Merry Christmas Pick & Play

Today's scrapbooking spread came from a challenge on the Paper Wishers message board. It actually combined several challenges.  :)

Materials/Method:

• Handmade paper purchased from Costco years ago (black with gold dots)
• Christmas Wonder paper pack (HOTP - one double-sided sheet for borders/blocks, and part of another for journaling)
• Christmas Wonder Foiled Fancies (HOTP - Merry Christmas & 3 ornaments)
• Gold Poster Board (for "2019") and black card stock (for matting and "Family")
• Cutting dies (numbers from a set my Mother has, Family from a set I got from Ali Express)
• Black glitter ribbon (for upper border)
• Black Enamel Accents (to paint "Family" so it was more glossy)
• Adhesive backed Rhinestones (colored black and used as "fasteners" for ornaments & scattered around the page)
• Scalloped Tearing Ruler (to tear sheet of double-sided paper into borders & blocks)
• Black Sharpie (for coloring black in center of gold letters & for coloring rhinestones)

Floral Favorites - Floral Fancy

Today Mom and I had a virtual card making session.  She had gotten the Hunkydory Deco Large collection called "Floral Favourites", and since it has two of everything, she split it with me.  We both worked with the set called Floral Fancy to see how many cards we could make from this set that was designed to make one card.  We each made 5 cards from this one set - finishing them inside and out.  While most of the supplies used were from the set, we also added things from our stash to complete these cards.  

For this first card, I added a dollar store butterfly, pieces of a doily, ribbon, and a background I had previously created using white glossy card stock and alcohol inks (see description of that process here).  Here's the inisde (oh yes, for the inside, I also added a tiny rhinestone from my stash):

My next card used a background piece from the kit.  I inked the edges before adding it to the card.  Then, in addition to the HD focal element, I used more doily pieces, ribbon, and some butterflies from my stash.  Here's how it turned out:

The inside was done similarly:

Next up is a card where much of the background is the card blank - embossed with an embossing folder (M-Bossabilities "Venetian").  I added a strip of the background adorable scoreable from the kit along with a border strip from the same.  The label for the greeting was die cut (Spellbinders Ornate Squares) from scraps of HOTP paper & backed with gold poster board.  The greeting was stamped and embossed with gold powder (stamp from HOTP "Butterflies"), and the butterfly was from my stash:

 

Inside I have more scraps from the kit.  I also added a "butterfly trail" made from "innies" from out-line sticker borders:

The fourth card was made using the adorable scoreable from the kit as both background and focal.  In addition to the greeting from the kit, I added some punched dots & a yellow ribbon from my stash:

Inside is more of the same card stock as borders, with small elements from the kit added for interest (and butterfly trail made as I did for the previous card):

The fifth and final card from this set was made using the base focal piece from the kit.  I cut a card base from a green piece of card stock - which also serves as a background.  The greeting is from a border piece that I edged with gold poster board on either end. Scraps of the same poster board create the look of a border going across the center of the card, and a yellow ribbon from my stash completes the look.  (The gold border was necessary because I tried making an easel card - without realizing it would not work given the shape of the card.  So - I turned it into a regular card and covered the score line with the poster board.)

The only thing on the inside that came from the kit was the border at the bottom (from which I cut the greeting for the card front).  The rest is a piece of gold metallic poster board cut and embossed with a Spellbinder's die (5 x 7 Heirloom Legacy) with top & bottom cut off straight.  To this, I added a piece of green paper that I had cut, embossed, and inked using another Spellbinder's die (Petite Ovals Large).  As is often the case, I had to use two inks to get the color I wanted - Peeled Paint Distress ink and Lucky Clover Distress Oxide ink:

Birthday Friends

Today I continue with using up some of my "personal shopper" kits from HOTP - this time, a bright and cheery color scheme with blue, striped, and geometric papers.  I got three cards from this set, and each has all 3 papers on it.  For this first card, I added some of the cutout art that came with the set, along with printed acetate from my stash (that also came from HOTP).  

To the red printed "ribbon" part of the paper, I added some sparkle paint for a bit of shine.  I attached the printed acetate by folding it around a piece of white card stock & attaching it with tape in the back.  Here's what the inside looks like:

The inside was done basically the same as the outside, except that the acetate was trimmed only on 3 sides with the fourth being taped behind the patterned paper to hold it in place.

My next card is a tri-fold card with a window in it.  The stamped focal is a HOTP stamp from "Janie's Girl Frames", colored with Inktense & watercolor pencils blended with water.

I used Spellbinder's "Petite Scalloped Frames" to die cut the windows in the card - smaller cutout on the front, larger one on the inside panel, and framed both.  I outlined the front fame with a marker & painted it with Sparkle.

For the inside panel, I stamped a sentiment using a stamp from JustRite's Grand Sentiments set.  The background for that was cut using  the same die set - just cut part of the die cut off with the same die to make it narrower.  I had already cut out one of the "fasteners" on this tag to go on the first card, so needed to hide the holes with something - Jewel Dazzles did that.

For the very inside of the card, I matted the focal and painted the mat with sparkle paint.  The sentiment comes from the JustRite "Good Friends Labels Twenty-Nine" stamp set.

The next card is the "scrap card".  I took all the scraps I had remaining, inked the edges, and arranged them into a card, adding a stamped greeting (Studio G small stamp set), and balloon confetti (with hand-drawn strings).  For the stamping I had to use a mix of two colors - a burgundy Distress ink and a red Colorbox ink in order to get the right color.

The inside was more of the same with another stamped message (Birthday Greetings, HOTP).

Hangin' Out B-Day

Today's cards all come from the same set of papers - a HOTP cardmaker's personal shopper kit.  For this first one, I added some blue vellum with printing on it, and some sequins.  The base card was made from a  piece of card stock - cut to 10" x 8 1/2".  That piece was then cut so I had two pieces - one  10" x 6 1/2" and one 10" x 2".   Each of these was scored in half - and then half of that was scored in half again with the shorter piece flipped so the smaller fold was on the right as you see here:

The sentiment on the inside is hidden until you open the card.  It was stamped using a stamp from "Lacy Things" set (HOTP).

This card was made as a cutaway card.  The focal came with the kit, but is matted using a Spellbinder's die (Fleur de Lis Rectangles).  The back layer of the mat was made by tracing around the outside of the die & fussy cutting it.  The blue on the right was textured by running it through a paper crimper.  When finished, I felt it was pretty plain, so added another blue border strip on the left, along with a scattering of sequins:

Here's what the inside looked like after adding sequins. (The tags were cutouts from the kit.):

Here's the last card from this kit.  It's a "leftover card" using what was left from the kit, and adding a HOTP tag from my stash (which I decorated with scraps from the kit).  You can just barely see the ribbon border that I added - shouldn't have covered up as much of it as I did.

Here's the inside - Stamped sentiment from JustRite's "Celebrating Labels One and Bracket Border One" stamp set.

Here again, the finished card felt pretty plain, so I tried to spruce it up with some sequins and the addition of my last scrap of patterned paper from the set: