Ruud Janssen (9)

Sent by Ruud Janssen from the Netherlands, this awesome artistamp. The artistamp is showing Ruud himself and has been designed by Domenico Ferrara Foria, in honour of the 35th anniversary of the International Union of Mail Artists (IUOMA), which takes place this year! Ruud is the founder of this great network.

The artistamp arrived in this envelope, which is an alibi to post the mail art here: there are animals on it!



Funny detail might be the fact that the snail mail snail and Year of the Dog stamp have been designed by me :-) Always nice to see them travel.
I've sent the original stamps to Ruud Janssen, because he also is curating the TAM rubberstamp archive.


Also in this envelope this bright work of art arrived:



Created by Ruud Janssen. I guess it is named bits and bytes, or some other name?!?

Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Ruud!

Katerina Nikoltsou (34)

February is a month full of reasons to send mail. And Katerina did send mail for these!



~ 14 February: Valentine's Day ~



~ 16 February 2018: start of the Lunar new year, the Year of the Dog ~



~ 21 February: Banana Day! ~



Featuring artistamps by Anna Banana, accompanied by the 'What or whom is she staring at?' lady.



Thank you very much, Katerina!

Antonia Mayol (7)

Dog stamp, for a happy 2018 and a happy Year of the Dog!

Created and sent from Spain by Antonia Mayol.



Thank you very much, muchas gracias, Antonia!

Katerina Nikoltsou (33)

The New Year 2018 just has started. And in one and half month an other New Year will begin: the Year of the Dog.

The mail art Katerina has sent to me a few weeks ago, matches with both years, as you can see!



The front side of the Dog card shows blue:



And inside the envelope there is an other envelope, a red felt one meant for Santa, so to see. But first we park the Squirrels here!





On the back side of the outer envelope there are Katerina's famous stamp prints:



Thank you very much, Katerina, and happy New Years!