Disneyland is celebrating its 55th anniversary.  I’m commemorating it with an artistamp design featuring art by my mother, Muriel Joan Bernier (1919 – 2010). The

It’s 2010. It’s time for an artistamp swap. Swaps are such fun! Update: In 2010, I attempted some digital artistamp swaps at AJ (ArtistsJournals community

Q: I want to make some artistamps by hand, not necessarily on the computer. How do I make my art the right size for stamps?

If you’re new to Adobe’s PhotoShop program, it can be overwhelming to figure out all the fabulous bells & whistles it offers. However, it’s a

I wrote the first version of this article around 2002. New perforating options are constantly being developed, tested and marketed. So, this article is dated,

These are a few stamps from my own collection of inexpensive, international postage stamps. They are “real” stamps, used on mail. I like them because

Adhesive backing for artistamps If you’re sending your artistamps for others to use, you probably want to make them as much like “real” postage as

Glue recipes vary from great to disastrous. But, they can be a fine alternative to “lickable” adhesive-backed paper and commercially prepared glues, described in my

Artistamps can be described as fake postage. Some people call them faux postage, Cinderellas, postoids, or even real postage. But at the post office, they

I’ve been making artistamps since around 1978. My first stamps were handmade, one by one, and sent with my zines of that era. I hand-carved