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UP-CYCLE your watercolor paintings to make greeting cards.

2 hours on-demand video

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Turn all those practice pieces & experiments into cards to send. Impress your friends, spend less & maybe make a bit.

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Are you ready to turn your painting passion to good use? Then get ready to have even more painting fun by up-cycling some of your pictures into cards to send on any occasion.

So you have been busy painting away and are building up quite a collection of paintings of all different subjects and sizes . You may even have a folder of unfinished ones, disastrous ones and maybe ones that you might frame and exhibit or sell.....one day !

What ever you have wouldn't it be nice to recycle the ones which are hanging about into original greeting or holiday cards? Just think of the money you could save, how impressed your friends and family will be with an original hand painted and crafted card AND how some people may even want to buy them?

I give you tips on how to cut up and even weave your paintings to give them a new lease of life

Who knows you may even start a little business. How creative is that? So sort out your paintings, get ready to have some fun and let's get started.

Requirements

Requirements
Students will need to have some watercolour painting or exercise pieces.
Students will be interested in crafting their own greeting cards and will also need glue and/or double sided tape.
Students will need to be prepared to paint a variety of subjects.
A collection of objects such a labels, coloured card or paper would be helpful