How do you handle keep the move, change the ground?

Copy the palette and stock and you have made a derivative. The ref was gold edges on white with a gold script. Here a deckled grey handmade card, gold foil script only.

How do you handle one finish does the talking?

Two finishes on a notecard compete; the eye has nowhere to land. One primary finish carries the piece; type and stock stay quiet around it.

Design exercise · Notecards · Peppermint

Deckle and gold

The ref was gold edges on white with a gold script. Here a deckled grey handmade card, gold foil script only.

Notecards for Print Peppermint design exercise with flat notecard a2 on handmade dove-grey cotton rag with a soft deckle on all sides, 300gsm.

FoilsYellow Gold · 101 TechniquesDeckle Edge, Hot Foil, Gold Foil StocksHandmade cotton rag, deckled

Two rules

01Keep the move, change the ground. The ref was gold edges on white with a gold script. Here a deckled grey handmade card, gold foil script only.
02One finish does the talking. One primary finish carries the piece; type and stock stay quiet around it.

Deckle and gold, dove grey — macro, by Print Peppermint — The gold script sitting into the rag fibre, deckle soft at the frame edge.

Start from these materials

Same paper, foil and finish, locked in — nothing of this piece artwork comes with it.

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