  As you can see, I again used two strip sentiments to complete the card - this time cutting flag ends on each.