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Stencil Blog Hop – Arabesque Stencil

Welcome to my 8th Stencil Blog Hop! This time I invited 4 wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and show case my Arabesque Stencil designed for StencilGirl Products. It is a 9×12 inch stencil.

And I give away one Arabesque 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 24, 2013 – midnight EST.

Edited : Congratulations

AMante del Papel you won the stencil- please contact me with your shipping information.

Here are my sweet talented friends joining me this time :

Arabesque Stencil was born actually the same night as my Elephant March Stencil – I wanted a nice background stencil to go with it and I so love how the bigger pattern of the swirl gives you the opportunity to get the coolest layered results peaking through :)

Check out some samples here:

Here is what I created for today:

I layered the stencil on top of a crazily painted background and sprayed over it with some Liquitex Spray Paint.

On one of my studio walls I had a couple wall tatoos which I had to take off and then I was a bit sad that I would loose them with the move and then the brain functioned and I added them to my art journal. So love that I could include them in a new function and that I will not loose them :)

Here are the supplies I used:

Arabesque Stencil

Liquitex Professional Spray Paint

Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paints

Liquitex Acrylic Paint Marker

Cosmetic Sponges

Spray Paint Mask

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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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Amante del Papel

September 30, 2013 at 1:08 pm | #

wohoooo ,thanks I winn

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Gail B.

September 24, 2013 at 3:32 pm | #

This is a lovely design. It would be lots of fun to use.

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Cat Graves

September 23, 2013 at 1:44 pm | #

This is a very beautiful stencil…another winner for you!! You have been designing a lot of awesome stencils and this one makes for an absolutely perfect background!! Thanks for the chance to win this great stencil!

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Deleted User

September 23, 2013 at 7:21 am | #

I love how the arabesque stencil creates the look of trees for the background. I can see many uses for it.

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Cocoa Daisy Kits Project Art

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My friend Christine has recently introduced an Project Art Kit into her Cocoa Daisy Kit Club. A Project Art Starter Kit includes all necessary items to start you on artjournaling and each month there is a Project Art Kit released. So love this idea and concept! I was a happy camper to be invited to play with the August Project Art Kit.

Yumminess -first of all it comes with a brayer…and if you know me…you know I tell everyone who wants to know or can’t walk away fast enough, that a brayer is one of my favorite tools. And then the gorgeous tags and the Ranger Distress Paints. But ok…let me first show the spread in my art journal I created

Grungy…as I like it :) Now…let’s see how this page came together.

I took the vintage savings booklet stickers and realized that they are actually like stamps have an adhesive in the backing, which you can activate with water. So I simply took a couple, spread some water on the back with my finger and then adhered them to the page.

Now there…better. I often times do things like this so that the terrible “don’t ruin the white page in my beautiful journal”-fear cannot creep up on me ;)

I took a water mister and applied some water spritzer to the paper in order to have the paint not soap right in. I used the Black Soot Distress Paint and spread it across the pages, making sure to no entirely cover up the savings stickers. Don’t forget to shake your Distress Paints before you use them – and do not squeeze them too tight, so that the paint is not leaking out on the bottom of the cap. It runs by itself no force needed.

After the Black Soot dried, I took the Wild Honey and applied it right over the black – you want to work quickly- as the paint shouldn’t dry.

If you are in a very hot or sunny area of the world- you might start with the one half of the book first and do the other half later.

Next I cupped my left hand and spritzed some water through the water mister into it and then flicked the water over the wet paint. You want to have the area not covered with the water drops dry and the water drops still wet- you can see this pretty well in light.

Then you take a paper towel and layer it over the page- press it down and lift off the water drops – which will also lift the Wild Honey paint lifted in those areas.

Now- how cool is this speckled look?

Next I took a couple rubber bands, took of the roller of the brayer – wrapped the rubber bands in a “kinda fancy” way around the roll and snapped it back into the handle.

I put some Antique Linen Paint onto a piece of freezer paper (you can use a palette or do it on a craft mat – anything that is a surface where the paint doesn’t dry too fast) and then rolled the brayer with the rubber bands through it

And then I rolled it like a maniac over the pages- that was fun – and I love the result :) It also lightens up the whole page.

I love using packaging stuff – and as the kit comes in these beautiful kraft paper bags, I stamped with the Cocoa Daisy Hybrid Ink on the Stamp – also both in the Starter kit on top of the bag and then cut the image out.

then I layered some of the travel die cuts, the rest of the savings stickers and the stamped lable and applied them with Gel Medium. As you can see I cut the tag apart, as I wanted to spread the words out more and also wanted to show more of the background.

I made some marks with the pencil and the sharpie which are included in the starter kit .

It ties the elements together with the rest of the page

Love the many possibilities of the kit – and how ever you layer the colors- the result will always be different. Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial for your Project Art Kit.

Have a wonderful day

Nat

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Whatevers Round 2 #3 or Sharing

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Sorry: This was scheduled for the 15th – but somehow it didn’t work – but now here it is! :)

Are you ready for the 3rd photo of the Second Round of Whatevers? If you missed what the Whatevers is all about or want to see all the past photos and takes…check it out here.

Click here to see what Cat, Vicki, Martha and Cuchy made out of the photo and which story they tell.

Here is my take:

Journaling:

They shared the same parents, passion for music and liked the same woman. No wonder they also shared how much they disliked each other!

I used Luminarte Silk Paints and Liquitex Spray Paints to create the background and used my StandUp Bass Stencil designed for StencilGirl Products. Love how it pops out.

And here is the photo of this month’s Whatever for you:

Here is how it works

Vicki, Cat, Cuchy (Carmen), Martha and I and I have made a one-year commitment to each other and picked twelve photos with Whatevers whom we will give a story.
Every month – if possible always on the 15th – each of us will do a post with an individual story that goes along for us with the same photo.
If you want you can play along and we will have the photo for you to download and show us your version of The Whatevers. The photo will be posted at the end of our blogposts- not on Facebook!
There is no rules to the story itself- it can be funny, sad, uplifting, breathtaking- WHATEVER
There is no rules on the length or the form of the story– it can be a short sentence, an essay, a poem or a soap opera – WHATEVER
There is no rules on the artform you choose – it can be a scrapbook layout, an altered art project, an artjournal page – WHATEVER
Here is a rule though: if you take the photo you have to link back to us and show us your story.
These pictures are from our personal stash and are for personal use for you only! If you want to use them for a publication whether a book or magazine in print or digital form please ask for permission!
If you want to participate we’ll have a linky list for each Whatever Post.
You can also join our The Whatevers -Facebook Page

Don’t forget the Discount for my Moving Celebration is only valid one more day!

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

Nat

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Necessary Ingredients in Living or Art Journal Page

Art Journal Collage Liquitex Professional Spray Paints Liquitex Professional Spraypaints Mixed Media Stencil Stencils

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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Wunder…or Art for Myself

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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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Stencil Blog Hop – What’s The Point Stencil

Art Journal art journal techniques Liquitex Acrylic Ink Mixed Media Pan Pastel Stencil Stencil Girl Products

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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Arabesque or…One more new Stencil with StencilGirl Products

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Ready for one more new stencil? My new 9×12 inch Arabesque Stencil that I designed for StencilGirl Products is in the house :)

I love background stencils- and I wanted one that is swirly but also a bit grungy…and this is what I came up with.

I had lot’s of fun turning this into a little spanish themed art journal page while teaching in Madrid :)

Arabesque Stencil	Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paints	Liquitex Professional Spray Paint	Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso	Liquitex Ultra Matte Gel Medium	Cosmetic Sponges
Princeton Catalyst Blades and Mini-Blades	7 Gypsies Collage Tissue Paper	Dylusions Creative Journal/Art Journal	Honey Bee Non Stick Scissors	Ranger Heating Gun

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huge hugs

Nat

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Whatevers Round 2 #2 or Moon & Sun

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Are you ready for the 2nd photo of the Second Round of Whatevers? If you missed what the Whatevers is all about or want to see all the past photos and takes…check it out here.

Click here to see what Cat, Vicki, Martha and Cuchy made out of the photo and which story they tell.

Here is my take:

Journaling:

He was good, really really good. No wonder he became the mayor of Stompville. He was able to manipulate people so they’d believe everythin g – like that they meant the moon and the sun and were the only ones!

I used my Oldtimer Stencil with StencilGirl Products and sprayed on Watercolor Paper. Then I traced a little bit with an ink pen, cut the car out- cutting off also the top of the car. I colored in the white spaces of the car with Derwent Artbars. I applied the three behind the car. Fun – It looks a bit comic style- collage ;)

And here is the photo of this month’s Whatever for you:

Here is how it works

Vicki, Cat, Cuchy (Carmen), Martha and I and I have made a one-year commitment to each other and picked twelve photos with Whatevers whom we will give a story.
Every month – if possible always on the 15th – each of us will do a post with an individual story that goes along for us with the same photo.
If you want you can play along and we will have the photo for you to download and show us your version of The Whatevers. The photo will be posted at the end of our blogposts- not on Facebook!
There is no rules to the story itself- it can be funny, sad, uplifting, breathtaking- WHATEVER
There is no rules on the length or the form of the story– it can be a short sentence, an essay, a poem or a soap opera – WHATEVER
There is no rules on the artform you choose – it can be a scrapbook layout, an altered art project, an artjournal page – WHATEVER
Here is a rule though: if you take the photo you have to link back to us and show us your story.
These pictures are from our personal stash and are for personal use for you only! If you want to use them for a publication whether a book or magazine in print or digital form please ask for permission!
If you want to participate we’ll have a linky list for each Whatever Post.
You can also join our The Whatevers -Facebook Page

Nat

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Stencil Blog Hop – Typewriter

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Welcome to my 4th Stencil Blog Hop! This time I invited four wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and show case my StencilGirl Products Typewriter Stencil. It is a 6×6 inch stencil.

And I give away one Typewriter 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 August 20, 2013 – midnight EST.

Edited on August 21, 2013: The winner is Lura Brown, Congratulations. Lura, please email me with your postal address so I can get this stencil sent out to you , Nat

Here are my friends joining me this time :

Martha Richardson: I know Martha now for some time- we worked together on a design team and she always blew me away with her amazing projects.

Maria McGuire: She is rocking it now for several blog hops- she is awesome!

Corrine Gilman: I discovered her because she is a member of the StencilGirl Creative Team and boy do I love her work – it is so beautiful!

Michelle Hernandez: Michelle is an awesome scrapbooker who makes me laugh a lot with her humor and who I finally had the pleasure to meet this summer in NYC

I designed this stencil because I love typewriters. When I grew up I had this gigantic old office typewriter from the 40s which I used to write my first novel on. The novel never made it to more then 11 pages, when it was replaced by a new idea- but anyway- I loved my typewriter. I am also one of those people that learned proper blind typewriting and I am quite quick and good at it – LOL. I bought a nice old one at a flea market and it must weigh a thousand pounds. There is a lot I connect with typewriters: vintage, office, notes, letters, work, messages….

Check out some samples I did already here:

Here is what I created for today:

It is a crazy art journal page ;) I do love to use random pages in my art journal and scrape off leftover paint, try out on an small area a little technique and often times I get this huge dimension and depth in a background which is ready to finish. I used the typewriter Stencil with some acrylic paint that stenciled through onto some marbleized paper.

I cut out the typewriter – added a slid through which I put a piece of canvas with with a “note to myself” tag and then mounted it on small 3D Foam Pads. The journaling reads “Seriously don’t take others or yourself too serious!”

I also love using the typing keys of the typewriter by itself for mark making -and you can see I did it throughout the spread but also around the pages as a frame.

Here are the supplies I used:

Typewriter Stencil	Circuit Stencil L161	Dylusions Ink Spray Funky Fuchsia	Dylusions Ink Spray Melted Chocolate	Dylusions Creative Journal/Art Journal	Liquitex Professional Spray Paint
Liquitex Acrylic Ink	Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paints	Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste Gold	3D Foam Squares black by SAby3L	Liquitex Gel Medium Gloss	Nat’s Stash…old/vintage/fleamarket

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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 Fun

Nat

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Dria Finn

August 18, 2013 at 3:03 pm | #

I just found your site through another site..love blog hops and how they lead me to wonderful inspiration! wonderful! love the blog hop!

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Cindy J, Holland

August 18, 2013 at 1:16 pm | #

Oh, what a lovely stencil! I am a secretary and also learned how to type at home on such an old mechanical one. It was painful for my smallest finger, because sometimes it slipped between two keys. Nice, colourfull artwork. Greetings, Cindy

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Marjie Kemper

August 18, 2013 at 1:38 am | #

This is one very happy riot of color… LOVE it and the typewriter is awesome as a solid sturdy base on top of all the rich layers of color.

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Lura Brown

August 17, 2013 at 9:42 pm | #

you just keep getting better and better. i love all your stencils but i have to say that this has to be one of my favorites, i have always loved old typewriters and you did just an awesome job making a stencil out of this one. i will go to all the other blogs cause i love seeing what they did with it and get to meet new artists that i might not have ever found besides thru you. remember we met at CHA last year?? i sure am hoping that you are coming again in january. would love to see you and of course give you a hug. thanks for doing these blog giveaways, i cant afford to buy much living on disability so it is uber cool to have so many chances to win. you are the best! much love. xoxo

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  August 21, 2013 at 3:12 pm | #
  
  Congratulations Lura- you are the winner of the typewriter Stencil- please email me with your address- so we can send you out the stencil! Nat
  
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textilerecycler

August 16, 2013 at 4:41 pm | #

Love the stencil! Some years ago I made a quilt from a photo of vintage typewriters. Would love to get my hands on that stencil and use it in some quilts too! Thanks for creating it and sharing.
textilerecycler@yahoo.com

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carolann

August 16, 2013 at 3:57 pm | #

I love typewriters too so fun to see them as art now!
I hope I win the stencil it would be way fun!

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AMante del Papel you won the stencil- please contact me with your shipping information.

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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

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