HD Christmas Classics (2016) - Cosy Christmas

 

Today I have another Hunkydory Christmas set of cards.  This set was the last from Hunkydory Christmas Classics 2016 - called Cosy Christmas.  It was back from before I understood about using sets together, so was missing a focal die cut.  Here's the set as it was when I started today:

 

There were two sheets of AS (Adoreable Scoreable printed card stock) and a partial sheet of die cuts.  I added stuff from my stash to complete my cards.  I made 6 cards:

 

I've learned that it works best to decide how I want to cut the AS for the different cards, destribute focal die cuts among those as needed, and see if I need something else to finish my cards - either background paper or focals or embellishments.  Below is a quick look at the individual cards.

Card #1:

This card started with a piece of one AS sheet, and a die cut frame that I used to highlight the printed picture on the AS.  To this, I added a sentiment from my stash (HD Essential Christmas Sentiments), but it needed more.  I went searching through my stash and found a cute little dog (sticker from my stash) to add under the tree, and a couple of stockings (Karen Burniston cutting die set called Holiday Charms) to hang from the top of the frame.  Much better!

Card #2:

These cards are definitely not in the order I made them.  This card made use of the leftover pieces of both AS sheets - and then I added a darker green paper that I had in my stash.  I added the ribbon around the yellow patterned part, then added my focal (a download freebie from Debbi Moore).  Finally I added my sentiment (another from HD Essential Book of Christmas Sentiments) and a little ribbon bow.  I forgot to take a picture of the insides of these cards.  Most of these cards just use scraps from the card front on the inside, but this one also has a little penguin - die cut from my Temu dies and colored with my Scroll and Brush markers.

Card #3:

This one started with a piece of the AS.  To this I added the die cut border strip top and bottom.  I turned the frame on point and backed it with green vellum before adding the focal.  I found another sentiment in the Essentials book to complete this card.

Card #4:

This card was just a piece of the AS for background, with a die cut focal and a die cut sentiment (both from the set).  I DID add the sentiment with foam tape for a bit of dimension.  Then I added red Jewel Dazzles from my stash to complete the card.

Card #5:

The frame used on this card was bigger than would fit on a 5 x 7 card, so I did "surgery" on it - cutting the corners and a diagonal and shortening the sides to fit on the card the way I wanted.  I then found some gold vellum that I used to back this frame before adding a trimmed HD Little Book page and a sentiment from the set (added with foam tape).

Card #6:

I still had a beautiful piece of AS to make another card, but had to search for a focal.  I found another Debbi Moore download and glued it in place.  I added a few die cuts from my stash to fill in the lower right corner and called it done.  

 

YAY! Another kit completely used up!