{"id":515,"date":"2017-07-09T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=515"},"modified":"2017-07-09T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:49:49","slug":"colours-that-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2017\/07\/colours-that-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Colours that please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two cards I made this week. \u00a0First a card which is partly a CASE of one of Susan Raihala&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/simplicitybylateblossom.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/04\/psx-feathers-three-ways-part-1.html\">HERE<\/a>, though I arranged the feathers myself using two individual L&#8217;Aquarelle stamps (love that set) and masking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-516\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/happyfeathers.png\" alt=\"happy feathers\" width=\"437\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/happyfeathers.png 599w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/happyfeathers-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/happyfeathers-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The colours are taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/cascoloursandsketches.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/07\/challenge-230-colour.html\">CAS Colours and Sketches this week<\/a>. Lime and Lemon Twist seems to be popping up in lots of colour challenges and I haven&#8217;t the exact ink but I think I&#8217;ve now found something very similar in Colorbox Lime. Also used Catherine Pooler \u00a0Party Dress which is my closest to Berry Burst and Tim Holtz Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink for the Island Indigo. Really liking this combination of colours. \u00a0The sentiment is from a useful set from Uniko.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-0HRsXHz5OTg\/WUqbErdiS4I\/AAAAAAAAC6E\/N3DRazD5P6cTmchmTVdy2JYHgW8PQ5jeACLcBGAs\/s400\/CC%2526S%2Bcolor230-001.png\" width=\"243\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And easily feminine enough for the <a href=\"http:\/\/watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/07\/wwc126-fionas-feminine-anything-goes.html\">Watercooler Wednesday Feminine challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-1bY7tn0pyB0\/WVx9Q40KQBI\/AAAAAAAAJjg\/8ojqXhWjtFM15vwBYzel_3QkaadmQozwQCLcBGAs\/s320\/WWC126%2B-%2BFiona%2527s%2BFeminine%2BAnything%2BGoes%2BChallenge.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second card is inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/casethissketch.blogspot.co.uk\/2017\/07\/case-this-sketch-229.html\">CAS(E) this sketch#229<\/a>, and by Karen&#8217;s wonderful backgrounds (see <a href=\"http:\/\/snippets-karen.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Snippets<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-517\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thankyoublocks.png\" alt=\"thankyoublocks\" width=\"441\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thankyoublocks.png 598w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thankyoublocks-148x150.png 148w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thankyoublocks-296x300.png 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is going to a temporary colleague who&#8217;s done wonderful work for us.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite agapanthus again! And the Karen-inspired background was created with Catherine Pooler Party Dress and Tutti Frutti inks and white and black watercolours: then chopped up as per the sketch.<\/p>\n<p>Orange like summer,<br \/>\nOutdoors, bright and enticing:<br \/>\nPink like sunburned arms<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 1175px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 1175px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two cards I made this week. \u00a0First a card which is partly a CASE of one of Susan Raihala&#8217;s HERE, though I arranged the feathers myself using two individual L&#8217;Aquarelle stamps (love that set) and masking. The colours are taken from CAS Colours and Sketches this week. Lime and Lemon Twist seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8,16,11,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"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=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}