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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Spring Greens

The theme for this month´s Visible Image ATC swap was Spring Greens, so I knew I wanted to make an ATC that welcomes spring. 

The accompanying card was inspired by images of Chicago and its green coloured river celebrating St. Patrick´s Day. As always, the scan doesn´t show the shimmering mica sprays behind the city skyline ...



Sunday, March 12, 2023

Chicken Eggs

 
Once in a year, I´m having a fabulous afternoon and evening together with 3 of my best friends, painting Easter eggs and having fun with cake, beverages, music and political discussions. It´s one my highlights of each year, but usually I only paint two eggs. This year´s eggs show chickens as I´ve loved painting my chicken postcard recently. I have used watercolours and several pencils and markers here.

Sunday, March 05, 2023

Chicken

 
When I saw that this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme was "Chicken", I thought "I know I have a matching stamp" ... then I didn´t find it tonight and drew my own chicken. Then I found that stamp but liked my own chicken so much more. Art is to be open to surprise yourself (and maybe others).

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Alice - First Step

 
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Alice I´ve made a paper collage hand coloured and finished with some rubber stamps. Such a nice theme as Alice never gets boring, there´s always something new to find in this book.

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Masks

 
Wearing your everyday face can be a necessity or a betrayal. You should be allowed to just be you, but you´re not.

Here´s my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Masks".

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Red Roses

 
Have you ever tried to scan something red? You´ll be surprised to see the result ... Reds that go well together in real life will look weird together on your scan. So you have to believe me that the reds on my card really look great together on the original card!

I´ve collaged two magazine photos of a woman and a bunch of red roses, used clear gesso upon them and painted them with watersoluble crayons, then added two stamps from Red Lead. 

And the whole card is my entry for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Red Roses".

Thursday, February 09, 2023

Love is all around

 
Valentine themes are always difficult for me as I´m not into hearts and love themed art. So for this month´s Visible Image ATC swap themed "Love is all around" I took a different path that suited me more. This card and ATC reached Canada in high speed and and have found a loving home :-)


Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Imperfect Circles

 
For this year´s rubberstamping art project at Heindesign themed Circles, I´ve made this card using stamps from Red Lead, VivaLasVegaStamps and De Stempelwinkel. I think you can see how much fun I´ve had with this one!

Sunday, February 05, 2023

Bauhaus Design



Last night I´ve made two Bauhaus themed postcards to accompany a Bauhaus themed gift for a friend. Now I can´t decide which one I want to use for this purpose ... do you have a favourite?

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Light and Darkness

 
I´m hosting this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge this week with the theme "Light and Darkness".  

For my sample card I´ve picked a quote from Goethe´s play "Götz von Berlichingen": Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten. 

So I´ve used a custom made Goethe stamp, a light bulb from Katzelkraft and a text stamp from PaperArtsy to illustrate my thoughts. Plus gesso and shimmering watercolours of course.

I hope you´ll feel inspired to show us your own version of this theme this week!

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Butterfly Effect

We´ve all heard of the Butterfly Effect - doing one thing and causing many effects this way. That´s the thought behind my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge. 

I´ve used stamps from Paper Artsy/ Lynne Perrella and Visible Image and used shimmery watercolours from VHAquarell for colouring.

Sunday, January 08, 2023

Year of the Rabbit

 

I never really got the idea of Chinese zodiac signs because I can´t believe that soneone born in the a specific year has something in common with everyone else born in that year. However, in a few days the Chinese new year will start, and it´s the Year of the Rabbit. 

When I read that this is the theme for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge, I thought "hm, I know I have some rabbit stamps", but it wasn´t before tonight that I found out how many I have - and I won´t tell you ;-))

Then today I read that stamp designer Tracy Evans is ill with Covid right now, and I thought "Why not make a card with only her designs" ... and here it is, my card to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit - may it be a good one.