Happy Easter!

 
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Rabbits/Hares I couldn´t resist using Tim Holtz´ lovely Mr. Rabbit who´s sending Easter Greeting to all of you.

Dragonflies

 
My Dragonfly card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was made using a stamp set from Visible Image and shimmering watercolours - what a pity that the shimmer and glitter can´t be seen in the scan!

Having Fun

I almost forgot to post this card using an Andy Skinner stamp and that I just made for fun, inspired by the lovely stamp.

 

Strong Women

 For this week´s Sundy Postcard Art challenge´s theme "International Women´s Day" I had sooo many ideas! In the end, I´ve combined stamps from Dina Wakley and Jane Davenport.

We are all very different, but we shouldn´t forget that we are all women and should support each other!
(In real life, I´ve experienced the opposite, such as female "colleagues" fighting against me and mobbing me for years. So I really wish that this won´t happen again in the future. Probably just a dream.)

Wild Horses

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge "Horses" I drew a horse and then stamped one above it, illustrating the song lyrics "Wild Horses can´t drag me away". 

(Horse stamp is from Visible Image, Alphabet stamps from Darkroom Door.)

Letting Go

 
Letting Go is the hardest thing. There´s a "small" letting go when a relationship ends, and a big one when a person you loved leaves earth forever. Both are hard, and I´ve never been good at letting anything or anyone go.

Making a sympathy card is always a hard thing, and I remember that it made me happy when I´ve made one for a stamping friend years ago when her husband had passed away, and when I met her again, she hugged and thanked me for my card. 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge Rein asked us for a sympathy card, and it was the hardest thing to make one for a future farewell. When I make a sympathy card, I usually have the person on my mind that has left us, and making the card is part of the process of letting this person go.

I love to use images for sympathy cards that aren´t made for this purpose. Of course you can use falling leaves, bare trees etc., but there´s so much more. I´ve even made sympathy cards with images expressing love only, and they can bring hope, I know. 

The German sentence on my card above means "Letting go costs less strength than holding on, but nevertheless it´s so much harder."

Lavender

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art theme "Lavender" I thought about lavender and what it means to me. I´ve always had lavender on my balcony that I loved to touch and smell, and it seemed to have sort of a therapeutical effect. So I created a story about a woman searching for calm and peace of mind. She´s standing in front of a book shelf, drinking tea and enjoying the smell of lavender. What does bring YOU down?

Stamps used here are from PaperArtsy and Makistamps.