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Artvergnugen: Spray Ink Splash at The Ink Pad Photos

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This friday I had the pleasure of teaching another Artvergnugen Workshop at The Ink Pad in New York City. Artvergnugen is an ongoing Evening Art Journaling Class – once a month I teach with a different medium or tool and it is loads of fun. This Friday it was all about:

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The Dylusions and Lindy’s Stamp Gang were both equally loved- since they are different but both are very vibrant and beautiful it was fun to explore the different techniques and applications you can use them for in an art journal. I do love them both a lot – for different reasons  :)

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I must say I love the ongoing concept of the Artvergnugen Class at The Ink Pad – it is a good challenge for me, because I constantly have to adjust to a new medium, it is very technique based and I do have people that have been in the last class but some are new and cannot just pick up at pages from the last Artvergnugen class.

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Nice ghosting here, Diane …

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and yummie abstract backgrounds that are a perfect base for an art journal page – love it!

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I love those girls- they all love to experiment…and get their hands messy ;)

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Plus I come out every time inspired by a color combination I have to use in my next project :) Green, Yellow and Pink..oh yes!

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Lot’s of stencils used

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and smiling faces :) – I cannot wait to see how Karen will finish up this page …

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Awesome page by Cheiron picking up a page from last week and continuing with the new techniques- love it!

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The next Artvergnugen class will be about: Stencil Madness on April 25. There is a waiting list for this date. The May and June dates and themes will come out soon – Artvergnugen…it is what makes your journal a piece of art :)

If you could attend an Artvergnugen class by me…which medium or tool would you like to play with? We had Stamps, Mono printing and Spray Paints so far :)

Have a gorgeous day

Nat

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  • whyducks

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    Oh what lucky ladies and what beautiful work.

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  • Sue Clarke

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    I see the stones divided stencil which I just bought yesterday.
    I would want to play with Silks and Pan Pastels. I tried one color of Silks at a crop yesterday and can’t wait to play some more with them.

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  • Nurse Ratchet

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    Once a month, taking a class with Nat seems like heaven on earth,to me! Have a fantabulous time ladies!!

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CREATE Mixed Media Retreats in New Jersey

I am very excited about teaching at Create Mixed Media Retreat in Somerset, NJ. In 2012 I visited the U.S. and took some classes at CREATE and ever since I was dreaming of teaching at that event…so much to my delight…here we go :) (Yes…I am still excited about teaching…YEAH :) )

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ENCRUSTED SHRUBBERY CANVAS (6 HOURS) • NATHALIE KALBACH
Date & Time Price Materials Fee
Wednesday, July 9 • 9am-4pm $152 $15
Skill Level: Intermediate Technique: Collage & Assemblage
You will leave with… a beautiful finished home decor item and lots of knowledge of techniques that you can apply in future projects.
Description: We will create a wonderful home decor canvas using Acrylic Paints, Stamps and Templates as well as Embossing Media and create a one-of-a-kind piece of art.
Students Should Bring: Please bring 12×12 inch big stretched and pre-gessoed Canvas, 5-8 different colors of Acrylic Paints as well as Black and White Acrylic Paint, (Liquitex) Matte Gel Medium, (Liquitex) Gesso, a water jar, brushes in different sizes and formats, 6-7 cosmetic sponges, a water mister, baby wipes, a paper roll, a craft mat, a heating gun, an apron, scissors, palette paper, black permanent inkpad, versamark embossing pad

 

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TEXTURE HEAVEN ART JOURNAL (3 HOURS) • NATHALIE KALBACH
Date & Time Price Materials Fee
Thursday, July 10• 6-9pm $89 $25
Skill Level: Intermediate Technique: Printmaking & Surface Design
You will leave with… a finished texture art journal and lots of technique ideas for future projects.
Description: Create wonderful texture pages with monoprinting, stenciling and stamping techniques, encrust them with different Embossing Media and bind them together in a beautiful tactile art journal.
Students Should Bring: please bring 3-4 colors of not too thick Acrylic Paint- I prefer Liquitex Soft Body 4 pieces of lettersized sturdy white cardstock or sketch book paper, (Liquitex) White Gesso, Brayer, Rubber Brayer, Black Permanent Ink Pad , Versamark, Heating Gun, 6-7 Cosmetic Sponges, Baby Wipes
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IT IS ALL ABOUT LAYERS: ARTJOURNAL CLASS (6 HOURS) • NATHALIE KALBACH
Date & Time Price Materials Fee
Friday- July 11• 9am-4pm $152 $15
Skill Level: All Levels Technique: Bookmaking & Art Journaling
You will leave with… a load of knowledge about paint media and techniques and various finished pages in your art journal.
Description: Create depth and dimension by adding several layers with different paint and other media to achieve intriguing art journal pages. Learn about different media and playfully explore how to express yourself in your art journal. It’s all about the layers—so come and join us!
Students Should Bring: Please bring 5-8 different colors of Acrylic Paints as well as Black and White Acrylic Paint, (Liquitex) Matte Gel Medium, (Liquitex) Gesso, a white and a black journaling pen, a water jar, brushes in different sizes and formats, a fashion magazine, 2-3 cosmetic sponges, an old credit card, a water mister, baby wipes, a paper roll, a craft mat, optional deli paper, a brayer, an apron, scissors, palette paper, a heat gun, and an/your Art Journal. I use a Ranger Dylusions Journal but you can also use a Strathmore Mixed Media Sketchbook – whatever you prefer to work in.
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TEXTURE GALORE CANVAS (3 HOURS) • NATHALIE KALBACH
Date & Time Price Materials Fee
Saturday, July 12• 6-9pm $89 $20
Skill Level: All Levels Technique: Collage & Assemblage
You will leave with… a wonderful tactile canvas that serves as a home decor item.
Description: In this workshop you will create a stunning and unique canvas that will be a wonderful home decor item. Learn how to create dimension and texture with tissue paper, items of daily life, acrylic paint, lace, burlap, and gesso. Learn how to reveal the interesting and eye-catching texture with acrylic paints, art bars and acrylic inks and add some fun stamping techniques on top.
Students Should Bring: Please bring 12 x 12 stretched primed canvas, 5-6 different acrylic paints – colors you like, black acrylic paint, pencil, 2-3 sheets of plain white 12 x 12 cardstock, water jar, brushes in all sizes bristle and round, apron, cosmetic sponges, baby wipes, scissors, black journaling pen, White Gesso (Liquitex) , Matte Gel Medium (Liquitex)

Registration is now open and you can Register here Create Mixed Media Retreat in Somerset, NJ.

Hope I will see some of you there :)

huge hugs

Nat

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  • Amante del Papel

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    amazing!!!!

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  • Sue Clarke

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    Looks like a nice offering of crafty goodness.

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It goes on …Or Art Journal Page

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I do love this quote by Robert Frost:

In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:

It goes on!

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In my head I do know that…I just wish I would remember to feel that way every time something stupid happens ;) I think it is interesting though that oftentimes I set my heart on something, be disappointed when it doesn’t work out and then in retrospective I look at it as “oh good thing that didn’t happen!” I am a very positive thinking person but boy do I pout and scull if things do not work out- LOL.

Are you the same or are you good in shrugging obstacles in life off?

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Have a gorgeous day

Nat

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  • Sue Abell

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    Hi Nat, love reading your blog & seeing your work. You crack me up sometimes! Especially today where in your list of items used you included your finger! Too funny! Hope you are enjoying living here in the states now. I hope to someday make it to NY & meet you & Julie. If you ever want to come visit Florida I would be happy to have you stay at my house! I live in Cape Coral which is next to Ft. Myers which is on the FL west coast south of Orlando.

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  • Nurse Ratchet

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    Dahlink….do you mean pout and scowl?? This may be my new mantra…Life goes on ….not pout and scowl!!

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  • Amante del Papel

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    I love the yellow color, this one of my favorites pages!

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  • Michelle Salazar

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    THose words are so true and I to forget and throw a fit now and then that life is not going the way I want it to be. Then I have to remind myself that I am here to serve and that he knows better then me where my life is suppose to go and when I really look to see what is happening it is an amazing day and I am in an amazing place!

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  • Sue Clarke

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    I expect things to be a certain way and when they’re not I get disappointed. I pout for a bit but then realize that everything happens for a reason and life will indeed go on. Lovely quote to use on an art journal page Nat. I especially like the pink in the lower left corner as it brings “hope” to the page.

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Photos of Taste of Collage Workshop

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 Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and I taught our Taste of Collage workshop yesterday at The Ink Pad in New York City.

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We had an amazing group of 25 students – some coming from pretty far away and some are from the New York and New Jersey area :) In a way it reminded me a bit of our 2011 Mixed Media Circus Julie and I had organized in Germany …the room, the fun, the creativity…just not the temperature ;)

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We taught our collage class alternating throughout the day with the same supplies but with our own approaches in techniques and theories to collage. We have taught with this concept before and I do enjoy it every time. It goes pretty much with our philosophy that there is no right or wrong…there is just different. Just as everyone and everyone’s taste in a class is different…embrace it – as I always say.

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The other advantage of teaching with two teachers is that you can be VERY hands on with students during the class – even if the class is bigger. I love this. The personal interaction and being inspired by my students is my favorite part of a class and I had several moments where I was itching to get to my studio and play during the class (I was fair though and stayed- LOL)

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Teaching with someone else means a lot of trust and respect for the other person…I am very picky about my workshops – I put a lot of thought into them and I want to make people happy and have them have just a good creative, valuable time – so it needs to be someone I know is equally minded AND well it helps of course if you have a close friend being on the same page as you :) I just love Julie – with all her teasing- LOL – and I couldn’t think of any better co-teacher – Julie, you inspire me constantly and I think we make a good team ;)

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I think you can tell we had a great time – and we do hope our students had too. The collage results were amazing! Splish, Splash, Paint, Rip, Cut, Cover, “Killing Babies” and “Getting” over the Pretty…no problem for those girls! And what you cannot see in the pictures because we are good in hiding this all ;) – the heater did not work and we were sometimes shuttering our teeth and working with coats and hats on and using the heating guns as heating stations . Another thing that I admired about our students – they knew that there was nothing we all could have done about it and they just lived through it with a real NY/NJ attitude and created the heck out of their supplies :) You rock!

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Thank you also to The Ink Pad for organizing and having us- you are wonderful and I am looking forward being back this Friday for more Artvergnugen :) and on June 8, 2014 for a day long class called “Acrylic Media -Demystified” . It is a class I always wanted to teach in person…here is a sneak – all details will be up the next days on The Ink Pad website  and you can sign up already by calling the store.

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Have a gorgeous day!

huge hugs

Nat

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  • Mary Beth Shaw

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    I love that pic of you and Julie.
    Looks like everyone had a really great time. Congrats :)

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  • Jessica Sporn

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    I just loved the workshop. You are such a giving and supportive guide – I learned so much from you both!

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  • Nurse Ratchet

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    Now this class looks like it should definitely go on the road…..especially to Toronto!!

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  • whyducks

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    Wish I could of been there. How about you two doing an on line course together for us. x

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  • Sue Clarke

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    You are quite the team and the colors are hot in that art (even if you ladies weren’t)

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  • Seth

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    Looks like an amazing experience Nat — for both you and Julie and all those lucky people. I see many familiar (and talented) faces in the group shot. What a great way to spend a day!

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  • Jackie

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    I love to see what you and Julie do when you get together. Looks like so much fun, to bad I live on the wrong coast! Wish I could have joined you.

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Stroll Through The Hood

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A lot of times I get asked what inspires me. And one of my key answers is always “a stroll through the hood”. It might be street art, it might be thoughts or feelings connected with certain sights, it might be stuff I find to buy…in one way or the other you might find the photos, the thoughts, the feelings, the colors or anything from those strolls in my art journal, a mixed media project or a scrapbooking layout.

I would love to show you once a month what inspired me while strolling through my neighborhood. I hope you like the little insights into my daily life where I live . This is also a wonderful way for me to remind myself on the inspiring things in the hood. Maybe you get inspired by those posts and even invite ME to a stroll in YOUR hood – feel free to grab the logo and leave a comment for me on the post and share!

It has been a while since I did this….why? Because of this:

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and this

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perfect days to stay inside and work in the studio…or travel (NOT!) but sometimes it looked like this:

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and then I bit the bullet and bundled up to go outside ;)

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It was COLD- but I was rewarded with fun stuff like this

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Who could have PERDICTED? And then with a friend visiting you – it is even more fun to stroll through the hood :)

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Especially when said friends likes the same grungy stuff as I do …btw- I do love the background to this- it already inspired me to something :)

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And since they are big here on Security cameras…this is a good advice me thinks :) :) :)

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I do love this building- It will be in one of my canvases some time- I am sure.

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And a little view over to Manhattan…YES…we are the Sixth Borough…so there Hoboken…don’t even try to claim this…LOL (I figured a bit of local patriotism doesn’t hurt ;) )

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And an insane walk through snow and ice and wind chills in Liberty State Park rewards you with this view…

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I mean…all in all it is all about

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And as for Spring…well…gotta make your own spring at home I guess ;)

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Hope you had fun strolling through my hood – until next time…in J.C. :)

Nat

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  • Jan B

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    Hey! You can come stroll through my neighbor in PA anytime! I’m so excited to see you tomorrow, by the way! As I lay here in bed in the Jane Hotel (talk about eye candy – oh my gosh!), I can see your ‘hood right across the Hudson! Love seeing your strolls…

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      it was so good to see you again Jan! Thank you for coming <3

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  • Mary K. Parker

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    Thank you do much for the pictures and narrative of your stroll thru the hood. I don’t do much mixed media anymore but loved it at Art Venture. When taking your canvas class, I futzed around with materials a bit until I came up with a friend. She loves roses and calligraphy which were on one sheet of paper. I immediately selected it, and knew it was going to be for her.

    Your question made me realize that I am most of the time inspired by the people for whom I make things. Even cards. When it is scrapbook pages, generally it is materials and ideas for titles that come together. I don’t even worry about matching my photos to papers. I like all the colors together.

    Good question! But again, living on west coast, I enjoyed your stroll… you can keep the white stuff, though!

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  • laurajo

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    That was loads of fun. I just can’t imagine the cold. i am a weeny!! It looks like the antarctic! I still want to visit but I will definitely wait until Summer. Thanks for you inspiring stroll, braving the elements, even when you weren’t feeling great. You’re such a trooper.

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  • Leadonna Kimmel

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    Nat, thanks for the stroll! It makes me want to take a stroll in my neighborhood and look for some inspiration. It also makes me want to go to our downtown area and walk around with my camera and capture some inspiration there, too. We have a small downtown as Winston-Salem is not a big city but we do have some lovely architecture. Inspiration can be found all around us, we just have to open our eyes and look with our hearts and our creative minds. I’ve been meaning to tell you how much I enjoyed Creative JumpStart. I’m already looking forward to next year! Thanks again for the walk-about and some giggles along the way!

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  • Kathy P

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    So awesome….so inspiring….you have such a great camera eye! I love when you do this walk-about!

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  • LindaBrun

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    Thank you for sharing Nat and I can just imagine all the inspiration you would get from a big and interesting city like NY. Can’t wait to take a stroll.
    Hugs

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  • jackie

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    a great stroll! even if it was cold and windy! look forward to see that building in one of your pieces!

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  • Leigh Pogue

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    Nat, I really love to see what other artists see around them through their eyes! I think it’s ‘Über’ cool to do this sometimes. TFS this little stroll. What a view of NYC ! Wow. Very niceand btw, I so enjoyed Creative Jumostart 2014 with you ! I will def do it again. I promise I will get around to uploading my pics, even tho they aren’t great, they were very fun and inspiring. Thanks. Leigh

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  • Sue Clarke

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    It never ceases to amaze me that cool street art that you find on your strolls. Love the Native American and the Open Your Mind ones.

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Don’t Be Angry … or Art Journal Page

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I might have gone insane with the background- but I love it …and somehow it comes all together with the image and quote :)

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I might also long for spring…hence the colors! :) I promise – as soon as the weather gets better I stop pouting…I look like my art journal girl – LOL

Here are the stamps and supplies I used:

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Have a beautiful day

Nat

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  • jackie

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    I love it- even with your pouty face!

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  • Gypsy Chaos

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    Nice. I love the saying. It is so hard not to become furious with people who simply refuse to acknowledge, let alone accept, that today’s world is not the same as decades past. But the anger served no good purpose. Well if you have very low blood pressure, then it helps.

    What do you think of the Liquitex paint markers? I just saw them for the first time last week. I’m intrigued.

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  • ddhurlbut

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    Love the energy of this page! And I am feeling your pain about this endlessly miserable Winter. On the bright side, you were able to express it on the page and that is GREAT! If we chant loud enough, “come on SPRING!” maybe it’ll get here sooner.

    Peace,
    Donna

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  • Sue Clarke

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    I love this page. It screams anger! The red and the stamped images are just perfect for the page.

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  • Ruth L

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    Gorgeous spread!

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designed by n*Studio features: Cheiron Brandon

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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: Cheiron Brandon

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Cheiron has been stamping and making cards since she took her first card making class in 2004. She has been published in Paper Crafts Magazine and teaches card making classes at The Ink Pad in NYC and One Little Spark in Little Egg Harbor, NJ .  Recently she has started art journaling and loves mixing those techniques into her cards. By day, she works in the financial district and loves coming home at night to relax at her craft table.  She lives in New Jersey with her husband Paul and their adorable rescue dog Big Boy.

And here are Cheiron’s amazing cards using my stamps and what she wrote about them:

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I am always looking for different ways to use my stamps and I thought it would be fun to use them on cards. For the first one, I used the shapes to create a landscape to fit my tiny house. The circle became a “sun”, the dots “clouds” and the mesh type stamp was stamped in two different greens to create the “grass”. I used the stencils that come with the stamp sets to create the patterned paper that I cut the house out of.

 

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For the second card I used the burlap stamp and embossed it with some tan embossing powder. It is the perfect stamp to ground an object on a card without adding a lot of bulk.  The little heart was cut out of some scraps that I had made into a collage.

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For the last card, I created “a work of art” by using Distress paints in dusty concord, evergreen bough and tarnished brass to paint directly on the stamp. A simple greeting makes it complete.
I love using these stamps in my art journaling, but am also glad that they are so versatile that card makers can use them as well.
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Thank You Cheiron for sharing your wonderful cards with me. I so love how you used the in so many different ways, creating backgrounds, whimsical landscapes and grounding totally related to the sentiments on the cards. LOVE!
Please check out Cheiron’s Blog– she posts heaps of inspiring projects there and I am sure you will enjoy it!

If you have done something with my stamps or stencils I would sure love to see :)

Here are the n*Studio Product Cheiron used:

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Have a wonderful day!

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Nat

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  • Krista b

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    I love the burlap stamp and the embossing idea. I just added to my list! So happy to see your new products. Best of luck!

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  • Wida

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    Fabulous collection especially the second one, I love that gold texture in the background

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  • Gigi Desine

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    As you know Nathalie, I lOVE LOVE LOVE your roulette, round stamp…..it is so versatile, as we see by the card above….I never would have thought to use it as a sun!! Too cool! Thanks for introducing a new artist, great idea by the way……TTFN

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  • JJ Bolton

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    Love Cheiron’s creations! So much texture and detail! I have to say my favorite is the heart card. The burlap stamp on the teal paper is amazing! Just beautiful!

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  • Tessa Wise

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    Love these cards! Such a cool mix of textures! I’ve been eyeing these stamps at my local store- I think I’ll have to pick them up next time I’m there!

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  • Connie C

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    Great cards and I love the burlap stamp. It’s on backorder at the Stampendous web site. Are your stamps available anywhere else?

    Thanks…
    Connie C.

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  • Miriam Prantner

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    Loving these cards, what a great range of possibilities! The scene created on the first is so sweet, especially love how she created the sun, and I just LOVE that burlap stamp on the second. The last really is a work of art!

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  • Jocelyn Olson

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    Wow! Cheiron’s cards are amazing!! I love the different techniques she used. I’m off to pin that awesome heart/burlap one!

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  • Emily Leiphart

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    I love all three of these cards, Cheiron! Just wow. Each one has such amazing detail and creativity!!

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  • Jingle

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    These are awesome!!! I love the middle one super tons!

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  • Susanne V

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    Great stamps and so versatile!

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  • Sue Clarke

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    Love how she made it a sun. Nice and bright for a long winter.

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Encrusted Shrubbery

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Encrusted Shrubbery is a Canvas I did for CHA for the Stampendous booth using my stamps but it is also a new workshop for the next couple of months – it is so much fun do do!

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I will leave you with just a couple pictures of the canvas today – hope you like it :)

 

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I will also teach this workshop among others at the  CREATE Mixed Media Retreat in New Jersey – so thrilled to be part of it :)



Have a gorgeous day
hugs
Nat

P.S.  I have been pretty sick last week coming at a really bad time with one of my best friends visiting from Germany and having a workshop. I tried to tackle all…but… – I know some of you are waiting for emails and I also have to take care of the giveaway winners for CJS- it will all come- no worries but I am happy for your understanding that sometimes life  or the flu just gets in the way :)

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  • Kathy Gledsdale

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    So sorry you are poorly, get better very quickly. Fabulous canvas. x

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  • grandscraperona

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    Hope you are feeling better…flu is in America USA, almost everywhere!…tomorrow is another day…dont worry!

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  • Cath Sheard

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    Ugh :-( Hope you are starting to feel better. Busy and sick at the same time sucks…

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  • laurajo

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    I do love this canvas. Love all the texture and metal. So very cool. Aw, so sorry you’ve been sick. Fix yourself a Hot Toddy – Lemon Juice, Honey, and a good shot of Whisky! If it doesn’t rid the bug, at least you’ll feel better wink wink. Spring and warmer weather is on the horizon. Thank goodness.

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  • Gabrielle Fabian

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    Love this, such great color and texture!! Please come to Create – West Coast xx
    Gabrielle

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  • Sue Clarke

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    I especially like the colors and the metal embellies on your canvas Nat.
    Take care of yourself and get some rest, the other stuff can wait.

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  • andrene

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    This canvas is so cool!! Love all the texture. Take care of yourself!

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  • Ruth L

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    I love the canvas with your stamps, and all the details. It looks great!

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Fragmented J.C. Canvas

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The last couple weeks I was working on a new 27.5×31.5 inches canvas. I had back in Hamburg already created a Hamburg themed one for the other side (below) and brought an identical canvas so that I could do a Jersey City Theme.

I  cannot wait to hang the second canvas and I hope it will be looking as good up there as the other one. Lady Liberty btw ….I know you think NYC, right? pffff- no way…she is standing with her back to Jersey City…meaning she is in OUR yard…not NYC’s yard ;)

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I am up for another canvas this size…but I might have to rethink the wall spacing problem soon ;)

Have a wonderful day

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Nat

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  • laurajo

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    I remember the Hamburg canvas. Love them both…Lovely pair! You must post a pic of them hanging together :)

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  • nurse-ratchet

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    FabUlous…is there extra white accents to commemorate the worst winter in several decades?.

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  • gunvor

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    They are both great! I just love lady liberty and how everything seems to grow from her. And the colours are stunning!

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  • Deborah A. Pierro

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    I love your new JC abstract! Didn’t you sell the Hamburg abstract to your old art firm?

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  • Sue Clarke

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    Those two will look awesome next to each other. Love how Lady Liberty came out (with your view showing). You’ll just need to erect a few more walls in your place.

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