Card to Gillian

I had a lily which lost the petals, and they were my inspiration to draw and paint this.

The envelope I decorated to suit to the stamp.

Birds from Gillian

Gillian had made this beautiful Bird card to me.

I love birds and Gillian's cards!

Fantasy Animal Card to Gillian

I was first unsuccessful with a painting and then just added a lot more watercolor all over it and also a lot of water. When this all dried there was this unknown but in my eyes very cute animal in my painting! I just added the eyes and the surface with berries and felt that the failure turned out to be a success this time. : )

Door Wreath Card to Gillian

I used water colour to paint this card to Gillian according to our door wreath

Art Card from Gillian

This beautiful card arrived from Gillian.

It's piece of her own art.

Thank you very much Gillian!

Summer Colour Fun to Gillian

This card is the result of just having fun with watercolors.

I used a transparent envelope to send the colour fun to Gillian.

From and to Gillian

Gillian had made me a card of her lovely painting of Glastonbury Tor at Glastonbury, Somerset, England.

This again I had sent to her earlier.

I used a page of an old Swedish book and painted the Hyacinth on it. 

On the envelope I used mail related Washi tape as decoration.

Solstice Card from Gillian

Gillian sent me this beautiful card made of a picture of her painting.

This lovely English Christmas postage was used on the envelope, and post office had forgotten to stamp it. :)

By the way, Bree has made a nice posting of different Christmas postage in different countries.

Take a look here! 

This again is the card I had sent to her earlier.

I used a peony as an inspiration to paint this.

I decorated the envelope with a clipping of my Mary Engelbreit page a day calendar.

Stonehenge

These are the beautiful paintings by Gillian which I received in a letter from her.

Thank you so much Gillian!

I love these English queen stamps.

Photo Card and Photographing

This is my latest card to Gillian.

I had taken a lovely photo of our dear cat Sissi wondering the classical Finnish Aalto glass vase and made a card of the photo.

I have always loved photos and photographing and finally started now a photo blog.

Please take a look at Picture of the Day here http://pictopical.blogspot.fi/

Bouquet of Flowers to Gillian

I got a beautiful bouquet of spring flowers from my daughter and her boyfriend and used that as an inspiration to paint this card to Gillian.

Butterfly masking tape and stamps.

"Seed-pods and plants" by Gillian

This lovely card arrived from Gillian.

She has made it of her original painting as big as A3 size.

I love both the colours and the figures!

Stamps placed beautifully.

She also attached an ATC made by herself.

- Making ATCs is something that I probably would like to do. Does anyone have good hints of how to start this hobby?

Encaustic Art

This wonderful card arrived from Gillian.

She had used wax sticks melted into a hot plate to make this artwork. So beautiful!!

Colorful Tulip

I made a card by painting a colorful tulip to my new Postcrossing friend Gillian, who likes strong colors and also paints by herself. 

I attached a card of a painting by Finnish artist Reidar Särestöniemi (1925-1981) who is famous of his strong colors.

I decorated the envelope with pictures of fabric by Finnish Marimekko http://www.marimekko.com/

p.s. I'm very close to win the photo competition which I mentioned in my previous post, so please go and vote for my picture, picture number 43, in the post http://pienilintu.blogspot.com/2012/03/pehmea.html  in Pienilintu blog! :) 

THANK YOU! :) 

Wonderful Thank You Package from Gillian

Gillian, the Postcrosser from UK, to whom I sent the self made Cat Queen card, sent me back this beautiful hand made card together with all these wonderful  postcards made of her paintings! 

So generous, thank you so much Gillian!!!

Even the postage on the envelope was this beautiful!

Cat Queen

I sent an art card of an artwork by my favorite Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck to an English Postcrosser who is interested in art. I added a question about her favorite artist into the card and when registering my card she told me the answer: Friedensreich Hundertwasser. I Googled and found out how wonderful colorful art this man has made. Because the dark colored Schjerfbeck art card I had sent was something totally different from Hundertwasser art, I wanted to send a new card. 

I then used my lovely cat Killi and the artwork by Hundertwasser as inspiration and made this "Cat Queen" card by using watercolor and water soluble ink pencils. - I was happy then to receive a message from her that she liked the card. :)