{"id":1061,"date":"2018-12-30T17:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:24:20","slug":"blue-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/12\/blue-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not depressed, I just like blue. So this Christmas set (my favourite for this year) was based around blue and grey, with one extra feature colour in each. I think the coral red was my favourite&#8230;  Even though Christmas trees aren&#8217;t actually blue..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1063\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Watercolourtrees2018-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Watercolourtrees2018-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Watercolourtrees2018-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Watercolourtrees2018-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Watercolourtrees2018-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>\n<figcaption>Christmas watercolour trees<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The trees were a free magazine Christmas tree stamp used with a variety of colours of Distress Oxide Ink which was then loosely coloured in and dragged with a paintbrush for the watercolour effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This card was inspired by my new curtains, which I like to think of as semi-abstract winter trees. Really pleased with them after 30 years of re-using in our bedroom the curtains designed (4 years previously to that) for our lounge in the previous house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curtainsbedroom1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1062\" width=\"249\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curtainsbedroom1.png 400w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curtainsbedroom1-113x150.png 113w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curtainsbedroom1-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><figcaption>Villa Nova Norrland Indigo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is entered into <a href=\"http:\/\/themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com\/ \">The Male Room challenge: BLUE <\/a> I think this design would work well for male cards of all occasions \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/cleanandsimpleonsunday.blogspot.com\/\"> CAS on Friday who are still asking for Christmas cards<\/a>, bless them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-z4sWWXsaFME\/WepSOsGlr5I\/AAAAAAAALyc\/sv-vZKJc034r-AZ15sLJkv6i0gKGuRFXgCLcBGAs\/s200\/%2523101.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/thecardconcept.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/the-card-concept-105-christmas-tree.html\">The Card Concept #105 {Christmas Tree} share a picture of your favourite Christmas card this year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Haiku<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue, a cold colour,<br>Unlike my heart which is warm<br>Blue for happiness&#8230;<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not depressed, I just like blue. So this Christmas set (my favourite for this year) was based around blue and grey, with one extra feature colour in each. I think the coral red was my favourite&#8230; Even though Christmas trees aren&#8217;t actually blue.. Christmas watercolour trees The trees were a free magazine Christmas [&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\/1061"}],"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=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}