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Received from Robert Gregory

A carefully composed envelope with subtle colors and artful design elements landed in my box yesterday. The black heritage stamps for Black History Month are the bomb 💣😺

Added by Penelope Timm on February 29, 2024 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Received from RANI GOEL-a booklet carefully prepared and wrapped

https://share.icloud.com/photos/016svNnAUqfXrgX5jeq6UaPsw

WATCH THE VIDEO for the full Mail Art experience at the link ⬆️ above…

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Added by Penelope Timm on February 24, 2024 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Received Art from Karen Champlin today!

1Very cool envelope with uncancelled stamps. Love the California stamp! 2 I scored ATCs and plenty of ephemera…Subtle color palettes 🎨. Thank you!…

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Added by Penelope Timm on February 23, 2024 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Wintery Postcard received from Gregory Scolieri. Thank you 😊

2 The bonus is the address side. It has very cool older uncancelled holiday stamps and hand drawn graphics!…

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Added by Penelope Timm on February 22, 2024 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Mail art made it to Japan!

Added by Penelope Timm on February 19, 2024 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Mail art from ML Stephen’s, in Oregon. Thank you.

Added by Penelope Timm on February 8, 2024 at 8:30pm — No Comments

More mail art received from Coco Muchmore. Thank you (awesome envelope)

Added by Penelope Timm on February 7, 2024 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Received mail art yesterday from Karen Champlin and ephemera. Thank you!

Added by Penelope Timm on February 7, 2024 at 4:55pm — No Comments

Postcard from Paint Princess

Added by Penelope Timm on February 7, 2024 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Mail art received from Seth Levanthal of Minnesota

A nice, painterly type envelope…with chalk or graphite text

2 Included are nice photos from the Walker Art Museum. ( Eastern Bloc Art and others.)…

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Added by Penelope Timm on February 1, 2024 at 1:59am — 1 Comment

Received Mail art from France!

Thank you Richard Baudet. Your calligraphy found its way to my place.

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Added by Penelope Timm on January 27, 2024 at 5:11pm — 1 Comment

Mail art from Robert Gregory

Texture on the envelope! Thank you so much. And a penned letter by fountain pen-very nice cursive handwriting.

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Added by Penelope Timm on January 27, 2024 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Msil art from Kiki in Japan

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Added by Penelope Timm on January 24, 2024 at 6:34pm — 2 Comments

Custom Stamps?

My sister sent me this link for custom stamps. Seems rather “spendy”.

https://theportlandstampcompany.com/gallery/

if anyone would care to share their process for making custom stamps it would be greatly appreciated!

Added by Penelope Timm on January 22, 2024 at 5:39pm — No Comments

Outgoing Mail

This guy helped me with my Return to Sender Issue. Vase is rubber stamped and embossed, the rest are stickers and pen and ink.

Added by Penelope Timm on January 19, 2024 at 8:03pm — No Comments

Outgoing Envelope Art to Howard McCalebb

Theme is coffee

Added by Penelope Timm on January 13, 2024 at 6:37pm — No Comments

Received Much MailArt from Coco Muchmore

Thank you for the colorful stamps and more! It was a bright spot in a dreary and cold California day.

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Added by Penelope Timm on January 13, 2024 at 4:31pm — No Comments

Mail art from Karen Champlin arrived today

Thank you Karen. I will use your paper goodies in the next thing I make.

Added by Penelope Timm on January 9, 2024 at 4:09am — No Comments

Christmas Tidings

Every year I get a hand sketched Christmas card from my girlfriend. It is a folded postcard.

Added by Penelope Timm on January 3, 2024 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Making authentic looking edges on your custom stamps

Someone asked about making sheets of stamps with perforations. One person suggested using a sewing machine to punch the holes. I saw these Fiskars scissors on Ebay! The blue ones are even named “stamp”!

Added by Penelope Timm on December 31, 2023 at 4:09am — 5 Comments

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