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Mysterious beauty of Nippon...from Marie Wintzer

Delicate Japanese Spring ...butterfly and dark photo...was in my mailbox !

Wonderfully, deep, mysterious card from Marie...her photo?…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 10, 2014 at 1:17pm — 3 Comments

Tape Art from Jon Foster in "Salem NEW", Winston-Salem :-)

Jon sends the mosr fascinating tape transfers and mail art. Full card:

Here are some vintage images, nice overlays...colors blend in the transfer technique:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 10, 2014 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Good to see mail art from Thom Courcelle, yay!

This happy BLUE dragon arrived in Greece from Thom!

Sure is good to see that backward stamping :-) It's been a while, and we were getting worried.

Nice fun stampings there! And lots of good things inside the envelope:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 3, 2014 at 3:11pm — 1 Comment

WIPE No.80 arrives in Greece!

Always fun to see what type of toilet tissues and stampings will be found inside.

That's the list of the contributors to this Edition No. 80.

And take a look at a few of the pages:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 3, 2014 at 2:57pm — 2 Comments

Another rare sighting: mail art from the Crackerjack Kid! Yay!

Full of fun surprises 'twas the mailbox yesterday! It's FLUX....(US) :-)

...and it is "an original piece of mail art " . It arrived from the famous Crackerjack Kid!

Full of goodies and mail art omens:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 2, 2014 at 2:45pm — 4 Comments

From Carlos Botana in Spain

Rarely see Carlos in my mail box, but when he sends...he sends a beauty!

Gold swiiiish!

This very minimal gold and fabric card arrived in Greece yesterday, and

I am still carefully admiring it.

Mucho gracias,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 2, 2014 at 2:34pm — No Comments

Vintage from Sigean...Val sends euro millions to Greece

Very interesting card arrived in the mail yesterday...

Some old, very old "calculations" and a new view, too: lottery?

On the other side, was this huge mysterious, circular form...

what can it be? "How to win euro…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 2, 2014 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Rock 'n Roll for Edmund...fantastic surprise from Hamburg!

Edmund loved the guitar that Edmund in Hamburg got...

Sooooo, The Haptic Werewolf sent Edmund GR TWO (2) guitars!

This beauty that is RED... a super rock 'n roll super "inflated" guitar (BIG!)

AND…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 1, 2014 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

Bifidus Jones sighting...yay!

Not very often that we see mail art from Bifidus,

but here is a fantastic card that was in my mailbox!

However, there is no postage date cancellation...and it does say "Hairy, Spiny"..."Happy New Year"!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 30, 2014 at 6:55pm — 8 Comments

From the Land of Topkapi Saray...collage from Dorina in Istanbul

Topkapi Saray is the Palalce of the Sultans in old Istanbul, here on beautiful Turkish postage stamps.

Dorina Harangus sent a wonderful collage card, with BLUE, and nature, and items "floating":…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 29, 2014 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

Spring from Gin in Tennessee

Butterflies on the envelope...must be Spring!

(maybe the Christmas wreath postage stamp says that some places still have snow?)

Well, Gin sent a Spring-filled envelope:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 29, 2014 at 5:49pm — 1 Comment

Alicia Starr sends a touch-of-BLUE

This double-size postcard arrived in Greece from Alicia ( half A4 size)

Blue, Blue figure standing in the center and beautifully textured tape transfer!

Wonderful technique. "Liking it very much!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 29, 2014 at 5:34pm — 1 Comment

Surprise Tiny Town Redux from Mim!

An altered-altered card of Mim's "Tiny Town" series arrived in Greece.

And Edmund Hippo is delighted to see it...we thought the series had ended,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 28, 2014 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Gold and BLUE from Maria-Teresa in Padua

Wonderfully richly painted with blue strokes and white, then

a touch of gold! 'Liking this very, very much!

Also, a stunning hand-made envelope with recycled paper…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 28, 2014 at 3:41pm — No Comments

Angelical BLUE from Cristina Blank of 5Blanks :-)

Beautiful BLUE from Cristina arrived in Greece.

Angels wings and shopping cart...weeeee!

Also a tiny silver angel, too:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 28, 2014 at 3:35pm — 3 Comments

Op-Art on a card from Thomas Brown

Very direct, very optic! 9 stampings from Bhomas Trown!

This is to : Naterina Kikoltsou! hahaha!

Minimal brown from Brown!

Thank…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 28, 2014 at 3:26pm — 3 Comments

Monkey business from Rebecca

We are still celebrating Banana Day! why not!

Let's enjoy it all year long. That is a "banana", or a "banana leaf" ,the monkeys have , yes Rebecca?

Well, a very fun card and made me smile today.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 28, 2014 at 3:20pm — No Comments

Clever handmade envelope from Niklas Heed (and from Heleen)

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…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 25, 2014 at 2:30pm — 7 Comments

For Greece: It's all in the writing...from Richard Baudet

What a beautiful envelope! Always a joy to receive mail art from Richard:

Even my postman spends time admiring the calligraphy...and the lovely collage.

There is a "snake" postage stamp...and a "snake" from my camera, too…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 25, 2014 at 2:22pm — 2 Comments

"Get Real" biomorphic from Jenny SOUP!

Yes, this was in the mailbox today, a small brown cardboard box:

with a enlarge artistamp from ARTSTAMP DK, and gold leaf specks,

it is created into an exterior collage Jenny Soup and she adds a nice map fragment too:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 24, 2014 at 6:01pm — No Comments

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