Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)'s Blog Posts Tagged 'Heleen' (83)

At the stroke of midnight... No hands barred?

Ancient Roman on the watch :-) with beautiful BLUE!

Imagine this in 3715 ...wow.

Wonderful "time" on envelope:…

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?…

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

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

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 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…

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…

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!…

Heleen also takes a page from a magazine and cretaes an envelope with-a-story.

I carefully slice it all the way open to unfold the Greek Island of Chios

Yes...that's a Greek beach :-)…

This unusual envelope arrived safely to my mailbox

...someone at Hellas Post was careful to see which address this was to go to!

Brain Cell working!

Heleen de Vaan made it and sent it to Niklas who in turn sent it to me, and I…

Edmund Hippo is going bananas, Heleen! This is fantastic !We spy Haptic Werewolf!

..and lots and lots of great BANANAS! 'Love those stampings!…

World Banana Day was Feb. 21, and the Banana Band had a great mail art exchange.

Some "Bananas" arriving in Greece today:

From Jen, who organized this year's mailing.

Nice "PRIDE" rainbow for the bananas of all…

This is onion art super nice! Smack-Good-Flavor perhaps?

Heleen added some cheese (and a laughing cow, see?)

And look at the fun Dutch postage stamps:…