I am still working on the film poem I mentioned in my last post. I think it’ll take me a while.
Still, one thing that has come out of my Sea Trout project is the creation of new concertina cards. I call them concertina cards because they’re long cards folded twice. The idea arose from my long sea trout picture (click on the images for bigger versions):
![Sea Trout](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sea-trout-long-image1000-600x187.jpg)
I wanted to create a card out of the design and thought it would be good to feature a picture on the reverse side. So I drew a shoal of trout:
![Sea Trout Shoal](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sea-trout-shoal1000-600x187.jpg)
Here is the finished Sea Trout card:
![Sea Trout concertina card Sea Trout concertina card](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/trout-card-upright1000-1-e1571565779124.jpg)
I decided to create a further two cards, both with a “trees” or “forest” theme. The first of these is In The Forest. One side of the card features a daytime forest scene with deer and a fox beneath the trees:
![Daytime forest scene](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/forest-concertina-card1000-600x187.jpg)
On the reverse is a night scene featuring badgers, deer, foxes, owls and hedgehogs:
It reminds me a bit of a tapestry :)
Here is the finished card:
![In the Forest concertina greetings card](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/forest-card-open1000-600x482.jpg)
My third card features a badger sett. One side you see a badger family out foraging at night:
![The Badger Sett](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/roots-badgers-night-1000-600x187.jpg)
The other side shows a cross-section of the badger sett with some slumbering badgers along with a rabbit burrow, tree roots and a burrowing mole:
![The Badger Sett](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/roots-badgers-concertina-card1000-600x187.jpg)
Here is The Badger Sett card:
![The Badger Sett](https://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/badger-card-open1000-600x453.jpg)
All cards are available from my Etsy shop and come with a little tag for a message and a square kraft envelope. :)