Woodland Wonderland

This was a FUN project! As I lay in bed this morning, I kept seeing little fairy woodland type houses in my head!  Well, we all know what that means!  Get out of bed and make a card!  YeeHaw!  I love it when my day start out like this!

I kept the front very simple.  It's a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card base.  To this I glued some pattern paper leaving a small border around the edge.  I did a sentiment using an old stamp and the banner die from the Ups Daisy Pop-up set.  I mounted this on a piece of card stock the same color as the base of the card.  I then made this dimensional by mounting it with fun foam.  

 Let's start with these babies!  As you can probably tell, these started out as parts of the castle pop up set.  See the drawbridge?!  First, I die cut the castle piece.  I cut it into 2 sections making use of the two turrets.  

I then ran them thru a wood grained embossing folder.  I distressed them with ink, glued some yellow behind the windows, and attached the doors.  

Then I cut out another castle to use as a backer piece for the houses and glued it to the back of the houses. 

Next, I cut out flowers from the ups daisy set (the smaller one).  I inked the edges, then cut them in half.  I used these pieces for the shingles on the roofs.  I layered them up starting at the bottom of the roof and working upwards.   

I hand cut a chimney for each house, and glued it to the back.  The mushrooms were random pieces of waste from die cuts.  I inked red on the top, brown on the bottoms, added some white dots, and Voila'....Mushrooms!

I added an additional flower to the right side of the blue house, and once again, using the waste from die cuts, I made a center for the flower.  

 I used random papers for the background and lower portion of the card and glued these to the card base.  I then added the floating floor from the house and fence pop up set.  

I added the houses to the various pop-up mechanism and added the stone walkways from the house and fence set.
  
The tree in the background was from the halloween scene die set.  To that I glued leaves made from the leaf die from the flower pot  set.  

The raccoon is from the woodland animals set.  The lantern and the hat on the raccoon are from the camping charms set.  The fence/wall pieces are from the castle pop up set.  The ferns on the wall sections are from a Martha Stewart leaf punch. 

All the papers for the leaves & flowers were made using distress inks, and water.  

The sun flower is from the ups daisy pop up set.

 The flourishes on the floor of the card are from the square spinner pop up set.  I used them to partially frame the area where I will sign the card.  

 So in this card I used mostly Karen Burniston dies.  I used:

1001 Woodland Animals
1049 Camping Charms
1033 Castle Pop-up
1014 Halloween Scene
1015 House and fence Pop-up
1042 Spinner Square Pop-up
1010 Flower Pot Pop-up
1047 Ups Daisy Pop-up

I also used A fern leaf punch from Martha Stewart.  

This card was a BLAST to make!  I needed this boost after finding out I didn't make the cut for the design team member position I was going after.  There is no better way to raise your spirits, than to make a card.  At least not for me! 

Happy crafting!

ttfn: Karen