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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Beautiful colors and a great quote
Gorgeous! Love the brilliant colours and the beautiful textures! Really captures the spirit of the lovely quote!
Beautiful project, love the colours! x
I really like the colors & techniques used in this project.
Very creative and
beautiful work.
Carla from Utah
Wow! So colorful!!
Fantastic colours. Must get my journal out!
What amazing techniques and colors–thanks for sharing today!
Wow! It never comes out that pretty when I do it! LOL!
While I don’t make art journals myself, I like to look at them…thank you!
Wonderful pages. I love all the color and texture.
Gorgeous journal pages! The colours are uplifting and the quote, insightful!
Wow, fab colours. Love the sentiment. Hugz
Very interesting look! Not exactly my style, but it looks quite interesting.
Love your page Nat, great colour and techniques.
Beautiful project and inspiration!!
Beautiful art journal work. I love the stencils, plus all your color choices. Michelle t
What a wonderful background. Love that stencil
love the quote, great page love all the texture
I have to try this! Thanks.
Great Art journaling page! Thanks for the inspiration! God bless~
Wow, the colors and texture on this are amazing!
Neat colors and textures. TFS
Great saying and love the color choices!
I love the bright and vivid colors that you used on your journaling page. I also like the quote that you stamped on your pages.
Nathalie definitely puts the Art in art journal. So fun to see her process and technique.
I am loving the look of mixed media! I just got my jar of paste and am anxious to try it out! Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome! Love the Modeling Paste… have to try it!
Love the colorful and textured background. TFS
Great tutorial. Those Inktense blocks are fascinating me.
Beautiful! Wonderful coordination between the colors, textures and quote! Great inspiration!
Beautiful colors to match a beautiful quote
Gorgeous!!!!!
<3 J
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The colors ate awesome
Wow, what a fabulously colourful project :)
Beautiful.
A colorful project ! Very bright, Bravo Nathalie !
Like the mix of colors. Good inspiration to start my day.
Beautiful! Great quote, also.
Such vibrant colors and the quote is a good one! Love that stencil!!!
Artsy w/ wonderful color, dimension & texture. Not tried this before.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
The intensity of those colors – wow. Makes me want to get and play with those right now.
So pretty! Love the blend of colors and the verse is so true.
Love all the texture here!
Lots of colour here! Great quote.
Such a gorgeous art journal!!!! I love all the colors that you used!!
I love the colorful background! What a great project!
Really colourful and a great quote.
Nathalie’s page is stunning!! I love this technique and the bright colours she used
This is so vibrant and beautiful! Love seeing art journal pages.