{"id":1001,"date":"2018-07-14T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2018-07-14T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T13:58:26","slug":"splash-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/07\/splash-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Splash smile and Mackintosh roses"},"content":{"rendered":"

In fact this card looks SOO much better in real life – I just can’t capture in a photo the richness of the colour (or the fact that the SMILE is actually perfectly straight!)<\/p>\n

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This one was various sized heart die-cuts (all white card, and all found in my bits box!) coloured via the splash watercolour technique – distress oxide inks Fossilised Amber, Wild Honey and Abandoned Coral popped separately on acetate and spritzed with water, then the die-cuts smoshed through them, with drying between each colour. The Stampendous Agapanthus was then stamped in Abandoned Coral and Nuvo Jewel drops added in yellow and orange.\u00a0 The sentiment is Uniko Simply Said Blocks in good old Memento black. I’m liking the blocks: may get the other stamp set in the same range.<\/p>\n

It’s entered into:<\/p>\n

CAS Mixup July challenge:\u00a0 Coloured die-cut, plus stamps, plus watercolour of course<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\n

CAS Watercolour July Challenge Splash Watercolour<\/a><\/p>\n

And of course, because of the SMILE – Time Out’s Words challenge #113<\/a><\/p>\n

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This\u00a0 second card uses the same colours. The distress inks were sponged on this background though, and then spritzed, and the Mackintosh roses stamped in Abandoned Coral. The matting panel was coloured with the coral too, by direct ink to paper technique.<\/p>\n

It is entered into The Library Challenge: “The Rose Garden”<\/a>, as I immediately thought of the Mackintosh roses when I saw the book. It’s an old stamp though – one of the first non-rubber, and I find it rather coarse, with the lines too thick for a lot of what I want to do. But for smudgy watercolour effects it works best.<\/p>\n

The Nuvo Jewel drops were inspired by the icepop theme at House of Cards<\/a>, and some of the colours there as well.\u00a0 Time for an orange ice lolly after all that!<\/p>\n

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Haiku:<\/p>\n

Let me taste sweet ice
\nSummer has never tasted
\nso good in England!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In fact this card looks SOO much better in real life – I just can’t capture in a photo the richness of the colour (or the fact that the SMILE is actually perfectly straight!) This one was various sized heart die-cuts (all white card, and all found in my bits box!) coloured via the splash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}