{"id":736,"date":"2018-03-12T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=736"},"modified":"2018-03-12T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T10:59:42","slug":"mothers-day-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/03\/mothers-day-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers’ Day flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was Mothers’ Day here in the UK yesterday. I was a bit disappointed that no cards came through the door so I settled down to a day of crafting, and the OH declared he’d cook a proper roast dinner (his speciality!).<\/p>\n

Then there was a ring at the doorbell and a surprise bunch of flowers appeared – followed by a surprise appearance of my son! (He lives 160 miles away and often works weekends.) I think my scream of delight must have echoed down the street.\u00a0 And later my daughter appeared in time for a lovely dinner. Best day ever!<\/p>\n

And I even finished some cards…<\/p>\n

Here are two cards to enter for Darnell’s Twofer March challenge: Blossoms<\/a>. I hope they are different enough. They are certainly for different occasions, a sympathy card to let a friend know I am still thinking of her, and a birthday card.<\/p>\n

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And here they are separately.<\/p>\n

This ombre birthday card was created by dragging a Kaleidacolor Desert Heat inkpad across glossy paper, and a branch-with-blossoms stamp, think that was free with a magazine!\u00a0 I made an error and found I’d been storing my Kaleidacolor inkpad on its side so all the ink has run together rather more than I’d like \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 The yellow has disappeared altogether so I had to add that from a separate inkpad.<\/p>\n

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I’m also entering this one into Seize the Birthday Anything Goes!<\/a><\/p>\n

and of course AAA Cards CAS Game #110 – Ombre<\/a><\/p>\n

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The second card was created using a technique new to me – sponging. I cut up my washing up sponge…<\/p>\n

I sponged Distress inks Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon onto glossy photo paper, spritzed with water and Perfect pearls Mist in Perfect Blue, dried and set with a heat gun and stamped the same flower branch as above in Memento black.<\/p>\n

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I’m entering this one in Watercooler Wednesday’s WWC160 – Heidi’s Feminine “Anything Goes” Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n

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Haiku:<\/p>\n

The joy of surprise
\nLike flowers, light up my heart
\nWith someone I love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was Mothers’ Day here in the UK yesterday. I was a bit disappointed that no cards came through the door so I settled down to a day of crafting, and the OH declared he’d cook a proper roast dinner (his speciality!). Then there was a ring at the doorbell and a surprise bunch of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8,16,52,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}