Watercolour gift tags

Design your own Christmas tags – unique every time

A stylish gift tag adds a lovely finishing touch and makes even the most simply wrapped gift stand out. Handmade Christmas tags, everyday gift tags or mini greetings cards are bound to make a good impression! They also show that you care. We chose watercolour for our tags, as this technique results in fabulous colour effects which are easy to rework. And best of all: you can make a whole series of them in one go. You can achieve a trendy watercolour effect in all conceivable shades with the help of the edding 1340 brush pens in the Colour Happy Box. Every gift tag will be a one-off and will look different from any other. In total, there are 20 colours to choose from. What’s more, they can be mixed and matched in any combination.

Categories: Christmas
Gift packing
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Fineliners
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: A bit more challenging
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Use the edding 1340 brush pens in various colours to shade areas of the plastic sheet in your own style. It will look particularly nice if you work with one colour scheme at a time – like these orangey-red tones, for example.

Step 2

Putting the plastic sheet to one side, wet the paintbrush and gently sweep it across the paper, letting the water soak in.

Step 3

Place the plastic sheet coloured side down on top of the paper and transfer the ink by pressing down firmly with your hand. The result is a fascinating watercolour effect.

Step 4

When the ink is evenly distributed, carefully remove the plastic and leave the paper to dry.

Step 5

You can use this method to create watercolour designs in a huge range of colour combinations.

Step 6

Once all the watercolour sheets are dry, cut out rectangles in different sizes, lay them on top of each other according to size, punch a hole and tie them together with a matching piece of ribbon.