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Comment by Artstamp.dk on May 31, 2014 at 12:14pm

Wow, great idea

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 18, 2014 at 3:03pm

Merci, I have a great book called 'Timeless Classic : The evolution of a modern icon", by Douglas N Muir. It is all about Our Arnold. It make a s good read, if you can get hold of it.

Suggestion? Mix the Machin image that appears on Commonwealth stamps with Our Arnie"s British one?

Comment by TangleCrafts on March 18, 2014 at 11:58am

I have lots of Wildings that I have not yet experimented with, but I'm afraid I'm a Machin girl, at heart.  Although I do think your chess board Green Kings & Red Queens is especially effective, and the stamp sudoku is a clever idea. :)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 18, 2014 at 11:44am

Bonjour!

I'm not too fussed about alignment. I just enjoy myself cutting and pasting.

If you can get hold of any Wilding stamps, they provide great possibilities. For example, you can swap over the middles of different value stamps that share the same design.

This one is called' Wilding's Rainbow'

Here's a couple of othert of my Machin ones.

This is called "Don't forget the Postcode".

And this is called 'Green Kings and Red Queens' (with real 1d Reds!):

Here's another, called 'Stamp Sudoku':And back to Machins, this one is titled," The 136 different Machin decimals stamps - from 1/2p to £5 - that I had on 25/i/2010. (There are many, many more, but I didn't have them)” WILL YOU STOP SHOWING OFF, VAL! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT TANGLECRAFT'S ART, NOT, REPEAT NOT, YOURS.

Sorry

Comment by TangleCrafts on March 18, 2014 at 5:58am

Yours look great!  I must confess I've not yet attempted either vertical halving or diagonal quartering as I think the alignment will be much harder to keep consistent/even... 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 18, 2014 at 4:54am

Very clever!

I tried something like this a while back. It's called 'Machin: halved & quartered':

Comment by Eva (Mail Adventures) on March 15, 2014 at 4:58pm

Very good work, wow!

Comment by TangleCrafts on March 11, 2014 at 7:36am

Ha ha! - well, a little misalignment on behalf of all concerned (definitely myself included!) still creates a pleasing result overall... :)

Comment by Alan Brignull on March 10, 2014 at 10:13pm

Yes, you're right. You've aligned the images and the perforations don't always match exactly at the corners. So a testament to your scalpel skills, rather.

Comment by TangleCrafts on March 10, 2014 at 8:30am

I agree it's pretty awesome that the design of the stamps allows me to play like this, but the alignment across the years (or in fact even within batches of same stamp) isn't always perfectly in synch.  If you look closer above, you'll see the poor queen is sticking her neck out & pulling it in again, depending on the combinations.  Sometimes it's my own misalignment of the 2 stamp portions at fault, but sometimes it's just that the positioning does vary slightly, from stamp to stamp.  All good fun, though! :)

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