Seasonal Scene Building

Seasonal Scene Building

Calgon, Take Me Away!  to the mountains on a crisp, cool Autumn evening!  Can you smell the freshly fallen leaves and apple cider?  Welcome to Seasonal Scene Building, 

I am so happy you have joined me today!  

Nichol taught us so many different techniques to build a scene on our cards.  I chose to create a framed scene, to give the feeling that you are looking out through a large window towards the beautiful mountains.  Don't you love it when you use different techniques from past classes or videos in your current card project?  It's like, let's see how many techniques we can use on a card without being obnoxious!  I used a lot of blending on the card and I love how it turned out!  

The colors I chose to use for my scene are Altenew Crisp Dye inks in the following colors:  Agurite, Eastern Sky, Hydrangea, Puffy Heart and Snapdragon.  I also used Deck Planks 3D Embossing Folder and blended Silver Lake Crisp Dye ink to warm up the frame and Jet Black ink for my images.  I used Leaf Clusters stamp set and made my own torn paper mask using copy paper.  

Below is my torn paper mask that I used to create the look of mountains (here I am trying it out on scrap paper to make sure the mountains have the look I was going for).  

Such a simple way to add more to your cards.  

After ink blending, I splattered some water onto the blended background, stamped my images on my panel, attached my frame to the panel and then decided to ink blend my card base, so the background sky spills out onto the card.  I chose to not use a sentiment on the outside of my card so the recipient can just sit back and enjoy the view!

I hope you are inspired to look through your stash and see what kind of a scene you can create!  Enjoy the process and remember, it's just paper! 

Lori