avebury standing stones artistamp
by aisling d'art

Artistamps are faux postage.  That is, we create our own art/stamps and send them through the mail.  We're not trying to pretend that they're legal postage in the countries from which we mail our letters and cards, but... they look real enough that they might be.

• What are artistamps? - more information

• How-to:
  • Resize your art so it fits on an artistamp.
  • Easily repeat your stamp for a full sheet, using Adobe PhotoShop. 
  • Perforate your stamps.
  • Apply adhesive to them.

• A few 'real' postage stamps, for play and inspiration.

• Links
  • More artistamps sites
  • Lessons in making artistamps
  • More about 'real' stamps, to make your artistamps more convincing

• Aisling's artistamps - with text:
  • Ballynafae: Imbolc 2001 block of four. (1/01)
  • Ballynafae: Kilmallock landscape stamp.
  • Ballynafae: Three sunrise stamps.
  • Hollow Hill, Ghost Poste: Gilson Road Cemetery, celebrating haunted NH.

  More of Aisling's artistamps - images only:

  • April Fool, for the 1 April 2000 ECP. No text and this image is fuzzy. (For the original work, see Darcy's ECP page. That page has over 15 ECP stamps, so it is graphic-intensive and slow-to-load. Worth the wait, IMHO.)
  • Avebury, standing stones, for ECP theme, "Magick & Mystery". No text yet. 8 Apr 00. (Full 300x300 pixel image is here, but it needs to be reduced to 1"x1" for actual ECP use.)
  • Another ECP artistamp by Aisling: Sojourn in Egypt.
  • Hollow Hill series of four, from Ghost Poste.
  • (At top of this page) Avebury, standing stones, modified for use in Ballynafae. No text yet. This stamp is slightly larger than the ECP version, with a denomination of 3p. 8 Apr 00.
  • Create!, a spontaneous stamp issued mid-May 2000.
  • AML anniversary stamp: Lightning, showing my mailbox being electrified by artistamps. 5 Jun 00.
  • AML anniversary stamp: Celebrating!, recognizing one year of brilliant and original artistamps showing up in my mailbox, from (mostly) people I've never met. 5 Jun 00.
  • AML anniversary stamp: Puist, showing the Ballynafae post office (post = puist, in the Irish language). 5 June 00.
  • Phoenix-themed stamp, no text. Mailed on a commercial postcard with a similar color scheme. 20 June 00. (See that here, no text yet.)
  • DisneyWorld tributes, a series of artistamps featuring photos from DisneyWorld. And...
    • DisneyWorld x 4, a Ballynafae tribute. Feb 2001.
    • Tapestry of Nations, six stamps from that Millenium parade.
  • Mardi Gras - South of the Border, another tribute series from Ballynafae. Feb 2001.
  • Six Kilmallock artistamps, featuring scenes from Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, Ireland.
  • Autumn in Santa Flamingo, spring 2002.

  And, a related subject: mailart.