Showing posts with label coordinating image and postage stamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coordinating image and postage stamp. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Coordinating cards, envelopes, and postage stamps

I enjoy making greeting cards.  When I saw that the US Post Office was coming out with a bicycle stamp, an idea for a coordinating card popped into my head.  After that I checked the USPS website for other postage stamps that I could coordinate with my rubber stamps.  

Below are the cards I made.  The bicycle set even has an envelope seal that matches.  Two were birthday cards and one was a thank you card I sent to my aunt & uncle who gave me a wonderful manual typewriter (Yeah!).  

I know a postcard that has coordinating front image, postage stamp, and cancellation stamp is called a maximum postcard or maxicard.  I don't know if there is a term for a greeting card / envelope version.  I have no idea how to get coordinating cancellation stamps in the USA for postcards or envelopes or if the USPS even gives an option unless it is a special event of a first issue or something.