Sing Loud

 I love birds, so I really needed the stamp with these two birds. I`ve stamped them on a book page and combined them with stamps from Klartext and PaperArtsy and a number stencil.

Ocean

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Ocean", I´ve started by painting with watercolours, then added that fabulous quote stamp from Darkroom Door, some AALL&Create tapes torn in wavy shapes and another stamp from PaperArtsy. 

Sherlock

 

This week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Detectives" was chosen by my sister Sabine, and here´s my card for it featuring Sherlock Holmes.

Not Bad

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Monkeys" I´ve decided to go with a street art monkey.

Flower Fairy

 

If you know me a bit, you´ll be surprised to see a fairy card from me, and in fact, when I first saw this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme "Flower Fairies", my first thought was "I´m out ...".

But then I thought it would be nice to "build" my own flower fairy and to play with colours again as I really feel a need for this right now. And in the end, I´ve been happy with my card using stamps from Visible Image again.

Here Comes Summer

 

For a swap in the Visible Image FB group themed "Here comes summer", I´ve made this ATC using Visible Image stamps only. It´ll be on its way to London tomorrow. My inspiration went Flower Power, neon colours and joy - something unusual for me that is big fun nevertheless from time to time ...

Old Book Pages

 

Old book pages are something I´m using all the time, so this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was a simple thing to do for me ... here´s my card using gloss sprays and rubber stamps from Dina Wakley.

Street Art

 

For this week´s challenge at Sunday Postcard Art, I´ve made a card using stamps from VivaLasVegaStamps, PaperArtsy, A Capella and Stempelbar.

Books

 

Books is a theme I can´t ignore, so of course I had to join this swap in one of my ATC groups.

Characters

 

These digital collages "Broken" above and "She" below have been made with the new Songbirdy Character Mixes One and Two - lots of great people to use in your collages!

Just Be You

For a mini ATC swap with Visible Image stamps themed "Just be you", I couldn´t decide on sending one these two ATCs as they both represent me: always struggling (below), but trying to enjoy life (above) nevertheless ... so my swap partner will receive them both to get a realistic image of me. These will be on their way to California tomorrow.

Extraordinary

 

This week, the challenge at Sunday Postcard Art is to make our card extraordinary - hope I´ve met it! At least I´ve had fun mixing some washi tapes with three cool stamp sets from Visible Image to send out some positive vibes!

As my scanner didn´t catch the pink in this card, I´ve added a photo of the card below.

Pandemic 2.0

 

After more than 12 months of pandemic, it´s your decision how to cope with it ... but you´re not able to ignore it.

(stamps used here are from Dina Wakley, Jane Davenport, Klartext, VivaLasVegaStamps, Sommerabend.de and others)

Tableaux

 

My friend Beth aka Songbirdy came out with two new kits today at Mischief Circus, called "Tableau Uno" and "Tableau Deux". They´ve been made to mix and match but can also be used separately as done here in "The Gift" above and "Corona Walks" below.

More Postage People

 
These two Postage People ATCs have been made for an upcoming swap.

Zetti Magic

 
Last weekend I gathered my Zetti stamps and started to prepare a few ATCs for a Zetti themed swap in one of my ATC groups. When I came back to them today, they turned out completely different, and I think that´s the magic of Zettiology - when you´re in the process of making something Zetti styled, your thoughts tend to go wild and you get into a creative swirl and never know what you´ll end up with.

Snail Mail - a true story

 

Yes, this IS a true story, as the words on the left tell you. My sister sent me a package from Berlin on February 8. It couldn´t be delivered when it arrived in my town on February 10 because of the LOADS of snow we´ve had then. Okay. The same day, I found a card in my mailbox (how did it get there if the parcel service couldn´t reach my address??) that told me my package was handed over to a shop far away from me. I couldn´t go there because of the snow, so I applied for a second delivery three days later, which was confirmed by email. I´ve been waiting for my package on February 13 but it didn´t arrive. So when the snow had melted a bit and it was possible to go to a post office, I asked what I could do, and they couldn´t even find out where my package was - the shop told to me on that card has been closed for a whole week because of the snow so they couldn´t even tell me if my package ever arrived there. They asked me to wait. Then yesterday, I saw online that they told me the package wasn´t fetched by me - well, of course not as I had applied for a second delivery (which was written on the same web page). So today, I called the hotline a second time to ask what to do, but it didn´t help - my package had been sent back to Berlin last night and was delivered to my sister by noon. So the postal service is still alive and working, it just didn´t do what it should. Another phone call (couldn´t have done by me but had to be made by my sister) and she got an online refund to send the package again. Please pray for me that I´ll get it this time!!

This was the loooong story, and you can see the advantage of visual art: it really makes long stories short.

My card says it all with the help of rubber stamps - isn´t that easier? 

And guess what - this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Snail Mail"!

Rain

 

We´ve had much rain lately, but tonight we have loads of snow coming down which makes me want to have the rain back again ...

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

Coffee First

 

I´m a night owl that has to get up at 5.30 in the morning, so a small cup of coffee is what really helps to get me started ... though it doesn´t always take that grumpy look from my face.
I´m happy that my parents understood and let me stay up really late when I was a teenager and didn´t worry when I made my homework for school late in the evening. My most creative time is before midnight, and that didn´t change since I was young (it´s 2 a.m. when I post this!).

How about you? Are you an early bird or a night owl? And what´s the impact for your everyday life?

My card was made for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Coffees Stains", and as the background was stamped with real espresso and an espresso cup, I´ve also used stamps from AALL & Create and Altenew here.

Music

 

Life is going on, and maybe music can help you to deal with its daily challenges - at least I hope so!

This is my entry for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Music hosted by my sister Sabine. Hope you´ll play with us and let us know about your thoughts!