All Blog Posts Tagged 'Heleen' (115)

It is always Banana Appreciation Day,

and with the Minion from Costa Rica, too!

Can one imagine the drawing time for the FABULOUS background on Heleen's banana cards?…

Never too late for International Banana Appreciation Day.  Amazing drawing & watercolor. 
Look at those shades.  Good enough to eat.

Thank you Heleen

Well, first the lovely watercolor painted envelope from Heleen de Vann, with portrait of Hannah:

see, even she has "TIME" ( barely) for mail art:…

a tile from Heleen....

will give it a good use /place!

thank you…

Besides her fun "minions" , Heleen sent this "Bird"..tweet, tweet

...an "odd shaped postcard" a la Artist In Seine style :-)

with some fun "circles": ORANGE…

Actually, these ALL arrived long before that first batch I blogged,

even the above from InSeiine was "hangin' around " back in April!

*check out the first batch that was waiting upon my return:…

Some fun "minions" stampings on an envelope from Heleen.

Great smiles on the postman's face when he delivered this, too!

"minions"...not onions?…

This is a postcard with the little Peeps from Cascadia ArtPost,

They are protesting, of course!

very postal:…

The experiment succeeded. Thanks Heleen de Vaan.

I was just about to send you an envelope, and could stick one of your stickers on the back. Will use the others for all kind of other directions. Thanks for the PR materials!…

The Greek Post ΕΛΤΑ carefully wrapped Heleen's damaged envelope,

but the contents arrived just fine, I think, Happy Hippo by Heleen on the front:…

What a fantastic hallmark: Heleen designs stunning postage stamps...postcard size!

and here with BLUE and  GREEK YOGURT!! "KATHAROS" = "Clean" and "Clear"  = Pure :-)…

Lovely envelope and "Sinderklaas" stamps! They smell wonderful!

And the other side of the envelope has "Santa TIME"!

It is a clever handmade envelope from recycled magazine page, see inner part:…

It's Banana Art! 

Very happy to see this arrive and not be lost-in-the-mail!

Fun rubber"banana" stamp, and yellow banana…

Inspired the day after 18 November which was interNational Banana appreciation day, Heleen put her pen to work and did her bit.   She took every banana she had in the house and started drawing one them.  After a while it occurred to her that it would be difficult to get these bananas…

Heleen says that there is no mail art inside, 

but the envelope is a work of art

Beautiful designs and colors,…

Circles like ...the rings of the onion? Where is the "missing onion"?

Well, that is what it says on this little package that arrived today from Heleen .

And I CAREFULLY opened the side , so as to keep the postage stamps…

received some sheets back from Heleen, so some new ones on the way....

Another wonderful illustration from Heleen.  The master of the ink pen, and goddess of the water colour.

Thank you Heleen, Very fun and you inspired me.  But I can't paint or draw…

Some things just don't fit on one blog:-)

Silky scarf/hankie with little ORANGE mice...

and a little ORANGE mouse (on my BLUE):…

Fantastic orange packet arrived n Greece,

along with an envelope with greetings too, lots of ORANGE from Heleen der Vaan!…