I'm back today with my second choice of colours in my hostess month of May at CAS Colours and Sketches. As I banged on about irises being my favourite flower in the challenge post, I thought I should rise to the challenge and see what I could come up with!
OK, I know I still need to practise a lot to perfect my watercolouring skills particularly in the light and shade areas but I had so much fun colouring this. The iris is a drawing I found on the internet printed onto proper 300gsm watercolour paper. I simply transferred ink from three different ink pads onto a plastic lid and used a watercolour brush with water and the inks to colour the image. I had a couple of goes at it and left it to dry in between in an attempt to capture the shaded areas. The sentiment is computer-generated and the piece matted and layered onto a piece of coordinating cardstock.
Supplies Used:
Iris drawing: Found at http://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com
Ink Pads: Dusty Concord & Mowed Lawn (TH Distress), Cantaloupe (Memento)
Paper: 300gsm watercolour paper (Papermill Direct)
Sentiment font: Ar Berkley
Snippets: Purple cardstock
So much looking forward to seeing your creations. You have until Wednesday 27th May to link up your design.
Have fun!
Stef x
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
I am so excited this week to have had the opportunity to be a guest designer on the Less is More challenge blog . The remit was a recipe to ...
-
Hi everyone and a warm welcome to a new year of challenges at CAS Colours and Sketches . Whether it is your first time of playing along with...
-
This week I have made cards for my Mum and my MIL ready for Mothering Sunday which we celebrate here in the UK on 6th March this year. Howev...
Gorgeous colours Stef. Loved using them and think they're going to be popular just like your last sketch.
ReplyDeleteSimply beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI think you've done a super job watercoloring your irises here. It's a gorgeous card.
ReplyDelete