Here are the fab envelopes I received in April. There's a lot of green... must be spring.
From Cathy. I love how the colors match the flowers on the stamp.
From Jean. I'm loving the draw out letters here. And the color matched stamps.
From Jeanae. Great calligraphy. And I always have to think twice when typing your name :)
From Hester. Great artistamp, insect and Oscar stamps.
From Kathie. Love the WPA Posters stamp here, hiding in the bushes on this John Rush painting.
From Smash. I never thought I'd receive this stamp myself - thanks so much!
S is also for stamps. Not every mail artist cares about the postage stamps - for many they just serve the purpose of getting the art from A to B through the postal system.
Since I got back into mail art I do try and think of creative ways to use postage stamps to enhance the mail art by theme, color, and sometimes even number.
The planets of your solar system set issued by the post office last year are very nicely done, and have afforded me the opportunity to make some fun envelopes.
Using old wall calendar pages to make the envelopes, here are the exchange envelopes I sent out for April.
Do you have a favorite stamp?
And if you're wondering why this post is titled Solar System (II), you can see my first Solar System blog post here.
I used all of the planets stamps on another piece of mail art here.
(PS: I have a bonus letter S that will show up on the blog tomorrow if you feel like checking back in.)
