Full Moon

 
Full Moon is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. My card was made with stamps from Dina Wakley and Red Lead plus a die cut from Stamperia.

Note to Self

 
What a great theme Cindy has chosen for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge! I had more than 20 ideas for this but finally went with this girl from Andy Skinner, accompanied by stamps from Dylusions and Badass Stamp Studio.

There are so many things I should remember every day, most important of all: live and don´t think too much and don´t care about what others think of you.

What are the things you want to note to remember every day?

Poe

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Poe I´ve stamped this card using stamps from Carmen`s veranda, IndigoBlu, Stampotique and Funkelkram.

Be yourself please! I´m quite old, but people always try to make you think you´re wrong, seems this doesn`t ever stop. Please be strong and fight because you´re just right as you are. You don`t have to fit in but just have to be YOU. As I`m not very successful in this, I´d like to think that you are much better in this.

Museums

 
Do you like to visit museums? I really do because they always give me some important input for my brain, even if I don`t like the art that is exhibited. When going on a holiday, I prefer big cities with interesting museums - not that I wouldn´t like a walk on the beach, but I´m usually bored there after about two hours.
How about you? Do you like museums or do you prefer to see art in a different surrounding? 

And what do you think about calling something "art"? I´ve been surprised when my US friends first called my collages art and some even asked if I´d sell them because here in Germany nobody would do that - you have to have a degree to call yourself an artist, and you probably wouldn´t sell something you´ve made without an art degree. 

My sister Sabine has picked "Museums" as this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. My card was made with stamps from VivaLasVegaStamps only.

Peace

 
If you´re interested in politics in any way, you know why I picked "Peace" as this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art. The date of course was chosen by Mandy as September 21st is the International Day of Peace as declared by the United Nations in 1981.

For the last two years I´ve been singing Christmas songs together with 10.000 people in the centre of our city, and the event always ends with John Lennon´s "War is over (if you want it)", and it´s very impressive to be a part of this choir.

Recently I´ve found out that John Lennnon´s and Yoko Ono´s art piece "War is over" is in the Kunsthalle in my former home town Bremen, so I collaged the poster into my card, combining it with some lovely stamps from PaperArtsy, Darkroom Door and VivaLasVegaStamps. So there are some very personal elements in this card which I love. If you have a moment, please visit my Instagram Account (bockel24) to see the real colours as my scanner dimmed the colours very much - I prefer the photo version with much brighter and darker colours and more contrast.

What comes to your mind when you think of Peace? I can´t wait to see your interpretations and read about your thoughts.

(I don´t have any problems with the internet in general but only with commenting on WordPress blogs - as I´m constantly asked for my WordPress password that I don´t have. So I´ll be able to comment on all posts but WordPress blogs.)

Squares

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Squares" I´ve made two cards, "Shakespeare Squares" and "In Your Head".

Friends

 
Friends are what you need in every stage of your life. Most people believe that it´s easy to find new friends when you´re young and that it gets harder every year - I don´t think so. Regardless of your age, finding a new friend is always something rare that provides happiness.

"Friends" is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, and my card was made with a single Dina Wakley stamp set.

Sea Turtle

 
This week´s Sunday Postcard Art theme "Turtles" was a great excuse to use this wonderful turtle ship stamp designed by Redmer Hoekstra. 

Imagine the Possibilities

 

What´s a zebra without its stripes? A horse with no name? 

My card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Stripes" features a zebra waiting for its stripes coming back from the laundry, the stamp is from Stempelbar. 

Pigeons

 
Pigeons is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. For my card, I´ve used stamps from CiaoBella, PaperArtsy and Visible Image Stamps.

What's on your Mind?

 
The Sunday Postcard Art challenge asks us "What´s on your Mind?" this week. I could have made about five cards as I love thought provoking themes like this, but I ended up with two tonight. What´s up Watson? was inspired by a meeting with a very old friend of more than 35 years recently that I hadn´t seen for a while for good reasons. 
My second card is about those voices you sometimes can´t calm and that make you crazy but tell the truth, and you should listen to them. Sometimes there are other voices coming from your heart, and you have to decide which ones you want to follow.

Stamps used for the first card are from Tim Holtz at Stampers Anonymous, for the second card I´ve mixed stamps from Dina Wakely at Ranger Ink, Visible Image and Artemio.

If I had a Hammer ...

 
Do you know what I love about challenge blogs? They really challenge me!

When I first read this week´s theme "Tools" for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge blog, I thought, oh, I´m out this week. Then it dawned to me that I have a very unusual stamp that is very appropriate for this theme, and here's my card made with it.

Stamps are from Nick Bantock/Artistic Stamper, Stamping Bella and Studiolight.

Celebrate Summer

Summer is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, and I think that flowers really represent summer. 
My card was made with stamps from Alison Bomber at Paper Artsy. As always, the colours are different in real life, especially as I used some neon scribble sticks ... but my scanner doesn´t like neons.

Happy

 

I`m sorry, but I´ve made my card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed "Bubbles" with colours that my scanner doesn`t like at all - in general, all oranges and reds aren´t shown right, and then there are additional neon effects on this one ... if you go to my Instagram channel bockel24, you´ll see the colours much better taken with my smartphone camera, but even the camera can´t show the neons. That´s why cards have to be sent to real friends in real life - only the recipient can see the real card, and isn´t that a nice fact?

I've used stamps from Stempelbar and AALL&Create here plus watercolours and neon scribble sticks.

ATCs for trade at the Stempelmekka

I've made two ATCs tonight that I really like. I had made two collaged backgrounds some time ago that have been waiting on my desk to be used - and they`ve made perfect backgrounds for these two ATCs using stamps from Dina Wakley at RangerInk and Alison Bomber at PaperArtsy. Wanna trade? Meet me at the Stempelmekka in Dortmund on September 6th, and you´ll find them in my album ...

Keep the Balance

 
Some people today believe that their work-life-balance is the most important thing in their life, others struggle with keeping up their emotional balance in times of war, and then when you get older you know that there are days that make it hard to keep your head up and move a foot forward - so keeping your balance is really important for all of us.

I´m hosting the Sunday Postcard Art challenge this week with the theme and tried to visualize it with stamps from Tim Holtz and Paper Artsy.

P.S.: Looks like I´m unable to comment on WordPress even with a different email addy, my comments just didn´t show up.

Stamping is Colourful

 
I´ve made a relatively clean card for this year´s stamping project at Heindesign themed "Stamping is colourful". Just a few stamps from Concord&9th, Visible Image and Ciao Bella, and a bit of watercolour, that´s all. It was sent naked without envelope, and I´m glad that it arrived in good condition ...

Ladder to the Moon

 
"Ladder" is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, and I´ve kept my card simple using only stamps from CiaoBella.

I don´t know if you´ve noticed that I haven´t been able to post any links to any Wordpress blogs for weeks now, so please don´t be confused that my links can only be posted by friends now and that I´m not able to comment to your blogs if you are on Wordpress - sorry for that!

(Somehow Wordpress believes that I have an account there and asks me for my password - that I don´t have because I don´t have an account there. If someone knows how to fix this, just let me know.)

Chase Your Dreams

 
This week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge is "Archer", and this is the only archer image I have. It´s a rubber stamp designed by Nick Bantock, and I thought it might match the quote from Visible Image. 

Cats and Dogs

 
Heindesign´s annual stamping project is themed "Cats and Dogs" this year. I´ve used stamps from Ranger/Dina Wakley, The Sassy Club, Stempelbar, AALL&Create and Concord&9th for my card.