Hand Made Postcards

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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: Apr 11

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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 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

Comment by Steve O. Black on January 17, 2022 at 5:51pm: Coco - I use Elmer's Glue stick (washable disappearing purple).

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on January 16, 2022 at 5:56pm: I went OH wow when I saw this card from Tyler. Its very vibrant but that is not showing up in the photo.

Comment by Coco Muchmore on January 16, 2022 at 3:00pm: Look at this collage composition by Steve O Black...

Not only fantastic subtleties, also remained intact through postal handling as an open postcard.

Steve--if you happen to see this post, what sort of adhesive do you use?

And thank you so much for brightening this January! --Coco

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on January 15, 2022 at 10:08pm: Collaged postcard from A. Becerra

Comment by Coco Muchmore on January 13, 2022 at 2:46pm: Outer space fantasies in January! Just what the doctor ordered--Speedy recovery, Tyler. Thank you for sending the ART! :) Coco

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