Live in the Present

 

My sister Sabine picked "Playtime" as this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. 

I´ve always loved playing, as a child I loved Hopscotch and the skipping rope and all kinds of parlour games, today I prefer a lovely evening with friends having fun with our monthly pub quiz. Having fun doing things that you do just for fun is very important for your soul, I believe, and so playtime should be a fixed element in our calendars.

Like Friedrich Schiller said: "Man is only truly human when he plays." Life is short, so live in the moment, live in the present and do things that you don´t have to do but that make you happy.

For my card I´ve used stamps from Andy Skinner and Visible Image on a gessoed magazine background, coloured with watercolours.

Blue Monday

 

When I read this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge theme "Blue Monday", I had New Order in my ears immediately. Their song came out when I finished school and became an adult, so it will be always on my mind. 

How does it feel to treat me like you do?
Tell me how do I feel?

It´s interesting that the song title "Blue Monday" doesn´t appear in the lyrics of this song, but this is just part of the mystery of this great song.

I´ve made my card with stamps from Visible Image and an alphabet from AALL & Create.

Feathered Friends

 

In my opinion, we´ve had enough winter, and I´m longing for warmer temperatures and listening to the singing of my favourite feathered friends. 

Feathered Friends is this week`s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, and my card was made with stamps from Hobbycompleetdeduif and Red Lead Paperworks.

Winter Woodland Life - Snow

Winter Woodland Life is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge. I´ve made a collaged background with a few paper scraps, then added stamps from Tim Holtz and Penny Black.

Professor Santa

 This week is an open theme for Christmas at Mandy´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge. So I tried something new and combined our beloved Tim Holtz "The Professor" with some Visible Image stamps and got Professor Santa as a result - now we know what the professor does during the next days.

Angels

My sister Sabine has chosen the theme "Angels" for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge. 

Do you believe in angels? I don´t, but I do believe in online friendship. 

An online friend asked for a Christmas card today, so this card will go to California on Monday.
Most people I know in real life don´t have any real online friends and don´t believe in online friendship, but I do. I have a few online friends found in former Yahoo groups more than 20 years ago who feel like near friends and who know almost everything about me, plus they have shared their art and life with me for decades. It´s not their fault nor mine that they don´t live where I do, so they really are my friends.

Sending handmade cards is an important part of staying in contact, not only with online friends but with everyone you know, so I hope you´ll send a batch of handmade Christmas cards this year to make your friends happy. 

My Angel card was made with stamps from Pink Ink Designs and Tim Holtz/ Stampers Anonymous.

Mona Lisa

 

Mona Lisa is an icon, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I´ve seen her in the Louvre in Paris but wasn´t impressed much to see her behind all that glass, and did you know that this painting measures only 77 x 53 cm? Leonardo painted it from 1503 to 1506, and he still owned it when he died.

Mona Lisa is this week´s theme for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, and my card was made using stamps from MaVinci and Visible Image.