Haunted House (reuse of postage)

Every so often I get clever ideas with postage stamps (see my "Match the Stamp" tag) but a lot of times they are after-thoughts and I end up using already canceled stamps.

This is one of them!  ;D

 

i took 2 used Halloween-themed ones (windows -- not sure what they're called) to incorporate into this haunted house (which looks more like just a dilapidated house). A for effort!  ;)

Finished with Day of Dead stamp.

Back side. I re-used what I did for Jean Wilson last year 

( https://snailmailingmadness.blogspot.com/2024/10/slime-to-jean-day-6-bewitching-envs.html )

as it was too easy to dupe plus there was little room for her name on the front. (and you know how much I love to use the back side of an envelope!)

#snailmail #mailart #envelopeart #halloweenmail

Banned Boooooks...

To round out Banned Books Week, thought I'd share this last minute idea...

I had the idea for the ghost book pages back in Sept, but then came up with the connection. My post on IG said, "Don't be afraid to read banned books." Any others? ("Banned books aren't scary."? -- actually ended up adding this to the back!)

Close up

Not liking how her named turned out. At least I know I can redo for next year!

with postage

backside

#mailart #snailmail #envelopeart #halloweenmail 

More Scrapbook paper (Pumpkins!)

Had another piece of old paper for scrapbooking (like Jean's bats) so I converted it too!

This one was "perfect" with how the empty spaces matched up for the name and address.

New PTEx person. I felt so clever making some of the pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns!

i also wanted to save my leaves stamps and Day of Dead ones for my October envies, so I used one of the button ones (cuz, let's be honest, sometimes the stamp gets "ruined" by the po with the postmark!) 😉😆

Before

bat scrapbook paper

In the early 2000's I used to do scrapbooking but then I started using Shutterfly's online scrapbooks (however, they got rid of those a few years ago -- waaaa!!!!) Anyway, I had started a Halloween one for my kiddos (which I still could finish) but they won't be as elaborate (or maybe they will! -- depends on how much time I want to give to them! 😆😁)

In going through my papers and boxes, I decided to use my old Halloween scrapbook papers and turn them into envies. Found this one rather fun:

I love that it's not traditional Halloween colors.

Name didn't show up as well as i would have liked but that's ok. (First of my last 5 Day of the Dead stamps!) And first Halloween env. to go out this year! *My leaf stamps would have matched too, but i'm saving those AND I already sent Jean on with them.

I bought some bat stickers since I'm not that great at drawing them and thought they were going to be sparkly but it's just white on them to make them look that way.  😒 BUT at least they're not glittery! (as I hate that glitter that can come off  -- like on cards, etc.)