Lovely to be back with a card to Ivana

For some reason I succeeded to spend almost one whole year without mail art related things, and 

I'm so glad to be back in this again! 

This snow card goes to my dear friend Ivana in Czech

New Year Card from Ivana

This soft and beautiful New Year card arrived from Ivana in Czech.

Wonderful stamps again, as always from Czech!

Birthday Card from Ivana

This beautiful card arrived last week as a birthday card for me.

Thank you so much, Ivana!

Wild Duck to Ivana

This summer we had the possibility to swim with wild ducks in Hartola. There I made this painting/drawing  and made then afterwards this card of it to Ivana. 

I'm really fond of these priority stickers available with the new Moomin stamps!

To and from Ivana

This is my latest card to Ivana

I made a simple decoration to suit to the elk of the picture

This lovely card I had got earlier from Ivana...

...in addition to this beautiful card.

So beautiful stamps again! 

Merry Christmas from Ivana

This lovely self made Christmas card arrived from Ivana.

Beautiful stamps again on her envelope!

Chicken Card to Ivana

I sent this old-fashioned looking chicken card to Ivana.

I added a small decoration with pen and watercolor.

You can decide by yourself whether the decoration is a variation of the flower in the stamp or chicken footsteps. :)

Name Day Card from Ivana

This beautiful art card arrived from Ivana in Czech.

She is really amazing: she is very interested in Finland and Finnish language and she even new it is Sirpa's day  today in the Finnish calendar!

Lovely stamps.

This is the card I had earlier sent to her: a Moomin card with an attached Moomin reflector.

I decorated the envelope with a marker and added Moomin stickers. 

Finnish Card from Ivana

This is a very special card, my Czech friend Ivana sent it to me from Finland when she was visiting her friend here in Oulu!

Birthday Card

My birthday is today and this is the beautiful cross stich birthday card Ivana sent to me.

Thank you so much Ivana! 

The stamps are great, also the valueless ones, especially the peacock feather!

Art Cards from Ivana

Ivana sent me these two beautiful art cards which she had found in a book fair in Ostrava.

Water Colour Flowers to Ivana

This is the card I painted to Ivana

and sent to her in this envelope.

I like the Juhani Aho (Finnish author and journalist) postage sheet which was issued last year for his 150th anniversary.

Leonardo da Vinci

This beautiful Leonardo da Vinci card arrived yesterday from Ivana. 

Where might it have been travelling because she had sent it already almost a month ago and normally cards from Czech arrive in a couple of days!

Easter Card from Ivana

This beautiful Czech Easter card arrived from my Postcrossing friend Ivana.

I and my husband will spend next weekend and the Monday and Tuesday after that in Prague in Czech. Ivana happens to travel to Prague also on Saturday so we have a plan to meet there! So lovely!

p.s. I succeeded to win the second prize in the photo competition in Pienilintu blog!

Many thanks to all of you who voted for my picture!!!

To and from Ivana

I liked the deep and dark colors in the painting by Rudolf Kremlicka in Ivana's latest card http://sfimail.blogspot.com/2012/02/happy-valentines-day.html and got an idea to use deep and dark colors also in my painting. 

The speech bubble connected to the stamp says "You are star!".

 Speech bubbles are part of the lovely stamp booklet "Fantastic Women" (based on cartoon women Maisa and Kaarina by designers Tiina Paju and Sari Luhtanen) published about an year ago. 

This beautiful view card of Brno arrived from Ivana.

- May be one day I'll visit also Brno, after two weeks I'll see Prague! 

Happy Valentine's Day!

This beautiful art card of the painting "Laundresses" by Czech painter Rudolf Kremlicka (1886-1932) arrived as a valentine's day card from Ivana. - Again a painter about whom I didn't know earlier, very interesting!   

Flower Mail to Ivana

It's snowing here and I'm waiting for the Spring, so flowers are in my mind. 

Using flowers bought from flower shop as inspiration I then painted this card to Ivana.

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.

"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. 

Christmas Card to and from Ivana + Mini Lion Study

This is the Christmas card I sent to Ivana

and this is the one she sent to me.

Aren't the Czech stamps beautiful? 

The lion stamp looks a bit like some Finnish stamps, because both Finland and Czech seem to have a lion in their coat of arms! Interesting! 

This is an example of a sheet of Finnish stamps from year 2006.