Mark's Finest Papers July Hop Day Two: Coneflower and Roses

July 16, 2014

Mark's Finest Papers July Hop Day Two: Coneflower and Roses

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

July Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Featured July 15
Chinese Take Out

Featured July 16

Coneflowers & Roses

Featured July 17

Snowflakes

Featured July 18
Sun and Moon & Heavenly Harmony

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 July 19, 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 July 18, 2014

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Day Two of Mark Finest Papers Blog Hop.
Today were featuring two favorites of mine. For my first card I'm using Coneflowers. I love that MFP artist did two stems. I had lots of fun water coloring my images with Tim Holtz distress inks. I used papers by Carta Bella and add a black border to each paper. I thought that the sentiment would be perfect going across the bottom stem and some black gems in random spots to complete it.

Up next I've created two cards using the Rose stamp set. For this card I used Tim Holtz walnut stain ink to get a light outline of the flower. I first stamped the image on a scratch piece of paper and then stamped on my water color paper. I did this so that I had fant lines. I then filled the in each line with distress inks in various colors. I really love that it has a water color look and how easy it is to achieve this look just with stamps. I later colored the outside and add splatters of back dots.

To see a video on how I created this watered colored rose visit my YouTube or Go HERE

For my final card. I followed the same technique as I did above but later went back in to stamp the outlines of the image. I love that you can achieve two different looks using one stamp set. I use a doily die by Prima and papers by Carta Bella. I add the gems to give my card that add pop.