Stempel Spass

Now there is an interesting challenge at CASology this week - the theme is CONTRAST. That can be interpreted in so many ways. I choose to do two contrasts in my card - neon colors versus black and an organic form versus geometric ones. The tree is really just a branch from A Muse, that I pieced together with my Stamp-a-ma-jig. The shapes are from  STAMPlorations the set is   Retro Mod Shapes . The sentiment is  Papertrey Sketched Shapes. the neon inks are Hero Arts. I am also linking this with: Addicted to stamps  -  CAS Seize the birthday   - BIRTHDAY (anything goes) One Layer Simplicity challenge - restock your shelves

I found a new challenge!  Cool! I am such a challenge junkie......Now usually I don't really like sketch challenges, but this one appealed to me. I also liked the way the challenge is shown - just hand drawn on a piece of paper. The challenge is by  A Muse Studio .   I thought I have several stamps from them, but then I could only find one - this one - its called open Chrysanthemum and its old (but good!) - but perhaps its not the same company - I don't know it says A Muse Artstamps on it. The half circle is made with a Lifestyle Crafts nesting die. I heat embossed it and colored it with Copics. The sentiment is from  Hero Arts - Leaf Print Cl395 and I used patterned paper for the background - a rarity for me, but was inspired by the patterned paper class, that I unfortunately missed.... I also linked up this card with the The Die Cut Diva's challenge - Anything Green .

I have three new members, which I want to welcome to my blog today! Heute habe ich gleich drei neue Mitglieder ("Verfolger"), die ich recht herzlich auf meinem Blog begruessen moechte! Corinna Sigi Mel They are all from Germany - my home country and all of them have fantastic blogs, which I have linked. I want to welcome you with this piece of art, that I saw recently in the Newark Museum in New Jersey. It is from the African artist El Anatsui , which creates these stunning pieces out of scrap metal, such as liquor bottle caps. I linked a slide show of some of his works from the New York Times to his name and from there you can get the New York Times article, if you are interested to read about him. Alle meine neuen Mitglieder sind aus Deutschland - meiner Heimat und alle haben tolle blogs, die verlinkt sind. Wilkommen, neue Mitglieder, es freut mich, dass ihr zu mir gefunden habt. Das Photo von dem Kunstwerk ist von dem AfrikanischenKuenstler  El A...