0 Diy Colourful Striped Card

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I've been starting to do some diy's (do it yourself) recently, but I just haven't been calling them diy's. Really though, you can definitely make my projects at home, and on your own, so... sure why not? Diy, here I come! Anyway... today's diy will be this cool striped card I found in a Mother's Day craft book that I mentioned in my last post. Here's the tutorial I was following. Click on the image to enlarge it.

I decided to recreate this, for my friend's birthday card! However, instead of following the extremely specific instructions explained in the book, I took a more flexible approach, grabbing ideas from the images above the steps. Here's my tutorial.

What you'll need:

-watercolour paper (or any thick paper that can withstand paint)

-black felt tip pen

-metallic marker (preferably gold)

How to make it:

Step 1: Grab a blank piece of watercolour paper. I took advantage of a premade card template I got from Strathmore's Artist Papers, which I also used here. It will be the size of the card.

Step 2: Start painting stripes. Try to use lots of different colours that match together. You can paint blots over your stripes, paint in dashes, paint squiggly lines over the stripes, etc, but the stripes should all be going either vertically or horizontally (which is what I did). You can leave gaps of different sizes, which is where the gold and black marker will fill in.

Step 3: Wait for the paint to dry. Now take your black felt tip marker and gold pen to decorate the spaces between the stripes. Get creative: use x's, dashes, arrows, squiggly lines, and more! This is a good time for you to check out the sample cards from the book here. 

Then you're done! This is a great card to send to your friends or/and family. Be as imaginative as you want. I hope you get to try this out, and if you do, you can send an picture to colourfuldecorationsemail@gmail.com! Have fun!