A Trip to Paris

This 6 x 6 collage is my entry for Mary Green´s October challenge - please visit her site and see what the other participants did with the nice collage sheet Mary has made for us to download.
The scrap in the top right corner is talking of "my first trip to Paris about 1900 age 10", so I just enhanced this idea by giving the girl her luggage, a Paris map, an Eiffel tower as her guide, and a vintage French postage stamp. When first I saw the collage images for this month I thought they wouldn´t inspire me because I missed some colour, but hey - I added a lot of colour and that solved my problem, LOL!
My printer didn´t work for a few days, so many thanks to my sister Sabine for printing the images and sending them to me so that I could join on time!

A Midsummer Night´s Dream

This 6 x 6 page is my entry for the new Wednesday Stamper´s challenge "A Midsummer Night´s Dream". This is not one of my favourite Shakespeare plays (those are The Tempest, Macbeth, and Richard III.), maybe because I don´t like all that elves and ghosts and fairytale stuff ... but I like the fact that the lion, the moon and even the wall play their own roles here. Here´s a snippet from the first scene of the fifth act.

In the Sky

I´m still on vacation but not by airplane, phew! So I didn´t have to spend days and days waiting on airports but could just enter the train and go where I wanted to go. Some other people might have thought "If I had wings" so that they could have returned home easily.
"In the Sky" is this week´s Wednesday Stamper´s challenge theme, and here´s my 6 x 6 card.

Tagged by Sarah

I´ve been tagged by Sarah so I´m showing the tenth image of my picture file here - an old 6 x 6 bird page. As I still have it here, I can see that I´ve made it in July 2007.

I know that most of my friends don´t like to be tagged, so I don´t tag five other people - just show us the tenth image of your picture file on your computer if you like!

When I Grow Up

The background for this 6 x 6 card is golden, but my scanner made it look brown ...

It´s a greeting card for the 18th birthday of my good friends´ daughter this month, and it´s my entry for today´s Wednesday Stamper´s theme "When I Grow Up".

I have used stamps from Cherry Pie, Flamingo, Stamp Francisco, Invoke, and Inkadinkado.

Maps

As stampers, we all have some stamps that we really love but don´t use very often. This Hero Arts tag stamp is one of them. And then we have stamps that we´ve found on Ebay or anywhere else and don´t know the company that made them - but these may be favourites of us ... like the Jan Myrdal quote I´ve used here. (If you know the stamp company, please let me know!)
The cityscape is by Alpha Stamps, and the swirl by Inkadinkado, and together they make my 6 x 6 entry for today´s Wednesday Stamper´s challenge themed "Maps". It´s a pity that most stamps of maps aren´t very crisp; this is why I prefer using real maps for my backgrounds.

Breakfast is ready

Seems that I can´t stop to make those 6 x 6 bird pages - this pair of cuckoos really fits to one of Linda´s book pages. Notice that the female´s name is Mathilde ...

Gaga

I just couldn´t stop with those bird pages before I had used these words by John Ashbery: I immediately fell in love with his silencing rose and gaga flowers when I first read them.

Fragile

This page (about 6 x 6 inches) has been made just for fun after the book project has been finished. I´ve found the chicken today and couldn´t get it out of my head (of course it isn´t speckled, it´s just the mood my scanner is in when I feed him with magazine paper ...).

No Answer

Here´s the last (?) page: Another sad woman who needs to get some good advice, and singing without a reason maybe would be an answer to her questions!? The words are by Maya Angelou.

A Good Advice

Does anybody know the "They Might Be Giants" song "Birdhouse in your soul"? It´s on their 1990 album "Flood" and inspired me when I heard it again today. It has a very different atmosphere than my tenth Bird page, but isn´t it a good advice for this sad lady anyway?

Hope

No. 9 is about Hope, the words are by Emily Dickinson.

Faith

Book page No. 8 is about Faith, the words are by Tagore.

Early Bird

We have the same saying in German, but only the first part of it: "Früher Vogel fängt den Wurm" - I love the second!

Why?

The sixth page, words by Pablo Picasso.

Bird and Fish 2

O. k., I REALLY liked that book, so here´s a second version of the same quote ...

Where?

Have you read Richard Powers´ novel "The time of our singing"? Its about black and white people living together, and the key-note is: "The bird and the fish can fall in love. But where do they build their nest?"

The Cuckoo

My third Bird book collage using the words of a well known song.

Caged

The second page for the bird book came out quick - the words are by John Webster.

Bird page

This is the first of my pages for a book about birds and nests, 15 x 15 cm (about 6 inches). The words are by P. B. Shelley.