A Very Merry Christmas - Robin Redbreast

Continuing with our Hunkydory "A Very Merry Christmas" set -  next up we have Robin Redbreast set.  This first card is SOOO pretty in real life!  It starts with an image from the Little Book.  This is matted onto an embossed piece of translucent gold paper, before being added to the card front.  A second of the same image was adhered to card stock and some of the parts fussy cut and added with foam tape for dimension in the image.  The sentiment is from the "Little Book of Essential Christmas Greetings 2016".   

Strips of coordinating paper are added for borders on the inside, and finished off with some gold Dazzles border stickers (HOTP).

Next is a tall card - with the front covered with part of one of the coordinating papers.  A "scrap border" was added to the top & a sentiment on foam tape finishes the front of this card.

The inside is simply covered with some of the insert paper.

Our third card has a piece from the coordinating card stock to form the background, with some of the die cut pieces added - some of them with foam tape, but the largest glued directly to the background.  A sentiment die cut from the set finishes the card front.

The inside has another piece of the coordinating card stock along with a "scrap border" strip & a few of the berries fussy cut from one of the little book papers.

This is our 4th card from this set.  It makes use of the main focal piece & some of the die cut pieces added with foam tape.  This is matted on a piece of coordinating paper.  A sentiment from the "Little Book of Christmas Sentiments 2016" finishes this card front.

The inside has more of the coordinating paper cut into strips for a border.  The bird is cut from one of the "Little Book" pages and glued in place.

Can you believe we're already at card number 5 from this set!!!  This one is based on another of the "Little Book" images.  Several pieces were mounted to card stock & then fussy cut to create multiple layers on this picture.  Even the borders are cut from the picture and added with foam tape.  The whole thing is matted on a piece of embossed gold glimmer paper.  A greeting from the set finishes the card front.

The inside simply takes a smaller piece of one of the little book pages & mats it on a small piece of the embossed gold glimmer paper to form a bit of a wide border on the inside.

Can you believe it???  Yes, we got SIX cards from just half of this Robin Redbreast set!!!  This one starts with a piece of the coordinating paper.  The die cut robin is added with foam tape, as is a sentiment from the "Little Book of Essential Christmas Greetings 2016".  

The inside simply has the same image cut from the insert paper.

This brings our grand total of cards from HALF the set to 12 - and we've barely started!

A Very Merry Christmas - Little Shepherd Boy

I decided for my Christmas cards this year to purchase a "Deco Large" kit from Hunkydory.  It was called "A Very Merry Christmas" and I decided to get two of the coordinating "Papers & Inserts" and one "Little Book".   This gave me the basics for making a LOT of cards!  After separating everything into its coordinating sets, I ended up only using 1/2 of the lot - saving the other 1/2 for someone else to use!!!  That still made a LOT of cards!!!!  The "Holiday Wine" cards posted yesterday were the first I made from the set (they weren't really part of a topper set - just one of the images in the "Little Book").  

Today's featured set is called "Little Shepherd Boy" and I made 4 cards from this one (remember these are made using only HALF of the materials).  This first card front is matted on a piece of patterned card stock from the set (edges inked with brown ink) & then matted on some gold glitzy paper from DCWV (love that stuff!).   The focal is the main image with a few pieces added with foam tape.  A piece of border & a sentiment from the kit finish off the front.  The inside is simply a piece of the matching insert paper:

The second card started with a Spellbinders die (Card Creator Enchanted Labels 28) cut from some metallic gold paper from my stash. 

 

A piece of the insert paper is framed by this die cut.  The focal was cut from the coordinating page from the "Little Book" with some layering pieces added with foam tape.  The sentiment at the top & border at the bottom are die cuts from the set. 

The inside is a piece of coordinating paper with "borders" top & bottom that were cut from the "scraps" of the die cut pieces in the set.

Next up we have a focal cut from the coordinating card stock - which once again has some of the die cut pieces added with foam tape.  The sentiment is an included die cut.

Though you can't really tell, the inside of this card is covered with a piece from the "papers & inserts" to which a coordinating border has been added. 

The last card is a small one - A2 size - that has been covered with a piece of the remaining coordinating card stock.  To this, some of the layering pieces have been added, so it looks like the card stock background is part of the image.  A sentiment from the set finishes off the front.

The inside of this is some of the coordinating paper & one of the remaining die cuts.

So far, from 1/2 of this coordinating set, I have 6 cards.

Holiday Wine

Today I have two cards that were created using multiples of the same image from Hunkydory's "Little Book of a Very Merry Christmas".  A 3-D effect was created by gluing some of the extra images to card stock & then fussy cutting pieces from them & adding them to another image with foam tape.  Other materials used included a sentiment & border piece from Hunkydory's "A Very Merry Christmas Deco Large", and some Gold Ripple Holographic card stock from HOTP for the matting.

Here, I fussy cut a leftover piece of the image to add near the border for more interest on the inside of the card.

I made a second card in a similar fashion.  Different parts were fussy cut & the greeting is from Hunkydory's "Little Book of Essential Christmas Sentiments 2016".

Georgette Lace Square 2

I've enjoyed swaps where 2 people get the same supplies and are to use them to make a card. It's always fun to see how two cards using the same materials can be very different.  In this case, I used that idea myself.  A few days ago I made a card using these materials - Georgette Lace squares (Tattered Lace die) cut out of black paper, and focal made by fussy cutting the focal off another card.  It looked like this:

For more on that card, check the older blog post here. This time, as you can see, I made an easel card.  I added a bit more black mat around the border of the lace squares & mounted the larger square on a piece of white card stock.  I used ribbon instead of washi tape for embellishment.  I also added some Dazzles stickers around the smaller lace square on the inside of the card.  Flowers used inside the card were what was left over from the previous card (where I had cut some flowers from a 2nd card for the inside).  Instead of leaving the flowers in the grouping as they were, I cut the smaller one off and put the larger two up on foam tape (to hold my easel panel in place).  Same pretty focal & die cut - quite a different card.