I’ve published a pen pal newspaper, for fifteen years, called Inky Trail News. Over the years, I’ve kept the stamps — methodically, ripping them off envelopes weekly and I’ve got oodles of them for projects (if and when I find the time).

One year, at Thanksgiving, I decoupaged stamps all over the top of my wood coffee table. The table was about twenty years old, and although it still looked good, I wanted more color in the room.

At first glance, the table top, from afar, simply looks a lighter color (compared to the dark wood). When you look at it closer, you’ll see the variety of colors and the different shapes of the stamps. I love it!

The photo doesn’t do it justice… this is only one small section of the tabletop, but I thought the pals out there might enjoy seeing what you can do with a little decoupage glue and some used postal stamps.

My coffee table, decoupaged with postal snail mail stamps!

I put the stamps on rather randomly — but you could easily use only stamps with red on them, or all the same stamps for the border of your object, or make patterns like mosaics. I didn’t do any of that – just randomly scattered them about the tabletop.

Happy Writing! Wendy