Strathmore Mixed Media Postcard Pad, 4×6 inches, 10 Pack, Envelopes Included – Custom Greeting Cards for Weddings, Events, Birthdays

I’m not a Strathmore fan with my watercolors, but find them useful and practical at the holidays to sketch out my winter scenes, then use light (and I mean “light”) water/pigment to paint my winter sketches. You get flat color and blooms from all postcard papers, so why buy those silly ridiculously priced Deutsch tins, right? I create a postcard a month, perhaps 2, for my supportive photographer sister in RI. My typical “German tins” with postcard paper inside (and a brick of styrofoam to create depth) was becoming too costly for my liking (“…but you can save the tins…” is a typical refrain), so I’m trying various affordable brands. My 1st card in January was masked snowflakes, then 2 different blues or pinks, to which I added sea salt, table salt and alcohol for texture to each drying card. Different papers dry at different times, and in different ways, but I was able to hit it just right on these postcards. Frankly, for my money, these did a superior job in sharp contrast to the German tin cards. And just for grins, I’ll put these postcards into the empty tins that rarely speak Deutsch to me with my morning coffee. At least it will silence my naysayers–those that do not paint. Anyway, a surprisingly excellent end result from a surprisingly inexpensive paper. I love them, but that’s just me. ��