Cindy Brown: Season Scene Building

This project focused on creating scenes, using several techniques, including masking and framing. Scene creation also allows the use of oversized images to create an illusion, which was the lesson in the card that I have chosen to highlight. For example,  this card cannot fit the four bottles, except that in grouping the images together and cropping them, there is the illusion that they fit as they have been placed together to create a deliberate scene. I enjoyed all the lessons in this course and fortunately, I own most of the stamps that the teacher used and I was able to recreate each card as instructed except for a few substitutions.

I used the Altenew "Bottleful of" stamp set to stamp four bottles, one bottle in each of the colors in the  Altenew "Warm Grey" inks, with each bottle outlined in the darkest color, Lava Rock. Each bottle was fussy cut. I then used the Altenew stamp and die set "Peony Bouquet" to stamp flowers and leaves in the Altenew inks "Red Sunset" (Blush, Rouge, Velvet) for florals and "Green Fields" for leaves (Forest Glades and Evergreen). I then die cut the flowers and leaves.

For the background, I used the Altenew cover die "Watercolor Stripes" and I die-cut three of these in 80 pound Neenah Solar White cardstock and glued them together. This was a substitute for the embossing folder background that was used by the instructor in her card. In her instruction, she thought the background needed texture and I thought my background met that criteria. I arranged the bottles, flowers and foliage and glued them to the background, creating the scene. The bottles do not fit on the A2 card base and will be trimmed.

Because of the illusion created with the technique of scene building, the eye does not miss the lower half of the bottles which were trimmed off, and that the scene looks complete. 

I did not have the sentiment used by the instructor and so I stamped the sentiment from the Altenew "Perfectly Perfect" stamp set and heat embossed the sentiment onto Altenew vellum with detail white embossing powder. I then glued the embossed vellum by hiding the glue under the opaque white letters and placed a small dot of glue long the edges. The glue, once dried, was not visible so I did not need sequins to hide the glue.

Detail of the layered flowers stamped in the Altenew inks "Sunset Red".

I considered adding sequins. I decided not to use sequins as the florals look like an embellishment to me.