Total Admiration ATC

Tonight I pulled out my acrylics and made some backgrounds - not that you can see much of the background on this ATC called "Total Admiration" :-)
It´s just the inspiration these painted backgrounds give what makes them interesting for me.

It´s addictive ...

... this cARTalog theme ...
So here´s another one, "The inquiring mind" - I love this title!
I don´t think there´s a German equivalent!?

Journey into unconsciousness

The third cARTalog ATC has been inspired by a psychiatric glossary edited by the American Psychiatric Association. I made this library card a journey into unconsciousness, lead by Freud. I think I´ll add a see-through stone to the magnifying lens, but I scanned it before that because of the difficulties my scanner has with 3-D embellishments.

Another cARTalog ATC

This library card from the cARTalog project (see below) catalogues a 17th century description of a sea-monster forcing ships to be beached on the shore.

Two Collage ATCs

No brown and almost no stamps on the latest two ATCs.

No relatives today ...

People might think I only make cards and ATCs with pics of my own relatives after they´ve seen the last pieces with pics of my great-grandma and my father, but the two boys on today´s ATC are completely unknown to me :-)
Today´s ATC? Well, isn´t there an English saying "An ATC a day keeps the doctor away"? I´ll try that for the next months ...

Schooldays

It´s Wednesday - time for the Wednesdaystampers! (http://wednesdaystamper.wordpress.com) This week´s theme is "schooldays", one of my favorite topics.

First cARTalog ATC finished

This afternoon I´ve finished my first ATC for the Paper Traders´ cARTalog Swap (for the cARTalog project have a look at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/pr/cartalog/home.htm). The scan is quite bad because my scanner doesn´t like 3-D-embellishments, but you´ll get the idea I think.
I´ve found a photo of a 1915 reading book from my hometown´s library which fits well to the card concerning adult education - so the piece is called "Learning all your life".

Great-grandma on the homepage

This morning I got a mail that my ATC "My heart´s desire" is on the ATC_World homepage now - I´m always happy to have a homepage "publishing" and appreciate the kind comments. The chosen ATC shows my great-grandma, so I´ll tell my mother about her popularity.
It has been for the Paper Traders´ swap "Precious Memories" that I´ve made a bunch of ATCs with old photos of my own ancestors. This has been a special experience cause I felt it´s very different from using collage sheets or pics from the internet; even if you´ve never met your ancestors in person.

Last week´s card "House"

Now that the wednesday stampers can find their way to my new site, I thought I put last week´s entry here too - the given theme was "house".

Hearts

I must say I´ve always hated hearts as a design - but when I saw this as a topic on the Wednesday stampers´ site, I´ve had a look at my stamps and stuff and found something I liked ...
(You´ll find Wednesday stampers here:
http://wednesdaystamper.wordpress.com/)
It´s interesting for me to think about a given theme every week, and I love to see what others come up with.

A bookmark

I´ve made a bookmark today for a swap in one of my groups -

I love books and reading (always have a book with me), so this was MY swap :-)

So let´s try a blog ...

Hi,
this blog hast just been created - I intend to post some pics and comments from time to time, mostly concerning ATCs or other art related items.