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Art Journaling Live 2 – Available NOW

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Soooo excited about this. Some of you might remember that in July I joined my friends Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, Dina Wakely and Mary Beth Shaw in Texas for a Art Journaling Live Workshop with 75 students. The four of us taught  different art journaling techniques and the event was recorded on video. Here is a little sneak peak

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You’ll love this art journaling video workshop if:

  • You missed the Art Journaling LIVE event, but want the instruction from the sessions
  • You are a fan of mixed-media artists Mary Beth Shaw, Dina Wakley, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, and Nathalie Kalbach
  • You want to learn exclusive techniques to grow your artistic skillset

Learn More about Each Session:
In “The Abstracted Journal,” StencilGirl Mary Beth Shaw gives you techniques for creating your own stickers, decorative tape, collage papers and more as you create an abstract art journal spread with unique component parts!

Complete two art journal pages with Dina Wakley in her class, “Random by Design,” as she gives you four fail-proof guidelines for creating an expressive, random look in your art journal without creating chaos!

In “Easy Lettering,”Julie Fei-Fan Balzer shows you ways to use your own handwriting to create more than 24 fancy lettering styles. Then, learn the best way to add shadows to make your text pop off the page!

Join Nathalie Kalbach for “Tooling Around,” in which she’ll show you how to create lusciously layered backgrounds by pushing your mixed-media tools to the max. Take part in a roomful of fun as you experiment with more than 10 techniques!
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You can now preorder the DVD set with 2 DVD’s with all four of us or download the videos right away.

If you only want to buy single Downloads or DVDs for example of my session – you can do this too  (but hey- get the whole package- it is so much fun!): Art Journaling Live 2: Tooling Around with Nathalie Kalbach Video Download
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For those of you who have been at the event: your complimentary downloads to the event will go out in the next 2-3 weeks !!!

 


Have a gorgeous day!!!

Nat

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  • Denise Spillane

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    It was a great day! I loved the class. Now I can get the video so I don’t forget the tips and process!

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Sign up for my Art Journaling 101 Class in NYC this weekend!

Just a reminder that I am teaching an Art Journaling 101 Class in NYC at Pratt Institute at the Manhattan Campus this coming sunday. Anyone can join – just call 855.551.7727 and register for PMFA506! You more or less only have to bring a book or watercolor paper and some brushes – all else will be provided!

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I would love to see you there if you are in the area!!!

Nat

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Wanderlust 2016 – NEW Online Workshop

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Super Excited :) In 2016 I am one of the teachers of a new Online Workshop Wanderlust 2016!

Wanderlust is a whole year long journey – an online event offering you videos from 24 guest teachers and 2 resident teachers one every week (each one downloadable and with PDF instructions provided), 50 amazing videos, which will run for over 50 hours in total, access to a forum with an amazing and friendly community, inspirations, challenges, discussions, galleries, workshops, giveaways and generous discounts from our partners. The perfect alternative to in-person classes!

Follow the teacher’s reveals every day on Everything Arts Social Media.

Every day somebody new!

As far revealed are: Kate Crane, Teresa McFayden, Rachel Greig, Beckah Krahula, Joanne Sharpe, Flora Bowley, Mystele, Andy Skinner, Finnabair, Birgit Koopsen, Lindsay Weirich, Magda Polakow, Carolyn Dube, Stephanie Schutze, Maryia Potapovich, Jennifer Lee and Leslie Wood and myself

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If you’d like to join us on this year long art journey click here for details!

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Cannot wait and I am looking forward sharing my tutorial with you and being part of this wonderful artful journey :) Hope you will join me!

Nat

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  • Kasia

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    It’s an honour to have you on the team! Thank you Nathalie for going on this journey with us :)

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  • Stampendous Stamps

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    Wow, Nathalie!! Sooo exciting! This will be a wonderful journey!

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Australia, Perth ! Mixed Media Circus Tour, 2016

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Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and I are so thrilled to add The Scrapbook Store in Perth to our tour in Australia next year. We will be teaching our 3-Day Art Journal Adventure Workshop April 1-3, 2016 there. You can register now!

Here is a little video about the workshop …our philosophy …and the circus you can expect ?

Or download this pdf which tells you some details and the timetable about our class at The Scrapbook Store.

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We hope if you are in the area you come and join us for the fun! We cannot wait to meet you!

Nat

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  • Joi@RR

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    So cute – you two will make your workshop INCREDIBLE together… wow. j.

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Australia ! Mixed Media Circus is coming to town

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Step right up for the World’s Grandest Largest Best Amusement Art Workshop coming to Artified in Victoria, Australia on 8-10th April 2016:

Mixed Media Circus: Art Journal Adventure!

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My friend Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and I will be co-teaching a Three-Day-Art-Journaling Workshop.

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Here is a little video about the workshop …our philosophy …and the circus you can expect ;)

Or download this pdf which tells you some details and the timetable about our class at Artified .

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We are super excited to come to Artified and teach the workshop -come and join us and sign up now!

 

Nat

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  • Julie

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    Are there any plans for you to come to South Australia?

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  • Jackie P Neal

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    I am so excited for the two of Nat!!
    Ever since you two did that collaboration together I wondered what would be next! I love that you two are both so individual but share so much in common and are both honest in your friendship- such a rare find! Congrats to you and Julie- wish I could be there “( ,but I will in spirit and look forward to reviews of your time there!! xo

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Thank you Jackie! Yes that collaboration clearly lead to this idea :) Thank you for your support!!! <3 have a wonderful day, nat

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  • Sue Clarke

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    I wish that this was my circus and I would love to spend time with you two creative monkeys!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      hahaha- Sue, we would love to spend time with you too – yours creative monkeys ;)

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  • Joi@RR

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    Hehehhehe – love that circus poster – you both look like such great athletic performers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST of all – the picture of the two of you together – it’s sooooo sweet. But hey…. lets not forget the FABULOUS video… dear me…. it totally makes me want to hop a plane and come!! What a GREAT GREAT INSPIRING video. So happy, so free, so fun, so encouraging – LOVE it. In fact… going to watch it again – SMILING Big. I know it will be a WONDERFUL time for all that come. Hugs to you both. j.

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      LOL- thanks Joi! We are very excited about this and cannot wait!

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Pratt Fall Mixed Media Classes are up – Come and join me!!!

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So excited about my new Fall Classes at Pratt School of Continuing and Professional Studies. With each new catalogue the Mixed Media section is growing and I love that it gets such a wonderful school for Mixed Media! Registration is open now! Here are my class details for the fall:

Art Journaling 101 – Sunday, September  27, 2015

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Mixed Media Collage – Sunday, October 18, 2015

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Mixed Media Printmaking – Sunday, December 13, 2015

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I hope I will see you there!!! It is going to be loads of fun!

 

Nat

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Photos of the Art Journaling Live 2015 Event

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Exactly 48 hours after I landed in Newark after my trip to Europe, I was back at the airport to head out to Arlington, Texas for the Create Art Journaling Live 2015 Event. After a mayor delay  and a pretty insane flight – which I add to my “gotta great travel story to tell ” repertoire I arrived late in Dallas. As I had a dinner date with my sweet friend Julie and Margaret and Jackie, I went by taxi right to the restaurant from the airport. Only…due to a major miscommunication, I went to the wrong restaurant in Plano and not in Dallas. Which left me alone and pretty much throwing a pitty party for myself and exhausted on a parking lot in the middle of nowhere in Texas. But good friends don’t let you hanging and so Julie, Margaret and Jackie drove to get me. In the end my very first huge pile of Smoked Texan BBQ Ribs and a good drink as well as lots of laughter made me feel as if the world was still awesome ;) Thank you girls <3

The next morning the event took place – and Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, Dina Wakely, Mary Beth Shaw and I taught some fun Art Journaling Techniques.

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We had 75 students and it was so much fun to see so many familiar faces in the round. Thank you for coming – that was awesome!

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The classes and the students were video graphed during the day and in a couple months you can actually purchase the whole event as a class DVD. I will keep you posted.

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As you can see we were sitting a bit on a high podest (here is Dina in action) – which was a bit awkward since we couldn’t walk around or move much- and if you know me I am usually bouncing around like a rubber ball  in my classes. But it was the way it needed to be for the filming. The students could see everything on a big screen and followed along and it was fun to see what they are doing too.

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We other teachers sat in the back of the room playing around in our journals.

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Here are Jackie and Margaret and Katie all named Margaret on their tags- which made me laugh big time! So wonderful to meet them!

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As I said it was awesome to see many familiar faces too – makes me always super happy!

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Here I am on my “throne” – I was really nervous before the whole thing, I have never taught such a big class and on top being on camera too – but then I forgot the cameras and kept on going …and melting…as you can see the huge light.

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And below is the reason why I never do manicure. I believe those hands looked good about 2 minutes on camera

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And here are the four of us after the event!

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That was fun! Thank you to all of our students,  Cloth Paper Scissors for having us and the fun video team. Thank you also to Liquitex for sponsoring the huge amount of acrylic media in the class kits and to Stampendous for sponsoring one of my stamp sets for the students!  I will keep you posted on the release of the DVD/Download :)

Have a gorgeous day

Nat

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  • Susan Schultheis

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    WOW! 4 of my fave artists. Maybe one day you will have your Art Journaling Live a little closer to Maryland?? I sure it was a fantastic everything.

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      That would be cool Susan. I would love to come to Maryland. Who knows :)

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  • Joi@RR

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    Welcome Home Nat! Dear me… you are off and running again fast! This was fun to see – although I hate to think of you alone in Texas at the wrong restaurant – ugh. Glad you were rescued :) You look GREAT on your throne!!!! Love the last picture of the four of you together – great smiles!! Looks like it was a great success. REST…. if you can! j.

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      LOL- thank you Joi- yep I am glad I got “rescued” ;) I did rest a bit after the event – and I am fully energized but a bit lazy now ;)

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  • Denise Spillane

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    I can confirm that this was a fun and fabulous event! I would do it again in a minute! The only thing better would be two days so we could have more time withe each of you!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Denise, thank you so much for coming! It was so good to see you and I agree- a two day event would be fab!

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Europe Workshop Tour- Part 8 – De Craftorij Workshops in The Netherlands

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After a couple days of relaxing, Birgit and I went down from the North of The Netherlands to Ede to teach at the De Cratorij Retreat. We had such a great time. We taught the same workshops as in Finland – a Mono printing Class together on saturday and then each of us an art journaling class on sunday.

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Thank you so much to Liquitex for supplying all the acrylic media for my Europe Workshop tour! That was amazing!

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Lia brought a lot of her store supplies to the hotel and it was pretty thrilling to see all those stamps and stencils of mine at one place – wowsers.

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so many stunning pages in the mono printing class

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and messy hands ;)

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this is our Saturday group

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we had a delicious dinner – and of course our table was the loudest!

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with Birgit – miss her already!

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we had mother and daughters spending a creative day together

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and friends coming all the way from Belgium

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we had a lot of fun as you can see

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and I loved seeing so many familiar faces too -it always makes me super happy to see students again – sometimes years later

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and here is Moreg and my sweet friend Marsha- which do not have a picture with – Hey Marsha, how did we forget this?

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Such a positive and wonderful group of girls – thank you all for coming!

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and then it was sadly time to pack the supplies up…and ooopsss – I guess I got some nice presents – Dutch Hagelslag with minions. Hagelslag are sprinkles that are eaten on sandwiches in The Netherlands. Thank you Helen and Sonja- they make me think of you every time I see the package and we are very excited here every time a minion falls out :)

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Thank you Lia for having us – you were a terrific host and we had a wonderful time with you! I cannot wait to see you in January at CHA in Anaheim!

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And thanks again to our gorgeous students- You ROCK!!!

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That was it from the Europe Tour. The next morning we got up in the middle of the night, drove to Amsterdam and I flew home. But traveling was not quite over yet- stay tuned ;)

Nat

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  • Paulien

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    It was SUPER !!!

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  • Joi@RR

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    You know what strikes me the most about seeing all your European Tour pictures Nat????? The fact that people all over the world “create” in the same way… doing the same things… smiling and forgetting their cares – loving one another. That probably seems like a strange thing for me to say but when you hear about all the challenges in this world every day – it’s just so refreshing to see how you went all over Europe and spread joy and love and paint! I love your art – you know how much I do. But I also love that you are such a wonderful Ambassador/Mentor/Teacher that can hold hands and love us all – worldwide… sharing, caring and giving across the world… what a great legacy Nat. I so admire you. Big hugs and big thanks…j.

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Joi – I love love love what you wrote here!!!! I would love to share this comment – it is so true! we are all create the same things, love the same things, care about the same things and want to forget the challenges in the world! Isn’t that a beautiful thing ! Thank you Joi for making my morning with this reminder!

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  • Morag

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    It was a great weekend and a whole lot of fun meeting you and Birgit!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      It was wonderful to meet you Morag! Hope I will see you soon again!

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  • Marie-Anne Raeman

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    I enjoyed every minute of it, thank you for the wonderfull reportage of a great weekend

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Marie-Anne- thank you for coming all the way from Belgium- it was so good to see you again!!!!

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  • Sue Clarke

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    Birgit has such a nice smile that her personality jumps right off the post page to tell me that she’s friendly and full of mischief.
    The photo at the dinner table and the group class photo are so wonderful. Thanks for sharing your adventures with your loyal fans Nat!

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    • nathalie-kalbach

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      Sue – yep- you got it for Birgit – super friendly and full of mischief ;) Good mischief. Hopefully one day I will meet you too and we will smile a big smile at the camera :)

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