Summer Forest Scenery Card

Hi, glad you're back today.  I've been looking out my windows and seeing lots of trees and plants in many various colors and shades of green and it reminded me of the gorgeous Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper.  So this is just a quick card to share some of that wonderful greenery with you in the form of a card.  I think you can get a real good idea of what I enjoy looking at everyday when you look at this card.

Can you just see the multitude of colors on these leaves?  Just like outside, but these have a slightly darker fall-ish look to them.  One of the very first stamp and die bundles I purchased when the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog came out last May was the great Inspired Thoughts Bundle. For this card I'm not using the stamps, but the die set has a really awesome row of trees with bare branches and several different leafy-greenery tree leaves.  Then to coordinate with these dies is the Beauty of Friendship Bundle with more trees and leaves to create with.  Again truly gorgeous.  Then when you add in the Beauty of the Earth designer Series Paper.  It's all an absolute Wow!  All these items work so well together it's so easy to use a little of this and a bit of that and bring it all together.

The card starts with a base of neutral Crumb Cake cardstock cut at 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored and folded in half.  Next I cut a layer of Evening Evergreen cardstock cut at 5 1/4" x 4", but didn't attach it.  This is what I would build my card on and then layer to the card front when it was all trimmed up and ready.

Across the lower part of the card, I wanted a row of trees from the Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper.  One of the prints is just row after row of trees, so I cut off one of the rows to fit the card front.  The strip ended up being 1 1/4" wide by 5 1/4" long.  This was attached with adhesive.

I wanted to use the row of trees die, but knew most of it wouldn't fit.  Using the Inspiring Canopy dies, I only cut the 2 trees on the right end from Early Espresso cardstock.  This way I could place where needed and trim off any extra.  I also die-cut the leaves from one of the prints that matched the strip on the bottom part of the card.  This die has such wonderful texture to it that nothing else was needed to make it beautiful.  Both the trees and the leaves were attached to the card front using Multi Purpose Liquid Glue.

Next up is the sentiment.  The Beauty of Friendship Bundle has six sentiment stamps and two label dies to match.  I chose to use the 'Thinking of You' stamp and coordinating die.  I can always use more of these type of cards!  The label was cut from Basic White cardstock and the sentiment was stamped with the Evening Evergreen ink.  The end of the label was tucked under the leaves on the tree and attached with adhesive. 

The card front we've been building was now attached to the folded Crumb Cake base.  I used adhesive to keep it flatter.  (The Post Office is getting rich from all the extra postage I've been paying on those 'bulky' cards I've been sending!) 

The card needed something else, but I wasn't crazy about rhinestones or sequins.  Then tried adding Twine and ribbon, but nothing was fitting with what I wanted.  After thinking on it awhile, I remembered that the Beautiful Trees dies had two bird dies.  Yes!  To keep it subtle, I decided to cut them from Crumb Cake cardstock.  They didn't have eyes, so I just used a Basic Black marker to color in an eye for each of them.  They were attached to the card front with Dimensionals.  There you have it.  I just love it when the Designer Paper seems to do all the work for you.  This is a perfect card for a gentleman who's not into all that frou-frou stuff!  Or any of those nature lovers out there!

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Thank you to all my wonderful friends who are still hanging out here with me.  As I write this I'm in Michigan for the week.  Hopefully I'll be seeing many of you in the next few days.  I can't express how much I miss seeing you all on a regular basis, having fun, and stamping together.  This blog is the closest I can come to that right now.  That's why I love it when you leave me a comment so I know you're out there!  Take care and keep on stamping and creating!

Hugs,

Sharon