Another take on New Horizon

You have all seen the amazing New Horizon 6×6 Designer Series Paper (pages 42-43 of the mini catalog). There is no doubt about how beautiful they are, but today I’m going to show you how you might make your own New Horizon scene just using stamps, ink, and glossy paper.

I learned this technique many many years ago, made one card, then promptly forgot about it until 3:00am this morning when I got up to go to the bathroom. You never can tell when inspiration will hit you, just run with it when it does. The key is using Glossy photo paper. You can purchase this at office supply stores, Amazon, or sometimes even your favorite grocery. I purchased mine back in 2013!

Supplies you’ll need for your horizon project

• Glossy photo paper
• Stazon Ink in Jet Black
• Stazon Cleaner
• Sponge Daubers or sponges – I tried using blending brushes and wasn’t happy with the result.
• A wax crayon. Any color will do but I used white.
• Some thin copy paper
• Post it tape or the sticky portion of post it notes
• Paper towel
• Circle punch or cropped circle die. Mine is 1″
• A solid image stamp like a tree or the grasses from On the Horizon, and various colors of ink

Step by Step

1. Stamp the grasses and the birds on glossy paper with Jet Black Stazon Ink. This ink is permanent and can be used to stamp on anything. If you were to use regular black in, it would smear.
2. Used a crayon to draw around the grasses where snow might have gathered. This looks especially cool if you have tree branches.
3. Crop the circle for your sun – or moon – and use post-it tape to hold in place. I made several versions of this glossy scene before landing on the one I was most happy with where the birds were flying in front of the sun. The images below are from one of my earlier versions but the idea is the same.
4. Tape thin copy paper over the glossy paper where your horizon line will be. I used the bottom of the grasses.
5. Now you are ready to color with the sponge or dauber. Start with the lightest color first, then move up to dark. Overlapping and varying the height.

Making the Sun

Once your coloring of the sky is complete, crop the same size circle from another piece of copy paper, in the middle where there is plenty of paper around it. Remove the circle from your scene and lay the cropped circle over the top o fill in the sun with your sponge dauber. Be sure to leave it lighter in the center.

Now for the magic. Use the paper towel to rub the paper to remove the wax crayon. You’ll see white where the crayon kept the ink off the paper. Cool huh!

Add some layers of cardstock and DSP. Just something that accents your image, not something that overwhelms it. Finish it off with a simple sentiment and you’re done. trust me, gathering the supplies takes longer than making the card, but don’t be afraid to ‘create for the trash can’. In other words, it’s ok to not like your first, second, or 5th attempt. It took me three times.

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Happy Stamping

Lynn

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