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Stencil Blog Hop – Arabesque Stencil

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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.

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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 :

Stephanie Schütze

Marjie Kemper

Martha Richardson

Maria McGuire

 

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:

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Here is what I created for today:

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

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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 :)

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Here are the supplies I used:

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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 :)

Stephanie Schütze

Marjie Kemper

Martha Richardson

Maria McGuire

 

Have a wonderful day

hugs

nat


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  • Gail B.

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

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  • Cat Graves

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    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

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    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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Stencil Blog Hop – Elephant March Stencil

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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.

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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:

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Here is what I created for today:

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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.

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So much fun how different all the elephants turned out

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They make me really happy

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Here are the supplies I used:

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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 :)

Carolyn Dube

Maria McGuire

Marsha Valk

Jessica Sporn

Have a wonderful day

hugs

nat


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  • Miriam

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

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  • Elina

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    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

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

    Carmen L

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  • Karen

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    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

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

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  • Betti Zucker

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

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  • Pattyb

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    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

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

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  • Andrene

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

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  • marykay

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    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

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    Fabulous stencil. I love the elephant!

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  • Cindy J, Holland

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    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

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    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

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    I really love your elephants! Wonderful!

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  • Janis in ID

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    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

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    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

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    This stencil has my mind whirling with ideas

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  • Gillian Pearce

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    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

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

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  • ionabunny

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    Great colours, great sentiment, great elephant

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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

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

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have a gorgeous day without any monkey business ;)

hugs

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.

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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:

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Here is what I created for today:

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Here are the supplies I used:

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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 :)

Jamie Dougherty

Carolyn Dube

Andrea Gomoll

Marsha Valk

Maria McGuire

 

Have a wonderful day

hugs

nat


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  • Susan Brannon

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

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  • Nancy Lee

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    This is really a super stencil. Love your piece.

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  • Tricia

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

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  • Marilyn Kaye

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

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  • JudyG

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    I agree! There are never enough dots!

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  • Barbara I.

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Super!

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  • Kathy

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    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

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    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

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

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  • Jeannette van Dongen

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

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  • Jeannette van Dongen

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

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  • Gillian Pearce

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

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  • ina

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

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  • Lissa

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

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  • Lissa

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

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Stencil Blog Hop – Stand Up Bass

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Welcome to my 5th Stencil  Blog Hop! This time I invited 5 wonderful artist friends to hop along with me and show case my 6×6 inch StencilGirl Products StandUp Bass Stencil.

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And I give away one StandUp Bass 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 August 27, 2013 – midnight EST.

Edited on August 31, 2013: The winner is Cyndi from CeeCee Studio, Congratulations. Cindy, please email me with your postal address so I can get this stencil sent out to you :) , Nat

 

Edited September 23, 2013: Although I tried hard to get the winner’s addy – I never heard back. I will do a new drawing from a different post soon as I am sure someone else will be happy to receive the stencil :)

Here are my friends joining me this time :

Louise Nelson: My rocking friend from Australia- cannot wait myself to see what she has up her sleeves this time :)

Carmen Sanchez: Cuchy always has the most fun ideas – she is a wonderful artist from Madrid, Spain

Carolyn Dube: rocks the stencils on the StencilGirl Products Creative Team!

Michelle Hernandez: did a wonderful project last week already with my typewriter stencil- I cannot wait what this amazing Scrapbooker is doing this week

Maria McGuire: another stencil queen and the Creative Team Leader at StencilGirl Products

 

Why a StandUp Bass? Well…that is what I see when I walk into my husband’s music room next to my studio. I love this instrument. It is massive and beautiful and I love the sound of it too. I thought it can represent so many things like music, art, harmony, it is a good birthday card theme etc.

Here is what I created for today:

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This is a gift card holder. I created it using two manila tags and here is how:

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Starting with Tag 1

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After you used the chalk through the stencil on tag one- you have a lot of access of chalk on top of the stencil

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and here is the other side of the gift card holder after spicing it up with some fun stamps etc.

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Here are the supplies I used:

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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 :)

Louise Nelson

Carmen Sanchez

Carolyn Dube

Michelle Hernandez

Maria McGuire

 

Have Fun

Nat

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  • Nancy Sapp

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    Nat – LOVE your stencils! You’re so talented. Would LOVE to win any of them! I hope U pick my name…
    Grandma Nancy Sapp

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  • Carmen Lucero

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    Nat, it looks like I just commented, but it was back in August. Thanks for the second chance to win the cello. I love the technique you used of double stenciling!

    Carmen L
    cal8007 at aol dot com

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  • Susan Stimson

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    Love the techniques! I especially like how the bass looks when using a second color and offsetting it a little and stamping.

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  • Carmen Lucero

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    What an amazing technique, Nat! I believe in not wasting anything! Love the gift tag and the stencil for what it stands for!

    Hugs,
    Carmen L

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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 :)

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

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

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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 CatVickiMartha and Cuchy made out of the photo and which story they tell.

Here is my take:

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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!

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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:

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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

 

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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.

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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:

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Here is what I created for today:

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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.

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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.

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Here are the supplies I used:

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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 :)

Martha Richardson

Maria McGuire

Corrine Gilman

Michelle Hernandez

 

Have Fun

Nat

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  • Dria Finn

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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      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

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    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

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    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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Elephant March or…New Stencil with StencilGirl Products

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So excited about my new 9×121 inch stencil called Elephant March that I designed for StencilGirl Products (and yes- the art journal page is called elephant waltz ;) )

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I do love elephants and I had such a blast creating this stencil. I also wanted the pattern of the elephant blanket to be possibly used just as is – so it is like a two in one stencil.

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You can also get a peak at another stencil I just released in the background ;) but more about it later.

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