Leftover Card Kits

 

I had some leftover card kits that I had made for class and club.  I didn't want them just sitting around taking up space, but also didn't want to make them up the way the other kits had been.  Here's what I did with them.

Card #1:

I made two cards from the first card kit which included paper from the discontinued Take to the Skies designer series papers and Night of Navy cardstock.  This was the first.  It's pretty plain, but I wanted it to have a masculine feel and was feeling low on mojo.  I cut the patterned paper in half and die cut the sentiment from an old Hot Off the Press die set, using the remaining scrap rather than the die cut itself. I also die cut a butterfly using dies from the Beautiful Butterflies Hybrid Embossing Folder and backed it with Night of Navy scraps.

Card #2:

Here's the 2nd card from that first kit.  As you can see, I used the die cut from the last card and the remaining patterned paper and most of the remaining cardstock.  The "Celebrate" was cut from the discontinued Wanted to Say die set, and the "70" was from the Birthday Celebration die set.

Card #3:

This is what I did with the 2nd kit - which again had a patterned paper from the discontinued Take to the Skies DSP. I used the whole piece of patterned paper on the card front.  Then made multiple mats for the focal (an old sticker from my stash) by die cutting the centers of the white and Copper Clay cardstock pieces.  From the other piece of Copper Clay cardstock piece, I die cut the sentiment using the discontinued Wanted to Say die set and misc dies from my stash.

Card #4:

The card actually takes advantage of parts of two card kits.  The first had paper from the discontinued Flowering Fields DSP and Pumpkin Pie cardstock. The 2nd used "found" paper that came around a bouquet of flowers that I received.  I decided to save the Pumpkin Pie cardstock for another project and use the found paper with the DSP instead.  The daffodils were from an Elizabeth Crafts die set.  The sentiment was stamped with Shaded Spruce ink.  I used Shaded Spruce Stampin' Blends to color a piece of neutral colored twine.