July's Postcard of the Month
Blue pods.

I have done this same color palette for all but one* of the past 5 July PoMs!

July 2012 - The first July PoM:

July 2014 - Tire swing:

July 2015 - Frogs!  My July fave:

July 2016 - Dragonflies:

I see that I also incorporated Chartreuse and/or gold dots in dark green

on the lower left side of all of these... :-/

However, stale as I may be in danger of becoming here,

these blue and green July PoMs are still among my favorites of ALL the past 66 months of PoMs.  :-)

Prototypes:

Didn't really do any.  Did some playing; threw down these:

This piece of marbled green Lokta paper, with the 4 cut-out 'arms', curves, 'U' shapes,

was left-over after I'd used the cut-outs for something else:

I really liked the spiraling/helix effect, so that became this:

Which was more or less the final product - minus the bleeds**...

The Fixin's

Oops!

I forgot to take a photoo of this month's Fixin's... :-/   

So here are pix from these previous July PoMs (above), with similar palettes:

July 2012:

July 2014:

July 2015:

July 2016:

Steps: The Movie:

The Steps

Panels of 21 of July's PoMs:

Fin.

*Well, this was pretty much the same color palette, but quite a different composition!

July 2013

**The underlying paper was both too textured (one of those very rough 'lace' papers), and way too wet for the bloody blue Lokta loops to be glued down onto!  I let the previous layers dry well (overnight), and used much less diluted/watery glue before laying down the blue loops when I did the final cards.  Plus I omitted the 'lace'. 

June's Postcard of the Month
Poppies.

Yes - I've done Poppies for June before - the first 3 June PoMs* were Poppies - I just couldn't help it.

1st. production parameter for June's cards:
As Few Steps As Possible!!
Time was a'crunchin' as I was finishing up getting readyfor the Espresso Bueno collages to go up.**

First prototypes:

Yeah, ok, but pretty much done it (see footnotes).

So then, this:

Which is what I went with - with the addition, on the final ones, of one little red dot.  :-)

And which ended up comprising only SIXTEEN steps! :-)  :-)

And... Got to use my favorite little bee rubber stamp.  :-)

The Fixin's

Steps: The Movie:

The Steps

I often glue down the pieces of music as the first step.
Which is often the trickiest step - I often measure (with my beloved transparent pica ruler)
to make sure that my horizontals and verticals are all straight/parallel.
It can throw the whole thing off, if it's skewed even a little.  Hurts the eye.  
Which is not to say that some slippage doesn't happen - sometimes I get cocky and think my eye is just fine (usually it is, but...), and sometimes it'll slide around as the glue is drying.  :-/

I love this charteuse tissue paper that I found at the grocery store - can't stop using it!

Just needed one more little spot of red.

Panels of 21 of June's PoMs

Fin.

*The previous June Poppy PoMs:

June 2012

June 2013

June 2014

**Since, March, I've been working on several large(r than postcards) collages - on canvas - to hang on Bueno's walls for June and July.  I'm going to write a separate post re: the Espresso Bueno http://www.espressobueno.com/ (Barre, VT) display.  

Sneak peek:

Poppies!!  :-)