July's Postcard of the Month

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.