A walk through of my postage stamp albums, plus resources for where I get my stamps.
POSTAGE STAMP LINKS:
Compensated affiliate links used when possible…
– USPS.com: https://store.usps.com/store/results/stamps
– Etsy (search for “unused vintage postage stamps”): https://www.etsy.com/
– Edelweiss Post: https://edelweisspost.com/
– Kenmore Stamp Company: https://www.kenmorestamp.com/
– Mystic Stamp: https://www.mysticstamp.com/
– Larger Red Albums: https://amzn.to/3ilnJNw
– Smaller Black Albums: https://amzn.to/3Zez16C
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Ink Combos Guide – Holiday 2021
https://kwdesign.at/holidayinkcombos
Meaningful Messages for Cards:
http://kwdesign.at/cardmessages
Card Sketch Worksheets:
https://kwdesign.at/cardsketchworksheets
My older card sketchbook inserts:
https://kwdesign.at/sketchbookinserts
Card/layer dimensions:
https://kwdesign.at/cardbasicsPDF2
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All the Family Together by Francesco D’Andrea
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Inspired by your stamp video from a few years ago, I now have a (much smaller) collection of usable Australian stamps. It’s so much fun to choose a stamp that matches the colour of the card or envelope I’m using to send a handmade card to a friend! Thanks for sharing your beautiful collection.
I have a binder of stamps I was given by a stranger. I answered an add for free purses and received a box of miscellaneous stuff. The stamps were in the box.
Nice ❤
Thank you for this fun video, Kristina. I always use themed stamps for my cards and, if I have time, I mail my cards from a themed city. For example: Loveland, CO or Valentine, AZ for my Valentines; Hell, MI, Frankenstein, MO or Munster, IN for Halloween; and Bethlehem, PA or Santa Claus, IN for Christmas cards. I package the already stamped cards in a large envelope and mail them to the postmaster at the selected city with a note and it has worked great for years. Yes, it costs extra and, in truth, many of my friends don't notice the postmark, but it is fun for me researching different cities! My family always look for the postmark and comment on the city. I also give stamps as gifts. I like to send "Year of the …" stamps to friends born in the year of the Tiger, Dragon, Bull or Rabbit and themed stamps that have images my friends like – Snoopy, National Parks, Star Wars, etc. I just watched Concord & Ninth's new release video and think I will use the Perfect Matchbox dies/stamps to make Valentines I can hand deliver to friends – think those will be perfect for a small treat and some heart Forever stamps this year. Thanks again for this and all of your fabulous videos! You are always an inspiration and teach me lots of new things.
OMG – what a wonderful collection! I LOVE stamps, too – but don't use them very often anymore, because I don't need to mail most of the cards I make.
I love postage stamp art! It was designed to be used and shared – you are doing the best service to it. Thanks for this video!
Love viewing your stamp collection. You have inspired me to increase what little stamps I have. You have a beautiful collection. Thank you for sharing your passion for us stamps.
So awesome!! Thanks Kristina!! ❤
I love your passion for this beautiful art! It also looks like you are a wool felt collector. I just gave pounds of wool to a friend-a fellow appliquér. I’d planned to do rug hooking, but, yikes, you can have too many collections.
thanks to you, I too am now addicted to postage stamps! I’ve bought some great stamps on Etsy! I enjoy envelope art so much!
Love this video, Kristina! I have start3d ordering my stamps directly from USPS! Love the Otters stamps that are out right now. I purchased a fantastic puzzle from USPS for a Christmas gift this year… of the vintage “Greetings from” stamps for all 50 states.
I love the really colorful postage stamps too. They really dress up an envelope. I have a nice size collection of forever and vintage stamps, not as big as yours, but I just enjoy putting them on an envelope. And the recipients do comment about the stamps also. Kristina, you are the one I got the idea from about these beautiful and colorful stamps. So, I have to thank you. I just ordered some from USPS before the prices go up. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks for making this video and sharing Kristina. I started buying stamp for my sons. My older son would bring to my attention some specific stamps he likes so I buy them online. I have the Mariachi ones, the one when women's right to vote and others. I did find the Elves ones in my local Post Office on December. From you reference I also have bought from Etsy. My problem is that I like some too much that I don't want to use them so I have to buy more.😉😄.
That is so much fun! We don't have this different stamps in Canada, I think. Correct me, fellow Canadians and point me to a source we can find them. Thanks Kristina!!
Enjoyed seeing your lovely collection! I saw some of the ones I sent you in there – I believe the triangle stamps were from me 🙂 Have you played any of the board games I sent? I would love to hear if you liked them. Believe it or not, our first container just arrived before New Year.
Loved your video. Thank you
Kristina this was a great video and I appreciate you sharing your collection with us. Your passion and appreciation for beautiful stamps is just so fun and inspiring. The joy you have for your collection is very heartwarming. Thank you!
WOW, what a collection! You say you're not a collector, I think you're a collector!!! I just love you! Thank you so much for this video. So interesting!
When you were talking about how Forever stamps work, it reminded me of the "olden" days. As Lydia Fiedler would say, in the late 1900s. Do you remember before they started doing Forever stamps, that when they increased the price of a first-class stamp, they would print special stamps to add to the current stamp to make up the difference in price on those stamps? You had to get as many of the stopgap stamps as you had first class stamps, and add both to an envelope while you waited for the postal system to start selling the new higher-priced stamps. And none of them was self-adhesive. I think the additional stamps were designated by a letter to set them apart from regular stamps. We actually still have some of the "G" stamps, though I have no clue if they still even have any value. Anyway, it was great seeing your collection. You have so many stamps, I'd be hard-pressed to pick a favorite! I look forward to your video on how to weigh & calculate postage. I may have to order some "decorative" Forever stamps before the price goes up in a couple of weeks! Thank you for sharing. Take care, & have an awesome day! 🙂
I love collecting postcard stamps! Your collection is amazing!
Thanks for sharing these treasures with us!
Well didn’t realize they had state stamps pretty neat. I live in Ohio!! My birthday is tomorrow! Lol
I didn't see my favorite forever stamps, Message Monsters. Everyone I send them to love them!
This video is fascinating! Thanks so much, Just a quick question…What was your husband's reaction when he saw all your albums??
Thank you! This was delightful. I’ve always loved Stamp collecting. Now I u set stand why 😊
I am geeking out over all your stamps Kristina! I love stamps and have a very, very minor collection and none that are truly vintage, so it was thrilling to see all those you've collected. As a baby boomer, I recognize many in your collection that were from when I was young or a younger adult. Thank you for sharing your vintage sources, I'm excited to go shopping! ❤️
USPS has several coming out later this week so I'll wait to put in an order in a few days! I have many of the vintage stamp that you have; one of my favorites is in the black and white section; the architecture ones. My nephew got his degree a few years ago and I couldn't wait to send him a card using those! I adore the state bird ones (as I love to photograph birds), the hot air balloons, the cactus. I had to go through my 2 books after seeing this video; now I'm off to shop for more!!! Thanks for sharing this fun hobby as a side note to cardmaking! Verde Studio and Pan Handle Postage were 2 of my favorite Etsy shops.
It was so cool to see your beautiful stamp collection! Thank you for all the information you shared, it really added to the fun of the flip through.
Such fun Kristina! I used to collect stamps back in the 60's…. don't know whatever happened to all the ones I collected (Mom probably chucked), but they were fun! You've brought back a great memory to me! Thank you and you have a fab collection!
I can't express enough how much I loved this video and it was so wonderful to know there are others out there like me who enjoy a beautiful stamp. Thanks to a previous video of yours I gathered all my stamps I had all over and put them in a little binder I found with page protectors. I have a few unopened ones (like classic movie monsters) and some where I just saved 1 for a memory. Oh how I wish I had saved more but that's another story. now that I'm able to collect again I have learned to buy multiples. There are old stamps I didn't save and would love but I don't want to pay a ridiculous amount. Guess I'll look into it. You truly made my day!
Love your collection, Kristina! And it's evident how much you love stamps. Have you heard of Postcrossing? I am a Postcrosser and when someone writes on their profile that they love stamps, I will include something that is of interest to them. I got the idea from you and your mail art! Thanks for sharing!
LOVED THIS VIDEO..thanks for sharing your stamps. Iam really happy that your doing mail art again…they are my favorite videos you do..now I want to get some stamps to make my artsy envelopes…
What a beautiful, graphic, collection! This was a fun one and thank you for sharing, Kristina.
Love your topic for January-helpful, informative, just plain fun, and different. Thanks for sharing.
LOVE!
Thanks so much for sharing ❤! I really enjoyed looking at your collection of stamps. I’m so jealous of your stamp collection because it’s such a nice collection. I have a small stamp collection that I keep and a small collection that I use for cards. I have a small vintage collection that I need to put in the books still and might now that you have them linked, thank you. 😊
Kristina, so excited to see your stamp collection. I inherited my dad's entire stamp collection, which include US and international stamps. Vintage and newer. He passed in 2012 so that's the most recent. I am definitely going to start using them on my mail art.
You're so lucky, in Australia we have nothing so fun. Flowers, rivers, bugs, and the royals. 🥱
Another interesting video. I'm away from home in our camper, enjoying seeing your stamps & your sewing room shelves. You're an inspiration. I'll be taking out of my box of things to sell- a little bag of very old stamps I've acquired long ago, maybe my mom.
Well, I clucked your USPS link & placed an order fir s set if Happy Birthday stamps & pre-ordered the cats with hearts stamps coming out Jan. 19.
I love your stamp collection! I started collecting stamps to get my youngest daughter into a hobby, but it ended up being mine. I love acquiring unique stamps, along with florals, animals and bugs. I think they give your card envelopes so much more character.
Love love LOVE this!!! I was a stamp collector as a child (used – got some VERY cool stamps off the letters from missionaries my foils wrote to for several years), and as an adult, I loved having a variety of stamps to choose from for sending letters and cards. My assortment currently lives in a small wooden cigar box, but I love your books! Guess I'll be doing some shopping!
Thanks for a fun, inspiring video on yet another thing we seem to have in common! Cats, cards, diabetes, stamps, lettering, watercoloring… we must be sisters or best friends in a parallel universe! Ha! Seriously, though, I feel like if we ever met in person, we'd end up chatting for hours! Thank you again for your wonderful videos that you share with all of us! Bless you!
I love the De La Renta stamps too! I have a partial sheet and will be sad when they are gone. Thank you for sharing your collection!