Shakespeare

I´m hosting the Sunday Postcard Art challenge today and have picked Shakespeare for this week´s theme. 

I love many works of Shakespeare, especially Richard III., Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest, but I don´t like most of his comedies. However, his wit and beautiful language sound (I often read his words loud) show up in those, too.

We don´t know much about The Bard who lived from 1564 to 1616, and only the Chandos portrait from about 1600/1610 probably shows us how he looked like. For my card, I´ve chosen a stamp that reproduces the portrait from Martin Droeshout, an engraving from 1623, that is based on the Chandos portrait and was used as a cover for the first folio of Shakespeare´s works.

Have you seen "Hamnet" already? I had watched another film about the same theme recently, "All is true" from Kenneth Branagh, but I prefer "Hamnet". What about you?

The Shakespeare stamp is from VLVS, and I combined it with stamps from Paper Artsy (Alison Bomber and Seth Apter), and Zettiology, and papers from Stamperia.

Do you like Shakespeare, and which is your favourite work? I can´t wait to see your interpretations this week!

Happy Easter!

 
For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge themed Rabbits/Hares I couldn´t resist using Tim Holtz´ lovely Mr. Rabbit who´s sending Easter Greeting to all of you.

Dragonflies

 
My Dragonfly card for this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge was made using a stamp set from Visible Image and shimmering watercolours - what a pity that the shimmer and glitter can´t be seen in the scan!

Having Fun

I almost forgot to post this card using an Andy Skinner stamp and that I just made for fun, inspired by the lovely stamp.

 

Strong Women

 For this week´s Sundy Postcard Art challenge´s theme "International Women´s Day" I had sooo many ideas! In the end, I´ve combined stamps from Dina Wakley and Jane Davenport.

We are all very different, but we shouldn´t forget that we are all women and should support each other!
(In real life, I´ve experienced the opposite, such as female "colleagues" fighting against me and mobbing me for years. So I really wish that this won´t happen again in the future. Probably just a dream.)

Wild Horses

 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge "Horses" I drew a horse and then stamped one above it, illustrating the song lyrics "Wild Horses can´t drag me away". 

(Horse stamp is from Visible Image, Alphabet stamps from Darkroom Door.)

Letting Go

 
Letting Go is the hardest thing. There´s a "small" letting go when a relationship ends, and a big one when a person you loved leaves earth forever. Both are hard, and I´ve never been good at letting anything or anyone go.

Making a sympathy card is always a hard thing, and I remember that it made me happy when I´ve made one for a stamping friend years ago when her husband had passed away, and when I met her again, she hugged and thanked me for my card. 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge Rein asked us for a sympathy card, and it was the hardest thing to make one for a future farewell. When I make a sympathy card, I usually have the person on my mind that has left us, and making the card is part of the process of letting this person go.

I love to use images for sympathy cards that aren´t made for this purpose. Of course you can use falling leaves, bare trees etc., but there´s so much more. I´ve even made sympathy cards with images expressing love only, and they can bring hope, I know. 

The German sentence on my card above means "Letting go costs less strength than holding on, but nevertheless it´s so much harder."