Through The Forest by Sue McRae

Welcome everyone! Today I'm sharing my first "fall" card of the season, though it's hard to think about autumn and the upcoming holidays when it's in the mid to high 30's (celsius) here. I am looking forward to the cooler weather and the changing of the leaves.

For my scene, I wanted to capture the feeling of walking through the forest and peeking through the vibrant leaves and spotting a deer off in the distance. I chose the Leafy Frame for this, cut it out of vellum and coloured it with Alcohol Inks. I cut four more layers of vellum in orange, yellow, red and green to layer behind the inked vellum. I flipped the orientation of the vellum layers so they did not lineup with each other, this way each colour of vellum would be visible.

I also inked up vellum in green and yellow for my grass and used the Stitched Landscape for this and the sky is a piece of blue vellum. I cut out the Cheery Cardinals with black card stock and mingled them in with the leaves. For the Forest Deer I added double sided adhesive to card stock and added Fun Flock on top for some great texture.

One of the things I like about this card is that there's a lot of depth but almost no dimension to it. Can you believe I have 8 layers on the card base (not including the deer or birds), 7 of them vellum. This card can easily be mailed in a regular envelope, which I will do in a couple of weeks for my father-in-laws birthday (he's a nature lover).

Thank you for stopping by to visit today!

 

 

Leafy Frame Forest Deer Cheery Cardinals Stitched Landscapes

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Comments

LOVE this vivid fall color, Sue!

Posted by: Michele H. | 09/10/2015 at 07:37 AM

the first thing I noticed was the feeling of looking through the trees and you captured that very well!

Posted by: Cyndee | 09/10/2015 at 09:07 AM

This is beautiful and so stunning!! Full of rich, deep gorgeous colors!!! And, NO, I would not have guessed there were that many layers on this card - remarkable and so awesome!!!

Posted by: Taunya Butler | 09/10/2015 at 11:21 AM

Very clever use of the frame die...love it.

Posted by: Jan D. Florida, USA | 09/10/2015 at 12:03 PM

Wow this if gorgeous with fall colors Sue! Beautifuly framed!

Posted by: Marybeth | 09/10/2015 at 11:15 PM

What a fantastic card! Love the layers of the frame and the felt for the deer!

Posted by: Miriam Prantner | 09/11/2015 at 12:37 PM

Love these colours Sue, gorgeous scene card.

Posted by: pam | 09/16/2015 at 05:54 PM