April 2016 Blog Posts (226)

A nifty card that arrived recently from PJM. I especially like the cut up background.



A cool bird card that arrived recently from Sheri…

What a great theme put into stamp form.  There must be some country somewhere in the world that would want to publish them.  Well except for the UK who would want…

I do, and so does Katlynn Moulton:

Fun postcard arrived in Greece,

and the Greek postman does not know what…

Kids mailart arrived "naked"...

no envelope needed for this almost-A4 art.

A few corners were torn a bit, but all arrived safely.…

UP Up and away.  Tofu takes to the sky to produce his landscape series.  Inspired by those dreams of flying or has he taken up skydiving?…

Colour Outside the Line

This arrived in my mailbox this past weekend. It was tied with baker's twine and sealed with coppery sealing wax. Separate panels are hinged along one edge to flip open as pages of a book. Completely amazing and so exciting to receive from someone unknown to me until that moment. After a little investigation, I discovered she is part of the PAINTING+DRAWING=MAIL ART group (which I have now joined). Part of their mission is to find and connect mail artists who use painting and drawing in…

Happy 100 for DADA,

from the super DHARMADADA : Erni in Hamburg,

a fun collage card:…

What have I done?  I feel that I turned Heleen into an Extremist Mail Artist.  Where have all those wonderful illustrations gone?  Have they been wiped out by Barcodes?  However it is amazing that this piece arrived as is from Holland to Paris. (Yes, without an…

I recently signed up with the Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) group.  I put down my address and a list of wishes of things I might like to see show up in my mailbox.  After about a week,  my upbringing kicked in.  I could hear my mother telling me I could only ask for one thing,  or let the other kids go first and so on.  My mother was an awesomely generous person.  She would help anyone out.  She would give you her last dollar.  She taught that to me and for years I have practiced generosity…

Poetry and stunning collage from Chris - thank you very much.…

Special mail art arrived from San Fran,

Jennie is well know for her mail art publications,

and here is some "perforated" RED business too:…

She is a beauty, and a beauty of a torn-collage, too!

Flip side:

How long to collect so many fruit stickers? Very healthy!

I am liking the vintage accountant's handmade envelope, too:…

It's a Big Top envelope from Kathy

who has a "Circus-Carnival" mail art project.

Fun "heavy weight" who moves well at the joints :-)…

cool card....I gave it a title "Coding" since that is what this reminds me of...

very interesting that is why I love it...thank you Jan *!*

Mail art by IUOMA member E – Ambassador of Utopia (Guivry, France)

April 25, 2016 - The great and mysterious French mail artist E – Ambassador of Utopia is again active in the Eternal Network and at the IUOMA after a long…

But EVERY DAY can be Banana Day :-)

A brown banana from Linda...(very healthy with lots of detoxins )and words of wisdom.

Aha, 100 Years of DADA stamp by Keith Chambers here, too:…

Banana mail art delivery today...YAY!

and here comes Banana Mail Art from TiAr, with beautifully painted TIME :-)

Well, anytime is banana time! (Still waiting for Artist in Seine )

Lovely writing too on flip side for…

The Batman circle of Life. From Green to Black.…