Christmas- & Old&New-card #9 to Ka van Haasteren - Den Haag, Netherlands

In reaction to Ka's RED mail-art 
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.gblogID=7079222293473904018#editor/target=post;postID=6066713598934722815 
this card from the Dutch C and O&N series!

Christmas- & Old&New-card #6 sent to Lisa & Sebas - Harlingen, Netherlands

Christmas- & Old&New-card #5 sent to Janneke - Limmen, Netherlands

Christmas- & Old&New-card #4 sent to Ans & Hans - Groningen, Netherlands

Christmas- & Old&New-card #3 sent to Mimi & Edwin - Groningen, Netherlands

Another card in the series started with the one sent to Froukje, using a leaflet from the 1950ies with Sinterklaas- and Christmasrecipes and -ideas for ornementation (in Dutch).

Sent to Dean Marks - Paris, France (4/12/12)

In reaction to his crazy sending for my Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow call http://wimpletproy.blogspot.de/2012/12/proy24-received-from-dean-mark-paris.html, I sent this card to Dean. I was not yet in my Christmas- & Old&New-cards mood, so Dean received a collage of several photos in a green atmosphere, a mixture of in- and outside.

Today —12/12/12— Dean notices on the IUOMA-website that he received my card http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/willemien-visser-mobilin-die-kinderseiten-in-zusain. However, he cheats: on the photo that he makes visible to all IUOMA-members (see below), Dean has ADDED an element: a leg with a tattoo that Dean may wish to wash in one of the sinks, but I'm offended! that such a picture can be attributed to me! In addition, Dean has turned the image so that the underlying text is nearly readable: I'm really ashamed!

Christmas- & Old&New-card #2 sent to my "concierge(s)"

Before I go back to Paris again, next Monday, I wanted to send a card to the couple who is working as the "concierge(s)" of the building I'm living in and who distributes the mail in the mailboxes of the building occupants. This time, for the time I am in Oldenburg, I asked them to send me my mail — esp. the mail-art I receive in Paris. As they see arrive a lot of beautiful, crazy, intriguing envelopes and cards, I wanted to send them also a card I made myself. In December, it had to be something related to Christmas!

Received from Ruud Janssen - Breda, Netherlands

Ruud, in his wonderfully and richly rubber-stamped sending, asks for my rubber stamps: as he writes, "everybody who sends out mail-art uses various kinds of rubber stamps". Since 1983 (N.B.!), Ruud keeps an archive of these stamps. So, he asks mail-arters to send him their "funniest or whatever" stamps on a sheet he joins in his envelop (he even joins three sheets...). I have been using many stamps in my life, but NOT IN MY MAIL-ART (until now -I coudl take Ruud's request as an invitation to use my stamps —or new ones!— in my mail-art). 

I think that the postage stamp on Ruud's envelop —celebrating the 25 years of the IUOMA— is a self-made one...

Received from Carolyn Oord "Kerosene" - Verdun, QC, Canada

Carolyn sent this card-on-board WEEKS AGO —BUT with the wrong street number... So it went back to Canada, she put it in a new envelop and sent it again...

Carolyn has several diverse blogs: 

• flypaper & kerosene
• forest & kerosene
• kerosene & gypsies
• kerosene & things

Christmas- & Old&New-card #1 sent to Froukje

Taking advantage of a leaflet from the 1950ies with Sinterklaas- and Christmasrecipes and -ideas for ornementation (in Dutch), I made a series of December mail-art cards ("Season's greetings"). For several reasons, Froukje is the first friend to receive one.

Received from Atelier Stiliadus - Windhaxen, Germany - 29 nov 2012

I suppose that this mail art is not in reply to my call for Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow.

Special blog for the Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow sendings

wimpletproy.blogspot.fr is the blog on which I publish the mail art sendings in reply to my call for Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow.

"A day like this" for artever

The Portuguese Grupo de Artes Plásticas da Amadora (close to Lisbon, Portugal) asked for mail-art on the theme "A day like this" (http://mailart-artever.blogspot.pt/). I sent them "A day like this walking through Paris", visiting, in particular, the Rue de Lisbonne!

A mixture of papercuttings for Carroll Woods

... and this A&A-card was of course for Luís!

An A&A-card for Mimi!

Paris and Richmond for Mim

Winnie the Pooh falls out of the Boddhi tree...

For Julia's 20th birthday!

Collage photo card from Jocelyne Sicard

Beginnings of September, I made a sending for Jocelyne Sicard, around one of her themes, that is, "doors". The photo of the woman I used for the envelope came from an article in a "women magazine", around the theme of separation, so I pasted on the backside of the envelope a subtitle of the paper, "recover from a break-up" ("guérir d'une rupture")

On the card I wrote to Jocelyne I pasted a little, blue rather typical Tunisian door.













Jocelyne sent me a beautiful card made out of a collage into a photo. I find it rather intriguing, difficult to describe what makes it so for me...

A new "mannetje" from arttower!

After his "head", arttower now sent me a little "mannetje" (I don't know how to call him in English...), smiling and with a big heart, ?but? surrounded by mouses—or "even" rats!— going up and going down.

FIRST mail-art recieved for my Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow project!

When I came home last Tuesday (after some days in Oldenburg), I found FOUR mail-art sendings: from Laurence Gillot, Jocelyne Sicard, G.arttower Schwind, and THIS FIRST mail-art sending for my Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow project! (it will also go to wimpletproy.blogspot.fr, the special blog created for the sendings in reply to this call).

Roland Halbritter sent me his "Greetings from the Pink Correspondence School". I was so surprised: Roland recieved, in 2007, what I qualified as my "first sending of mail-art to a 'foreigner'". At that time, Roland was still collecting socks and stockings (http://wimplet.blogspot.fr/2007/03/first-sending-of-mailart-to-foreigner.html) 

Mail-art to & from Laurence!

After two sendings to her (grand)mother, I sent a mail-art to Laurence Gillot (http://lo-post.tumblr.com/). She asked for "embarcations" (boats) or "vol"/"envol" (flight), but I could send her only a landing (ATTERRISSAGE)... 
It is not the first time that I am slightly off beam with Laurence. For her (grand)mother, Eliane Moine, she asked for "fishes", and —at first— I could only find BLUE... (later on, happily, I could make up for it in a 2nd sending) ("Wanting to send fishes to 'Granny Eliane'" - 10/10/12)...

Laurence sent me a wonderful, poetic card in an envelope from the same "family" as the letter I sent her: we seem both "inspired" by the exercise-book paper used by schoolchildren.

Pink - Red - Orange - Yellow * CALL for MAIL-ART * My new mail-art PROJECT

Pink - Red - Orange - Yellow

is the theme of my new mail-art PROJECT, 
for which I ask you to contribute 
in the form of a mail-art 
using one or more of these colours 

(technique free & format free, but 
PREFERENTIALLY A6 or A5 cards or envelopes).

Your sending will appear on 
wimpletproy.blogspot.fr

which is my PINK Red Orange Yellow blog.

In reply, I will send you a mail-art 
 (so, don’t forget to write your address).

"Dead"line: 31/12/2013

...but I also continue to be  
interested by other, "free" mail art
PREFERENTIALLY A6 or A5 cards or envelopes!

Send your mail-art to 
Willemien Visser
15 rue Vergniaud
75013 Paris
France

...my address for SENDING...

...but if you want to SEND me something —snail-mail, a card, a letter, an envelope, another little surprise— you should know my address:

Willemien Visser * 15 rue Vergniaud * 75013 Paris * France
or
Willemien Plathner-Visser * Fasanenweg 12 * 26133 Oldenburg * Germany

Mail-art TO & FROM Saartje Stiers

 
Beginnings of September, I sent a card to Saartje Stiers, for her project "Saartje Stiers meets Marie Antoinette" (http://saartjestiersmeetsmarie-antoinette.blogspot.be/). It was great fun: for the first time, I cut in the encyclopeadia I found in the street some days before!

Today, I received a sending from Saartje. The card in it represents a pen-drawn leaf made up of flowers and more abstract forms. 
THE stamp on the envelope is, as far as I remember, the FIRST MAIL-ART STAMP on an envelope I recieve! And wonderful as can be mail-art sendings: there is no other "valid" Belgian stamp (Saartje lives in Belgium)! Clear that I am going to make also MAIL-ART STAMPs: this is TOO MUCH FUN! (no, not "too -" at all!)
...Today —two days later— I discover that the stamp used by Saartje is an "official" Belgian stamp. It comes from the series "The Art of Graffiti", edited in 2011... Nevertheless, I continue to want to make my own stamps —but... I want SO MUCH...


Saartje also joins a call from Miche-Art-Universalis: "Send a postcard tourist with stamp special from your town" - no deadline. Send to: Miche-Art-Universalis - Steenweg op Beerse, 9 - 2330 Merksplas - Belgium

Sent to Laurence Gillot - Nacy, France - Neither a boat, nor a flight, but a landing... - half October, 2012

 

Laurence Gillot asks for "embarcations" (boats) or "(en)vol" (flight) (and also accordions - http://lo-post-de-partout.tumblr.com/), but I could send her only a landing (ATTERRISSAGE)... 

It is not the first time, I am slightly off beam with Laurence. For her (grand)mother, Eliane Moine, she asked for "fishes", and —at first— I could only find BLUE... (later on, happily, I could make up for it in a 2nd sending) ("Wanting to send fishes to 'Granny Eliane'" - 10/10/12)
.