Mark's Finest Papers May Hop: Bearded Iris

May 16, 2014

Mark's Finest Papers May Hop: Bearded Iris

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

May Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Featured May 13

Kiss Me & Plywood

Featured May 14

Oriental Joy

Featured May 15

Tiger Lily & Tree Frogs

Featured May 16

Bearded Iris

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All six winners will be announced on May 17, 2014 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday May 16, 2014

Hello Crafty Friends and Welcome To Our Final MFP May Hop!! Toady were featuring another beautiful flower stamp set. And just like yesterday I really wanted to capture this flower using some water coloring. Again using my Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads on a clear block with my paint brush and a cup of water I was able to achieve this effect. I am taking a water color class and boy am I learning so much. Now I know I could use my pads on a clear block but the card below will show you a water color wash. For this card I wanted the bottom of the flower to be darker and the middle lighter and the top even lighter. Now I must admit I'm not good with light source so I just did what I wanted and I'm happy I did. I love this card!

For my final card share I wanted to capture just the sentiment from this stamp set using a water color wash of different purples. Now I did follow a sketch by one of the water color teachers. How ever I wanted my string to look like a flower and the sentiment be the center and wow I can't believe that worked out LOL!! Anyway I stamped my sentiment on a punched 2" circle (I believe its 2") I can remember. I ink the circle with my Hero's Art ink. I splatter some black water color ink all over and painted the bigger black dots. I just really love this one too!!!