Today is the 6th World Day of Faux Stamp Artists - 6ème Journée Mondiale du Faux Timbre d'Artiste

Every year for the last 6 years, Tony M, of Post Nomade, has been able to get La Poste, the French postal service, to allow artistamps or faux stamps to be used for one day as real postage. The mail has to go to a specific address. I have taken part for the last few years, and usually mail my envelope to Tony for him to post in France for me.

My stamps.

Real and faux stamps on the big envelope to Tony.

Smaller envelope for the special day.

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Envelope 89

Time to start catching up on responding to people who have sent me mail art.

Envelope 89, featuring Lady Liberty a couple of years prior to the US hosting the World Cup in '94, goes to Michelle W, who last sent me the popular Paisley envelope.

Stamped with herself (although isn't there a story about the stamp image being from Vegas?)

And addressed with a couple of soccer balls in place of the zeroes in the zip. Let's see what the post office scanners make of that.

At first I didn't pay attention to the 'liner' as it didn't have an eye-catching image. On second glance it has a sweet mini-story as intro to a, presumably, longer article. The hedgehog part cracked me up.

And finally, the back.