Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Christmas Car Cards



We made Christmas cars ... and turned them into Christmas cards!

I just love how they turned out!

After completing the artwork, I took picture each one and formatted them to fit on a piece of folded colored card stock. Then I had them printed at our local print shop on premium white paper.




Of course, I could have printed them myself, but placing two art pics on one sheet of paper is so inexpensive to print compared to using a home printer, and the color is beautiful and dependable.

Cut the art prints to leave about 1/4 inch all the way around.
 
Our images were 5.25" x 7" for 5.5" by 7.25" cards (folded). Of course, your dimensions are up to you.


Simply cut them out and glue them on the face of the folded cards. We used glue sticks so they would stay flat and not wrinkle.

Now you can write in them as they are, Or, for darker cardstock, you can fold a slightly smaller sheet of white sheet of paper inside for your message. Simply add a dab of glue to the paper near the center fold to keep it in place.




For detailed instructions to create your own Christmas Car paintings, you can visit our previous weblog posts:


More Christmas Cars


We used purchased (5.75" x 8.75") peel & stick greeting card envelopes, which you can find at any stationary or big box store - ours came from Walmart. 

Saturday, December 06, 2025

Pet Paintings

Choncho, 11" x 14" (artist age 10)
We painted pet portraits!

These artists tried an acrylic painting on canvas for the very first time.

These are painted on 11" x 14" stretched canvases. We used simple drawings traced to the canvas from b/w photo enlargement printouts. We also used at least two color resource photos to refer to as we created our palettes and painted the images on canvas. It helped to have at least one photo on an electronic device so that it could be enlarged enough to see and paint furry details.

Athena, 11" x 14" (adult artist)
Kitty, 11" x 14" (adult artist)
Josie, 11" x 14" (adult artist)

Pug, by B - age 10 (colored pencil)
Just for the fun of it, our younger artist decided to also try her hand at depicting her doggy subject in colored pencil. The result is this super expressive drawing that looks like a caricature. Wow!