You might recognize this face? This is the fun and gorgeous Nathalie Kalbach from N*Studio. I was lucky enough to spend the whole day with her last Saturday at Everything Scrapbook & Stamps in Lake Worth, FL. That is only about 45 minutes south, so I was so excited.
I took two of her workshops. The first was her YAWP! Pan Pastel art journal class. I learned a few new ways to play with my Pan Pastels! Love my PanPastels, but I think I need some more colors. They work so nicely with tools I already have; stamps, stencils, embossing powders, etc. I didn’t bind my book, because I think I’m going to either add more pages, or add these to another art journal, as well as actually add more to the pages.
And the last class I took was a Season’s Mixed Media Canvas. This is a work in progress. I still didn’t add my title or my dimensional stamped images, because I have some other things in mind. So, I got the foundation and plan to work on this one and add my own finishing touches to it, but the longer I look at it, the more I am loving it. I will share it when I am finished, but I wish you could see all the texture in person.
Me and Nat being silly. We had a blast.
The best part was spending some time with Nathalie. When I meet my friends at CHA, we are usually all working and running around that we don’t have a lot of time to really sit around, talk, laugh, etc., so this was a real treat. I have to tell you that one of the main reasons I LOVE LOVE LOVE my job as a designer now is not just because I get to play in paints and glue everyday, but because of the people I get to meet in person and the friendships I am building all over the world. For a little country girl raised in Florida (practically her whole life), this is the BEST part. I can say that I have friends from Germany, Australia, Canada, England, Singapore, California (OK, so they are really still in the US LOL ), Poland, Africa and so many more places. Now, if I could just visit a few of them, I’d be checking things off my Bucket List.
Thanks for stopping by today,