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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Giraffes are this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed New Year/ New You/ New Beginnings I didn´t want to make just another new year card but tried to capture the thoughts many of us have when we´re starting into a new year - making plans, thinking about things we always wanted to do but didn´t, sorting out things and goals, and so on.
For some of us, trying new things is one of these goals for a new year. And while you do sooooo many new things when you´re young, this is something rare when you get older. But the nest with its egg waiting to give life to a newborn says it all: You can start a new day or a new year with the decision to do something for the very first time.
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is 12 Days of Christmas, and it´s not an easy theme for Germans as we don´t know that song here ...
My card featuring the Seven Swans A-Swimming was made using tape and stamps from AALL&Create and a stamp from The Craft Consortium/Crafter´s Companion.
Here´s my man in the moon for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art Challenge. I have collaged a man to a background made with stamps from CiaoBella.
If you´re a stamper, you probably know that lack of understanding in the face of someone you´re telling about your hobby. Especially if people deal with rubber stamps in their office, they can´t imagine what you can do with them if you use other motives and use them differently and with colours.
What I love about stamping is that you can use the same stamps quite differently over and over, even if you don´t change your basic design. I never make duplicates (like many stampers do), but like to make "variations on a theme".
For example here´s a holiday card I´ve made with just three stamps from Cats on Apple Trees, Charlie & Paulchen, and Butterer. I´ve used the same arrangement on both cards and used watercolours on both backgrounds, but you can see that the different colours make a great difference.
I can´t decide which one I prefer, can you?
We´ve had soooo much rain last week, and the rain is going on this week, so this card seems appropriate.
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge, I´ve picked the theme "Circles". My card was made with stamps from Red Lead and PaperArtsy/Seth Apter. Can´t wait to see your interpretations of the theme!
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Apothecary", so here´s my card for it.
Autumn is on its way, and it´s time to make some Halloween ATCs for the annual swaps.
I´ve had that PaperArtsy Rusting Powder on my desk for a while now but hadn´t tried it yet. When I saw this month´s theme for the Visible Image ATC swap "Rusty", its time had come!
I used a brick stencil with gel medium, then used the powder on top and sprayed with a mixture of vinegar and water. I could see the effect very soon but let it work overnight, and I received a lovely brick texture of real rust.
In advance, I had masked the snail on the ATC and the owl on the accompanying card and thought it might look interesting to use shimmering watercolours on these - just believe me that these look great, unfortunately my scanner doesn´t show the shimmer. Finally I added the text and embossed it in black and white.
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge, my sister Sabine picked the theme "Coffee or Tea".
While I´ve been a passionate tea lover in my teenager years and twenties, I prefer coffee nowadays, partly because the water in the region where I live now is not good enough for brewing a great darjeeling ...
I like meeting friends for a cup of coffee sometimes, but while the girls on my card have a coffee to go, I never take a coffee with me, and the concept of coffee to go doesn´t make sense to me: I have my coffee at home in the morning, and then I´ll have two more at work, but why should I take one on my way to work? The tons of garbage speak their own language, and in my opinion they´re completely unnecessary ...
However, I´ve had fun making this card using stamps from Hampton Art/Rongrong, PaperArtsy/France Papillon and Art Journey.
I´ve made my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Polka Dots" with stamps from Dina Wakley.
Both women look quite unhappy, so I thought I´d give them some polka dots to lift them up because they stand for happiness and positive thoughts. Maybe it´s worth to paint some polka dots and look what´s happening then.
This month´s theme for the Visible Image ATC swap is "Summer Vibes". You only have to make one ATC for your trade partner, but I love to make an accompanying card to send it, mostly using the same stamps, maybe combined differently.
This time, I´ve used the same hippie girl stamp on a gessoed design paper that had musical notes and some flowers and therefore seemed to fit the flower power / hippie / festival theme I´ve chosen.
Meow! Have a great weekend!
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is Cats in Hats, and I´m happy that I have this fabulous stamp by Brett Weldele in my stash.
This card is about Fake News. We all know them, and some people don´t know any more what to believe. AI (KI in German) won´t make this situation any better ...
In my collage, this guy wants to tell us that the world literally turned upside down - fake news so far!
I´ve used stamps from Carabelle, Klartext and Heindesign for my card.
My card is about losing yourself, if in space or wherever else ...
You can get lost in space, in the deep sea or in your own cosmos. Did you ever had a feeling of being lost? Please let me know, and I hope that your cards for this week´s challenge tell me something personal about your own adventures.
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