 Hey guys, how are you today? So we're here to work with and review a brand new product I have some details about it where you can get it and details about something that I'll talk about at the end of the video. There's gonna be a little surprise at the end over in my blog so this video is part of a blog hop and I want to encourage you to go Over to my blog the link for it will be in the description below. It's part of my website Gina be errands comm there's going to be a link to the other blogs that are in the hop and Some really great fun projects all using this new product. So this is a deck of cards called art sparks They are by Karen. I Don't want to mispronounce her last name Oh Yeah, Friedland sorry Karen And they look really interesting. I haven't opened them yet. I wanted to open them on camera the time They're really cute. We packaged in a little organza bag and the little tag says Art sparks creative project deck inspiring you to express yourself creatively with projects that spark your success And the cards I know from chatting with Karen have pictures of her artwork on the front and then some sort of Inspiration thing on the back. So let's open it up. Let's take the tag off And I have to say I'm gonna take this card that is from here You know, I'm gonna save this because I could use it for something And I'm gonna put it with the cards So here is her business card With it with you get it looks like it. There's a percentage off And here are the cards. So let's open them all of this and I'm gonna zoom in. There we go Let's get a pair of scissors Kyla gives give hands inspiration deck, which I love. In fact, I think I have almost all of her additional Packs to I love her cards. So I was really anxious to see these the artwork I haven't looked at the bag yet, but the artwork on the front of these cards. Look at this artwork people Love the artwork on the front of the cards aren't they pretty you I mean I Could get so much inspiration by just looking at the front of these cards inspiration for color and form Composition really really there's some great work on the front of these cards Love them. Love them. Love them Okay, so here's a couple of looks like instruction cards in the back Have a ball with your art sparks creative projects deck to order more art spark decks and to shop for original paintings and prints Go to Karen Friedland comm or email her Materials to use with this deck drawing materials paint paintings supports like paper canvas boards Some projects also require gesso. There's a hashtag a Facebook group Cool cool cool. Alright, so let's put those two up to the side and let's take a look at some of the back sides So this is this purple card and this is I love the colors on the front of this card I mean I'm in a purple thing right now the back of it says Imagination journey Imagine you're in a huge bubble quite high looking down at the landscape. Are you in the city? Are there sounds? Do you see homes trees water people? Take it take in all you see below you notice the feelings these sites bring the light colors You're coming to more open spaces. What is the typography? Are there mountains desert forest? Take in the vista from above let this inspire an artwork You know, I love that and it's really she's not telling you to draw a flower But she's giving you an idea of where to go with an image or a feeling I might want to do that purple one. So let's just kind of pick a card I might want to do the purple one, but I don't know. Let's see. There's one with an elephant Just like we respond to our environment. So do colors We see colors differently depending on the color surrounding them You can play with this by placing a one inch square of color in the center of a different colored background When does the colored square come forward? When does it recede? Are there times when both the square and the background seem to be on the same plane? So all of the cards are like that. So I'm going to pick one. I'm going to Use it as inspiration to create a journal page I'm gonna fast-forward through the process and I'll be back at the end Don't forget to stay for the end because there is a surprise This is our page created from our art spark card that I chose. I love it It reminds me of one of those impressionist paintings Where it's a city street scene and it's been wet and rainy and all the city night lights are on and They're reflecting off all the water on the ground and the buildings and everything's just deliciously kind of blurry and abstract I love that. That's not where I thought this was gonna go and I wasn't really thinking about it I was looking at the art spark card and letting it inspired me about where the page wanted to go and I love it These are really fun cards to work with and could be interpreted so many different ways I think you guys would really enjoy them now the surprise bit about this blog hop is that She's giving away a deck of cards So there's a raffle copter link in the description below and there'll be two winners One winner is gonna win a deck of Karen's cards the other winner I'm gonna give them a copy of my new book Creativity and self-expression a journey. It is a journaling workbook It won't tell you how to draw a flower, but it may ask you why do you want to draw the flower is Drawing the flower gonna make you happy So if you want to figure out what in your life is gonna make you happy how to work it into your life how to Do that in a way that? Doesn't offend those that you love around you this is a book filled with questions to ask yourself and Pages for you to work through those questions Artwork that you can color in and pictures of my studio space and all of that stuff kind of little mini Conversations with me. So anyway, so one person will win a copy of my book The other person is gonna win a caught a deck of Karen's cards so enter in the raffle copter link below or over on my blog it'll be over there too and Think about getting a deck of these cards because they're really fun. That's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing Go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys