Watercolor calendar envelopes

Some more of the envelopes I harvested from a large watercolor calendar titled 'Fairies'. I continue to be impressed by how well they pair with the botanical art stamps. These are envelopes 784, 808, 793, 795, 783, 786, 807, 777, 794 and 810.

March exchange envelopes received

From Jean - love the vintage airmail stamps

From Florence - great idea to use the 3c star stamps with 20c stamps to get to 49.

From Marti - I like how she chose a couple of different things in the address to highlight with a thicker pen.

From Kathie, an envelope made from wrapping paper with lovely matching stamp.

And Nancy's envelope, where she used a fun ombré effect for my name, and extended the thistle the bird is perched on.

The rest of the March exchange envelopes

I spied a very large 2015 wall calendar that was being thrown out, so it was appropriated and turned into envelopes.

Numbers 775, 776 and 790 sent out. I thought the colors on the botanical art stamps  worked very well with the watercolors of the calendar envelopes.

Advent - love

Earlier in the year in a post about the series of Love stamps USPS issues every year for a Sunday Stamps blogpost (which is the current most visited post of the blog), I commented on the fact that I had never received any of the Garden of Love stamps, a set of 8 se-tenant stamps. 

Marti sent me a surprise set of envelopes with the stamps attached, and I had fun sending  back a set of envelopes with some of the other stamps. 

Guest blogging at Positively Postal

My week of posting at Positively Postal is up. Head over there to see what I had to say about these pieces of mail art I received recently from Mail Art Martha...

...Brooke...

...Eric...

...and Scott.

And mail art I sent out to Linda...

...Marti...

...MomKat...

...Keith...

...and stripygoose.

July envelope exchange - part 1

From Bridget - great splattered colors from Australia

From Rehj - I love how the letters reflect the penguins on the stamps

From Elizabeth - this starry envelope is a big wow

 From Kate - the perfect accompaniment to the Maya Angelou stamp.

Marti was putting together her exchange envelopes and kindly sent me this bonus envelope.

Thanks, everyone, for another great exchange.

Jean & Jan's May exchange - envelopes received

The first envelope received in this exchange is a wonderful night scene by Janet F.

Red, white and blue from Florence.

Pretty calendar page envelope from Smash.

Another great wallpaper envelope from Hester with matching note.

And the final one - happy chicks from Marti, with my first sighting of the Special Olympics stamp. I still think that USPS should have had a global forever version of this one - just imagine all the postcards being sent home to all the athletes competing from all around the world. The symbol would have been perfect for the circular stamp.

Malerwinkelhaus

At the end of 2014 I sent in my entries for Roland's mail art project on the Malerwinkelhaus, a famous tourist attraction in the German town of Markt Breit.

Roland put together an amazing booklet that was handed out at the exhibit of the mail art. Great to see some fellow mail artists in the book - Jean, Eric, Eva, Heleen.

Here is the page with mine, and a bonus page.

He also created an artistamp for every piece of mail art he received, and sent one sheet to each participant. My two stamps are on this sheet, and Heleen's also.

And there's more! (Do you feel like you're on a game show?) Roland had a postcard made from one of my pieces. Amazing. 

I sent the card to Marti right at the end of postcard week, stamped with one of my remaining kaleidoscope flower stamps that are favorites of mine.

A big thanks to Jean for pointing this mail art call out to me.

Bonus postcards

A new member of the spontaneous mail club, Brooke C from IUOMA sent me this great collage.

I always like Nancy's mail art, and this one, titled 'Red', is fantastic.

A fun, bright grid from Rose.

And first mail art from Tomoe in Japan.

With lovely stamp and cool Japanese airmail sticker.

Two more from IUOMA members. Top one is from Jason, and bottom one is from Thomas.

Fab ducks from Hester.

And another one from Nancy - collage featuring a French magazine page.

Hot off the press - this one arrived yesterday - from Marti. I didn't even know there was such a thing as National Postcard Week. It runs May 3-9 this year, so you have a few hours left to send a postcard.