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DIY Sweet and Simple Watercolor Gift Tags

This time of year is by far my favorite- the egg nog, the smell of fresh cut pine, the overall mood of coziness and goodwill, it cannot be beat. I am so excited to share with you this quick tutorial for DIY watercolor tags that you can do to get into the Christmas spirit and spruce up your gift wrapping.  Hope you love these DIY Sweet and Simple Watercolor Gift Tags.

Ingredients

  • Watercolor Paper
  • Watercolors
  • Couple of paintbrushes
  • Cup of water
  • Tag punch

Instructions

  • Choose out a few patterns you want to paint. I started with a black + white stripe. Add water to your paint and paint lines across the dry paper. Experiment with different saturations of paint on your brush to have a pretty variation of shades
  • The next pattern is a typical watercolor texture. Start by taping the edges of your paper down to the table. This will prevent your paper from warping with the water.  With this pattern, you want to paint a thin layer water to you paper FIRST and then add wet, saturated paint. Liquid watercolors work best for this. You can add more water and paint to different areas of the paper and let the watercolor work its magic.
  • Last, I painted a loose greenery pattern. I used the same technique as I describe here.
  • Punch those babies out! After your paint has (very thoroughly) dried, punch away! If your tag punch doesn’t have an eyelet, you will need a normal hole punch to punch out the eyelet for stringing.
  • Last but not least, wrap up your gifts and tie them with string! These tags look great with bakers or hemp twine and butcher paper.