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Art Fusion at the InkPad in NYC – Photos

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Last week my friend Birgit Koopsen visited me from The Netherlands. Birgit and I have been teaching together in Europe quite often and last year we organized our first Art Fusion Event in The Netherlands. This year our event was hosted by The InkPad in New York City and we had a great time with our students at Westbeth last sunday.

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Birgit taught a Mixed Media Canvas Class using Acrylic Paints and I taught an Altered Book Class using Acrylic Inks, Paints and Markers. Birgit worked with her new wonderful stamps and I was able to see my new Stencils in action :)

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It was so much fun. It was a very colorful day and we had a great time with our super talented students!

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Look at all those gorgeous images they draw in their altered book class!

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Thank you to The InkPad for having us and thank you to Liquitex for providing the acrylic media for the class! I am missing Birgit – but who knows – we might be up for something next year ;)

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If you live near or in NYC – why don’t you join me next Friday, October 10th 2014 from 7pm-9.30 pm at The InkPad for an Art Journal Class – Artvergnugen with Photo Transfers

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There are only a couple seats left – come and join us. I will show you some fun ways to do Photo Transfers and how to incorporate them in your Art Journal.

You can see all other in-person workshops I am teaching this year here.

Have a gorgeous day

 

Nat

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  • Laura Strack

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    I love seeing what everyone creates with your fabulous stamps and stencils! Looks like you and Birgit had a blast. Have a beautiful week :)

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Thank you Laura, wishing you a gorgeous week too! Nat :)

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  • Jackie P Neal

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    How wonderful that your friend Birgit was able to come here and teach with you! Wish I was there too! “)

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Art Deco Wallpaper – NEW STENCIL

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So loving my new 9×12” Art Deco Wallpaper Stencil I designed for StencilGirl Products – I know, I know…I’m full of myself- LOL. But seriously it is a stencil I wanted for a long time!

I love Art Deco Design – in my travels through Europe, especially to Paris – I made a lot of sketches from wallpapers in museums and hotel rooms from this era.

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In this Art Journal Page I used the stencil as a background and spray painted over it with several different Liquitex Spray Paints. I love how dimensional you can get with different color layered up.

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Here is another sample using it as a whole on both art journal pages …as …a …wallpaper for the quote :)

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I painted the background first with different acrylic paint colors and then layered the stencil over the background spraying with white and grey Liquitex Spray paint.

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I wrote the quote with Liquitex Acrylic Ink and a Bamboo Sketching Pen.

I will show some other ways on how to use this stencil in the next weeks :)

Here are the supplies that I used for those two pages

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Hope you like the stencil- have a gorgeous day!!!

 

Nat

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  • Laura S

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    Woohoo, I too am looking forward to that bamboo pen video. I remember you mentioning the bamboo pen at Create but I never made time to ask you more. I love that art deco stencil and seeing your design ideas only motivates me to go into my studio and play. Hugs!!!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Thank you Laura! So glad to hear that this motivates you to get into your studio and play! Get them tiger :) hugs!

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  • Rebecca Buchanan

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    Glad you will be doing a video about the pen, but came here to comment that I also love this art deco stencil. You can be as full of yourself as you want because we are all sharing in the benefit of your creativity–can’t wait to get my hands on this. Kudos to you!

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  • Linda K

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    I was wondering about the bamboo pen also. I will be watching for your video on how you use this and any tips you may have. Thanks much.

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  • Kim T

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    Adore the colors in the second one and the way you used the stencil over it … I went to a Liquitex demo a couple of weeks ago and it was so fun seeing all the different products, amazing, the colors are just yummy.
    I also bought a bamboo pen and cannot figure out how to use it … I got it because Iove the way you use it in your journal, but there is nothing online on how it works … any insight? Love your blog!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Thank you Kim! The Bamboo Pen is a Dip Pen – you dip it into ink – that is the whole secret :) I will do a video about this soon though as you are not the first one to ask :) will try to do it soon :) Have a gorgeous day ,Nat

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  • Nurse Ratchet

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    Love that stencil and will be ordering it from Bizzy B. have never seen the Prima Writers tape before..looks intriguing !

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Wohooo – glad you like the stencil! BTW- the Writers tape might be not available anymore. Basically you can just cut up raw gessoed canvas pieces and fringe the sides and use those adhered with Gel Medium :)

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  • Sue Clarke

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    I love the colors in that second page and your stencils layer quite nicely.
    Have a splendid day Nat.

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Relaunched n*Studio Website: New Navigation

Wohoo – finally I can show you my new website…you might not have even noticed it :) The design is pretty much the same – with some minor changes but the biggest and most important thing I changed, is the website navigation – especially for my online workshops. Yes, just as you, I didn’t like it at all, so for six months this was worked on and finally it is done :)
Here is a little video so you see how it works

I love the new navigation and it is so much easier…I hope you love it too :) Some other things are new- can you spy them?

Let me know how you like the new navigation, or if you have questions, or if something doesn’t work, so we can figure it out :)

Thank you and have a gorgeous day

Nat

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  • amac56

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    Hi Nat. I am most impressed with the changes that you have made with the Navigation. It is so much easier and simpler. Appreciate you making the changes for us all.
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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      I am so glad you like it :) Thank you for your feedback! Nat

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  • grandscraperona

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    Hi, Nat! I am in love with your new “navigation”…is easier, “fast & furious” .Thanks for the inversion, i know it is, because for my son Etionee Diaz who works on all that stuff. The best for you and your team!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Hi Petrin, I am so glad you like it :) Thank you for letting me know! have a great weekend, Nat

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  • Sue Clarke

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    I like the new navigation on the site. Thanks for always making it easier to find the classes that we’ve purchased Nat. The blinkie on the top is a good way to catch “eyes” to your latest classes.

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Thank you Sue, so glad you like it – and wohoo you noticed the blinkie …well in a bright orange it is not easy to miss I guess ;)

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  • Rebecca Buchanan

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    Very nice!!! Like it much better–very intuitive.
    Congrats and thank you!

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  • Jackie P Neal

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    Looks great Nat! everything is easily found! love the quick release drop downs! Very organized! good job! Hugs

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  • Yankeegirl

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    Looks great, Nat! I watched the intro video, which was very helpful on navigating the new (and cool looking) site, and then gave it a test run! Works perfectly, found all my purchased classes easily, and once I get home from a two week vacation this month, I am signing up for a couple of new classes! Yay!!!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Awesome – so glad you like it and everything worked smooth for you :)

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  • Laura S

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    Awesome! Can’t wait to check it out!!

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Elephant Parade – NEW STENCIL

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By now I guess it is not a secret anymore that I have a slight elephant obsession and since so many asked for a smaller elephant stencil-there you go :) Elephant Parade is here

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The Stencil has 3 parts – An Elephant silhouette, Patterned Elephant Stencil and an Elephant Mask. This gives you loads of possibilities!

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I sprayed the background of the art journal page with some Liquitex Spray Paints. Then I layered the ornamental elephant onto the left and sprayed with two different colors over the pattern. I cleaned off the stencil onto a different art journal page as to not waste paint and then flipped it over and repeated on the right side to get the elephant facing to the left. I used the elephant mask then over the elephants to mask off the images and sprayed over the background to change the background up. 

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Here is a different Elephant version for you:

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Here I created a background with Liquitex Acylic Paints, then layered the elephant mask over an area and used Liquitex Spray paint and sprayed over the elephant mask. I repeated that several times carefully avoiding spraying into the newly created elephants. I used the Elephant stencil to trace with a journaling pen to give a bit more definition. 

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Elephants…just make me happy :) Hope they do the same to you too ;)

Here are the supplies I used for the pages:

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Have an amazing day

Nat

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CREATE Dallas Photos

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I had a great time last weekend in Dallas teaching at the CREATE Mixed Media Retreat. I taught 3 classes: “It’s All About the Layers- Art Journal”, “Encrusted Shrubbery- Canvas” and “Texture Heaven-Art Journal”. We used loads of fun Liquitex goodies- thank you Liquitex for the wonderful goodies I was able to give away!

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I also brought my new stencils – that I just released and it was so much fun to see them used for the first time- wohoo!!! And there was a lot of hands on paint moments :)

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It was great to spend so much time with my students in the day classes- and we laughed a lot…especially about my wrong doings in using “Y’all” …I guess “You’s” is wrong in any event in Texas- LOL

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It was also wonderful to see some of my fellow teachers and friends at the event- we had a lot of fun in our “Liberace-Hotel” (that’s an insider for everyone who was there and a little side note about the hotel interior ;) )

Thank you to all my students- you were awesome and fun and super creative! A special shout out to Bill – rock on man!!!

If you are in Seattle – I will be teaching at the CREATE Seattle event coming up next month. I will teach four workshops

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“Acrylic Media Demystified”, “Texture Heaven Art Journal”, “Texture Galore Canvas” and “It’s All About The Layers- Art Journal” Class. I will bring loads of fun Liquitex paint media , stencils and stamps to play with . You can sign up here

 

have an amazing day you all!!!

Nat

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Intelligence … or In My Art Journal Today

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings

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I painted the background with Soft Body Acrylic Paints and used Acrylic Inks with a Bamboo Pen to write the Journaling. The Bird Image is actually a collage piece I used a Transfer Technique on – it is part of the Liquitex Packaging for the new Michaels Transfer and Photo Collage Set. I ripped the sturdy watercolor paper to the size I wanted it and applied it to the background as I wanted it to be part of my art journal. It is a great sample how you can incorporate a collage piece into your art journal later.

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Here a the supplies I used for the whole spread:

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Wishing you an amazing day!

 

Nat

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New Stencil Release with StencilGirl Products

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Super excited to finally reveal my 5 new Stencil Designs with StencilGirl Products. You will find some projects I created with those stencils today on the StencilGirl Products Blog but let me show you the new stencils also in a short video :)

 

I hope you are as excited as I am about these new stencils :) As mentioned there a couple projects up on the StencilGirl Products Blog today and I will show some projects in the upcoming weeks too.

Here are all stencils and the links to the shop at StencilGirl Products



Have a gorgeous day and thank you for letting me share my new stencil release :)

Nat

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Circus Circus …or In My Art Journal Today

Showing you 2 pages that are coming one after the other in my art journal :)

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The Circus arrives without warning….but the rule is

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Not my circus, not my monkeys!

Isn’t that the truth ;)

Here are some details of the two pages:

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I created a pretty grungy background with acrylic paints and Gesso and then used Liquitex Spray Paint to partly use my Elephant March Stencil coming into the page

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For the writing I used Liquitex Black Carbon Acrylic Ink and a Bamboo Sketching Pen .

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In this spread I created the background by dry brushing different acrylic paint colors. I love the texture of the paper itself but also of the brush strokes.

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I sprinkled some water onto the still wet paint and then blotted it off with a paper towel- I love how the paper towel left an amazing texture impression reveal the paint underneath. Talk about happy accidents ;) And because I loved the background so much- I didn’t want to cover it up too much and just wrote over with the Bamboo Sketching Pen and Acrylic Ink again.

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Hope you have a creative day today!

 

Nat

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designed by n*Studio features: Judi Kauffman

One of the things that make me really giddy is when I spy someone using my new stamps by Stampendous or also my Stencils with StencilGirl Products :) So I thought once in a while I would feature the work of those wonderful talented people with a new Series called: designed by n*Studio features:…..

And today I feature: Judi Kauffman

I am so happy to have my friend Judi Kauffman back for another feature! I had her a couple months ago and I just love the way she includes a very detailed description on her projects! She uses my products in such fun and unique ways- I love it!!! Judi has no blog- so leave her some love here:)

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About Judi:

Judi Kauffman wears, and has always worn, many hats at the same time. She is a designer, writer, and teacher who has worked in the craft industry for over 25 years. She has also been a graphic artist, art director, photo stylist, illustrator, and weaver. She has an undergraduate degree in printmaking and a master’s in fibers. Judi’s projects, articles, and reviews appear in a wide variety of magazines, she works for several manufacturers in design and product development. She is a frequent guest artist for Elizabeth Craft Designs, Walnut Hollow, StencilGirl Products, and other manufacturers. She has also written five books (alas, all now out of print).

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Thanks for inviting me back as a Guest Designer, Nathalie. I thought it would be fun to use your Grunge stamp and template set to make a Grunge Shelf. The shelf is 11” long by 1½” deep, the right size for styluses, palette knife, mini brayer, small tubes of paint or other tools. Or it could go on a dresser to hold lipsticks, eyeliner and such, or on a desk for pens and a letter opener!

 

INSTRUCTIONS

 

Nat

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