POSTCARD CHALLENGE WEEK 9~SWITZERLAND

Week 9 ALREADY? Just seems like we started this challenge -but once again Darcy picked a great country. I thought of several  Swiss  items-cheese, watches,army knives, skiing , beautiful mountains and of coarse the home of banking. None of these stimulated my creativity-so off to the Internet to explore. In the process I came across a fact that Luzern is home to  the oldest covered-bridge of Europe .The Chapel Bridge (Kapelbrucke); which was built in the 1400's and contains several 17th century paintings.A fire in 1993 nearly destroyed the bridge ; but it has been restored for all to enjoy.  I happened to find this amazing poster showing the bridge, mountains. and cityscape-thus this was  my inspiration for this week's  postcard.

FRONT

This was  done using Prismacolor colored pencils (took 4 days)-

Lots of layers of multi colors in each section and lots of blending.

BACK of postcard

Correspondence as follows:
Alexander,
So I finally get to know your first name!Even with this information my memories of
Austria remain lost. The new "healer" I'm working with in Switzerland suggested
I ask you a few questions. Such as when we departed in Austria -
Did you escort me directly to my room?
Did we meet each other again-like the next day?
Any clues will be appreciated-Going home soon maybe with more
familiar surroundings I can recover.
Take care,
Melite 

Notice the background has several stamped images of watches, Swiss flag etc

Book Page

The LION MONUMENT is another famous landmark of Luzern Switzerland.

The etching 'Helvetiorum Fidei AC Virtuti' means "To the loyalty and Bravery of the Swiss"

The carving was done  along a limestone riverbed  to honor of the Swiss soldiers

killed serving the French king Louis XVI,

during the French revolution.

So another week down and 33  43 more to go!

Happy Creating ,

Fotojoy/Joyce