I suppose it's a stretch to call this "mail art".........
Last fall I went to my first stamp show. There were all sorts of interesting stamps, and lots of them weren't all that expensive. (I am sure there were plenty that were expensive, but I didn't look at those.....)
My favorite vendor had big bins of uncancelled US stamps. At face value, so any I don't use in art projects can be used as ... postage!
I had fun picking out lots of "free" (since they could be used as postage and I'd be buying stamps for postange anyway!) stamps that were interesting to me for one reason or another.
This is the first time I used any of them.
I enjoy watching the Olympics, and it is possible that we will know someone who goes to swim for the USA. One of my daughter's high school swim team "sisters" was a member of the 2004 Olympic team, and several other members of that high school team will also swim in this year's Olympic trials.
It's even more fun to watch the Games when someone you know is on the team!
Good luck at the trials Kara Lynn, Melissa, Margaret, Lizzie, T.! Swim fast!
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3 comments:
Not at all a stretch to call stamps 'mail art'!
That is exactly what stamps are.
It is an honor to be asked to produce the artwork for a stamp.
I love to buy cool stamps and send them to myself on SASE.
I would have been rendered silly to have received that envelope!
I guess I meant what I did with it, rather than the art on the stamps. Perhaps such an envelope is an art gallery, which, I suppose, is an art gestalt in itself.....
:-)
I did wish, looking at that white white envelope in the pic, that I had used some "aging" ink around the edges, just to give the envelope itself some character....
Let me know your address and I'll send you something. I bought LOTS of stamps........... :-)
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Ooops! I misread your meaning.
You did then, indeed, make an art gallery!
I have been saving cancelled stamps and postmarks for about 30 years now.
I don't "do" anything with them, I just save them.
I can't bear to put a stamp of any distiction in the shredder!
OK. I'm officially nuts...
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