HD Winter Wishes - Robin Friends

Today I have 7 cards made from the Robin Friends set from Hunkydory's Winter Wishes kit - and a bit of stuff from my stash.  Here's what the set looked like originally:

As you can see, it consisted of a sheet of die cuts, and two sheets of AS (adoreable scoreable printed card stock).  

And here's a quick look at the 7 cards I made:

There are two slimline cards, an interlocking gatefold, a "see-through" card (circle cut out from the card front so you see through to the inside), and 3 other cards.  Now for a closer look at each:

Card #1:

This first one was pretty straight forward.  I cut the main panel from one of the sheets of AS.  Then I inked the edges and added the sentiment.  I decided I wanted a border at the top, but I didn't want the robin's head to be covered, so partially cut around him with a craft knife so he could sit in front of the border.  Then I simply glued the entire panel to the front of my card.

Inside:

I struggled a bit with what to do with the inside of this card until I went looking through my stash and found this cut out (from packaging material from something I got in a card making magazine).  So, I cut a piece of scrap from the sheet of die cuts to form a border & then added this found sentiment.

Card #2:

This was actually the last card that I made.  I found myself left with a scrap of snowfall AS.  I paired it with scraps of navy card stock, a free printable from Debbi Moore, and a cut out from a HD paper pad I mostly used up a long time ago.

Inside:

I used more of the navy & another couple of scraps from the sheet of die cuts to create borders top and bottom.  Then I stamped a sentiment - from CCC's (Crafter's Companion Compendium) sheet of stamps called Believe in the Magic.

Card #3:

This card started with pieces cut from one of the AS sheets.  Because I wanted borders top and bottom, I cut out some of the white snowy section so it would fit my card.  After taping the pieces back together, I found myself with a rather visible line where I made the cut.  Soooo, I added some silver thin-line dazzles over that line & a matching line on the other border.  It's hard to tell that it wasn't printed that way!  I added a die cut tag from the set for my focal - "attaching" it with a red jewel dazzle & adding an outline sticker silver bow.  The bottom looked a bit too plain, so I added a piece of border from the die cut sheet.

Inside:

Inside I added leftover pieces of the white snowy AS to form borders and spruced them up with border Dazzles from HOTP.  The bottom border looked really plain, so I cut a picture from the packaging that came with this set & added it as you can see.  Another sentiment stamped from the Believe in the Magic sheet, and this card was done.

Card #4:

Again I chopped out part of the snowy white portion of the AS - this time chopping more (that went into the inside of the card above).  After taping it back together, I matted it with red glimmer paper forming a thin border that matched what was already on the printed AS.  Again I added thin line dazzles to cover the cut line.  One of the die cuts fit perfectly between the borders, so I added it with foam tape to serve as my focal.  Then I kicked it up a notch by adding one of the frames from the die cut sheet - again using foam tape.  Finally, I found a sentiment in one of my HD sentiment books and added it (partially with foam tape & partially glued directly to the frame) - then finished it with 3 white Jewel Dazzles in the lower right corner.

Inside: 

I used more of the red glimmer paper for a border, but didn't have a long enough scrap from the die cut sheet to do what I wanted to form a border.  Then I thought of the ribbon I had that was white with silver edges - perfect!  I finished it with a stamped sentiment from a no name set of large Christmas sentiment stamps.

Card #5:

I often like to make interlocking gate fold cards when I have a focal with matching larger frame like I have here.  In this case, I embossed the fronts using a 3D poinsettia folder that my Mom had.  Then I simply glued the frame and sentiment to the left side and the focal to the right side - easy peasy.

Inside:

I had intended to simply stamp a sentiment on the inside and call it good (sentiment from CCC sheet called Warm Wishes), but ended up getting a streak of ink down one side where I had inked the edge of my stamping platform without realizing it.  I went looking for something to cover that mistake, and found these beautiful silver Dazzles borders - worked great!

Card #6:

This card uses some of the white snowy AS combined with some of the blue snowy AS (in other words, parts of both AS sheets).  I actually inset a circle of the blue & surrounded it with the border Dazzles before realizing that this focal freebie from Debbi Moore would fit perfectly!  The greeting is also Dazzles stickers.

Inside:

Another freebie pic - this time a square one - decorates the inside (again with border Dazzles stickers).  The stamped message is again from the CCC Believe in the Magic sheet of stamps.

Card #7:

This last card is another cut panel from one of the AS sheets with edges inked.  I cut a circular hole & surrounded it with the die cut border - the focal is actually on the inside, but you can see it through the hole.  Then I added a die cut sentiment (both from the die cut sheet).

Inside:

The focal is the last die cut from the die cut sheet.  After adding it, I added another stamped message - again from the Believe in the Magic stamp set.