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Christmas Cards


Happy Monday everyone! Only 2 weeks until Christmas! How crazy is that. Finished uni this week and just yeeeeeeesssssssss! As promised here are my homemade Christmas cards that I made my family and boyfriend this year!

I have always really enjoyed crafting but have never really got into painting. My paintings have always previously looked like a 5 year old had done it but none the less I thought that I would give it a try as a nice thoughtful thing to do for my family over just buying cards. I found most of these inspirations online and therefore cannot claim credit for creativity as I mostly just copied their designs but I am quite pleased with how they turned out!

I used water colour paints and art paper that I taped to a board to try and lesson the warping due to the water. I found that starting off with a very light sketch helped me to keep the colours where I wanted them! Also building the painting up by letting it dry between layers helped me to build them up into what I wanted. I also used some acrylic gold paint to add little glittery touches… because… Christmas! Also I found adding a few drops of water where colours met helped to blend them.

Hopefully this has given you guys some inspiration to pick up your paint brushes!



 
 I really enjoyed painting a galaxy in this painting and I have gathered a step by step account of what I did to paint this that I will include in my next post. It was relatively easy considering the cool effect. Stay tuned!

 

 
 

Whos loving the snow and whos shivering? I have my driving lesson in about an hour and frankly this weather puts me off greatly. Also catching a train later so hoping that’s going to run alright……STRESSS. But apart from that it does look pretty falling from the sky. Wish it would settle here!
I'm presuming its most peoples last week of school/college/uni before the Christmas hols so one last push. You can do it!

See you next week,
Lozzy J
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