DM Christmas Bears

Today I have a couple of quick cards using a freebie download from Debbi Moore.  

Card #1 (above):  For this first card, all elements were from her printouts, except for the dark teal mats and the stamped greeting on the inside (Happy Elf Small Stamp from HOTP).  I did use Nesting Circle dies from LifeStyle to cut the focal & other elements & mats.

Inside:

Card #2:

Here, in addition to white & teal mats (from my stash), and cutting the focal smaller using my nesting circle dies, the only change I made to the elements she provided in the download is that I applied ink to one of the "buttons" I had cut out.  This made it a darker brown shade so that it would form a bit of a visual triangle with other buttons brown buttons on the background paper.

Inside:

While I definitely cut some things apart & pieced others, all elements on the inside were from the set.

DM Nativity - Part 2

Today I have 3 more cards from the Debbi Moore Nativity set.  This first is a square card.  The background is a scrap from my stash, but everything else is from the set.  This square card opens to a "corner card":

Inside, all pieces are from the set except for little scraps of folded card stock that I used to create the "pop-up" donkey & cow.

Card #2:

This was supposed to be another flip card - but I'm not particularly enamored with them.  I chose instead to use the pieces to create this card.  I added Sparkle paint for highlights.

Inside:

Card #3:

Here's another square "corner card".  On the front, the background is again from my stash, with the rest of the elements from the set.

Inside:

A lot of the elements on the inside of this card are made "pop-up" style with the addition of little folded pieces of card stock glued in place. Other than those little pieces of card stock, everything else is from the set.

Cowboy Card

This card is another one from an old HOTP set - this time it was from a booklet of shaped cards.  Once again I didn't care for the way they designed the shaped card to have the fold at the bottom, so scrapped the shaped portion & used the elements in another way.  Everything is from the set, except for the ink I used to ink the edges of the papers.

Inside: 

Monochromatic Trio

Today I have 3 more cards made from an old HOTP Card Makers Personal Shopper set - this time a monochromatic color scheme.

Card #1 (above): Everything is from the set except for the cream-colored card stock & the owl die cut.  I'm not sure where the die cut came from - probably a swap sometime - but I thought it worked perfectly with this color scheme.  Since my niece loves owls, this makes a perfect birthday card for her. The "to you" is stamped using a HOTP stamp set called Happy Hello Love & Thanks.

Inside:

A gift card holder is great for the inside.  It and the border strip are from the set.

Card #2:

I'm not sure why, but there wasn't much in the way of a focal with this set, so I went looking in my stash trying to find something that kept to the color scheme.  This gorilla (cut from a calendar) was the perfect focal.  Once again, everything except the tan piece & the stamps were from the set.  The "Smile" stamp was part of a larger message in a JustRite rubber stamp set called Botanical Swirls Labels.  The sentiment below that is from an A6 Sentiments set by Phil Martin.

Inside:

Once again, the cream was from my stash.  Both stamps came from the Birthday Cheer set by HOTP.

Card #3:

There wasn't a lot left from the set at this point - but still a bit of the brown & the striped paper.  I found some gold from my stash and used it for mats inside & out.  The "WISH" is an old foiled embossed piece from HOTP.  The "Happy Birthday" is die cut using a HOTP die called Happy Birthday!

Inside:

The stamp is another one from HOTP's Birthday Cheer set.