Everyone loves handmade gifts for the holidays! Pull out your small watercolor studies and sketches and turn them into lovely all-occasion greeting cards. Add sentiments with rubber stamps or hand-lettering, wrap them into sets of four, and you have the perfect gift for family and friends.

Here are a few tips – purchase standard greeting card envelopes at your favorite stationers first. Then trim and fold sheets of card stock to fit inside the envelopes. Now you can measure the front of the folded card to trim and mount your artwork. Consider different colors of card stock that might frame your work nicely – be sure to mount a small sheet of plain white paper inside for the message area.