The Long Good-bye

So my dear friend and Partner In Crime (hereafter referred to as my PIC) is making the big move to the East Coast for a wonderful Grad school opportunity. While we, we being my husband (and countless others) are excited for her, we are saddened by her departure.

(Front of card)

My PIC has been an integral part of my life, from being my first friend at work and carpooling buddy to my PIC and person who introduced and fostered the relationship of my husband and I. She was a part of our wedding and has been and will continue to be a huge part of our lives.

I am unsure of what I will do without here here to for our "coffee trains" and girl chat in general (Lisa, I understand more so than ever before how you must have felt when I moved to London).

In honor of her departure, I spent several hours and days trying to create the perfect card. While I came up with quite a few fun ones and a few that only made it to the sketching phase, I finally found the 'One'.

Sophie, my PIC, has a love for modern art, and for her I decided to watercolor a special card. Now, I recently bought this wonderful paper that is a great textured card stock--adding that layered feeling I love in arts and crafts.

Now, as I cut it close to our "see you later" dinner date this evening, I had to 'cheat' if you will on the watercolor card...I must admit that I first used water color pencils and painted over it with water, much like you probably used to do when you were a child with the paper that turned the color when you spread water across it...although, these start off colored, but the water takes away the strokes of the pencil. I hope that Sophie enjoys this special card made especially for her.

(Front of card at top, back of card at bottom)

Meggie A.