{"id":166,"date":"2015-07-14T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/14\/nine-lives-illustrated-playing-cards-by-annette-abolins\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:16:11","slug":"nine-lives-illustrated-playing-cards-by-annette-abolins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/nine-lives-illustrated-playing-cards-by-annette-abolins\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Lives Illustrated Playing Cards by Annette Abolins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TuqHUUUS9XM\/VaRvWX9Oj5I\/AAAAAAAACFw\/4zBtPEb4hMw\/s1600\/ninelives-playingcards_box_aa.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TuqHUUUS9XM\/VaRvWX9Oj5I\/AAAAAAAACFw\/4zBtPEb4hMw\/s320\/ninelives-playingcards_box_aa.jpg\" width=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This week I decided that instead of a book review I would post some information about Annette&#8217;s Nine Lives Illustrated Playing Cards.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you would already be familiar with Annette&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninelivestarot.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nine Lives Tarot Cards<\/a>, which have proven to be astoundingly successful. The playing cards &#8211; or, at least, the royal cards in each suite &#8211; are based on the same images as she used in the tarot cards. The design work is exceptional, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolinaart.com.au\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cards themselves<\/a> are beautifully printed and presented.<\/p>\n<p>On both her blogs (links above), Annette has posted a lot of very interesting information about the creation of her cards as well as information about tarot cards and playing cards in general. Both these sites are definitely worth a visit.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bnRflpYxC4g\/VaRuPxFqEjI\/AAAAAAAACFk\/HJ3xAiC7reU\/s1600\/ninelives-royal-hearts_aa.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bnRflpYxC4g\/VaRuPxFqEjI\/AAAAAAAACFk\/HJ3xAiC7reU\/s320\/ninelives-royal-hearts_aa.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I decided that instead of a book review I would post some information about Annette&#8217;s Nine Lives Illustrated Playing Cards. Many of you would already be familiar with Annette&#8217;s Nine Lives Tarot Cards, which have proven to be astoundingly successful. The playing cards &#8211; or, at least, the royal cards in each suite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/nine-lives-illustrated-playing-cards-by-annette-abolins\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}