Brayered Stampscapes Landscape

This is a rather non-traditional Thanksgiving card.  I love my Stampscapes stamps and wanted to do another landscape using them.  I found myself watching a video about the "Zindorf Technique" for backgrounds, and I just had to try it!  This card was the result.  

Now in her example, the background turned out really smoothly blended rather than blotchy like mine.  I realized after the fact that it was because of the texture on the plastic table I was working on - next time I'll try it on a smoother surface.  But I liked this look, too.

I brayered the background with dye ink in layers as she shows - and then pounced the color at the bottom - once again the way she did it.  Then I added the tree & deer using my Stampscapes stamps and dye ink once again.  I stamped the tree three times - once with green - then again with blue (because I thought it was my black ink!!!) and finally with black ink.  It would have been nicer if I had used my Tim Holtz Stamping Platform - especially since it was a rubber stamp so I couldn't see through it for placement.  It wasn't perfectly aligned for the 2nd & 3rd stampings, but I kind of liked the 3-D effect I got.

After my picture was dry, I decided to frame it for the front of my card.  I used Spellbinders dies (various Labels Four sets) to cut the frame out of dark green and a slightly smaller one of cream to give me the double-frame effect you see.  I pierced the long edges of the frame to add just a bit more interest - then popped the whole panel up on foam tape.

The inside of the card simply made use of the die cut I had made when I cut the frame for the front - with another piece of cream cut for the center ready for my message to the recipient.