New stamps

 
Even before I made sample prints for my inventory, I couldn´t resist making cards with some new stamps I got recently. I really love the rose stamps from Alison Bomber at PaperArtsy, and aren´t those raccoons from Stempelbar the cutest? I thought that this verse from the famous Adele song fits perfectly.

Frida

 

We celebrate Frida Kahlo´s birthday these days (born July 6th, 1907), but she also died in July, on July 13, 1954. 

Currently, there´s an exhibition about her life at the Tate Modern in London that opened on June 25th. 

Personally, I´ve seen a lot of her original paintings in an exhibition at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg in 2006, a rare opportunity to see so many of her rather small paintings in real life in Europe. 

I liked her art before I saw that exhibition, but I must say that it really helped to see her paintings in the neighbourhood of works from other painters (especially surrealists) to see connections but first and foremost the differences between her work and paintings from other artists. I believe that her colourful life sometimes obstructs our view upon the quality of her artwork, and that´s a pity. 

For my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Frida that I´m hosting, I´ve used a stencil from PaperArtsy (Lynne Perrella) and stamps from Invoke Arts.

I can´t wait to see your postcards inspired by her life and art!

Mad

This card was just made for FUN because I loved this head stamp from Stempelbar so much! I combined it with my favourite arms and legs from Zettiology, a book image from Stamperia as the body and Venetian house stamps from Heindesign - a little bit of text, a postmark, and there we are.
 

Arrows - Take Chances

Arrows is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. For my card I have combined stamps from Visible Image (text and arrows) and Paper Artsy/ Kate Crane (fishies)

 

Space and Big Alpha - stamp art projects

Heindesign has two rubber stamp mail art projects this summer themed "Space" and "Big Alpha". Both arrived in their mailbox today.

For my first card "You are not alone" I`ve combined stamps from Globeland, Visible Image, Picket Fence, Viva Las VegaStamps and Stamperia. 

My alpha card "Ein X für ein U" (a German saying) uses large stencils and a clear stamp alpha from Concord & 9th.

 

Owls - The Look

 
Look who´s watching you! I couldn´t resist Sabine`s theme for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge "Owls". I love their eyes, their mysterious life (even for a night owl like me), their ability to bend their neck and so much more. I´ve painted a cute on here with crayons and watercolour on a magazine photo.

Who I am

The Sunday Postcard Art challenge asks for our favourite quote this week. As someone who studied literature and collected quotes from books I´ve read since I´ve been 16 I don´t have a favourite quote, there are just too many that speak to me. But someone I always get back to is Lewis Carroll, so my card for this week features one of his Alice quotes. 
When you´re young, you have an idea of who you are and think that you will get nearer to this person the older you get, but that´s wrong. When you get older, you explore more possible selves and changes, and that´s not bad but part of the adventure of life.