October's Postcard of the Month
Um... Is that a farting cat??!

This shot of this fierce-looking Bobcat: 

was taken at a friend's house just a couple of miles away.

Decided to use my little cat punch*:

And was thinking about maybe something with pumpkins:

Dropped the pumpkins; changed the moon; added some 🎶:

Changed the lower half:

Changed the moon again:

And again:

Some further tweaking:

And, in the final iteration,

I switched the orange crescent to the right side,

and dropped the bright orange dots.

The Fixin's

Production Steps: The Movie:

The Steps

A mere 31 this month.**

Panel of 21 of October's postcards:

Fin.

*I first used this cat punch for my 1997 Winter X postcard:

It was my most popular Winter card - and panel:

I also used it in this (much-larger-than-a-postcard) commissioned pet homage a few years ago:

Can you see the cats?!

**Well, really 33 steps - I pre-glued the gold foils to the back of the music/moon hole...