HD Pearl Bouquet - The Perfect Day

As you can see from the picture above, I got 6 cards from this set.  In this post we'll look at each of them a bit more closely.

This time the Hunkydory set I'm using is a little different.  As you can see in the picture above, it has one sheet of toppers & greetings, one sheet of printed AS (adorable scoreable card stock), and two sheets of insert papers.  The kit is called Pearl Bouquet, and the specific set is The Perfect Day.  As always, I combine these with my stash on hand so I can create more cards from the one set.  

Card #1:

This first card just uses a tag from the set.  To that, I added ribbon, some "handmade" paper I got from Costco years ago, and a border I punched with an EK success punch called Medallion Chain.

Inside:

Inside is more of the same - with a greeting from a HD 2016 Little Book of Essential Greetings.

Card #2:

This card looks like it uses a topper, but it is actually the printed AS with a border around the flowers (from the kit).  I added a lavender frame for the whole card, a greeting from the set, and lavender Liquid Pearls accents.

Inside:

Inside I used the leftover AS from the strip cut for the card front - matted them with the lavender, and added another greeting from the set.

Card #3:

Here I used strips of the AS & some lavender from my stash to create the background. Then I wrapped two different kinds of ribbon around it before attaching it to my card front.  The focal is from the set & the jewel flowers from my stash.

Inside:

A piece of the insert paper makes a quick & easy "inside" to this card.

Card #4:

I decided to make a shaker card with this focal & frame from the set - with confetti, rhinestones, and plastic "diamonds".  The embossed background is from one of the insert pages - embossed with an m-bossability folder (Spellbinders' Venetian). I matted this with a dark purple.  The sentiment is from the set.

Inside:

Another piece of insert paper completes the inside.

Card #5:

I had a tag and label left, some AS, and some insert paper.  I had expected to do something quite different using the AS, but decided the insert paper was so pretty I HAD to use it on a card front.  To make the border, I added a strip of dark purple fiber paper - but it was so porous that the glue bled through it.  I tried to get rid of the "sticky" by adding baby powder.  It DID take care of the sticky, but I was left with spots of powder all over that REALLY detracted from the look.  After adding the strip of AS, I decided to had some border dazzles to hide the baby powder.  That worked pretty well, so I added the tag & label and called it good.

Inside:

Not having more of the insert paper left, I just used scraps of some of the colors on the card front & scraps of the border dazzles to finish the inside.

Card #6:

I really hadn't expected to make a 6th card, but had a pretty large piece of AS left over & figured I should use it.  I went through my stash of card fronts to up-cycle & came across these violets.  I really liked them & thought they went well with the background.  In the picture, don't like the light green border that came on the original card front, but for some reason I actually like it in real life. Drawing around the edges with a dark purple sharpie finished the background/focal. The sentiment is from a HD little book of sentiments from 2016.  I used the same dark purple porous fiber paper for the border as I did on the last one - but learned from my mistake and used my ATG to adhere it - then added the white ribbon from my stash. 

Inside:

Inside I used the rest of the AS - along with a green strip cut from the bottom of the up-cycled card front and the purple Sharpie.