Paws for Thought (from Hunkydory) is one of my favorite card kits of all time. This set, Just Fur You, is no exception. I got 6 cards from the set, though the last 3 do not have completed "insides". All materials were from the set except as noted below.
Card #1 (above): I'm finally learning that I can cut up frames to add interest to the card. Here's an example of that. The frame would certainly not have fit on this slim-line card - and was too big for the focal anyway - but by cutting off part of it, I have an easy & interesting card. I was careful the way I cut the adorable scoreable card stock (AS). I got three card fronts from it. For this one, I cut off the left side with this border - then also cut a narrow strip from the border and saved it for the inside. I double matted the background, using a pretty copper foil paper that picked up the color in the border, and then finishing with gold poster board.
Inside:
Inside I just have a few scraps of what was used on the outside of the card.
Card #2:
This card was made from the right side of the AS. I didn't care for the plain white strip between the flowers and the dark blue, so I added a thin-line border Dazzle sticker (HOTP). I cut a gold frame from poster board (using Fun Stampers Journey's Rectangles Long - though I cut it once & then moved the die & cut again since it wasn't long enough). The greeting is from the set & added with foam tape.
Inside:
For the inside, I cut a border from the set in half & put it top & bottom. I added a bit more of the same border Dazzle sticker to form a "hanger" and then added another sentiment from the set.
Card #3:
You may note the "hanger" on this one. It is the left over piece of frame from the first card. I thought it all came together very well with the middle part of the AS as background, another border piece from the set, and the focal. The sentiment is from a HD Little Book of Essential Greetings from 2016, and is "held in place" by a Jewel Dazzle (HOTP).
Inside:
You can easily see that the border was created using pieces left over from the card front. The sentiment is from a Fiskar's stamp set called Friends Furever.
Card #4:
Once again I cut 3 card fronts from the piece of AS. I first cut off a piece from the right side that was a little less than 5" wide & saved it for the next card (#5). From the remaining, I cut this card front, then added a blue card stock border & gold poster board frame (cut with Spellbinders' 5 x 7 Matting Basics). The sentiment is from the set.
Card #5:
To create this card front, I first cut off the bottom border from the nearly 5" wide strip of AS mentioned above. Then I shortened it along that line so it would fit the card front & added a blue strip of paper from my stash before gluing the border I had removed in place on top of the blue strip. I used the trick of cutting a piece of the frame to use as a "hanger", but also cut small pieces to put either side to form a "border strip". Jewel Dazzles not only form the "fastener" but also add a bit of decoration to the left edge. Using a piece of gold poster board for the die cut mat, I cut a sentiment from the blue card stock using dies from Rosa's Love Words die set.
Card #6:
This final card was made using the strip of AS that was left over from card #4. It was much more narrow than the cards I usually make - but not as long as I like for slimline cards. I used the left over frame to highlight the focal and help it stand out even though it's small. I used a strip cut from the punch out scraps to add to the border. The sentiment was a print out from my stash that I matted with gold poster board - which I also used top & bottom of the card. A blue piece of card stock adds a bit more of the blue color to the bottom border (and fills in the gap remaining from the strips of gold scraps that I had).
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