This is an appreciation card for one of my much-loved cousins who loves horses. For many years, her best friend was a huge and beautiful black horse called Duke and I know she misses him terribly.
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| Selectively ink the stamp to turn a weather vane into a galloping horse |
- Stamp the grass from the Enjoy Life stamp set. I used Call Me Clover ink.
- Use a Stampin' Write Marker (I used Basic Black) to ink only the horse in the weathervane image from the Country Road stamp set and stamp the horse.
- Make a mask by stamping the horse again on a piece of scrap paper or a Post It Note and cutting it out just inside the lines.
- Place the mask over the stamped horse.
- Tear a piece of scrap paper to form some hill shapes and place it so that the torn edge is facing down towards the grass. Sponge a lighter green between the stamped grass and the torn paper edge.
- Punch a small circle (keep the remaining piece with the hole as a stencil) and place as a mask in the sky area.
- Lightly sponge the sky (I used Balmy Blue). If you're concerned about sponging blue onto the grass area, you can mask the grass with the other piece of torn paper.
- Remove the mask from the sky.
- Place the punched hole over the white circle in the sky area and sponge lightly with yellow ink to create a sun (I used Pineapple Punch). Remove the stencil.
- Stamp the trees from the Winter Woods stamp set (I used Soft Suede ink)
- Remove the mask from the horse.
- Create a road and lower the horse's hooves closer to the road surface
- Change the colours to create a night sky, leaving the circle white for a moon.
- Add some stippled green foliage to the trees for a summery look or
- Add some stippled amber/gold foliage to the trees for an autumnal look.
- Make a wider card and have several horses running together or chasing each other
'Til next time!
Stephanie
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