Monochromatic woodland by Brenda

Hello Peeps, Brenda here sharing some more trees and bookmarks. 

For the top card I stamped a selection of the trees from Trees A Crowd, cut around the tops and used a die to create an aperture which is easily done by placing the bottom section of the die behind the tree so the pop up in from the background. The top section can then be mounted with foam pads to give a dimensional look with in this case just a sentiment from the same set.

I created a little box using a score board and dies to give a decorative top, added panels to all four sides using stamps from Acorn House, Garden House, Heath Robinson, Tree House and Trees A Crowd. Next I made four tags and stamped the houses onto these, coloured in with pencils, stamped elements from each a second time and decoupaged. 

                            

Finally, all four were mounted onto corrugated and seam binding tied to the top of each and the four tags fit nicely into the box.

                                 

An inky background using Distress Oxides, some stencilling and a sun added after creating the background by placing the mask and inking around it, I find doing it this way preferable in some instances as it's less stark and blends in with the background. Next I stamped Acorn House twice using Versafine black and then used Silhouette Palace 1 mask and DI to the background and sentiment from the same stamp set.

For my final share today I took a piece of card and stamped the large tree from Trees A Crowd using Versafine Clair, randomly stamped one of the smaller trees using another colour of the same ink and added some leaves to the focal tree using an stamp from Spinney Design a Tree. I then used an oval die to cut the centre which I then lines up and mounted with foam pads Finally some sentiments from the same focal stamp set. 

As always many thanks for your kind visits and words of encouragement.

brusho tree

 These are a couple of the samples for the recent show on the Craft Channel featuring brushos and the arboretum tree stamp sets.
I used the tree from the spinney plate for these cards, and the sentiment from words of inspiration
I was trying to create a landscape for the first one, got a very different effect from the one I was aiming for, but that is part of the fun with brushos!.
I used watercolour card with turquoise and leaf green brusho after stamping the tree with black versafine ink and clear embossing it. The powders were sprinkled onto dry card,, with most of the green over the actual tree for the foliage, and the blue for the sky -  and a lot of spritzing with water. The tiny dot of orange was meant to be the sun rising behind hills ................there are sort of hills if you have a good imagination!
I cut the card down to fit onto a 6"x6" sqare black card blank, and stamped the words on a cut-off bit of the card.


The second card was made in the same way, adding the red and green brusho powders with a mini spoon to give the effect of autumn leaves, Again onto dry card, which was heavily spritzed with water - I spread the green round the base of the tree with a clean paintbrush, and added the darker green at the base of the tree using the very tip of the paintbrush dipped into the powder.

Thank you for reading this, hope you managed to see the shows - I thought  Lesley did a wonderful job! Please keep checking the blog, the girls have done some really fab samples for the shows

Veronica

An orchard of Brusho Trees (by Lesley)

Well hello everyone. Gosh it seems ages since I last made a post of my own on here, but it has been a bit hectic of late.  

Today I wanted to share with you the three cards that I demonstrated on the Brusho Art TV show.  I so love these little pots of powder which are full of explosive cover and I had a ball taking them onto the Craft Channel.  And when combined with our beautiful Design a Tree stamps, they become magical. Anyay enough waffling here we go.

This first card features the Woodland set. The Brusho panel combines Violet, Turquoise and Leaf Green tapped onto the masked off section and then spritzed with water.  The tree was stamped twice in Smokey Grey Versfine to give the shadowy effect and then the main image in Onyx Black. The border around the card blank as made by stamping several of the small blossom/foliage stamps randomly around the edge with distress inks in Peacock Feather, Shaded Lilac and Peeled paint. The sentiment is from Words of Wisdom.

 

To create this background white card was spritzed with water and then sprinkled with Orange, Yellow and Scarlet Brushos and spritzed again to allow them to blend. Another piece of white card was then used to blot over the top. When dry the Spinney tree was stamped twice using water (spritz water onto a craft mat and then use this like an ink pad) and then again with Sepia Archival ink. The sentiment from Words of Inspiration was stamped in the same colour and both the edges of the background and the Kraft card blank were swiped with Decoart Gold Wax.

This last card involved stamping the wall from Landscape Edges onto a piece of white card. This was then masked using our Masking Tissue and the Orchard tree was stamped in Onxy Black. Leaving the mask in place the grass and sky were painted with Leaf Green, Yellow, Violet and Ost. Blue Brushos, diluted with water on a craft sheet. When dry the mask was removed and the walled painted with Light Brown, Dark Borwn and Gamboge Brushos. Some water was sprinkled on the sky and dabbed dry.

To finish the scene the birds were stamped with Onyx Black and.shading was added beneath the wall with a charcoal pencil. Finally the border around the edge of the card was created using the wall, stamped freehand with no acrylic block.

I so enjoyed making these and hope you have enjoyed reading this post. Please join us again tomorrow to see what delights await you from another member of our wonderful Design Team.