Back home from Austria!
The card I want to show you uses the German phrase “auf die Pauke hauen” which translates to “to hit the kettledrum” and means as much as partying wild and having a blast.
I made the following card for a musician’s 60th birthday:
The little guy has a crazy stare, don’t you think?
At first I had no idea what to make with this color combination. But then I came across the beautiful picture of a girl on a swing, found on the site “The Graphics Fairy“. I had to use this image for a card! So I let my Silhouette draw the doily onto white cardstock (using the silver sketch pen) and attached the image on top of it. The dark mint stripe is masking tape, and the sentiment was cut out using the Silhouette:
So many thanks to Karen, your site is a great source for beautiful images! Many of them are perfect for cards :D
The other two cards were the result of a spontaneous idea, once again I let my Silhouette do the cutting:
Which card looks better?
Thanks a lot to the design team at CR84FN, your color inspirations are awesome!
oes your mom entertain all her friends and neighbors with embarrassing cute stories from your childhood? One of those stories involves me at age 4, and my mom walking past a flowerbed full of pansies which are called “Stiefmütterchen” in German – translated it would be “little stepmothers”. My mom asked me if I knew the name, and my reply was: “These are the mommies!”.
So when I came across the cute vintage pansies graphic at http://antiqueimages.blogspot.de, I instantly knew I would use it for this year’s Mother’s Day card. I printed it on cardstock, cut it out with my Silhouette, and attached it with dimensional glue dots:
Thanks to Carolyn for the great vintage graphics! I already downloaded a bunch for future use on cards. They make a nice addition to my vintage postcard scans.
Let’s see which anecdote (or ankedote, in my case) I’ll adapt next year :)
pring is in the air, and I can hear Mister Easterbunny hopping around in the distance. Just one week until Easter! A perfect time for new vintage freebies, don’t you think? I scanned these postcards some weeks ago and finally had time to remove stains and scratches. Here’s a preview:
he name is the pseudo-German creation by Kevin A. Murphy who is responsible for the birth of this font. Several years ago, Kevin asked me if I could design a font similar to the sentiment written on a New Year’s greeting card from 1906. The card showed the goddess Fortuna riding on a pig (common symbol of luck)…
Muscians: Just send me one of your CDs, no additional licence fee necessary (if possible, give credit to “Anke Arnold, www.anke-art.de” in your booklet). My address can be found here.
Commercial use starts at $30, please contact me.
She’s using Fortunaschwein on her website & on the CD cover. And on her current concert poster (which you see to the left) as well. Amy surprised me by sending me her wonderful CD. Yay!
