TAM and Ruud Mail

[Heleen de Vaan]

Great stamped envelope and add-and-pass-on-printed-matter from Ruud!

I always wonder how Ruud succeeds in printing his stamps so well: you can see that all stamps are colouring completely!. While mine almost always leave some white (and when I try to solve it by using more  ink, there appear extra spots :-) ) !

Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Ruud!

[Heleen de Vaan]

Is it a person, divided by a blue line?
Is it a twins standing in front of each other?

... It's large envelope, painted with acrylic paint by Ruud Janssen, which brightened my mailbox!
Note the great 'ex libris' stamp by Mail Art Martha, and all other IUOMA 'goodies' on the outside.
And on the inside also nice stuff: more mail art, artistamps by Antonio Moreno Garrido, and a really interesting couple of Bunnies (do I finally see it right: do these Bunnies have three ears instead of two?!?). 
I will have to find out what to do with them. Most of them seem to be a little shy in their new house...

Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Ruud!

[Heleen de Vaan]

Received already more than 2 weeks ago (so in time for Christmas!), but just now I had the time and rest to scan and publish it here.

Thank you very much, Ruud!

Great Reindeer, too :-)  By the way, can I send Rudolphs to you for your 'Ruud-findings' collection, too?

[Heleen de Vaan]

Thank you very much, Ruud!!

[Ruud Janssen]

lovely photo of the P.O. Box!

[Heleen de Vaan]

Mail from Ruud in my P.O.Box!

All remembering Rain Rien Nevermind, and all others we're missing here on earth.

[I also love the addition by the Mail Company: 'Frankering gecontroleerd' (hardly readable, upside down through the address) = postage controlled :-) ]

Hartelijk dank - thank you so much - Ruud!

[Eraser Heed]

Thanks Heleen! It is also part of Brain cell no 869, I did a couple of imprints before sending it to TAM. Glad you have used it Ruud!

[Ruud Janssen]

yes, a lovely gift from Eraser Heed for the TAM Rubber stamp archive. As usual, all donated rubber stamps are printed on envelopes that are used to send out new sheets. That is how it works....

[Heleen de Vaan]

Thank you, Niklas!

I first thought this sad looking man was English and might be Ian Curtis, even though he didn't look completely like Curtis. I didn't know Claude Laydu so far, and now see it's clearly him!

Did you carve this eraser stamp? Great job!

[Eraser Heed]

That is Claude Laydu, acting in one of Robert Bresson's films.

[Heleen de Vaan]

Another great sTAMped envelope from Ruud! (who is that man I'm seeing for the second time in the top left corner??).

And a certificate of receipt - and two collage stamp sheets (one of them pictured here above)!
I'll pass them on soon.

Thank you very much, Ruud!