Feminine High Street

Continuing to make birthday cards for my Aunt, I turned to the Hunkydory Little Book of High Street once again.  This time I chose some with feminine themes.  Here are the 4 I chose:

Along with the LB pages, I also used some coordinating Adorable Scoreable (AS) and misc from my stash.

Here are the 4 cards that I made:

And here's a closer look at each.

Card #1:

As you can see, I made this into a side step card.  I did quite a bit of fussy cutting because I wanted to get rid of all the orange-ish brick and replace it with the pink brick AS that I used for the background of this card.  

As you can see, I completely removed the window (added it as a decorative element on the side), and instead just put white card stock with a stamped message (one of my Mom's stamps).  Once again, the awning was added with foam tape at the bottom.  The second greeting - added to the right side - was stamped with a frame stamp from the set Tiny Tags, Little Labels & Greetings (HOTP).  The sentiment was from their Birthday Greetings stamp set.  Though there IS a matching cutting die, I decided to fussy cut so I got the white border that I wanted (the die might have done that, but I wasn't sure).

Card #2:

Here I cut out only part of the window - saving the dresses, purses, and shoes for the inside.  I backed the window with a gray printed AS (scraps not needed for the next card), then matted it with the glitzy paper - just around the edges.  I cut out the sign & backed it with scraps from a 2nd AS (just because I could - and to meet a challenge).  Then I matted all on the striped AS.  Finally, I found a printed Debbi Moore freebie sentiment in my stash & matted it in black to add to the top.

Inside:

Inside I added borders of the stripes & the cut out pieces saved from the card front.

Card #3:

This beauty shop card was quick & easy.  I used some gray patterned AS for the background and matted it with a thin border of purple.  A wider purple mat surrounds the portion of the LB page that I cropped. (I'm saving the flowers for something else.  I didn't like those colors with this make.)  I found a greeting in one of my LB's of Essential Greetings & matted it with purple and called it done.  Looking at it, I may come back later & add 3 dots of purple in the bottom right corner?  Anyway, here's what the inside looks like.

Inside:

A small Happy Birthday stamp from Inkadinkadoo forms the main message (stamped in purple dye ink).  Then a smaller supporting message was stamped (JustRite Grateful Hearts stamp set) and matted just below that - on top of a couple of scraps I used to form a border.

Card #4:

This last card in the set was made to meet a tic tac toe challenge - 3 patterned papers, pink, glitter paper or card stock. The center of the 2 largest mats were die cut out and saved for the inside of the card.  Because one of my papers was so light colored (the smallest one), I felt the awning needed some inking around the edge to help it stand out - which meant I had to cut it out or only part of the awning border could be inked.  SO - that mean I added it back with dimensional tape.  The sentiment is from a little book of essential sentiments.  

Inside:

Inside I have the die cut pieces (Crafti Potential Stitched Rectangles Stars & Dots, Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles Two).