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

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.

Follow The Leader

Three dragonfly images (available singly or on the Garden Friends sheet)were lined up on an acrylic block and stamped with VersaMark on very dark brown card stock. The dragonflies were then heat embossed using Ancient Gold line by Ranger. The color of the powder within that line is Enchanted Gold.

Metallic watercolors by Yasutomo were used for coloring the wings. Gold Krylon pen edges the panel. The panel was then layered on to it's background. Peel off stickers embellish the dragonflies.

Editor's note: One of the beauties of um's is that you can "compose" several stamps together on an acrylic block and stamp them all at once.....CJ

Punching with Washi

This is an example of using punches with your washi.

Being quite fibrous,washi alone does not punch well. It frays, tears and gets stuck in your punches.

However there is an easy solution. To punch successfully, adhere your washi to card stock. When adhesive is dry, punch away.

Works great with Mulberry paper also