I had accumulated a sizeable ziploc bag of damaged stamps: rips, missing perforations, corners, thins, heavy cancels etc. Some that are horribly damaged I safely dispose of by folding them in half and dropping them into the recycle box. (That's to ensure I don't look in the box and think the stamp just fell in there!)
Saving them for something, I found that something this week. We had bought and successfully assembled (that means the unit was assembled and upright without both of us arguing and having to go to counselling) an IKEA unit for our family room. I was generously allotted three shelves. Matching IKEA Drona black fabric storage boxes fit on each shelf for stamp stuff, train stuff, archives stuff. In front of each storage box is my creative craft project using the damaged stamps:
Dollar Tree had some very basic black 8x10 photo frames with patterned edges. I tape-runnered the damaged siimilarly-coloured stamps to patterned cardstock and placed them in the frames:
Not only is my semi-organized stuff now virtually invisible inside the fabric storage boxes, but the storage boxes tend to disappear visually behind each frame of damaged stamps! And the stamps don't even look all that damaged!
Great idea and execution. Miniature art becomes full size art!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Eric. I couldn't build a wall, but I think I could cover a wall! I've heard more from you about the new 'art' than I have from my wife. She has not commented at all! When she looks down the sofa to see me, the art is right behind me. I appreciate the first comment I've received!!
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