Bicycle

As you may know, I´m from Germany, and the city where I live could be called the capital of bicycles. People say that Muenster has more bikes than inhabitants. Unfortunately it´s also the capital of bike theft - it´s not easy to find someone who has never lost a bike this way. (Two of my own bikes have been stolen, but I got the second one back after 13 months because the police found it - so never give up!)

For many years, I´ve used my bike to get to school (in Bremen, another biking capital), university, and work but payed for this with many bike accidents and damaged knees. So today I like to go to work by bus and use the time reading a book ...

But as I don´t have a driver´s license, I use my bike for all other trips like shopping, visiting friends etc., so I use it several times a week. In Muenster, it´s the fastest way to go from A to B.

I´ve picked "Bicycle" as this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge and can´t wait to see your cards and read about your personal relation to bikes. 

(My card was made using a background paper and bike stamp from Ciao Bella and text stamps from Klartext.)

Bloom & Grow

 
Bloom & Grow is this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme. For my card I´ve used stamps from Jane Davenport/Spellbinders, Sam Poole/Creative Expressions and Visible Image. 

I´m soooo longing for spring, growing plants, and the smell of flowers!

Espresso

 
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Espresso". 
My card was made using stamps from ArtJourney, AALL&Create, Altenew, Alexandra Renke, and Stamperia.

Spring

 
Spring is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. For me, that means sunshine, birds singing again, sprouting green, nests - and hope. New energy comes up after months of feeling tired all the time. It´s my favourite time of the year now (whereas I loved autumn in my 20s and 30s). 

What´s your favourite season and why?

Childhood Heroes - Friends

 
This week´s Sunday Postcard Art Challenge is Childhood Heroes. What a lovely theme, and I´ve had some different options for this one ... but I´ve ended with the Peanuts. My card features Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Woodstock and - my favourite - Peppermint Patty. I think that what I´ve always liked about this gang is that they´re very different but are friend nevertheless. That´s what we´ve been searching for in our childhood and all our lives.

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.