The Year of the Tiger

The U.S. Postal Service has come up with a great commemorative stamp for the lunar new year. The Year of the Tiger is my favorite one (guess why).  I thought the best way to celebrate was with some mail art.  After making some hand-carved rubber stamps, these postcards are on their way around the world.

Franked, Stamped and Stamped

I had a stack of old, unused franked postcards from the USPS.   You can still purchase these, but nowadays they are pre-stamped with forever postage.  After rubber stamping these, I then needed to add additional postage from my box of unused, vintage postage stamps

Last Call for Mail for 2021

A trip to the post office after Christmas found my box crammed with cats, dogs (including an altered Calder postcard) and some various characters in various altered states — including the latest movable piece from Kathy Barnett.  Below is a list of the artists shown in this batch:

1. Sally Wassink – California 
2. Gregg Biggs – Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera – California
3. Susanna Lakner – Germany 
4. Fleur Helsingor – California
5. Bettina Pauly – California 
6. Eugenie Marek – California
7. James Cline – California
8. Kathy Barnett – Missouri
9. Skooter Fein – California 
10. Bonniediva – Illinois 
11. Meral Agar – Turkey 
12. Margarete Miller – California 
13. Jean-Philippe Gilliot – Belgium 

December Mail Art

It is that time of the year and I have started receiving some holiday mail art — including a beautiful hand-painted card from Margo Hill.   After sending out my brain series I am starting to see brains in the mail back to me (I love when things like that happen).   And if you wondered if an overside playing card can be tuned into a postcard, well, the answer is yes!  Below is a list of the artists shown in this posting: 

1. Deble Faulkner – California 
2. Dori Singh – California 
3. Jennie Hinchcliff – California
4. Margo Hill – California
5. Jon Foster – North Carolina 
6. Wabi Sabi Sews – California
7. Jerome Jacobs – California
8. William Mellott – Taiwan 
9. Fleur Helsingor – California
10. Debra Mulnick – Idaho
11. Maria Quiroga – Argentina 

Celebrate the Rain

My holiday-themed card/mail art is usually unconventional, and this year is no exception.   But what better thing to celebrate in California than with a good wet winter.  So far, we are well on track.  I spent a rainy weekend indoors carving rubber stamps and printing these handmade postcards.   Happy Holidays!

What Time is Your Flight?

 A new commissioned piece for a couple of travel buffs who are collectors of airline ephemera.  They spared some of their old airline timetables and allowed me to cut them up to create this collage.  While I have a long history of travel-themed art and this is one of my familiar quilt-inspired patterns — this is my first time working with schedules and timetables.

A Fall Cornucopia of Mail Art

Postcards, artists stamps, glitter, rubber stamping, clever envelopes, mystery mail, etc.  It has been a little of everything this Fall.   Here is a list of the artists shown in this posting: 

1. Heather Ferguson – California
2. Fleur Helsingor – California
3. Sarah Wildfang – California 
4. Katerina Nikoltsou – Greece
5. Margarete Miller – California 
6. Esther Kwan – California
7. Michel – Oregon
8. Kathy Barnett – Missouri
9. Barbara Stasiowski – California 
10. Jenny Soup – Oregon 
11. The Sticker Dude – New York 
12. Gregg Biggs – Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera – California