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Stencil Blog Hop – Elephant March Stencil

Welcome to my 7th Stencil Blog Hop! This time I invited 4 wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and show case my StencilGirl Products Elephant March Stencil. It is a 9×12 inch stencil.

And I give away one Elephant March Stencil! Comment here for an entry into this giveaway! And if you also comment on all the other listed blogs I will give you an entry into the giveaway for each blog you comment on–how cool is that! You have five chances to win it. Leave a comment on each of the listed blogs and on my blog and let us know how you like the projects and I will pick randomly one lucky winner. You have time to comment till September 18, 2013 – midnight EST.

Edited on September 23,2013: Congratulations Sharon Johnson – you win the Elephant March Stencil. Please contact me by October 10th, 2013 with your snail mail addy. -Nat

Here are my friends joining me this time :

Carolyn Dube wonderful artist and Stencil addict…give her a stencil and she does magic

Maria McGuire rocks the StencilGirl Talk blog and all kinds of beautiful projects

Marsha Valk Marsha my sweet and talented friend from the Netherlands

Jessica Sporn an amazing Mixed Media Artist and Illustrator who is soon an almost neighbor of mine ;)

WHY an elephant Stencil? I love elephants and we have a lot of family connections with elephants! My uncle Gerd used to work as a zoo keeper at the zoo in Wuppertal. His stories of the elephants always fascinated me the most. And as a little child my grandaunt Margot used to tell me the story of the Tuffi a female circus elephant who jumped out the famous monorail in Wuppertal into the river in 1950 (no elephant seriously hurt!). And I loved all kinds of stories elephant related…and Elephants can be represent so many things..memory, strength, mental strength, fun, intelligence. Need more reasons or an elephant stencil? Nope- LOL- ok…let’s continue on

Check out some samples here:

Here is what I created for today:

Loved working on this big canvas and applying layered stencils and collage elements and then spray paint – there is a lot of texture on this canvas.

So much fun how different all the elephants turned out

They make me really happy

Here are the supplies I used:

Elephant March Stencil	Whats the point Stencil	Crackle Stencil L169	Circuit Stencil L161	Liquitex Professional Spray Paint	Liquitex Acrylic Inks
Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso	Liquitex Gel Medium Gloss	Liquitex Acrylic Paint Marker	Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Paint	Liquitex Pouring Medium	Sizzix – Tim Holtz – Bigz Die – Alterations Collection – Die Cutting Template – Gadget Gears
Sizzix Big Kick Die Cut Machine	Cheese Cloth	Alphabet Stencils	Spray Paint Mask	Princeton Catalyst Wedges and Contours	Nat’s Stash…old/vintage/fleamarket
Prima Crystals	Eco Green Crafts Glass Glintz	Ranger Heating Gun

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Now hop on over to my friends and check what they did and comment for some changes to win the stencil :)

Have a wonderful day

hugs

nat

Nat

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Miriam

October 3, 2013 at 4:50 am | #

Love this elepant ,it is can be customed my iphone case ,it is magic.

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Elina

September 18, 2013 at 7:17 am | #

Love this elephant! I would love to use it on fabric – it would make a plain T shirt very special!

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Carmen Lucero

September 18, 2013 at 7:04 am | #

The colors you used on the stencil are fab!! Just like indian fabric. Thanks for the chance!

Carmen L

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Karen

September 16, 2013 at 11:48 pm | #

Beautiful, elephants are my favorite animals. I have a collection.
Thanks for the give aways.
Karen
matthews.karen22@gmail.com

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Rachel Parris

September 16, 2013 at 2:57 pm | #

I am such an elephant fan! I love your stencil and would, of course, love to win it.

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Betti Zucker

September 16, 2013 at 2:32 pm | #

Elephants! Wow! Wonderful! and Indian print ones…. fabulous

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Pattyb

September 16, 2013 at 10:21 am | #

love all of the different design elements in your elephant stencil! Makes it so versatile! Thanks for posting your work….love it! So hope you are enjoying your new home!!!!! and WELCOME HOME!!!! and oh yeah…thanks for a chance to win your stencil!

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susan reiser

September 15, 2013 at 7:45 pm | #

My favorite stencil yet! Maybe I’ll win something!, gfeat work, beautiful.

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Andrene

September 15, 2013 at 7:04 pm | #

I love all the designs within the elephant – great for dimension and texture! Another awesome stencil.

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marykay

September 14, 2013 at 10:57 pm | #

love this. love the morrocon feel and beauty of this piece. great stencil. I’d love to have it. thanks for showing us all this

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Cat

September 14, 2013 at 10:52 pm | #

Fabulous stencil. I love the elephant!

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Cindy J, Holland

September 14, 2013 at 4:31 pm | #

Thank you for that wonderful opportunity to win that great stencil! I like elephants, and this one is very detailed. That’s what I like most about it.

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Gunvor

September 14, 2013 at 8:32 am | #

Love the stencil. Like you say, elephants are symbols for soo many things. And your canvas is absolutely fabulous! I love the bright colours and the contrasting dark back ground that looks almost like a starry night! BTW, my German teacher in High School (Frau Brauer) often told us about the Zoo in Wuppertal and the elephants so it’s a small world ;)

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Pat Upton

September 14, 2013 at 3:59 am | #

I really love your elephants! Wonderful!

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Janis in ID

September 14, 2013 at 3:47 am | #

Love your project. The raised trunk just exudes so much joy!!
How interesting abt your family’s connection with elephants. TFS!
<3 J

jwoolbright at gmail dot com

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Renee G

September 13, 2013 at 11:38 pm | #

I love your elephant stencil. I too have an affinity for elephants. They seem so majestic. I hope you make a few more. Thank you

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Melissa

September 13, 2013 at 9:05 pm | #

This stencil has my mind whirling with ideas

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Gillian Pearce

September 13, 2013 at 7:53 pm | #

I’m really surprised at how much I’ve enjoyed everyone’s use of this stencil. I’m not normally that keen on animals but this stencil seems to work really, really well.

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Jean

September 13, 2013 at 6:47 pm | #

Love, love, love the elephant stencil! Love the way you have used it. Big fan of elephants–Roll Tide!

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ionabunny

September 13, 2013 at 6:02 pm | #

Great colours, great sentiment, great elephant

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Necessary Ingredients in Living or Art Journal Page

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I played a bit with collaging the background and using my Elephant and Arabesque Stencil.

I love how much texture and interesting effects the collaged flowers, die cuts, Fragments, Aged Embossing Powder and other elements added to my spray painted background and elephant.

The journaling says: Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it is a way of looking at life through the wrong way of a telescope. (Dr. Seuss)

Elephant March Stencil	Arabesque Stencil	Stampendous Powder Blue Fragments	Stampendous AGED GREEN Embossing Enamel	Stampendous AGED AQUA Embossing Enamel	Stampendous AGED BLACK Embossing Enamel
Liquitex Professional Spray Paint	Liquitex Ultra Matte Gel Medium	Prima White Flowers	Signo White Uniball Pen	Sizzix – Tim Holtz – Bigz Die – Alterations Collection – Die Cutting Template – Caged Bird	Sizzix Big Kick Die Cut Machine

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I hope you have a lovely day!
hugs

Nat

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n*Studio moves to the U.S. – CELEBRATION

In exactly one week we will be arriving at our new home in the U.S. The n*Studio will be packed in the shipping container in the next days and I will be offline mostly. But don’t worry..I have scheduled some fun posts and there will be also a blog-hop coming up with another nice giveaway next week. And then just cross fingers that the phone company hooks us up quickly again in our new place .

Lot’s of work lays already behind us – from cleaning out pantries, giving away and selling things that won’t fit into the container or are not allowed to be shipped to the U.S. or cannot work in the U.S., to cleaning bikes and shoes as no dirt allowed to be brought in, to lot’s of paperwork, getting the apartment here in shape and find a new renter. Our To-Do List got way smaller but this coming week will be totally insane, making sure the movers pack everything and properly, the labeling for customs , the cat getting a little ride to the vet for the health certificate,

the good bye party tonight and other farewells, packing 6 suitcases and a cat…well…LOL…let’s stop here …you get the picture and if not..follow me on instagram you will probably get some there ;)

While we are sad to leave Hamburg and our family and friends here- we are VERY HAPPY and excited to move to Jersey City and our family and friends there. One of you said in one of the comments that she cannot at all understand why we move to the U.S. Well..you know when you have a multi-national marriage – one of you always has to leave the country and be further away from their loved ones…and after 15 years I think it is my task now and I am very content and well with it and I cannot wait to work further on some really fun n*Studio projects there (wait and see) :) Home is where your heart is and my heart goes now to the U.S. plus…the world is so much smaller now…I see my family and friends already again in December and I tell you, if only half of the people come to visit us in the U.S. that said they would, we pretty much do not even feel we moved ;) …so that is not too bad ;)

So………………..let’s celebrate

Offer valid till September 16, 2013 11.59 pm CET. Coupon code must be entered exactly as shown at checkout and is case-sensitive. Final discounts will be displayed within the cart.

To take advantage of this rebate on online-workshop orders with a total over 10USD , here’s what you have to do:

Click on “Online Workshops” in the menu for “Workshops” or on the main Workshops page.
Find the workshops you want to purchase and add them to the cart.
Click on “Cart” when you want to check out.
Enter the code “natmoves” and click “Apply Coupon” to get 15% off on all orders total over 10USD

Thank You for celebrating with me !

Have a wonderful and creative day !

Nat

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Wunder…or Art for Myself

Acrylic paint Art Journal

Siri Skoog, Märta Ruus, Camillha Wäfors Fahlberg and Cecilia Ekström, have started an inspiration blog with great prompts for your Art Journal called Art for Myself. They introduce a new theme each month during 2013. The topics are about yourself, such as my thoughts on 2013, my family and my home, this is me, things that make me happy and so on. I am thrilled they invited me to play along as a guest inspirer this month on the theme “What makes me happy”

Wunder gibt es immer wieder – is a song which literally translated means: There will always be miracles

When I read the theme I thought of this song. So after creating the background- layering different colors and stencils I started the journaling which reads:

What makes me happy? That’s a good question…The every day wonders is the answer I would say. Like waking up with my husband and starting the day with a laugh and good breakfast, the cat acting like a 2 month old kitten, my work, colors and paints on my projects and my hands. My friends who love me as I am – their emails or small messages during the day. My family – always there- no matter what. Traveling but also home sweet home – the amazing world we live in – music, art, movies, literature – pretty much makes me happy. And the best

Wunder gibt es immer wieder.

So even when live throws you lemons, the next wonder to make you happy is waiting.

such a fun concept and if you need inspirations or prompts for art journaling- you gotta hop on over to the blog- it is wonderful!

What makes you happy?

hugs

nat

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Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys – Canvas

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is a saying that I really love..it is basically saying “not my problem” and often times the monkeys definitely are not mine ;) As you can see I used my Elephant Stencil for Stencil Girl Products – which just makes me happy. Also lots of spraying and layering on the background

with a finish of Liquitex Pouring Medium which gives it a nice glass like finish. Love the stuff.

Elephant March Stencil	Liquitex Pouring Medium	Liquitex Gel Medium Gloss	Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso	Liquitex Professional Spray Paint	Spray Paint Mask
Alphabet Stencils	Signo White Uniball Pen	Prima Pastiche Paper

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have a gorgeous day without any monkey business ;)

hugs

nat

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Stroll Through The Hood

Hamburg

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 the last one from Hamburg, Germany). 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!

While on a Beatles-Tour with a friend (yes…you gotta do some sightseeing in your own city) I actually for the first time realized the St. Joseeh Church in my neighbor-neighborhood St. Pauli. The Beatles started their career in Hamburg and it is said that Lennon once said: “I might have been born in Liverpool but I grew up in Hamburg.” Well…same for me- I might have been born in Düsseldorf but I grew up here as well…or so I think…snigger ;)

Actually I let you down a bit on photos of the hood- LOL- there will be photos of me in the hood mostly. I asked Andreas Muhme to take some photos of me in the hood as a memory- and we had a wonderful morning.

He always makes me laugh and do the worst faces…I guess it is a face of the hood ;)

Here is actually my bestie, former room mate and maid of honor Esther goofing around in front of our old apartment. We used to live in the yellow house in the background which back then wasn’t as cutely renovated and we froze a lot with wooden windows and had the ugliest bathroom you could imagine. But oh I loved this little place – lot’s of happy memories connected with it.

And just recently they put up these tourist signs in my hood. It is quite funny for me- because 20 years ago when I moved here, my family would anxiously call me because they heard bad stuff again about my area on the news and would asked if I was ok. Nobody wanted to live here, the rents were still low and now, the rent skyrocketed, and it is constantly changing – some things are good some things are not good at all…this neighborhood is tourist destination when you go to Hamburg. I made a joke when I saw the sign and said “I guess it is indeed time to go now” ;)

And so..this was the last stroll through my Hamburg Hood (at least online ;) ) …I am moving in less than 2 weeks. Packing up stuff, doing lot’s of paper work, sorting, giving things away to friends, seeing lot’s of friends every day…slowly saying good bye to this wonderful place that was my home for 20 years. But I am so excited to stroll through my new hood in Jersey City next month and I cannot wait to share pictures with you.

Have a wonderful day!

Nat

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Stencil Blog Hop Winners

That was so much fun all those Blog Hops for my Stencil Designs for StencilGirl Products over the last couple weeks so far. We had six up to now and two more are coming very soon ;) Here are the winners of FIVE recent bloghops– the What’s The Point Stencil can still be won – so don’t forget to comment there! ;)

Although I emailed all of the winners and also posted on Facebook – I still haven’t heard back from all of you – mhhhh????. So please contact me now until September 16, 2013 – otherwise I will have to draw other winners

Congratulations!!!

Oldtimer Stencil Blog Hop Winner: Gerd Anderson – I got your info already- thank you !

Circuit Stencil Blog Hop Winner: Dorothy McCarthy – please email me your addy!!!!

Crackle Stencil Hop Winner: Neija Zeugme – I got your info already- thank you !

Typewriter Stencil Hop Winner: Lura Brown – I got your info already- thank you !

StandUp Bass Stencil Hop Winner: Cyndi Cee Cee Studio – please email me your addy!!!

Huge hugs

Nat

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MEH or …Published in Prima Art Zine

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This layout was published in the My Prima Place idea art-zine Volume 8 . I used a photo from my fun photo shoot with Andreas Muhme a couple months ago. If you want to know what caused this Expression on my face – read my article “Definitely Not Germany’s Next Top Model”

The article was about the different uses of the Prima Distress Tool.

I would say I distressed the heck out of those Prima Products- LOL ;)

Here is what I used in detail :

Prima Distressing Tool	Prima Fluid Chalks	Prima SUNRISE SUNSET Corona	Prima SUNRISE SUNSET White Hot	Prima ENGRAVER Roulette	Prima SUNRISE SUNSET Flower Zipper
Prima Paper Roses	Prima Calcutta Leaves Burlap	Prima – Say It In Crystals Circles	Prima Typo Zippers	Prima LADY BIRD Alpha Sticker	Ranger Distress Paint Mowed Lawn
Ranger Distress Paint Picked Rasberry	Distress Stain Picked Rasberry	Tiny Attacher – Stapler	Multi Medium Gloss	Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paints	MyStik Permanent Adhesive by SAby3L
SAby3L – Black Foam Tape

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Hope you have a non-meh day ;)

Nat

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Stencil Blog Hop – What’s The Point Stencil

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Welcome to my 6th Stencil Blog Hop! This time I invited 5 wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and show case my StencilGirl Product What’s The Point Stencil. It is a 9×12 inch stencil.

And I give away one What’s The Point Stencil! Comment here for an entry into this giveaway! And if you also comment on all the other listed blogs I will give you an entry into the giveaway for each blog you comment on–how cool is that! You have six chances to win it. Leave a comment on each of the listed blogs and on my blog and let us know how you like the projects and I will pick randomly one lucky winner. You have time to comment till September 3, 2013 – midnight EST.

Edited on September 23, 2013: Congratulations to Jean A Marmo- you win the stencil- please contact me till October 10, 2013 with your snail mail addy so I can have this send out to you :) – Nat

Here are my friends joining me this time :

Jamie Dougherty: my wonderful mixed media artist friend from California- check also out her latest painted skateboards…too die for!

Carolyn Dube: who rocked the StandUp Bass last week already!

Andrea Gomoll: my super talented German friend from Berlin – we taught and organized a couple workshops together and she is one of my old Craft Mafia Gang Memberfriends;)

Marsha Valk: from The Netherlands who does AMAZING projects and photos and who I know pretty long now too :)

Maria McGuire: Let’s see what this talented lady does this week- she always surprises me with out of the box and cool projects!!!

What’s the point about this stencil? Man…there is never enough dots- LOL. I love dots – and I use them all the time to tie things together – and I love the possibility of a nice background with it. Check out some samples here:

Here is what I created for today:

I played a bit in my art journal -first creating a background with PanPastels.

Then I placed the stencil on top of the panpastel background and used an eraser through the stencil.

Here you can see how this erased the panpastel through the stencil. I fixated the background afterwards.

Then I added some old sewing pattern paper on top here and there and blended that in with some acrylic inks- as you can see..this lets the dots still shine through.

After spicing it up a bit here and there with stamps I used some Heavy Body Paint and applied this for texture over the Stencil too.

So much fun to layer it with different media to get some depth on an art journal page

Here are the supplies I used:

Whats the point Stencil	PanPastels	PanPastel Sofft Tools	Liquitex Acrylic Inks	Liquitex Acrylic Paint Marker	Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Paint
Liquitex Gel Medium Gloss	Palette Knife	Nat’s Stash…old/vintage/fleamarket	Dylusions Creative Journal/Art Journal

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Now hop on over to my friends and check what they did and comment for some changes to win the stencil :)

Have a wonderful day

hugs

nat

Nat

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ลиqεŁล

September 23, 2013 at 7:16 pm | #

It’s amazing, hugs

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Susan Brannon

September 4, 2013 at 3:27 am | #

So simple..and so cool..lots of uses..Thanks!

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Nancy Lee

September 3, 2013 at 1:21 am | #

This is really a super stencil. Love your piece.

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Tricia

September 2, 2013 at 9:30 pm | #

Great project, Nat – love this stencil and the colors!

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Marilyn Kaye

September 2, 2013 at 3:50 pm | #

Love the layering you created with your stencil. The bright colors are right up my alley!

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JudyG

September 2, 2013 at 3:22 am | #

I agree! There are never enough dots!

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Barbara I.

September 1, 2013 at 11:13 pm | #

Wow! I so LOVE this stencil. Thanks for a chance to win it and for sharing how you used it to create your journal page. Awesome techniques. I like the use of the Heavy Body Paint. Crossing my fingers!

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angi eharis

September 1, 2013 at 8:23 am | #

love these circles, especially everything you did with them! tx for the chance to win them, aloha, angi in hana

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Nancy Sapp

August 31, 2013 at 10:19 pm | #

Nat – Would LOVE to win 1 of your stencils!! And we can never have enough DOTS in our lives!

DOTS of love!
Grandma Nancy Sapp

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Cat

August 31, 2013 at 10:15 pm | #

I love the way you used the What’s the Point stencil on your journal page! And, the color are awesome! Now I have to own this one as well. If you keep introducing me to more stencils, it’s going to start taking a serious bite out of my paycheck!.

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Ivonne

August 31, 2013 at 10:00 pm | #

Super!

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Kathy

August 31, 2013 at 6:27 pm | #

Love the bright colors! Question: did you use fixative to set the Pan Pastels before adding paint? I rarely incorporate Pan Pastels because of the mess, although I love them. I’m inspired to use them!

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Trena in Naperville

August 31, 2013 at 3:18 pm | #

Very cool design Nathalie! Love your colors and how to you add splashes of color.

Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

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Jeannette

August 31, 2013 at 2:40 pm | #

Sorry for THE weird comment. Autocomplete made THE stringent words …

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Jeannette van Dongen

August 31, 2013 at 2:38 pm | #

Love THE work you did urinegewogen thuis stencil! Hope to win one ….

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Jeannette van Dongen

August 31, 2013 at 2:38 pm | #

Love THE work you did urinegewogen thuis stencil! Hope to win one ….

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Gillian Pearce

August 31, 2013 at 10:09 am | #

Love the look of that super heavy body paint. I’ve never seen it before. Looks perfect for stencils.

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ina

August 31, 2013 at 5:27 am | #

I’m just starting out with stencils. Love this one!

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Lissa

August 30, 2013 at 11:13 am | #

Love it! You can never have enough colors or stencils!

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Lissa

August 30, 2013 at 11:13 am | #

Love it! You can never have enough colors or stencils!

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