tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61661004438765901492024-11-01T04:07:58.278-07:00Home of Art Neko and Taylored Stamps<br> Deeply etched red rubber unmounted art stamps, made in Oregon<br> 302 NE 57th Ave., Portland, OR 97213<br> www.artneko.com 503-616-4725Art Nekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16760368132129658991noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166100443876590149.post-14557536625203606952009-08-31T22:38:00.000-07:002009-08-31T22:40:46.323-07:00

I have just been notified that my hosting service for the past 5 years is getting out of the hosting business so I have to move everything to a new server. With that in mind September's posting will be a bit delayed....check back after Labor Day!

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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

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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.For the remainder of July we are offering our Japanese Gardens 3 sheet of unmounted stamps at 25% off if you

Art Nekohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16760368132129658991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166100443876590149.post-53350218878453357852009-07-01T11:00:00.000-07:002009-08-29T17:29:00.825-07:00

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.This blog posting is in honor of my granddaughter Haley who was just visiting for two weeks. She has taken lessons

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Hover your mouse on the slides above to see the item number and the name of the person who created the samples shown. You can also slow down, speed up or pause the slides by using the buttons below the slide window.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

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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 SheetandTribal Masks SheetSome stamps available individually or in small sets.

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This week's featured cards have something to do either with Mothers, children or special celebrations in Japan the week of the fifth day of the fifth month. Hover your mouse pointer over a card as it floats by and it will stop, and show the title and the artist's first name and last initial. Slides shown with an * are posted with details below. Most of these with samples use images that are

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With Mother's Day coming soon, this week's blog theme is mother's and children. As a mother of four kids I feel truly blessed. I would love to take credit for what great adults they have grown up to be, but I think too often we take too much credit or too much blame depending on the situation. My kids have all worked hard to become who they are and while I did my best to provide encouragement

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This little Boy With Daruma is representative of the art of Helen Hyde. Two sheets of Taylored Stamps Helen Hyde are available as sheets or singles. More information about her is listed in the final post for this week. Daruma are used for making wishes for the new year and giving thanks for wishes that have come true.Creating this card was fun and easy! I don't do a lot of images of children,

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This little Daisy Girl is from the Taylored Stamps sheet, Women and Girls 1. Almost any image on that sheet could be put to use on a Mother's Day card.The image was stamped with Timber Brown StazOn.Blended pencil crayons were used to color the image. To make a more vintage type look, I used Ranger Distress Antique Linen direct to paper all over the image on top of the pencil crayon coloring.

deestampercanstamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14659467705327241248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166100443876590149.post-16319455087869527192009-04-29T05:30:00.000-07:002009-06-12T16:24:49.476-07:00

Long Stemmed Rose was use three times on this card, perfect for Mother's Day, birthdays or other special events. This image is available singly or on the Taylored Stamps Botanicals 2 sheet. Each rose was colored with water color markers directly on the stamp. The stamp was then spritzed with water and stamped on water color paper. I varied the colors and the amount of water for each rose.The

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Greenery Day, a holiday celebrated now during Golden Week in Japan is celebrated by members of Oriental Stamp Art with an annual electronic swap.The Japanese Holly focal image here was created using the "watercolor spritz" technique.The watercolor markers were applied directly to the stamp,then held at arm's length and spritzed lightly with water. The image was then stamped onto watercolor paper.

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More images from the Helen Hyde sheets.

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While visiting our sons at the University of Oregon several years ago we attended a special exhibit at the Schnitzer Museum on campus of Asian Art. I was quite intrigued by the prints by Helen Hyde. Born in New York in 1868, Hyde had wide-ranging art studies in her youth, in San Francisco, New York, Berlin and Paris. She travelled to Japan when she was 31, studied Japanese painting techniques,

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Scroll down to see details on this weeks samples!

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We are going through some difficult times here with a loved one in terminal stages of cancer. Friends tell me it is important to take time for oneself during stressful times like this. So I am going to take a journey through some recent good times with this week's blog. Our theme this week is Marine Life and these samples by the Art Neko Team members take me back to a recent visit with a

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The featured image on this card is from the Japanese Marine Sheet 1 Taylored Stamps. The image was stampedon marbled paper with VersaMark then embossed with gold. The bling is peel off sticker shapes by Stampendous. I then edged it with 18K Gold Krylon pen and mounted it on patterned paper, then onto brushed gold card stock. The card below was made similarly with different colors.Below is yet

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I just love this Japanese Jellyfish image with the calligraphy poem! This one was stamped in black ink and embossed with detail black embossing powder on a background that I made using a resist technique and glimmer mist sprays. The Judikins crashing wave stamp was stamped randomly with Ranger resist ink on a sheet of Bristol smooth art paper. I then sprayed the sheet of paper with different

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I've added two versions of the Torii gate stamp available from Art Neko on the Taylored Stamps Torii Gate, Ox, Willow, Fish and Harmony Set. Both of them are stamped in black ink and embossed with detail black embossing powder on a polished stone background. The first one is layered onto adjoining panels of woven reed paper from Washi Accents and a purple floral washi design. The second stamped

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Another OSA layout challenge, this one was a little strange for me! When I saw all the triangles, I immediately thought of the Japanese Fishing Boat in the Art Neko marine series, and then tried to fit other images with it to make a coherent story following the layout design. The boat is stamped and embossed on a hand colored piece of cardstock created with glimmer mists (Tattered Angels) and

Bonnie Belkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717832177300641327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166100443876590149.post-37393291226196647642009-04-22T10:30:00.000-07:002009-04-29T17:45:38.310-07:00

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

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When I make water-themed cards, I love to create cards that have a sense of motion. That's why I chose to use this bright background -- I think it gives the sense of fluidity to the card! The background was created with a technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter called "Frog in a Blender". The technique uses Future Floor Wax to float ink -- and then the cardstock is dipped into it.The

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This card was made using the Japanese Fishing Boat image available as a single stamp or on the Taylored Stamps Marine 2 Sheet.This card was created for a sketch challenge for OSA. I think the appeal of this card is using a unique image from Taylored Stamps Marine 2 sheet. The image is stamped with Midnight Blue StazOn ink and mounted on black. That part was put aside while the background was

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The Catch of the Day image was stamped with VersaMark on pre-colored paper by Basic Grey.Gold, silver and copper embossing powders were sprinkled separately on the image. A little gold here, a little silver there etc, and then heat embossed. Copper Krylon pen was used to edge the image.The background was made using different sized circles, stamped randomly with VersaMark on black card stock and

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The Catch of the Day was stamped and embossed on a blue cardstock panel and then colored with twinkling H2O's. I added chalks in the background for different shades of blue, and stamped waves with Judikins's crashing waves stamp. The fish panel was layered with crumpled copper foil paper and coordinating cardstock. I stamped the Japanese Fisherman in turquoise ink and embossed it with clear

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