October 2024 - The Posted Stamp

It's that time of year when the weather turns, the nights get cold and the leaves start to fall. What better way to embrace the changing seasons, than curling up with some stamps and envelopes and getting some inspiration! In this post I've pulled together some great autumnal and Hallowe'en inspired stamps and mail art to get you creating. Autumn and fall colours You'll most likely want to use postage stamps with browns, yellows, oranges and reds for your fall and autumn-inspired designs. Don't be afraid to add in some green or blue-green to those autumn colour palettes. Coolors is one of my favourite colour palette generators. This autumn-inspired palette is trending: This is a trending colour palette and feels very autumnal. From Coolors.com Other palettes, like the one below, have a little blue-green in there to balance the reds: A lovely autumnal palette with deep reds and a "dark slate grey" to offset them. Aren't they beautiful? 😍 If neither of these are quite what you are looking for, then they have a tag dedicated to autumn-inspired profiles. I picked out some used bulk stamp collections from my shop which match some of these colours: These are great for crafty projects and adding to mail - though obviously can't be used towards postage. If you're looking for most postage stamp and mail art inspiration, then look no further than our newsletter; 'You've got Email'. Or connect with The Posted Stamp on X or Instagram. Lovely autumn postage stamps out this month for your autumn and fall snail mail As for unused stamps you could use on your mail, here's some recent releases available as of October 2024. Here in the UK, they've just released a spider set of stamps with a rather handy 5x 2nd and 5x 1st values set. Unfortunately postage values have just gone up, so this set will set you back £12.50. This is a great set to have available at this time of year though! This lovely sheet of US forever stamps was issued this August 2024 and is perfect if you're looking to send mail from the US. Canada Post have this autumn colours stamp as part of the 'Far and Wide' collection available at the moment. This must be an amazing time to visit at this time of year! There isn't much across European countries in terms of autumn or Hallowe'en inspired stamps which have been issued this month. Previous issues, for the UK at least, are slim if you are looking for autumn or Hallowe'en specifically. This one was issued as a sneaky part of the 2019 GB 'Curious Customs' set, and may be a trickier one to get as an individual stamp. Here's mine within the full set - I won a this set in a Presentation Pack from Positively Postal! I've been thinking about a project to use these for... perhaps now is the time. If you are looking for vintage UK stamps, then this autumn set from 1993 and part of the 'Seasons' collections, could be just what you might need. It's the only 'autumn' set produced here. For the US, then the Jack-O-Lanterns set of 1994 is a perfect one for some Hallowe'en inspired mail. Mail Art Inspiration Here's one from a fun set of envelopes I sent out a few years ago: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Annette Raffan (@thepostedstamp) And I don't think there is anymore beautiful a selection of autumn-inspired envelopes than this collection of envelopes from Lindsay Bugbee at The Postman's Knock 👇 https://thepostmansknock.com/20-fabulous-fall-mail-art-envelopes/ I'm hoping to get something autumn-inspired mail created this month! What do you have planned? Until next month! Annette X