{"id":1926,"date":"2011-12-14T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:45:14","slug":"seasons-tweetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2011\/12\/seasons-tweetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s Tweetings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/2011\/12\/seasons-tweetings\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_2916-570x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tweet!\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_2916-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_2916-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_2916.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nice girl who bought a set of the <a href=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/2011\/06\/ink-baronry\/\">letterpressing inks I was selling<\/a> earlier this year tipped me off about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centuriongraphics.co.uk\/\">Centurion Graphics<\/a> as a good place to get printing plates made, so for this year&#8217;s Christmas card designs, we did exactly that!<\/p>\n<p>We got some nice heavy-guage magnesium plates made up of a robin design I came up with under Lilly&#8217;s direction. They plates are really good &#8211; so much easier than my previous linocut efforts, and capable of a really nice deep impression in the card too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_29131-570x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Magnesium Plate\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_29131-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_29131-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_29131.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I was a bit hasty when I started to print up these cards and by rushing I messed up the text on the front a little bit, ending up with a bit of ghosting from improper inking. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6414596377_0388dc996b_o-570x407.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Finished, but unfolded\" width=\"570\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6414596377_0388dc996b_o-570x407.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6414596377_0388dc996b_o-250x178.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6414596377_0388dc996b_o.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other than that we&#8217;re pleased with the cards! We&#8217;re reclaiming &#8216;tweeting&#8217; from its modern social-network-meaning! If you&#8217;re not British, you might be wondering what robins have to do with Christmas. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Robin#Cultural_depictions\">Wikipedia has an, er, nice section<\/a> suggesting some reasons robins are associated with Christmas in Britain. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s common, but when I was small, my Mum used to tell me that robins are Santa&#8217;s little watchmen &#8211; they had red chests to match Santa&#8217;s outfit and they reported back to him on whether you had been good or bad throughout the year so he knew what to give you for Christmas. Haha \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice girl who bought a set of the letterpressing inks I was selling earlier this year tipped me off about Centurion Graphics as a good place to get printing plates made, so for this year&#8217;s Christmas card designs, we did exactly that! We got some nice heavy-guage magnesium plates made up of a robin [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[473,268,267,269],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letterpress","tag-letterpress","tag-plates","tag-robin","tag-tweet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-v4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}