Haiku in August

Slide Show too fast? Click the Pause (||) button and then you can use the arrows to click through at your own speed.....If anyone can tell me how to slow down a Picasa slide show I am all ears (or eyes and fingers....) You can click any image to be taken to a link for the stamp used.

We've been experiencing a 10 heat wave here in the Northwest. Seattle set an all time high and here in Portland we missed our high by 1 degree, but the length of consecutive days above 100 may have beaten the records. We mostly don't have air conditioning in our homes as we hardly ever use it so I have been a prisoner of the basement!

Hope you enjoy this slide show. Mention the Art Neko Blog when ordering any of our Haiku collection between now and August 15th and get 25% off on any of our haiku stamps or sheets.

Keep cool! I'm trying to!

Candice

Sailing

This card features the Japanese Fishing Boat image from the Taylored Stamps Marine Sheet 2. The Haiku by Issa is also on that sheet. The sailing image is layered over a "dragged" background. The background was made by tearing a piece of copy paper and dragging ink over it onto the base cardstock. Once a line has been inked, the copy paper is moved 1/2 inch and another line of ink is dragged onto the cardstock. The copy paper is moved and lines are dragged until the background is complete.

Doesn't the dragged cardstock look like the marks left in the sand after the tide goes out?

Silent Cherry Blooms

This card was sent to me all the way from Australia by fellow Oriental Stampart member Adrienne West. Adrienne stamped our Cherry Blossom Border stamp on black cs, embossed in gold and then colored in with a shimmery metallic ink or paint. The two pieces were then layered onto a light pink inclusion paper, which was layered onto a darker pink cs and then layered onto a black blank card. Silent Cherry Haiku was stamped onto the inclusion paper in black ink.