Don’t Buy These Stamps!
Looking for the easiest DIY watercolour cards? If you are tired of buying new stamps every season, fret not, because you can paint these yourself. 🙂
Materials Used for Easiest DIY Watercolour Cards
- Paul Rubens 100% Cotton cold press paper (with glitter) *
- Meiliang Watercolour
By the way, I didn’t glue any of the sentiment strips on the paper. I just laid the sentiments on top to show you what cards you can make after painting these simple objects.
Popsicles
Not only are popsicles easy to paint, they are fun! The shape is so simple, you won’t even need to sketch an outline before painting. Use a nice 100% cotton paper for the best wet on wet experience and effect.
Rainbow
I can’t think of anything as universally recognized as a rainbow. In addition, even if you buy a rainbow stamp set, the stamps are rarely perfectly symmetrical by design, so don’t worry if your rainbow isn’t perfect. In fact, the imperfections are part of the charm!
Watermelons
Another object which has the simplest of shapes is watermelon. You can paint them whole or sliced; either way, it’s fun to use wet on wet!
By the way, the sentiment is from Stampin’ Up’s Cute Fruits stamp set, which I regret buying. My own painting of watermelons comes out better than the generic design from the set.
Hearts
Anyone can draw and paint hearts. With watercolour, you can do fun effects like colour bleeds and wet on wet to make hearts even more fun to create. Best of all, you don’t need any outline.
Trees
Next to leaves, trees are among the easiest to paint in watercolour. It surprises me to see how many times they appear in some of those stamp companies’ annual catalogues! The best part about painting your own trees is that you are not stuck with the same set of stamps. After all, there are so many types of trees and each has its own unique shape.
Pumpkins
Pumpkins are super easy to paint: all you need is an oval in the middle, c-shapes around it and a stem on top. Even if you make a bunch of cards at a time, it still doesn’t take more than a few minutes each, the same amount time you would have spent on stamping anyway. Best of all, you can vary the size of the pumpkins yourself, so each card can be completely unique.
Olives
I would not want to spend $30 on a set of stamps that you can only use once or twice, especially if you can paint them with just ovals and leaves. That is the case for olive branch. Super simple and very relaxing to paint. This is one you can do yourself and enjoy the process, even if you don’t gift it to someone.
Easter Eggs and Chocolate Bunny
These are very simple shapes, but easily recognized objects. The best part of these easiest DIY watercolour Easter cards is that you are never stuck with a set that you cannot reuse year after year, because your own painting will be different than a stamp set.
Christmas Greenery
Like many people, I bought a new stamp set every year to make Christmas cards. However, once used, you find yourself not wanting to repeat the same set for another year, even if you arrange the images differently. Painting your own cards gives you that freedom and saves you money. A simple Christmas card like this took me less than 5 minutes to paint, so even if you make a few, it is still feasible.
Loose Florals
For this one, I actually glued the painting onto a card base and made it into a card.
Once you’ve mastered painting loose florals in watercolour, each painting can be made into a card for any occasion. Because of the nature of loose florals, you won’t end up with the exact same painting unless you want to.
Summary
There are many “easiest DIY watercolour cards”; these are just some that I can think of. Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy reading this, and happy painting!
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