Beltane

Ok, how can I not post the Beltane stamp?

Yule

This was my Yule stamp in 2003. It starts a Wicca in America series including the holidays of the pagan wheel of the year. I have Yule and Beltane so far.

New Year's Greetings

Beverly Trump Dittberner sent this greeting on New Year's Eve.



Her letterpress card



and artistamps, a wonderful Venitian carving in a color series! Beautiful work, Bev! Thank you!

Outward Bound and More Letterpress from Adanaland

I sent this to Ruud Janssen on January 7 this year.






This was the second Adanaland mailing I received from Alan Brignull in 2003.





The gorgeous card Alan printed from blocks he found at a sale.

Air Mail Carving

I got the itch this week and carved an airmailart stamp. That's my favorite plane, the Lockheed Super Constellation. We have one here at the Downtown Airport that flies around the country doing air shows kept up by a bunch of retired TWA mechanics, flight attendants and crewmembers.

Recent Receipts

Hi all in the Mail Art Realms! Back from the land of Computer Issues for a brief visit and check-in. I've gotten some lovely works in the last few weeks and here are a couple of them: From Princess Esme of Albanlea and Pandora Post is this Angel artistamp for the holidays.





And from Alan Brignull of Adanaland is this lovely letterpress card with a map segment and Stevenson quote! Nicely done and received! Thank you!

More Artistamps

Lezbag sent me this one in July, 2004. Lovely photographs!



Here's the insert with a souvenir block tabbed in.



Maggie Mize's edition for the Beloved Toys swap on the HOME list.



Lovely pencil drawings!



And one of my favorite artistamp issues, Omm Post's Breast Cancer issues.



From 2003.

Oops!

So this is Bill's cover, not the other one.

Artistamps, New and Old

This is one of Bill Porter's envelopes covered with his Nudes In Postal Art stamps.



Here's the reverse.



From the Arky of Toast, I received this June 12, 2004 from the Choreographer's swap.



The stamps he included.



And a close-up of one.



This was from Bev Trump-Dittberner comemorating her apprenticeship on a Heidelberg Windmill press. A most lovely stamp!



A sample of the print. Letterpress is really exceptional in it's texture.



Another older piece from 2003 from Marvin Johnson, aka Bufoman.



He lined the vellum envelope with this printed vellum insert.



and mounted his souvenir sheet on cardstock.

Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead is one of my favorite artistamp swaps and I missed it this year. I just did. Here is Ailurophilia's issue.



The reverse.



Here is bufoman's.



He always make such a great presentation card.

Recent Receipts

This is from a Spanish Mail Artist, J.M. Calleja. My thanks!



J.M. sent these two postcards.



This is the book from Kerrin Conrad's Whodunnit Mystery Swap on Carving Consortium. It is a well-done book with many great carvings and illustrations! That's a hypodermic pen on the cover, a nice little bonus!



This is from Eric Langolff of France. Eric received one of my mini Add-n-Pass books and sent me his and some art. Thanks, Eric!



Here is the cover of the book he sent.

and the back of it.

The interior is an A4 sheet folded and pasted into the covers. A nice variation of the one I sent.



He also included a postcard of his art. Nice painting!



I received these from Eric on September 9, 2004.
And his note to me.



On July 7, 2004, Susanna Ortlepp sent me this great stamped piece commemorating the Year of the Rubber Ducky.



Here's the back with a clever folded place for a souvenir stamp.



This is one of my new stickers to put on mail art.



And a jazzed-up version.