Saved!

It was a perfect joyful puttering day.  

I puttered in the garden...planted a few new things and moved some others around.  I put up the hummingbird feeders (saw the first one today) and washed some windows and put in some screens so I could open windows. 

Then....I just sat and watched the birds for a while.

This birthday card was late getting to Tracie....but I've always thought birthdays should spill over into the surrounding days....and weeks anyway.

Creating it ended up being quite a string of comic missteps....at one point I even laughed out loud. 

But in the end I think I saved it and it became sendable.

Are they balloons? 
Are they flowers? 
You decide!

It started with some watercolor swatch dots....all from a spring set of VIVIVA colorsheets. 

I wrote about the these paint sets in this post: https://joyfulputtering.blogspot.com/2021/05/blocks-of-color.html back in 2021.

I have a few different sets....and I thought Tracie would enjoy this spring version. The colors are scrumptious! 

I ended up doing the swatch dots 3 or 4 times....I kept messing up or not leaving enough room for the writing.  

But that meant I had lots of colorful dots to cut out and play with.  Why not make a quick card....I thought late one evening.  Silly me.

It started with some random fused stems of colorful fabric right on a premade card.

I pictured the dots as happy little pops of colorful flowers....quick and easy.  But I couldn't get the placement right based on the stems I had.  So I cropped it down....once...then twice....and not in a good way.  

I was left with a squatty little strip of stems.  I added a few pointy leaves....lined the dots up....and stitched them down. I slid it into one of my frame cards...added the hand lettering....and stitched around the border. Saved!

  A colorful packet of birthday dots!

Happy Birthday Tracie!