Sunday 29 January 2012

Postcrossing Flowers


This is the card I made by using ink and watercolor to a Postcrosser who said she likes flower paintings and Japanese style in the paintings.


To the envelope I used a stamp with a picture of a flower painting by the Finnish artist Eero Järnefelt (1863-1937)

Saturday 28 January 2012

Salvador Dali Cards from Ivana

These three folded Salvador Dali cards arrived from Ivana:





Again so beautiful Czech stamps! 
Also the non valued stamps are nice, especially the Czech Post stamp.


Thursday 26 January 2012

"Improved" Gustav Klimt to Ivana


Piece of artwork by Gustav Klimt was on one page of my last year Metropolitan Museum of Art calendar. 
I made a card of it to Ivana by attaching it on water color paper on which I had painted according to the idea and colors used by Gustav Klimt. 


Wednesday 25 January 2012

Cat Art


I have had quite a long break in Postcrossing, but have now started again, and just received this wonderful cat card from Japan! Isn't it lovely?!



Sunday 22 January 2012

Christmas Letter to Bree


We still had the Christmas tree in our house when I wrote my latest letter to Bree. Our cat Killi was staring at the tree so I took ink and watercolors and made a sketch of what I saw, and used the right side of the paper as  a note paper to write the letter.


I used sea theme stamps and added some watercolor to the envelope to make it suitable for the stamps.


Saturday 21 January 2012

Glove Letter to Bruno


This is the letter I sent to Bruno. I like to use pictures of my old Metropolitan Museum of Art page-a-day calendars in envelopes and cards, and here I used a page with a picture of a glove. I added a piece of paper so that it looks like the glove is holding it, and used it for the address.

The note paper I decorated to suite to the decorations in the glove.





Sunday 8 January 2012

Bats with Postman Stamp


Ilona in http://www.missivemaven.com/ loves bats, and I just had to buy this card for her when I saw it in an art museum in Frankfurt, Germany in December.


On the last day to use old Finnish stamps I noticed that I hadn't used my favorite postman stamp which I had planned to use in mail to Ilona. - So the postman started to carry bats to USA for Ilona.

I had two of these postman stamps, so one is left for my collection. Collecting stamps is something I don't know if I do it or not. I really love stamps, and in a way I collect them, because I have a lot of them, and I even have several books where I keep them. Still I'm not active in collecting them, and I have several times changed the theme of what kind of stamps to collect: dogs, old buildings, statesmen,... This postman stamp made me to think that why wouldn't I start to collect mailing related stamps! This is such a new idea that I haven't even yet started to find out if these kind of stamps even exist so many that there would be something to collect. - Hints are welcome! 

Monday 2 January 2012

Goodbye Old Stamps


Starting from the beginning of this year it is not possible any more to use old Finnish Mark valued stamps (we have had euro as currency since 2002) in mailing. For example this card sent on Friday couldn't have been sent today.

I have been a bit sad of loosing the possibility to use the old stamps, but actually now it's again lovely to start to wait for new stamps to be published without being stressed to remember to use the old ones as long as it is possible! :)