Here be dragons!

CJ commented that the dragon stamps make for great additions to Halloween mail. I agree, even though this one was sent a while ago, to Eva.

You can see this envelope in the other orientation at Eva's blog, along with a lot of other fairy tale-related stamps.

To Finland

A photo in a magazine made up of triangles gave me an idea for something to send to Carina.

Here's another view (there was more inside) and the envelope it was sent in.

A-Z challenge reflections post

Actually, this is not really a reflections post, I feel that this is more like a rewards post, with me being the recipient!

Plus I didn't realize that a reflections post was a part of the A-Z challenge

Helen surprised me by sending me this fantastic envelope and card to congratulate me on finishing, and share a few of her thoughts on how much she enjoyed my blog during the A to Z challenge in April.

One thing that Heleen wrote that I agree with is that she was surprised Eva and I did not have the same word, or even the same mail during the whole month. Which is pretty surprising as we occasionally show the same thing on the same day.

And Eva sent me some of her reflections in this wonderful envelope made from a Desigual bag. This store name seemed familiar to me, but not because I shop there - the nearest one is in NYC. 

As luck would have it, 614 Magazine, from which many of my envelopes are created, had this as their April cover.

It made perfect envelopes to reply to Eva and Heleen. Thanks so much to both of you for your mail and blog friendship, I really appreciate it.

Black, white, gold

This magazine cover made me think of one of my all time favorite envelopes from Jean. And it made me think of Johnny.

Mailarteeth - don't pick your nose, aka envelope from the dark side ahead - and gold

It's been a while since I've found any good teeth-related mail worth sending.

Envelope to Christophe.

Double-sided card inside. Thanks to Linda F for the scrap of dentist.

Christophe already sent me a response in one of his cleverly folded magazine pages.

Apparently I have sent 18 MailArTeeth pieces to him, so he awarded me a gold medal.

Insects part 2

There were several great envelopes left from the Christopher Morley calendar.

They went to the next few people in my reply to pile:

One for the host, Jean

Honi C

CJ

Pamela G

Rose H

And one to Hester where I folded the paper more like Eric's last week, as the image was too nice to cut into.

London Pub Collective

Mail Art Martha, MomKat (both of whom I already exchange mail art with), stripygoose, and Scott aka Positively Postal met up in a London Pub to create mail art earlier this year, and I was one of the lucky recipients (card arrived May 6).

Lots of stamps, birds, blue and yellow.

I wanted to create a linked set of mail art for them, hopefully by the time this post rolls around I will have created something and sent it out...

..mission accomplished! The imminent postage increase of May 31 was a good motivator. I created a set of four large envelopes from a promo poster for Brother Bear that Karen N sent me ages ago, a collective sending if you will. And the Send a Hello and Send a Smile stamps were perfect for this. I apologize for my photography skills - I could not get the stamps and envelopes in focus at the same time. And these guys were just a little bit too long to fit on the scanner without creasing them even more.

Inside everyone received a piece of hive mind. This is not quite how they ended up looking, as they were printed onto transparencies and glued to colored cardstock, but the final product doesn't scan well. Use your imagination :)

And a commemorative print on gold tissue paper.

Thanks so much for thinking of me, everyone.

Insects part 1

Jean and Jan ran an envelope exchange in May.

I had picked up a couple of cheap calendars in February for potential envelope making. This set is from a Christopher Morley calendar, and I splurged on the Insects and Spiders stamps to match. The back of the envelopes also turned out well, so I scanned those too.

To Florence

To Kate

To Jan

To Carroll

To Jack

And one to Eric, where I did something a little different in order to accommodate the four stamps needed for international mail.