A Fancy Scene fold card

 So, this has been an off again and on again thing this weekend. Early on Saturday AM before I ran out the door I seen  This Amazingly beautiful this card on SCS by Suz  for the May Dirty Dozen prompt that uses this fancy fold that has a tutorial on YouTube seen here. And because Suz's card is so gorgeous I went down that rabbit hole and watched the video and then attempted this fold. 

 It took me a while to find a 6" scenic piece of paper and this one came out of a Studio Light Let it snow pad. And when I looked at it I thought OK, all hearts come home for Christmas is the theme for this paper and. So, I dug out this old stamp from the Waltzing Mouse set called Seasons of Love tags stamps and I used some versafine to add it to the third panel of paper. The sentiment on the farthest right Neenah solar white cardstock panel is from the Hero Arts Winter Holiday Messages set. 

And I have to tell you I pulled these panels up and moved them multiple times before I got them to look like this. And because of that I decided to add the drop piece of the green linen cardstock to under neath of the far left front swing panel part of the fold to give that printed paper some more stability.

So this does not lay flat anymore because, the other bright idea I had was to watercolor some loose pine trees and do some falling snow splatter on that pale green textured paper I used for the other part of the front panel.

Like so, before I painted on the piece which was already glued to the card front I tried some colors on a scrap of watercolor paper and a small scrap of that same textured heavy paper to see how it would look and I decided it was "ok" for this thought. I also splattered this with some Dr. PH Martins bleed proof white. 

At this point I have not added embellishments to the far left corner of the card where you hold it to open it. I am considering adding a Merry Christmas some where though. And then when I handed this to hubs to open, he did not open this like to see the scene, the way you will see it open in that video. He opened it and then could only see the two inside pieces with the white panel. And he spun it around and flashed it at me and his face said? this is not impressive. So, its something to keep in mind its one of those folds that may not be self explanatory to a non card maker. I did have fun with this and I do like the colors but, the green linen textured cardstock is pretty wrinkly looking on the back side of this card for how many times I removed those scene panels and re glued them. Probably I should have used liquid glue. I am not so sure I would do this again like this, what I like about the whole thing is the framing that the splitting the panels gives like a trio of hung art and so, in my mind this may work better for me to just make a flat card and split the scene that way.  That's about it from me, I hope you are also enjoying this Mother's Day weekend. Thanks for stopping by.