Handpainted Cards - January 2025

January for me has a lot of birthdays to remember and I decided not to buy cards anymore. So here are my first hanpainted cards for this year:


Acrylics following this tutorial.


Oil pastel drawing following this video.


Using this tutorial but painting with coffee. I always wanted to try coffee painting and I absolutely love it. I heard you can paint with red wine, too. So maybe I should try that next.


Oil pastels. I really want to get the hang of it and get good use out of the chalks I bought before Christmas.

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Really lovely work.

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Wow! These are all awesome! But I think the coffee painting is my fave!

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I’ve seen lots of coffee paintings in the past and I always wanted to try it. It turned out to be so much fun and I definitely need to do it again. I just don’t like that the colors are so limited :laughing:
I’m usually a bright color person.

Also I mostly did large scale acrylic paintings in the past. Like large canvases or murals. Painting card is so different from that. And I need to find inspiration watching lots of art videos.

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They’re all beautiful!

Happy cake day!

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thank you :smile:

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These are fantastic! Great work!

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The recipients of these cards are going to be delighted to received them!

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Thanks. My SO told me I should tell them I painted these myself, because they look “too professional” :rofl:

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These all came out wonderful! You’re very talented in a variety of mediums - including coffee! I love that you used coffee to paint the coffee card and I especially love that soft glow you managed to accomplish on the snowman card.

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Thanks! I make my cards one at a time with the recipient in mind. I painted the coffee card for a true coffee lover, with instant coffee that she left in my pantry because I had no coffee on hand when she last visited.

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I love these! The sparkler is my favorite. I’m sure the recipients will be delighted. :heart:

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I love that, it makes the card even better to know that it is so personalized!

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Lovely and so thoughtful…personalized cards are the best!

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These are fantastic. I like that you used several different techniques. The coffee and sparkler are my favorites!

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:snowflake: Congratulations! Your project is SNOW wonderful, it’s featured this week! :snowflake:

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Lovely cards!

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I love these. My favorite is the first one.

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My favs are the snowman at night and the coffee with whipped cream. You were skilled with using the coffee to paint. Thanks for sharing the links and all of your paintings were very good.

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Love those sparkler fireworks the most, so lively!

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