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Oriental Stamp Art offers a first-class, one-stop-shop for anyone looking to be inspired to create cards with the beauty and representation of serenity that "Oriental" seems to evoke. This site opens up a virtual treasure-chest; it has everything going for it!

My first point of interest is to the grand list of RESOURCES Oriental Stamp Art offers. Listed under specific headings of China, General, and Japan, it is easy to locate numerous links within each category. These include sites such as: Chinese New Year, Origami Patterns, Dragonflies in Asian Art, Buddhist Symbols, Ando Hiroshige Woodblock Prints, Chigiri-e Painting, Geishas and Japanese clip-art.

Also within RESOURCES is a link to "Calls for Art". Here you will find "Submission Themes for Stamping Magazines". A very helpful guide to anyone considering submitting items for possible publication.

The TECHNIQUES pages have every imaginable technique well-sourced. Listed alphabetically, many techniques will also include images or class material.

To illustrate, here is just a sampling of the variety of techniques offered: Alcohol Ink Wash; Backgrounds to Dye for; Cheesecloth Backgrounds; Decoupage; Eggshell Crackle; Faux Watercolor; Glass Stamping; H20 Backgrounds; Inked Foil; Jacob's Ladder; Knot Templates; Lumiere' Paints; Marbled Tissue Paper; Napkin Cards using Plastic Wrap; Origami; Pearl-Ex Backgrounds; Quilling; Resist Stamping; Shattered Glass; Tea-Bag Folding; Unmounted Stamp Storage; Velvet Stamping and Wax Crayon Resist.

Go to E-ZINE, and you can access issues of Oriental Stamp Art's SPECTRUM, with wonderfully informed topics accompanied by projects and galleries.

Titles covered to date have been: In the Japanese Tradition; Festivals; Ikebana & Buddha; Kimono; Slide Mailers; Origami; Paper cuts & Mulberry Paper and, Mizuhiki.

On Oriental Stamp Art's Home Page, you are able to subscribe to Oriental Stamp Art on Yahoo Groups. This group was originally founded by Lizzie Slothouber, who later handed over her leadership to Dr. Annette Warkentin.

Oriental Stamp Art's continuing success shows in its current membership of 874 at time of writing. As a member myself, I can assure you it is a group that is very welcoming and encouraging, to everyone who joins. It matters not if you are just very new to stamping and/or Oriental themes; you will fit in, and feel "at home" there, from the very beginning.

Swaps and contests abound if you wish to participate; no obligations. Any questions, someone will always offer to help out; in fact it's more likely that many will help.

A group so successful is benefited by a list of vendors who give generously as sponsors for the many swaps, competitions, and Thursday Tips.

Each month, one of Oriental Stamp Art's vendors is featured as "Vendor of the Month", and will offer members great specials during that month.

Click on GALLERIES and you will be taken to "Albums from Members"; more than you could ever imagine. If you started looking at Oriental Stamp Art for inspiration, this is where you'll find it!

Don't forget to bookmark Oriental Stamp Art, because you'll be sure to want to come back time and time again.

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