Greatest Challenges
Hi readers! Happy Saturday to you! I hope your weekend is going great so far and you’re getting out there to enjoy it! We’re pleased to welcome back guest designer Nathalie Kalbach to our blog for some more fantastic art journaling inspiration.
Enjoy!
Thank you so much for having me back again for a guest post. So much fun! I thought I would show a art journal page with a little bit of texture and some fun paint media.I used Derwent Inktense Blocks for the background and rubbed them over the paper of my art journal. Then I used a wet brush and blended all colors together.
I layered my Arabesque Stencil that I designed for StencilGirl Products over one corner of the art journal and started rubbing the Derwent Inktense Blocks through them. I dipped my finger into water and started blending the colors through the stencil
Then I stamped with black Archival Ink and one of my Stamps from my Wired Set with Stampendous several imperfect imprints onto the background.This really makes the colors pop but also ties everything together.
Using my Arabesque Stencil again, I layered it over some areas and spread some Liquitex Modeling Paste over it. I used a palette knife and scratched the paste thinly over the stencil -but you can also use an old hotel key card.
Once the Modeling Paste was dried, I want back over the paste with the Derwent Inktense Blocks and rubbed gently over. Using my wetted finger again I blended the colors on top of the Modeling Paste revealing the texture and design.
And last but not least I used a wooden alphabet stamp set with black archival ink to stamp the quote that I had found on Pinterest that day and that spoke to me.
I hope you like the project and you will try some of the techniques out.
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Thanks for reading today and thanks to Nathalie for this colorful & beautiful inspiration!
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Such beautiful rich colours and textures! A true treasure.
WISE words, GORGEOUS colors & textures – LOVE IT – THANK YOU for sharing Nathalie!!!
Beautiful page and lovely background… love the thought. Thank you
Stunning textures and awesome BG with a lovely thought!!!
Wonderful and truthful saying.
Love the sentiment and the intense…”inktense”…colors! An amazing job with all of the textures!
I like all the imperfection that speaks of real life…amazing piece of art.
I think that what you said made a bunch of sense. However,
thinkk about this, what if you were to create a awesome title?
I am nott suggesting your content isn’t solid., however suppose
you added a post title that grabbed people’s attention?
I mean Greagest Challenges | Simon Says Stamp Blog is kinda plain. You cold peek at Yahoo’sfront page and see how they create news
titles to grab viewers interested. Youu might try adding a video or a picture or twwo
to get people interested about everything’ve written. Just my opinion, it could make your posts a little bit more interesting.
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Beautiful!! I LOVE the journal page and the awesome colors!! ;)
Love this background!!!
Beautiful. Bright, vibrant colors. Great sentiment.
I loved walking through the steps of how you created these colourful, very effective pages in your art journal. Nice job.
Great page & colors! TFS ;-)
Wow stunning work!!!!
Beautiful words!
This is so bright and beautiful! TFS!
Love the textures and bright colors!
Wonderful sentiment and brilliant colors! Love the stamping with the individual letter blocks!
~kim
Love the beautiful, bright colors and the lovely texture.
Cool techniques! Love the quote!
This is an awesome page! I so need to start an art journal! :)
What beautiful colors, so unique. Thanks for sharing.
this is so lovely
I have the Inktense water colored pencils but now it looks like Im going to have to invest in the color blocks too!!
Love the colors, texture and the layout… Stunning work :)
Beautiful page and those COLORS oh my goodness!
My favorite colors :) The texture is awesome too.
What a gorgeous page! Love all the color and texture and the Title is a wise one. Thanks for sharing, Nathalie!!
Looks like a lot of fun to create!
Oh my goodness! This looks like a ton of messy fun and it turned out beautifully! Thanks for sharing your talent!
I love to see the paper coming alive when the paste is added and the stencil is removed.
Bright and cheerful journal page and I love the sentiment you chose. Thanks for the tips on the Derwent Inktense Blocks. I’ve been wondering about those and if I needed them. :)
like the colors and the use of the stencil.
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Love the quote
very pretty!
Very interesting design and colorful!! WOW!
Love the color and texture, beautiful work!!
Love the bright colors!
Beautiful! I love the intense inktense background–just pops!
Love working with modeling paste, adds such great texture. Beautiful project.
I love your art journal. This quote goes wonderfully with the first one you used. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful ! Love the textures, sentiment and the colors :)
Just goes to show that if you don’t mind a little mess you can make something beautiful!
Fantastic journal pages! Thanks for explaining your process!
Such beautiful colors and textures. I just love the sentiment she chose. Thank you for sharing you’re great ideas.
The sentiment is perfect and what creativity. Great job!
Great colors and texture!
Great colors and texture, love that texture paste for mix media works
Wonderful pages! Love the colors and texture!
lovely colors… beautiful mix of coors… love this!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Gorgeous mix media and love love love that quote!