I am thrilled to join the Art Neko Design Team and happy to post my first artwork. As the publisher (writer, creator, photographer and head bottlewasher) of the Technique Junkie Newsletter, I hope to use many techniques to show off these beautiful Art Neko stamps. I hope I can do them justice!

The crane on this card was colored direct-to-stamp with waterbased markers, misted with water, and stamped onto watercolor paper.

The crane was matted in blue and layered onto a black cardstock piece (yes, that was black!) that has been brushed with gold and blue metallic paints. I layered that over a blue cardstock piece that had been embossed using a Cuttlebug folder. I added some paper piercing, grommets and ribbon with additional layering to highlight the crane image.

This crane image is available on the Asian Beauties 6 Sheet.

Thank you for looking at my art!

Pat Huntoon

Sumi-e Style Crane Scene

This card was created on rice paper using several Art Neko images to create a spring vignette. A single crane stands on a mound of grass with cherry blossoms blooming around it. The cherry blossom "tree" was created using multiple stampings of Taylored Stamps Sakura Branch and then colored in with pencils. The Sumi-e Style Crane and Crane Kanji are also Taylored Stamps images available from Art Neko. The crane is stamped with permanent black ink and colored with pastels. The pine in the corner is created from a portion of an Art Neko Taylored Stamps image, Whispering Rabbits, stamped in multiples and colored with pastels and pencils. The sun is a creation of sponge and inks, and pastels were sponged around torn paper masks to create the grass mound. I drew a smudged charcoal pencil line to add definition then drew in some charcoal grasses. Background colors are from pastels on rice paper. While the crane is the focal image, this picture illustrates how versatile our stamps can be when we use them in different ways!