Hand Painted Holly Leaf Christmas Card

- Rebecca Sipper

This hand painted Holly leaf and berry card is so easy to make as your family Christmas cards this year. If you are worried about outlining your hand painted holly leaves on the Christmas card, then try using a large stamp of a Holly leaf and berries.

You can hand paint in the colors on the homemade Christmas card, just like a paint by numbers.

If you are willing to try outlining your own Holly leaves and berries on the Christmas card, then use a Chinese bristle paint brush. These super affordable paint brushes cost about $1 and can be bought at any craft store or art supply store.

Chinese bristle paint brushes has soft long tips that write well. They feel like you are writing or drawing instead of painting.

To Make These Hand Painted Holly Leaf Christmas Cards You Will Need:

Ink Stamp cards
Red ink
Green ink
Black ink
Chinese bristle paint brush

Materials needed for making Hand Painted Holly Leaf Christmas Cards

You can buy pre made ink stamp cards in white at the craft store as well. They are crisp and keep the ink from bleeding and blurring. These blank cards come with envelopes as well, which is perfect for mailing your homemade Christmas cards!

To get started you want to dip your Chinese bristle paint brush in some black ink.

Draw three round circles near the bottom left of the card. These are the holy berries.

Now, outline the first leaf and paint the line or vein down the middle of the holly leaf.

Next. Paint the second leaf so that it looks like it is coming out from under the other leaf.

Hand Painted Holly Leaf Christmas Card If you want you can also try drawing this pattern on a piece of white paper. Now, use a sheet of graphite paper on top of the card. Place your drawing on top of the graphite paper. Trace our holly leaf and berries on to the card.

Discard the graphite paper and your pattern and use the paint brush to paint in the lines.

Let this black ink outline of the Holly leaf and berries on the Christmas card dry.

Once the black ink is dry use red ink to paint in the Holly leaf berries.

Use a nice ever green ink color to paint in the holly leaves on the Christmas card.

Let all the ink dry for twenty four hours to cure. Basically your homemade Christmas card is finished!

These simple hand made Christmas cards should take about 2 to 3 minutes per card and are so quick to make if you work in an assembly line fashion. Outline all the black outlines first.

Once they are all dry, go back and paint all the red berries on the Christmas cards, then finish off with the green ink. You will have yoru homemade Christmas cards ready in no time!