Arabesque Stencil Blog Hop with Nathalie Kalbach

I'm really honored to be a part of todays blog hop showcasing the Arabesque Stencil designed by Nathalie Kalbach for Stencil Girl Products  I've been waiting with great anticipation for her designs to come to the market place and I know that you will love them as much as I do. Let's take a look at the stencil and what I created with it.

I've been playing with my Gelli Plate for printing and have a stack of backgrounds ready to go. I thought the fluid nature of the Arabesque stencil would be perfect for this already completed page that had parts that I liked and parts I didn't. I love this page now and love the richness of the navy blue acrylic paint I used.

Once completed I then turned it into a  Art Journal page background by scanning to my computer and then have printed at my local office supply store on 80lb. cover paper. I've been doing this lately and use them has parts of other Art Journal pages. I love the fact that I can go back and use this design again if I so chose. Here is the completed background and I have provided a link at the end of the post where you can download this page for your own personal use.

Here is how I completed the background page. I've been wanting to use this photo that my husband took of HIS incredible Clematis {does anyone else have a husband who gardens and calls the plants his???}. This background was the perfect page to display this photo.

Thank you for stopping by and I'm pretty sure you might find a GIVEAWAY over at Nat's Blog BUT...she tells me if you comment here too you will have another entry into her giveaway! As a matter of fact she will give you an entry into the giveaway for each blog you comment on--how cool is that! Nathalie will give away one Arabesque Stencil. 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 Nathalie will pick randomly one lucky winner. You have time to comment till September 25th, 2013 - midnight EST.

Blog Hop Participants:

Nathalie Kalbach 

Stephanie Schütze

Marjie Kemper

Maria McGuire

Here is the art journal background page 

for your own personal use.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Just want to take a quick moment to welcome Nathalie to the US...so glad you are here. Also thank you for asking me to join in on the blog hop fun...LOVE your stencils Nathalie Kalbach!