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Friday, September 26, 2014

Watercolor Christmas Cards---My Etsy Shop

If you follow my Instagram account @unifyhandmade you may have already seen a sneak peek of these cards that I’ve released in my Etsyshop. I’m super excited about these cards because they include some of my hand painted watercolor designs—and since I’m totally obsessed with watercoloring right now it seems appropriate for me to incorporate my love for painting into my newest Christmas card collection. What also makes these extra special, to me, is the fact that I created some of the accents—like the laurel—on these cards using my tablet. I’ve been playing around with it for 2 years now and trying to get the hang of digital drawing (it’s so much fun).
These cards are being offered in sets of 8, and you can purchase a set of one particular design; or, you can purchase a variety pack. I also created some adorable tags with the same watercolor theme, too.
 I wanted to create some place cards using this wood mounted stamp I purchased from Paper Source a few months ago, and I thought it would be a great time to create some for Christmas. Perfect for use at dinner time for Christmas Eve; or, Christmas day!
I’ve always wanted to mass produce my very own watercolor designs and I was able to do that by simply creating my designs on this Tim Holtz watercolor paper and then transferring them to my computer by scanning them into Photoshop.
I’ve always wanted to create a red and white themed Christmas line—and this year I finally did it. In this collection I’m using traditional Christmas colors but with a modern day twist. If you can see in the last image (shown above) I also created a heart shape. I have big plans for new cards coming this Valentine’s Day. I can’t wait to share them!

To view my new Christmas cards you can find them in my Etsy shop, here, here, here, here, and here. I hope you've enjoyed this close look into my new Christmas cards and feel free to leave me a comment letting me know what you think!

Have a great Friday!


Nicole 

10 comments:

  1. I saw these lovely cards in your shop just last week and added them to my list of faves already! I'm hoping you'll add some with both red & green sometime soon too, maybe?
    Hope you had a great weekend,
    Kim

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    1. Thank you! I thought about adding in some green for a more traditional card but it wasn't working out, lol. I might try again though :-) I really liked the white and red look it reminded me of peppermints.

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  2. Very clever Christmas cards idea!! Thanks for sharing!

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  3. beautiful! watercolor and calligraphy is always such a beautiful combo. great work!

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  4. You are such an inspiration! I look forward to all your cards! Thanks so much.

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    1. Thank you so much for that awesome comment! :-)

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