Autumn Blaze

This card is my second entry to the current Chocolate Baroque colour challenge  http://chocolatebaroquechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/.   The stamps used are: CB Design a Tree-Orchard, and foliage from the Thistle Butterfly and Eastern Grasses sets.  I have used Brushos to create a background: Lime Green, Burnt Sienna, Terracotta and Yellow Ochre.  I also used Burnt Sienna acrylic paint, gold embossing powder and Sable glitter.  I am very new to working with Brushos but they are so versatile and give such lovely effects that I cannot resist playing!  I started this design by creating the background panel; taking a piece of watercolour card, spritzing it with water and sprinkling with Brushos.  I let the crystals spread and do their own thing, adding a little more water here and there as needed to get the result I wanted.  I was trying to re-create a blazing Autumn sunset where the sky is a beautiful mix of reds, golds, blues and browns as dusk falls.  I wanted the tree and foliage to look brown and dormant.  When the Brushos were dry I stamped the tree image using the acrylic paint, then over stamped it in second generation paint.  I stamped the grasses and foliage using the same paint, first and second generation stampings, to create a border along the bottom of the panel and add perspective.  I added the glitter to the grasses and foliage as highlights in the sunset.  I then finished the panel by edging it with gold marker pen.  The base card is smooth terracotta cardstock.  I stamped the thistle and small grass images around the edges of the base card using Versamark ink, and heat embossed them with gold embossing powder.  I matted the background panel onto dark brown card and matted it onto the base card.  This is a lovely design that I think is a great 'worker' card, suitable for either male or female cards and lots of occasions.