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Creative Ice Breaker – Morning Art Journal Play Video #3

In the mornings I play in my art journal to get myself into the creative groove and break the ice – so to speak- and get ready to paint. I recorded and fast forwarded my morning ritual for this video �� and hope you enjoy it. Take it as what it is – a morning art journal play- not a tutorial ?

Creative Ice Breaker III July 9 2016 from Nathalie Kalbach on Vimeo.

And here is the page you see in the video:

Here are the supplies I have used in my Creative Ice Breaker video above – some links are affiliate links.

Lilly Wallpaper Stencil	Whats the point Stencil	Elephant Parade Stencil	Nat’s Elephant Stamp Set	Nat’s Fashion Dame Set	Nat’s Mark Maker Stamps
Liquitex Black Gesso	Princeton Catalyst Wedges and Contours	Liquitex Acrylic Spray Paint Titanium White	Liquitex Yellow Oxide Spray Paint	Golden Fluorescent Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Pink	Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint Teal
Golden Fluid Acrylics Pyrrole Orange	Liquitex Indian Yellow Soft Body Acrylic Paint	Liquitex Red Oxide Soft Body Acrylic Paint	Liquitex Bright Aqua Green Fine Marker	Signo White Uniball Pen	Deco Art Media Medium Matte
Dylusions Creative Journal/Art Journal	Deli Paper	Palette Knife	Cosmetic Sponges	Honey Bee Non Stick Scissors	Spray Paint Mask
Butcher Tray	Fan Brush	Brayer	Nat’s Elephant Suite

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I hope you enjoyed the video ? Have a wonderful and creative day

Nat

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Debbie

July 15, 2016 at 10:05 pm | #

Nat, I love these little videos and I hope you’ll keep them coming! Makes me want to play in my journal right now!

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Jean Goza

July 11, 2016 at 1:50 pm | #

Just the motivation I needed this morning. Thanks for sharing.
Jean

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  July 11, 2016 at 5:39 pm | #
  
  YEahh – so glad it got you motivated- hope you had a fun day!!
  
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Joi @RR

July 10, 2016 at 4:18 pm | #

Almost looks like your little elphant is smiling – SUNSHINE family!!! Wonderful as always Nat. Thanks bunches for making my day! Xj.

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Susan Schultheis

July 10, 2016 at 12:57 pm | #

Had so much fun watching your vid today. Music fit perfect.LOL
I just have to get the elephant set now. Thanks.

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  July 10, 2016 at 1:05 pm | #
  
  :) thank you Susan – glad you enjoyed the music and video and the elephants :)
  
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ruthie

July 10, 2016 at 8:50 am | #

how do you contain the spray on the Liquitex sprays? I must be doing something wrong. I love your use of the layered stencils and stamps….I’ve really grown to love the elephant set and use it a lot of the time.

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  July 10, 2016 at 1:05 pm | #
  
  Hi Ruthie, I shake the bottle at least a minute before using it and make sure that the nozzle is free of spray. I usually have no problem with it, unless there is some dried in areas around the nozzle. Do you have that problem with all sprayers and caps? I also find that it is easier to control if you are a further away. If you are spraying very close you are spraying very forcefully to one spot but it will result in a big blot rather than a fine mist. I hope this helps a bit :) Glad you hear you love the elephant set- share with me some time what you did with it :)
  
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The 3 Stages of Change or … In My Art Journal Today

Art Journal Liquitex Professional Spraypaints Stencil Stencil Girl Products

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Lots of changes in my life and lots of changes this year …all of the old ones turned out gorgeous in the end and so I am confident this will be the same for the new changes – I am confident :)

For this art journal spread I broke out my acrylic spray paints again – I so love them. The Liquitex Spray Paints I used, are low odor, but you still have to work in a very well ventilated area and I usually wear a mask if I spray a lot. I had a background from an old paint-scrape-off paint, which I totally covered with spray paint, and layered over with the Art Deco, Circuit and some Alphabet Stencils.

While the Spray Paint was still wet I used the back of a brush and added some word scribbles. I used my old vintage sign maker stamp set to try out the lower case letters in there (oh man I love it) and added some white marks with a white signo pen and filled in some of the irregularities in the letters with black marker.

Are you good in dealing with Changes?

Here are the supplies I used for this art journal spread- some of the links are affiliate links:

P.S. If you are in the New York City Area – I am teaching an Art Journaling 101 Class at the Manhattan Campus at Pratt on July 16th! It is a very fun and great place to come for a class – here are the details:

Nat

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Rachel Greig

July 8, 2016 at 7:35 pm | #

Love this page Nat! :)

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  July 9, 2016 at 12:26 pm | #
  
  awe- thank you Rach!!!
  
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Joi @RR

July 8, 2016 at 10:24 am | #

Sweet sentiment and vivaciously vivid pages! Xj.

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  July 8, 2016 at 10:50 am | #
  
  Thank you Joi! Wish you a gorgeous weekend!
  
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Letter to My Future Self – Gwen Lafleur

Creative Squad Mini Book Stamps Stencils

It’s Tuesday again and time for my Creative Squad to share a project with you with this month’s theme: “Letter to my Future Self”. Throughout the month of July, the team will use any of my n*Studio Stamps and Stencils they would like to use to interpret the theme. This month’s theme is in honor of my recent 10 year (!) blog anniversary- which we will celebrate later this month! I asked the team to create something that they’d like to tell themselves in 10 years. Like a mixed media time capsule. This theme flips the “If only I knew then what I know now” sentiment up-side-down.

This week we show you Gwen Lafleur‘s amazing mini book and the advice she would hope she will have followed in the next ten years !

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For this month’s theme, I thought it would be fun to get creative with the “letter” part of the letter to my future self theme. I love to make books, so I decided that instead of writing a traditional letter and including it in my art journal (or regular journal,) that I would make a mini journal that would be the actual letter. I took a little time to think of my top five pieces of advice that I would hope that 10 years from now, my future self will have followed, and then created this book around them.

Letter to Future Self - Mini Art Journal Inside Pages - Gwen Lafleur

To start, I took watercolor paper and cut enough that after it was all attached, I’d have a strip that was 3″ tall by 24″ wide. I scored the paper every 2″ so that when it was done, I’d have a 2″x3″ book with 6 spreads. I pulled out some acrylic inks and just painted the background. (I did the whole thing at once instead of making each spread individually; I like the effect when you take a larger piece of art and break it down into pieces and I thought that would work well here.) I started with reds and oranges on one end and blues on the other and let them blend in the middle. Then I used more inks to add lots of blobs and splatters. I let that dry, then I used Nathalie’s Art Deco Wallpaper stencil and some gold pigment ink to start adding layers of color and pattern.

I followed that up with some stamping using designs from the Grunge and Marks stamp sets with burgundy and gray StazOn inks. I just used parts of each stamp to get some texture onto the page since I was going for an abstract look.

Letter to Future Self - Mini Art Journal Steps 1-4 - Gwen Lafleur

Next up, I grabbed the rubber stamp from the Urban Scribble set and used it with black ink. I moved it around as I went so that parts of the buildings would stamp. I liked this stamp set for this project because even though I wasn’t trying to add buildings into my design, the stamps have lots of great lines and pattern that are perfect for building up layers of texture. In the end you won’t even be able to tell what the original stamp was!

I followed that up by stippling some white paint through stencil that comes with the Urban Scribble set, then I used copper paint on the detailed side of the foam stamp – I only painted and stamped part of it because once again, I just wanted the lines. I stamped it in different directions to get some really cool effects!

Letter to Future Self - Mini Art Journal Steps 5-8 - Gwen Lafleur

Once that was done and dry, all of my background layering was done – next it was time to add the text. Since the backgrounds were so busy, I took some matte finish paint in a very light and fairly opaque color (matte makes it much easier to write on) and dry-brushed the center section on what would become the right-hand side of every spread. Once that was dry, I wrote out the advice to myself and added a scribbly frame around each section of text.

Last but not least, I made the covers. I basically followed the exact same process on these as I did to make the backgrounds – the only difference was that since I was using chipboard, I gesso’d them first. I also only added layering on one side of each cover; I painted the other sides with Payne’s Gray since they’d be covered up when I assembled the book.

Letter to Future Self - Mini Art Journal Steps 9-11 - Gwen Lafleur

I took a strip of sari yarn and laid it across the back of the front cover and glued it in place, then assembled the book. I just took my long strip (the text block) and accordion folded it and used the first and last flaps as the end papers – those got adhered to the inside of each cover. You could actually make this a 2-sided book and do each side of the paper strip, but instead I glued the back sides together so that it would function like a book with pages that turn. The sari yarn just wraps around the book when it’s closed so I can keep it secret and tucked away until future me is ready to read it.

Letter to Future Self - Mini Art Journal Covers - Gwen Lafleur

So that’s it! I hope you enjoyed today’s project and that you’re feeling inspired to find a creative way to write your own letter to your future self!

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Gwen’s book is so adorable and amazing – I love this idea and I love how she used elements of all the stamps and stencils to make it create some great design elements!

Gwen used the supplies listed below (some are affiliate links) as well as aStrathmore 400 Series cold-pressed watercolor paper (6″x18″ pad), Copper Distress Paint,scrap chipboard, calligraphy pen, sari yarn (from Darn Good Yarn.):

Maybe you will even play along with us -I would love to see how you interpret our monthly themes. Email me how you used my stencils and stamps with the theme and email me an image – I would love to share your projects in my next “n*Spiration From Around the Globe“.

See you next Tuesday for another project from the Creative Squad!

Nat

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Joi @RR

July 8, 2016 at 10:26 am | #

Precious and creative! j.

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- gwenlafleur
  
  July 12, 2016 at 5:47 pm | #
  
  Thanks so much!
  
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Michelle Rydell

July 6, 2016 at 1:40 am | #

Wow! What a creative take on the theme! I LOVE this! So beautiful and textured! What a cute size for a journal too!

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- gwenlafleur
  
  July 12, 2016 at 5:47 pm | #
  
  Thanks… I have to admit, I had a lot of fun with this one :D I’ve been wanting to make a journal this size for a while – perfect opportunity!
  
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Art Stroll: Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia

Art Stroll Australia Contemporary Art Museum Sydney

A couple of months ago, I was in Australia and visited a couple museums but I wanted to spread out the posts for you a bit- so finally I would like to take you on an art stroll through the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia.

Isn’t this an amazing piece? It was quite big – Noah Eshkol, Window to the Sea, 1975, Cotton, pique, satin

Noa Eshkol, Window to the Night, 1981 – cotton, cotton lawn, flannelette, twill, cretonne, jersey, percale, pique, poplin, satin, taffeta, repp with lurex threads, crepe fabric.

The material list reads like a “Who is Who of Fabric”, don’t you think? These pieces made me wish I was a sewer …I am not, but I would like to include more fabric and sewing into my work.

Daniel Boyd, Untitled, 2016 – oil, charcoal and archival glue on linen.

The details are just so amazing and I love the combination of classic charcoal drawing on top of aboriginal art.

Daniel Boyd, Untitled, 2016, oil, digital print and archival glue on canvas

Mesmerizing!

Daniel Boyd, Untitled, 2016, oil, charcoal and archival glue on linen

Boyd translates and re-contextualizes historical images and explores ideas of strength, spirit and aboriginal resistance while at the same time commenting on science, evolution and Darwinism.

“He uses dots as a veil to create scenes that appear incomplete, leaving space for the viewer to complete the story, and mirroring how history is partial and completed through memory and myth.” – Signage at MCAA

Nina Beier, Allegory of Charity, 2015 – ceramic cups, coffee beens, resin, wood, metal

Look at the crackle texture!!!

Gordon Bennett, Abstraction (City dweller), 2013, acrylic on linen

Gordon Bennett, Abstraction (Ntive), 2013, acrylic on linen

“These two paintings are part of a larger series that superimpose the faces of contemporary Australians over earth-toned figures bearing similarities to representations of primitivist figures in the paintings of late American Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat”. What a wonderful example on how an artist got inspired by a different artist, and translated the inspiration into his own cultural background and style – into something entirely new that only a little hint off the inspiration is left. I love this!!!!

Gordon Bennett, Untitled (dismay, displace, disperse, dispirit, display, dismiss), 1989, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Bennett is interested in the power of language and the way it shapes culture and identity.

Newell Harry, As Veneral Theists Rest/The Natives Are Restless, 2008, letraset, black and white gesso and ink on craft paper backed with interfacing, lights, beads, rubber, wool, wood, ceramic, plant fibres, metal, string, cotton, shell, transformer

This was such an amazing piece to explore visually – I did restrain from touching it- but it was very very tempting. BTW- this was the first museum where I actually saw two different people touching paintings and being told off by the guard. I had never seen this before but heard that this happens quite often from one of the Conservators at MoMA and I am just astonished. Tempting – yes – but big no no!

Tim Johnson Four elders, 1986, oil on canvas.

again so amazing to see the painting from further away and from a very close distance.

Wait…who is this goof ball in my pic? Awe- my sweet friend Julie- LOL. We had such a good time :)

These pieces on bark were just so amazing- I would love to have some of those hanging in my living room!

I hope you enjoyed the stroll and those images and materials inspired you :) have a wonderful creative day!

Nat

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Gayle Kush

July 3, 2016 at 7:16 am | #

I am a fiber artist and work almost exclusively in fabric and sewing. I follow your blog because very much of what you do on paper transfers over onto fabric wonderfully! I find a lot of the tips and ideas you have to be useful in my work. Especially your stamps and stencils!!! I paint on fabric all the time. You should try your techniques on fabric (with fabric paints if you plan on sewing anything) once. You just might like it!!!!

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  July 6, 2016 at 8:59 am | #
  
  Gayle- how wonderful to hear that you are actually work with fabric and sewing! You made me totally tempted to try out some new things with fabric- thank you :)
  
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Sue Clarke

July 2, 2016 at 9:28 am | #

Hello Nat,
Yes, I did enjoy the stroll.
I would love to be around when you and Julie hang out…I can just tell that you’re both having some crazy fun!
The dot painting are my favorites.
Peace,
Sue

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  July 2, 2016 at 9:50 am | #
  
  We would love to have you :) Have a wonderful 4th July weekend, Sue! big hugs,nat
  
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Find Your Tribe or … In My Art Journal Today

Art Journal Fiesta Stamp Set Mixed Media Stamps

Find your Tribe. Love them Hard.

I truly believe in this :) There are so many amazing people out there and they just get you, or your art or your passion and when you find them…love them, lift them up and be with them.

For this art journal spread I used mostly my stamps and the stencil with the man and woman silhouette in my Fiesta Stencil. I stamped and stenciled with a dark and light acrylic paint green. Once it was dried I mixed some gesso with magenta acrylic paint and scraped it in a thin layer using the Catalyst tool over most of the spread to achieve a glaze and change the color. This also creates some texture.

Next I used some yellow which I also mixed with a tiny bit of gesso to make it more opaque and stenciled again with the Stencil in the Fiesta set. I love the lady and the gent – they are so versatile :)

I wanted the under layer peak a bit through but cover most of it- hence the gesso in the yellow.

Next I used this stamp set- which I scored a couple weeks ago at a Jazz festival. Yes, you heard right. I went to a jazz festival and there was a tent with some antique stuff for sale and of course I was instantly drawn to these old sign marker sets. The smaller one with the colorful box is from the 50s and other one is a big set with lower case and upper case letters in a huge wooden box and is from the 20s – I am so over the moon – and I tried it out for the first time on the spread.

The set has a little wooden stick which is meant to be used as a guide to stamp evenly- as you can see…that only works when you do not move the stick (note to self: don’t move the stick ! ;) )

I added some white sharpie marks into the letters and outlined them with a fine acrylic markers. Added some dots- and voila …done :)

It was a great morning session which didn’t take too long but made me instantly happy as I played with paint, stamps, stencils and even new treasures.

Did you find your tribe yet?

Here are the links to the supplies I used for the art journal spread -(some are affiliate links):

Have a gorgeous day!!!

Nat

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Tracy Welham

July 1, 2016 at 4:15 pm | #

Wow, I love this! Great sentiment, fab colours and layout. Creative Blessings, Tracy x

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Stampendous Stamps

July 1, 2016 at 12:06 pm | #

Gorgeous page, Nathalie! Just love that stencil/template, those gorgeous, versatile, flippable heads are so perfect for so many projects! And the lace is just wonderful. Thanks for sharing!

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stephanie

June 30, 2016 at 11:48 am | #

I’ve got a small tribe. Working to nurture it. That type is SOO awesome.

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  June 30, 2016 at 11:53 am | #
  
  YEah- glad to hear. and yes the type is pretty cool – I am not sure how often one can find those sets, but I think they are not super rare, so maybe you score one too :)
  
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Sue Clarke

June 30, 2016 at 8:27 am | #

YES, I have found my tribe (or two) and I just love those words.
I think that they’ll be perfect for a canvas that I’m working on right now.

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  June 30, 2016 at 9:24 am | #
  
  yeah for finding your tribe and I love the idea to put this on canvas!!!
  
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My Own Drum – Michelle Rydell

Art Journal Creative Squad Fashion Dame

It’s Tuesday again and time for my Creative Squad to share a project with you with this month’s theme: “My Own Drum”. Throughout the month of June, the team will use my new Fashion Dame Rubber Stamp Set to interpret the theme. This theme is all about inspiration, creativity, and personal expression. I asked my squad to create something that celebrates the power of individuality. March to the beat of your own Mixed Media drum this month!

This week we bring you an art journal spread by Michelle Rydell . Michelle created a super fun outfit for her Fashion Dame and she colorfully marches to her own drum !

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When I saw Nat’s Fashion Dame stamp and stencil set, it reminded me of the happy hours I spent making paper dolls when I was a kid. I used to love to cut women out of the Penneys catalog, and make outfits for them. Did any of you do that, or was it just me?

Anyhoo, the theme for this month – “Marching to my own Drum,” gave me a chance to do that again! Here’s what I did…

My goal was to create an outfit for the fashion dame that was a style that fits my personality. I stamped her onto white cardstock. Then I got out my lightbox, placed typing paper over the top, and started drawing outfits to fit. I drew three so I would have options. (I used my pinterest style board for inspiration). I sketched with pencil first, and then went over the designs with a superfine pitt pen. This could get addicting! You can see two of the three designs in the first two pictures…

2. Then I started on the background. I first painted a quick layer of blue and green (ceramcoat craft acrylics), then stenciled a darker turquoise (dylusions) over the top, with the stencil that comes with the fashion dame kit.

3. At that point, I wanted to bring the background and dame together. First step was to create a ground for her to stand on, so I tore some text paper and pasted it on.

4. Then I wrote out the title with paint pens in a variety of colors.

5. To finish it up, I added a quote by Brene Brown, and a bunch of doodles. Her outfit is colored with Prismacolor Pencils, and I made her blonde (since I’m blonde) with a paint marker. Here’s the finished page…

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Michelle’s page makes me so happy- the awesome outfit and the colors- and my oh my her lettering- yum!

Michelle used the supplies listed below (some are affiliate links):

See you next Tuesday for another project from the Creative Squad!

Nat

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Tracy Welham

June 30, 2016 at 6:58 am | #

Fabulous! Love the colours. Creative Blessings, Tracy x

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Stampendous Stamps

June 29, 2016 at 12:49 pm | #

WOW!! Oh, my, Michelle! This is absolutely fantastic!! And what a great idea! Love how your page came out and the super creative solution you came up with! This has to be one of the most versatile stamp sets ever! Gorgeous page!

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Sue Clarke

June 28, 2016 at 10:25 am | #

LOVE the way you did the BEAT!!!
What a fun and colorful page.

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Julie Tucker

June 28, 2016 at 8:03 am | #

Love love love this! LOVING the colors and her outfit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Photos of Art Journaling Live 3

Art Journal Art Journaling Live Video

Last week I went to Arlington, Texas to teach together with MaryBeth Shaw, Jodi Ohl and Gina Rossi Armfield an Art Journaling Live Class which was recorded and will be available as DVDs and Video Download at the end of November this year.

I started with some Creative Icebreaker techniques and lot’s of visual and actual texture.

And it was fun to see what the amazing students created in this 1 1/2 hour with me.

All the while Aaron was being serious and filming everyone and everything ;)

Here is Amy Jones, our wonderful producer and you can see Jeannine Stein the editor of Cloth Paper Scissors doing fun stuff with Jodi in the background.

And here is Jodi showing off her hands to proof she painted

My favorite part of the day was that after I was done with my teaching, I got to play along in all the other classes and below you see what I did in Jodi’s fantastic class …I changed her awesome whimsical birds and fish up a bit and out came: Botox fish – I love them- they crack me up :)

Here is a view of the classroom.

And the amazing MaryBeth Shaw – so good to spend time with her too

and take her amazing layering and stencil class

I realize, I do not have a photo of Gina- grrr- but she was sitting right next to me

and she taught a really really wonderful watercolor class which makes me want to do more with watercolors!!!

And here we are – all four of us – relieved and happy that we made it- and super thankful for all the wonderful and talented students we spent time with on that day.

I will keep you updated on the DVD and Video Download but meanwhile you can check out the ones from last year and some others I did

Nat

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stephanie

June 30, 2016 at 11:45 am | #

looks like it was fab!

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Joi @RR

June 24, 2016 at 11:07 am | #

ADORE your botox fish Nat. Hehehhehehe – made my day!!!!

And what a wonderful array of FABULOUS photos. I loved seeing EVERY one of them. And the last one of the four of you together is so perfect. How fun that you not only got to teach but had some fun learning time too!

Thank you sooo much for sharing your journey. XXj.

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Denise Spillane

June 23, 2016 at 12:47 pm | #

Hi, it was such a fun day and wonderful seeing you. It’s fun to see the pictures. Would it be okay to “borrow” the first and last pictures for my blog. I will include a link to yours.

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  June 25, 2016 at 12:44 pm | #
  
  Hi Denise- so good to see you again- and of course you can use the pix !!!! have a wonderful weekend!!!!
  
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  - Denise
    
    June 27, 2016 at 12:34 am | #
    
    Thank you Nathalie. You are the best.
    
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Sue Clarke

June 23, 2016 at 9:42 am | #

Botox fish…LOL.
Great pic of the 4 of you at the end of the post!

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My Own Drum – Marsha Valk

Creative Squad Fashion Dame Mixed Media

CS June My Own Drum

This week we bring you TWO projects from Marsha Valk. Marsha gives us two super fun and colorful answers to the theme to inspire us today.

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Marsha June Headshot

At first I thought this would be easy. That I could do whatever I wanted. But then I read the theme again and… I started overthinking: My Own Drum… What is my own drum? Do I have one? How does it beat? Is this the right beat? Is this the right drum?! Who do I think I am, claiming a drum for myself!

The best thing would be to just shut off my thoughts… But not before I had decided that my project had to involve a couple of things: it had to have a recycled element (preferably cardboard), colours are important to me so I wanted to choose a colour palette and of course I had to use the Fashion Dame.

Long story short, this is what I created:

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(If you want to find out more about how I created it, check my blog post for last weeks Stampendous Summer Blog Hop!)

But then I turned my thoughts back on. And I thought: this drum is fine, I can definitely march to it, but… I think my own beat is messier and free-er than this!

So I tried again, using all the messy stuff that was already there on my table. I had been mixing paint, cleaning brushes and dabbing paint off onto a sheet of grey board… And I decided to use this sheet as a base.

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I cut the sheet into 4″ x 6” cards. I added more (leftover) paint and gesso to the cards, using a brayer, using stencils and a cosmetic sponge or an old plastic gift card and of course using my fingers.

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I had also spilled some embossing powder and I decided to use this on the cards, applying VersaMark through stencils, sprinkling the (mixed up) powders on top, tapping off the excess powder and then heat setting it.

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This time I stamped the Fashion Dames on vellum with Archival Ink. I didn’t want to wait for it to dry, so I heat set it.

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I wanted to machine stitch the Dames to the cards, because that’s something that I used to do a lot, but hadn’t in a while.

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Once the Dames were stitched, I coloured them in with acrylic paint, Posca markers, Pearl Pen, Neocolor II’s and I finished the cards off with some paint marker splatters.

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I love Marsha’s super juicy backgrounds and that she wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty in the process!

In addition to Talens Acrylic Paints in Deep Gold, Lamp Black, Phthalo Blue, Turquoise Green, and Quinacridone Rose, a sewing machine and thread, and an old plastic card, Marsha used the supplies listed below (some are affiliate links):

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See you next Tuesday for another project from the Creative Squad!

Nat

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Sue Clarke

June 21, 2016 at 10:43 am | #

Love the stitching Marsha!

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  June 21, 2016 at 5:01 pm | #
  
  Thank you Sue! So glad you like it!
  
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Michelle Rydell

June 21, 2016 at 8:39 am | #

Marsha I LOVE all of your projects! It’s so interesting the huge leap between your first project and the other three! They are all beautiful, but the last three really have your own drum in them! I love all the splatters and the stitching, and the colorful outfits!

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- Marsha.
  
  June 21, 2016 at 5:00 pm | #
  
  Thanks Michelle! Yes, I agree: the leap was interesting! I might have to do something like that again!
  
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Artist Quote of the Week – Lee Krasner

Artist Lee Krasner Quote

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stephanie

June 20, 2016 at 12:52 pm | #

what an awesome quote!

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Liquitex Freestyle Flat, Size 12 Brush	Fan Brush	Archival Ink Black	Signo White Uniball Pen	Dylusions Creative Journal/Art Journal	Nat’s Stash…old/vintage/fleamarket

Nat’s Urban Scribble Stamp+Stencil Set	n*Studio Grunge Cling Ruberstamp	Nat’s Mark Maker Stamps	Art Deco Paris Stencil	Daler-Rowney FW Acrylic Water-Resistant Artists Ink	Golden Acrylic Gesso
Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Paynes Gray	Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint Titanium White	Paper Artsy Fresco Finish ANTARCTIC Chalk Acrylic Paint	Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz Metallic Pigment Inkpad	Tsukineko StazOn Midi Ink Pad, Cloudy Sky	Archival Ink Black
Dina Wakley Ranger STIFF BRISTLE BRUSH 1 INCH FLAT Media

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Archival Ink Black	Nat’s Stash…old/vintage/fleamarket	Dylusions Creative Journal/Art Journal

Nat’s Fashion Dame Set	Delta Ceramcoat Paint Turquoise	Delta Ceramcoat Paint Gecko	Ranger Dylusions Paint Vibrant Turquoise	Molotow Paint Marker Neon Pink	Molotow Paint Marker Neon Orange
Sharpie White Medium Point	Sharpie Black Fine Point	Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens	Prismacolor Premier Mixed Media Set

Art Journaling Live 2 DVDs	Art Journaling Live 2 – Download	Colorful Backgrounds – DVD	Colorful Backgrounds – Video Download	Acrylics Demystified – DVD	Acrylics Demystified – Video Download
Raw Canvas Staining – DVD	Raw Canvas Staining – Video Download	Creating Canvas Texture – DVD	Creating Canvas Texture – Video Download

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Nat’s Elephant Stamp Set	n*studio Mish Mesh Rubber Cling Stamp	Nat’s Elephant Suite	Vellum Paper	Grafix Grey Board	Caran d’Ache Neocolors II
Viva Decor .8-Ounce Pearl Color Pen, Turquoise	Posca Uni Marker	Archival Ink Black	Versamark Embossing Ink Pad	Cosmetic Sponges

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