 Hi guys. If you've been following me on social media then you know already that I've been loving creating my own embellishments. The altered paper clips, the tags, sewn embellish, all kinds of things. I'm really enjoying making my own right now and whether it's printing things and then making stickers out of them. Some of which are available yes in my Etsy shop or it is using my rubber stamp line to stamp images on paper, color them and cut them out. Using some of my homemade stamps and this just is one that I grabbed but I do my stamps from my rubber stamp line and I put them on old book paper. Yesterday I filmed a bit with a bunch of dictionary paper, hang on, and did the DIY glassine paper thing from Nick the Booksmith. I not only printed some images I had from my old scrapbooking library of digital images but I did some of my own images. Totally cool. But I'm also just enjoying making sort of small doodled embellishments digitally or I sometimes do them on paper and then scan the paper. I'm going to show you first what I do digitally. Not all of you are going to have access to something like this or be able to do this but if you have an iPad Pro or similar device and a pencil then you can definitely do this. I use Procreate and this is my Apple Pencil and the first thing I cut right now I'm really into circles. I don't know why but that's just you know. So the first thing I do is I go here and I change my pen. There's a bunch of different fun sort of pen texture-y things in here that I've sort of been playing with. All different kinds. Ooh, corrugated. Let's try that. And then I will go change my ink color. Let's do... and then... there we go. Then I'll go change my brush again. I think this is the one I used last time which I thought was really cool. Let's do a blue. I don't know, that's a different one but that's really cool. See what other brushes we have. Oh that's funny and then let's pick another color. Maybe a green. So if you don't like the placement hit the undo. And then I usually finish with black and then I go to a really fine inking and then usually the fine tip and you can do words around the edge or you can do which I did on this one. I did words around the edge. I didn't turn on my LED light, sorry. You can do just circles, doodles, dashes. Do you do anything? I'm going to try. Let's see if I like this. The thing is if I don't like it I can hit undo. It's not like paint in a pen or if you don't like it then you're stuck. So you just hit undo and then you could like write words or scribble which right now honestly I'm really into the scribbly writing. I have no idea why I don't question these things and then I save it and I download it to my desktop and then I print it on sticker paper or printer paper or dictionary pages or something like that and that's a really fun way to make a digital copy of a um unique embellishment that you can use for your artwork. I really actually like that one so then I go to the wrench and then jpeg and then save image and I'm all I have all apple products so when I do that it takes like a minute and then it syncs to all the other devices so it's automatically going to be on the computer. Okay so anyway here these are just scraps of like paper I think they might be mixed media paper I honestly don't remember and then I have got some paint now if you're going to do it with paint the old fashioned way use what you have I prefer to use some sort of matte paint some sort of matte acrylic paint this is the Blick matte acrylic you also could use the acrylic gouache you don't have to get super fancy with it just grab a brush just going to grab a flat brush and I'm going to pick a color let's see let's should we actually use a palette rather than the lid of the probably rather than the lid of the paint probably so then once you have your paint colors let's go this way a little bit pick a color it's not rocket science and they don't have to be perfect the ones on the iPad weren't I like them when they're irregular it suits me better then I always have like some newsprint I don't know that you can see it here on camera this is a pad of newsprint from Muji and I can just do that I'm going to take another card and do some that are green and then once these are dry and they're all doodled the way you want and you're happy with them scan them and turn them into a digital file now if you don't have a scanner as part of your computer setup that's totally okay you probably can take it to one of your office supply stores and have them scan it for you you can also take a picture of it with your smartphone there's always a way around not having tools and equipment without spending a ton of money so you see what I'm doing I'm just making marks with the other colors of paint using up what's on the palette you know I've got a number of these scrap pieces of paper so it's time to get used up now of course you could do this and you could you could bypass the whole option of scanning it and just use these originals let them dry doodle on them embellish them and then cut them up just the way they are there is nothing wrong with that and I did that I've done that a lot just making marks you could do this with paint and stamps paint and other mark making tools think outside the box and see what you have honestly I'm too lazy to get up and grab anything else so we're going to just use what I have in front of me this is also a great way to use up your scraps and just to this is on its own it could be an embellishment but it also could be used to layer you know you cut one of these out and you lay it on some of the stamped book text how cool is that I know there's a lot of youtubers out there who have videos and videos and videos on making your own embellishments if you guys have a favorite I would love for you to leave the channel in the comments below and if you have any trouble doing that DM me and I will link it in the video description I'm going to let these dry and then we're going to do some more doodling on them so I will be right back okay I went and had lunch things are dry if you hear a crinkling plastic noise like that it's because I'm sitting on some polymer clay to warm it up a bit because after this I want to do some work with some clay yeah anyway um so we're going to finish these and I've got some colored mechanical pencils some paint pens a ballpoint pen a multi-pen a uniball signal I also have a few colored pencils so we're going to just have a play and I'm going to finish doodling on these and show you what I do and how I do it and I'm going to speed forward through this part of the process and I'll be right back so when you whether you make them digitally or you actually paint them on a piece of paper I think these kind of embellishments are great to have laying around um whether you do like I do and copy them or not or you just paint a bunch of them have them cut out in a drawer somewhere and then keep painting them it doesn't matter how you do it or how you accomplishment accomplish it you can even do them out of these sort of wipe off brush papers they are great to have around and how much fun is it when you create a piece and somebody says oh where did you get those cute little dots from oh I made them so I think that's fabulous so I want you guys um this month to go out and make your own embellishments I'd love to see your favorite inspirational videos for making them I'd love to see what different things that you're doing with making your own embellishments please come share it over in my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression and let's inspire each other with the homemade embellishments thing shall we all right that's it for today don't forget to like share and subscribe if you want to follow me on social media and see what kind of art I get up to every day because I do do some kind of art or something every day um or you want to support the free content here on YouTube or over in the Facebook groups then there is a link in the description below um that says link tree and then my name click on that link and you're going to find a list of different places you can find me on the 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