HD Spinner Concept Cards

Today I have two Hunkydory concept cards from an old Window to the Heart kit (there were 4 - my Mom made 2 and I made 2).  These are pretty, but I had a lot of cleanup to do since I always manage to get glue where I don't want it with projects like this!  Everything except the thread to hang the spinner came in the kit - including envelopes to fit.  

Back of Card #1:

It's pretty challenging to get pics showing the spinner well enough - since it likes to keep spinning!

Card #2:

Back of Card #2:

Thanksgiving 2022

Each year since we moved here, we've hosted Thanksgiving.  And each year I've made a single scrapbook page to add to our Thanksgiving album.  With Thanksgiving 2023 coming up, I realized that I hadn't yet gotten last year's page made - so now I have! 😁

For Christmas last year my daughter had given me some pretty papers - one of which was M&M's - perfect since we used them for our Thanksgiving game last year!  It was a bit much to have the whole background as M&M's, so I fussy cut borders top & bottom.  Then simply added my pictures, a game board from the game, and a small journaling block.  Not particularly exciting, but it got the job done.

Wolves & More

Today I have 4 more cards made from Hunkydory Little Book (LB) pages.  These are the pages I started with:

All four are from the LB of Perfect Planet.  And here are the 4 cards that I made from them:

Now for a closer look at each.

Card #1:

As you can see, the first two cards are slimline cards.  On the first, this curious buck stares out from among the leaves.  The border leaf paper is from a printed paper that coordinates with the HD Woodland Wonder kit.  The leaf ribbon is from my stash, and the greeting is a freebie cut out from a Debbi Moore set.

Inside:

As you can see, I tore the inside edges of the border paper (again the paper from Woodland Wonder) for the inside.  The stamped greeting is from Crafter's Companion Compendium (CCC) - the sheet called With Love.

Card #2:

This card is created in a similar way to the last.  The paper used for the previous card is double-sided - and I used the other side to create the borders for this one.  Ribbon from my stash & a Hunkydory greeting complete the card front.

Inside:

Again, I used the borders on the inside.  I also stamped a greeting - this time from CCC's Celebrate.

Card #3:

I call this card a Peek-a-Boo Slider Card, and you can see how to make it in my post here.   The papers are old HOTP patterns that I LOVE.  I cut the aperture through 3 layers of card stock using a die from Spellbinder's 5 x 7 Card Basics (I did NOT do all 3 layers at once - it doesn't cut that deep!).  The sentiment is cut from a colored metal sheet using the Stacked Happy Birthday die from Creative Expressions.  I used washi tape to create a frame around the aperture.

Inside:

As you open the card, a sentiment panel slides in and covers the wolf.  The sentiment was stamped using another CCC stamp - this one from the sheet called With Love.

Card #4:

Here I have a vellum covered aperture that looks through to a portion of the inside of the card.  I added a background of light blue AS (Adoreable Scoreable card stock from Hunkydory) and scraps of a patterned paper to form borders.  The sentiments are die cuts - the top one is Happy Anniversary from Creative Expressions.  The others are from Ultimate Words - Card Making Magic.

And here's the full picture on the inside of the card. 

That's 4 LB pages - 4 more completed cards.  But I am left with 3 panels cut from card #3 and feel the need to use them up.  So, I make one more card.

Card #5:

I had two darker panels & one lighter one, so I put them together to form a single panel.  To the center panel, I added glitter ribbon.  Then I looked through my stash and found some sentiment pieces to complete the card front.

Inside:

One more cut out completes the inside.

Nativity + Stampscapes:

 

It was hard to get a good photo of this card!  

Focal: I started with a piece of glossy card stock that had been die cut to an octagon shape using a die from Card Making Magic's Octagon Box kit. I stamped this with StazOn and a stamp from Divinity Designs' Our Savior's Birth - then added to the background with Stampscapes stamps (clouds & ground cover).  Using a piece of post-it note, I created a star shape and masked that.  Then I added multi-layers of Distress inks to create the color in the background.  The foreground was mostly colored with my Scroll & Brush markers - sometimes using a water brush to soften them.  When all was colored, I removed the mask & had a white star.  I decided I preferred it to be yellow, so added a bit of color using my markers.

Background/Frames: Using more of the dies from the Octagon Box kit,  I created the gold scalloped frame that is directly around the focal.  Using the larger dies, including the fancy inset die, I cut a brown octagon with fancy inset edges.  I cut a frame of gold (without the inset die but using the same die set) and taped it behind the brown where it shows through the cut outs.  

Assembling the Card Front: I glued the brown & gold background to a piece of white card stock cut to the same size.  This forms the base for the card front.  Next, I taped the gold scalloped piece to the focal (from the back side) before adding to the card front base using foam tape.  I found a sentiment in my Hunkydory book of Sentiments and added it with foam tape.  I set the card front aside while I completed the card base - including on the inside.

Card Base: The size of the card is essentially 6" square.  Not wanting to mess with a hinge of some kind, I simply took a piece of card stock that was 8 1/2" x 11" and folded it in half.  Then I die cut this as an octagon with the die right on the NON-FOLDED edge.  This gave me a shape that was ALMOST a folded octagon, but 1/2 short at the folded edge.  with the folded edge at the top, I stamped my message on the inside using stamps from Crafter's Companion Compendium (CCC) :

The top sentiment is from the CCC page called Magical Christmas Wishes, and the bottom one is from Believe in the Magic.

Putting it All Together: After the ink was dry on those inside sentiments, I simply glued the card front to the front of the card base.  This card was more work than many, but a special card for special people in my life. :)