Your Next Stamp Release Blog Hop
/Welcome to Your Next Stamps (YNS) February new release blog hop. I have the pleasure of creating with the new Show Ponies stamp set. If you like ponies this set has it all.
The tussled manes on these horses made me think of how free and wild horses look when running and playing in their paddocks. A slimline card was the perfect choice to show them off running wild with only the clouds behind them and green grass at their feet.
Get the Look
Start by cutting the slim line card. I used a 8 1/4” by 3 1/4” card which eventually I mount on a card base of 8 1/2” x 3 1/2”
Lay stamps out how you would like them on the card. I’ve overlapped and used masking for a couple stamps because I love the look and also I feel that it adds some realism to the scene. If you don’t like masking and own the dies you can easily get a similar look.
Stamp and colour with your favourite medium.
I would recommend masking horses to to add the clouds. But I’ve seen designers be careful and use the stencil without masking. I used a cloud stencil and lightly brushed salty ocean distress ink over stencil to create the cloudscape.
Using 2 different green colours of card stock I cut grass with couple of grass dies. Trick was since I had chosen to make a slimline card I had to extend the length of grass by cutting same die twice along the card. I made grass same length as the card that I stamped horses on. Then layered and glued 2 dies together.
Masked, about an inch above base of card and brushed on some mowed lawn distress ink to create a green base for horse to run on.
Although the green distress ink is mainly covered it fills in gaps behind the grass die so no white shows through.
Now all that’s left is to glue the grass on, stamp the sentiment and mount scene to card base.
Blog Hop:
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Your Next Stamp - Show Ponies
