Designs in natural tones

Record baby's first milestones with these creative keepsakes

The first year of your baby's life is special. So much happens in those first few months, so it's nice to have a creative way of remembering those all-important milestones. These keepsakes made from simple wooden slices are the natural choice for nature lovers. And acrylic markers are perfect for decorating them. The acrylic marker set nature from edding contains five markers with a fine tip in beautiful, carefully co-ordinated colours. The fine tips are ideal for adding short decorative lettering or inscriptions to your designs. Our template includes motifs for baby's first tooth, first steps and much more besides…

Categories: How to paint with acrylics
Kids' room
Products: Acrylic range
Materials: Wood
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

The edding 5300 fine acrylic markers come in a wide range of colours. To design and decorate the wooden slices in our example, we've used the colours in the edding Nature acrylic marker set (you can see them in the picture below). Our template includes motifs and wordings. Simply print out the ones you want to use.

Step 2

We recommend you first sketch out your design in pencil so that it’s easy to colour everything in. Before you start, you'll also need to activate your acrylic markers. To do this, shake the marker with the cap still on until you can hear the mixing ball start to rattle inside. Next, carefully press the nib down a few times until the ink fills the tip. Try out a few practice marks on a piece of scrap paper. For our design, we used sunny yellow for the word “hello”.