6-Fabulous-Festive-Wrapping | страница 2

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WINTER WILD

STEP 3 : Paint your over stencil

Place some newspaper sheets under your sugar paper to protect the surface below from any paint splashes ! Before you start painting , look at the colour of the sugar paper and think about what colour would look best on it , and what might be most festive . Reds and greens are always a winner ! Gold and silver are also super festive . But it ’ ll still look great if you only have one or two colours to pick from . When your stencil is ready , place it over the sugar paper . Put some paint onto your paintbrush , then hold the stencil down with one hand and paint over it with the other , until the whole silhouette is filled in . When you remove the stencil , your silhouette shape will be on the wrapping paper ! You can now make a pattern with your stencil . Think about where the other shapes would look best on the paper . If they ’ re trees , do you want a clustered forest or an open landscape ? If they ’ re snowflakes , you might want them to be spaced apart so they can be seen clearly .

STEP 4 : Draw some special features

Now , you can make your wrapping paper extra personal ! Using your pencil or a pen , draw some features to make your pattern extra exciting . If you have made a forest , you could draw falling snow , robins , footprints or a person made of snow . If you have a holly leaf pattern , you could draw little berries . Maybe you could add something that you know the person getting the gift will especially like . There is no right or wrong way to do it ! To take things further , you could even add ink stamps , sparkly tape , extra painted decorations or Christmassy ribbon for tying around the gift at the end ! Do you have alphabet stamps ? It can be fun to mark each piece with a name !