The (hopefully not annual) Pandemic Card

Welp, here we are, close to ending the second year of the pandemic.  Not close to ending the pandemic, mind you, but the end of the second year.  I mark the years by the anniversary of the original lock down here in the US.  You may mark your pandemic anniversary as you see fit.  For me, it's March.

The first card I made to acknowledge the pandemic was a late addition to the Halloween cards in October 2020.  It depicts the year 2020 rising up as a foul steam/stench from a little witch's cauldron where she clearly didn't know what she was concocting when she brewed that spell. 

We can now mark 2020 and 2021 as forever changed, different, awkward.  I am resisting what is apparent to many, that the old ways of life are gone, and we are now living in a Post Covid world.  Maybe we are never going back to the old ways of life, where hugging and handshakes were normal, where a kiss on the cheek and a walk arm in arm after dinner was normal.  It makes me sad if it's true.  Someday, I will process and accept the post Covid reality, whatever that winds up being.  But for now, I will continue to quietly resist, and keep just a little bit of hope alive through the good humor of my Pandemic Cards.  

To that end, here is the 2022 Pandemic Card:  Oh Whale!  

There are 6 of these, so I took some shots of the whole school of fish. :)

The years of the pandemic are bubbling up the card front from somewhere deep in the sea.  If you look closely, there are some clear bubbles mixed in with the numbers to add a little visual help to see those numbers as bubbles. The fish scale background (Edge to Edge), and numbers (Chalkboard Fonts) were cut with my Cricut. The white whale is a Sizzix quilting dye and the blue whale is a stamp from Big Red Rubber Stamps.  

The white whale, hmmm.  I suppose if you're name is Ishmail, he's probably a bad omen.  But recently I read or watched an article about a rare white dolphin swimming in the South China Sea, that when spotted by fishermen, they take it as lucky.  A hundred years and more ago the white dolphins were plentiful, competing with the fishermen for food.  Back then they were hunted just to be rid of them.  But now, there are so few left, it's lucky to see one.  Like the white dolphin, my white whale is a hopeful sign, that soon mother nature will give up trying to kill us off and see that we have learned our lesson.  Of course, we have to actually learn that lesson.  Clean air, clean water, clean food.  Take only what you need, there is no reason for greed.