Blue Christmas???

 

Today I have 4 cards made from some old HOTP personal shopper card kits. I have a LOT of these left and really want to get them used up so I can focus on using more current supplies. Here are the 4 cards and how I made them.  The first two cards were made using one kit, and the 2nd two were from another.  Each kit was designed to make 1 card, but I can't stand to waste materials so . . .

Card #1 (above): The sentiments were cut outs.  The kit consisted of 3 small papers - two of which I used here - and several cut outs.  I layered cut outs for the "happy".  Then I took some snowflake die cuts I had cut from pearlized vellum (Spellbinders Dimensional Snowflaks - Cut/Fold/Tuck), backed them with blue, and fussy cut around them.

Inside:

As you can see, on the inside I simply added more of the papers & another cut out from the kit.

Card #2: (same kit as card #1)

I hadn't used any of the third paper in the kit, so used it for the background of this card with a narrow strip of the blue for a border.  I added narrow border Dazzles on each edge.  The tags, oval & circle were cutouts from the kit.  I die cut a bunch of snowflakes and the sentiment using the Moonstone die set called Splendid Snowflakes.

Inside:

Inside I added leftover bits of all 3 papers, 3 more circle cutouts from the kit, and several more snowflake die cuts (from the same Moonstone set).

Card #3:

This kit was designed to make a shaped card - but I didn't feel like going to all that work!  The front panel is as it was in the kit.  I drew in a carrot nose (since I didn't have the brad that went with the kit), and added a fussy cut hand (on the sign) and hat with foam tape.  The buttons were die cut in white (someone sent them to me) & then colored in an ink that coordinated with the whole.  I added pen faux stitching around the buttons & in the button holes.

Inside:

Inside I added coordinating paper scraps & tag.

Card #4:

The background paper is from the kit, as are the sentiment cutouts.  The diamond-shaped mat for the focal sentiment was double cut using papers from my stash and a Spellbinders Labels One die set.

Inside:

 Scraps of paper and the last sentiment cutout from the kit completes this card.