Hello there. I am literally freezing my fingers off as I type here. It’s almost 28 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 Celsius), and I can’t wait for summer! I absolutely dread this and wish I could hibernate (well, I am mostly).
To distract myself, here is a gorgeous scene card. I have long feared scene cards, and probably still do. I can’t seem to ever get it right and I don’t know how this card came to be. All I can say, I feel super proud of how it turned out.

Here are the steps:
- The background that you see in blue is actually from a technique using Distress Oxide in shrink wrap paper and smooshing it to create a marble effect. You can find the video I made here in my Instagram page. Here I used Mermaid Lagoon.
- I used a sunrays stencil from Waffle Flower, but the circle was small, so I die cut a piece of circle and stuck it on the stencil so that I could get a bigger circle. I used Chipped Sapphire.
- I used a craft paper and cut it freehand in the shape of a hill and glued it.
- Next I used stamps from the Hero Arts Magical Forest to stamp the trees and the water flowing as well and the ridges on the craft paper, that I stamped multiple times while covering the rest of the stamp with a post it. My Misti was super useful in this situation.
- I used the Waffle Flower Oval stitched die and die cut the scene.

- Setting that aside, I die cut this Beach Car Fancy Die two times in white cardstock. I had just bought my new Polychromos Faber Castell pencils and decided to give it a try. I glued the top layer over the bottom white cardstock to let some of the white elements show through as well as give dimension.

- This black cardstock is from Hobby Lobby that I dies cut down to 4.25 x 5.5 inches. I had some pieces in my box of scrap and used this arch die and marble circle.
- I also took a dark blue cardstock from my scraps and stamped the sentiment from the stamp set in heat embossed it using Brutus Monroe’s White Alabaster powder. I adhered foam at the back and glued it to the card.
- Using a Sakura white Gelly pen in 08, I drew some stars with my hand.

I always like to ponder and think how my card turned out. This one was very different. I didn’t know where I was going with this card, but I am so glad and happy the way it turned out. I am still not sure about scene cards. Let’s see how it goes.
Challenge entries:
- https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-with-a-blog-named-hero-february-challenge
- https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/ – #25 Happy Birthday
- http://kleurenmetpotlodenchallenge.blogspot.com/ – January Anything Goes color with pencils
- https://sheepski-designs-challenges.blogspot.com/ – #59 Use Some Red
Thank you for being here. Have a wonderful weekend.
Beautiful birthday card. Love the lay out!
Thanks for playing along with us at our present challenge at Creative Crafting Uncles and good luck. Hope you will join us next challenge again.
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Alex
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Thank you Alex!
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Such a cool card – your layers add so much interest! Thanks so much for playing along with our challenge at Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero
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Thank you so much!
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