{"id":1004,"date":"2018-07-09T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2018-07-09T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T09:00:44","slug":"christmas-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/07\/christmas-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is back to my beloved blues and purples.\u00a0 I was really surprised how these colours turned out, as I thought the inks are more purple and blue than pink and purple: Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans and then Mermaid Lagoon to give it more blue: the Splash Watercolour Technique used, and then Uniko&#8217;s KindnessBlooms starburst embossed in silver on the watercoloured paper and the card, which was masked and a gentle aqua wash sponged on.\u00a0 In neither this nor the fiery coloured cards did the watercolour paper turn out as well as I&#8217;d hoped. The Happy Christmas is from Uniko also. Great start on the Christmas cards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1005\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1stchristmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1stchristmas.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1stchristmas-143x150.jpg 143w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/1stchristmas-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Lindsey&#8217;s card in (and entered into) <a href=\"https:\/\/musechristmasvisions.blogspot.com\/2018\/06\/muse-christmasvisions103.html\">Muse: ChristmasVisions103\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-X7R5pFxbE7s\/WzEnGI_j4nI\/AAAAAAABA_Q\/gzmSWnyePsAGv0Rg4JMrpfBH4GMK7K84ACLcBGAs\/s400\/card12_w.png\" width=\"219\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/citycrafter.blogspot.com\/2018\/07\/city-crafter-challenge-blog-week-419.html\">City Crafter Challenge Week 419 ~ Christmas in July (with silver)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No haiku for this one &#8230; got to run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is back to my beloved blues and purples.\u00a0 I was really surprised how these colours turned out, as I thought the inks are more purple and blue than pink and purple: Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans and then Mermaid Lagoon to give it more blue: the Splash Watercolour Technique used, and then Uniko&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"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=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}