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@irishashyt.bsky.social

Medieval jesters on parade, new celebration cards and notebooks.

Card tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4390...
Notebook tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4390...

🎉 #medieval #jesters #party #parade #celebration #history #archives #earlymodern #handstamped

Three jesters on parade stamped on brown card

October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM Everybody can reply

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@maralie.bsky.social

Mandala Tool Box
8 pg newsprint zine
~11x15 inches
'exploring labyrinths as ancient instrument for navigating the soul and cosmos' featuring select drawn and watercolored labyrinths from my journal
[signed & handstamped edition of 50]

$5 IRL in NYC. No shipping :/
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October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Sulk Rooms

@sulkrooms.bsky.social

Happy Bandcamp Friday!
Here’s the big lad Ezra modelling my ‘Viewers (Expanded)’ CD+bag combo. If you fancied one of these handmade/handstamped versions they’re up here now…
thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/viewer...

Ezra modelling my Viewers (Expanded) CD set with hand stamped bag and postcard

Ezra modelling my Viewers (Expanded) CD set with hand stamped bag

September 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Fiona

@falsefangs.bsky.social

Handstamped backing cards for my patches!!!!!!

A stack of cardboard cards all stamped with a hand carved stamp showing a heart shaped pocket mirror. Underneath is an empty banner to be filled in with handwriting. In a corner of the photo, a bit of the stamp is showing.

June 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM Everybody can reply

Arcane Moon Jewelry

@arcanemoonjewelry.bsky.social

Guess I need to play catch up! 😜
Some progress pics ...
#arcanemoon #ooak #art #artist #ooakjewelry #handmade #maker #handmadejewelry #artisanjewelry #jewelryartist #wip #metalsmith #silversmith #necklace #artist #agate #nature #koi #jewelry #fishjewelry #botanical #koifish #turquoise #handstamped

July 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM Everybody can reply

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Khala Naturals 🇨🇦

@khalanaturals.bsky.social

Calming charcoal soap for a doomscrolling timeline cleanse.
It's all-natural and oh so lovely for your face and body.
Midnight Musings or Twilight's Breath.
Find them and so much more on khalanaturals.com
#soap #all-natural #madeincanada ##buycanadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

February 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM Everybody can reply

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Almut Schwacke

@muuutsch.bsky.social

(yes, these are handstamped and i carved the stamp so I'm always giving away a tiny piece of my time&love and I love it <3)

November 9, 2023 at 9:23 AM Everybody can reply

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Everything's Shiny Creations

@evshiny.bsky.social

It's #Taurus season!

#everythingsshinycreations #evshiny #everythingsshiny #zodiac #handstamped #necklace #geekgirl #taurusseason #astrology #astrologysigns

Hand-stamped necklace with the symbol for Taurus on a small, round pendant hung on a stainless silver chain. The brown display card reads "Taurus" with the dates April 20-May 20. Text reads "Taurus is ruled by Venus and represents love and beauty. You like everything good and beautiful. This sign also signifies power and stability. People can always rely on you as you are very protective over loved ones."

May 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM Everybody can reply

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Arcane Moon Jewelry

@arcanemoonjewelry.bsky.social

Finishing some things on my bench for my first event in nearly a year with @sacminsoc.bsky.social! w00t!

#arcanemoon #handmade #handmadejewelry #ooak #ooakjewelry #art #artist #silversmith #metalsmith #gothic #bats #handstamped #spooky #spookyjewelry #batty #vampy #gothicjewelry #artisanjewelry

March 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Rosco)))

@thirty3forty5.bsky.social

Latest Trees Speak Ltd handstamped 7" on Soul Jazz
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March 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM Everybody can reply

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Viditya + Voleti

@vidityavoleti.bsky.social

LAST 10 MINUTES EVERYONE LETS KEEP THE TRAIN GOING!!

This is also your LAST CHANCE to upgrade to the bag bundle!
✨HANDSTAMPED Drawstring Bag
🔥FOIL DESIGN notebook
🌼GORGEOUS A6 game book

We don't know if the bag will come back, you DONT WANT TO MISS OUT

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Pledge Levels | A Land Once Magic - Pocket-sized Worldbuilding TTRPG - BackerKit

See what levels you can back for A Land Once Magic - Pocket-sized Worldbuilding TTRPG

www.backerkit.com

April 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Invisible Inc

@invisibleinc.bsky.social

Stamping the test pressings at INVINC HQ!
Sordid Sound System TPs arrived and are sounding 👌
Gamma Knife TPs getting stamped too.
Three of each of these will go on bandcamp at some stage this week so 👀 peeled!
#sordidsoundsystem
#gammaknife
#testpressing
#whitelabel
#handstamped
#vinyl

February 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Kat

@katterfly.bsky.social

Handmade Mother’s Day card for my mom. #mixedmediacollage #handmadecards

Front of card. On an iridescent light green background, a white table has a teacup with a flower arrangement and a bird. Two more birds sit at the edges of the table. A green banner with “Enjoy” in black script is across the front of the table with 2 pink flowers. 2 purple flowers are on the bottom left and 2 pink flowers are on the bottom right. The flowers have yellow acrylic crystal accents in the centers. A bird on a branch is in both of the upper corners. The table is hand cut from a magazine ad. The other elements are regular and dimensional stickers. A white signature watermark reads “Katherine Ross”

Interior of card. Left side a pre-printed picture from the Artist’s Almanac depicts a dark haired woman with her hair in a bun and wearing a purple shirt. Leaning over her is a blonde haired woman with her hair sticking out to the sides wearing a blue shirt. In front of the women are 3 flowers that have been painted with mica watercolors. The picture is mounted on purple cardstock with blue glitter accents. On the right side “Happy Mother’s Day” has been handstamped in elegant script and heat embossed with light purple embossing powder.

Back of card. Bottom is handstamped with “handmade” in green ink. The stamped image has a bird on top and scrollwork under the word. Hand written below in purple ink “KLR” and “2025”

May 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM Everybody can reply

Rachelle ("Shell") 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇪🇸

@shellyeg.bsky.social

This photo shows the texture much better. It ties into the definition inside the heart cutout, but it's a subtle detail.

Handmade Valentine features a handstamped, red heart motif on a textured white paper. The texture has the dictionary definitions of "friend", "confidant", "buddy" and "chum" in bas relief embossed. This is layered, with a heart-shaped cutout in the centre of the heart motif. The dictionary definition of "friend", hanstamped on the lower layer, is visible through the cutout. The 3¾"" × 5" design has a ⅛" red border on all sides. The outside dimensions are 4" × 5¼".

January 20, 2024 at 7:10 AM Everybody can reply

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Pamela Oliveras

@pamelaoliverasart.bsky.social

I have silver 🤍
custom orders available- message me #silver #925 #925silver #silverjewelry #silvercuff #silvercuffbracelet #pamelaoliverasart #handstamped #handstampedjewelry

June 4, 2024 at 1:42 PM Everybody can reply

Theo in Arlington

@adamtheo.com

Today's spontaneous winter adventure took me into DC to the Smithsonian Postal Museum, which I had last been to about 7 years ago. Loved the Voting by Mail & Gems of American Philately exhibits, the latter including the Inverted Jenny. ++

Interior of the Smithsonian coastal museum showing exhibit stations, notably a sign for a stamp gallery, and international stamps from around the world.

GEMS of American Philately

Like gems of the mineral world, these stamps and pieces of mail are rare and highly valued.

POS

24 CENTS 24

They tell stories about important moments in U.S. history, from the Stamp Act and the American Revolution to the Apollo 15 Moon landing. Each one conveys significant information about stamp design and production, including one of the most famous stamp printing errors ever made.

This stamp is one of 32 surviving red proofs of the 1765 Stamp Act. The letter to John Hancock was handstamped in New York on July 4, 1776—the birthday of the United States of America.

American Colonists Revolt

John Hancock's Defiance

The first person to sign the Declaration of Independence was John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress.

Courtesy of Library of Congres

In 1765 the British Parliament passed an act commonly called the Stamp Act that infuriated American colonists. Resisting the Act was the first incremental step on the road to the American Revolution. Cries of "taxation without representation" and attacks on stamp agents led to the repeal of the Act on March 18, 1766.

In 1775 the Revolutionary War began. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. On that same day, lawyer William Bant sent this letter to the first signer-John Hancock.

POSTAGE

1840

☑ ONE PENNY.J

PENNY BLACK

THE STAMP MAKES ITS DEBUT

On May 1, 1840, Great Britain issued the world's first postage stamp: the Penny Black. It revolutionized postal services worldwide.

Before postage stamps, mail recipients usually paid the postal fees. Sometimes they refused to pay. Fees often varied according to distance within a single country.

With the Penny Black, mail could be sent anywhere in the United Kingdom for a standard fee. Senders prepaid the fee; the stamp provided proof of payment. The postage stamp was very popular with the British people. Use of the mails soared.

February 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM Everybody can reply

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DoodleDlie

@doodledlie.bsky.social

New business cards alert!

I've switched to hand-stamped business cards and it's been so much fun! I made blue, red and green variations for next weekend's Otakuthon~

I'll be bringing the stamp too if you want to have a print or sketchbook stamped!

#handstamped #magpie #doodledlie #otakuthon

July 27, 2024 at 8:06 PM Everybody can reply

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Susan Forker

@joeyfivecents.bsky.social

gorgeous lilac and victorian rose colorways have been added to my handstamped line. loving them!

I’ll be at two fantastic shows this weekend:

may 3rd
princeton art bazaar
paul robeson place
11-4

may 4th
swarthmore makers market
10 s. chester road
swarthmore, pa
10-3

come and say hello! 🧡

April 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM Everybody can reply

Sulk Rooms

@sulkrooms.bsky.social

I’ve been hand making some merch for Bandcamp this week. Hand stamping and sculpting tokens and bags. Serious fun with Lino printing and clay sculpting…

July 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM Everybody can reply

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Renata

@invocationsilver.bsky.social

Dragon's Blood Jasper and Sterling Silver Ring.
Handstamped shank.
Size 9.5
$144
Message me to claim.

March 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM Everybody can reply

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leonardo sin embargo ‼️

@lsembargo.bsky.social

completed works from my recent linomania. i love stamps!!!!

several stamped stickers with a rainbow foil over them. designs include a sleepy pigeon, a lighter, a bird in flight, a ghost, and hearts

handstamped recycled fabric patches. designs include the sigil of baphomet, baphomet, a hawk wrestling a snake, a diving horse, and the jersey devil taking a selfie

September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Andrew Papenheim

@papenhe.im

Remaking pages for 1886 handstamped remainders of the Manitoba law stamps to separate by the orientation of the applied handstamp (does it ascend, descend, is it flat), collating ±100 years of studies how they are found, it dawns on me I mounted in black (mint) permutations of values only known used

December 28, 2024 at 4:05 AM Everybody can reply

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Blossom Witch

@blossomwitchuk.bsky.social

Do you know the secret message on this hand stamped heart necklace? Available now at simplybysj.etsy.com. Check me out at linktr.ee/simplybysjje...

#secret #secretmessage #iloveyou #handstamped #handstampednecklace #handmadenecklace #handmadejewelrybusiness #handmadegifts #handmadejewelry

April 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM Everybody can reply

🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃

@fiona-webster22.bsky.social

I make a point of befriending the clearks at my local PO who get it, and being willing to wait extra to be served by them. Because I'm very into having my mail art handstamped.

December 14, 2024 at 11:52 PM Everybody can reply

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