August's Postcard of the Month

Bears and berries.

We had a nice little rush on the wild black raspberries out back:*

Back down by the bee hive:

Attractive bear territory.**

And, while we haven't seen a bear this year, there have been numerous sightings close by.  

So, I always sing a No Bears, No Bears song while I'm down there picking.  Seems to do the trick.  ;-)

First stabs:

Which finally turned into this:

Which morphed into the final version.

The Fixin's

Production Steps: The Movie

The Steps

Only 28 this month!

The berry pieces were scanned (and multiplied) from some old wrapping paper I had in my stash.

I had a devil of a time with the bleeding of the pink papers through to the berry pieces!

To mitigate the 'bleeds', I ended up layering on more of the berry pieces on a number of the cards.

Found some Black Bear graphics online, resized, copied, then cut 'em all out.  72 little bears.  :-)

Had to get some music in, but instead of sheet music this month,

I opted for my musical notes paper punch.

Panel of 24 of this month's postcards.

Fin.

*Our little red raspberry patch has also been quite abundant with berries:

**Bears do like honey, but what they are also after when they break open a hive is the bee larvae - for the protein!