January's Postcard of the Month
Number SIXTY! 5 years of Postcards of the Month!!

This was one of my favorites of the monthly PoMs.

I first started playing with this nice white-on-white background:

With various-sized orbs and trees:

But nothing was really gaining momentum with these.

In the meantime, this is my customary late-afternoon winter vista:

I loved the dappling sunset reds jeweling the snow and trunks and branches.

But I was really struck by this shot in a(nother) Netflix show I was watching 

of the pale tree trunks against the dark dark of the forest behind.

So... a few more prototypes:

I'd used these wrapping paper trees in January 2014's PoM cards,*

and I've been wanting to incorporate these acorns in some card, but not to be this one!

Some further play:

Ah!  The dark forest!  Closer to what I was was after.  :-)

So I 'printed' the 'tree trunks'

using silver ink

applied to corrugated cardboard:

The Fixin's

I set up production at home this month** -

nice and cozy by the wood stove, looking out at my woods:

Steps: The Movie:

The Steps

22 steps (after 'printing' 'tree trunks') in this month's card production

The first of 5 Wasps' nest paper 'trees':

I did put a tiny feather in each card

but it got swallowed by the glue and black threads.

Panel of 21 of January's postcards:

Fin.

*January, 2014

**Yup - That is a jigsaw puzzle box in the background.  The first of the 4.75 post-holiday puzzles this season.

 

Humans.  ;-)