This one was painful!
I knew that it was to be about THE POOL...
and GREEN...
Dappled and Lacy.
With a nice beach ball/sherbert/Day Lily ORANGE thrown in. ;)
BUT! I just could NOT make up my mind!
The Progression: TOO BLUE > Nix the tire-swing > JUST RIGHT.
Yeah, the first one was just WAY too BLUE (and, I didn't really like it...). And then, the second version was SO close, but I did NOT like the tire-swing (even if it hadn't been smudged).
And then, all of a sudden, it was the end of a (mostly) TOO-HOT-TO-BE-IN-MY-STUDIO month! And I had't even made up my mind, let alone gathered all the fixin's!
Nothing like a little pressure.
So, Sunday, morning, July 1st, I came up with version #3 (as seen above). Which I LOVE.
But, because it took me so long to come up with what I would want to make multiples of, the only way I felt I could pull off getting the cards out to my loyal Postcard of the Month Club members in a timely manner was to limit my run. :/ NO EXTRAS this month. But I did use the detritus from this set to make a
'Get Well' Card
for my friend, the unsung hero of the Richmond Thrift Store and Food Shelf - Marcia Levison. Who likes to walk a LOT, and just had surgery that will make that difficult for a while, poor girl.
And now, here's the production line:
Steps 1 > TWENTY TWO!!
Uh oh!! What's wrong with this picture??!!
Hint: #12 /\
:/
And, what's incredible...
is that: I DIDN"T EVEN NOTICE!! Until posting these photos!!
And now, it's just GLARINGLY obvious!!
But THEN!! I find that #4 has it's own 21st Step Anomaly!!
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So...
what this means is that two of my POM members have even MORE unique postcards this month!!
#12 of 14
#4 of 14
A final note:
The bleeding of the blue paper into the yellow, leaching this brilliant, watery, dappled green had not been anticipated, and was a most welcome bit of magic! I do know that these papers (I have a red version too) bleed; I'd forgotten how COPIOUSLY. And I do appreciate how it could have NOT been a welcome effect at all!! In that way, my prototype (top photo, no bleed) differs from all its offspring.
#11 - with all the critical components, PLUS the lovely 'bleeding'. :)
Enough for now.
