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Vintage Christmas Postcard

- Rebecca Sipper

Vintage Holiday postcards can be pricey, so try making your own. You can make this simple Vintage Christmas postcard craft using affordable materials from your craft store. The more vintage Christmas postcards you make, the less each one will cost!

You will be using watercolor paper and watercolor paint for this Vintage Christmas postcard craft. To save money try buying the watercolor paper by the sheet. You can also use student grade watercolors; they work great!

To Make a Vintage Christmas Postcard You Will Need:

Watercolor paper
Scissors or pinking sheers
Masking tape
Watercolor paint or ink
Paintbrush
Permanent Masking Fluid
Waterproof ink pen or marker
Plastic plate

To get started making your Christmas postcard you want to cut out a rectangle of water color paper that is about 4X6 inches.

Tape this to a flat work surface or art board.

Shake the jar of permanent masking fluid. Dip your paint brush in the masking fluid and use it to paint your Christmas themed words on the postcard, just like if you were painting them on with paint.

Let the permanent masking fluid dry completely.

Permanent masking fluid can be bought for about $3 at any craft supply or art supply store. It is a key material in creating this vintage Christmas postcard craft project, so you will need to invest in this craft material.

As you will see though, the permanent masking fluid is inexpensive and will last for hundreds of Christmas craft projects.

Squeeze some red watercolor paint out on a plastic plate. Add tiny bit of water. To create a more vintage red paint color for this Christmas craft project you can add a little bit of brown water color paint.

Now, brush the red paint over the postcard. The masking fluid will block the paint from absorbing where you painted your Christmas words.

Let the watercolor paint dry. Watercolor paint dries quickly. If you are in a hurry you can set a fan on the Christmas postcard to help the watercolor paint dry more quickly.

Slowly remove the tape from the edges.

Use pinking sheers or scissors to clean up the edges of the Christmas postcard craft.

Flip the postcard face down and draw in the line that divides the address side of the Christmas postcard from the address lines. Add a box for the stamp and three lines for the address on the right.

Let the ink or marker dry and you are finished.

These simple vintage Christmas postcards make wonderful hand painted Christmas cards or even Christmas gifts.