Vintage Notecards

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After creating several 3D/mixed media pieces for other Arnold Grummer Papermaking projects, I thought it would be nice to give card making a try. Life recently had been such a rush and too full of requirements on my time that it was nice to be able to slow down and enjoy creating. I have long admired vintage paintings, drawings, marketing products, and schematics. There is something so tender and endearing about reminiscing on the past. For this project, I used the following materials:
Thin manila paper (two sheets for each handmade paper)
Vintage art from copyright free sites like Pixabay
Large pop dots
Colorbox Fluid Chalk Inkpad in Dark Brown
Scotch Spray Mount Repositionable Adhesive (or similar products)
















Making the notecards:
1.       Using the large pour handmold, make as many sheets of paper as you need. I made six and was able to make eight notecards about 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches in size.
2.       For four of the sheets, you will want to get through the phase of squeezing all of the water out. Once the water is out, you will need to fold the paper in half, burnish the fold carefully, open the paper back up, then very carefully peel the two sides apart. The other two sheets can be left as a large 8 ½ x 11 sheet.
3.       When ironing the eight half sheets, iron until the sheets are almost dry. You should still be able to feel some dampness. Fold them in half again, making sure that you have the right sides up, and finish ironing them front and back. This will allow your paper to press into notecard form. For the two regular sized sheets, iron as normal.
4.       Take the two regular sized sheets and very lightly spray the top edge with the repositionable spray adhesive. Adhere a piece of regular printer paper to it. Place it in your printer.
5.       Choose the graphics that you wish to use and size them approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches in size. This, of course, can be changed if you like more or less area around the graphic. Print the graphics onto the remaining two handmade papers. (Note: Some printers may be a bit finicky. You may have to hand feed the printer paper/ handmade paper set into your printer. Just be very careful.) Printing these graphics on your handmade paper gives them an even more vintage look, which I love. They add some interesting inclusions to the graphic.
6.       Cut the graphics out leaving about an 1/8 of an inch around them. You can, of course, make the border larger or smaller, if you wish. Edge the graphics with the dark brown inkpad.
7.       Add pop dots to the back of each graphic, remove the film and press to the card base.
8.       As these are intended to be notecards, I added no sentiment to the inside. However, if you prefer to use these as cards, certainly add whatever sentiment you wish.
9.       Write a special someone a lovely note and send it off!
Anne Marie

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