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 ...

First Time

 
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.

Madhatter

 

Tags & Labels is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. Years ago, I´ve had a stamping company made my own custom made stamp with the words "Labels are for cans, not people", and it´s very appropriate for this theme. And guess what - the Mad Hatter is not happy with the label people gave him being mad or crazy ... what if he´s just a bit different? Aren´t we all mad here?

12 Days of Christmas

 

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.

Man in the Moon

 

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.

Colour Play

 
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?

Feel the Rain

 
We´ve had soooo much rain last week, and the rain is going on this week, so this card seems appropriate. 

Day of the Dead

My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Day of the Dead" was made with several Tim Holtz stamps on a selfmade Gelli Plate print - for the first time I´ve tried black embossing on top of white embossing, and I love it - won´t be my last time using this technique.

Alice in Shoppingland

 

This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is bags. So here´s Alice shopping stamps. Stamps are from ArtJourney and Stampington.