My Missive Attack

Creative Correspondents: Helloooo, Correspondents!

planetsforthepeople — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:04:50 -0600

Creative Correspondents: Helloooo, Correspondents!: creativecorrespondents: Long time no see, eh?...

The Art of the Handwritten Letter

planetsforthepeople — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:03:06 -0500

creativecorrespondents: Here’s the final article in my 3 part series, featuring an interview with...

missthundercat: mail art 365-227 on Flickr. Via Flickr: sent to...

planetsforthepeople — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:13:50 -0500

missthundercat:

mail art 365-227 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
sent to lisa in usa
InstaPrint Hand Printed postcard
from my hand carved stamp

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planetsforthepeople — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:57:18 -0500

put it on paper: arts and letters

planetsforthepeople — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:58:42 -0500

put it on paper: arts and letters: creativecorrespondents: More crafty people spreading the word...

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planetsforthepeople — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:53:34 -0500

Now that you have a pen pal, how do you get started?

planetsforthepeople — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:25:46 -0500

creativecorrespondents: For basics on letter safety and what to write, check out the second...

prezzies from my scottish pen pal, karen - chocolate with sea...

planetsforthepeople — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:36:00 -0500

prezzies from my scottish pen pal, karen - chocolate with sea salt, pine nuts & caramel, laceweight mohair/silk yarn, postcards, a letter, a photo of her baby wearing the sweater that i knit for her, and a length of Harris Tweed fabric. awesome!

theworldinpaper: oops, here you go more views on the fabric...

planetsforthepeople — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:49:10 -0500

theworldinpaper:

oops, here you go more views on the fabric stamp :)

it’s a VERY thick one and very expensive for brazilian standarts, at least :P

the folk art stamps are some of my favorites.

planetsforthepeople — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 08:53:18 -0500

the folk art stamps are some of my favorites.

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planetsforthepeople — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:54:12 -0500

papercutsandlemonade: zetti moon faces (by hahawtf) Oh hay...

planetsforthepeople — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:58:20 -0500

papercutsandlemonade:

zetti moon faces (by hahawtf)

Oh hay thar, Tumblr! I have slacked in my updating here, but not in my art making. I am offering you peek at my first Zetti-style ATC’s, made for a swap.

I don’t know what took me so long to give this style a go. It’s right up my alley: all bright colors and doodles and randomness. I really like the way these two turned out and have got some more percolating on my art table as I type this.

Yeah, so I ended my self-imposed Swap-bot exile and am happier now to be back. I’ve set myself a few “rules” to follow so I don’t burn out again. I’ll give you a hint what one of them is: it starts with “Fuck” and ends with “the haters.”

taroillustration: Mail Art to Switzerland- Another one of my...

planetsforthepeople — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:55:12 -0500

taroillustration:

Mail Art to Switzerland-

Another one of my old prints I thought I’d place on envelope. I like the angry green ink circling the post code with an arrow pointing to the circle.

theworldinpaper: THIS WEEK’S ENVELOPE is the sweetest thing. A...

planetsforthepeople — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:00:13 -0500

theworldinpaper:

THIS WEEK’S ENVELOPE

is the sweetest thing. A FDC or first day cover (envelope) coming of course from Daniël’s collection, from Nijntje, also known as Miffy. Nijntje comes from Konijntje (= bunny) and it is a very famous character from children’s illustrator Dick Bruna, from the Netherlands. In fact, Nijntje is so loved in the Netherlands it has become some kind of mascot for the country. Let’s all hope one day the Olympics take place in the Netherlands and Nijntje is used as the official mascot. It’ll be my happiest time! I love him! :)

One day I wanna have that whole sheet of stamps.

Twice :D <3

- Anaclara

goodmailday: For $5 USD, you can commemorate the first message...

planetsforthepeople — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:00:08 -0500

goodmailday:

For $5 USD, you can commemorate the first message sent over ARPANET (the pre-Internet internet, for the unsure). Trail riders and packhorses will travel from Menlo Park to downtown San Jose, California, beginning on Sept. 12 and ending on Sept. 15, distributing the mail at the ZERO1 Biennial, which celebrates the intersection of art and technology.

Click through the image to find out more, and to participate!

Ephemera from my Creative Correspondents pen pal, Karola.

planetsforthepeople — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:00:37 -0500

Ephemera from my Creative Correspondents pen pal, Karola.

theworldinpaper: THIS WEEK’S ENVELOPE is an amazing one with...

planetsforthepeople — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:59:26 -0500

theworldinpaper:

THIS WEEK’S ENVELOPE

is an amazing one with Rembrandt van Rijn, I think the stamp is even more amazing. The envelopes we’re posting here, are most commonly known as first day covers, they have the matching seal and stamp, as you see. If you had a postcard, with the matching frank and stamp, that’d be called Maximum, and they’re the one’s I’M planning on collecting :)

Hey, here’s more about the artist that inspired the theme to this cover.

theworldinpaper: THIS WEEK’S STAMP 2 is so adorable! I don’t...

planetsforthepeople — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:00:31 -0500

theworldinpaper:

THIS WEEK’S STAMP 2

is so adorable! I don’t like churches, I rarely do, but this stamo is a very beautiful design of the image of a brazilian stamp and I hope you can see with all the angles I’ve tried to picture, there’s a holographic effect, if that’s how you call it, that makes the “glass”work of the window shine in different colors and it’s also glossy. I love this stamp, it’s shape and colors are so attractive! The main colour also sorta shines in a silvery way when you move it. The stamp celebrates the 600 years of this church in Rio. :)

registerednurses: Scott Catalogue# 1190 Issued on Dec 28,...

planetsforthepeople — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:55:25 -0500

registerednurses:

Scott Catalogue# 1190
Issued on Dec 28, 1961

The stamp features a student nurse lighting a candle, symbolic of passing the flame from Florence Nightingale. December 28th, 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) issuing this iconic nursing stamp. Did you know that 100,000 were first printed —but demand swelled to a printing of 100 million.

napaillustrations: JANNE HARJU HAS WONE THE OSCAR PRICE OF...

planetsforthepeople — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:49:04 -0500

napaillustrations:

JANNE HARJU HAS WONE THE OSCAR PRICE OF PHILATELY

The winners of the traditional Asiago competition were announced on July 15th. Take a look who won: Napa’s JANNE HARJU, with his awesome “Branches of Friendship” stamps! Janne designed these Valentine’s Day stamps for Itella last year (2011). This was the fifth time when this highly recognized prize was admitted to a Finnish stamp.

CONGRATS JANNE!! :)

Please read Itella’s press release here (in Finnish).

Additional info: Tommi Kantola, Product Manager, Itella Posti Oy, puh. 020 451 5531, firstname.lastname@posti.fi