Strathmore Parchment Cards with envelopes. These ivory duo-tone cards have a smooth surface allowing for even ink flow, perfect for artists or calligraphers. The matching envelopes are enhanced with a beautiful old world deckle edge. Acid Free.
Create original artwork on fine 5" x 7", pre-scored Watercolor Cards. Made of 140 lb. cold-press watercolor paper, they’re ideal for wet media such as markers, acrylic, gouache and watercolor. Cards come with complementing envelopes.
The subtle canvas textured surface is perfect for any wet media including oil, acrylic, and gouache. The matching envelopes are enhanced with a beautiful old world deckle edge.
These heavyweight, lightly textured cards are perfect for any dry media including colored pencils, pen, charcoal and pastel. The matching envelopes are enhanced with a beautiful old world deckle edge. Acid Free.
These trifold photo greeting cards feature a rectangular cutout window which accommodates either a 3.5" x 5" or a 4" x 6" photo. Simply insert your photo or artwork at the folded edge of the photo greeting card and personalize the frame. Double-stick adhesive tabs are included to secure the picture. Photo greeting cards come with matching envelopes. Acid Free. Strathmore Photo Frame Cards .
Strathmore creative cards are the greeting cards you create yourself! These beautiful, lightly textured greeting cards are ideal for designs created with colored pencils, pens, charcoal, light washes, rubber stamping, collages and more. For a touch of elegance, choose one with a colorful deckle edge. Create your own greeting cards with Strathmore Creative Cards.
These exceptionally smooth, bright white greeting cards are perfect for rubber stamp creations. Also great for calligraphy, stencils, mounting photos, and pen and ink drawings! Announcement size greeting cards are 3.5" x 4.875" and matching envelopes are 3.625" x 5.125". Full size greeting cards are 5" x 6.875" and matching envelopes are 5.25" x 7.25". Acid Free. Strathmore Stamping Cards
These heavyweight, textured cards are made from 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper. They are perfect for any wet media including markers, acrylic, gouache and of course, watercolor! The matching envelopes are enhanced with a beautiful old world deckle edge. Create your own watercolor greeting cards with Strathmore blank watercolor cards.
Printing on canvas is incredibly versatile and a great way to create a ready-to-hang image or artwork. Every canvas that we print is protected with a UV coated acrylic finish to guard the print from dust, moisture and fading. Do you want your canvas stretched on bars or non-stretched? Framed or unframed? Customize the work to make it truly your own.
Nowadays just about anyone can take a good quality photographs with a digital camera. Or take a few hundred pictures and the chances are few will be good, and even one or two outstanding.
Here are a few tips, tricks and techniques on how to make art print poster ready photographs and print ready digital files. Don’t get overwhelmed, there is a lot of information here, but a lot of it is just intuitive. Well, a bit of patience will always help.
First thing – Photo Size
If you taking a digital photo of you family or friend the largest size you would print is usually 5 by 7 inches, maybe 8 by 10 at the most. Even small size digital photographs (2MB or less) are ‘good enough’ to create a decent print. But if you want to create prints that are 16 by 20, 20 by 24 inches or larger you need more pixels (in pixels 20 by 24 inches photo is actually about 40 times larger than 3 by 4 inches photo assuming they have the same resolution).
Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art. Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with watercolor paint, paper, and brushes. Several techniques may be used with watercolors for varying effects including painting wet on wet, wet on dry, layering washes, and more.
Watercolor paper comes in cold press, hot press, and rough. Rough paper has the most texture, and its hills and valleys can result in interesting effects when paint is added. Hot press is the smoothest and has the finest texture. Cold press has a moderate amount of texture and is the paper most commonly chosen by watercolor artists.
Watercolor paper comes in several weights ranging from 90 lb. to 300 lb. based on the pounds per ream of paper. Most artists prefer to use at least 140 lb. paper. Papers vary somewhat between manufacturers, so sampling different papers is advisable. Paper can be purchased in pads, in blocks or in large sheets. The large sheets are usually the most economical and can be torn into whatever size is desired.