Gift Making Tutorials

Our Limited Edition Triads offer incredible value and a chance to experiment with gorgeous color mixes. Each set is a perfect project all on its own - or use them as a limited palette for card making or plein air ...

Pick up some Blank Watercolor Cards and Create Your Own Holiday Cards! Susie Short has some great & simple tips that make creating cards fun - you'll enjoy making them as much as your friends and family will ...

Follow this project to make Watercolor Ornaments and Gift Tags. Using our template or a shape of your own, cut ornament shapes from cardboard and trace them onto 300lb cold press watercolor. We worked on 5 in wide ...

Start with a pre-made Woodbury Matte Black frame. First, mask the frame’s outside and inside edges. Starting at the top right corner and centering the tape on the corner’s point, lay a strip of 1' masking tape fr ...

Make your very own screen-printed shirts to wear or give! The Speedball Standard Fabric Screen Printing Kit makes it surprisingly easy—and while you have the supplies out, how about making some gree ...

Mimic the look of a rubber stamp! Print an image onto non-absorbent paper, then transfer it onto the surface of your choice while the ink is still wet. We used the Moleskine Cahiers; you could also print transfer ...

Make your holiday cards unique with a shimmery, 3-D star! Follow these step-by-step instructions for a fun Holiday printing project! ...

Making a book is easy and fun with the Shizen Design Bookmaking Kit. It contains cover boards and interior pages—you’ll need to round up a few basic tools and pick a decorative paper from our extensiv ...

Choose a lightweight decorative or Japanese paper. Cut two strips—a 5-1/4in x 9-1/2in for the lantern and a 1in x 10in strip for the bottom edge. We used the paper’s deckle edge to add an attractive detail. ...

These little paintings are so fun, we did ours at book club. Start with a 4-pack of Ampersand Claybord Panels ( 4' x 4'). Choose a design or transfer our elf design. First paint the background with a dark ...

Draw or transfer snowflake designs onto Safety-Kut Printmaking Blocks using your own designs or the patterns you’ll find on pages 2 and 3. Cut away the negative parts of the snowflake designs using Speed ...

Draw or transfer the candleholder design onto a Safety-Kut Printmaking Block. Use your own designs or this pattern. Carve away the negative parts of the design using Speedball cutters. Using Speedball Wat ...

1. Start with an 8' x 10' Polystyrene Plate. (We cut ours with a utility knife to 7' square) Sand the edges to prevent tearing the paper when printing them. Mask the edges with 1' masking tape to create a clean bord ...

Creating a one-color notecard design is a fun way to learn a variety of pen and ink techniques. You may then bring your drawing to a print shop and select from a variety of paper colors and textures, or scan and ...

We found this project on p.34 of the Speedball Gilded Style book. Choose a word or a simple drawing. Vellum paper works best because it is a non-porous surface. Trace your image using a Speedball Calligraphy Pen ...

Handmade cards: Step-by-step instructions on how to create one-of-a-kind relief-printed cards. With our step-by-step instructions, you can easily create one-of-a-kind relief-printed holid ...

Demonstration by Susie Short Step 1 Wet the surface down for the trees, defining where you want the trees to meet the snow's edge. Drop color for the trees into th ...