{"id":3762,"date":"2008-12-06T02:59:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T02:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/06\/baroque-snowflakes\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T05:30:47","slug":"baroque-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/06\/baroque-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baroque snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/snowflakes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/snowflakes.jpg\" alt=\"snowflakes.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done a seasonal card design for a couple of years, I often feel too enervated by the whole idea or else lack sufficient inspiration. But after seeing recent snowflake designs by the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bantjes.com\/index.php?id=274\" target=\"_blank\">Marian Bantjes<\/a> I thought I&#8217;d try some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/snowflakes.html\" target=\"_blank\">similar ones of my own<\/a>. Looking back at her work just now I&#8217;m amused to see that she kept her designs simple and elegant while I went overboard with the detailing as usual. I created quite a few of these shapes but the ones that make up the final card are the best of the bunch. In a rare fit of generosity you&#8217;re welcome to download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/snowflake_card.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a high-res PDF<\/a> and print it yourself. The size is A4 (210mm x 297mm) and\u2014unlike most cards\u2014when folded down the middle can either stand vertically or horizontally.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/12\/17\/kirsten-hassenfelds-paper-sculptures\/\">Kirsten Hassenfeld\u2019s paper sculptures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done a seasonal card design for a couple of years, I often feel too enervated by the whole idea or else lack sufficient inspiration. But after seeing recent snowflake designs by the wonderful Marian Bantjes I thought I&#8217;d try some similar ones of my own. Looking back at her work just now I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/06\/baroque-snowflakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baroque snowflakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,4,23],"tags":[1193],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-design","category-work","tag-marian-bantjes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-YG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}