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Art Journaling Live 3 & Webinar !

Super excited to teach at Art Journaling Live in Arlington, Texas again June 16th. It is a whole day workshop teaching together with Jodi Ohl, Mary Beth Shaw and Gina Rossi Armfield.

Unique techniques using the best tools and supplies, and you’ll expand your art journaling to a whole new level! Check out all four class segments here.

PLUS! With a ticket to Art Journaling LIVE! you’ll receive an ALL ACCESS PASS to the Great American Scrapbook Convention!

Art Journaling LIVE! 2016
June 16, 2016
Arlington Convention Center
Arlington, TX

You can sign up here!

And …if you want to know more – Join us!

Art Journaling Live Sneak Peek: Live Webinar with Mary Beth Shaw and Nathalie Kalbach

Date: Thursday, May 5^th

Time: 4:00-5:00 PM ET

Where: Your Computer

Join artist instructors Mary Beth Shaw and Nathalie Kalbach in a live, one-hour webinar that offers a sneak peek of Art Journaling Live 2016, our one-day mixed-media workshop in Arlington, Texas June 16th that also features workshops by Jodi Ohl and Gina Rossi Armfield. They’ll reveal some of the dazzling art journaling techniques they’ll be showcasing; Mary Beth will talk about using stencils and acrylic paint to create art journal pages that pop, and Nathalie will discuss adding interest and an important spark to your art journal with textures and layers. They’ll also give a behind-the-scenes look at last year’s fun event, and you’ll learn about the great things in store for this year.

This webinar consists of a PowerPoint presentation, and you’ll get a chance to ask Mary Beth and Nathalie your questions in a live Q&A. Everyone who registers will receive a link to watch the recording, a video showing scenes from Art Journaling Live 2015, and discounts to use at the Interweave Mixed Media Store.

You can sign up for the webinar here.

Did you miss last year’s Art Journaling Live Event with Dina Wakley, MaryBeth Shaw, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and me? No worries- we gotcha covered with a DVD or Download of Art Journaling Live 2. Or do you want to take a fun online class with me? Check out the DVD’s and Downloads below :)

Hope to see you on- or offline :) Have a gorgeous day

Nat

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Nathalie Kalbach & Friends Blog Hop – Win all three Stamp Sets!

Art Journal Mixed Media Stampendous Stamps

Woot Woot- so stoked that the Stampendous Design Team and my wonderful Creative Squad is doing a blog hop together this week. It always is my favorite thing to see how others use my stamp and stencil designs – makes me so happy. Loads of yummie projects – check it out!!!

Here are the links for today:

I thought I would play along with my awesome team’s theme this month “My City Speaks To Me” and I used the Urban Scribble Stamp Set as well

My city – Jersey City – is such a city of juxtapositions. Grungy – Spotless, Old – Modern, Artsy – Financial, Jersey – NYC, Loud – Calm ….and so much more. I love it – it is such an inspiring place to live.

I stamped with the solid side of the Urban Scribble Foam Stamp and yellow acrylic paint into my art journal and then used the Rubber Stamp with black ink to stamp over it. The Solid Foam Stamp and the Rubber Stamp pattern fit perfectly together. I painted the background and for the grungy side on the left I used the rubber stamp on purpose rudimentary and in a non perfect manner to enhance the juxtaposition of the two sides.

Watch this video if you want to know how to apply acrylic paint to the foam stamps:

Rule of Three – #1 “Three Ways to “Ink” up Foam Stamps from Nathalie Kalbach on Vimeo.

Check out all the wonderful posts, comment on any of those posts and win a price and join us :)

Stampendous is offering three prize packages that consist of ALL THREE of the foam/cling/stencil sets. THEY’ll ship them to anyone who wins (yes, internationally, too) just comment on this post here or any of the posts the teams or Stampendous or here to be eligible to win. Good luck!!!!

Thank you so much for visiting- I hope you like my new Bird, Elephant and Urban Scribbles Foam, Cling Rubber and Stencil Sets ! Have a beautiful and creative weekend!

Nat

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Keitha

May 2, 2016 at 8:03 am | #

Love all three sets Nathalie; it will be hard to decide which one to get first. Great blog hop!

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Agata

May 2, 2016 at 3:30 am | #

Such a beautiful layout you have created! Love your products!

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Tracy Moloney

May 1, 2016 at 12:35 am | #

EXCITING pages, your city is ALIVE – LOVE IT!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your video too, these sound like such an ADVENTURE to CREATE with :)
Tracy from Australia

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robynseaniger

April 30, 2016 at 8:36 pm | #

I love these new stamps Nathalie and I thoroughly enjoyed using them at your recent Mixed Media Circus Workshop at Darkroom Door. I know I need these for my art journaling :)

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Sandra L.

April 30, 2016 at 6:11 pm | #

Love your project and love the stamp set. I live in New Jersey and you summed up your area perfectly. Thanks for sharing.

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Beverly Parkison

April 30, 2016 at 9:31 am | #

You did it up brown, great release

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Gayle Kush

April 30, 2016 at 6:44 am | #

Love your tutrials and all the things you so graciously share with all of us on your blog. Including your friends in the form of this blog hop! Thank you for the tips on inking your stamps. I work in fabric but almost everything you do I can use in my fiber arts adventures. I love your stamps and use them all the time in my work. Thanks again!

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Mixed Media Circus Workshop at Darkroom Door in Berkeley Vale, Australia

Art Journal Australia Creative Squad Darkroom Door Mixed Media Sydney workshop

After the workshop in Melbourne, Julie and I taught in Berkeley Vale at Darkroom Door, about 1 1/2 hours North of Sydney. My wonderful friend and awesome manufacturer Rachel Greig hosted us in her warehouse and classroom and it a great group rocking out the paint, art supplies and art journals!

Everyone was working for three day, creating covers, painting, stamping, stenciling, book binding – getting messy fingers and tables:) It was so much fun! I loved the class room with high tables and high top chairs, making it possible for everyone to choose to work standing up or sitting. Since I work standing up- this was a dream :)

Look at all the beautiful colorful pages …with Birds, and Elephants, and other stamp sets :)

Birds mixed with Julies Stamps and Stencils.

and more elephants :)

the Urban Scribble – love the staggered city look!

And lot’s of stencil patterns for background papers

I loved how everyone embraced having two different teachers and stencils and stamps from two different persons as well.

Love the look of the Fashion Dame Stencil used in different colors for pattern

And the Lilly Wallpaper stenciled with black gesso

and the Arabesque Stencils used with white over black gesso

Batik

one of Julie`s Face Stencils used with my Ornament Stencil for hair

Another hybrid page with Julie’s stencil on the left and my Art Deco Wallpaper Stencil on the right

And this is so true – :) If all fails, join the circus :)

I think this one did? Love the girl taking a ride on the Elephant Stencil!

So much creative energy and colors in the classroom

And here is Julie explaining something – it was really fun teaching together again :)

And here are some photos of me teaching …which usually- you know…there aren’t any :)

Thank you so much Rachel for having us- you are the best!!!!

And here we are :) Bound and colorful finished art journals!!!

And thank you Amanda and Amanda, Belinda, Rachel, Robyn and Robyn, Paula, Kristy Lee (mmmmhhh did I butcher your name again???? please forgive me with your super cute smile, ok?), Lorraine, Genevieve, Vesna and Vesna! We will always have “I pet a kangaroo”, the dog on the tucker box, create you own at mäccas, don’t hesitate to mess up the table, fire alarms, Lemingtons, Anzac Biscuits and lot’s of laughter together. It was wonderful to spend those three days with you!!!

I will post some photos from Melbourne and Sydney, street art and kangaroos in the next weeks – it was such a fun trip :)

Nat

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My City Speaks to Me – Michelle Rydell

cityscape Creative Squad Foam Stamp Minneapolis stamp Stencil urban Urban Scribble

It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for my Creative Squad to share a project with you with this month’s theme: “My City Speaks to Me”. Throughout the month, the team has been using my new Urban Scribble Foam Stamp, Rubber Stamp and Stencil Set to interpret the theme and to share with us what their hometown or city is all about. We want to know what makes it special, vibrant, and important! This month, our Creative Squad has taken us on a trip to their city!

Today we have a really fun art journal page from Michelle Rydell. Her colorful interpretation of the theme is like an insider’s travel guide to Minneapolis :) Thanks for sharing all the good spots, Michelle!
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Up until a few years ago, I lived in the city of Minneapolis my whole adult life. Now, I live in the country, just outside of the city, but Minneapolis will always have a piece of my heart. I love this month’s theme because it gave me a chance to document that!

First I created a background in my art journal, using black on the bottom to represent city streets, and blue on top to represent sky. I used white paint with the Urban Scribble stencil to create texture on the streets, and clouds in the sky.

The city is broken up into neighborhoods, so I decided to represent that with a variety of colors and patterns, using painting underpapers as my substrate. I stamped the cling stamp on two different color schemes, and the foam stamp on a third. Then I cut them out…

I pasted them onto my page in overlapping rows, and drew little banners on sticker paper to label the neighborhoods. I also typed up the names of some of my favorite places in each neighborhood, printed them onto sticker paper and stuck them on to corresponding buildings. I colored over the building names with tombow markers to blend them in a bit.

Here’s my finished piece:

And a few closeups…

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I absolutely love how Michelle used the Urban Scribble stamp to create rows for different neighborhoods, and her colors are so vibrant against the black stamping, the whole design really pops. The overall idea is a super clever way to share with us the hotspots in Minneapolis!

Besides the supplies listed below, Michelle also used newsprint underpapers with a variety of paints and sprays on them:

And maybe you will even play along -we would love to see how you interpret the theme – email me how you used my stencils and stamps with the theme and email me an image – I would love to share what you did at the end of the month!

See you next Tuesday for the another project from the Creative Squad, with a brand new theme for the month of May.

P.S. Stampendous is doing a blog hop this week and you can win one of the stamp sets. Simply comment on this post or their blog post in order to be eligible to win!

Check in with their blog all week long to see some fun projects with my foam stamp sets – my creative squad is posting a lot of new projects this Friday- so stay tuned :)

Nat

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Tracy Moloney

May 1, 2016 at 12:42 am | #

FABULOUS pages Michelle!!!
LOVE the colours and dimension of your “old town”
THANK YOU for sharing :)
Tracy from Australia

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Kate B

April 30, 2016 at 12:37 pm | #

This is fantastic – so creative and colorful!

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nancy L

April 28, 2016 at 1:53 pm | #

Awesome, love the cityscape

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Sarah P.

April 28, 2016 at 8:40 am | #

This looked like a lot of fun. The talent is awesome.

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Jade Sutton

April 28, 2016 at 4:36 am | #

Your page is beautiful. I love how you have layered the city to create the different areas.

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myriam Le Blanc

April 27, 2016 at 10:34 pm | #

Wow! I love it! The colors are so vibrant!

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Miriam Prantner

April 27, 2016 at 5:26 pm | #

Really love these pages and the different layers of the buildings and the colors, so fun!

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Joela

April 27, 2016 at 3:49 pm | #

That is incredible

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Amanda Rhodes

April 27, 2016 at 3:45 pm | #

I love the neon colors!

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Darcy

April 27, 2016 at 3:38 pm | #

How fun!

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Teresa Godines #6857

April 27, 2016 at 3:01 pm | #

Wonderful project

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Rachel Alexander

April 27, 2016 at 2:00 pm | #

Love the colours, such a fun page. Rachel

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kirsty vittetoe

April 27, 2016 at 1:53 pm | #

I have a soft spot for city scene, lived in and visited many, LOVE this!
(Las Vegas)

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Greta H

April 27, 2016 at 11:56 am | #

Very creative–just beautiful!

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Mixed Media Circus Workshop at Artified in Melbourne, Australia

Art Journal Australia Melbourne workshop

I am back from Australia where I taught some amazing Art Journaling Classes with my friend Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. Here are the photos of the 3-day-class at Artified in Melbourne where the wonderful students created an art journal – from painting pages using loads of art journaling techniques and creating a nice cover to binding everything into their own book together in the end.

We started Friday with loads of fun coloring techniques.

They were all in such a wonderful mood- and some traveled very far from Tasmania and even far away from Adelaide.

I really make a grumpy face when I create something- but I assure you ….I am in a good mood :)

Look at those amazing patterned and colorful pages and … hands :)

Loved seeing my new stamp sets in action :) It always inspires me to see how students use them !!!

Even if used on an apron- LOL

This is sunday afternoon – I love this photo- everyone creating and painting and the light is so beautiful in the classroom.

Of course Julie and I also goofed around a lot … I mean- hey …the circus was in town ;)

And what is not to love about this:

Look at all those pages – everyone holding up their favorite:

And here are all the newly bound art journals

And thank you Chris, Kelly, Margaret and Margaret, Anna, Carol, Abby, Pat, Bec, Deborah, Ngaire, Karen, Nicole, Evi, Katherine, Wendy and Angela and Mel for loads of chocolate, the Tim-Tam-Slam, Vegimite Songs, Twists and licorice, pick-ups and lunch-lifts, beautiful books and necklaces and loads of laughter, creativity and good spirit!

Thank you for joining the circus :) Look out for more class photos and heaps of other inspiring photos of my trip to Australia in the next couple weeks :)

Nat

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Artist Quote of the Week – Giorgio Morandi

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Art Stroll – Lucy Dodd at Whitney, NYC

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A couple weeks ago I went to the Whitney for it’s open plan exhibition featuring Lucy Dodd. I stumbled across this exhibition through the Whitney’s Instagram feed and decided to take a short trip to the museum and have a late work start.

It was located on the fifth floor which stretches out without any walls in between and offers some amazing views.

I loved the shapes of the canvases, reminding of sails.

Lucy used fermented walnuts, kombucha scoby, hematite, yerba mate, and pigments which she all collected while traveling to paint on raw canvas.

The big canvases were painted on the terrace of the Whitney and the progress photo of this work was what I had seen on Instagram and made me investigate what was going on :) You can spot and see the grid of the underlaying tiles of the terrace on the canvases. Dodd seems to use this method of creating a grid this way a lot.

I loved the scale of the work and the movement visible in it.

It makes me want to work big.

Her use of different natural materials and the texture and marks they leave is also very intriguing. I enjoyed this exhibition and learning about Lucy Dodd’s work- she is now definitely on my radar. A well worth trip to the museum, I am so glad I discovered this on social media.

What is the most uncommon material you painted with? It would be branches and leaves for me but more as mark making tools.

Nat

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My City Speaks to Me – Marsha Valk

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Happy Tuesday! It’s time for my Creative Squad to share a project with you with this month’s theme: “My City Speaks to Me”. Throughout the month, the team will be using my new Urban Scribble Foam Stamp, Rubber Stamp and Stencil Set. This month’s theme is all about expressing what your hometown or city is all about. What makes it special, vibrant, and important to you? This month, our Creative Squad will take us on a trip to their city!

Today we have a super dimensional art journal page from Marsha Valk. Her interpretation of the theme takes us all the way to the Netherlands, and she asks us: how well do we really know our own city?
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I live in the middle of the Netherlands in a city with a beautiful medieval city centre. The neighbourhood I live in was mostly built around the 1930-ies. I decided to concentrate on the question: ‘What does my city say to me?’ and explore that through art journaling.

I’ve never lived anywhere longer than I’ve lived here. I know the best places to eat, to shop, I know the most important sights, I have my own favourite ‘sights’, I know some of the history, but… what else do I know? Well… turns out that I’ve still got a lot to discover. My city is telling me to finally open my eyes. To view it in a different light. There are many places that I have always intended to visit, but that are still on the list. I really, really need to stop and look.

I started my page by stamping the Urban Scribble cling stamp at the bottom of the page with black ink. Then I created a mask by stamping the Urban Scribble foam stamp (twice) on a sheet of paper and then cutting the stamped image out. I used the mask to mask off each previous row of buildings before stamping another row behind it.

When I had about three rows, I switched gears and inked the Urban Scribble foam stamp with two different tones of Distress Ink and spray mist. To create the watercolour look, I sprayed the stamp with water after inking it up. I used this method to stamp until my whole page was covered, masking off each previous layer.

I coloured the buildings with Distress Ink. I tapped some ink onto my craft mat, diluted it with a spritz of water and then picked up the colour with a watercolour brush.

Once everything was dry, I added details and depth with markers, charcoal and coloured pencil. I also picked up some of the leftover ink from my craft mat with a make-up sponge and used that to stencil subtle little squares onto the buildings with the stencil that comes with the Urban Scribble Foam Stamp Set.

Lastly I wrote down my journaling. I decided to put it in a circle, to emphasise the city being (my base) in the middle of the country.

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I think we can all relate to Marsha’s desire to take the time to slow down and explore more! In her art journal page, I love how she used the Urban Scribble stamp with a mask to create a cityscape with many layers of buildings. It’s also a gorgeous example of how certain colors and details can transform the stamp into a completely different place; last week it was NYC and this week Marsha brought us to the Netherlands.

Besides the supplies listed below, Marsha also used 13arts Ayeeda Mist in Pastel Yellow:

See you next Tuesday for the another project with the theme ‘My City Speaks to Me’.

Nat

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Artist Quote of the Week – Marie Laurencin

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