{"id":893,"date":"2018-05-04T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T06:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=893"},"modified":"2018-05-04T09:08:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:08:48","slug":"flowers-emerging-from-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/05\/flowers-emerging-from-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers emerging from rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had late frost, a mini-heatwave and devastating rain. A true British spring!\u00a0 So this card is trying to represent the flowers struggling to emerge through the rain.<\/p>\n<p>The background to this panel was a lot of fun to create, and this is the last little bit of it. It was created with Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink, and Perfect Pearls blue spray which gives it a fabulous shimmer that you can\u2019t see in the photo. The circles were stencilled in Mermaid Lagoon with a Woodware stencil, and the dots stamped with both inks using the cute little dot stamp in Uniko&#8217;s Kindness Blooms. The background is left over from a previous set of projects <a href=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/03\/grand-teal\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/03\/seahorse-and-sequins\/\">here<\/a>. The seed head stamp is Organic Wishes from Uniko.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-894\" src=\"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Emergingfromrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Emergingfromrain.jpg 657w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Emergingfromrain-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Emergingfromrain-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m entering this into:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk\/2018\/04\/cfc-198-april-showers-bring-may-flowers.html\"> CAS-ual Fridays challenge CFC #198 April Showers bring May flowers<\/a>\u00a0 and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk\/2018\/04\/circles_28.html\">Sweet Stampin&#8217; Circles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/just-add-ink.blogspot.co.uk\/2018\/05\/just-add-ink-407just-add-o.html\">Just Add Ink are asking to Just Add &#8220;O&#8221;<\/a> so I hope the Organic Wishes stamp used counts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Tlfe1F7JWVw\/WtfKAExvmJI\/AAAAAAAAKpY\/uq-z3LTu8rA48YPGMy_LXo43jQWXDexCACLcBGAs\/s400\/%2523407.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"76\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"557\" data-original-width=\"1600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Haiku:<\/p>\n<p>Rain pours like my tears<br \/>\nWater pools in my kitchen<br \/>\nHelp, where&#8217;s a plumber?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had late frost, a mini-heatwave and devastating rain. A true British spring!\u00a0 So this card is trying to represent the flowers struggling to emerge through the rain. The background to this panel was a lot of fun to create, and this is the last little bit of it. It was created with Peacock Feathers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,16,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"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=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}