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Sunday, November 27, 2011

This is a UNICATE / UNIKAT greeting card with some unorthodox philatelic collage on it. First, I saw the available pictorial postmark with the 3 MAGI. Then, I found the unusual greeting card made with BANANA BARK onto it. Then, I did NOT find a matching USPS stamp - so I used other stamps, just to get the postmark

This is a UNICATE / UNIKAT greeting card with some unorthodox philatelic collage on it. First, I saw the available pictorial postmark with the 3 MAGI. Then, I found the unusual greeting card made with BANANA BARK onto it. Then, I did NOT find a matching USPS stamp - so I used other stamps, just to get the postmark.


Initially, I wanted to use only a label cut-out with the bird of prey [American kestrel, if you are taxonomically-inclined] only because I wanted THAT postmark onto the card, as they are concordant, somewhat.
Also, falconry is revered by the Arab world.

I did not like how it came out, because I wanted to leave unobscured the STAR from the card - but placing the label onto the black shapes in the bottom-right corner has rendered the postmark not visible enough.
So I did it again.
I affixed another label cut-out over the STAR, so now the details of the postmark are visible.

The point of this contraption, for me, is that even the poorest of the poor persons on Earth could and should have a chance to create something [arts and crafts] for a living (like a banana bark shape for a greeting card).
And the result can be further modified, beautified, enhanced...:)

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Happy Sunday Stamps meme!



2 comments:

  1. A lovely card and lovely comment. thanks for participating.

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  2. The camel in the card gives a look of the old Arab world...great!!!
    Membership card printing

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