I drew the animals using a blue pencil. then turned them into black line drawings, scanned them, printed them on craft toned card stock, coloured them with pencil crayons and scanned them again, cleaned them up in photoshop, saved them as jpegs and took them into CorelDRAW.

 

I cut them out with a lasso tool in Corel Photopaint and pasted them onto my CorelDRAW page in order to move them around as individual vector files.

Other artists would probably use software they are familiar with like Photoshop or Illustrator or Procreate to cut images out and move them around over a background.

Once I had completed the watercolour forest background, I scanned it and saved it as a jpeg.

I  cut out copies of the scanned painted bears and pasted them to another watercolour background. I made a little accordion-style card which might make for a fun gift.

I reproduced the animal characters by taking them into CorelDRAW (which is similar to Illustrator and PhotoShop). I arranged them like this after adding a snow area over the lower area of the painting image. After saving them as a jpeg I took them into Corel PAINTER and added scarves and snow to make a winter scene which might make for a fun greeting card. I think this kind of adjustment can be made with other software programs including Photoshop, Illustrator and Procreate.