{"id":3440,"date":"2016-07-25T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2016-07-25T00:01:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T06:01:55","slug":"diy-watercolor-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/diy-watercolor-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Watercolor Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>There\u2019s something about applying watercolor paint to paper that soothes the soul. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watercolor paint<\/li>\n<li>Watercolor brushes \u2013 size 8 round or size 14 flat<\/li>\n<li>Acrylic paint brush \u2013 with short round bristles<\/li>\n<li>Watercolor paper \u2013 (260 or 300 gsm) or thick cardstock (100 lb), sized 5.5\u201d x 8.5\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Small glass of water<\/li>\n<li>White acrylic paint<\/li>\n<li>Knife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>directions <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fold watercolor paper in half and smooth the crease using the blunt side of a knife.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3444\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/diy-watercolor-cards-11c.jpg\" alt=\"diy-watercolor-cards-11c\" width=\"589\" height=\"882\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Dab watercolor brush in water. Using a good amount of the color, brush a few strokes down the card.<\/li>\n<li>Clean the brush in water and choose another hue of paint. Brush several more strokes, making contact with the first color.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat step 3.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3445\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/diy-watercolor-cards-14.jpg\" alt=\"diy-watercolor-cards-14\" width=\"882\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3446\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/diy-watercolor-cards-16.jpg\" alt=\"diy-watercolor-cards-16\" width=\"589\" height=\"882\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Allow paint to dry, about 10-15 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a meaningful word like peace, hope, grateful or love. Sketch the word in pencil first if preferred, then paint using acrylic brush and white paint.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3447\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/diy-watercolor-cards-22.jpg\" alt=\"diy-watercolor-cards-22\" width=\"882\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Allow the card to dry, then enclose a message and send along to a friend who could use some beautifully made snail mail.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3448\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/diy-watercolor-cards-25.jpg\" alt=\"diy-watercolor-cards-25\" width=\"882\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3449\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/diy-watercolor-cards-27.jpg\" alt=\"diy-watercolor-cards-27\" width=\"882\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3322 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mops.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HD_Cover_Summer_2016_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of\u00a0<em>Hello, Dearest<\/em>. If you didn\u2019t get a copy and would like your own, you can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mops.org\/membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to get\u00a0<em>Hello, Dearest<\/em>\u00a0in your mailbox every season. If you subscribe, forward your receipt to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:magazines@mops.org\">magazines@mops.org<\/a>\u00a0and we\u2019ll shoot a copy of the current issue in the mail to you for free \u2026 just because we like you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something about applying watercolor paint to paper that soothes the soul. \u00a0Materials Watercolor paint Watercolor brushes \u2013 size 8 round or size 14 flat Acrylic paint brush \u2013 with short round bristles Watercolor paper \u2013 (260 or 300 gsm) or thick cardstock (100 lb), sized 5.5\u201d x 8.5\u201d Small glass of water White acrylic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[484,25,485],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-craft","tag-diy","tag-watercolor-cards"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}