I love a challenge when it comes to creating cards. This week’s challenge for my Seven Hills Crafts blog post was to create a birthday card for a horse mad relative, which I thought would be a lot harder than it was (I had visions of modifying unicorn stamps)! The only horse stamp I had was the Lawn Fawn Hay There stamp, so I created a simple little hay there birthday card scene and used some no-line colouring.
Hay There Birthday Card Tutorial
Firstly, I stamped out the scene, starting with the horse and working towards the tree in the background, using some Hero Arts Contour ink on a panel of blending cardstock. I had to be a little creative with a few bits of sticky note to mask off the bits that would be in the background.
I always start with the background as the ink can sometimes bleed if you catch the edge. So, I used some bright blues for the sky and rich, warm browns for the foreground. The trick with no-line colouring is to boost the contrast between the dark and lightest colours (the highlights and the shadows) to make up for the fact you have no thick black line. I always leave the finer details – like the eyes or nose – until I can come in with my coloured pencils.
Next, I stamped out the sentiment – created from two of the sentiments in the Hay There set – in some Versafine ink under the foreground mud.
To finish, I die cut the panel with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle and framed it on some Chilli Pepper cardstock.
My relative loved it and I even managed to use a stamp set that I hadn’t yet used!
Supplies
Please see below for information on the supplies used in this post. Please note, affiliate links* are used at no cost to you!
- Lawn Fawn Hay There stamps (Seven Hills Crafts, Simon Says Stamp*)
- Heffy Doodle Alcohol Marker Friendly Cardstock (Heffy Doodle, Simon Says Stamp*)
- Hero Arts Contour Ink (Seven Hills Crafts, Simon Says Stamp*)
- Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink (Seven Hills Crafts, Simon Says Stamp*)
- Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles Stackables (Simon Says Stamp*, Seven Hills Crafts)
- Tsukineko VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink (Simon Says Stamp*, Seven Hills Crafts, Heffy Doodle)