If a birthday or special occasion creeps up on you with little warning and you need a thoughtful gift in a hurry, a bottle of wine or candle are great standby gifts. But how do you make them a little less generic and a little more special?
You can create some beautiful botanical details with just a paint pen, and you can add these extra details in just a few minutes.
Two favourites of mine are the 0.7mm Sakura Pen Touch in gold or the 1mm Motolow Liquid Chrome for either shade of metallic gorgeousness. When using any paint pen, the nib needs to be at a 90 degree angle to the surface you are writing on, so the nib is pointing downwards, rather than on an angle to the writing surface.
Another top tip is to make sure you don’t press down with the nib, to avoid too much ink to be delivered onto the writing surface.
I start with any bigger botanicals first (such as the hibiscus) and any larger leaves before filling in with different details. I like to give an element of balance without it looking too uniform. If ‘leaning’ the botanical details, I would recommend having them all facing one direction (clockwise or anticlockwise) or parting from the centrepoint in both directions.
Watch just how easy it is on YouTube: