I have here an envelope.
Inside this envelope are a bunch of old postage stamps. Each one is valued at 5 cents.
Each one is from Canada. And I’m assuming most of them date from the late 1950s through the 1960s.
I want to do something awesome with them, so maybe you can help me come up with some ideas. I’ve seen a lot of things on the internet that are postage-stamp inspired, but the three most common projects that seem to turn up using the actual stamps themselves are these:
I’m not that into découpage, but this stamped table is intriguing (though I don’t have a small table at the moment).
This postage stamp monogram is also interesting, and the Pie and I do share the same first initial (heck, I could probably do ALL of the Pie’s initials with the amount of stamps I have — and he has two middle names).
I also really like the collage of postage stamps, framed and based on colour. Though I feel like this might be better suited for a collection of stamps from all over the world, or one where I don’t have so many stamps of the same design. But we shall see.
This one is my particular favourite, from 1956. I kind of want to blow this one up to poster size and frame it.
Please let me know if you have any ideas!
LOVE the stamps. I have a couple of ideas. One idea might be to find a jewelry box or any type of wood box and decoupage the stamps on to it! Or do the same to a hard case piece of small luggage or perhaps around the frame of a mirror. Have fun!
Bet you’ve already thought of all of these, but here goes:
You could get some resin and make stamp charms for jewelry, key chains, what-have-you.
Lampshade or two? Something like the table idea. Or do the inside of a glass vase ’cause it would look cool, but I guess you couldn’t put water in it after. Maybe even a serving platter if you can get the stamps to sit and stay pretty under a food-safe glaze?
Or you could do a mail box / mail hanger for inside the door, you know what I mean? Those things you use to store something you need to mail the next day so you can grab it on the way out or those bills-holder type things? My grandma had one but I don’t know what they’re called.
I suppose you could even make a challenging jigsaw if you did the stamps in a collage on a board and then cut the pieces all puzzle-wise. But do people even do puzzles anymore?
And just looking at google images… The clock and the handbag at goodnightlittlespoon (http://www.goodnightlittlespoon.com/2011/02/stamp-craft.html) are awesome. I would love to have a bag like that, though I’m not sure it’d be very resilient.
I knew there was a reason I loved you Jess. These are all great ideas!
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I think it is 59 cents to send a letter now. These are uncancelled stamps. Wouldn’t it be fabulous to send a letter to a friend with 12 of these stamps as the postage? The envelope would be very impressive.
I have thought of that, but then I only get to enjoy them the once!
Perhaps consult a collector before you start. It is staggering how much some retro stamps can be worth.
That’s an idea, but I doubt any of these is rare or valuable. My great grandfather had a stamp collection and these are from him, so I’m assuming that they are the ones that weren’t good enough to go in his book.