Fun envelope from Melissa

Front...

...and back.

Eric Mondays part 17 - Vanilla Hot Chocolate

A vanilla chocolate bear as the 0 in 50, and a five cut from the same box.

Final Eduardo envelope

This is the last one... a mysterious 13th envelope.

I decided to use this idea for the April envelope exchange, too.

This style was inspired by this amazing calligraphic Jabberwocky poem.  Of course, mine was done on the computer.

Music

Envelope 597 to Rose

and envelope 682 to Jan.

Houses

Envelope 405 to Carroll

Envelope 601 to Gina

What is she staring at?

Heleen sent a postcard inside her amazing puffin mail. The idea was to complete the picture. As you all know, drawing is not my forte. So in the end I went with simple. And with something I'd already had success with.

Jon sent me this to complete.

I liked the address side a lot.

Have I mentioned before that I find add and return to be somewhat stressful? Fortunately I was stuck in a groove. So more rose-tipped tree-like vines from me.

Minimalist and more from Keith

Keith from IUOMA sent me this spontaneous and minimalist mail art.

Security envelope handmade envelope.

Inside was a single sheet of paper...

...and the other side.

My response:

And sent back in envelope 557.

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With the arrival of this next amazing envelope arrived it seems like his signature is turning security envelopes inside out.  And in this case, he created the most incredible underwater encounter. These images are precisely cut out and securely adhered - I would never have the patience or the skill.

And inside was the sheet, which is stitched back together, with Keith's new additions. The spider is outstanding.

The blog is so far ahead of real time now, that I can bring you the third installment.

This is what I did to the sheet.

And the envelope Keith sent is one of the most creative things I've received this year, so I was trying to come up with something a little extra special, when i noticed he had commented on the mail art book I sent to Erni. So two selected pages from Keith's trashpo book...

The dimensional picture.

And the random selection of stamps I used to cover the postage.

Vintage

Another Philatelic Catalog arrived featuring the vintage tulip stamp on the cover.

This one went to Julie S.

And another vintage rose, this one sent to Cathy O.

Marti's Love Stamps

Marti sent me several envelopes using the Garden of Love stamps.

This is what I sent her in return.