Envelopes

a sample of a two-set that I made for a project by Vittore Baroni in Italy some years ago.....

Yes, indeedy...Ruud's painted envelopes received in Greece, some with FluXusWord:

Most recent from Ruud:

Then there are the complete works-of-art collage envelopes from the Haptic Werewolf...Erni in Hamburg:

The following envelope has a funny story. I received a note from the Dutch post company, who said I had to pay € 1,08, because a received piece of mail was said to have only one stamp instead of the necessary three stamps.

I was curious to know which mail they meant, so I looked it up via the added "Portincidentnummer" ('postage incident number'). And to my surprise I saw this:

(In which they mixed the sender (= afzender) and the receiver (= geadresseerde), but that's an other story).
It was a large envelope from Ruud Janssen, which was delivered a few days before. With enough postage on it!

But the stamps were camouflaged among the colourful painting.
So I wrote a polite letter to the post company to tell that I thought they had made a mistake. Which costed me (because of the weight, a print-screen of that web page and a scanned printed image of the envelope in addition) two stamps :-)
 
And I received a letter, full of apologies! So due to their mistake I received some more mail.
I hope that the postal worker who had checked the postage won't be fired, because I really think it hard to find the stamps. Can you see them?

Received an envelope full of letters. Which I had to blog:

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/from-heleen-de-vaan

Ruud, looking at these painted envelopes of yours just makes me happy.

Envelopes!

Guido has sent his "Faces" books in full painted envelopes with images on the flip sides.

Here are 9 of his ink and paint envelopes:

And this one from Guido is a bit longer than the usual 12x16 cm ones:

Marie Wintzer in Japan made envelopes from magazine and ad pages, I cut them open carefully to view the entire design:

Another Marie Wintzer envelope:

Champion of rubber stamping on envelopes: Vizma!

I got this one this week and I love it. It's from Angie Cope

Full painted envelopes from Guido Vermeulen.

Very colourful envelopes from Mariana Serban for the mail art project "A wish for Greece"

 Rudd, I also like both and I usually send a card in an envelope too protect the work on the card. And most of the time the envelopes received are just as creative and interesting as the card itself.

Thanks Dimitra for starting this group. Here is a nice envelope from Claudia Garcia.

Another piece from Kris Naylor who has not been active recently here on IUOMA.

Mail art from "E"- 2013.

btw, when folks put up envelopes they have received, it would be GREAT if they credited the sender. %_^ (I keep wanting to know who did what!) Thanks!

I LOOOOVE getting mail from Marie! The insides are always spectacular - of course!, but her envelopes are great too!

There are a lot of fantastic envelopes!!!! Congratulations for all!!!!!

Interesting idea Dimitra!!!! Thanksss!!!!!

This envelope from Dimitra!!!! Fantastic!!!!

Envelopes by Niklas Heed in Sweden have art-on-the-outside,

like the Sleeping postman we saw earlier. and here is another:

Always colorful envelopes from Janine Weiss:

Relief art details on envelope from Prairie Kittin:

some typical Ray Johnson letters......

Seldom can i send my mail art as a postcard, to get safely through the Greek Post, I use an envelope, a light-weight air mail "ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ",

Greek blue and white envelope, as you know :-)

From Cheryl Penn in South Africa:

Also from Cheryl Penn: