All Things Alice

 
I thought it´s time for another Alice challenge as we all love Alice, don´t we? So here´s my sample card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge "All Things Alice". I´ve chosen it as my sample as I love this Madhatter stamp from IndigoBlu, but wait, I´ve made more ...

The Queen of Hearts is another interesting character in "Alice in Wonderland", but instead of letting her yell her usual "Off with their heads" I let her insist "A Rose is a Rose", an iconic sentence from Gertrude Stein. 

(Stamps are from Penny Black and PaperArtsy)

And finally we have Alice herself in a nature setting, combined with a wonderful quote that is not from Lewis Carroll - but I don´t care as I really like it and I always collage pics with words that don´t come from the same source (both stamps are from IndigoBlu again). I´m not a Lewis Carroll curator in a literature archive but an artist, so I chose quotes that fit in terms of content, not history. 

Other people DO care if a quote used with Alice illustrations really is from the book - for those of you here´s an interesting blog post where you´ll also find my quotes that aren´t originally from the book - so what? A Rose is a Rose is from Gertrude Stein but seemed appropriate, and so I used it. As I have studied literature, I love words and literature and care for history, but as a collage artist, I`m free to combine whatever I want.

What do you think about Alice quotes? 

I´m curious to see your Alice cards this week and read about your opinions.

Live in the Present

 

My sister Sabine picked "Playtime" as this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. 

I´ve always loved playing, as a child I loved Hopscotch and the skipping rope and all kinds of parlour games, today I prefer a lovely evening with friends having fun with our monthly pub quiz. Having fun doing things that you do just for fun is very important for your soul, I believe, and so playtime should be a fixed element in our calendars.

Like Friedrich Schiller said: "Man is only truly human when he plays." Life is short, so live in the moment, live in the present and do things that you don´t have to do but that make you happy.

For my card I´ve used stamps from Andy Skinner and Visible Image on a gessoed magazine background, coloured with watercolours.

Blue Monday

 

When I read this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme "Blue Monday", I had New Order in my ears immediately. Their song came out when I finished school and became an adult, so it will be always on my mind. 

How does it feel to treat me like you do?
Tell me how do I feel?

It´s interesting that the song title "Blue Monday" doesn´t appear in the lyrics of this song, but this is just part of the mystery of this great song.

I´ve made my card with stamps from Visible Image and an alphabet from AALL & Create.

Feathered Friends

 

In my opinion, we´ve had enough winter, and I´m longing for warmer temperatures and listening to the singing of my favourite feathered friends. 

Feathered Friends is this week`s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, and my card was made with stamps from Hobbycompleetdeduif and Red Lead Paperworks.

Winter Woodland Life - Snow

Winter Woodland Life is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. I´ve made a collaged background with a few paper scraps, then added stamps from Tim Holtz and Penny Black.

Professor Santa

 This week is an open theme for Christmas at Mandy´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge. So I tried something new and combined our beloved Tim Holtz "The Professor" with some Visible Image stamps and got Professor Santa as a result - now we know what the professor does during the next days.

Angels

My sister Sabine has chosen the theme "Angels" for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge. 

Do you believe in angels? I don´t, but I do believe in online friendship. 

An online friend asked for a Christmas card today, so this card will go to California on Monday.
Most people I know in real life don´t have any real online friends and don´t believe in online friendship, but I do. I have a few online friends found in former Yahoo groups more than 20 years ago who feel like near friends and who know almost everything about me, plus they have shared their art and life with me for decades. It´s not their fault nor mine that they don´t live where I do, so they really are my friends.

Sending handmade cards is an important part of staying in contact, not only with online friends but with everyone you know, so I hope you´ll send a batch of handmade Christmas cards this year to make your friends happy. 

My Angel card was made with stamps from Pink Ink Designs and Tim Holtz/ Stampers Anonymous.