SSS Horizon Lines Stencil

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Hey everyone!  I have another super quick and easy card to share today.  

Just like Tuesday's card, this one features stencils.  That's one of the things I love about stencils, they can make a big impact in not a lot of time.  A lot of the newer stencils coming out aren't your normal stencil that just creates a background, these can easily be the focal point of your card.  That's true for the stencil I'm using today, the Horizon Lines stencil from Simon Says Stamp.

What made today's card even easier is that I used just one color family - this meant that there was no cleaning up of the stencil required between layers.  I used Flannel, Earl, and Charcoal from Simon Says Stamp.

The Horizon Lines stencil is a 6x6 stencil that has multiple landscape silhouettes cut into it.  It's all connected, so you can just slide your paper behind a layer and ink.  You do need to do a bit of masking so the other lines don't show, but I accomplished this mostly by just holding a piece of scrap cardstock over the rest of the stencil, and sometimes using a bit of tape.

For my card, starting from the top of my panel with Flannel ink, I created three layers of clouds.  There are two different cloud horizon lines on the stencil, and you can play with both the angle at which you're inking as well as move from one side of the stencil to another, so although I inked three layers of clouds, you can't really tell that one of the layers was the same horizon line.  The other great thing about this stencil is that while I inked below the horizon line, you could easily place your panel at the top of the cloud and ink above the clouds for yet another look.  

I started with a very light hand, so that although I used Flannel for the top two cloud layers, the second one is darker than the first.  For the third layer of clouds, I used mostly Flannel with a hit of Earl.

Next for the city.  There is one cityscape horizon line, and I inked it twice using Earl.  Again, I used a lighter hand on the first layer vs. the second layer.  I also used different sides of the stencil.  For the first layer, I slid my panel all the way to the right of the stencil, the second time around I slide it to the left.  I also overlapped the layers a bit to create some extra depth.

And finally the foreground.  There are three ground line horizon lines on the stencil, and for this card I used two of them, inking with Charcoal, lighter for the first layer and darker for the second.

This really was so easy to do, and while I used grays and three different shades of ink, you could really use any color family and any number of colors in the color family.

I finished things off with a sentimenet from the Well Wishes set which was stamped with Versafine and embossed with Ranger Frosted Crystal Antiquities embossing powder.

Hope you are having a great week!