Easter How To : Create your own Easter Card with Ellie Hooi
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by Cass Art
This how to information will exhibit you how to make an Easter card, exciting for people on Easter crack or if you want to test watercolour paints to make a private card.


You will require:


1. Prepare your card.

You can possibly use pre built blank cards or working with watercolour paper, fold the paper in fifty percent (use a ruler to measure out the 50 percent way position to fold in excess of) to create a folded greeting card. You can also use a boning established for this to build a crease for simpler folding.


2. Draw the outline of the Easter bunny in pencil

Making use of a pencil, get started to draft out the form of the Easter bunny. To commence, attract an egg shape on its side to act as the outline for the head. Then beneath this, draw another bigger egg shape to act as the define for the body.


Employing the outlines, now use a thicker line close to the egg shapes to include form to the bunny, drawing long ears, an eye, a nose, smile and a tail.


Now increase an outstretched arm and insert some legs so the bunny appears to be to be walking.


Then incorporate egg shape outlines into the bunny’s arms and some grass alongside the base subsequent to the bunny’s feet.


3. Put together your paint

Pick what colours you would like the bunny to be and squeeze a tiny of the paint onto the paint tin. Set some water in a jar or cup and dip your paintbrush in the drinking water. Making use of the h2o from your paintbrush blend with the paint you squeezed into the tin to develop the regularity and shade you would like. Leading suggestion, the a lot more h2o you insert, the lighter the paint shade will be.


4. Paint the pencil define

Making use of the color of your selection, start to paint in the pencil traces. Go away time for the watercolour paint to dry so the paint doesn’t ‘bleed’ into each and every other. Top tip, the a lot less drinking water you use the extra lively the paint color will be, consequently you can make this card as vibrant as you like!


5. Increase the pen to the Easter bunny outline

After the watercolour paint has fully dried, use the pen to go over your pencil define. This will increase much more detail and you can increase fur marks to make the structure stand out and get condition. Major idea, you can use different nib thickness to make fun textures.




6. Publish your greeting employing the Tombow pen

Now you can increase your greeting on to the entrance of the card, making use of the tombow twin brush pen, use the brush nib to comply with the calligraphy lines to produce ‘Happy Easter’. Top idea, you can use diverse colours here to blend into each individual other. This results in depth and shadow to the letters

7. Rub out the pencil marks

As soon as all the ink is dry, rub out the pencil marks and you now have an Easter card to send to a liked one particular.



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