If you close your eyes the rain sounds like applause.
I stenciled and stamped the background with acrylic paint. Using my Stampendous stamps and the included templates. Added a translucent yellow acrylic paint over it and then stenciled and stamped some more on top. The quote is written with a bamboo sketch pen and acrylic ink.
Here is a list of supplies :)
And remember – close your eyes when it rains…it might just sound like applause ;)
Journaling says: I am not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we make it all.
had a good time playing with heavy body acrylic paint to get a nice background texture. Used Flexible Modeling Paste with black over my Crackle Stencil and green Spray Paint over Jessica Sporn’s Leave Stencil. Here is a list of the materials I used:
Have a beautiful day!
Oh, this is lovely!
Flexible modeling paste just added to my list of wants.
Lovely colors Nat.
Coming back to Everything Scrapbook & Stamps in Lake Worth to teach classes from Friday November 14- Sunday November 16, 2014.
Friday 14, 2014 – Texture Journal – 6-9pm
Create wonderful texture pages with mono printing, stenciling and stamping techniques, encrust them with different Embossing Media and bind them together in a beautiful tactile art journal.
Saturday 15, 2014 – Artvergnugen – Art Journaling Class – 10.30am – 4.30 pm
It starts the moment you sit down, an experience that is distinctly Art Journaling. A quick exhilaration, a sense of control, the art media’s surprising responsiveness as if they were simply an extension of you.
There is a word for this creative experience: Artvergnugen ! Artvergnugen is what makes your journal a piece of art.
Join Nathalie for a one-day workshop and play with different art media and supplies. Learn techniques, tips and tricks to take your art journaling further and turn it into Artvergnugen.
Sunday 16, 2014 – Play Transform: Mixed Media Collage – Noon- 6pm
In this one-day workshop Nathalie will share her favorite techniques to create background papers using paints, stencils, and stamps. Layered up it will turn into a fun Mixed Media Collage. Nat will share her fun and easy peasy collage techniques, talk a bit about composition and make a sticky business a creative new passion for you.
I will bring loads of fun goodies and we will play with heaps of fun art mediums and materials. I hope I will see you in Florida – I cannot wait :) we had a great time last time I was at Everything Scrapbook and Stamps in 2012.
have a gorgeous day
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Comparison is the thief of joy – Theodore Roosevelt
It is something I have to keep in mind.
Here is what I used for the spread:
have a joyful day!
Awesome!
Quote to ponder and I often remind my 11-year-old son this because it is so important!
Gorgeous journal entry, Nat! The title is so true and one I like to use to often remind myself. Thank you!!
When the why is clear, the how is easy. – unknown
I love this – makes so much sense in so many parts of your life :)
Used Soft Body Acrylic Paints on the background and layered them adding gesso here and there. I also used some paint skins and applied them with Gloss Medium and Varnish – I love how they fuse into the background and yet add texture and visual interest.
Then I just stamped the quote with the wooden alphabet stamps.
Done :)
Have a gorgeous day!
Love the quote. It really does answer a lot of questions, don’t you think?!
As always, your art is so inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Yes it does Jean :) I take it as a reminder when I sometimes struggle on the things that need to be done ;) thank you for your sweet words!
Love the grungy effect!! And the colours are great!
thank you so much Ashley!
Awesome – love the texture! And I can totally relate to the quote :)
thank you Gunvor!
Interesting quote which I need to give more thought to.
Hope you have a bright day as well Nat.
I do Sue- hope summer is good to you!!! Nat
“It’s easier to succeed if you’re trying to fail” – Philip Guston
So very true – and something I tell my students quite often too – if you just enjoy the process and don’t care about the outcome – the result usually rocks for you!
I love using some of my left over color chips on my palette – I peel it of and apply it with Gel Medium – gives texture and interesting little color fields in the art journal. Texture in the background was achieved with heavy gesso through punchinella and then I painted over and applied again a thinner layer of gesso here and there to lighten areas up.
Here are the supplies I used for this page:
Have a wonderful day
Great words of advice!
Cosmetic sponges have changed the way that I play in my art journal.
Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you. – Paulo Coelho
I spray painted the background in brown and blue tones and lifted off some of the paint by pressing different household items into the wet paint getting a nice texture and pattern. I splattered some acrylic ink in white here and there and then adhered the clocks which I found in a newspaper with Gloss Medium and Varnish.
I like how the background turned out a lot – I want to use this technique more often.
Have a gorgeous day!
Love this! Your journal pages are such inspirational. I love that splatter brush. It must such great marks and textures.
Simply Fab!!! xo
is something a dear friend said many many years ago to me and I have tried to follow this advice in certain fields of my live and also told other’s to follow it ;) It is good to be the flower sometimes ;)
I created the background by using spray paints and then dry brushing them after they had already dried a tiny bit. I love the effect. The flowers itself come from some drawings on watercolor paper which I had done a couple months ago and then colored in with the Liquitex Paint Markers. I do love how you can blend them and create also a nice texture with them. I cut the flowers out and collaged them onto the background.
You see you can use other art work or projects and include them in your art journal.
Hope you are the flower today :)
Have a great one
Nice work. Good quote. Did you use the paddle brush on the spray paint?
Yes I did.
I used this before in a canvas- but I do love it so much- I wanted to use it again.
The texture comes from the masking tape underneath – I just scraped the paint over it to reveal the texture and then used a brush to add some orange marks here and there into the still wet paint.
The heart is a cut out from a deli paper mono print and I created the big black splots by using my beloved Liquitex splatter tool with black acrylic ink.
Here is the supply list for you:
have a wonderful day!!
the texture is awesome!
Very cool and gorgeous. Loving it.
I am so drawn to that texture and was happy to read that you used masking tape to get it. I have some masking tape. Creative play here I come.
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Sue Clarke
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I use the Mish Mesh round stamp all the time.
It is very versatile.
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