Blossoms And The Card.....

A Little Attachment....

Here is Blossom number Thirty-nine, Dear Readers, completed at last! But I must tell you that this is actually Blossom number Forty.... except that the first number Thirty-nine never got completed in the usual way, but got scattered to the World.... and so now this one is called number Thirty-nine... and I will be forever mixed up about which blossom I am working on now! Let me explain....!  You might recall that I showed you the florets for number Thirty-nine all finished but not assembled a couple of weeks ago. Well, as I was working on the Christmas Card Drawing one day, I decided to see whether the florets in RL were the same size as the ones I was drawing on The Card (because you can be sure they were to be included this year no matter what!) so I brought one of the florets up to my drawing to compare.... (Be warned, if you don't want to see The Card yet... stop here!)

I set the unfinished floret on the drawing.... 

and yes, the florets in the drawing were just about the size

 of the RL ones I have been making all year!

Can you see the little floret on the drawing here?

Or maybe you can see it better in this one?

Well, never mind.... I still had a long way to go to finish the card...

But it gave me an idea that wouldn't go away....

Here are the finished florets for Blossom number Thirty-nine....

but I had not had time to assemble them

 while I was working so hard on the card.

 But what if...... I thought.... 

What if I attached a floret to the finished card....???

Days and days later.... 

the idea still would not go away.

 I am testing the color here....

The Card still has days and days of work to do before it is done.

But somehow, Dear Readers,

 the florets refused to come together into one blossom....

 they went into a little dish

 and at great risk to their fragile existence

 they have been attached, one by one,

 to the first forty-eight cards I have sent out!

Can you see it there? 

A single three-dimensional attachment to the drawing?

(I have never done something like this before!)

I have been needing to warn the recipients

 so they will not accidentally brush the little blossom attachment away!

But yes, The Card is finally finished

 and on its way to many on my list,

 and hopefully the little blossoms will stay attached!

Oh, and you wanted to see the whole card?

I had a hard time getting a good picture... 

the printed surface reflects the light......

 but here it is at last!

(8.5x11inches pen and ink and watercolor on arches paper)

You will need to poke the pictures to see the details!

So there went Blossom number Thirty-nine... 

in fragments all around the World....

While Blossom number Forty...

 the new number Thirty-nine

 is waiting in the box with its buddies.

And The Card is going forth

 with  a Little Attachment!