Last 4 LB Cards for Aunt

I've been working on birthday cards for an Aunt who requested some - mostly using Hunkydory Little Book (LB) pages.  Today I have 4 more - the last for LB page cards I plan to make before mailing these to her.  Here's a picture of the LB pages that I used:

All but the cat are from the Little Book of Perfect Planet.  The cat is from the Little Book of Memorable Moments.  Here's a picture of the 4 cards I made:

Now for a closer look at each card:

Card #1:

This shadow box card was very simple.  For instructions on making this card, check here.  However, the basic card is made with 2 pieces of 5 x 7 card stock scored at 1/2" and 1" on each side - and folded as you see in the picture above.  After adding gold pieces that were cut just a little smaller than the front & sides, I die cut the center hole using a HOTP die called 8 Squares & Scallops.   Next, the two pieces were glued together in just the outside 1/2 area after gluing the tiger picture to the inside piece.  A greeting from a Hunkydory Little Book of Sentiments added to the lower right corner completes the card.

Card #2a (slimline): I actually made 5 cards this time.  With the wolf LB page, I first made this slimline card - before remembering that a slimline card wouldn't fit inside the box I was planning to use to mail the cards to my Aunt!

For this card I used a sheet from the coordinating papers & inserts pack.  I simply cut off a 4" slice of that paper, then cut the border off top & bottom and glued it to the top & bottom of the card front.  Next, I trimmed the LB page to fit and glued it in the center between the two to form the card focal.  Next I found some slimline Border Dazzles and added them just above & below the focal.  Then I added a fussy cut greeting from my stash (a Debbi Moore freebie).

Inside:

I took the leftover bit of coordinating paper that I had from the card front & used it and some scraps of blue from my stash to create borders top & bottom of the inside of the card.  I then added some Dazzles scraps to complete the borders.  The "Yippee!" stamp came from a HOTP set called Birthday Greetings.  The other was one of my Mom's stamps.

Card #2b (replacement card using an identical LB page.  This card will fit in the box for mailing!):

I started by seeing how narrow I could slim down the LB page so that I knew how wide I wanted that portion of the card to be.  Then I did the cuts and score lines and folded the base card as you see in the photo (basic instructions for making a side step card can be found here).

After gluing the focal in place, I started trying to figure out what to do on the step side.  I started by using some of the coordinating paper I used on the last card.  You can see that I cut it so that the first and third steps had border on them.  I stamped the word "Yippee!" on the bottom step (same stamp set as used on the last card).  Then I cut a piece of dark blue card stock to fit on the highest step so that it lined up with the top of the focal when folded & glued in place.  A smaller piece of white card stock formed a place for another stamped message (another of my Mom's stamps).  After staring at the middle step for awhile, I decided to use a stamp from Heartfelt Creations (Woodsy Critters) to stamp 3 small coyotes (hopefully similar enough to wolves!).  After coloring them with an Inktense pencil & water, I cut them with the matching dies and added two to the middle step.

Inside:

Inside I added the 3rd little critter & a stamped message (one of my Mom's stamps).

Card #3:

The front of this card is similar to one I already made - plaid background paper, a die cut green mat (Spellbinders Lattice Rectangles) backed by a black rectangle, the LB page cut down to size with corners rounded, and the die cut birthday greeting from the green (Stacked Happy Birthday by Creative Expressions).

Inside:

Inside I used scraps of the plaid to form borders & fussy cut several pieces of clover for decorations.  The stamped sentiment was made using another one of my Mom's stamps.

Card #4:

This last card is quite simple.  I die cut the horse & the frame using Spellbinders dies from the Radiant Rectangles set.  This was backed on a bit of plain blue with it's corners rounded.  I rounded the corners on the card itself, and fussy cut a freebie greeting from Debbi Moore before adding it with foam tape.

Inside:

As you can see, I added another die cut gold frame - with a piece of the blue for the center.