January to Riley, Sharen, Susan, Meg and Liz - Mail art - Rudd Janssen

Good news - this is the end of my January. envelopes. Apologies that it was the same stuff for 5 days. I won't be doing this again.

I went back to this stamp and this one would have been fine - except I messed up the background color on Riley's R. I realized that it was more fun to do two different borders on the rectangles.

I only messed up the border on Sharen's S.

Susan's might be one that turned out just fine.

There was one that was not fine and not photographed. 

And I don't remember why I did this one.

I did not have Meg in the alphabetical order because I knew I needed to use 3 stamps.

I like the way the 3 stamps look - and I wish the M had a bolder outline - and finer lines on the border - 

I thought I forgot to photograph Liz's - she was new to the exchange in January.

Then I realized that maybe I forgot to even do her envelope - so I made this one on Saturday and dropped it in the mail. It's foreshadowing of my Feb envelopes. I found these brown envelopes in my stash and will use them up, no matter what. 

I'm scared.

Liz probably hasn't even received this yet....

NOPE - it is not on its way - it came back to me....full story tomorrow

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The surfing from Add&Pass that led to Jayne (yesterday) made me think of Ruud Janssen who was very big in the mail art world - with the IUOMA - International Union of Mail Artists. So I had to see what Ruud was up to these days. His group was so active - back at the turn of the century - but seems to have run its course. Actually - I can't even find the place where people posted requests for participation in mail art exhibits that invited anyone to participate. That's sad.

But Ruud is still making art - so that's nice. And I am quite fond of his style. Actually - he hasn't posted anything since 2021 - so maybe he is doing something else.

I would post an image - but he has a *thing* that pops up that says you MUST request permission to repost any of his images....and that's not something that I can budget time for today. You will know in one click if you have any interest in his work. Or would be inspired by it.

https://artwanted.com/iuoma/gallery/