Postcard Art With Hahnemühle
Once again I signed up for iHanna's semi-annual international postcard swap . And once again I used the wonderful Nostalgie hot pressed postcards from Hahnemühle . The swap called for ten postcards completed in whatever art form we wished. Well, I sent them out in the mail this morning and I can't wait to show them to you! This card started with several layers of a gel printed background. The flower center was a piece of ephemera from Tamara Laporte. A hand drawn and painted flower, a stamp and a couple jewels finished it up in style. Most of my postcards started with some level of gel printing for the base layer. I especially like the way this background looks and the way it shines through my painted flower. I used the same stencil that I used in the first postcard you saw and made a couple layers in different colors. My favorite part of using gel prints is seeing how they show through my painting. This background was made with Tombow dual brush pens with my smooshing tech