my partner and I try to personalise our gift wrapping as much as the gifts. For some years now this has meant that I make my gift tags with my own drawings. This year I did not have many parcels to label and I decided that I would venture outside the traditional Christmas themes for my labels. I draw and paint directly on to cards already cut to size, so it is a challenge to get them to look professional, but I prefer it this way.
There are 2 outliers - the violas and the hippeastrum; these were to have been used, but became unnecessary and were therefore completed after the event.
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Very good idea. Great job. I love it.
They look great! Did you cut down watercolor paper or find some card stock thick enough to withstand watercolor work?
Hello Troy - this year I used 300gsm paper, probably by Born. Essentially I was practising while making these tags. Other years I simply used card such those packs of do-it-yourself business cards. When using them, I used my black Artline pens and watercolour pencils. They were less time consuming than these!
The Christmas gift papers Selfmade are beautiful 
Paper bags with toned colour are also not bad to change with fat pencils, acrylic pens to a selfmade gift paper
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