Stamp-tear-off recycle series: Andrea Doria "maxicard"
Again, the card is "collaged"with the tear-off scraps from postage stamps. Here all bits are only from 2 different stamp designs. The front of the card is hot laminated, but a window was cut out of the laminating foil beforehand so the "Andrea Doria" stamp could be placed in the window after lamination for mailing. It can be postmarked, and if someone collects stamps, the stamp itself is not ruined by lamination.
These look sooo simple, but sometimes it's a task.
-you may not have enough scraps to fill the space
-the scraps may be the wrong sizes, so you end up with small gaps you don't have the right size piece for
-Laying them all out first helps, but they scoot and slide around and when you go to stick them on it's easy to place them wrong.
The easier way is the stamp collages where the stamps overlap each other, but I didn't have that many scraps and wanted to be able to make a few of these.
Not sure how long I'll have this splint on and while I do, cutting with scissors or working with cutters isn't a great idea, so I have to stick to the "easier" techniques.
February 11, 2011 at 7:47 PM
Kugush, I gleaner some of these Andrea Doria stamps (cancelled) from a package from my friend in German. Also, some with angels holding hearts, which I also liked very much. Love this card, no idea what you're talking about in the process. ha ha ha
February 11, 2011 at 8:08 PM
well you know when you buy regular "lick and stick"stamps, there's usually a block of several stamps, and around it, like a picture frame, a perforated "border"that you usually tear off and throw away.
This border/edge from the stamps I buy I always save. For example, those fishes in this card were the border to the andrea doria stamps. And the shells were the border of a very common German stamp many of you will know, with a black background and a dinosaur skeleton.
I save all these borders, and when I have enough of one color group or of some theme, I make a postcard out of them.
Does that make any sense?
February 11, 2011 at 8:09 PM
DANG! I've just gone through my recycle bin and dug all of these borders out. I was just throwing them away when I read this comment!
Consider that you have done your environmental good deed for today Kugusch!
February 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM
yay! I like good deeds!
I've got a bunch more cards like this planned out for the next few days and have one style planned I've done once before that I can't wait to share!
Hint: Typography
February 11, 2011 at 8:41 PM
Can I take a guess? are you joining in Alphabet February? You don't do anything by halfs do you! Taking mailart 365 both backwards AND forwards from #70 AND doing Alphabet month too.
I'm certainly waiting with baited breath
February 11, 2011 at 9:24 PM
You're so lucky that your stamp borders have something on them. In Australia the borders are just blank. Some have a tiny little Koala but you can't really tell what it is unless you already know. I'm jealous.
If they're lick and stick why did you laminate them?
February 11, 2011 at 9:26 PM
That's a point - most of ours are blank too. Are they all illustrated Kugusch?
February 11, 2011 at 9:49 PM
no, not all. The border with the shells, for example, is from a sheet where every other segment has the shell on it, the other ones are plain white.(you can see in the picture) But I use those, too.
Initially I saved them because I wanted to just lay them out on a paper, then rubber stamp them, and use them seperately.
So even the blank ones can be used without problems! Some had handwritten inventory numbers on them that I used to discard, but later on I started saving those, too, and use them in typographically themed cards.
The card blanks I buy are rather thin, and I've received many postcards where lick-and stick stamps are partially torn up and/or peeled off from the sorting machines.
The lamination gives the card a nice finish with an almost professional look, protects them from damage and makes the card a lot sturdier.
I bought the hot lamination machine at a discount store for about 18 Euro. When I first started, It was complicated, because I couldn't work ahead...I had to have the card written and addressed before laminating.
Then I played around some and figured out that I can laminate JUST the front, leave the back unlaminated. That way I can make up cards ahead that are ready to mail when needed, and I can cut the ENTIRE lamination border away right along the edge of the card.
That way it's easier, uses half the amount of laminating foil, therefore cheaper, so a win-win.
If any of you are rubber stampers, give it a go...just lay the borders out on a scrap paper and go wild stamping on them!
If any of you are familiar with serendipity squares, it works in just about the same way.
February 19, 2011 at 3:06 PM
very very interesting....and I love how we all reuse and repurpose things...very green of us, don't you think?
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