Soaking and Organizing your Postage Stamps
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- This is a viewer request where I show you how easy it is to prepare your postage stamps for collaging by organizing them in this way.
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Your dad would be very proud of your stash.
Aaaaw ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you. We don’t get many stamps now, so much is franked. We used to do this as kids when we put our stamps in the albums.
I did not realize the process would be so easy!!! I have just been afraid that I would be sitting there for hours working on a couple of stamps! Thank you!!!
I am also someone who started collecting stamps in my early teens. Started it because I could not bear to throw away those little works of art! My family thought I was nuts, and they still do, but I couldn’t stop collecting them. I am now an old lady and I still have a big ziplock baggie of my stamps. Yet I have never used them in my collage art or anywhere. I’ve also never taken off the bits of the envelopes they are stuck to...they often remind me of where I got them from. Some of the stamps I will soak to get off the paper but some I actually like still attached to the paper. It’s all a matter of personal taste I suppose. Excellent video, and so fun to watch, thank you!
Thanks Margarita! I can totally imagine using them while they are still on the envelope as well! My fingers itch to take them off though be Aude that’s what I always did with my dad ☺️
Such a relaxing video! You have a beautiful collection, Barbara---so inspiring. Your father would be proud.
Aaaaw, how sweet of you to say that! 😘❤️
You are so lucky to receive such beautiful stamps in your mail. Love your collection and idea.
I am a very lucky girl! ☺️
Lovely! You’ve inspired me to sort my stamps!
What a neat idea and fun to look at. TFS
After seeing TFS for the fourth (or fifth) time, I had to go Google it! Lol. Got it now. I feel so much smarter! TFS!!🤪🤪🤪
Wow! You get beautiful stamps in the mail. I save interesting stamps but don’t have more than a small box full. I find I make a lot of fans stamps. I don’t blame you for hoarding ; many of those are too beautiful to use thank for this lovely video. Nina Ribena had a lovely postage folder she made on Sunday. It is set up like your book. Shared on Pinterest. God bless and stay safe.
Thanks Evelyn. I will check out Nina’s post 😊
Oh my!! I HAD NO IDEA YOU CAN DO THIS!! YOu are so full of useful information.. I am grateful for your vids!! TFS!!
My pleasure, I’m happy this was useful! 😃
Thank you. I inherited all my mom's stamp albums. She used to subscribe to a company that sent her stamps maybe once a month. It was called Mystic Stamps I believe. I have also hoarded my own but never organized them. I will now. Those kind of tweezers are used with Diamond Painting and come with kits usually.
You lucky girl to have inherited those albums! Have fun organizing your stamps! 😃
That's what I needed today! It was only yesterday I put my little box with'unprepared'postal stamps to my kitchen to soak them today. Thank you so much, Barbara, for all your tipps 😘
Haha Perfect timing! Have fun with your stamps! 😃
@@49dragonflies thank you 💕😘
This was fun to watch, I have done this in the past. Now I get so few letters that stamps are very scarce and I agree it is relaxing. I also did this with my Dad years ago. Thanks for sharing🇨🇦
Thank you Barbara! Beautiful collection. Very inspiring all around! Appreciate you!! 💜
Thanks Renee! I appreciate you as well! Win-win! 😃❤️
Love stamps. Thanks for the tips.
I love my stamps too. I find it hard not to hoard them. I made my own album and it works out great. Thanks for sharing the soaking off paper portion. I've always been afraid of putting mine in water. Silly huh!!! Have a wonderful weekend.❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Loretta! Seems like you were not alone with that thought! I’m happy this was helpful! 😊
Oh I love the Greek llama stamp...you must hoard that one! I guess I will be soaking stamps today...🥰
I will! 😃 have fun soaking your stamps! 😃
Such a pretty collection of stamps. I bet it is hard to use some of them. 😻
Hi sweetie, yep yep yep!!! I totally get you with hoarding some gorgeous stamps and not giving a hoot about the sports and olympic ones 🤪
Keeping the stamps by color and by theme will make your life easier when you do collages and using ones that you have multiple of is easiest.
Making collections of stamps like this also makes me feel calm, so I rearrange and play around with making different categories if I want to calm down 🐌🍂 and if I want to do something, but feel a little uninspired and sometimes one or two stamps can fuel inspiration 😁
Have a wonderful day 🤗❤️
Thank you for your wonderful inspiration to sort them this way! I have already enjoyed using them this way in collages and I find what I need much easier! Playing and rearranging stamps can be very calming, true! Sending hugs from rainy Vienna! 🥰
My brother was a real collector. Every year on my birthday I gave him the box of torn stamps, collected over the year, that he deviated and gave them to the local stamp club.
I now detached them myself. I used a Teflon sheet which I use in the oven. The stamps face down.
That sounds like a clever way to dry them! 👍🏻😃❤️
@@49dragonflies it worked, no ticky stamps! Maybe a silicon mat also works?
Wauw! I have never thought about to put the stamps in the water to soak them. 😊 You have inspired me to organize my post stamps, so thanks! Now, I just need to sit down and do it... Have a very nice weekend!
You said - Austria is a small country. It is maybe small but oh, so beautiful 😍 And the people are so friendly and kind! ❤
Aw, thanks so much for your kind words! Have fun soaking your stamps! ☺️ People outside of Vienna are super nice, in Vienna not so much! 😂
@@49dragonflies, I think it isn't that bad 😉. .. I hope to find it out by myself one day...
Thank you so much Barbara for showing how easy it is to remove and store stamps this way. You have a wonderful assortment and a beautiful vintage album. Stay safe.
My pleasure! ☺️❤️
As so many have said I use to collect them as a child, will have to look them out. Thanks for another interesting video.🥰💕
My pleasure, I hope you find your stamps! 😃❤️
You're very organised with your stamps and have a lot of lovely ones 👍☺️. I have thousands of used stamps and I've been meaning to sort them all out, but currently they are all stored together in a large plastic bag. When I was in my teens I did collect stamps, but then gave them all away. Yes, there are some very beautiful stamps and also a lot of very boring ones 😂😂. My favourite stamps are those with birds on. I do purchase a lot of special stamp issues that Royal Mail bring out to send on penpal letters, but sometimes I'm reluctant to use them. I'm off now to look online for an album .
Good luck finding an album and organizing your stamps! 😊
I started making an album after your last video showing your lovely stamp album, Barbara. My album project is coming along slowly, though. I've looked online for an album, but I can't find anything I like for a good price. So I'm sure I'll be finishing this album at some point. I have lots of stamps that need sorting - and using!! lol
Thanks for showing us how to soak and how you sort. I've tried soaking my stamps in water, but I guess I wasn't patient enough with some of them! I also studied your album better this time and decided my rows of clear plastic need to be closer together than I had thought. Stamps are not so tall (usually)!
Barbara, I LOVE the soft, calm music in your videos, and I keep forgetting to tell you that I REALLY APPRECIATE that you hold things up to the camera all the time!! That is sooooo helpful!! Thank you, dear!!
Thanks so much for your kind feedback, Annie! Maybe you should get an ugly album and decorate the cover, like I did with the small one I showed. I’m happy you enjoy the music and the style of my videos! 😃❤️
Thanks for the idea of soaking them. I’ve only kept a few and I just cut around them from the envelope. Didn’t know you could put in water. Great idea. TFS! ❤️
My pleasure Pam! Happy it was helpful! ☺️
My crafting buddy saved stamps from the letters received in her office for years. She recently gave them all to me so this video is a great help. Now I can remove the stamps from the paper without fear! Thanks!!!
Awesome! So happy this was helpful! Enjoy! 😃
Thankyou Barbara for sharing. This video brought back such special memories of childhood. My Dad introduced me to stamp collecting and he used the same soaking method. Oh my goodness that gorgeous envelope with the gnome! Love the colour and theme grouping idea. Sorting things is a very therapeutic activity. Just what we need during these challenging times. Sending warmest wishes ❤️
Thanks Susan! I’m happy you were able to remember happy memories with your dad as well! Yes, the soaking and sorting is truly therapeutic and winter is the best time of year for it! Enjoy! ❤️
This was great! Thanks for sharing this!
Your dad would be proud of your collection ❤
A lot of stamps from Belgium 😀❤
I was a stamp collector myself, now I use some (only my double stamps) in my journals too since I saw you using them in yours 😀
Aw, thank you Nathalie! I’m so happy you are using your double stamps! 👍🏻😃❤️
Thank you for showing this. I have heard you talk about it before with fond memories of your father and was curious. I have been collecting stamps for awhile. My husband thinks I am crazy as I go through the garbage in the office looking for envelopes and stamps. You have a great collection and I guess if you have to many then you must start using them to make room for more! What a happy dilemma to have.
My pleasure Beth! I don’t think you are crazy! 😂
This was great Barbara! I just started collecting stamps for collaging and was looking for ideas on how to sort them. Thank you 😘
Thanks Lisa, perfect timing! ❤️😃
Beautiful stamps.
i don’t collect stamps but found this video interesting and enjoyable
We used to do this when we were children. Recently found my stamp albums again, and all the first edition ones I used to buy for the children, I’ll post some pictures on IG later today.
Awesome! Pls tag me! 😃
Very nice collection!
Barbara, I just love your videos! I enjoy listening to you explain your process and have learned so much watching you. Thank you so much!
Thanks so much Mary! So happy my videos are helpful! ❤️
Thanks so much for this great video.! I was just organizing my stamps the other day and did pretty much the same categories but are a mess again because I had no where to put them. I’ve just started my stamps collection and was inspired by Margarete Miller and her collages. Thanks Barbara.💕😀
My pleasure! It’s so fun to use them in collages! 😃
I find sorting things very relaxing- such a lovely collection! I may try making a book as my stamps are languishing in a box🙈 I am still trying to get my motivation back. I haven’t crafted since March. My garden is done for the year so hopefully I can get back to it as the cold and snow settle in.
Thank you for all of the beautiful inspiration.💕💕💕
I hope you get your mojo back! Maybe starting with sorting your stamps is a good beginning 😊
So enjoyed this video! My stamps are all by country/subject. Boring! I am definitely going to reorganize, but now I have to decide whether to make the album or go to Amazon. Thanks for doing this one.
Thanks Kathy! I’m happy this was inspiring! 😊
Kathy Anderson - We share the same surname!! - I found online albums expensive - so tracked down local stamp club. They often get "deceased albums" - and only looking for particular stamps & will sell of albums cheap - I cover little boxes as gifts so I arrange in subject
Good luck to you - New Zealand.
I had no idea,thanks for sharing
Fun watching you play and organize your stamps!
Love the way you store them. I dry mine on thin towels , which I keep for this purpose, and use them again and again. In fact I do this in layers (towel-stamps-towel-stamps), just like my father used to. Thank you for the beautiful video.
Thank you! That’s a very clever way to dry them! 👍🏻😃❤️
@@49dragonflies I'm glad I helped. Try not to put more than two layers at a time. I leave them in the sun (plenty of it in Greece) for half an hour and they are ready to go.
I used to do this as a kid... Had lots of penpals from all over. Now all our stamps in Australia are stickers so not sure if they work the same. Will have to go searching to see if I still have mine & now I can use them! I used to categorise by country, too, but that is a stamp - collector thing. 😉💕💞
The sticker ones don’t come off well unfortunately.
Lovely collection of stamps . I have only just started collecting this year . Great idea to have a quick sort out today as it’s raining here in Wales . If we get an unique stamp with a welsh reference I will let you know ....I could send it to you .
Thanks so much Wyn! Enjoy this little project on this rainy day! It’s raining here as well....
I absolutely love the paper with the gnome and the gnome stamps. It's beautiful. As are all the stamps of course. This looks like a very relaxing project. Maybe you can scan the stamps you want to save. If they are just for your journal it's probably fine.
Thanks and yes, very relaxing indeed! 😊 Great oder scanning some of the stamps! 😃👍🏻❤️
Oh I'm so glad you did this video, I kind of wasn't sure about the soaking off part but they just come right off don't they.... Looks like I might be doing this really soon.... I have so many of Shariqa's to do, I 💖💖💖 them so much, I really need a lovely album like this... Beautiful collection Barbara thank you for this it was really helpful, I will have to send you some of my Christmas ones... I have a ton of them 😘😘💖👍🏻🌼
I’m happy this was helpful sweetie! ☺️
I hope you will have a relaxing time soaking and organizing your stamps! 😘
@@49dragonflies I think I'm going to hunt for a stamp collecting book as I really can't see what I have, I have already started themeing them, flowers, animals etc. I think the colour themeing is a great idea so I will definitely be doing that too.... 😁😁😘 Have a great weekend sweetie xx💕💕🌹
@@ChattylaineCreates I looked on Amazon for a stamp collecting book but found better prices on eBay so that's where I ordered mine.
@@RobinfromCA oooh OK thank you, I tend to buy my vintage books on ebay so I will have a hunt through 💖👍🏻😁
@@ChattylaineCreates that sounds like a great plan! Have a good and safe weekend, sweetie! 🥰
Hi Barbara, I am going to Amazon again. Oh I know to let you know, I am starting a book journal. I got a book for 50 cents estate sale. But it's a murder mystery and I am going to read it first. Lol I bought a tin at a tag sale years ago with stamps. I am going to try this technique this weekend. Thanks for all the inspiration.
I’m happy this was helpful and have fun with your book! 😃
Thanks for sharing
Wow dear! You did everything so well😊❤...l just love you(my inspiration😊) and your videos!
Aaaaaw thank you again dear Shimah! 😘
Hi Barbara, you have a beautiful collection of stamps and you have lots of patience 💖 Such a good idea to organise them in colours. I will try this; the last time I tried to organise mine in categories, I gave up 🙄Maybe you could scan n print the ones you don't want to use .. or is that cheating! 😁 TYFS Lots of love 💖🎶🍁
Thanks Penny! I have already loved using them this way for collaging and it’s so much better to have them by colors! Great idea scanning the ones I don’t want to use! 👍🏻😃❤️
What a wonderful collection you have Barbara, I need to get an album to organise mine! You must have tons of mail every day, I’m lucky if I get 2 stamps a week lol 😂 thanks for sharing your tips for removing the stamps, I’ve never thought to do that! As for stamps you want to hoard, I look at it like this, if I’m making a journal or page for my books I can see them every time I look at the book. They haven’t gone they are just used and stored in a different place! Take care xxx💕
Thanks Susie! That’s a good way of looking at it! 👍🏻😃
Wow you have a lot of beautiful stamps😍TFS🙏
Awh, the gnome envie with stamps is gorgeous!
That's alot of stamps.
AWH, yea too bad you didn't save some of your dad's stamps, but at least you have the memory of him.
Thanks for tip on candle for stickiness.
Oh boy, time to re-organize my stamps by color. Excellent idea!
Lol, yes Barbara I collect stamps to use and can't part with them, lol, but then I'm like that with just about anything for journaling...lol
You are right, Roksanna. I’m happy to have the memory with my dad! ☺️ Good luck reorganizing your stamps! ❤️
Who knew? Not me!! What a great video! You have some gorgeous stamps! I collect stamps just to look at also . I've loved them since I was a child as well even though no one in my family collected them . As an adult I've never really had them in an album because the organization would drive me crazy ... like you not having room for the butterflies and having to move things around! AAAAAHHHH 😄 But I think if I leave enough room I can do it and also convince myself that if I have to start another page of butterflies, or whatever, in the back I'll be fine 😆
TFS... hugs from Nebraska 💓
I’m happy this was helpful! Stamps are so fun! 😃
OMGoodness - I never knew you could soak the stamps. I couldn't figure out when I've bought stamps for mixed media how they got them off the envelopes. lol Thank you! Did you make your postage stamp book and if yes, do you happen to have a tutorial? xxx
I’m happy this was helpful. I bought my album at the flea market....
Wow that is super cool, I need to do that as well :)
The best thing to use on the sticky backed stamps is corn flour. Just rub a little on and blow or shake off the excess.
Thanks for the tip! 😃👍🏻
Hello my friend Barbara! This was an interesting video. I have never been interested in collecting stamps except once when I purchased some Elvis stamps. I still have them somewhere. They are Collector Edition. Perhaps if I can find them I will send you one. Anyway, thanks for showing me how to remove the stamps from the paper. Maybe I will get motivated to do it too! Hope you are doing well. Hugs💕
Thank you Michele. You are very sweet! Honestly it would make me more happy to know that you are using your stamps in your journals! 😊🥰
You can also store stamps in the trading card collector pages--the ones that house 9 cards on each side of the sheet. That's how I store mine.
Love the video. Maybe you can happy mail the stamps you are not that fond of and that would clear up space for the ones you love. Maybe time to purge, just a thought.
Thanks Sheryl! Good idea! 👍🏻😃❤️
You must get a ton of mail😂
TYFS. So beautiful! Europe has much prettier stamps than USA. Who wants to be my pen pal?!?! Lol.
I agree with you Erin, Europe has much prettier stamps than the US. I think mailing in the US is becoming a way of the past sadly.
Wow wunderschöne Kollektion! Ich sammle auch schon länger Briefmarken, meistens von der Firmenpost. Leider werden da meistens nur Stempel verwendet. Danke für die Idee mit dem Wasser. Ich habe sie immer nur ausgeschnitten mit dem Kuvert dahinter. Hast du viele Brieffreunde aus unterschiedlichen Ländern? Lg aus Oberösterreich:)
Vielen Dank! Es geht wirklich schnell und leicht mit dem Wasser! 😃 nein, ich habe nicht viele Brieffreunde, leider habe ich keine Zeit dafür ☹️ Liebe Grüße aus Wien! ❤️
Hey, I didn't know the shape of Austria! Thank you!
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I see a bunch of mine hahahahha...
I usually put them on a cloth or towel, so they soak the water faster and dont get stuck to paper!
Hi there, Shariqa! Many of them are yours and I treasure them! 😊 Great idea with the towel! 😃❤️👍🏻
@@49dragonflies super happy to hear that! I giggled when you held the bloc of stamps of different colours and said you will definitely hoard it 😍🥰
@@postallove3247 you have the best stamps and you are so generous with them! ❤️❤️❤️
Oh wow Barbara, I had no idea you could soak the stamps away from the envelopes. I loved seeing your beautiful collection of stamps, you’ve got some really gorgeous ones, I love the envelope with the gnome so much x
Thanks Tina! Yes, it’s so quick and easy as well! Maybe you give it a try! 😃❤️
I, too, helped my dad do this when I was young and with his passing I didn’t get any of his stamps. He was a dealer, so I image the albums was apart of his estate and I’m sure my step mother got the monetary value from them....still a pleasant memory, nevertheless less...😻
How interesting we have similar experiences. Bummer you didn’t get any of his stamps!
I had no idea that it was so easy. How do you know if maybe you have a collector's stamp that you should maybe keep?
Great question! I have no idea! 😬
Nicely organized, where did you get your stamp album?
Thanks! It’s from the flea market.
Have you a video on how to make stamp collection journal?
I do not, sorry. I buy mine at the flea market, but many others on TH-cam do.
I have got some VERY old and pretty stamps from Germany. I found it in my second hand shop. I think all of them is before 2. World war. Some are in a book, which is broken. So I have to start all over. Should I just sorted them in color or themed ? There are many many animals and flowers. I really wish you could see them 🙂 my husband don’t really see the same as I...🤣😂
I have tried to sort them but now it the time..
Thanks for sharing 🙏❤️
I can only say my method works for me for collaging. Sorted by color and for those with a dominant color and the rest by theme. Good luck organizing yours, Tina! ❤️
@@49dragonflies oh thank you..I have been working with them all day..I didn’t knew I had SO many..I have 3 books now..I most send some in happy mail 🤣😂
Have nice evening 🙂
So this works with the self adhesive stamps too? I thought it only worked with the old fashioned ones we had to lick.
As I was showing, the ones that are stickers don’t come off well unfortunately.
@@49dragonflies ok, thank you 😊
Just place your stamps picture side diwn when drying them. I use paper towels, no chance of ink transfer or sticking.
Great idea, thank you! ❤️
i lay my stamps face down to dry. this prevents any remaining gum help the stamps stick to the paper......................brian
Smart! Thanks! 👍🏻😃
Beautiful 🤩
I did one similar from an altered book for little sticks, you can see it on my Facebook
Thanks Maria! Sorry, I’m not on Facebook 😬
I dry mine on a towel.
You obviously get a lot of mail from Belgium!
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I want exchange with you postal stamps. Me too I have lot of
Thank you, but postal services are really bad internationally these days....
@@49dragonflies ok I understand you
You get a lot of mail lol. UK stamps are so boring!
Wow! Quite a collection!! Amazing and beautiful! Now I want to start collecting!
Thank you! You go, girl! 😃