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Handmade Christmas Decor Ideas

Date: 06-12-2023
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Decorations, gift cards, gift wrap and more! There are so many opportunities to flex your creativity at Christmas time. Get into the spirit with these festive decor ideas - all made with love by our talented Gordon Harris Art Supplies staffers. 

Handmade Christmas Tree Decorations: 

You will need: 

1. Expression Canvas Cotton

2. Paint

Watercolours (Daniel Smith used in this video, full details below) 

Golden Heavy Body Iridescent Bright Gold Acrylic

3. Brushes

da Vinci Casaneo watercolour brushes

4. Pens or markers

Faber Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pens

Copic Multi Liner

Posca acrylic markers 

5. Jute String

6. Pencil

7. Scissors

8. Adhesive (optional)

9. Pin for the hole

 

Directions:

1. Paint the canvas with Daniel Smith Watercolour Ground in Titanium White to turn it into a surface suitable for watercolours.

2. Draw desired shapes onto the canvas with the pencil, remembering to leave room for a hole to tie the string through. Cut the shapes out and trace them onto the remaining canvas to create duplicates, cutting those out with scissors as well. In this video, Clare has made them double layered to add a border to the shape - if you would like to do this then trace around the shapes you've made with a 3mm border, and cut those out as well.

3. Paint the shapes! In this example, Clare has used Daniel Smith watercolours in Duochrome Emerald, Alizarin Crimson, Serpentine Genuine, Bordeaux, Cascade Green, Mayan Yellow and Aureolin, Golden Heavy Body Acrylics in Bright Iridescent Gold, Faber-Castell Pitt Pens in Pink Carmine, Copic Multiliner 0.3mm in Olive, Posca Acrylic Paint Markers in Gold, da Vinci Casaneo brushes in round size 2.

4. Glue the pieces together if using a background piece, then poke a whole in the top, threading the jute string through and tying together in a loop. 

5. Hang on the tree for handmagde festive fun! 

 

 

 
 

Multi-Block Lino Printed Christmas Card: 

You Will Need: 

1. Colourfield Blank Greeting Cards Pure White (Pkt 10)

2. Essdee Lino Printing Kit

3. Gordon Harris Tracing Paper

4. Pencil (Faber Castell Mechanical Pencil Grip 0.7mm used in this video) 

5. Printing Ink (Flint water-based ink, or Charbonnel Etching Ink used in this video) 

6. Grey Mount Board

 

Directions: 

1. Draw the design you would like to print onto your greeting card on a piece of paper. 

2. Using the tracing paper on top of the drawing, go over the outlines of the drawing with a pencil using a new piece of tracing paper to outline every colour. 

3. Transfer each of the outlines onto a piece of lino by placing the pencil drawing face down on the lino and rubbing with your hands or the brayer in the Essdee lino printing kit. 

4. Carve out the designs using the cutting tool in the Essdee lino printing kit. 

5. Make a template from the Grey Mount Board that is shaped to the pieces of lino and the greeting card paper to ensure the designs print in the same place - see video for more instructions. 

6. Roll the ink out onto the pieces of lino and print them onto the cards as per the video. 

7. Let the ink dry between each layer, and voila! 

 

 

 

 

 

DIY Wrapping Paper 

You Will Need: 

1. Hahnemühle D&S 140gsm Drawing Paper A1 Sheet

2. Molotow Blackliner Pigment Liner Pens

3. Cretacolor Artist Studio Watercolour Pencil Set 12

4. da Vinci Casaneo Watercolour Paint Brush

 

Directions: 

1. Using the black liner, draw your pattern onto the paper. 

2. Colour using Cretacolor watercolour pencils. 

3. Activate and paint with water using da Vinci Casaneo brush! 

 

  

Stained Glass Christmas Tree Ornament

You Will Need: 

1. PETG Crystal Clear Sheet A3

2. Molotow Blackliner Pigment Liner Pens

3. Pebeo Cerne Relief Overliner 20ml Black

4. Pebeo Vitrail

5. Paint brush

6. Scissors

7. Paper

8. String

 

Directions: 

1. Draw your design on a piece of paper and place it underneath the clear sheet. 

2. Trace over the outlines of your design using the Pebeo Cerne Relief

3. Colour in the design using the Pebeo Vitrail paint and paint brush. 

4. Once dry, cut out your design and hang with string onto the tree!