Reindeer

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Reindeer" I have made two holiday cards using the same stamp but different techniques, colours and additional stamps.

Chandelier

 
When I first read this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, I thought I might skip this one because I didn´t remember having some appropriate stamps and wouldn´t dare to draw a chandelier. 

Then when I went through my stamps, I found two lovely chandeliers from Oxford Impressions and decided to combine them with a raven from these plates and a Poe stamp from Red Lead, some halloweeny watercolours and a few sprinkles of golden light.

Beware

 
Beware All Who Enter - my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Gargoyles features a gargoyle from Lost Coast Designs and additional stamps from Paper Artsy and Deep Red.

Steampunk Animals ATCs

 
I´ve recently purchased these lovely Steampunk animals stamps, and a Steampunk swap going on in one of my groups was the perfect occasion to use them for the first time. I´ve had so much fun making these!

Gears

 
Stick a Gear on it and call it Steampunk!

My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Gears was made using a Steampunk Man from IndigoBlu.

Crows

 
If you know me a bit, you also know that crows are my favourite birds and probably my favourite animals. So for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Crows and Ravens I couldn´t resist making two different cards. 
The first one features my all time favourite crow stamps from Meer Image plus a quote from Stampotique, the second one shows another quote from that Stampotique set with a crow from Carabelle Studio and a heart from Dina Wakley, the Raven poem background text is from HeroArts.

Trees

 
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is Trees. My card features a quote from Candy Polgar: 
Alone with myself
the trees bend to caress me
the shade hugs my heart.

Sing!

 
Do YOU like to sing on a stage or do you prefer singing when nobody can hear you? I´m definitely in the second group. Probably the secret is to sing like no one´s listening, no matter if you´re really alone.
For my sample card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge I´ve chosen a stamp showing the wonderful Billie Holiday (1915-1959). You might know her by the name "Lady Day" that Lester Young gave her. Though she also was known for wearing a white gardenia in her hair, I´ve made her flower red as I gave her my own red dress. 
I can´t wait to see your interpretations of this theme!

Hot Air Balloons

What a coincidence! This weekend, we have the world championship of hot air ballooning in Münster (where I live), and it´s also this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

A Piece of Heaven

 
In the end, even rain is a piece of heaven on the hand. That´s the translation of the text on this card that I´ve made for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Hands".
Stamps are from Rajastamps, AEH Design and Jane Davenport/Creative Expressions.

Alphabet Man

Alphabet is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. Here´s my Alphabet Man who can´t live without reading as it´s as important as eating and sleeping. I agree.

Imagination

 
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme "Steampunk Animals" I went with a simple design to let the lightbulb fly and the text stand for themselves. 

Calling Elvis

 
Do you know Dire Straits`"Calling Elvis" from 1991? It´s just one tribute to Elvis among lots of them. Another celebration is U2´s visit to Graceland in their film "Rattle and Hum". Elvis Presley (1935-1977) is also known as "The King" and has been one of the most important rock singers of all times, but as I´m a late boomer and he wasn´t really hot when I was young, he has never been right in my focus. Of course I understood that his voice was extraordinary and expressive, and that fact asked for my respect, I just wasn´t a fan.

But of course I´ve had some favourite songs from him, like "In the ghetto". I´ve also read a good quote from him "It ain´t a song until you sing it" (1956) that I really like. 

Last week I´ve seen a documentation about seduction on ARTE, and of course there was a short passage about Elvis who brought black music to the masses very early and was hated for this, but it´s something very important for his time, and his anti-racist attitude is something that makes him much more interesting in my eyes. 

I think it´s impossible to not like or dislike him, whatever you want. What is YOUR personal Elvis story? 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Elvis, I´d like to see your Elvis cards and read your personal feelings about him. 

Mushrooms

 
This week my sister Sabine is hosting the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, and she picked "Mushrooms" as her theme.

Here´s my card using stamps from Carabelle.

Sing!

 
Of course I couldn´t resist this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Bird People"! Maybe you remember my own Bird People blog swap back in 2014!? If not, you´ll find my posts here, and if you follow the links, you´ll find the entries of all participants, too.

Pretty Pastels

 
For this month´s Visible Image ATC swap themed "Pretty Pastels" I´ve made two variations with the same stamp set. The card above came out better, I think, but of course the ATC below is what it was all about. However, my swap partner in Switzerland loved them both, so I´m happy. But making these in a pastel colour scheme has been a challenge for me as I´m a dedicated lover of bold colours ...

See what others don´t

 
My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Spectacles/Goggles" has a focus on looking deeper than usual. I´ve combined stamps from Art Journey, Visible Image and Graphic 45/Hampton Art for this card.

What makes a good teacher?

 
We all watch Youtube videos and other lessons by professional art teachers nowadays. But what makes a teacher a GOOD teacher? In my opinion, a good teacher makes you want to fetch your pencil and paints after a few minutes while watching the video. For me, Toni Burt is a master doing this - I´m not able to watch one of her videos without grabbing my pencil and watercolours and follow her instructions. I especially love that my results always look like my own designs and not hers. I´d call this a teacher´s super power.

Nick Bantock inspired ATCs

 
This set of Nick Bantock inspired ATCs for a swap was made using collage and rubber stamping.

Octopus

 
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Octopus". Here´s my underwater world made with stamps from Hampton Art, Klartext, and Darkroom Door.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 
My ATC and card for this month´s Visible Image ATC swap themed "How does your garden grow?" arrived safely in the UK this week.

The God of Triangles

 
If the triangles made a God, they would give him three sides.
This Montesquieu quote was the inspiration for my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Geometric Shapes".
I´ve used magazine scraps, torn into triangle shapes, gessoed, watercoloured, and stamped with a stamp from Cavallini.

Castle in the Air

 
Castles is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. What about building a castle in the air from time to time? It may not solve any problems, but maybe it helps to get some new ideas and escape just for a moment, long enough maybe to take a breath and get back to a base from which you´ll find a solution.

Cats (not dogs)

Drama Cat and Nah Cat are my entries for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Cats/Dogs, hosted by my sister Sabine. I´ve painted over two cat photos that I loved and added some text.

Kings

 
I´m hosting this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge with the theme "Kings". On my sample card, you´ll recognize a real king as he´s Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1712-1786, King since 1772), only having a new body, life and crown. 

Please show us your Kings, I can´t wait to see your card made for this challenge!

Postage People

On the same flea market that had those dog postage stamps, I´ve found a batch of people stamps and couldn´t resist to make some Postage People ATCs with them. All these latest ATCs went to my album that I´ll have with me for trades at the Art Specially Event in Nijkerk next weekend.

Postage Dogs

 
When I was in Berlin last week, I´ve found a batch of postage stamps featuring dogs on a fleamarket. Well, give me some postage characters, and I´ll make postage people ... eeeh, or dogs ... with them. 
So here are my first postage dogs, and I´ve had so much fun making them!

Paris

I´m back home and able to post this week, I´m sorry that this wasn´t possible last weekend (because I´ve been asked for a Wordpress password that I don´t have). So here´s my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Paris"- made with a die from My Favourite Things and stamps from Invoke Art, Stampinback, Stamp Francisco, Crafty Individuals and Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous.

Bunny Ears Play

I´ve had much fun during this year´s Easter days playing with bunny ears - when you do it, you feel like a little child altering images in your school books ... only the results look more interesting. At least I liked what came out.

 

Time

 

This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Timepieces". As I´m not at home right now and on a foreign computer, it´s difficult to make this post, and I´ll keep it short. Sorry for the strange layout ...

Strong Women

 
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is Strong People. While you might think of weightlifters, I´m thinking of strong characters, especially women, going their own way. 

Drama King

 
If you know me, you know that Postage People is my favourite theme, so I´m in for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge hosted by my sister Sabine of course ...

I´ve had prepared a background and added a postage person a few days ago but didn´t know which text I should add or which other elements. Then last week I had to deal with a drama queen in real life, and it wasn´t fun, and the problem isn´t solved yet. So my decision to use this Drama King text helped me to deal with this - at least it´s my way of taking the challenge. 

In my personal case, I had to deal with a drama queen, but as we´ve celebrated International Women´s Day yesterday, I´ve made a Drama King as probably men are also able to play this game.

Spring Flora

 
Flora and Fauna was the theme for this month´s Visible Image ATC swap. I´m longing for colours, flowers and warmer temperatures, so here´s my ATC for Rachel in the UK and the coordinating card.

Light behind the Clouds

Maybe it´s a good thing to be larger than most of us ... giraffes definitely are - and who knows how they experience the world. I´m sure that they have a different image of it than we have.

Giraffes are this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

Hobby ATCs

 
For a hobby themed ATC swap I went with knitting, photography and crafting/painting this time - I could have made more about reading, cooking and riding my bike, but there aren´t enough participants in that swap, and I thought this looked like a great trio.

Scribble

 
The background for this card was made with Artgraf watersoluble crayons, and this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme "Scribble" came handy to make something with it ... so I added a few stamps from Dina Wakley and here´s the result.

Keys

 
Keys is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. 

All You Need Is Love

 

This month´s theme for the Visible Image ATC swap is "All You Need Is Love", and I´m glad that we didn´t have to make a Valentines card ... Instead, I made an ATC about loving yourself and a card to send it to Manchester about having an uplifting phone call from whoever loves you. 

Past and Future - Marie Antoinette

 
No, she didn´t say "Let them eat cake", but she didn´t understand the signs of the upcoming future, and the result was "Off with her head". Marie Antoinette is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. Do people learn from history? Hmmmm .... I´m really worried when I read that young people question democracy - WHAT??? What is the future they wish for?? Maybe it´s a good thing to be old as I hopefully won´t be alive when these people take over ...

Distant Places

 
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge, I´ve chosen "Distance" as my theme. Maybe you remember a card of mine that I´ve made for an SPA challenge themed Numbers in 2020 and that illustrated the situation we´ve all been in back then - Corona. I had called this card Distance, and in 2024 I felt the need to make another card illustrating Distance that has nothing to do with that crisis that I hope wé´ve let behind us. So, in 2024 thinking of Distance shouldn´t make us think of social distance anymore but of distant places, distant friends, and maybe walls and borders we want to overcome.