I need an enclosure card for a gift, and so begins an afternoon of relaxed puttering and contented tinkering fostered by eager scavenging that leads to serendipitous creative connections.
First, I sift and rummage and poke and scout to see what I might find by way of a squirreled-away art start whose time to shine will be now. ✅
Then, off to my stashes of all manner of paper for something with the right heft to be a card and the right tone to showcase the art it will support without stealing any of its thunder. ✅
Next, over to my envelope collection to sift through for something just the right size. ✅
After that, some tinkering with the art itself—adding delicate ink-scribbles, along with touches of intensification, highlighting, and brightening of colors using chunky Stabilo watercolor woodies, before folding, cutting, gluing, glazing, and assembling. ✅
Putter, tinker, poke,
scribble, glaze, cut, and glue a
greeting card bespoke! ✅
—dotty seiter
4.25 x 5.5″; acrylic, ink, and watercolor pencil on paper,
mounted on card stock
enclosure card opened flat to show back and front
2025
dottyseiter: now playing 
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