HD Floral Favourites - Sunflower Surprise

 

As you can see from the title, today's cards come from the Hunkydory Card Kit called Floral Favourites - the set called Sunflower Surprise.  Here's a picture of the materials in the set:

As you can see, there are 1 1/2 sheets of die cuts and a piece of coordinating AS (adorable scoreable card stock).  To that I added materials from my stash to create the 6 cards you see here:

Let's look at the individual cards more closely.

Card #1 (top of post):  To make this card, I cut a piece of the AS from the bottom right corner (just a little smaller than the front of my card so I would have a border all around it) - then inked the edges in pink and embossed with clear embossing powder so the ink would stay on the slick surface.  After attaching this to the card front, I added the sentiment (from the set) and the butterfly (from my stash) - creating a "butterfly trail" using "innies" of a border sticker.

Inside:

Inside I added a couple strips of the AS - with the edges once again inked & embossed - a couple of stamped sentiments (Grateful Hearts Vintage Labels Two and Enjoy the Day Vintage Labels Four - both from JustRite), and a couple of small flower embellishments from the set.

Card #2:

I started by scoring parallel lines on this slimline card. Then used several colors of ink (Cracked Pistachio and Lucky Clover Distress Oxides and Pine Needles Distress inks) to wash the front of the card.  I added a lace doily "table cloth", a couple narrow strips of gold poster board, a sentiment border (from the set) and a tiny butterfly die cut (also from the set).  Once again, the butterfly trail was made using scraps from border stickers.

Card #3:

Here I started with a gate fold card, added a pink print background and gold border stickers, and then added the focal & sentiment die cuts.  A little ribbon bow finishes off the card front.

Inside:

A couple more strips of the paper and a small die cut of gifts & flowers completes the inside.

Bookmark Gift:

I used the rest of the AS (after saving a couple of pieces for the next card) to create a bookmark.  After matting it with gold and punching a hole at the top for the ribbon, I added a couple small die cuts from the kit & stamped a verse (InkyAntics - All Through Him) with black ink before embossing with clear embossing powder.  Then I colored the stamped verse with colored Sharpie markers.

Card #4:

This card started as a way to use the AS but mostly cover up the corner of it that I thought was quite ugly!  As you can see, after inking and embossing the edges as I'd been doing, I used the focal piece from the set to mostly cover it. Then I simply added a couple more die cuts from the set to complete the card front.

Inside:

Inside is another piece of the AS with inked/embossed edges, a floral die cut from the set, and a stamped sentiment from HOTP's Simply Susan stamp set.

Card #5:

I was looking at the two smaller flower die cuts from the set & the half of a small doily that was on my desk and decided to make a hanging basket!  The background was a scrap from my stash - where I inked the edges.  I backed the doily with purple card stock, and used more of it to form a border at the top, from which I "hung" the basket - using border stickers for the hanging chains.  I also added a narrow gold border sticker to the border.  The sentiment was from the set.

Inside:

As you can see, I used leftovers from the card front to make a border. I decided to trim the gold off the edges of the sentiment and mat it on the purple instead.

Card #6:

This one is a fold back card with a sentiment "latch" to hold it closed.  The border, sentiments and focal are from the set.  The gold along the left edge was from my stash.  I cut the border so it would line up with the border on the inside.  The patterned paper was from my Mom's stash & the plain purple card stock was from my scrap drawer.

Inside:

Here you can see what the card looks like when open.

Two Very Different Cards

One of the things I've been challenged by in making cards from calendars is that sometimes if the background is really light colored, the calendar lines show through from the back.  What I've figured out, is that if I put them on a black card stock base, the problem disappears!   You can see in this first card that lines that were VERY visible on a white card base totally disappear on black.

Card #1 (above):  Obviously, the background is from the calendar.  The inset is from the back of the calendar.  I also added black die cut sentiment (A2 Card & Box Set by Card Making Magic) & corners (Spellbinders' Lace Doily Accents).

Inside:

Another piece of the calendar makes a place inside the card for me to write a message - and is once again decorated with the die cut corners.

Card #2: 

This card is made from a Hunkydory Little Book page - the Floral Shimmer one.  I trimmed it down to the focal you see here - then triple matted it - plain gray, dark blue, patterned gray (from my stash).  At the bottom I added a scrap of blue patterned paper (also from my stash).  Then I used more of the gray and dark blue for the sentiment.  The gray was die cut with a die from Card Making Magic's "Ultimate Words".  It didn't have a shadow die, so I had to fussy cut one from the dark blue.  The butterfly is from the dollar store - decorated with Jewel Dazzles on it's body.

Inside:

A tulip cut out from another little book page, a scrap of gray for the stem, and then scraps of the two patterned papers from the card front decorate the inside - ready for my own message to be added.

HD Floral Favourites - Pretty in Pink

Today's cards come from a Hunkydory Kit called "Floral Favourites".  The set I used today was the one called "Pretty in Pink".  Here's a picture of the materials in the set:

And here's a picture of the 5 cards I made from this set (note that I later added Dazzles "lace" to one of them - the one you see at the top of this post).

To look at them more closely, I'll show each card individually.

Card #1:

First up is a slimline card made from part of the AS (adorable scoreable card stock) from the set.  I took scraps from one of the die cut sheets to create borders top & bottom, then added a couple of greetings from the set - anchored with sticker "hangers".

Inside:

Inside I have another scrap border & a die cut from the set.

Card #2:

For this card, I embossed the front of the card base with a "Swiss Dots" embossing folder from Cuttlebug.  Next, I took an ink pad lightly to the front of the card to ink the raised dots.  After adding the die cut focal & sentiment (from the set), I added inks with a water brush for a bit of a watercolor effect and to provide some shading.  Finally, I added border Dazzles from a Scrapbooking Dazzles set (HOTP).

Inside:

On the inside, I cut a strip from the AS to form a border to which I attached some of the die cut flowers.

Card #3:

This card front is quite simple, but I just didn't want to do anything else to it!  It consists of a focal, border, and sentiment - all from the kit.  I trimmed the border to fit across the diagonals as you see here.  Then I added the sentiment.

Inside:

On the inside, I used the scraps left over from the angled borders on the front to add "ribbon tails" to this flower die cut (from the set).

Card #4:

At this point I had a piece of the AS left over, but it was basically white - no real color to it.  I decided to change that by taking ink to the surface, and then covering it in clear embossing powder.  After heat setting it, the AS has color AND texture and makes a great background for the die cut focal.  As you can see, I also took a border & sentiment (from the set) to create borders top and bottom.

Inside:

Inside I created a border with the remaining piece of the AS (treated the same way as for the card front), a gold strip from my stash, and a pair of die cut flowers.  The sentiment used one of Mom's stamps.

Card #5:

My final card - is actually the first one I made.  It uses the flower border from the AS. As you can see, I split it in half and adhered each half top and bottom as you see here.  I added gold strips from my stash to emphasize the border & make the borders work better with the sentiment (from the set).  A die cut flower from the set completes the card front.

Inside:

Inside I used the remaining floral AS scrap & a gold piece from my stash to create a stage for the stamped sentiment (one of Mom's stamps).

Calendar Cards

Today's cards are from a pretty nature calendar that I cut up at the end of the year.  The pictures are so large that it takes some thinking to try to find a way to use them on cards, but I couldn't let such beautiful pictures go to waste! 

Card #1 (above): After cutting a piece to the right size and adding it to my slimline card base, I stamped a sentiment (Sweet Stamps) in black ink & heat embossed it to keep it from smearing.  Then I took some Dazzles stickers - corners and thin lines to complete the card front.

Inside:

Inside are a couple scraps of the calendar, a stamped greeting (HOTP Poppies), and some more thin-line Dazzles.

Card #2:

Here's a second card made from the same calendar.  Once again I've added Dazzles stickers - both borders and sentiment.

Inside:

In addition to the calendar scrap, I have an inset picture (from the back of the calendar) for the inside.

Card #3:

This card uses the "underwater" part of the picture (you can see a mini picture of the whole on the inside).  The "upside down" part just felt to me like the way a person might feel when dealing with a death, so I made it into a sympathy card using a die cut (Creative Expressions mini die).

Inside:

Inside is another piece of the water reflection & the inset picture is from the back of the calendar.  The stamp is from a sympathy set my Mom gave me - no clue who made it.

Card #4:

Here I've added a greeting (Debbi Moore Freebie) and a stamped/die cut deer (Heartfelt Creations) to the front of the card.

Inside:

The inside simply has an additional calendar scrap to decorate it.

Card #5:

This card is similar to the last one - same materials used.

Inside:

Card #6: