Sep 22 2009
Windy Tree - Tutorial #262 and a Blog Candy Winner!
Happy First Day of Autumn! In the spirit of Fall here is a card using Stampin’ Up ink pads and the direct to paper technique to swipe in the background quickly. But before we get into today’s tutorial let me congratulate the lastest blog candy winner.
Congratulations Carole Philpot who wrote: “I love your blog, it has been such an inspiration to me. I have been a “technique junkie” for years of cardmaking, mostly folds, never stamped much until I signed up for your blog and now I am attempting to brayer and sponge backgrounds and stamp! Thanks for all the good tutorials”
Carole, please e-mail your mailing address to mzindorf@aim.com within 30 days and I will put this great set in the mail to you. 
Thank you to everyone that played along.
Now on with this mornings Autumn themed tutorial. . . . .
Supplies:
| Stamps: Stampin’ Up Branch Out & Baroque Motifs |
| Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Bashful Blue & Old Olive |
| Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Black, Really Rust, Old Olive, Always Artichoke & Bashful Blue |
| Accessories: Silver Brads, Sponge, White Gel Pen |
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On a 3.5″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White card stock, smeared Bashful Blue Ink on using the short end of the ink pad.
Stamped the Flourish from the Stampin’ Up Baroque Motifs set with Bashful Blue ink.
Smeared Bashful Blue ink at the bottom of the card stock.
Smeared Old Olive ink at the bottom of the card stock.
Turned the card stock up side down and smeared Always Artichoke ink from the ground toward the sky using the edge of the ink pad.
Stamped the Stampin’ Up Branch Out sets Tree using Basic Black ink.
Stamped leaves using Old Olive and Really Rust ink on the tree and to the side of the tree.
Added White Gel Pen highlights to the Flourish to bring it a bit forward in the scene.
Sponged Old Olive ink around the outside edges of the card stock.
Sponged Basic Black ink around the outside edges of the card stock, not covering the Old Olive sponged ink entirely.
Added Whisper White, Bashful Blue and Old Olive card stock panels.
Added Silver Brads in the corners of the main image panel using a piercing tool to start the brads.
Here is the finished card measuring 5″ x 6.5″.
I just got home last night after spending the weekend in Yardley, PA teaching my brayering techniques to totally terrific groups of ladies. My drive there and back was wonderful. I found myself in some very scenic country in Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Here is one photo taken just as the sun was rising as I was driving along yesterday morning.
The traffic was a bit slow going through Philly so I was able to take this photo in bumper to bumper traffic.
May your day be smooth sailing!
Until my next post. . . . .
Huge Hugs,
Michelle
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Hi Michelle, I am glad you got back home safe! What would we do without you showing us all those wonderful stamping possibilities??? I think I will have to get my hands on this tree stamp, you use it a lot do’nt you? I love all kind of trees, most of all bare trees, and I am getting quite a bit of them now.
See you, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for a great class Michelle. It was even better than I anticipated and highly recommend it to everyone. I picked up so much more knowledge than just brayering and emboss resist and am already practicing everything I learned.
Glad you made it home safely. It was a great weekend for driving.
Take care - Dorrie
Michelle, really neat card I can’t wait to get my set so I can give this a try. Sounds like you had a great time . Great pictures thanks for sharing.
Evelynn
Great photo from your trip Michelle. I’ve been playing around with my brayer all weekend. Going to have to try the direct to paper technique, it has such a cool effect. Thanks for the tutorial.
Wendy
Michelle,
You have such wonderful ideas! I love looking at your blog.
Michelle,
Your tutorial was so easy to follow. All the steps were so exact that I feel it woud be easy to duplicate. I especially liked the look of the wind blowing and the leaves to the right of the tree was brilliant! Great job!!!!
beautiful! Thanks Michele for sharing!
Sandra
wow…I just love this. The blue and olive are perfect together!
What an incredibly creative idea to use a flourish stamp for the “wind”. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL card!
Congratulations Carol!!! It is so fun to play on these blog candy things whether you win or not! Thanks Michelle for the fun chance to win! Glad to learn you returned safe and sound and had a fun time. You are an awesome photographer too! Love this direct to paper variance! What especially appealed to me is how you used multiple colors for the leaves. Just adds so much! Beautiful autumn scene!
Glad you made it home safely….I’ve been stuck in traffic at that exact spot! Thanks for making the trip to Philly….your class was great!
I love that you can use the same stamp set in a different number of cards and they are all so beautiful.
Wow - All this awesomeness from just dragging an ink pad across the paper. I can’t stop here without being inspired! Thanks for another quick card idea!
It is nice to have you back. Glad you enjoyed your trip. LOVE this card. I am so glad I have that tree! Autumn is my favorite season.
Michelle
Another terrific card.
Thank you so much for coming to Pennsylvania. I was thrilled to take your beginning brayer class. It was an absolute delight to meet you and I look forward to practicing the techniques you taught.
Love how you made it look like the wind was blowing - I could almost feel it - lol. My eldest son lives in Philly - Love the way the lights on the buidings look at night.
AMAZING! Wow you do beautiful work. Thank you for sharing. Iwould love to come to your workshop when you are here but 3 hrs is very hard for me to do.
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