Platypus Mail Art

[Heleen de Vaan]

Since many years the Platypus is one of my most favourite animals. And every now and then a platypus reaches my mail box, all the way from Oz (and other countries).
Today I am happy to show you some of them.

Above the great amazing sweet Platypus, made thanks to Onions. Thank you Katerina!

Below the beautiful collage by Nicole Eippers:

And this Platypus collage I received from Laurel as a 'thank you' card for a postcrossing card I had sent her (of a hedgehog, another interesting animal, as is the echidna):

Feel free to add your Platypus, too!

And now I realize that I've never created a Platypus as mail art  (I've made 'usual' drawings and paintings but no postable ones so far :-).

So if there's anyone who would like to receive Platypus Mail Art from me, please let me know!

[Carina]

Hello Heleen, and thank you so much for posting and blogging! Platypus' (and echidnas) are the best! Looking forward to your drawing/add... xo

[Amy Irwen]

So cute!

[Heleen de Vaan]

Yay! Platypus from Finland!!

A lovely cute drawn loving one:

And a detailed one: 

And the Platypus' cousin, the Echidna:

Also posted there.

Thank you very  much, Carina!

[Heleen de Vaan]

Although the Echidna is not the Platypus, I consider them cousins, if not siblings, so I'am posting a brilliant postage stamp which showed up  on a wonderful collage by Tonipoet.

The rest of this collage, as well as the envelope and other mail art this Echidna arrived in/with, I scheduled to post this coming Friday on the Real Weird Animals blog (click to open). You can see this stamp there, then, too.

Thank you very much, Toni!

[Heleen de Vaan]

Yay! A New Beautiful Platypus arrived here in the Low Lands!

Thank you very much, Amy!!

[Heleen de Vaan]

Yay! A New Beautiful Platypus arrived here in the Low Lands!

Thank you very much, Amy!!

[Heleen de Vaan]

In the Netherlands we have the expression 'een gat in de lucht springen van blijdschap', which means 'to jump a hole in the air from happiness'. That's what I did when I received this mail art full of Platypus Postage Stamps from Vizma.

Reconsidering this expression I think I'd better jump into the opposite direction: jump a hole in the earth, deep enough to cross it and to go directly to downunder to join Vizma and her wonderful neighbour animals!

Thank you very much, Vizma!

[Heleen de Vaan]

And one for me :-)  Funny and cute, isn't it?

Bought at Etsy.com, created by Francesca who creates many great tiny felt things, check her site, Inspirational Gecko.

[Heleen de Vaan]

And one for Ryosuke Cohen:

[Heleen de Vaan]

Here you are :-)