HD Paws For Thought #2

Before I leave Hunkydory and move on to other cards, I'll show you this card.  It started with the Hunkydory Paws for Thought kit - the set called "Feline Wishes".  I had shared the kit with others & they used all the toppers but left quite a bit of the coordinating floral card stock.  What to do with that pretty card stock????  Looking through the other sets, I came to the one called "Cat-egorically Speaking" and discovered a couple of little cat toppers that I thought would go well with the leftover card stock.  I used one on the front, and one on the inside (hopefully there will still be enough toppers to go with THAT coordinating card stock!!!) 😀

For the card front, I cut a piece of gold paper just smaller than the card and glued it to the card front.  I then cut a piece of that lovely floral using a die from Spellbinders "Enchanted Labels Twenty-Eight" and glued it on top of the gold.  Next came a smaller piece in a lovely lavender color cut with a smaller die from the same Spellbinder's set.  Before adding my topper with foam tape, I first cut a strip of purple suede paper and a piece of the gold that was just a bit wider than the purple. Placing one on top of the other gave the lovely border strip through the center of the card.  The focal is centered on that border strip.

The inside makes use of another piece of that floral card stock.  I cut the piece just a bit short, so I could add a matching border along the other edge (cut from the card stock).  The focal sits on top of that.

HD Paws For Thought #1

I LOVE this Hunkydory set!!!!  My daughter and several friends love cats, so it's perfect for several people.  (Plus I like cats too, so love working with these wonderful images!)  Unfortunately, several of the cards I made were sent out before I got pictures taken.   There was a lovely "box" card and a wonderful set of note cards that I embellished a bit more than the basic HD plan.  But I don't have pictures of those.  I didn't want to make the rest of the "box" cards up like actual boxes as they're too hard to mail that way - so I messed around with the basic design a bit and came up with these.  

This first one was folded so that it looks like a cut-away card.  Though the picture above doesn't show it because of the way I stood the card up to take the picture, when the card is closed you can see the bottom border on the inside (see picture below).

The picture on the inside is dimensional - several layers popped up on foam tape.

This birthday card is similar - except that it is a portrait style rather than landscape, and I attached a piece to the back/inside to extend it beyond the card front.  You still don't get the effect in the picture as the outer border on the inside of the card is seen beside the "On Your Special Day" border when the card is closed.

Once again, there are multiple layers on the inside of the card.

HD Woodland Wonder - Friends

Here are three more cards from the HD Woodland Wonder kit.  There are plenty more cards to make from this kit, but these will be the last for a little while.  The set used here was called "Woodland Friends".  As you can see, this first card is a twisted easel card.  It's a 5" x 5" card made of green card stock.  The background paper is a dotted green from my stash.  On the front, I have the focal from the set with several layers, and a sentiment from the set.  On the inside is a sentiment (which is on a double layer of foam tape to hold the card open) and a little picture (on a single layer of foam tape).

This is one of the few sets where I didn't care for the coordinating card stock quite so much.  But it still made a nice card.  The card stock was mostly floral, then a border, then a picture - and I cut a piece of it for the front of the card.  I added a few die cuts on foam tape to the picture.  I chose to use a sentiment from the Essential Book of Pearl Sentiments (Hunkydory), but it was pretty small.  SO, I "enlarged" it by matting it several times using mulberry paper, orange card stock, and white glimmer paper - all die cut with the JustRite die set called Vintage Labels Three. 3 little adhesive-backed jewels highlight the border and help move the eye around the card.

The inside used a border strip that was pieced from the "throwaway parts" of the die cut sheet.  The sentiment & picture were again "enlarged" by cutting mats from white glimmer paper and the coordinating floral card stock.

I suspect one of the reasons I didn't care for the coordinating card stock quite so much was that it focused on my least favorite color - orange.  However, it's a great color for this time of year and I decided to go with it and make this center step card from orange card stock.

The base was actually cream colored, but I added orange along the sides and on the inside.  The largest die cut sits on the cream colored center of the card and forms a base for other die cuts that are layered on top with foam tape.  The border along the sides was pieced from the border that came in the set.  Another greeting from the Essential Book finishes the outside of this card.

 

On the inside, a small sentiment is made larger with another piece of that orange card stock.

HD Woodland Wonder - Squirrel

These cards again came from the Woodland Wonder HD kit - the set called "Super Squirrel".  This first card is  made using "scraps" from the die cut sheet - that's where I got the circle/square border in the center.  Inside this circle, I added die cuts to make a layered squirrel.  The borders top & bottom were cut from the coordinating card stock.  The sentiment, which came in the kit, was attached with foam tape.

The inside used a couple of sentiments that came with the kit, along with a "throwaway piece" from the die cut sheet (top border).

This "nuts about you" card starts with a plaid paper from HOTP (old one).  The punched out pieces from the above card form the focal - along with more die cut layers.  A border strip & sentiment finish it off.

The inside repeats the theme with strips of the plaid paper combined with a border strip & sentiment from the kit.

I only got 3 cards out of this kit, but I think they're very nice anyway!  This third card is a large one - 8 1/2" x 5"!  It uses the rest of the coordinating card stock between the front and the inside of this card.  The front has some layered pieces - and a border/sentiment from the kit.

The inside just has a piece of coordinating card stock and a sentiment.