Outside the window.

Today I'm showing you a card that I have been thinking about for a while.  I have seen cards made with this technique several times and kept thinking I would try it.  Finally decided to just do it.

I started out by making the background with my Pan Pastels and set it with a bit of hair spray.  Next I used the Trees (21403 & 21601) stamps from QKR Stampede.  I used Smoke Gray VersaFine ink, stamped off onto scrap paper, then stamped onto the prepared background.  This gave me a light impression which I then colored with water color crayons.

To give it the feel of looking out the window, I adhered the image to the card base, then cut very thin pieces of brown card stock and used a glue pen to adhere them to the image.  Once the windows were formed, I used some ribbon from my stash to make the valance.

I ran a double line of score tape along the top of the 'window' then looped and adhered the ribbon to form the valance.  I then used another strip of score tape to adhere a finishing ribbon to the top of the valance.

To finish it off, I ran a piece of the ribbon along the inside of the card.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my card.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!