2 Styles of HD Concept Cards - Windows To The Heart/Warmest Wishes

Today I have 5 cards to show you.  The come from the Hunkydory kit called Windows to the Heart - Warmest Wishes, and are two of the concept card types that came with the kit.  The first is called a Lantern Light card and the 2nd is Through the Keyhole. 

Concept cards usually come in sets of four.  Each of the 4 is designed to make the same style card, but in different colors and often different focals.  I have a policy when dealing with this type of card.  Most of the time I will make ONE the way they intended.  If I like it, I'll make more; if not I'll use the materials to make something else.  In this case I was crafting with my Mom, so she got 2 of them & I got 2 of them, leaving me only 1 to figure something else out if I didn't want to make another as designed.  If you're counting, that should mean that I have 4 cards to show you - but I already said I have 5.  That's because the Lantern style (which you see above made as intended) is more challenging than most when it comes to using the pieces differently, so I'm showing what Mom did with her 2nd one as well.

Card #1: Lantern Light as intended - You can see the finished card in the picture above.  It's very 3 dimensional, and it was QUITE tricky to get all the pieces glued in place. It comes with a box you can put together for giving it in, but of course, it wouldn't mail well!  Since I mostly make cards for mailing, I didn't figure I needed to make a 2nd like it.

Card #2: My 2nd lantern light card

This time instead of folding the "windows" part of the lantern, I put acetate behind it & cut an aperture in the card front so you could see through to the inside.  I decorated with some border stickers, a Dazzles greeting, and two of the little stars that came in the set.

Inside:

Since Mom wasn't using her "windows" piece, I used it to cover the glued edges on the inside.  The I cut the lantern pieces to create the look you see on the left side of the picture - adding embellishments from the set as I chose.

Card #3: Mom's card

As you can see, Mom used her materials differently.  The punch-outs from the windows are what she used as the columns of her lantern (I saved mine for another project) - along with some other pieces from the set that form the top & bottom.  She also added several embellishments from the kit.

Inside:

Card #4: Through the Keyhole as designed

It's a bit hard to tell given the angle I took this picture from, but this is actually a thin box card.  The focal is hung on a brad, allowing it to swing open (see picture below):

On the inside you can see a lovely little verse that's been printed there.

Card #5: My variation on Through the Keyhole

This time, instead of making a box, I made a standard A2 card with the materials (actually trimmed a little off the front edge of the card so it was more like 4" x 5.5").  I put the keyhole mechanism together with a brad as before, but this time I glued the verse directly to the card front - then raised the keyhole background & mechanism on foam tape to there was plenty of room to rotate the piece to see the poem. I added the sentiment by gluing it to the brad in the center & putting foam tape on ONLY the left side of it so the right side allows free rotation of the keyhole cover as you see in the picture below:

Inside:

This is the piece that was designed to go on the back of the box card & said "To" and "From" on it (forgot to take a picture of that on the first card).  I fussy cut out the "To/From" label to use on another project and stamped a sentiment inside of it (stamps from JustRite's Mix and Match Christmas Blessings).  The flower embellishments are from the set.