America runs on Dunkin

For Eric's paper bag mail art call.

Two cool cats

A cat by Charley Harper, and the coolest of cats, Ray Charles, on a calendar page envelope sent to Fabienne.

It's in the trees...

Also from last year's October envelope exchange, this stunner from Kathie.

Charley and Ray

Envelope 271 to Hester.

Who is Eduardo Munez part 3

Envelope 490 off to the mysterious Mr Munez.

The deadline is March 1st  21st, so if you are planning on sending envelopes in from the US you've got about 2 weeks about a month left to get them in the mail. There are some great envelopes on the EM envelope blog. They are up to 50+ envelopes, and they'd like to receive 100 - so if you'd like to see your envelope in a film, step away from the computer and send one right now!

Do not open until January 1

A few mail artists at IUOMA had a mail art exchange in the Clock Lovers group with the intention of mail arriving close to December 31st.

Here are the envelopes I sent to the group:

I forgot to take pictures/scans of the art inside, so if recipients post them I'll blog them later.

Here's what arrived in time to open on NYE.

From MomKat. Love the Greek letters on the date stamp.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Charley Harper to Rehj

This might be Kathy's first homemade envelope...

...always fun to get homemade envelopes.

And this one had great insides, too.

Envelope exchange 2014: #270 to Cathy O

When I saw Cathy's name on the list I knew this envelope was for her.

Charley Harper's Snowy Egret.

Accompanied by Ray Charles.

And the back.

29 faces in september part III: envelopes

7/29: #380 to Adrienne

These people look like they're having fun.

I think this is the first appearance of the global ocean temperatures stamp on the blog. It's not my favorite stamp, however I think it looks great here.

Apparently the rest of the US likes it, as it has completely sold out, as has the 2013 global forever stamp, which I like more. So currently if you want a global stamp you have to buy last year's holiday wreath. Until late October when you can buy this year's holiday wreath.  (I really hope they do other designs and not just a new wreath each year).

The back.

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8/29: #98 to Karen

This is one of the 20-year-old envelopes.

Stamped

Addressed. The scanner acting up again - I kinda like this version. Plus I couldn't get it to scan correctly once the address label was on.

Scanner handling the reverse just fine.

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9/26: #103 to Hester

This is another one of the originals.

I like placing the poets stamps over other faces or eyes.

Addressed

I like the colors and patterns appearing on the back

29 faces in September part I: envelopes 369, 379 & 248

CJ is taking part in 29 faces in September. I realize that the point here is to draw the faces, either improving or starting your face-drawing skills, however I don't have the skill or the time to draw them...

...so I thought I'd do it with envelopes instead. I have a lot of envelopes in stock, and many of them have faces.

So, 29 envelopes with faces, 29 stamps with faces, and 29 more faces inside.

There will be an update every second day from today until the 30th.

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1/29: #369 to Jean

I hope Jean didn't keel over when she saw that I handwrote the address.

Here's what it would look like with the 70c butterfly stamp:

And the butterfly image:

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2/29: #379 to Christophe

Mailarteeth for the win (and another handwritten address - what's going on!)

Ah, you poor unsuspecting beauty...

Airmail poses a bit more of a challenge, but the vertical format lets me add Mr Lincoln

Time for your makeover.

I like the way both eyes are on the back.

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3/29: #248 to CJ

Mr Benedict Cumberbatch makes his envelope debut.

There can be only one choice: Johnny Cash on the lapel.

From the back you'd never know there was a person on the front.

Envelope 65

This is one of the oldest ones I have left, sent to Eric B.

Quite hard to decide what stamps to use on this unusual image. Black and white? Johnny Cash? In the end I opted to go with Ray Charles. 

Addressed:

And the back.

Smash in disguise

I'll let this one speak for itself.

Exchange 11 - Mr Charles, resplendent in orange

Cathy O sent this as part of the envelope exchange.

I think the Ray Charles stamp would brighten anyone's day - and he really looks good on this orange (hand made) envelope with the fun white dots. I also like Cathy's penmanship on my name - I have been trying to create a neat 'PL' logo, and I may have to steal the P and L from here and see what i can come up with. 

Just like the envelope I sent to Cathy, hers also made it through the system unscathed.

Not one of the envelopes 3

I picked out a birthday card for a friend, and it had this fantastic orange envelope. I chose to add this to the blog because I think the Ray Charles stamp looks great here. I like this stamp regardless, as it is such a happy image of Mr Charles.

Not one of the envelopes 2

Another Halloween-from-the-couch effort (with better stamps!).