June envelope exchange

Here are the wonderful June envelopes I received.

Colorful and fully loaded from Jean. I do regret not buying any of the 'From me to you' stamps. They looked so bland online, yet so good on envelopes.

From Lynne, a fun contrast of gothic with Star Trek. And a fantastic bee seal on the back that traveled perfectly through the mail.

Perfectly matched calligraphy and lace for this de la Renta stamp from Maggie.

The perfect summer scene from Pam.

And some patriotic stars and stripes from Alison.

Candy's letter

Candy sent out letters for letter writing month, and I was the lucky recipient of this stylish envelope and bonus matching notecard.

Forgetfulness...

...I forgot to blog this beauty Jean sent for the September exchange.

It scanned more silver, but it is actually gold. And another instance of the From Me to You stamp looking good.

August envelope exchange part 2

Sent to Elizabeth

In from Lance. Great freestyle lettering with nice shadowing.

Letter Writers Alliance

I like the mission of the Letter Writers Alliance, so finally joined. 

I added the LWA blog to my sidebar as well.

Philpott Lake

Diana found a stash of quite ugly postcards of Philpott Lake.

Sent in this great envelope, with instructions to alter and return.

Goodbye, ugly tree stump, hello, ugly green monster.

Sent back in envelope 660 - now this is what a lake should look like.

You should be able to see more of these altered postcards here.

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.

From Me to You, and Tim Gunn, too!

I didn't post this one Friday because there is enough of a clue on the envelope to give the game away.

This is envelope 677, and it went out to Honi C with the addition of one of her excellent faux stamps.

And in the meantime, Jean sent me this clever envelope, which the From Me to You stamp matches perfectly.

Inside was a flier for the Tim Gunn talk Jean attended last year.

I am sure Jean somehow knew I would not pass up the opportunity to use the white space in the name of mail art.

From Me to ....

Cathy very kindly included some From Me to You stamps, and a few of the related stickers, in her envelope received in the last exchange. I matched them with some of my hand made envelopes (bonus points for knowing what they are made from).

Envelope 658 sent to Cathy

Envelope 655 sent to Jean

Envelope 644 sent to Kathie

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Bonus link from the USPS Stamps website:

A master envelope letterer.

Jean and Jan's April exchange - received part 1

From Rehj. I *think* this was done on the computer - looks fantastic with the love ribbons stamp.

From Hester. This envelope is handmade from wallpaper - I love the Calder stamp, the asymmetry of  stamp placement and the vertical format.

From Me to You, from Cathy. I had skipped buying these stamps as I thought they weren't particularly inspiring - turns out all they needed was Cathy's artistic touch!

Janet sent me this fantastic cherry. Really beautiful colored pencil work. And this might be the first time I've received a water lilies stamp.

April was national letter writing month

And Candy decided to write a letter every day... and I think she wrote more than one on some days.

She sent her letter in an envelope made from her own paste papers - this thing is amazing, there's a lot more shine to it in real life.