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Fertile Press: Creating Artistamps
Ten-step tutorial on creating mock postage stamps with Adobe Photoshop.
http://www.fertilepress.com/artistamps/astampset.htm

How to Create Artist Trading Cards
An article by Kim M. Bayne that explains how to make your own ATCs for trading.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art14192.asp

How to Make a Rubber Stamp
Der Mad Stamper's tutorial on making rubber stamps out of erasers.
http://members.aol.com/Letterboxr/carving.html

How to make Faux Postage by Jill
This tutorial is for making artistamps by hand and by computer via PrintArtist 4.0.
http://members.tripod.com/~CJMJ/postclass.html

Mail Art : A Pathfinder
Promoting an understanding of what mail art is, what it looks like, and how any individual can get involved in a mail art network.
http://www.infomuse.net/kristina/courses/605pathfinder/index.shtml

Making Artistamps
Link list to many sites containing information and tutorials for creating artistamps.
http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~benm/stamps/artistamps.html

Mirkwood Designs Templates
Templates that you can use to make custom cards, artist trading cards, envelopes and boxes.
http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/

Rubber Stamping Club
Techniques, tips and examples for rubber stamping including book making, materials, paper making and photo transfer.
http://www.rubberstampsclub.com/rubber-stamping-techniques.html

The Muse - Faux Postage Project
Directions for creating faux postage on a computer with instructions for users of both Word and Works word processing programs.
http://www.volcanoarts.biz/muse/1999-09/penny/index.htm

Tutorial of Faux Postage Class
Tutorial of how to create faux postage using rubber stamps and inks via a chat transcript.
http://crafts.dm.net/convention/990301a.html