Just Me

 
This week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme is "Add Wings & A Crown". It beamed me quite a few years back when adding wings and crowns was en vogue. As the times they are a-changing (sorry, Bob), I thought that my card should be more modern and yes, more personal.

No angel, no princess, just me. 

There´s one thing in my life that I´m still struggling with, and it´s prejudices and projections other people have about you. This is something you can´t fight against. Other people don´t see YOU but they only see what they want to see, and they´re dealing with you disregarding who you really are. This happens every day, and sometimes it doesn´t matter, but sometimes it ruins your whole life and makes you feel very lonely. I think it´s the hardest thing I´ve found out in my whole life. You have no chance to tell people who you really are if they don´t want to see you. It´s true what Goethe said:  A person hears only what they understand.

Grunge

 
When I read this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is Grunge, two things came to my mind: Grunge music from the ninetees (which I still love) and grunge stamping techniques (that I also love as a messy stamper). So I decided to combine them, and here´s the result, a tribute card to Kurt Cobain from Nirvana. Smells like Teen Spirit is still on my playlist, and if you look closely, you´ll spy the words "große Wut in sich aufsteigen ... schmeißen möchten" and "etwas abgespannt" on the book page scraps which mean a big rage coming up and wanting to throw something anywhere and feeling exhausted. It´s like found poetry as these have been on my desk waiting for this theme, they seemed so appropriate. 

The stamps I´ve used are from Stempelbar and Visible Image.

Being Green

This post is about exclusion, so beware if you don´t like political statements - but isn´t it all about politics? 

No matter if you´re green or black or whatever colour, or whatever religion, or whatever belief, you should be a part of our society.  Please feel welcome, whatever our politicians may say to get more votes ...

And yes, this card was made for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Frogs, but any art is political too, isn´t it?

Happiness

 
When it comes to happiness, I'm definitely not an expert as I´ve always been more on the dark side of life. But I don't give up and hope for better days, so I've even made two cards for this week's Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Happiness" - maybe I'll find it one day.

Reindeer

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Reindeer" I have made two holiday cards using the same stamp but different techniques, colours and additional stamps.

Chandelier

 
When I first read this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, I thought I might skip this one because I didn´t remember having some appropriate stamps and wouldn´t dare to draw a chandelier. 

Then when I went through my stamps, I found two lovely chandeliers from Oxford Impressions and decided to combine them with a raven from these plates and a Poe stamp from Red Lead, some halloweeny watercolours and a few sprinkles of golden light.

Beware

 
Beware All Who Enter - my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Gargoyles features a gargoyle from Lost Coast Designs and additional stamps from Paper Artsy and Deep Red.