4 Easy watercolour Christmas cards - Watercolour Christmas card part3 - Holiday craft series 2017

Hi,
I recently made 4 more card designs using my watercolours. One of this design is inspired by an e-card that I got last year. These designs are simply hand drawn or handpainted no complicated steps & not so many supplies were involved in the making of this cards. I just used my watercolour paper and Sakura Koi watercolours and watercolour brushes.

Card 1involved painting stripes & trees
Card 2 is a collection of warm & cosy items like socks, hot chocolate & mittens
Card 3 has the design of triangle trees in a subtle teal blue background.
Card 4 was some presents hanged down from a tree branch

Supplies used are
Watercolour Sakura koi
watercolour paper Canson XL
Watercolour paper Strathmore
waterproof pen Pilot
Metallic acrylic paint
Watercolour brush  round no 4
Watercolour brush round n0 8
Watercolour brush round no 14
Watercolour brush Flat 3/4 inch

Watch the video for the tutorial.

Thank you
Ambili ( Amey )

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Watercolor Christmas card ideas Part 2 ( socks & baubles )

Hi ,

My vlog and blog for today are watercolour cards. I made another set of watercolor cards that I completely enjoyed while creating. I cannot afford so many varieties of stamps to make cards. So I used watercolours to create some of my Christmas cards.

I made 2 cards today one is a socks ard and the other is a bauble card. 

1. Bauble which is hand drawn using some templates made by and then filling the baubles with watercolour. Templates are handmade using sticky notes and scissors
Color scheme is custom mixed light Turquoise blue ( mixing one part blue, one part yellow & one part white ) & Quinacidrone rose 

2. Winter socks also involved template made from paper.
Both of them looked fantastic for me.
Color scheme is Crimson Lake, Permanent green pale, Paynes' grey
I used the Sakura Koi 24 paint set

Supplies used are 

Strathmore watercolor paper
Canson XL watercolor paper

Sakura Koi watercolor
Waterproof pen
Watercolor brush round no 4
watercolor brush round no 8
watercolor brush round no 14
Metallic gold acrylic paint
or
Metallic watercolor
Wink of Stella shimmer pen ( optional )
Various stamps ( optional or you could hand-letter your greetings )

Please watch video for the demo

Thank you
Ambili ( Amey )
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3 Watercolor Christmas card ideas to try 2017 - Holiday craft

Hi,
Winter is the favourite time of the year because of its festive cheers. Christmas is my favourite festival for so many reasons.
My blog and vlog for today is watercolour Christmas card making.I made 3 cards together for the videos as these cards are extremely easy and simple to make. I love everything cute n simple.

 I used watercolour wet on wet technique for the tree and bauble cards. Wet on dry technique is used for the wreath cards. The cards turned out to be super awesome. I made some more cards of the same patterns. I will be sending this cards to my relatives and friends in India and in US.

 Please watch the video tutorial of the same

Supplies used are
Sakura Koi watercolour
Strathmore watercolour paper
watercolor brush
Watercolor brush no 8
Watercolor brush no 14
canson XL watercolor paper  ( a cheaper option )

Thank you for stopping by
Ambili ( Amey )

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Holiday craft series #2 - Easy christmas wreath card

Hi,
My today's blog and vlog is a card that I made for my holiday craft series 2017 card #2.
The cards are two wreath cards. one is a pine leaf and evergreen leaf wreath & the other is a red bauble wreath card. I love baubles and wreath a lot. I used Canson xl watercolor paper and Crayola watercolor for the cards. Used washi tapes for other decorations.

This is my cards.

Materials used are
Crayola watercolor
Foil washi tape
Canson XL watercolor paper

Please have a look at the video also

Thank you for visiting
Love
Amey

Holiday Craft #1 Bauble card using distress oxide ink and freezer paper masking

Hello,
My vlog and blog for today is a holiday craft topic from my holiday craft series. I thought of giving this topic a test run.So my first craft is a Christmas card made on the theme of Christmas baubles. I used distress ink, distress oxide ink & pigment ink for this card. This card can be created using watercolor as well. I don't usually make multiple layer cards. So I tried to keep my as simple as possible. Christmas is the favorite season of the year. I love sending cards to my dear ones across the globe.

Supplies used for making this card is

Distress ink moved lawn

Distress oxide ink peacock feather 

"                            abandoned coral

Color Box pigment ink 

Uniball  onyx black pen 

Glitter cardstock

White cardstock

Please watch the video and give letme know, how it turned out.

 Thank for stopping by 

Amey Daniels