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 October 5, 2022 at 8:19pm: Mixed-Media postcard received from Albuquerque artist, Mercedes LaMarquesa

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on October 5, 2022 at 8:04pm: "Yoga Vision" - Hand painted Postcard from Coco Muchmore

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on October 5, 2022 at 8:00pm: Watercolor city scape postcard received from Awyn

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on October 5, 2022 at 7:57pm: This pastel painted "Palm Island" postcard received from Susan Gnaedinger

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on October 5, 2022 at 12:11am: Ty's contemporary Petroglyph postcard - off to Coco Muchmore

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on September 16, 2022 at 3:58pm: I think of this as an ecological card from Sabrina

Comment by Coco Muchmore on September 16, 2022 at 12:18am: This was a fun exchange. Gary's hand made card is on the top, my reply is underneath:

FRONTS:

And BACKS:

Comment by Susan Gnaedinger on September 14, 2022 at 3:22pm: Received "streaming #7" from Tyler.

Comment by Tyler Hannigan on September 10, 2022 at 7:00pm: Postcard going out to Sabrina Schmider

Comment by Coco Muchmore on September 3, 2022 at 1:06am: Thank you so much for your hand drawn, ocean-hearted fish postcard, Tyler. It traveled so well!

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