February's Postcard of the Month

Heart shelter.  Half a heart (but not half-hearted).  Have a heart.

 I started with this idea of the tree branches twining into hearts -

it was inspired by this tree I see

when stopped at the traffic lights on my way back from the pool several mornings a week -

but I didn't think I could get quite the effect that I wanted, so I moved on to this one:

And then I just jumped in and started production, hoping the rest would evolve as I worked!

The Fixin's

and

Steps: The Movie

The Steps

(14 this month)

I liked using the piece of picture framing* to make these 'dots',

even though they were mostly hidden by the red lace paper, 

I just had to add some more of the 'Ethereal' paper.  :-)

There were really 15 steps -

I had glued the pink tissue paper to the back side of the red lace paper

before I started on my production line

The trees were 'punched' from red, black and gold marbled paper.

Thought I should add some more 'dots':  

I figured out what this needed.  Some thready tendrils.  :-)

And a smooth edge.

And an actual heart.

 Panels of 15 of February's postcards

Pretty cool - right side up, or upside down, the 3 lines under the trees were exactly in the middle.

I hadn't planned it that way.  :-)

Fin.

* And I used it again to make the dots in the later steps.