Handmade Holidays — Postcard Gift Sets

14 years ago

Whenever Mark’s sister (Julia) travels, she manages to slip a postcard in the mail for Emily. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but my sister-in-law rocks! Emily is always so happy to get mail, and loves to see the beautiful photos of where Aunt Julia mailed the postcard from — Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Italy, Dubai to name a few. Not to mention the stamps!

This afternoon, while Clara was napping, we had a nice pocket of time to get to work making our own postcards to give to Aunt Julia. We used these blank post cards by Strathmore. They are fabulous, and usually sell for $4-5 for 15 postcards.

Of course, you could very easily make your own postcard gift set using some of your child’s existing artwork. Just have it sized to 4″ x 6″ and photocopied onto heavy cardstock.

Emily loved drawing on the postcards, and then painting with watercolor.

…and I couldn’t resist painting a few of these myself!

After the paint was completely dry, we outlined our paintings with a very thin black marker. This seemed to make a great finishing touch on the postcards.

Then we gathered them all up and wrapped them with some twine!

A fun, frugal project, and a great way to re-use some of your child’s artwork!

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