See what others don´t

 
My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Spectacles/Goggles" has a focus on looking deeper than usual. I´ve combined stamps from Art Journey, Visible Image and Graphic 45/Hampton Art for this card.

What makes a good teacher?

 
We all watch Youtube videos and other lessons by professional art teachers nowadays. But what makes a teacher a GOOD teacher? In my opinion, a good teacher makes you want to fetch your pencil and paints after a few minutes while watching the video. For me, Toni Burt is a master doing this - I´m not able to watch one of her videos without grabbing my pencil and watercolours and follow her instructions. I especially love that my results always look like my own designs and not hers. I´d call this a teacher´s super power.

Nick Bantock inspired ATCs

 
This set of Nick Bantock inspired ATCs for a swap was made using collage and rubber stamping.

Octopus

 
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Octopus". Here´s my underwater world made with stamps from Hampton Art, Klartext, and Darkroom Door.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 
My ATC and card for this month´s Visible Image ATC swap themed "How does your garden grow?" arrived safely in the UK this week.

The God of Triangles

 
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.

Castle in the Air

 
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.

Cats (not dogs)

Drama Cat and Nah Cat are my entries for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Cats/Dogs, hosted by my sister Sabine. I´ve painted over two cat photos that I loved and added some text.

Kings

 
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!

Postage People

On the same flea market that had those dog postage stamps, I´ve found a batch of people stamps and couldn´t resist to make some Postage People ATCs with them. All these latest ATCs went to my album that I´ll have with me for trades at the Art Specially Event in Nijkerk next weekend.

Postage Dogs

 
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!

Paris

I´m back home and able to post this week, I´m sorry that this wasn´t possible last weekend (because I´ve been asked for a Wordpress password that I don´t have). So here´s my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Paris"- made with a die from My Favourite Things and stamps from Invoke Art, Stampinback, Stamp Francisco, Crafty Individuals and Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous.

Bunny Ears Play

I´ve had much fun during this year´s Easter days playing with bunny ears - when you do it, you feel like a little child altering images in your school books ... only the results look more interesting. At least I liked what came out.

 

Time

 

This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Timepieces". As I´m not at home right now and on a foreign computer, it´s difficult to make this post, and I´ll keep it short. Sorry for the strange layout ...

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.