What’s The Point or…New Stencil with Stencil Girl Products

Ohhh I am so excited about this new What’s The Point stencil too because it has so many possibilities.

For this Scrapbooking layout I used my new What’s The Point Stencil with PanPastels. Beforehand I had also treated the paper with PanPastels, then laid the stencil on top and dabbed the paint through. I love how vibrant the dots become.

The photo btw shows my grand-aunt with I think some friends…I found this photo when I was moving her apartment and it made me laugh hard. I hope I can trigger her memory on the story behind this 🙂

It is a fun stencil to tie elements together 🙂 and I hope you like it

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have an amazing day

huge hugs

Nat

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Back in the Cove – Photos from Workshops in NJ

Last weekend I taught at Scrappers Cove in New Jersey, which was a lot of fun. I love this little store with lot’s of yummie products not too far away from my in-laws and it is always fun to come back to these awesome ladies

The classroom was sold out with 12 students in each class and we had a blast. It is always amazing to see students again – I just love it or finally being able to put a face to someone I have before only “met” online 🙂

First up was the YAWP PanPastel Artjournal class and they had lot’s of fun playing with PanPastels

 

The next class was the Portrait of a Lady class playing with Derwent Artbars and as always I loved seeing the different results, some are sticking to reality and some are going abstract .

Here is a portrait that a young über*talented lady in my class did of her grandma – Love it!

And here is a Portrait of two Superheroes 🙂

Thank you to all my students and Scrappers Cove for a wonderful inspirational and fun day! Hope I will see you soon again 😉

 

Huge hugs

Nat

Über*Media…all the way ;)

Über*Media is my series of online workshops that is dedicated to different kinds of media that cross a variety of materials. These classes are a reference guide for you, showing all kinds of possibilities and techniques using certain paint products etc. with different surfaces and media.

You can work in your own pace, whenever you want….and you have access to a huge amount of fun techniques, tips and tricks, tutorials, projects and art journals for years to come as long as they are online (meaning as long as I am alive and the n*Studio exists)

My new Class starts today:

Acrylic Paint Online Workshop:

 

Also available for sign ups are those classes – the whole content is already published.

Pan Pastel Online Workshop:

Check it out here

Gesso Online Workshop:

Check it out here

I would be thrilled to have you in any of my classes 🙂

hugs

Nat

Tired of being a People Pleaser – Layout

It’s been a while, since I have created a layout – and it was so much fun to play with the wonderful paper by Anna Dabrowska for 7DotsStudio, which I had for a while now.

Sorry- taken down

The idea to this layout came while reading  one of my favorite columnists – Harald Martenstein – he always makes me laugh. He writes with pointed remarks and often brings simple lifestyle problems to the point. This week the column for DIE ZEIT was titled: Many are suffering from making it right for everyone (freely translated) – here is the German article

 

one of the paragraphs that made me laugh the most was:

…You have to force yourself to be unfriendly. This is true in all areas of life. Lot’s of people are suffering because they wish to make it right for everyone. That is just something deep inside of you. Maybe it is education. In my opinion this is an unknown widespread desease. Doctors usually diagnose it with “Burn-Out-Syndrom” “Depressive Mood” or “Gastritis”. In reality though this is just caused by wishing to make it right for everyone. ….

 

Of course that is not, what causes Burn-Out-Syndroms etc. – but it made me think of how tired I am to be always the people pleaser and make it right for everyone- you just can’t , right? Even if you just stay in bed and do nothing, you make someone upset.  So this is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek layout… 😉

And please, please….No worries- I won’t be unfriendly from now on…probably tomorrow again just trying to make it right for everyone as always – LOL 😉

 

Supplies: 7Dots Studio Dream Paper, 7Gypsies Tissue Paper, Gesso, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, Adornit tiny letters, old watch, Structure paste, PanPastels, Derwent Inktense Blocks, Flearmarketfinds, Eco Green Crafts Stamp, Maya Mist

 

Do you sometimes get inspired by articles or books for a layout or art journal page too?

Have a gorgeous day

Nat

Creative Creativa Days…or how I just couldn’t think of a better title

I am back from the Creativa, Europe’s biggest Craft and Hobby Show where I worked at the PanPastel Booth. What can I say…I mean….playing five days with one of my favorite paint media ? HEAVEN 🙂

Just looking every day at those yummy colors first thing made me happy…color – you know how much I love color – LOL.

It was a really interesting – and I mean it in a good way 😉 – convention.

First of all we had a section where people could just try to the products and play – and it was just mind-blowing what they sometimes would come up with. Usually at conventions you either have a demo at the booth or/and Make and Takes. I like those too, but the try out area, actually helped people to either loose the fear to use the PanPastels at all, released an amazing push of creativity or let them just be lost in playing.

Another thing I enjoyed was the fact that there wasn’t just Scrapbookers or Mixed Media people drawn to the booth. Not because that would have been to boring, lol – no, no…. My favorite thing to explore was to talk to the people and figure out what they did in a creative way and how they visioned using those PanPastels.

It was sooo much fun and it opened my own horizon a lot too again. Sometimes you are so tight to the paper craft industry that you forget that there is a whole other world out there…There were Quilters and Patchworkers, Decoupage Lovers, Pastel Painters, Plaster Artists, Acrylic Painters, Graphite Painters, People that did Pottery, Wood Artists and so much more! The most exotic to me and funniest was the introduction on using PanPastels for Taxidermy. One later-to-become-a-customer was actually just strolling by accompanying his wife and he happened to be a taxidermist – someone who stuffs out and preserves animals. He saw me demoing, and at this moment I was stippling something. He stopped and the first thing to say was “I am not a crafter, I am not an artist, but I need to get an intro here” – LOL. So ..sure he go the whole introduction and he told me how he was struggling on mimicking the red area of the Pheasant. We were mixing colors like crazy and brainstorming on how to fixate it the best and there was one happy men going out of the booth with the right colors to mix. 

Here is Johannes, who was working with me at the booth all the days- such a fun guy, awesome and gentleman-like colleague and a hard worker – so happy to have spent time with him, I giggled a lot too . Johannes actually told me the first day that he is not really creative – at the end of the show he was explaining with lot’s of enthusiasm all the colors and how they work to the costumers (look at him going!) and he actually painted ! HA – but I didn’t take pictures! Isn’t that the coolest? Someone who thinks he is not creative starts just playing and enjoys the process. Seriously what is up with all of us thinking we are not creative? We all are- we just need to let it go and just do it 🙂 I was once again confirmed!

Another highlight was meeting a lot of people – here is Silvia. Fun to see her again.  I spent a lovely lunch break with Alexia – who I only see once a year and I so enjoyed it 🙂

Dani from Creavil came by for a bit 🙂 and in the background you see the booth of Karten-Kunst – so love the two running the shop- they are such a sweet and fun couple!

Here are two JumpStarter Anna-Lena and Jaine who currently live in Luxembourg.

Sam wearing wings 🙂

Here is Rebecca at the Prima Booth – she had awesome Make and Takes and we had a lot of fun together after the show and went out two times to dinner. We also had a wonderful dinner with the Lisbeth and Betina – too bad my photos didn’t turn out at all. Thank you Lisbeth and Betina for an amazing evening – you rock so much!!!!

All in all the five days were pretty busy, but we had a good time and enjoyed it and I learned a lot more about one of my favorite paint media. It actually didn’t stop me at all to create a brand new PanPastel workshop today, which I will be teaching throughout the next couple months 😉 Sneaks are coming soon.

Wishing you an amazing day…and don’t forget keep playing and get the creative juices flowing 😉

huge hugs

Nat

Sign-Ups for Über*Media Classes Gesso & PanPastel

In case you missed it – I will close the sign ups for the Gesso and the PanPastel Class tomorrow midnight EST.

The last lesson for the Über*Media Gesso was just posted – but you have 4 more months to check it out:

Über*Media Gesso

If you have troubles watching this video in this format – you can also see it here: ( I will always provide two options 🙂 )

I would love to share you some home*art that some of my students created for the class:

Cuchy aka Carmen Sanchez:

I love how the texture draws you into the page- amazing !

Eeva

I love how Eeva used this sweet photocopy of a photo of her baby to do the painting. I love that nobody can see she used a photo- awesome!

Mia

I love the background and then Mia’s awesome tissue paper heart and the flower. What a great mixture of all those techniques we used in lesson 1!

 Rebecca:

I love how Rebecca took all the techniques a step further for example on using a straw or sanding the metal after spraying it. That she used a soda can metal is rocking cool!!!

Riikka

These are gorgeous pages by Riikka- I love the weaving of page three and the amazing colors and texture of the first two ones- wonderful!

Ana:

I love the free approach to both of the pages and the awesome edge on the second. How fun that her son did those together with her – this rocks!

Here is the sign up information for the Gesso Class

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Über* Media PanPastel Class

• this workshop just started into the second week -yesterday – so you can super easily still join 🙂

You can watch the video also here:

 Here is the sign up and information page for the PanPastel Class.

I would love to see you 🙂

Nat

Prima Make ‘n Take CHA Winter 2012 – Tutorial

As promised I post a tutorial about the little Make’N Take Notebooks which I made for Prima Marketing at the Winter CHA 2012. It was lot’s of fun to be there and thanks to all that were there 🙂

I would like to give a special thanks to PanPastel, Tonic Studios and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L who sponsored products for my Prima Make ‘n Takes !

Sorry for some of the out-of-focus parts in the video- it was hard to do this today with the lights here and I didn’t want to postpone it for another week 🙂

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You can still sign up – it started last sunday and you can still easily catch up:

Due to popular demand and getting lot’s of emails asking about it, I decided to reopen theÜber*Media PanPastel Online Workshop earlier again. So as of now you can sign up again for this 6 week-long extensive workshop. It starts today on February 5th, 2012 – you have access to the classroom till July 31st, 2012- Check it out here .

If PanPastel is not up your alley  but are interested in taking an inspiring and fun online workshop, you can check my Über*Media Gesso Online Workshop which started  on February 15th and is a 5 week-long extensive workshop- also access to the classroom till July 31st –Check it out here. It is not to late yet- but for this workshop I will close the signups next week.

Nat

 

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Back from CHA and PanPastel Online Workshop starts sunday!

I am back from CHA Winter 2012 in L.A. – arrived this morning after more then 20 hours of traveling and the jet lag hits me hard today…just as you get you used to the 9 hour time difference you go back. But some yummie chocolate and tea keep me awake so far 😉

Before I show you some pictures of my trip to California (Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Park) I wanted to send out a reminder – the next Über*Media PanPastel Workshop starts actually this sunday.

If you want to learn all kinds of techniques with this amazing medium – this workshop is for you 🙂

Here are the details and the sign in info for this 6 week long Class

Über*Media PanPastel Online Class

I would love to see you there !

Huge hugs from snowy cold but sunny home sweet home 😉

Nat

ILU Card with PanPastels – Tutorial

A couple months ago I was asked to create some projects for QVC in England for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L™

One of the tasks was to create cards (man …they really got me LOL – me and cards 😉 )

Used SABy3L Products: MyStik™ Permanent Strips Dispenser, MyStik™Repositionable Dots Dispenser, Adhesive Sheets – 4″ x 6″ / 10 x 15cm, 3D Foam Squares – Black, Variety Packv/ Other Products: Kraft Cardstock, Pink Paislee 365 Degrees Collection Daydream Paper, Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Paper Collection, Graphic45 Letter DieCuts, Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology Dimensions Corrugated Elements, Corner Rounder, Paper Doilies, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glaze and PanPastels

Instructions:

• Cut Craft Cardstock – fold in middle
• Use corner rounders on all sides
• Cute rectangular piece of the Parisian Anthology paper and use corner rounders on all four sides too
• Adhere little circles with the MyStik™Repositionable Dots Dispenser to this paper
• Rub over with PanPastels
• Take off the circles
• Adhere with the MyStik™ Permanent Strips Dispenser
• Layer two paper doilies on top of each other and rub on an Adhesive Sheet
• Take off and adhere to card
• Adhere MyStik™ Permanent Strips Dispenser to the scalloped circle in a slow manner to have the paper strips unfold in a circle too
• Stack on the paper doilies
• Paint corrugated elements with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist, Glimmer Glaze and coat with some PanPastels
• Adhere two letters – I and U with a black 3D Foam Pad
• Fluff off the second paper doily on top to give it a bit more dimension

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Due to popular demand and getting lot’s of emails asking about it, I decided to reopen the Über*Media PanPastel Online Workshop earlier again. So as of now you can sign up again for this 6 week long extensive workshop. It starts on February 5th, 2012 – you have access to the classroom till July 31st, 2012- Check it out here .

If PanPastel is not up your alley 😉 but are interested in taking an inspiring and fun online workshop, you can check my Über*Media Gesso Online Workshop which starts on February 15th and is a 5 week long extensive workshop- also access to the classroom till July 31st – Check it out here.

Wishing you an amazing day!!! Here the sun is shining…almost unreal – LOL- but I loooooveee it!

Nat

Thank you – Danke – Card

A card for a friend saying thank you for something special 🙂

Eine Karte für eine Freundin, die etwas Besonders für mich getan hat 🙂

The background paper by Pink Paislee was painted with Pan Pastels. The Basically Bare Dressforms were embossed with golden Embossing Powder and the green one was sprayed with Glimmer Mist- while I attached thinned down teal colored acrylic paint to the second one

Supplies: Pink Paislee Paper, Basically Bare Dressforms, Ranger Golden Embossing Powder, Golden Acrylic Paint, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Rose Moka Sticker Letters.

Thanks for coming by today 🙂

Danke fürs Vorbeischauen heute 🙂

Products used:

Basically Bare	Pink Paislee	Writer Stamp
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist	PanPastels	Ranger Golden Embossing Powder

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