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Holiday Gifting: 12 Quick & Easy Watercolor Christmas Cards

teacher avatar Bianca Rayala, Top Teacher | Watercolor Artist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      About the Class

      0:59

    • 2.

      Materials

      2:31

    • 3.

      Christmas Tree

      7:39

    • 4.

      Snowman

      7:23

    • 5.

      Gift Box

      7:29

    • 6.

      Potted Pines

      6:56

    • 7.

      Christmas Candle

      11:17

    • 8.

      Presents

      8:33

    • 9.

      Christmas

      6:53

    • 10.

      Golden Pine Tree

      6:16

    • 11.

      Winter Cabin

      11:50

    • 12.

      Glass Bauble

      11:38

    • 13.

      Snowflake

      5:48

    • 14.

      Happy Penguins

      7:36

    • 15.

      Origami Envelope

      2:59

    • 16.

      Final Thoughts

      1:53

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Welcome to class- Holiday Gifting: 12 Quick & Easy Watercolor Christmas Cards !

In this class, I'm going to share with you a quick and easy way to paint some cute and cozy holiday cards. Together, we’ll get inspired and feel the joy of giving as we slow down, get cozy and work on these 12 lovely Christmas cards.

You can use them for gift tags, pattern for diy wrappers or use it as a card to write to your loved ones and send it to them in the mail. I also included a DIY origami envelop tutorial which you can easily make at home.

 

Whether you're in to crafting or maybe you just started an art hobby recently, you'll leave this class with extra special holiday cards made by your hands. See you in class!

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Bianca Rayala

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Hi friends! I'm Bianca and I'm a watercolor artist. My purpose is to inspire people to discover and pursue their creative passion. See full profile

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1. About the Class: Hi friends, I'm Van Car Ayala. I'm a watercolor and guash artist and educator. I'm also skillshare, top teacher. I love making handmade gifts and giving personal letters for my loved ones. In this class, I'm going to share with you a quick and easy way to paint some cute and cozy holiday cards together. We'll get inspired and feel the joy of giving As we slow down, get cozy and work on these 12 lovely Christmas cards, you can use them for gift tags, patterns for DIY wrappers, or use it as a card to write your loved ones and send it to them in the mail. I also included a DIY origami envelope tutorial, which you can easily make at home, whether into crafting or maybe you just started an art hobby. Recently you leave this class with extra special holiday cards made by your own hands. So let's get started. 2. Materials: In this lesson, let's talk about the materials you need to make these cute and fun Christmas cards. These 12 holiday cards are not only enjoyable, but also incredibly easy. Each project has been carefully crafted to be beginner friendly, ensuring that you'll have a wonderful time creating beautiful holiday cards without feeling overwhelmed. Let's start with the papers. You may use watercolor paper with the weight of 300 GSM. You may choose either cotton or cellulose paper, since our subjects are simple. In this class I'm using 100% cotton. Cold press watercolor paper, size four by 6 ". If you want it to be twofold, just double the size. You will need at least 12 sheets to complete all our holiday cards. The brushes you'll need are size eight round brush and 1 " wide flat brush. Both are silver silk 88 synthetic brushes from silver brush. We'll use this round brush for all illustrations in detail, while the flat brush is for filling the entire paper with background color. Now for the colors, I have selected some really nice colors for a merry and bright Christmas theme. The colors I use are all from Smink Adam. Feel free to use your paints available at home with similar shade. The colors are yellow ochre, gold, paroline maroon, olive green, yellowish, paroline green, cobalt violet hue, transparent channa or burned channa, this very important particular color, titanium white, This is an opaque white color. You may use a white as an alternative or white poster paint. It has to be a fresh paint in tube, so you can easily apply an opaque stroke on paper. You'll also need cups of water, pencil eraser and tissue paper, and an 83 sized paper in case you want to create an origami envelope for your holiday cards. Gather your materials and let's start painting. 3. Christmas Tree: Get your green and white paints ready, and let's paint our first Christmas tree holiday card. I have your paroline green and I squeeze out some rich amount of paint to cover the entire page. Using the flat brush, I make sure to cover the entire page thoroughly. Since water color is transparent, you may need to apply thick amount of paint and limit the water in your mix. This way you avoid the paper from warping or from getting really soaked in water. I try to make sure that there are no pale or thin layer of paint. Since we will paint the tree using white, it will create a nice contrast if the background is dark enough. Now that my background is done, I splatter some water with my finger to create soft blooms all over the paper. I let the paper dry completely. You may use a blower or it to speed up the drying process. I also notice that when you use a heat gun, it helps a paper right flat. Now that my paper is all dry and ready, let's get the round brush and titanium white water color. I use paint freshly squeezed from the tube so I can get the maximum capacity. Starting from the tip of the tree, I use the tip of my brush to create some fine Jay strokes to create the outline of the tree. Move your hand as fluid possible to have a more relaxed stroke. Do the same stroop until you build the general shape of the tree. Don't mind at the inner fragments, we'll paint them later here. As I reach the bottom part of the tree, I add in some thicker strokes by simply pressing my brush a little harder. Now let's define the tip a little more and add a simple outline of a star. Next, I flatten the bristle of my brush and then get a lighter mix of white. Then spread out the paint portion by portion. I don't smutch or color each and every outline that I initially drew. Instead I just randomly spread a color to create a sense of dimension. As a last step, let's enhance the outline by adding some highlights here and there. I'll also darken the little star here a little bit. And lastly, I'll splatter some white paints with my brush all over our first holiday party is done. Let's paint some more in the next video. 4. Snowman: Amazing how we can create lovely cards even with just two colors, right? For a second card, let's use Pailin, red and white to make our snowman like what we did earlier. I'll squeeze out some fresh red paint and fill in the page with this color. Notice that the brush looks quite dry. I intentionally limit the amount of water in my brush so I can have a nice rich coverage. I tried to paint it in different directions to add texture on the flat surface. Again, cover the entire sheet and as saturated as possible here, I'm just making sure everything is painted. Next, I'll splatter some water with my fingers, but don't over splatter and position your hand a bit higher so you won't create big blooms. I'll dry my paper again with my heat gun to make sure it's all dry. Before I paint the snowman. Here, we'll paint the snowman without prior pencil sketch. I encourage you to relax and paint like a child, so fear won't be reflected on your drawing. I'll get a thick paint and using my round brush, I start drawing beanie. I don't want the snowman to be in the center, so let's place him a little bit here on the right. Don't worry about the details of the pin yet, Just focus on the general shape first. Next, let's paint the carrot nose at the angle. Then let's draw the head with a round shape. Now I draw the scarf around him. Still we're drawing the outline first. And then let's draw the round full body with a swift curve stroke. Then the snowy ground. Here I'm trying to enhance the ends of the scarf by adding some details with a thin stroke. Let's draw his arms. Keep your stroke as thin as possible by applying very minimal pressure on your brush. Imitate also the shape of a branch to make it look realistic. Draw next his eyes with a simple dot of paint and a smile on his face. Let's finish off by adding some highlights on his buttons and As. And lastly, splatters and white paints to give a snowy feel. When you splatter, control the amount of water you put in your brush. If your brush is too watery, you will create very big splatters which might not look proportionate to your drawing. I'll add a few bigger snowflakes in, some here and there, and then we're done with our second card. 5. Gift Box: Our third holiday card is a little gift box with a ribbon on top. Let's use transparent chena and white. For this, you may use burn chena or raw henna as alternative. I apply pure chena on my paper, but I feel that the color seems too bright and yellowish. Let's stone this down by adding a bit of white. Here we have a muted shade of brown. I add some more white to my mix to have an even lighter shade, so it will match our Christmas palette. Do the same step of covering the entire page thoroughly. Don't leave white gaps or painted areas. And keep in mind that you need to control the amount of water in your brush so the end result won't be too pale and thin. I'm just adding a few more layers to make sure everything is well covered and we're good to go. Let's write the paper completely. Then we'll start drawing the gift box with a ribbon on top. I hope you're having fun with these simple holiday cards and you get to enjoy painting each one. Now let's get fresh white paint and the round brush. Let's start drawing the rectangle shape of the box. It's okay if you do multiple strokes or lines. It's nice to keep our paintings look raw. Then let's color the upper part of the box, giving an impression that this one is the cover of the box. Keep your pain saturated and thick for this process. Next, let's draw the ribbon with some fluid curved strokes. Draw it as quick as possible so the stroke won't look too shaky. And then let's draw the tail of the ribbon. Next, I want it to look flowy and soft. Again, your drawing doesn't have to be perfect in one stroke. Let it look like a sketch or line art. Let's add some polka dots around the boxes designs and then let's try to make a pattern so the dots will be nicely distributed in the area. I'll just enhance the ribbon part by adding some strokes and darkening some parts. Let's darken the base a little bit with some horizontal lines. And lastly, let's add final splatters with white as finishing touches. That's it, our third card is complete. 6. Potted Pines: Let's paint some fresh potted pines for Ferret Holiday card. No need for pencil sketch. Let's enjoy drawing and painting with brush marks. We'll paint the three pots, and let's start with the one in the middle. I use burnt or transparent china added with a bit of cobalt violet to make it darker in shade. Let's start with the outline of the pot and fill it with a light shade of color. Now I take a slightly darker shade of brown to paint the base and the side to add a bit of shape and dimension. Don't be too worried to make your pot look realistic. That's not our goal. We want it to be as fresh, simple, and cute as possible. I made the upper part of the pot lighter in color for design. Next, let's take Berlin Green to paint the plan. I start painting the top, middle, and bottom part with dabbing strokes. I dubbed just the tip of my brush to create those tiny organic marks. Next I get olive green and paint the space in between. I let the colors meet and blend naturally. As I make the strokes, I still make the dabbing stroke with the tip of my brush. Let's add few details like lines here in the pot to make it look extra interesting. Let's draw that next plant. I start with a pot again with the same color, transparent channel with a bit of cobalt violet. I fill it in with light color. Then I make the right side in the base darker. This time I make the mix two greens that I have, peralin green and olive green, to create a new shade. I then paint the top, middle, and bottom portions with Db strokes. Then I load my brush with a bit of water and I gently spread the paint on my initial stroke to fill the spaces in between with the impression of leaves. I do this to create slight variety texture between the plants so the painting looks extra interesting. Then I add some dark dots on some areas as shadows. Let's do the third plant this time. Let's make it a round pot. Start with a round shape, then fill in the space with color. I darken the base in the side. Next, I'll paint a thin trunk. Let's paint the leaves with dabbing strokes. I start with olive green as my base color. Can I start to add hints of dark color for shadows. Now let's finalize my painting by adding some details and few more strokes. Our painting is now complete. 7. Christmas Candle: Our next card is a Christmas candle with some elements around it. Let's start with a candle. I take the brown mix from my leftover palette and draw the outline of the candle wrapper. I fill it in with color. Just like how we did on painting pots, I paint the left side of it with a very light tone. Next, I mix the brown with white to get the soft off white color for the candle. I extended the wrapper a little bit and hence the shape of the candle. I tried to darken the edge of the candle a little bit, but was keeping it soft and light. Next, let's paint the pine leaves on the left, starting with a stem, I use a light brown color. Instead of drawing it as one straight line, I make my strokes jagged next with green paint. I paint needle like strokes for the pine leaves painting. These are so relaxing. Keep your hand very light and gentle to achieve these delicate strokes. Encourage you also to observe how the strands grow in the stem so you could imitate it. Let's do another pine leaves here on the right. Try to make the stroke a little curvy so it won't look too stiff. We did the same diagonal strokes for the pine leaves. I suggest that you vary the green like blend of dark shade and light shade for extra fun. Let's add another stem here on the upper left. This time I'm sure you're getting the hang of it and you're slowly developing a muscle memory for quick updone strokes. Next on the upper right, let's paint some red berry branches, make this stroke a little bit shaky for a natural effect and keep the stroke thin. Also, then I get a creamy mix of red. And paint each berry one by one. I vary the size of the berries. Some are clustered, while some are not. As you add berries, check the overall balance so you won't put much weight on certain areas. I'll add a few more red berries on the left side to connect everything together. Let's add some berries below too. Let's add a few more stroke enhance the branch. Now let's light up the candle. I start with a small line for the week, then with a brush with only water in it, I paint the shape of the flame. Then I painted a light around the wet fragment using gold paint to add more contrast. I also painted the inner part with the yellow ocher. Let's finish the painting by adding some details on the candle and we're done. 8. Presents: For a next card, let's paint a small Christmas tree with some colorful presents on the side. Let's start with the purplish base of the tree. I use cobalt violet, white, and a bit of shannut to make this mix. I outlined the base like what we did when painting the pots in our previous lessons. Make the left side a bit darker in tone then lighter on the right side for a sense of shape. Next, let's paint the tree with J stroke, similar to our first holiday card. Keep the triangular shape in mind so you'll have a balanced shape. I use olive green as base color, then added some paroline green for the dark shades. Try to limit the strokes that you do to avoid overworking the tree. I enhance the shading of the base by adding a bit of shade on it. Now let's paint the colorful presents. I'll start with a red gift box right beside the tree. Outline the shape first before filling it in with color. You can be imaginative with the shape and sizes. Feel free to add the personal touch to your cards if you feel inspired to do so. I thought of placing a rectangular wood here underneath, so it's like the presents are on top of a wood or something. Next, let's put some details on the red gift by adding lines and shades. Now I take green paint and make a square gift beside the red one. We just do the same thing like what we did in the red gift. Next I get purplish color and add another gift behind the green one. The process is very simple and straightforward. Just have fun and relax now, Iddry these fragments first. Before adding some designs, let's add the ribbon on the red box. I use a creamy green paint. For this, your paint has to be creamy with less water in it, so it will look opaque. Next, let's put a purple ribbon on the purple gift. There's nothing really fancy. In fact, when we draw, I draw as if I'm doing a simple illustration. It's okay if it's not too straight. I want to create a very loose and relax free hand drawing here. Let's add the other side of the wood plank here on the left and darken some areas. I'll add white dots to break solid fields of gifts. And also to serve as accent. Also I'll add white on the purple gift to. And lastly some dark strokes on the tree as highlights our card is finished now. 9. Christmas: Card, seven, Christmas. We're halfway through our card making. I'm glad to have you this far. Get your olive green and white paint for our seventh card. I squeeze out some fresh paint and make some of my leftover greens with it. I will paint the entire sheet again with green color using my flat brush. I usually paint in vertical strokes, and sometimes diagonal ones cover the entire page completely and make sure you get a nice saturated feel. Water color tends to fade out a little when dry, so don't be afraid to use dark colors. I think I'm almost filling in the page. Let's write this with a heat gun. I usually start from top to bottom, so when it dries it will drive flat. Now let's write the word Christmas. Don't worry about your handwriting. Keep it raw and simple. We don't have to do lettering. Writing it in your own style makes it extra special and gives it an extra personal touch. The important thing you just need to keep in mind is to keep the font size and spacing at least equal or consistent. I write H and r in the first line. I make the font a little thicker so it can occupy the space. Well then on the second line I just write and I leave a space for. But instead of writing I, I'll draw a three. Instead, on the third line, write A and S. Again, don't get worried about how your handwriting looks like, your handwriting is your style. Just write with confidence and keep the spacing and size equal. Now let's use gold to paint a Christmas tree in the spot of eye with a thick and creamy paint. Paint a zigzag stroke to create an impression of Christmas tree. Be mindful of the size that it won't get too big. I will dry this completely, then I will splatter some gold paints all over. As a final step to make the tree extra visible, let's put white, zigzag highlights. This is our final painting. 10. Golden Pine Tree: Let's paint misty pine trees with an accent of gold for eight holiday card. I start by wetting a small fragment on my paper. With few horizontal strokes, I leave some puddle of water in the area. Next I take olive green and paint a pine tree. Starting here on the right. You can see that the stroke is crisp on the dry area, then it gets so soft on the wet area. It's okay if the colors just spread uncontrollably within the wet surface. I take a dark green color and paint another pine tree. I dab the tip of my brush with varying pressure to create organic and unique brush marks. I let the colors blend and mix naturally on the wet surface. I paint another pine tree, this time it's smaller in height. Then here I dub some dark paint in the wet surface so there's a play of stones. I'll paint another pine tree here. Notice that I vary just a height, but also slightly draw it at an angle for more natural look. Now, let's dry this so we can add final details and layers to enhance the painting. As you can see, the lower part looks so soft and there was no particular shape seen. And that's okay. It's actually how I wanted it to be. Let's take the gold paint to paint another pine tree. I please it off center and not so tall. I lay it on top of the green one so it becomes our center of interest. I also made sure that the paint's consistency is really thick and opaque. I dry a lower fragment once more, since I noticed that the paint tends to smudge in the moist surface. Now that the area is completely dry, I continued painting the base of the tree with gold, leaving thick marks of paint on top of green. Next, let's platter gold around. Now I take green paint again and I try to define some of the green trees. You don't have to complete the base of each tree. Suggestive strokes are enough to create an impression using dark green Micks. I paint around the gold tree to conto its shape and to create high contrast. Notice how the gold tree becomes more visible and glowing when we put contrasting dark green color around it. Be careful not to put too much green dabs of paint. Again, suggestive strokes are sufficient. You can always step back and look at your work from a distance to avoid overworking your work. This is our painting, I'll see in the next video, and paint a winter cabin. 11. Winter Cabin: For this car design, let's do an easy sketch of the cabin. Let's start with the base of the cabin. I place it here in the lower third part of the paper. Next I draw the roof. Make the cabin big enough to occupy most of the space. I won't be putting too much detail as we wanted it to be very loose and simple. Let's run the chimney here and let's just make some lines here to show the fence and windows. I'm just finalizing some line drawing and we're good to go. Let's begin painting the cabin with peril in magoon. I carefully outline the edges and fill in the space with color. I keep painting the windows and notice that my paint is creamy and thick painting. This area is very simple and it is like coloring, as we don't want to factor in tones. Next, let's paint the wood fence here in front with dry brush stroke using brown color. I use burn channel with coval violet. For this, I continue painting the other side of the cabin with brown. For the windows, I'll painted with a mix of violet and white. As I painted, I left a thin border unpainted for the roof covered with snow. I painted it with titanium white, with a bit of violet. However, I didn't paint the entire roof completely. Notice that I left some spaces and painted next. Let's paint the chimney with brown color. I'm just using my left over brown paints here then. Now let's paint the tree trunks surrounding the cabin. I mix a bit of brown with yellow ocher to get a lighter shade of brown with a light stroke and light toned paint. I draw the trunks in varying height and we I kept the tone of the trunks to be very light so it won't overpower the cabin. Next I get green paint and press stroke. Using the full belly of my brush, I create impression of leaves to build the tree. As I clean the leaves, I try to leave some gaps in between and not to make it look too cramped. I also vary the pressure put on my stroke so I can achieve either a thick stroke or a fine one. Then I add some dark tones on some areas to create dimension in the trees. Be careful not to overwork. Pause from time to time to check the overall look. Next, I take a mix of white and violet to paint the snow on the ground. With quick horizontal strokes, I also splatter some paints for added texture. In effect, now I get a mix of dark brown using shenna and violet to darken some parts of the trunks. I paint each trunk one by one, but I try not to outline it entirely. Remember the suggestive strokes I mentioned earlier? Placing loss and found strokes help keep our painting look loose. Next, I'll add some dark highlights in the wood fence to define it. And I'll also add some light loose strokes of green as fillers in the background. Lastly, let's add titanium white on the parts of the roof to create the snow effect. And of course, let's splatter some white paints to complete the winter bib. Our painting is done. 12. Glass Bauble: Let's do a simple sketch of a glass bubble with a ribbon. You can either use a round object to trace a shape or draw it in free hand. I draw a circle in the lower right side of the paper for the bubble. Next I draw the ribbon. On top of it, I make the loops large enough that they occupy most of the space. Then here I'll draw the tail of the ribbon. And last lead the string. Let's start painting. I take red and started from top, I paint the right side part of the ribbon with a nice bright red color. Then I gently lift the color with a clean, damp brush to soften the color, I paint the other side of the loop with a thicker shade of red. Next, I darken the outline to define the shape. Now let's paint the end of the ribbon. This time I use a slightly watery mix of paint. Try to create depth by applying some dark tones on some parts. Let's paint the other loop. I paint the outline first with thick color, then spread the color with a damp brush. For the other side of the loop, I changed the tone to a lighter shade to differentiate the sides, and then I darken the side for depth. Now let's find the day left. The ribbon next to better enhance the look of it. I darken the back part of the loop with a dark red color, mixing a bit of green to my red. Now I take white with a bit of violet to paint the impression of the glass. It's okay if the mix has a hint of red because it serves the reflected light from the ribbon. I don't paint the entire bubble. Rather I left the middle part and painted. I do it with a soft semicircle strokes. Next, let's paint the design inside. I take green and paint small pine trees in the center. Since the center part is unpainted, I get that hard edged strokes for the top of the trees, then transitions to soft edges at the bottom. I add a bit of layer using the purplish color to darken it a bit. Next, I outline the string with the same purplish paint. Then I take gold to design the metal clip holding the bubble here. I darkened the string with brown paint. I didn't outline it with a straight line so it won't look too stiff. Instead, I add a bit of texture and dots within the string. As a final step, I dry the bubble fragment completely and then add some highlights of purple around the bubble and play some splatters to. We're down to the last holiday card, so I'll see you in the next video, and let's paint happy penguins. 13. Snowflake: For a ten card, let's paint a very simple snowflake on a soft, neutral background. Let's mix transparent channel with cobalt violet. I add a bit of water in the mix to make it transparent and not too dark to the eyes. Apply the paint on the paper and cover it entirely. Here you'll see traces of purple showing through. And it's nice because it creates a soft texture. Once you're done painting the sheet, let it dry completely. Now I take my round brush and load it with thick white paint to draw the snowflake. Let's start with the center. I paint a circle in the middle. Then let's draw a vertical line that passes through the center of the circle. I define the shape of the circle, making it look rounder. Next, horizontal line passing through the center of the circle. Again, as much as possible, make the lines at least having the same length. The tip here is to limit the amount of water in your brush to create crisp lines. Next, draw a horizontal line going from lower left to upper right, and another one from upper left to lower right. If you're uncomfortable drawing lines in freehand, you may definitely use a ruler as a guide. Now let's assign each branch starting from the top, I maintain the same consistency of paint in my stroke so they won't get too pale after drying. I didn't use a ruler because I want to maintain that loose and freehand style for drawing the details. As I draw the design on each branch, I tried to create a symmetrical pattern on opposite sides. The snowflake will look much better if you have that design or pattern that is identical on both halves. And when you try to draw it with a relax hand, meaning try creating the stroke with confidence to avoid shaking the strokes. If you see the need to extend a branch a little bit, that's perfectly fine. Just be mindful that one branch won't get too long than the others. Here, I'm just darkening some lines a little bit more. The next I splatter white paints around the area. Then lastly, here I, er, in the center, we're done with our card, Let's paint glass bubble in the next lesson. 14. Happy Penguins: Our last card to paint is none other than the cute happy penguins. Let's start by filling the page with bright plan maroon color. I painted with nice thick color so the penguins will surely stand out. Later on, I vary my strokes to create dynamics and playful vibe. Now I'm drying it completely to prepare my paper for the drawing part. This is the fun part. Let's draw the Penguins. Let's start with a bigger one on the left. I draw it in a slanted angle to make it look like dancing or give a happy vibe. I draw the general shape, starting from the side of the head, then the flippers, then the round body. Next, I draw the base of the heat. Then I check if the proportions are okay, Adjust the shape of the flippers if needed. Then let's draw the Santa Hat. Now let's show the details of the face, the nose, and some lines on the heat. I put two simple Ts for the eyes and two lines for the blush. Next, let's color the lower part of the body with full white color. Again, keep your mix thick and creamy so the red background won't show through. Let's paint the little penguin on the side this time. Start with a little Santa hat, then draw the head flippers followed by the body. I still do it in a slanted angle to match the movement of the other Penguin I feel in the body fragment with color. Then here let's run the details of the face. Same simple dots and lines to show the eyes and bush. Let's add some little hearts on the side as accents. I drew two here below and one on the upper right side. I feel like writing the word love also on the side. Feel free to write anything you like. And of course we won't forget splashing some white paints all over. We're done with our painting. I'll share an easy way to make origami envelope for your holiday cards, see in the next video. 15. Origami Envelope: To create an origami envelope for your four by six cards, you need an Re size paper. I cut a square out of the three, which gives me an 11.7 11.7 inch paper. Next, let's find the center of the paper by folding it diagonally. Once you have the center point fold all three sides going to the center. Now you should have something like this. All three sides folded and three corners are meeting at the center. For the last side, fold it beyond the center. Check if your card will fit inside before folding it. Next, make a flap like this. Open it, then fold the sides here on the left and right. Now you want to make an arrow shape by folding the two sides. You will use it to hold the folds together. Your envelope will look like this. You may glue the sides to secure it or S is. Now we have a DIY envelope for our holiday cards. 16. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for spending time painting holiday cards with me. I hope you get cozy and inspired while painting your cards. I'm also excited for you to share your handmade gifts to your family and friends because I'm sure they love it. Tag me at Banca Ayala when you post their creations on Instagram. I'd love to see them and share them to our community. They're useful tools for you. In this video player where you can pause and play the video, There's a little button that will allow you to rewind 15 seconds if you need me to repeat what I've just said. You can also just how fast or slow the video plays. And you can also turn on captions in different languages for this class. Also, don't forget to share your works here on skill share. To upload your class project, I want you to upload it in the project and resource section so I can see it and share feedback about your work. When you add their project, be sure to include a link to your Instagram so that anybody who's curious about your work can find more about you. I also provided the downloadable copy of the reference and final painting in the resource section of the class to help you in creating your class project. If you need more inspiration, I invite you to join my two other holiday classes, Easy Wonderland, Christmas cards in watercolor. In this class, we'll paint four Candy Wonderland Christmas designs full of sweet treats, frosty gingerbread collections, and lots of pink and pastel colored elements. Another master expressive style of painting, four Christmas cards in watercolor. Here we'll paint four interesting holiday plots that will surely bring back your special memories of Christmas. Thank you so much again for joining this class. Wishing you a holiday season filled with arms, joy and love. Merry Christmas.