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You can Create Cute Christmas Cards in 3 Styles + BONUS Card - Step by step Watercolor - Mixed Media

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome To the Class

      0:59

    • 2.

      The Supplies

      2:02

    • 3.

      Card 1: Delicate Watercolor Christmas Tree

      12:03

    • 4.

      Card 2: Joyful Christmas Banner

      9:42

    • 5.

      Card 3: Playful Christmas Baubles

      4:41

    • 6.

      Card 4: Bonus Card: Fireworks and Happy New Year

      6:06

    • 7.

      Your Class Project - Thank You!

      0:51

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Welcome to: You can Create Cute Christmas Cards in 3 Styles - Step by step Watercolor - Mixed Media with Heidi Seidl, in this fun and easy Skillshare class we are going to learn how to create beautiful Cute Christmas Cards in 3 Styles with Watercolor - Mixed Media

This class is designed for any level although it doesn't matter if you are a complete beginner or a seasoned artist this class has interesting facts that may be interesting to you and you are welcome to join.

In this class, I will walk you through the creation process of custom Christmas Cards and you will learn:

  • How to create 3 Christmas Cards and 3 styles and A Bonus Card! 
  • Christmas Watercolor Palette 
  • My best tip for Washitape usage! 
  • I will share examples so you can get a better idea of how to create your own pieces. 

You can put a smile on your loved one's faces with your own cute creations, what are you waiting for? let's start and have a creative time together :D

Get in touch with me see more in my Bio.

CREATE YOUR OWN WATERCOLOR CHART 

Watercolor Basics: Handlettering using Wet on Wet Blending Technique 

Watercolor Basics: Easy Dramatic Sky using Wet on Dry Blending Technique

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1. Welcome To the Class: Hello and welcome to this class. And highly irrigated through the creation of trittys must come in three different times. And I have awareness cultural glue that R will be revealed during the glass. So I hope you enjoy me because we are going to learn the whole process, this creation in half. So that is the time to gather to bring a smile on the person WTC dose cars. For this class, we are going to be using mix-up media to create in the Gulf that you're seeing right now. And we will link my best deep while using Washi devs. Do you have that predominant that there what he paid a damage your paper. So I will check with you my best to solve that problem. I hope you are excited to join this class and I will see you in the next video. 2. The Supplies: Welcome to this class. Lets take a look at the supplies we are going to be using during this class. As you can see, I have here different types of paper, starting with graph paper. This is very pretty black paper. This is a5, the watercolor paper, 300 RAM. This is my favorite type of paper for watercolors and colourful graph paper. This is 120 grams. As we are using mix-up mania, we will need a white thing or a gel pen in white, a Charpy black, gold, silver, black, white, red, green paint markers. I am using the Bosco bands. There are very good, but you can use whatever you have M51 lineups. As always, for the weather collars, we are going to need a towel. Colors, increase mass colors. A brush, water. As you know, I have the streak that they have my glass of water with the elite. So there were the dawn drawn away. We also gonna be doing some crafting. So we need a CSR's, a paper cutter, a Benson, a ruler, and glue on software should devs or masking tape, and so on. The good at eBay SD cards, I have here Golden status into sizes and shapes. But you can have a snowflake or wherever you like to do in the next video. 3. Card 1: Delicate Watercolor Christmas Tree: Welcome to this class that start dating or car. I already did my watercolor char, I am using. So Christmases, colors. As you can see, bread, greens and browns. And we're going to make faith all sketching. I already did a little bit, but I want to show you how to do it and I will use my ruler and my watercolor pencil. We want to make a triangle because we are going to make a grease mastery to be well except a delegate Christmas tree. In the hub. This whole class, I will speak up the velocity of the behavior so you can follow me along. Before we proceed. I went and showed you a very nice deep. So you watch tape, Dawson damage, do paper. So take a little bit of washing tape that you will be using and put it on to the tower. And then the glue on that tape will be more subtle and Don will not manage your paper. Many people had, had this problem and I found this solution. I hope it helps you. Half a more cohesive and beautiful works. I will do the same with the whole taping mask around the lines of the Christmas tree. So follow me along. Before the stepped into their water colors. I will do some sketches of holly, leaves and batteries and Harris, and do half a guide on how to add my watercolors. You can add also candy, candy gains in another shape that you want to a paint here. But they find these elements for Christmas, a burly, convenient, embedded pretty as well. The fundamental idea is to fill up all the space. So when I add the water colors, I will have a harmonious painting that the washy days will give me know I will start adding their water colors. And I will use that technique with Andre. And I will try to May the berries first and then the lives and that their habits. And using the red color to bringing up the buy, the Christmas bribe. You can choose whatever you want. But we're doing a Christmas theme here. I am using these colors to resemble that feeling of Christmas for the various paying these layers. So then they dry. The colors have become more pretty and they have these realistic effect. I am AS dukha may be C IN letting some white space. And in the varies in when I am adding the next layers. You will see how this will give a more uplifting effect and likely the light is glowing onto them. I will start now adding this second layer. And as you can see, the color becomes a marsh Brighton. And I am also adding some other, a spontaneous and more loose a berries in those places where they haven't paint any guideline. And now I will start a width at the leaves with the holly leaves. And they have this particular shape and the symbol of Christmas. When using whether colors, the more water you add to the water color, the more lighter color will be. And you can use layers to paint, do what they're currently doing, make the watercolor more harmonic and more pretty. And you can also change as your paintings, I'm adding more darker colors on the corners or, or one side of the painting. And yes, it is very versatile. The use of watercolors. Now, using that or leafy greens to make the small elites for these berries will proceed then to paint the hertz. By using different tones of the same color. You can managed to create a beautiful effect in your paintings. So don't hesitate to use the different shades of the same color and play with it. Here I am doing some what Danny comes to enhance my painting and do offer more variety to the eye. I am making the lives using the technique IS brain. In my last class. If you haven't seen, you can check it out. It's called How to make autumn frames. And I will put the link in the description for this class. And you can answer check my other classes, my watercolor classes, starting from how to create digital color palette and why it is so important to create one before painting and many other glasses that I have for you here. Now let us start a painting or hurts. And I will try to make the head spot up using a more big Menton watercolor. No, so diluted in water. But I will alternate between these two variations. Now I will add some mini dots to make it the picture pop up. And then I realized that add in some highlights with my white paint. The paint is completely dry and it is time to have some satisficing or she tapes pull up. And as you can see in comes a buried city. And the technique that I showed you is a very useful n clearly works. I hope. Let me know in the comments if this worked for you as well. And I am happy to see that there are paintings are very pretty. So let's continue painting the tree trunk with a brown color. Just follow the lines, barely gentle. Make the lines and then pull off the water color into the center of the tree trunk, no pressure left. Lead. Those are whitespace, shy. They are very magical and add some water color on the edges. This will add some depth to the painting to the tree trunk. In this case. For the next step, we will add a SON highlights. I will add a golden start to the top of my three and to make it pop a little bit more. But you can use whatever you have to use another sticker, Jacob, you can paint the star if you like. And I want to add a song of these little stars that are more shine to the painting. Dog if more contrast. Okay, I don't want to overdo. It is easy to overdo. Now I think this is a validity. Am I unhappy with the sarissa? Let's continue. Okay, now let's add the phrase for this car. And I choose for this one, Merry Christmas. But you can choose whatever you like. There are many beautiful Christmas phrases. Or you can use this for, for someone do can add the name. I am making here, the guidelines. Because I want you to know that these do can always good to use guideline when doing a lengthening in I will use the boss campaign in a phi line and to make contrasts in my two lettering, again, a cursive lettering in a more bold block ligase. Let's see how I do it. You can use your own handwriting, the system, no problem for this. Because when do those things with your own hands, they are more valuable for the person who is receiving it. So don't hesitate to use your own home right? Order children's If you have children's note, let me a more bold style here. And you can play with the line from the H2O from the air, putting it in the middle or both, or like I did here, putting it very low. It gives a more movement to the letters, so to speak. Be creative. Don't hold back, endure creation. That is really the whole mission of being an artist. And so here we have it. We have created a very delegate and elegant Merry Christmas that you can share with your loved ones in May events might I would say two into next week for the next cat. 4. Card 2: Joyful Christmas Banner: Welcome to this class. Let us start with our next card. For that we are going to be placing. So we needed a pencil and a ruler and we are using here or a postcard pen. So the pains, pains marker, finiteness, glue, wash it, tapes, and two types of paper. The first one is they watercolor paper and sizes 15 wide by ten. Hi. The next one is kraft paper. In the size 70, wife by the dean. High. You can choose whatever other colored you prefer. But they want to use this corner because it's so perfect for the idea that I have. So let us do that. I will be using this tape. A Noma is moreover cheated and perfect for the idea that I have. But you can do, if you don't have this one, you can use the washing tape just making this size that I will be charging you ion using my perfect technique for making my washing tape more easy to remove. As I explained you in the past, a beam just taking my tape and putting it on some stuff like my towel or you can use to do your pants or whatever you have at hand, or a blanket. The idea is to remove a little bit of the glue from the tape. Now, I will place these in the middle of my paper, the white paper that I will be using, there was a colored paper and I will proceed to paint the banner or to make the illusion of a Varna. I will add some Christmas elements. I will soon a holy lives or the lives. Greenleaf's. Wherever type we choose is perfect. Some berries and some candy canes, because they are perfect for this. And when you add the colors, they look very pretty. So I will make this cash and I will speed up this BPO. Other elements of Christmas are snowflakes or Bells or stars. You can add other elements as you wish. I will start inking my piece and I am using first a fine line ID in the size zero-point dry. And after I add the colors, I will use a bigger fine liner to make the accents on the painting, because when do they colored, the lines can be hidden. Now I will start the process of painting my banner, and I am using the paint markers. Colors, green, pink, and I will use after I read color, a pencil, brush, or tokenism wherever you have, you can use, also work whatever colors if you like. You can use a brush markets or permanent markers or pencils. If you have a fuel like this. Maybe you remember that this, I mean, mix-up medium. I just want to keep the glass as clear as possible. Now I will add the red to make the contrast on the berries. The Cantonese candy canes, and these ones are like gingerbread. Whatever. Elements of Klee's mass do like not with my white paying market. I will add some highlights. And I already did the tracing with bigger, bigger black paint and now and add in some magical dots to pop up in my little painting. Now, I will remove the Washi paper and you will see that Eve will come very easily. And my peace, my paint will stay without damage. Is so satisfying, implicitly, gentle. Make this process a very slow because, you know, is very dedicate. So here we have all effect of a banner or a leven. Now, I will trace a phrase that I choose for this specific card. And I am experimenting with the type of lettering that I will be using and see how it looks. I am using to block letters firsthand, but I am looking that doesn't look like a 1D. So maybe I will change the other letters to another style. Let's see what I do. Indeed, I will change the lettering over here. I will use a more cursive lettering. And I am tracing this. So you have an API that you can do this as well. If to have the guidance while tracing your words. Yes, this look better for my liking. This is all we have to maintain. The cohesiveness is very recommender, is better recommended. Use two type of Liping's. So the composition, the whole composition looks more pretty year in appealing to the eye. When you see these two leather do have like a satisfaction, satisfaction feeling. Now I will ink my second work. The phrase is timing of joy. That I am led in some spaces on the letter, on the joint letter, I will add a black color, just aren't harmful. And then I will add some accents in white. Maybe. I will add that shadow in dots. So this gives this celebration mode, mode to my lettering and make it pop up. But I think I will add some dot on the black part on of my lettering. This total like magic. Really, they are very useful to make a detour. Lettering pop up. So it is looking very pretty and very rarely do lead at these additives, if you like. But in this class we are going to add a bad ground with a graph paper to make it look like it is. Frame it. I think this look very pretty. I will add the glue in the back of my watercolor card, and then I will glue it to my graph paper. I am trying to lead the same sizes on the edges, on the upper end, on the size and the dao. So it look, it looks harmonic. So here we have it, or beautiful car of Mary wishes, beautiful wishes to the people who love. I will see you in the next video. 5. Card 3: Playful Christmas Baubles: Welcome to this class. We are going to be using for this card, a red 15 by 15 square frame to make the car and three different colors. Graph paper. I have a white page and we would need three different round sizes. I have a cookie-cutter My tapes in my washy tape because we are going to make some rounds, forms tapes in those papers and glue. I will start by tracing the shapes onto my papers in an eight, choosing the Vegas one for my page paper because this will be the centerpiece of my car. And I will do the other two sizes, two times in the other colors. And then I will cut it out to have a much shapes. This underlies a bubbles of ornaments for the three, but we are using it for the garth. Now in my biggest ground shape, I went bright the word that I chose for this card, which is, which, this is just an example you can choose wherever toward a Jew like even names, and thus is totally up to you. Maybe you don't consider this, but I can do is just to have a guidance Brighton in the world now and you can see it clearly. And just making the lives a little bit thicker. So we're pop up. And now I am adding sunshade with my black paint marker. Can you see how they were becomes alive, more depth and more like a drive effect. So now I will add range my laid out. I want to make this bigger, round on the middle of the card. And the other ones alike hanging bubbles on my car. I will try different positions and then I will decide which one. So I think it will be like this. I will glue all the pieces. And then I will add some details to every one of these bubbles with my pain markers to make my design do not follow me along or joke and be very creative and make. Another type of shapes may be gift check boxes or maybe stars. Or if you like. You can do trees as well and make jerky Marbury, customize your own likings IN adding some other bubbles onto the paper itself. So it gives more contrast and more vibrancy to my car. And I, and alternating into the two colors that I have, gold and silver. And white, can do gun, use a whatever embellishment, do one forager bubbles. I am making lines, dot, mini dots. Anything that I have, waves to make the car more and more shiny. So here we have it. An easy and beautiful and happy card for loved ones. I hope you like this one as well. Again, wait to see, do creation in the gallery project for this class. I will see you in the next video for the bonus cut. 6. Card 4: Bonus Card: Fireworks and Happy New Year: Welcome to this class. I could handle system, make it this distance. I am sharing this with you and we will need a shape, a form. I am using a cookie cutter, metallic colours to condense brush, you can use a watercolors. The only thing it needs to be in metallic scholars, to whites bent in different sizes. Or do canoes paint as well without a brush, with water or water brush. Because we need to make a beautiful effect. And we are using for this a black watercolor paper. And answered you, pensive to a sketch. Lets us that I will make all the tracing the stars and I will put it in a line that these parts. And then I will add colors to it. With the metallic markets. I will reduce in gold and silver, I will paint the medieval stacking gold. Not a doing the lines are fine, but making it a little bit a thicker because we need this color. So I will spit out the BB Because we will just trace the whole staff. When do I finish it then take your brush with water or do whatever and put us in Joseph, pool. The colors from the lines like a Chinese lake, the lightest shining. It made this effect. Meghalaya, fine lines, little lines, longer lines. Because we want to make the effect that, that this that is shining like Bob then saw add SON access with the market on the wet paper. Still, still with paper. We will do the same technique in the three stars, then add a little bit more of water with you with the brush. With a do a cobras. I will do the other stats and follow the same directions. Ok, now, this starts at reading. Now we are going to write the phrase we have chosen for these. I will use the fine jelly pen for the tool silver stats in the beaker marker for the middle star, I am writing here, Happy New Year. We are writing here Happy New Year. And I am using two different styles of letter. One is the final in there that is a little bit more thicker to make contrasts in or painting. Now I will add some highlights, like dots. The stat TO make it pop using, because in the two silver stars and the silver market index goal staff. So happiness here means fireworks. So we are going to make some fireworks in. It is a very easy just use dots and lines accordingly. Alternate within the directions, any longer or shorter lines, and duplicated the dots. And you will have this four-year works effect. I will use the two colors, the silver and the gold color for the fire words that I will be doing in this piece. You can use more colorful markers if you want. And you can also use a white color. Just use us you wish. How do you want to do this to your fireworks? But they want this to be more classy and maintain some balance in these two colors. When I finish with this one, it works. I will add a fight awards. Uh, my my peace. I will add as some other firewall there where I being or I see that are needed. Then I will add some dots because fire worse always bring more light to the sky. So our car is that Rayleigh and I hope that you liked this design and that you will use these well to celebrate the New Year. I will see you in the next video. 7. Your Class Project - Thank You! : Congratulations, CSV that you finish base glass and glass prolific is very easy. You just need to share with us your deviations to consider. The Christmas card. Very crafty Christmas card. The framing Christmas card are the heavy UDL is Pascal. I can't wait to see but to create. Thank you so much for taking my class. And I hope you have a very much fun and they help to see you in my next graph, it remained that if you set your working over on Instagram, is that me in I read your word in my studies. Very glad to see you in my next class. Bye bye.