You can start one of several ways. I usually start with a piece of card stock paper, watercolor or acrylic paper (something with some bulk to it that will hold up to paint). I will gather items that look appealing together, bits of scrapbook paper, notes, paper ephemera, old postage stamps, stickers, etc. I arrange my paints and rubber stamps and start a huge collage on my dining table until I see an idea starting to form. I then try to position my original artwork (bear in mind that you can use only a section of a piece or the whole) on the piece adding in the other elements. The areas that are still white is where I add in paint. After everything is glued down I used any rubber stamps or handwriting. When I finish the design I scan it and it is ready to print on card stock paper for your postcard. I use a rounding tool to round the corners and place a line down the middle of the back separating the address side from the message side. I happen to have a rubber stamp that looks like an old postage stamp that I will put where the stamp will go if it is ever mailed.
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