Hi! Shopping for postage stamps from the United States Postal Service is one of my favorite things to do. I love that a little stamp can support a cause like animal advocacy, cure for disease, or simply to add joy to an envelope.
Today, let me show you a set of cute postage stamps and the envelope art that was inspired by them.
Do you recognize the art on these postage stamps?
They come from the pages of the beloved children's book Good Night Moon written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd.
Each little stamp shows images from the great green room: the cow jumping over the moon, kittens and mittens, a little toy house and a young mouse, a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush, a quiet old lady who whispering "hush."
Looking at the vibrant colors and listening to the rhymes prompted me to turn a plain envelope from blah to TADA!
This started as a white letter envelope. Add the iconic green and yellow stripes, the yellow frame, and the red balloon using watercolor.
Write the return address on the balloon and the name and address of the recipient (blocked out for privacy) inside the frame, and add a postage stamp...TADA!
Sketching and painting with watercolor.
This is the back...TADA!
This is the front...TADA!
And here they are addressed (I covered the addressed for privacy) and affixed with Good Night Moon postage stamps...TADA!
And that is how I turned plain envelopes from blah to TADA!
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