Sharing

I want to share with you one truly wonderful postcard I received from Jeanie, it was such a surprise and I love just everything about it - especially the writing on the front - thank you so much Jeanie.

A while ago my daughter gave me a little pile of old postcards which I am in the process of scanning. I thought you might like to use them in your art. Here is the first one (front and back) - have a lovely day, Petra.

Vintage Paris

... a challenge of a postcard and lots of wishful thinking ... sigh .... wish I could have been there!

I created the background using mainly images from the Graphics Fairy, the lovely Lady is from e-vint.com. I added some swirly stamping with Artemio stamps and a little lace and some pearls. Have a lovely weekend, Petra.

Sheep Allsorts

Puh! What a temperature, it was very muggy today. I cannot cope very well with this weather. I have been feeling very tired and although I had quite some spare time, I had not even enough energy to do any crafting and tomorrow it is back to work (sigh). How is it in your part of the world, how was and is your summer? I do hope that you all thoroughly enjoyed and still enjoy it.
I noticed that there are still some cards I haven't shared with you, this is one of them. It is a postcard for a swap, the theme was: Sheep

 

The background for this postcard is from TracyAnn Digital Papers. I layered it with a faux postage frame from Craft Chaos and some friendly sheep from Becky F. The frame is coloured with distress ink, the sheep with Copics and colouring pens - for each wool colour there is a little herd of sheep (lol). The little friendly hello is a stamp from the Waltzing Mouse.  Have a good start to the week, Petra.

Let's Go for a Ride

... a balloon ride! The weather is fabulous with icecream and lazy afternoons in the sunshine (lol). No wonder that this Lady wants to travel ....

 ... going for a ride in a balloon: inky background with stamps from Impression Obsession and Kaisercraft, distress inks and acrylic paints. The Lady is Lavinia from Karftin' Kimmie, her luggage a fancy suitcase from Artemio with Lili of the Valley label! Enjoy the journey, Petra.

Postcard Butterflies

This is my postcard for our KindredSpririt postcard swap organised by Jules

Oh, it is so difficult to make a one-layer-card because it is so tempting to add a little bit of bling here, a little button there (lol) ... this time I managed to restrain myself and do without add-ons and it was good fun, I basically inked it all up: the background is brushed distress ink 'Stormy Sky' stencilled with distress ink 'Faded Jeans' using a Tattered Angel stencil. The stamped images are all from various stamp sets from Tim Holtz/Stamper Anonymous. And at last I dabbed a little bit of various acrylic inks around the corners. 

The postcard will be posted tomorrow and I hope the recipient likes it, Petra.

Linked to: Craft-Room challenge - Ink it
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes

A Little Birthday Ornament & a Valentine's Surprise

Today I received a lovely, delightfu and very charming Valentine's surprise - a truly beautiful Valentine's postcard ... it came in an elegant envelope with no 'real' information about the sender only: @kindred spirits postcard swap
I think I might know who sent it ... can you guess? Thank you so much, I will cherish this card, it is so beautiful!

For some it is not only Valentine's Day but also their birthday. I created a little birthday ornament which can be used in quite a few ways ... as adornment for a present, a little tag, ....

supplies:
stamps: Clear Dollar Stamp, Elzybells - paper: Tracy Ann Digital
colouring: Copics - bow and blings

To see more birthday creations, just pop over to Vicki's blog. And hopefully you also have time to play along. Have a wonderful evening full with excitement and magic, Petra.

Late Halloween Postcard

Late with posting here on my blog but hopefully not too late arriving at Chriss' doorstep ... for the Kindred Spirit Postcard swap. Chriss wanted to see bats on the postcard
The base for this postcard is again a watercolour-paper postcard which is brilliant when using lots of paint or ink ... lots of inking for the background with Distress inks ranging from scattered straw to fired brick and lots of stamping with Archival and Memento ink (stamps: Artistic Outpost, Elzybells). Hope there are enough bats on the postcard ... Petra.

Autumn Leaves

For Alexa and the September KindredSpirit Postcard challenge I created an autumn leave postcard. The base was a pre-prepared watercolour postcard which I worked on with various shades of distress ink to create the background.
For the stamping I used real leaves from the garden. The idea came about when a little while ago I found a little table cloth in my drawer which had been decorated with leave prints. And I remembered that my kids and me created this cloth during a weekend activity a VERY long time ago
For the postcard I collected acer leaves in varied sizes which I brushed with acrylic paint and pressed them onto the background - I covered the leave with white paper and rolled it very lightly with a brayer. I like this technique a lot. When taking the leaves off, quite a bit of the leave structure has been preserved
And who is just taking a quick peek from behind the leaves? A little witch from the Octopode Factory who is just about to go for a little ride (sentiment from Red Lead PaperWorks) (lol) - Petra.

Knit Happens!

This is a postcard I made for the Kindred Spirit Postcard exchange. It is for the month of August and went to the lovely Christine from Change of Heart Creations.
Here theme was: pick your own theme/anything goes ...

The base of the post card is digital cloud paper from TracyAnn Digital paper. For the second layer I first stamped all the images (stamps from Kraftie Kimmie and Little-Z) on white card and then coloured the background and the images with Koh-i-noors and Copics. And ... I know it is a postcard ... but I couldn't resist to give it a bit more depth and a bit of a three-dimensional feel by adding some 'true' knitting (the knitting needles are pins), make the sheep all fluffy with cotton pads and add some stamped (stamp by Elzybells) and cut flowers.
Wishing you a great weekend, Petra. x

A Little Butterfly Fairy

I am part of a postcard swap which runs over 12 months. Every participant chooses her own theme. The first postcard went to Jeanie whose theme was: create a post card in your own style. This is always a tricky one for me as I do not really have a distinct style - I think - but create projects depending on my mood, surroundings, ... on the day. And there is also always the challenge to make sure that a postcard is as flat as possible ... I have to admit this part did not quite work out so well ...
The postcard now safely arrived at Jeanie's so I can show it to you
The background is created with gesso, various acrylic paints and some vintage musical notepaper on watercolour paper. This was daunting as I had never done anything like this before ... but it was great fun and it came all quite easily together. The tricky part was the stamping. First I stamped some subtle patterns onto the painted background using cinnamon hybrid ink and stamps from Impression Obsessions and Penny Black - this worked very well. Then I started to stamp the images ... and this went horribly wrong at first. Using the wrong ink the stamped images started to run and it looked all blotchy. But thanks to Lucy who taught me to use archival ink for stamping on acrylic paint, all went well in the end ... Lucy, I would have been lost without your advice! The sentiment is Kaisercraft, the brackets Hero Arts, the corner Crafty Individuals and the little butterfly fairy Red Lead Paperworks. To balance the composition I did some fuzzy cutting using Hero Art flowers and a Darkroom Door butterfly. The finishing touches were some pink and turquoise glitter. Have a wonderful Summer Sunday, Petra. x

Linked to: Theme Thursday - Wings