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Hand Made Postcards

Hand Made Postcard Exchange.

Please no commercial postcards.

Categories / media - drawing, painting, watercolor, print making, mixed media, original photograph.

Mailed postcards have an advantage being postmarked they record the time and place where created.

Note: pastel, collage and embellishments do not travel well and may cause postal machinery damage/breakage.

My address is on the last comment page.

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Latest Activity: on Tuesday

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Managing Our Postcard Collections

All suggestions and comments are welcome here ?Ty Hannigan here. -- Here is what I do (currently)1st:I scan new postcards when they arrive and file the image in my computer under the artist's name. I…Continue

Tags: maintain, store, postcards

Started by Tyler Hannigan Feb 2.

Paper type and thickness for handmade postcards 12 Replies

Does anyone have recommendations for paper types/thickness they use for handmade postcards? I've tried sending some in the mail, but suspect they need to be thicker (I'm using Strathmore printmaking…Continue

Started by Tanushree V. Last reply by Guido Bondioli Oct 21, 2023.

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Comment by Tyler Hannigan on January 30, 2022 at 3:39pm

Received from Coco Muchmore of Perry KansasPostcard - "Last Cowboy Sunset"

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on January 29, 2022 at 9:07pm

Received from George Stone of Ontario, Canada"Runnaway Paisley" postcard

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on January 26, 2022 at 10:08pm

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on January 26, 2022 at 10:06pm

Received from AWYN. The front of the card is actually a collage.

Comment by Coco Muchmore on January 26, 2022 at 6:09pm

Original art goodness mailed in the open as a postcard from Susan Gnaedinger--Always a treat! Thank you!

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on January 25, 2022 at 4:43pm

Here are e some color added to the beetle print shown earlier.Top one is "Ribbon Dance" and the second is "Fire Dancer"

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on January 24, 2022 at 6:03pm

Received from M.L. Stephens. The barn is from a picture he took in Shedd Oregon.

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on January 24, 2022 at 4:58am

Thanks to Susan Gnaedinger for likung the Beetle postcard I Sent. (See her comment and beetle image 4 comments below. That beetle was smaller originally designed for doing a set of ATCs.This is a larger version of the beetle linocut designed for a new postcard set.

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on January 19, 2022 at 1:29am

Received postcard from Steve Black along with a packet of stuff.

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on January 17, 2022 at 10:58pm

Thanks Patricio (Celestial Scribe) for the Fish with a Heat PostcardYou never know what kind of fish will swim up river to Taos, New Mexico

 

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