Doodled Postcard

I bought this book of postcards a little while back, it contains 66 part doodled postcards that you can finish off, but I am guilty of keeping it in my desk and not doing anything with it….

Until today ……………………… this is what I came up with.

I coloured the jug and surface with  promarker pens, the flowers are from a foam set from HobbyCraft and the rest I have doodled and handwritten.  I’m not sure if it withstand the rigours of the post so I may slip it in an envelope when I send it.

Altered Postcard

This is a silly little thing really, but I thought how nice it would be to send a handmade postcard now and again just to say “Hi”, or “Thank You”, “Thinking of You” etc.

First I covered a postcard with part of a page from Brenda Walton, Mira Designer Mat Pad (4 x 6) by K & Co.

Then I embellished it with punched flowers using a large daisy punch and other paper designs from the pad.

It wouldn’t be a “me” project without the addition of flat backed gems and hologram glitter! (I will be interested to see if the gems withstand the vigour's of the postman's bag!)

I know I bang on and on about hologram glitter and add it to almost all my projects, but the effect is soooooooo lovely.  I cannot take a photograph that does it justice, it is subtle and beautifully twinkly and it looks so professional, like the cards in the shops!

I am sure that this idea could be adapted for so many other postcards for all occasions and ages.
As a post note ......... I posted this card to my mum ....... she never got it!!  Oh well!!!