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.

Rise & Shine

 
It´s such a pity that scans don´t show shimmer and shine! My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Rise and Shine" was made using Mica sprays and shimmering watercolours, and both don´t show on this scan, sorry ... I´ve used stamps from Visible Image and Dina Wakley here that went together well.

Bluebird

 

Though we don´t have bluebirds here, I´ve tried to capture the colours of a bluebird (Hüttensänger in German) for my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge. Hope you like it!

In Germany, we don´t have many colourful birds. I wish we had bluebirds, blue jays, cardinals, and all those colourful birds you have in the U. S., but I really love those that we have here and treasure them ...