September's Postcard of the Month
Bales or snails?!

The intention was hay bales, but I totally agree that these look a lot like snails!

And to compound the ambiguity, I added a final step -

musical note 'antennas'?? or are they pieces of 'grass'?!

Minimal (blurry) prototype:

The Fixin's

I made a spiral stamp out of a wine cork!

The Steps: The Movie

The Steps

(18, this month)

Panels of 12 of September's postcards:

Fin.

August's Postcard of the Month
Dog Days.

I've been wanting to do a Dog Days collage for August for a few years.

I have a couple of dog paper punches

but I'd wanted one of a lazing dog - one lying down - and have never found one.

So I went with the howling dog/wolf/coyote.

Prototype:

too basic; needed more.

The Fixin's

Steps: The Movie

The Steps

(a mere 7 steps this month!)

So... As I was putting these cards in their respective subscribers' envelopes

I realized that if I'd faced the dog the other way,

it would have looked even more like the notes were coming from it's mouth...  Ah, well.

Panels of 21 of August's postcards:

Fin.

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'.