Enjoyed this a lot. I collected stamps as a hobby when I was in my young teens. I still look at stamps differently than most people I find one on an envelope that catches my eye I take it off and keep it. I also still buy blocks of new ones that I find intriguing. I think once one has a love of stamps it never really leaves. I especially love ones that look like little pieces of art. Currently I tend to buy from the post office or Etsy sellers. I do love to put unique stamps on any mailings I do. Some of my “friends” think it’s “nerdy” but that’s ok by me 😂😂😂I look at them as art.
I buy lots of stamps from the post office, too, both for personal, but also for the art swaps I host. I love it!! I love shopping for stamps and thinking of creative ways to use them 😉
Your little bundles are called 'bundleware' and they were often sold to people who made up mixed packets of stamps for sale. You can still buy them, though modern sellers tend to wrap them with paper strips instead of string. I am at the beginning of my collage/junk journal journey but got my first stamp album aged 5. I stopped collecting for many years but discovered my grandpa's boyhood collection from the 1920s in my mum's garage last year and have been a bit obsessed ever since! I love all the colours and the little history lessons they contain. I think I need to use your little books as inspiration to stop endlessly sorting and actually make some art!
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with just enjoying the stamps either!😊That’s so special to have opportunity to see things through the lens of your grandpa’s young life!
Hello Margarete, Postcrossing is a wonderful community if you want to sent/ received postcards and stamps all around the world ! Thanks a lot for your wonderful ideas to create - Mélody
Sometimes at estate sales where the person was a collector. My mother in law collected stamps for years, not organized or in books, when she passed I found 2 large zip lock bags full of stamps she had saved for years. Most were separate a lot were just torn from envelope with machine canceled marks and all. It was a great find.
I got the bug for collecting stamps to use in papercrafting a few years ago. Like you, I love looking at them and sorting them, so much so that I have trouble using them in projects unless I have multiples. They are truly works of art. I have the same story for my button collection. I don't use them as often, but I can't get rid of them. I could look at them everyday and not get tired of their hypnotic beauty. I found the great majority of my stamps and buttons at garage sales, estate sales and thrift stores. With estate sales, look for postings online for sales near you. They usually list postage stamp and button collections and even show pictures.
Ha! I know what you mean by looking and sorting but not using. I have a box of buttons that belonged to my grandmother and I can't bring myself to use them. I do love estate sales. I don't find them that often, though.
The accounting department where I work save me all the envelopes that have postage stamps on them. I have accumulated a LOT of stamps that way. You have given me some great ideas how to use them.
I have found the best place to get large volumes of stamps to be online auctions for stamp/coin collectors and estate sales. Often right at the end of the listings are the random boxes of unsorted and not valuable stamps that collectors are less interested in. I got a very large haul for a lot less than ebay or FB marketplace this way and have had hours of fun sorting and bundling them. Your ideas for collage and art with stamps are amazing, I have always loved the postal influence in your work.
I had something similar happen to me. I went to my first stamp and coin show and was looking at the things at a stamp table. After telling me where this and that category could be found on his table, he finally showed me a big box full of miscellaneous "junk." It was exactly what I wanted. I got a lifetime's worth of stamps for about $30.
I have used postage stamps in collage for several years but I also buy vintage unused stamps to send holiday cards in the mail. It makes the envelope like a mini collage when you need several stamps that add up to a first class letter rate.
I love all things postal - personal snail mail has always been a highlight for me from when as a child I would receive letters from my grandmother. I originally got started with cancelled postage stamps when I found large ziplock bags of them several times at thrift/second hand stores for really cheap. I sort mine by country, and my US stamps I sort by theme, such as Animals, Music, Flowers, Parks/Nature, People (further subdivided), Patriotic, Architecture, etc. I have some generic looking ones (lots of the people stamps) sorted by color. I actually bought those ziplock bags of used stamps long before I got interested in making mail art postcards, but now I have a wonderful supply of them - probably enough to last a lifetime. LOL. This was a very useful and inspirational video, Margarete. Thank you!
Loved this video! While traveling to different places and bases and countries ( prior military spouse)…..my mother wrote to me frequently……sending goody packages all the time from home……I diligently cut all the stamps from the packages and saved them. This was many years ago… Watching you share has me thinking it’s time to unpack my stamps and organize them for use in my journals and albums and projects! I also have a huge collection of pub mats…….these too will be interesting to take out and just have fun sorting and remembering….. New subscriber to your channel here for ideas and lots of inspiration 🤗🤗🤗
I collect all the stamps that come on the envelopes of Christmas cards and when I have enough I make them into a Masterboard which I then scan and print. These make great designs for Christmas cards, much better than just throwing the stamps away with the envelopes. Thanks for showing us how you use them. Angela x
I am new both to collecting and using them for paperart, but I found 4 albums "third" hands and are using them in my paperwork now. I am so thankful for finding your channel and your live for stamps, and are looking for more out there....here in Denmark we hardly use poststamps for sending letters anymore and we even hardly sends letters anymore - everything is electronic Love your atr...
I’m so glad I’m not the only one that obsesses over stamps. My last haul I bought 508! Yep counted each and every one of them, and sorted, plus of course drooled. Then put them in separate bags, wrote the theme, and wrote how many were in each one. Then took some out and looked at them, drooled again and finally put them up. 🤣 I feel super spoiled because I have a coin/stamp store a few minutes away as well as a every Saturday flea market which is about 10 or so minutes away. We also have oodles of vintage stores and markets within 30 minutes It’s a good bad thing!😆 I’m so glad I found you a few days back! I love your little books of stamps!!! Thank you for your inspiration!
@@MargareteMiller I forgot to say that because I bought a bundle of the stamps along with antique and vintage letters post card etc. that the price was about about .20 cents for all those stamps. That was the deal of the year:) I went again yesterday bought some that were from France and Japan the two bags were $10. Then some loose ones that were about $3. Of course had to go get more 🤣 because want I to do the journal stamp pages like you because your video was so inspiring!!!
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I have my old childhood stamp collection as well as my son’s Rupert Bear stamp album. I love looking through them and it always brings back memories.
So as a kid, my husband collected stamps. They were stored in big binders which has stayed on our selves all our married life...44 years but longer for him. It wasn't until I stated watching your videos did I know what to do with them. Collage Art!!! Yipppeee!!! Thanks always for the inspiration.
This may be a really long comment...the genre's name is ARTZIE STAMPS. This includes many forms of art which incorporates postage stamps. In 1993, I designed, created many Artzie Stamp collages. What I did was create traditional quilt patterns using cancelled stamps from around the world. I have some photos but they are in slides...who knew we would soon be carrying around our own cameras? Slides? I cant even find anyone to make prints from them.
I have gather quite a few stamps over the last few years as I just love to use them in my collages... Picking just the right colour or its picture on the stamps I just love that... My friend in the Netherlands found a box on a Craigs List site and she has given me some of those as well as what I get on various mailed ephemera. I love them... I lost my uncle a few years ago and he was a stamp collector, I'm hoping I can persuade my aunt to part with them 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻😁😁💖
I’m new to collage art so I just ordered a small batch of stamps from Etsy. Your journals are so inspiring. I can’t wait to get started adding them to mine 😃
I saw stacks of stamps and bunches of plastic bags full of stamps at an estate sale the other day., but didn't get any. I had seen you had a new video on using stamps and wanted to check that out. Also wanted to revisit what i had done with my stamps years ago (haven't done much lately as I've been spending much time in caretaking our old dog who has now passed}. Hope to find some stamps today at the 75% off day of the estate sale now that I have also reviewed my box and listened to your video. I'm excited again! Thanks for your serendipitous post and as always your delightful work.
Good luck on getting a hold of those!! Even if they're not beautiful stamps, I'm sure you can find a way to use them. Did you know you can also turn them over and rubber stamp on the back side?!! 😉
Love those small books. I used to collect stamps since I was a young child. Still have most of them but not in the books I used to put them in, too bulky. Couldn't part with the stamps, this is a great idea, especially the fact that they have themes and are the size of pasports. I could start with my very old ones that I've had since I was 12 and we moved to Germany for three years. (Only 64 years ago.)
Another great video. I received a bundle of large cancelled stamps. I had no idea what I would do with them. Now I am going to interpret some of your ideas into my style and incorporate them into my collage books. I love all types of paper. The only problem I encounter is finding the time to watch videos, which are so inspiring and then work on my projects. So little time😊………
Fascinating as always and, oh my gawd, those little notebooks!!! I have lots of unused stamps left over from when the postage rates kept changing years ago, I'll have to start using them in collage. Thanks for more inspiration to keep me gluing!
Hi Margarete, I Love stamps!! I get them on etsy as well and use them in my collage, scrapbook and journals! My mom sent a box of stamps last year from her Rock Clubs storage bin...no one knew why they were there and she is so sweet to have thought of me to donate them to!! I have to revisit them as I have moved and have not had time to put them in my stamp book!! TFS Peace to you!
I was surprised and happy to see the bundles of very old Danish postage stamps. I'm in a strange way glad that you take so good care of them. I collected postal stamps as a child and also as a grown up. Now I use them to embellish my junk journal. I prefere postage stamps with numbers. I like how you use yours and the small books. I sometimes find it difficult to use my stamps because I have been collected them for some many years and know so much about them. Thanks for sharing 😊
It's fun to make your own stamps with "clear stamps". My husband's grandpa was a stamp collector. When he died, my husband inherited his collection. We've never gone through them. Perhaps we should.
I really enjoyed this video. Those little bundles of stamps are just the best, what a treasure! All of the collages that you showed are so awesome, you are an amazing artist. I love stamps ... well, I love anything mail related!! 😀💌📮When my niece asked if I could make something for her kids "100 days of school Museum project," I put on my thinking cap. Something of 100 things and not too difficult to mail. Of course, a poster of 100 stamps!! 😀Thanks so much for sharing.
Hi Margarete! I collected stamps as a child and YA and i have carried that collection with me for over 40 years. My love of stamps awoke when i started journaling. This is a great video, i learned a few new ways to use my stamps. Thank you!💙
Margarete, you do some really interesting, creative videos, and I too love postage stamps. They are all just miniscule little pieces of art, with ziggy edges! I usually use them in my collage journals and I adore the variety of colors. LOVED your little bundles of stamps at the end here, with string wrapped around them. I saw something like that years back, and had totally forgotten where or why, but LOVE it! Your kids both sound like adorable, little gems. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Thank you.
What a wonderful video as always! Thank you!!! As a junk journalist, I add mine to clusters, journaling cards, envelopes... They come in so handy when you just need to fill in a little empty space too! They are so versatile!
I love stamps! So nice to meet another creative stamp lover. I have a friend that works in an office who saves the stamps from envelopes. I like to use them in card making by layering and framing them so they look like tiny masterpieces. I also love the sorting and store them in big glass jars. Loved your many ideas! Thanks for sharing!❣️
Hi! I have seen bags of postage stamps, US and World, at Hobby Lobby (US) for a modest price. I haven't purchased any there , but it is another option for easy acquisition. I enjoyed your video very much! I too love to sort, categorize, and collage with stamps. :) I really liked the idea of collaging and then using a punch. Those hearts looked like they were jumping off the page.
I want to experiment with using a punch more with my stamps. I was thinking I could use a small round punch and collage with a bunch of circles. So many ideas! I hope you'll experiment, too 👍.
I started collecting as a young child (I’m now almost 65) when my grandmother had a nursing home and would get stamps from the clients to give to me. This was in the early 1960s. In my 20s I bought blocks , sheets etc from the post office and still cut stamps off of envelopes today. I loved your video today, it gave me ideas for some of my collection.
I really enjoyed this video. I just purchased stamps from Amazon and can't wait to get my hands on them! I also like to make own stamps. I believe the program I used was from Red Castle ... a rubber stamp company. My pc is down right but I can the link I will definitely share with you.
I love stamps. Collected them on and off when I was a kid and not such a kid. I am fascinated by the stories they tell (topic) as well as the sheer art and production skills. Not much to add to stamp sources except occasionally find an album at the local thrift store. (Hit and miss). Another thing I do with particularly interesting stamps is photocopy them and enlarge them x200 or whatnot. Really fun way to get a different scale. Love the passports booklets you showed. Why do I suddenly need one??? 🤣🤣🤣 thank you so much for sharing.
Wow this was so interesting. Of course I've heard of stamp collecting, but using them as art is so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I bought a large plastic bin at a thrift store for $20. Many were sorted into glassine envelopes and jumbled into old checkbook boxes. I shared them with friends and sort as needed. The collector's driver's license was inside... I think he'd appreciate how much I enjoy his collection.
Stamps have such amazing stories to tell. I’m not a collector but I clip and save them from my received mail and use them in journaling. Thank you for sharing 🤗
Thank you Margarete. Always love seeing your beautiful work. I, too, love to sort and look at these individual pieces of tiny art. I have bags and bags of old stamps and, like you, use them on ATCs. But I love your idea of a postage stamp dedicated book. My biggest quandary was how to store them. . . by color, by image, by country? Haven't landed on one particular way. I also have a book like your sister-in-law gave you and that's handy to see some of them. I have mini little zip locks also that store some by color. Thanks again!
I try all different things and still haven't discovered a method I like 100%. It also depends on how often you are using stamps in your work. If it's not that often, then just having them in a Ziploc is fine.
Great video! I too, LOVE using stamps in my work! I use them often in my Junk Journals, collages, and in many of the ephemera pieces that I make. I buy stamps from several fellow sellers on Etsy, but I have also bought stamps at yard sales, and antiques shops. And of course, I cut off the stamps from my mail, too! I keep a jar on my counter for those modern stamps that I cut off when I review my mail. Stamps are just so fun to use! 😃
2 sources of stamps: 1. craft/art supply thrift stores- there are a bunch around the US and 2. Buy Nothing/Freecycle sites or email groups. I received an envelope of mostly South American stamps this way.
About a year ago, my sons bought an appartement block that belonged to a lady who died a while ago, and in the basement was a whole room FILLED with albums and boxes of stamps, from ceiling to floor, on tables, on shelves, everywhere! There were so much that I couldn't take it all but I kept the albums and several boxes of stamps, and they were all bundled the exact same way yours were, tied together with tiny paper straps. I will never be able to use them all, but I'm trying real hard :)
I love using stamps in my collages, ever since I saw yours. I was fortunate to win Australia stamps on Julie's chanel. 2 times. I share some of them with my Great grandson, who collects stamps. 🖌🎨 (art and junk journals with Julie)
LOVE postage stamps too!! This was really fun seeing how you use & create art w/ them...beautiful!! Another idea...Hobby Lobby craft store sells various bundles of stamps too.
I have a stamp album all sorted by color but I keep forgetting to use them!! I love them and it is probably my way of hoarding them, lol! I love watching you use them in your collage art and you are inspiring me to use them way more than I do normally. I had just found your channel through my sister and I am so happy I did!!! Thank you for all your helpful videos!! ❤️❤️
I used to work for a fairly large international company and my friend opened the mail. I asked her to save any interesting stamps for me with only a vague idea what I was going to do with them. if you have access to something similar it's a great way to get some free interesting stamps.
Like you I would have displayed the little bundles…I love them. I bought a baggie of stamps from eBay several years ago and when my mom past 7 years ago I discovered that she had saved every greeting card with the envelopes so I have those stamps as well. Now my husband looks for different stamps on our incoming mail. Love to used them in collage.
I'm fascinated by postage stamps! I've saved them all my life. I went to stamp auctions 20 years ago and have huge boxes of stamps lol. The majority of them have little or no value. I need to start using them in my art. I really enjoy your videos! Love the ideas you've shared here. Going to make a small book like yours! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Hi! Loved the video. I picked up a gallon Ziploc bag of stamps at a thrift store for $5. Unfortunately there were no inverted Jenny's 😊 I plan on using them in my collage/art boxes. Thanks for your suggestions.
I sometimes buy digital kits on Etsy. One of my purchases was a page postage stamps with a specific theme. After purchasing ( and downloading) the digital kit I can print as many copies as I want. Just another source of images
I am a new collager. Started last year with your prompts in your Collage Challenge, then moving house got in the way. I started again the beginning of the year and Covid-19 tripped me up. Even though I started up last week again it is going slowly and yesterday when I looked at my collages I realised that I left some pieces too big. I still have a huge problem tearing paper and images. The only stamps I have used thus far were the ones that appeared in your prompts. I have made only one collage thus far that is my own creation and...NO STAMPS. Thanx for this video. I will definitely use stamps and rubber or clear stamps more often in my collages. I find collaging very relaxing and inspiring.
Hello, Margarete. I'm so glad I found your videos on TH-cam. I like to use postage stamps in my collages, too...and just stamps in general. Your little journals are inspiring. I will be making my own "Moon Passport" as soon as I get over Covid properly. Keep up the good work. 🙂
I recently became interested in using stamps in my junk journals as a result of finding your channel and binge watching your videos. I have recently completed several projects inspired by you. This video inspires me too!!! Thank you so much for sharing your love of paper with us!!
You are a person after my own stamp-loving heart!❤ I started collecting as a kid and I continue to do so - mostly for the beauty of the stamps. Each one is like a miniature painting or work of art in itself. I love to look at them and to sort them. I cut up stamp catalogs all the time for collage, and I also buy inexpensive used stamps from Mystic stamp company. I keep separate stamps for collecting and for artwork. Your box of bundles is beautiful! Thank you for sharing your stamp art as well. You have inspired me to get creating. (I also save stamps from letters & cards. Of course, today’s stamps are stickers, but still beautiful and I still save them them for use in my scrapbooks and journals. I love Christmas and holiday stamps from each year, and I have also collected the love stamps and stamps of literary figures! There is so much to learn through stamps!❤
I've heard of Mystic Stamps! I need to check out their website. Thanks for the idea! I like holiday stamps too, and have a little tin box just for those 😉
Thanks for sharing how you use stamps in your art. I always like the way they look, but I haven’t tried it yet. I recently attended the local library book sale & I was able to score a few pages of stamps from them. Now, I have inspiration to use them!
I love postage stamps and use them on my ATCs and collages and sometimes I use them as decoration on poems I frame to hang and enjoy. I love what you have done in this video and am off to look for Stamp Shows in my city and passport books. Thank you for the wonderful ideas!
Cool video! TFS! Prompted me to look in my attic-(I know worst place ever) for stamps I had -I ended up with a big plastic bin of stamps! I collected as a child because we lived in the country & wasn’t much to do really 🤔 my kids dabbled in it for awhile & what I have from all of that Some are stuck with hinges to collector books -obviously not archival -so I def will be using a lot of these In collages now-I did enjoy looking through a lot of them -I’m anxious to see collector albums look nowadays? Since I can’t believe they still use hinges -gonna make a trip to Hobby Lobby soon! I really love looking at all the diff designs & colors!
I share your love of postage stamps. My favorites are the older, art-deco inspired, usually just one or two colors, that look engraved. Works of beauty! And I agree, they make lovely focals for any type of collage. I love to use them in greeting cards as well. :) I think my love of stamps comes from when I was younger. I remember we went to the home of one of my dad's coworkers. He pulled out these huge albums of stamps. I was completely fascinated and I begged my parents to get me some stamps! I have no idea where that stuff is now...
Loved the story about your kids helping you! Such precious memories! I use stamps here and there. I found mine at an antique store. Or I take them off my mail.
I use real stamps and fake stamps in my collaging. I bought an old tin several years ago and found lots of old stamps inside. I've used most of them up and have to buy some more. Thanks for the suggestions.
I love postage stamps and I do adore using them in collage and collaged greeting cards. I currently own about 140 of them. I hope to purchase a variety of colors to choose from because I particularly enjoy placing just the right shade to go with my projects. Your collection is amazing! Love the idea of the displayed bundles! How fun❣️
👍👍Great information! Thanks for the tips. Cool story of the adorable bundles. I'm nuts for stamps myself and have collected them all my life. I've only used a couple in collages but plan to use more as I learn to collage.
Fantastic video! Love the great ideas. I recently got someof my late father-in-law’s non valuable stamps, but have felt vaguely sacrilegious in desperately wanting to incorporate them into my art... they are not valuable just pretty! Thank you again! Have subscribed and look forward to working my way through your channel.
I love the art of stamps and have be "collecting" (I use that term very loosely) favorites over the years (writers/Disney villains, dogs, coffee, etc.) but once I started watching your videos decided I NEEDED to add stamps to my collage work and junk journals. I recently received my first pack of misc. US stamps and I'm looking forward to growing my new collection (that's just for collage). Thanx for the inspiration 🌼
Neat!! Yes, it's so cool to get "new" stamps once in a while. I still get interesting sets I see at stamp shows, even though I probably wont get around to collaging with them anytime soon. Just so many out there!
Funny this, last night I soaked a bunch of stamps off a parcel, have not done that since a teenager doing this with my mother. I get some stamps at a local market and possibly have a look at a goodwill place? After watching one of your videos yesterday I am definitely going to start using stamps in my collage art 😀 I have a small bag of cat stamps I got from a stamp and coin dealer at a local market and the others I soaked last night. I will go through the envelopes I have been saving to make those envelope books with and spray the stamp with water then leave it soak off and grow my collection from there 😂 That is such an interesting find with those stamps. oh, and the 'Canis Familiaris' is 'common dog' basically.
Fascinating video. Love your ideas. I inherited my dad’s big box of stamps, which includes many first issue stamps on envelopes. Any ideas on what to do with those? Tear out the stamp? It’s a bit overwhelming!
I bought my first big bag of stamps through FB Marketplace. Since then I have picked up boxes of stamps at yard sales, flea markets and even a silent auction. My average cost is usually around $5.
Love your video. Thanks so much for sharing. It’s very inspiring and has sparked an interest in me. Your stamp books are lovely and I want to start doing the same.
I found that Hobby Lobby has a couple sacks for about $8. Each sack has a ton of stamps from different countries. My opinion- totally worth it.
Enjoyed this a lot. I collected stamps as a hobby when I was in my young teens. I still look at stamps differently than most people I find one on an envelope that catches my eye I take it off and keep it. I also still buy blocks of new ones that I find intriguing. I think once one has a love of stamps it never really leaves. I especially love ones that look like little pieces of art. Currently I tend to buy from the post office or Etsy sellers. I do love to put unique stamps on any mailings I do. Some of my “friends” think it’s “nerdy” but that’s ok by me 😂😂😂I look at them as art.
I buy lots of stamps from the post office, too, both for personal, but also for the art swaps I host. I love it!! I love shopping for stamps and thinking of creative ways to use them 😉
I also collect them art also and I love looking through the.
iM SURE THE 'artist' that designed the stamp, appreciates that thought ;-)
Your little bundles are called 'bundleware' and they were often sold to people who made up mixed packets of stamps for sale. You can still buy them, though modern sellers tend to wrap them with paper strips instead of string. I am at the beginning of my collage/junk journal journey but got my first stamp album aged 5. I stopped collecting for many years but discovered my grandpa's boyhood collection from the 1920s in my mum's garage last year and have been a bit obsessed ever since! I love all the colours and the little history lessons they contain. I think I need to use your little books as inspiration to stop endlessly sorting and actually make some art!
Nice, Melissa!! How cool that you have your grandfathers collection to look at. What a treasure 💙
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with just enjoying the stamps either!😊That’s so special to have opportunity to see things through the lens of your grandpa’s young life!
Have you heard of an en-masse journal or gluebook? That's what I'm currently making.
Hello Margarete,
Postcrossing is a wonderful community if you want to sent/ received postcards and stamps all around the world !
Thanks a lot for your wonderful ideas to create - Mélody
I've enjoyed sending cards through Postcrossing! 👍💜
I also love stamps since I was child. They are miniature works of art.
I love stamps too! I save them all the time and use them in my journals and scrapbooks. I find them so interesting!
I like getting stamps with the papers on too. A whole different vibe to a collage
Sometimes at estate sales where the person was a collector. My mother in law collected stamps for years, not organized or in books, when she passed I found 2 large zip lock bags full of stamps she had saved for years. Most were separate a lot were just torn from envelope with machine canceled marks and all. It was a great find.
I got the bug for collecting stamps to use in papercrafting a few years ago. Like you, I love looking at them and sorting them, so much so that I have trouble using them in projects unless I have multiples. They are truly works of art. I have the same story for my button collection. I don't use them as often, but I can't get rid of them. I could look at them everyday and not get tired of their hypnotic beauty. I found the great majority of my stamps and buttons at garage sales, estate sales and thrift stores. With estate sales, look for postings online for sales near you. They usually list postage stamp and button collections and even show pictures.
Ha! I know what you mean by looking and sorting but not using. I have a box of buttons that belonged to my grandmother and I can't bring myself to use them. I do love estate sales. I don't find them that often, though.
The accounting department where I work save me all the envelopes that have postage stamps on them. I have accumulated a LOT of stamps that way. You have given me some great ideas how to use them.
Nice!!👍🏼 I’m so glad you are going to get those saved envelopes out and find a use for them 😉👍🏼💙
I have found the best place to get large volumes of stamps to be online auctions for stamp/coin collectors and estate sales. Often right at the end of the listings are the random boxes of unsorted and not valuable stamps that collectors are less interested in. I got a very large haul for a lot less than ebay or FB marketplace this way and have had hours of fun sorting and bundling them. Your ideas for collage and art with stamps are amazing, I have always loved the postal influence in your work.
Neat!! I have never tried an online auction. I want to experience it at least once. Do you have one you recommend?
I had something similar happen to me. I went to my first stamp and coin show and was looking at the things at a stamp table. After telling me where this and that category could be found on his table, he finally showed me a big box full of miscellaneous "junk." It was exactly what I wanted. I got a lifetime's worth of stamps for about $30.
I have used postage stamps in collage for several years but I also buy vintage unused stamps to send holiday cards in the mail. It makes the envelope like a mini collage when you need several stamps that add up to a first class letter rate.
I do that too, but then I get tired of all those 3 and 4 cent stamps, when I need to get to 60-something cents 😂
I love all things postal - personal snail mail has always been a highlight for me from when as a child I would receive letters from my grandmother. I originally got started with cancelled postage stamps when I found large ziplock bags of them several times at thrift/second hand stores for really cheap. I sort mine by country, and my US stamps I sort by theme, such as Animals, Music, Flowers, Parks/Nature, People (further subdivided), Patriotic, Architecture, etc. I have some generic looking ones (lots of the people stamps) sorted by color. I actually bought those ziplock bags of used stamps long before I got interested in making mail art postcards, but now I have a wonderful supply of them - probably enough to last a lifetime. LOL. This was a very useful and inspirational video, Margarete. Thank you!
I love your homage to postage stamps at the end!
Thank you ❣️😉👍🏼
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of postal stamps and how to use them. Very interesting!
Loved this video!
While traveling to different places and bases and countries ( prior military spouse)…..my mother wrote to me frequently……sending goody packages all the time from home……I diligently cut all the stamps from the packages and saved them. This was many years ago…
Watching you share has me thinking it’s time to unpack my stamps and organize them for use in my journals and albums and projects!
I also have a huge collection of pub mats…….these too will be interesting to take out and just have fun sorting and remembering…..
New subscriber to your channel here for ideas and lots of inspiration 🤗🤗🤗
How lovely! That's awesome you saved all those stamps from letters from your mom. I'm glad you'll be getting them out 💜.
Yes, I do use postage stamps. Love them. Blessings.
I collect all the stamps that come on the envelopes of Christmas cards and when I have enough I make them into a Masterboard which I then scan and print. These make great designs for Christmas cards, much better than just throwing the stamps away with the envelopes. Thanks for showing us how you use them. Angela x
Whaat a great way to use holiday stamps, Angela! Thanks for sharing your idea 👍💙
@@MargareteMiller You're welcome xXx
I am new both to collecting and using them for paperart, but I found 4 albums "third" hands and are using them in my paperwork now. I am so thankful for finding your channel and your live for stamps, and are looking for more out there....here in Denmark we hardly use poststamps for sending letters anymore and we even hardly sends letters anymore - everything is electronic Love your atr...
I'm so glad you are using postage stamps in your work!! You will probably never run out of ideas on how to use them. Atleast, I don't 😉
I’m so glad I’m not the only one that obsesses over stamps. My last haul I bought 508! Yep counted each and every one of them, and sorted, plus of course drooled. Then put them in separate bags, wrote the theme, and wrote how many were in each one. Then took some out and looked at them, drooled again and finally put them up. 🤣
I feel super spoiled because I have a coin/stamp store a few minutes away as well as a every Saturday flea market which is about 10 or so minutes away. We also have oodles of vintage stores and markets within 30 minutes It’s a good bad thing!😆
I’m so glad I found you a few days back! I love your little books of stamps!!! Thank you for your inspiration!
Oooh! A coin and stamp store near by. Lucky you! How fun to get to look through your stash of stamps!! 😉
@@MargareteMiller I forgot to say that because I bought a bundle of the stamps along with antique and vintage letters post card etc. that the price was about about .20 cents for all those stamps. That was the deal of the year:) I went again yesterday bought some that were from France and Japan the two bags were $10. Then some loose ones that were about $3. Of course had to go get more 🤣 because want I to do the journal stamp pages like you because your video was so inspiring!!!
Thanks for sharing your ideas. I have my old childhood stamp collection as well as my son’s Rupert Bear stamp album. I love looking through them and it always brings back memories.
Sometimes I love just looking through the albums too. I do like to fill them up with the pretty ones.
So as a kid, my husband collected stamps. They were stored in big binders which has stayed on our selves all our married life...44 years but longer for him. It wasn't until I stated watching your videos did I know what to do with them. Collage Art!!! Yipppeee!!! Thanks always for the inspiration.
I hope he'd be ok with you using some. Hopefully he won't mind 😉
This may be a really long comment...the genre's name is ARTZIE STAMPS. This includes many forms of art which incorporates postage stamps. In 1993, I designed, created many Artzie Stamp collages. What I did was create traditional quilt patterns using cancelled stamps from around the world. I have some photos but they are in slides...who knew we would soon be carrying around our own cameras? Slides? I cant even find anyone to make prints from them.
I have gather quite a few stamps over the last few years as I just love to use them in my collages... Picking just the right colour or its picture on the stamps I just love that... My friend in the Netherlands found a box on a Craigs List site and she has given me some of those as well as what I get on various mailed ephemera. I love them... I lost my uncle a few years ago and he was a stamp collector, I'm hoping I can persuade my aunt to part with them 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻😁😁💖
I’m new to collage art so I just ordered a small batch of stamps from Etsy. Your journals are so inspiring. I can’t wait to get started adding them to mine 😃
Nice!! Stamps are so fun to play with. I could sit with them for hours!! 💜
What unusual finds! They’re beautiful in their bundles. 😊
Oh yes, hope you’re learning from your watch
I saw stacks of stamps and bunches of plastic bags full of stamps at an estate sale the other day., but didn't get any. I had seen you had a new video on using stamps and wanted to check that out. Also wanted to revisit what i had done with my stamps years ago (haven't done much lately as I've been spending much time in caretaking our old dog who has now passed}. Hope to find some stamps today at the 75% off day of the estate sale now that I have also reviewed my box and listened to your video. I'm excited again! Thanks for your serendipitous post and as always your delightful work.
Good luck on getting a hold of those!! Even if they're not beautiful stamps, I'm sure you can find a way to use them. Did you know you can also turn them over and rubber stamp on the back side?!! 😉
Love those small books. I used to collect stamps since I was a young child. Still have most of them but not in the books I used to put them in, too bulky. Couldn't part with the stamps, this is a great idea, especially the fact that they have themes and are the size of pasports. I could start with my very old ones that I've had since I was 12 and we moved to Germany for three years. (Only 64 years ago.)
Wonderful, Carmen! I'm glad you've got a new idea to play with, using stamps. Have fun with it! 💜
Another great video. I received a bundle of large cancelled stamps. I had no idea what I would do with them. Now I am going to interpret some of your ideas into my style and incorporate them into my collage books. I love all types of paper. The only problem I encounter is finding the time to watch videos, which are so inspiring and then work on my projects. So little time😊………
I'm enjoying your videos. Thank you for ideas of where to find stamps. I would mount those stamp bundles in rows on a canvas board. A 3d art piece.
You are so articulate. A new fan here
Thanks for stopping by, Louise.💙
Fascinating as always and, oh my gawd, those little notebooks!!! I have lots of unused stamps left over from when the postage rates kept changing years ago, I'll have to start using them in collage. Thanks for more inspiration to keep me gluing!
Awesome!! I'm glad you've got some new ideas to play with 😉💜
Hi Margarete, I Love stamps!! I get them on etsy as well and use them in my collage, scrapbook and journals! My mom sent a box of stamps last year from her Rock Clubs storage bin...no one knew why they were there and she is so sweet to have thought of me to donate them to!! I have to revisit them as I have moved and have not had time to put them in my stamp book!! TFS Peace to you!
Nice!! And what a lovely mom you have ❤️
Great story about how you found all those bundles of postage stamps. I don’t have any old stamps but I’m inspired to find some.
Wonderful, Sandra. I hope you acquire a bunch soon so that you get to play. It's so fun!
I would love to find postage stamps. I go from time to time to a flee market, but didn’t found them yet. One day will be my lucky day 🤩🤩🤩
I was surprised and happy to see the bundles of very old Danish postage stamps. I'm in a strange way glad that you take so good care of them. I collected postal stamps as a child and also as a grown up. Now I use them to embellish my junk journal. I prefere postage stamps with numbers. I like how you use yours and the small books. I sometimes find it difficult to use my stamps because I have been collected them for some many years and know so much about them. Thanks for sharing 😊
It's fun to make your own stamps with "clear stamps". My husband's grandpa was a stamp collector. When he died, my husband inherited his collection. We've never gone through them. Perhaps we should.
I hope you will! There should be some you can use for creative purposes 👍🏼
I really enjoyed this video. Those little bundles of stamps are just the best, what a treasure! All of the collages that you showed are so awesome, you are an amazing artist. I love stamps ... well, I love anything mail related!! 😀💌📮When my niece asked if I could make something for her kids "100 days of school Museum project," I put on my thinking cap. Something of 100 things and not too difficult to mail. Of course, a poster of 100 stamps!! 😀Thanks so much for sharing.
I love stamps too :) I’ve found some coin dealers end up with stamps and I really like to collage with the one on paper.
I've seen stamps with coin dealers too. Somehow they go together... .
Hi Margarete! I collected stamps as a child and YA and i have carried that collection with me for over 40 years. My love of stamps awoke when i started journaling. This is a great video, i learned a few new ways to use my stamps. Thank you!💙
Wonderful, Tavane! Thanks for watching 💙
Margarete, you do some really interesting, creative videos, and I too love postage stamps. They are all just miniscule little pieces of art, with ziggy edges! I usually use them in my collage journals and I adore the variety of colors. LOVED your little bundles of stamps at the end here, with string wrapped around them. I saw something like that years back, and had totally forgotten where or why, but LOVE it! Your kids both sound like adorable, little gems. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Thank you.
I loved this. I love stamps, too!
What a wonderful video as always! Thank you!!! As a junk journalist, I add mine to clusters, journaling cards, envelopes... They come in so handy when you just need to fill in a little empty space too! They are so versatile!
Exactly, Pat. They fill in a little empty space so perfectly 😉
I love stamps! So nice to meet another creative stamp lover. I have a friend that works in an office who saves the stamps from envelopes. I like to use them in card making by layering and framing them so they look like tiny masterpieces. I also love the sorting and store them in big glass jars. Loved your many ideas! Thanks for sharing!❣️
Neat! So nice your friend saves them for you. 💙
I like that someone else looks at them like tiny masterpieces. I never thought of displaying (storing) them in glass jars 👍❤️
Hi!
I have seen bags of postage stamps, US and World, at Hobby Lobby (US) for a modest price.
I haven't purchased any there , but it is another option for easy acquisition.
I enjoyed your video very much! I too love to sort, categorize, and collage with stamps. :)
I really liked the idea of collaging and then using a punch. Those hearts looked like they were jumping off the page.
I want to experiment with using a punch more with my stamps. I was thinking I could use a small round punch and collage with a bunch of circles. So many ideas! I hope you'll experiment, too 👍.
I started collecting as a young child (I’m now almost 65) when my grandmother had a nursing home and would get stamps from the clients to give to me. This was in the early 1960s. In my 20s I bought blocks , sheets etc from the post office and still cut stamps off of envelopes today. I loved your video today, it gave me ideas for some of my collection.
Nice!! I hope you found some inspiration and ideas to use some in your work 🙂
Love the bundles. It’s like you’re honouring the person who’s hands first tied them. 💖
Thanks, Debbie. I think so too. Someone went to a lot of work to do that many years ago. The fruits of their labor are appreciated! ❤️
I really enjoyed this video. I just purchased stamps from Amazon and can't wait to get my hands on them! I also like to make own stamps. I believe the program I used was from Red Castle ... a rubber stamp company. My pc is down right but I can the link I will definitely share with you.
Hi, yes, I use posted stamps, and you have given me some new ideas. Thanks.
Nice!! I’m so glad 👍🏼
I love stamps. Collected them on and off when I was a kid and not such a kid. I am fascinated by the stories they tell (topic) as well as the sheer art and production skills. Not much to add to stamp sources except occasionally find an album at the local thrift store. (Hit and miss). Another thing I do with particularly interesting stamps is photocopy them and enlarge them x200 or whatnot. Really fun way to get a different scale. Love the passports booklets you showed. Why do I suddenly need one??? 🤣🤣🤣 thank you so much for sharing.
I, too, have enlarged stamp images. Some stamps are just soooo beautiful! Yes! Go buy a "passport" (or make one) and then load it up with stamps 😉.
Wow this was so interesting. Of course I've heard of stamp collecting, but using them as art is so beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for you kind comments, Velma! 💜
Fascinating and your art speaks to me. I have a collection and am journaling. You are a huge inspiration
Thank you so much! ❤️
I bought a large plastic bin at a thrift store for $20. Many were sorted into glassine envelopes and jumbled into old checkbook boxes. I shared them with friends and sort as needed. The collector's driver's license was inside... I think he'd appreciate how much I enjoy his collection.
Wow! What a nice souvenir from the previous owner -- his driver's license!! Ha! 🙂
Stamps have such amazing stories to tell. I’m not a collector but I clip and save them from my received mail and use them in journaling. Thank you for sharing 🤗
I agree, Marilyn, stamps do have a lot to tell 😉
Thank you Margarete. Always love seeing your beautiful work. I, too, love to sort and look at these individual pieces of tiny art. I have bags and bags of old stamps and, like you, use them on ATCs. But I love your idea of a postage stamp dedicated book. My biggest quandary was how to store them. . . by color, by image, by country? Haven't landed on one particular way. I also have a book like your sister-in-law gave you and that's handy to see some of them. I have mini little zip locks also that store some by color. Thanks again!
I try all different things and still haven't discovered a method I like 100%. It also depends on how often you are using stamps in your work. If it's not that often, then just having them in a Ziploc is fine.
Great video! I too, LOVE using stamps in my work! I use them often in my Junk Journals, collages, and in many of the ephemera pieces that I make. I buy stamps from several fellow sellers on Etsy, but I have also bought stamps at yard sales, and antiques shops. And of course, I cut off the stamps from my mail, too! I keep a jar on my counter for those modern stamps that I cut off when I review my mail. Stamps are just so fun to use! 😃
I like using them in junk journals too. I love turning a page and have one pop right out at you 😉💙
2 sources of stamps: 1. craft/art supply thrift stores- there are a bunch around the US and 2. Buy Nothing/Freecycle sites or email groups. I received an envelope of mostly South American stamps this way.
Neat!! Thanks for the tips! 🙂
About a year ago, my sons bought an appartement block that belonged to a lady who died a while ago, and in the basement was a whole room FILLED with albums and boxes of stamps, from ceiling to floor, on tables, on shelves, everywhere!
There were so much that I couldn't take it all but I kept the albums and several boxes of stamps, and they were all bundled the exact same way yours were, tied together with tiny paper straps. I will never be able to use them all, but I'm trying real hard :)
Wow! What a find!! 💙
I love using stamps in my collages, ever since I saw yours. I was fortunate to win Australia stamps on Julie's chanel. 2 times. I share some of them with my Great grandson, who collects stamps. 🖌🎨 (art and junk journals with Julie)
I've just started using postage stamps in my art and was so glad to see this video. I love the sorting process too!
LOVE postage stamps too!! This was really fun seeing how you use & create art w/ them...beautiful!! Another idea...Hobby Lobby craft store sells various bundles of stamps too.
Cool! Thanks for that tip. I'm not sure if I have Hobby Lobby in my area. I will look it up.
Wow! I did not know that. Thanks.
I have a stamp album all sorted by color but I keep forgetting to use them!! I love them and it is probably my way of hoarding them, lol! I love watching you use them in your collage art and you are inspiring me to use them way more than I do normally. I had just found your channel through my sister and I am so happy I did!!! Thank you for all your helpful videos!! ❤️❤️
Thanks for your lovely comments, Kim! I'm so glad you've got a stamp album to play with 😉💙
I used to work for a fairly large international company and my friend opened the mail. I asked her to save any interesting stamps for me with only a vague idea what I was going to do with them. if you have access to something similar it's a great way to get some free interesting stamps.
What a good idea! 👍
Like you I would have displayed the little bundles…I love them. I bought a baggie of stamps from eBay several years ago and when my mom past 7 years ago I discovered that she had saved every greeting card with the envelopes so I have those stamps as well. Now my husband looks for different stamps on our incoming mail. Love to used them in collage.
Neat! Looks like you've got your eye always looking out for ways to gather stamps. That's so nice that your mom saved those cards. ❤️
I'm fascinated by postage stamps! I've saved them all my life. I went to stamp auctions 20 years ago and have huge boxes of stamps lol. The majority of them have little or no value. I need to start using them in my art. I really enjoy your videos! Love the ideas you've shared here. Going to make a small book like yours! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Awesome, Mary! 💙
So beautiful Stamp bundles !
I know! I love those little stacks 💙💜❤️
Hi! Loved the video. I picked up a gallon Ziploc bag of stamps at a thrift store for $5. Unfortunately there were no inverted Jenny's 😊
I plan on using them in my collage/art boxes. Thanks for your suggestions.
I sometimes buy digital kits on Etsy. One of my purchases was a page postage stamps with a specific theme. After purchasing ( and downloading) the digital kit I can print as many copies as I want. Just another source of images
Yep, that's another great idea! 👍 💙
I am a new collager. Started last year with your prompts in your Collage Challenge, then moving house got in the way. I started again the beginning of the year and Covid-19 tripped me up. Even though I started up last week again it is going slowly and yesterday when I looked at my collages I realised that I left some pieces too big. I still have a huge problem tearing paper and images. The only stamps I have used thus far were the ones that appeared in your prompts. I have made only one collage thus far that is my own creation and...NO STAMPS. Thanx for this video. I will definitely use stamps and rubber or clear stamps more often in my collages. I find collaging very relaxing and inspiring.
Awesome, Paula! I'm glad you've gotten some new ideas to play with ❣️ 🙂
Very cute little bundles of stamps! I use postage stamps for color spots in collage.
Exactly! They are color spots. 🙂
Hello, Margarete. I'm so glad I found your videos on TH-cam. I like to use postage stamps in my collages, too...and just stamps in general. Your little journals are inspiring. I will be making my own "Moon Passport" as soon as I get over Covid properly. Keep up the good work. 🙂
Awesome, Bonnie! You can find those books online. Even Amazon carries them. They're so fun 😉
I recently became interested in using stamps in my junk journals as a result of finding your channel and binge watching your videos. I have recently completed several projects inspired by you. This video inspires me too!!! Thank you so much for sharing your love of paper with us!!
Awesome, Tammy! Thanks for your kind comments ❤️. I'm so glad you are finding projects you like working on. 👍
You are a person after my own stamp-loving heart!❤ I started collecting as a kid and I continue to do so - mostly for the beauty of the stamps. Each one is like a miniature painting or work of art in itself. I love to look at them and to sort them. I cut up stamp catalogs all the time for collage, and I also buy inexpensive used stamps from Mystic stamp company. I keep separate stamps for collecting and for artwork. Your box of bundles is beautiful! Thank you for sharing your stamp art as well. You have inspired me to get creating. (I also save stamps from letters & cards. Of course, today’s stamps are stickers, but still beautiful and I still save them them for use in my scrapbooks and journals. I love Christmas and holiday stamps from each year, and I have also collected the love stamps and stamps of literary figures! There is so much to learn through stamps!❤
I've heard of Mystic Stamps! I need to check out their website. Thanks for the idea! I like holiday stamps too, and have a little tin box just for those 😉
Marvellous! Love the story at the end!
Thanks, Jennifer❣️ 🙂
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these ideas! Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks for sharing how you use stamps in your art. I always like the way they look, but I haven’t tried it yet. I recently attended the local library book sale & I was able to score a few pages of stamps from them. Now, I have inspiration to use them!
Awesome, Gail! Have fun with them❣️ 🙂
I love postage stamps and use them on my ATCs and collages and sometimes I use them as decoration on poems I frame to hang and enjoy. I love what you have done in this video and am off to look for Stamp Shows in my city and passport books. Thank you for the wonderful ideas!
Yay! I hope you find a stamp show near you. 🙂👍
@@MargareteMiller there is one at the end of the month in fact, right here in Denver! :)
Cool video! TFS! Prompted me to look in my attic-(I know worst place ever) for stamps I had -I ended up with a big plastic bin of stamps! I collected as a child because we lived in the country & wasn’t much to do really 🤔 my kids dabbled in it for awhile & what I have from all of that
Some are stuck with hinges to collector books -obviously not archival -so I def will be using a lot of these In collages now-I did enjoy looking through a lot of them -I’m anxious to see collector albums look nowadays? Since I can’t believe they still use hinges -gonna make a trip to Hobby Lobby soon! I really love looking at all the diff designs & colors!
Wow!! A trip to the attic! 💜 I hope you did a quick look around to see what else you could bring down to put in your art 😉.
I share your love of postage stamps. My favorites are the older, art-deco inspired, usually just one or two colors, that look engraved. Works of beauty! And I agree, they make lovely focals for any type of collage. I love to use them in greeting cards as well. :) I think my love of stamps comes from when I was younger. I remember we went to the home of one of my dad's coworkers. He pulled out these huge albums of stamps. I was completely fascinated and I begged my parents to get me some stamps! I have no idea where that stuff is now...
What a nice memory, Dawn. It sounds like you would enjoy perusing a stamp show. You might think about it 😉 👍
I have collected stamps for many years. Funny and different stands so what a great video on how to use them..LOVE IT 😍
Tina 👩🏻🎨
Thank you! 💜
Loved the story about your kids helping you! Such precious memories!
I use stamps here and there. I found mine at an antique store. Or I take them off my mail.
Awesome, Tonya, that you've got some to play with. 😉
Love your collages and ideas.
Love stamps, I use them on everything. You can never have to many stamps, lol.
I agree! Never too many 👏🏼❣️😉
Oh my goodness your stamp collections are beautiful!! You are an amazing artist! Thanks so much for sharing♥
Thank you, Beverly. That's kind of you to say 🙂
I use real stamps and fake stamps in my collaging. I bought an old tin several years ago and found lots of old stamps inside. I've used most of them up and have to buy some more. Thanks for the suggestions.
I love postage stamps and I do adore using them in collage and collaged greeting cards. I currently own about 140 of them. I hope to purchase a variety of colors to choose from because I particularly enjoy placing just the right shade to go with my projects. Your collection is amazing! Love the idea of the displayed bundles! How fun❣️
I'm totally with you on liking to have just the right stamp to match shades of color. It's so satisfying when that works! 💜
I find I have A lot of used stamps with not much to do with them so you’ve given me lots of ideas to make a collage with them
Super! I'm so glad to hear it❣️ 👍
👍👍Great information! Thanks for the tips. Cool story of the adorable bundles. I'm nuts for stamps myself and have collected them all my life. I've only used a couple in collages but plan to use more as I learn to collage.
Nice, Debbi! I'm glad you'll be using stamps more often. They add so much to your work. 👍
I just made a journal cover by collaging stamps on a piece of card stock.
Oh, that must be a pretty cover!! I'm sure you love it ❣️
Fantastic video! Love the great ideas. I recently got someof my late father-in-law’s non valuable stamps, but have felt vaguely sacrilegious in desperately wanting to incorporate them into my art... they are not valuable just pretty! Thank you again! Have subscribed and look forward to working my way through your channel.
Thanks for watching, Annie. 💜 I do hope you will experiment with some stamps, even if they aren't your father-in-law's. 🙂
I love the art of stamps and have be "collecting" (I use that term very loosely) favorites over the years (writers/Disney villains, dogs, coffee, etc.) but once I started watching your videos decided I NEEDED to add stamps to my collage work and junk journals. I recently received my first pack of misc. US stamps and I'm looking forward to growing my new collection (that's just for collage). Thanx for the inspiration 🌼
Neat!! Yes, it's so cool to get "new" stamps once in a while. I still get interesting sets I see at stamp shows, even though I probably wont get around to collaging with them anytime soon. Just so many out there!
Lovely!
Thx for the usefull information.
Funny this, last night I soaked a bunch of stamps off a parcel, have not done that since a teenager doing this with my mother.
I get some stamps at a local market and possibly have a look at a goodwill place?
After watching one of your videos yesterday I am definitely going to start using stamps in my collage art 😀 I have a small bag of cat stamps I got from a stamp and coin dealer at a local market and the others I soaked last night. I will go through the envelopes I have been saving to make those envelope books with and spray the stamp with water then leave it soak off and grow my collection from there 😂
That is such an interesting find with those stamps.
oh, and the 'Canis Familiaris' is 'common dog' basically.
Wonderful, Kerry! It's sounds like you have got some fun work ahead of you 😉👍💜 I'm glad you'll be keeping an eye out for more.
By the way I come from Denmark 🇩🇰 😀👍 funny to see old ones 👍😀
Fascinating video. Love your ideas. I inherited my dad’s big box of stamps, which includes many first issue stamps on envelopes. Any ideas on what to do with those? Tear out the stamp? It’s a bit overwhelming!
If it's the entire envelope, then you can collage straight on that. If it's just a torn portion, then I'd definitely recommend that you soak them off.
Thank you so much for this inspiration 😍
I bought my first big bag of stamps through FB Marketplace. Since then I have picked up boxes of stamps at yard sales, flea markets and even a silent auction. My average cost is usually around $5.
Aha! FB Marketplace. That's a new idea for me. Thanks!! 💜
omg I love these! I regret giving away a shoebox of stamps a few years ago...
Love your video. Thanks so much for sharing. It’s very inspiring and has sparked an interest in me. Your stamp books are lovely and I want to start doing the same.
Awesome, V! It's so fun and so relaxing to play with gluing stamps in a book. Even if you just line them up in rows and glue them down, it's so fun!