Apple printing: deco and gift ideas? DIY

With an apple you can print everything and make gifts or sweet decorations for the apartment. The handlettering font beautifies the printed apples and creates great autumnal pictures. Here are a few ideas that should serve as inspiration for crafting.

You need

  • Apple
  • Paper, cardboard
  • watercolor
  • brush
  • Handlettering pen or Stabilo
  • Picture Frame

apple pressure

Halve the apple with a large knife, making sure that it is cut straight with a cut. Apply the paint to the apple with a brush, very juicy apples should be dabbed beforehand. Place the apple on the paper, press it evenly and firmly and remove it from the paper. One can still picture a leaf and a stalk.

Halve the apple with a large knife, making sure that it is cut straight with a cut. Apply the paint and press on the paper.


Apple Mural

In square shape and with the same distance I have always printed three apples next to each other. Of these, I printed the middle apple in a different color. After the paint has dried, I cut out a mat of thicker cardboard and stuck the printed paper on it. Now the picture adorns my wall and fits perfectly into the season.

Arrange the apple prints in the shape of a square, print the middle apple in a different color and you have an autumnal mural.

Hand Lettering variants

For handlettering use particularly smooth paper. I always use this one: handlettering paper. I printed the apple in the middle for the following pictures. After drying, I have provided them with appropriate sayings. As a handlettering beginner, I still can not write perfect, but the more I practice, the more beautiful the writing becomes. Here's the link to the soft tip pen I like best: Tombow Pen.
You can also imitate the lettering font by drawing it in pencil and filling it with a stabilo.


Here are three variants that I like:

Great idea to get in the mood for autumn: this picture looks great as a decoration.Happily ever after turns apple-y ever after.A picture for all chocolate lovers. Then grab chocolate instead! :-)

Apple Trailers

These bottle hangers are great for giving away. Of course, there should be something "appley" in the bottle, in my case it was a baked apple curd. For this I glued the paper again on red paper, labeled with my hand lettering pen and attached with a matching tape.


As a pretty label for an apple liqueur, the apple print is also excellent.

Another idea would be one Sandwich bag to print with an apple. In it, small sweets can be given away with apple, such as apple rings or these apple-rose tartlets.

Have fun! Let your creativity run free! :-)

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