It seems like an innocent question, but there's a whole lotta subtext coming from this sassy equine!
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Showing posts with label horse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horse. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10
Friday, September 6
Interactive Fun
Carla has created two fun, interactive cards using the new Barnyard Birthdays set of digital stamps. Her first card features the little pig, coloured with pencils, sitting beside a piggy bank with a secret birthday message. While her second card has a set of barn doors that open to reveal a somewhat surprised looking horse. Cute!!
Sunday, September 1
Wednesday, May 19
From The Whole Herd
I regularly send cards on behalf of our entire household so it's handy to have fun sentiments like the one in the Funny Farm set that reads "To Someone Special from the whole herd". I know our friends and family will get a kick out of it too and no doubt they'll even have opinions on who each character resembles!
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Saturday, May 1
New Releases
We have a huge release lined up for this month, including clear stamps, cutting dies and two new digital sets! You can find them all in our online store now.
Funny Farm
clear stamps
Funny Farm
cutting dies
Sunday, June 21
Digi Know-How
You don't need expensive software or photo editing programs to use digital stamps. I personally open all my digital files in Microsoft Word, which I'm familiar with and find easy to use. For this card, I opened one of the images from A Drover's Life, resized it to 9cm in height and then played around with the picture editing tools that are right inside the program. I started by changing the colour to blue and then added an artistic effect called line drawing, which made the image look as though it had been coloured with a pencil.
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Tuesday, May 19
Colouring a Sunset
Last week we had a go at colouring a night scene with a glowing aurora, which means it must be time to work on a fiery sunset - or a sunrise if you'd prefer. Either way, you're going to need a silhouette image that can be contrasted against the colours we'll add to the sky. Again, I'm using one of the images from the new A Drover's Life set of digital stamps, which I've printed on blending card using a water-based ink jet printer.
I'm going to start by "grounding" the horse and rider, which basically means connecting the subjects to the surrounding landscape or scenery. I do that by adding solid ground (black marker) from just above the horse's hooves all the way to the bottom of the image. If I started the ground underneath the feet, the horse would look as though it was floating in the air rather than walking the trail.
For a little added interest, I have continued the line upward on one side and down on the other to give the impression that the trail winds around a mountain or hillside. As you can see, the line is jagged and imperfect much as a dirt trail would be. Now I'll colour all the area below the line in solid black marker so that the horse's feet are no longer visible.
I want to add some grass and wildflowers into my scene, which I do with a water-based pen. The water-based ink won't react with the alcohol marker, but if you'd prefer, you can add the pen work after you've coloured the sky.
Colour the entire sky in light yellow. Although it looks nice and soft right now, once it has all the other colours of the sunset around it, it will suddenly become a big ball of burning fire!
Decide how much of the sun you want to see and where you want it positioned. A good place is directly behind the focal point, which in my case is the head of the horse and rider, but it would also look great halfway through the horizon as though it had already sunk below the hillside. The size of your sun will depend on what punches or dies you have in your collection. I've used a 11/2" punch to cut a circle from a sticky note, which I'll use as a mask.
Time to add some colour! I'm working through various shades of yellow, orange and red to create my sunset, making sure I blend well between each colour. You can find a list of the markers I used at the bottom of this post.
Make sure you blend well between colours and shades. To do that, layer the colours over each other and blend the area where the colours meet using the lighter colour over the darker. Don't try to make too big a leap between colours and shades or you'll have a lot of trouble blending.
Continue to work outward in a circle pattern as though the colours are radiating out from the sun, which they are. Add layer upon layer for a lovely blend.
Work out to a fairly deep, dark colour so that you end up with a great contrast between the sun and the darkening sky. The deep red will make the light yellow we started with look hot and very bright... get those shades ready!
The contrast is very obvious once the mask in removed. If you wish, you can soften the edges of the sun a little bit by working some of the lightest yellow around the edges.
Here's the colour chart for those who'd like to have a go at creating their own sunset.
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Monday, May 11
Tutorial - Shadow Box Card
With layers of scenery to create depth and dimension, this fold might just be the ultimate in 3D card making. The clever design will even allow the card to collapse to fit into an envelope for posting!
1. To create the base of the card you'll need two 6" squares of card stock, plus one 41/2" x 3/4" and one 41/2" x 1/2" strips of card stock.
2. Place one of the 6" squares of card stock on your score board and score 1" from either side. Repeat with the second 6" square of card stock and fold along the score lines.
3. Cut a window from the middle of one of the 6" squares of card stock. Although the size is up to you, my window measures 3/4" from the top and bottom and 1/2" from either side. If preferred, you could use a cutting die for this step.
4. Add a 6" x 4" piece of patterned or decorated paper between the score lines of the second 6" square of card stock. This will form the background of your scene. (A few of you might remember the aurora background I created a couple of days ago using distress inks and a blending tool... I'm attaching it to the background of my card for a pretty night scene.)
5. Place one of the 41/2" strips horizontally on your score board and score 1/4" from either end. Repeat with the second strip. Fold along the score lines.
6. These two strips will become the structures for holding some of the elements of the card to give the 3D effect. I want mine to look a little like small hills so I'm shaping them gently with a pair of small scissors. Since the strips will be positioned behind the card stock window, there's really no need to cut them any smaller unless you wish to make them part of the design.
7. Add some glue or double sided tape to the tab on the left hand side of the wider strip of card stock.
8. Attach the strip of card stock to the left of the score line, keeping the bottom edge flush with the bottom edge of the card. Before the glue has a chance to dry completely, fold the strip back over the card to make sure everything is lined up.
9. Apply glue to the narrower strip of card stock in the same manner. Position it just to the left of the first strip, again making sure that the edges are flush.
10. Add glue or double sided tape to the tabs on the right hand side of both card stock strips, then fold the card base to the left to secure them in place.
11. You should now have two strips of card stock on which to add your decorative elements. I've fussy cut one of the images from the new A Drover's Life digital set as well as some hand cut cactus plants and a rough stone outcrop. For lots of depth, remember to add smaller elements to the background as though they are off in the distance.
12. Add the smallest elements directly onto the background with glue or tape, then build up the scene by adding larger elements to each of the card stock strips. I used some glue at the base of my cactus plants and on the hoofs of the horse.
13. To frame the scene, I added some large cactus plants on either side of my window.
14. To complete the card, add glue on the inside of the two outer panels of the card front. Adhere the card front to the outside of the two outer panels of the card base, overlapping the 1" sections.
I hope you'll give this fabulous card fold a go, it's really not too difficult to achieve. Have fun!
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