Creative Puttering While Quarantined: Horsing Around By Judi Kauffman for The Queen’s Ink

Recipe for a lazy afternoon:

• Hand- or die-cut a simple silhouette of a horse from medium weight paper to create a stencil.
• Use your heat tool to soften a Magic Stamp block, press it against a piece of cheap polyester lace to create a patterned stamp.
• Stencil the horse with several dark colors.
• Remove the stencil and use lighter colors for the ground and background.
• Depending on the size:
• Use your creation for a card front or a notepad.
• Put it on the fridge and write notes or positive words around it each day while quarantined.

(Die shown: AccuCut for GrandeMARK machine)

YOUR TURN

• Add a horn and turn the horse into a unicorn!
• Hand-or die-cut a bunch of horses and stamp onto all of them, string them together for a garland.
• Paint, stencil and/or doodle instead of stamping.
• Instead of a horse, choose any other simple shape - bunny, flowers, cat, leaf.
• Work directly into your art journal instead of on sheets of paper.