Holiday Card Making with Watercolor Pencils! #HappyHolidays #ChristmasCardIdeas

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In today’s video and blog post, I’m taking a brief break from my usual video formats. I created this “artsy” video for both you, my regular followers (in case you want to pick up a new hobby with watercolor pencils) and my art students at school. (I work at a middle school for my day job.)

If you’re new to using watercolor pencils, they’re really easy to use! But you will need a few things to get started:

The brands I’ve linked to above are — for the most part — the exact same brands I used. The one exception is the watercolor brushes; that’s because I’ve collected my watercolor brushes over many years, from various sources.

The masking tape I’m using is probably Scotch brand, and the “messy mat” is also the cutting mat that I use in a lot of my sewing tutorial videos. It’s got a nice thickness to it, and I like that one side of the mat measures inches while the opposite side measures centimeters.

Here’s a close-up of my final artwork on the front of my watercolor holiday card:

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I’m not particularly happy with how the Sharpie markers turned out. I sort of wish I’d used a fine-tipped marker to outline the letters.

I also feel the center color is too light… that pink background, I mean.

But I’m happy with the ivy vine, the evergreen bough, the purple bough, and the bough that resembles a holly wreath. I’m hoping my art students will choose just one type of plant to frame their Christmas or holiday message rather than making all four.

This photograph shows the Chelly Wood doll (a Spin Master Liv doll that has been repainted and had its hair dyed grey to look like the real doll clothing designer and school librarian, Chelly Wood) holding up a tiny handmade miniature book. she wears a checked librarian's apron with large pockets. She holds up a tiny book and stands before an audience of very small, child-like dolls. Behind her is a librarian's circulation with piles of books on it. Farther back in the photograph is a wall-sized (in 1:6 scale) bookshelf with dozens of colorful books on the shelf. The bookshelf appears to end at a little nook, and in the nook stands a bust of William Shakespeare (also in 1:6 scale). The watermark on the photo reminds us that this picture comes from ChellyWood.com, which offers free printable sewing patterns and tutorials for making doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes. — Please visit ChellyWood.com for free printable sewing patterns and tutorial videos showing how to make doll clothes to fit dolls of many shapes and all different sizes.

I created four different botanical boughs, just to offer an example for my students at school to follow. But I do hope they get creative with their own colors!

And I hope some of you enjoy this card-making video. Maybe it will even inspire some of you to try this “watercolor pencil painting” hobby if you’ve never done it before.

I’ve made digital Christmas cards for my followers before on this website. This one goes back to the early days of my website, and I’m guessing my daughters were still pretty little and helped me create this “holiday card” for my followers back “in the day,” as they say:

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