Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Watercolour cards

In my Christmas market specials schedule (which I'm shifting around a little) one of the items I mentioned was screenprinted watercolour greeting cards. They really need a snappier name - any suggestions?

Watercolour cards

First I painted the cards with stripes of watercolour paint, approximately lining up with the image to go on top.

Watercolour cards

When they were dry I screenprinted my W Class tram and Victorian terrace images over the paint.

Watercolour cards

And then when that was dry, I flipped them over and stamped the backs with my postmark stamp and added on my URL using my John Bull Printing Outfit (which I'm going to refer to as 'my John Bull').

Watercolour cards

The John Bull stamp thing only takes thirteen characters in a line, so I had to do the '.COM' separately. Some are a bit wonky! Adds to the charm.

1 comments:

Thea said...

Absolutely gorgeous work! How about "hand-printed art cards"?