Depth: Wonder how many of you are like me and like a 3 dimensional effect with the pictures they use in their minis for looking outdoors through windows or doors? I knew when I started doing this that it would add hours to a project but still decided I had to do it. The effect is fantastic but not for the faint of heart who want something done right away. It's extremely time consuming but well worth the effort.

If you looked out the window, you saw mountains. I didn't want just a picture of mountains, there wasn't enough room for actually making any, it was only a space about 1 1/2" deep and lot's of stuff had to go in that space. So I proceeded to make several copies of a mountain with sunset scene, and cut out the mountains and glued them atop each other until it had the effect I wanted, then bent the bottom of the picture forward so that it sloped in the right way. The effect was amazing.

Then I actually drew birds flying overhead, some tiny ones sitting in the snow up closer to the picture window and on top of the bike seat, that was just outside the window. Even had a "Don't cut the grass" sign just sticking up out of the snow. Had a birdfeeder out there too

That left a space to the right of that window that was the same depth that I couldn't figure out what to do with. Didn't want to waste it, so I put in a wide door opening and behind it I found a picture looking off into other rooms with a curving staircase in front and to the left. Again I proceeded to print several copies of the picture, cut out the steps, and then the railings and glued them on top of each other until they were 3 dimensional. I slightly curved the bottom of the picture out so it looked like the floor that was in the roombox blended right into the other room. Made the room look much huger than what it was. There was a large plant to the left of the staircase and I also cut out tons of little leaves and glued them around the picture so it looked like there really was a plant there, bent this way and that so that the leaves looked realistic.

Kathy in E. TN