Treat yourself (or someone you love) to a magical creative moment and make unique cards full of charm and personality.
By Mireille Belzile – Beginner level – Language: French
Step into the soft, festive world of watercolor with this new creative box from Académie Madolaine. Guided step by step by Mireille Belzile, through more than 2.5 hours of video tutorials, you’ll learn to paint six unique Christmas greeting card designs — perfect to give or send with pride.
No experience needed: everything is explained clearly, step by step, so you can paint your cards with confidence and joy. A creative, relaxing moment — perfect to enjoy for yourself or share with family.
🌟 The kit includes:
- A French video tutorial for each design with tracings (over 2.5 hours of content)
- A set of 5 versatile brushes
- Graphite transfer paper for your sketches
- An Aquafine watercolor palette with 12 colors
- A gold watercolor from Pop Pigments
- A set of 6 watercolor cards
✉️ Card designs you will create:
- Cozy little village
- My happy snowman
- Sparkling Christmas ornaments
- Red berry rain
- Warm Christmas wreath
- I Hear Santa’s Laughter
🎨 Techniques you’ll learn:
- Wet-on-wet painting: both brush and paper are wet.
- Wet-on-dry painting: the brush is loaded with color, but the paper stays dry.
- Color splattering: add sparkle or a rain/snow effect.
- Lightening a color: to achieve a softer, lighter tone.
- Making a relief: wetting small areas to keep the paper white underneath.
- Mixing two colors to create a third color.
