Nick Bantock Style ATCs

 
For a swap in a German ATC group I´ve made this set of Nick Bantock Style ATCs. Most stamps are designed by Nick Bantock, but the colour scheme isn´t typical for him, and I tried to go with collage in common and with a bit of storytelling.

Knitting

 
My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Knit/Crochet was made with stamps from Simply Graphic and Visible Image. The background is a scarf I´m knitting right now ...

Scribbles

 
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Scribbles" I´ve made a card using Dina Wakley stamps, watercolour and a few additional scribbles.

Bookmarks

 
I´ve made these bookmarks as a gift using stamps from Creative Depot, Visible Image and Stempelbar.

Ocean

 
My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art themed "Ocean" doesn´t show the ocean but two women enjoying the ocean view and a day at the beach. (Stamps are from Jane Davenport, Impression Obsession and Stampington.)

For me, holidays aren´t made of ocean memories but city scenes - this week I´ve already been to beautiful Leipzig and Essen with its great Courbet exhibition (this is why my card is a bit late) and will be in Dortmund and Berlin soon. Museums and cityscapes give me intellectual input, and big cities let me breathe more freely. I know that this isn´t a recipe for everyone, but it works for me.

Cracked

 
Deann asks us for something cracked for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge. I really like Leonard Cohen´s quote that seemed to be very appropriate here. 
(Stamps are from Katzelkraft and Reprint.)

Italy

 
If you ask me for my favourite country in Europe, it would be Italy, so that´s why I´ve picked Italy as this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme. 
I´ve only been to the northern parts of Italy, so Rome is still on my list, but I loved Ravenna, Aquileia, and Florence, and I love the sound of the Italian language. I really hope that I´ll be able to see much more of this beautiful country! I haven´t been to Venice yet but Aquileia is the lagoon besides it, and I don´t want to be among those tourists in Venice, Barcelona and probably other European locations that make those places unvisitable. I´ve never took a flight, I woudn´t book a cruise, and I prefer to step back from my own dreams if I see that the pure amount of tourists overcharges a place I´d love to visit. 

So I´ve never been to Venice and probably will never be, but I´m still dreaming of it.

What is your favourite place in Italy you would like to visit? And will you be able to make your dream come true?

I´m curious to read your personal stories, so please share them with us this week!

Space

 

Space is the theme Sabine has chosen as this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme. In fact I made my card in her stamping room, using a combination of her stamps and my own, but my card looks completely different from her sample card.

I have never dreamed of travelling to foreign galaxies, and there are only a few science fiction movies about the theme that I like, but when I rode through the August night by bike tonight, I´ve been hypnotized by the starlit sky that was just amazingly bright. Next week there will be falling stars again, and though I´ve only seen a single one in my life, it has been a great moment. So while I´m not much fascinated by spaceships and astronauts, I really like watching the stars in summer nights. Oh, and before I forget it: When I read Samantha Harvey´s wonderful book "Orbital" ("Umlaufbahnen" in German) I really loved it because it brings up so many interesting thoughts about space flights and what astronauts really do (a lot of science) and think about while being so far from their life on earth that goes on without them for a while - it´s really worth reading it.