three-muses-challenge: b/w stripes

when it comes to black & white stripes, i automatically think zebra.

so, here comes zeferino the zebra for the 3-muses-challenge.

elements (background, flower, bubblewrap brushes) from scrapbookgraphics.

three-muses-challenge: quote

"In the Universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors" - William Blake

 only few pages left in my capolan journal...

take-a-word: mothers

we do not celebrate mother´s day in our family - like valentine i´m not happy with proxy days. i think we should give attention to our loved ones all over the year, and not on an alibi day. way too much commerce around it. [and, especially in germany, the celebration of mothers was stimulated in world war II, that dark chapter in our history...]

so i escaped into the animal world;)

background elements from scrapbookgraphics, brushes by me.

three-muses-challenge: music

i chose one of my favorite songs for this challenge: freedie mercury & montserrat caballé...

(translation: Por ti sere gaviota de tu bella mar - I will be a seagull of your beautiful sea)

background paper: scrapbookgraphics

the sculpture from gaudí is standing on the roof of the casa mila in barcelona

the "barcelona" font is "queen the first"

take-a-word: stone angels

background freebie from flickr

text brush after a stamp from stampinks unlimited (out of business)

dead tree brush free from the web

red pattern: scrapbookgraphics

SPA: when i grow up

this postcard contains elements from scrapbookgraphics (background, bubblewrap brushes), coffeeshop (frame of the picture) and jessica sprague (tape) and the free dymo-brushes, which i found online.

SPA chose this theme because Children's Day is a Japanese national holiday which takes place annually on May 5, the fifth day of the fifth month, to respect children's personalities and to celebrate their happiness.

challenge yourself...

the theme of artjournal journey this month is challenge yourself....

i normally don´t like to work on a small scale like inchies, but for a project in our munich stamping group i agreed to go beyond my comfort zone.

actually the squares are 1,6 inch, so not too small, but i always find it hard to save these tinies without losing them. so i think i will glue the duplicates i made for me into a journal...

diesmal soll man sich bei artjournal journey selber herausfordern...

i mag ja normalerweise nicht so gerne im kleinformat (wie z.b. inchies) arbeiten - weil ich dann immer nicht weiß wohin mit den dingern und sie verschlupfen sich dann irgendwo. nun läuft in unserer münchner stempelgruppe ein tauschprojekt mit kleinen quadraten (4x4 cm) und ich hab mich überreden lassen. hat dann doch spaß gemacht! und ich werde meine duplikate in ein journal kleben, damit sie nicht wieder verloren gehen;)

three muses challenge

the challenge theme this week is HATS AND CROWNS AND WINGS AND THINGS.

i made this collage with the help of medieval book pages and elements i bought at scrapbookgraphics.

take-a-word: beautiful

last week we had some sunny days and if time allows i spend them in my small garden doing my favorite things: spraying or tinting some backgrounds (here a braille book) and watching the flowers grow (i´m a lazy gardener, i only have perennials;))

going around i found some leftovers from last autumn´s physalis: i´m always surprised how these beautiful fragile skeletons withstand the snow masses! anyway, i saved them and bringing them to the desk with the braille book it was clear i had to take a photograph.

SPA: mail art

one of my favorite themes at SPA 

(all brushes selfmade)

background: "post card " from shadowhouse creations

illustration from an old book