TPS: Use Your Prints #3 - Notecard

By now, most of us have accumulated quite a substantial stack of prints, and if you're like me, there's seemingly no end in sight! So, let's start using our prints in different projects.

For this swap, we'll be using those prints to create a handmade notecard with a coordinating envelope. The print can be the notecard's background, main image, or used in any other way you see fit as long as you somehow use a print on the card. Feel free to be as creative as you want, adding stamped images, embellishments, or whatever else you're inspired to use. Write a little note to your partner inside the card; these cards are not to be sent blank for your partner to use, but rather a way for you to say hello and spread some monoprint love!

The envelope can be handmade from a coordinating print (same colors and/or design) or store bought. It does not have to match exactly, but does need to coordinate in some way, for instance by using the same color(s) that are in your card, or maybe a matching stamped image. As long as it somehow ties in with your card's design, it's fine. If you hand make your envelope, please make it sturdy to withstand postal abuse, by either gluing a sheet of paper to the print as an envelope liner, or by adding tape on the inner or outer folds.

The details:

• 1 handmade notecard with a coordinating envelope for 1 partner
• Minimum card size is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"; the fold can be on either the short or long side, sender's choice
• Sender's choice in color, style, theme, etc.