Haiku in August

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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

India Influence Images

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This blog posting is in honor of my granddaughter Haley who was just visiting for two weeks. She has taken lessons in and enjoys Bangra dancing and she and her cousin Hilary performed a Bangra dance to go along with the Indian food feast at our son David's wedding three summers ago--so I guess this is also in honor of David and Lorie's wedding anniversary this month.
You can find these images on our website by clicking India.

Korea Sheet

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Well, hopefully we are back on track--but then one never knows what is waiting around the corner. We still are working on moving up and resettling my husband's mother from Albuquerque to Portland and I have grandkids arriving next week for two weeks -- but barring any unforeseen calamities I should be able to changeout our specials every two weeks or so.

This week we are featuring our Korea Sheet. You can see the individual images as well as some samples in the slide show above. Dee, Heather and Bonnie created samples especially in honor of Father's Day as well as others. Barbie Dopson, Sandra Grimes and Kavi Coulson also have samples in this posting's slide show above. Send us a copies of your work with Art Neko and Taylored Stamps and we will add them into our slide shows.

Garden Friends and Masks

I leave on Monday for Albuquerque and what will probably be the last time we will see my sister-in-law. No orders received after 5/10 will be mailed until 5/18.

Beginning with this post we will be changing out the specials every other Wednesday until further notice.

This week's blog specials include:
Garden Friends Sheet
and
Tribal Masks Sheet
Some stamps available individually or in small sets.

Hokusai Swallows

The Hokusai Swallows (available as a single stamp or on a sheet) stamp an image with a lot of impact. For this card, I've used bamboo (Rubber stamp Plantation) to create a setting for their antics. It really doesn't matter what the plant material is - I've used them with cherry branches, pine, other bamboo images - the birds always steal the show. They are also great with architectural images. Stamp them in black and then add a little color with chalk or pencil. The first card was stamped on plain white cardstock, with color added by chalks. The yellow card was stamped on a printed scrapbook paper. The red card was stamped on white cardstock that had been sponged with red and pink inks. Very different, very versatile, very, very simple! I love these birds!

These two cards were made using some of the newer stamps from Art Neko. The back-ground for both cards is the Forget-Me-Not Background stamp and the Framed Bird is a small bordered square with a line drawing of a bird on a branch and a calligraphy seal. This stamp is part of the Bird, Cat and Lily set.

For the green card, the background was stamped in Olympia green ink and embossed on purchased scrap-book paper in shades of green with rose-colored highlights. I trimmed part of the heavier border around the bird square, added some rose-colored sponging to the image, and layered it with torn mulberry paper.

The orange card was stamped on hand-decorated paper - watercolor paper spritzed with water and then sprinkled with Duva powdered watercolor pigments. The pigment powders were further dispersed and colored with glimmer mist sprays. The bird panel was trimmed to remove the border, then a narrow black edge was added with an india ink pen. The bird panel was sponged with orange inks, and layered with gold, then black and attached to the background panel over a strip of rippled green paper. The background panel was layered with gold and black as well and attached to a white card.