 We are here with another my year 2017 Facebook group video for July and this month we are celebrating our loved ones and I think I have a really interesting neat idea for you so let me put the journal aside and get a few things together and I'll be right back. I have this very special little pile of papers and this is just a fraction of what I have to be honest with you not that I'm bragging or anything because I'm not. I have a lot of stuff. When my grandmother passed about three four years ago I and my aunts went through her things. I helped them go through her things and there were a lot of bits and pieces that normally would have probably gone in the trash that you just accumulate over your life and she was 99 years old so she had a lot of them and you know little bits and pieces that are special to you while you're alive but then you pass away and your family is like they what is this they don't know what it is and I being who I am I love all those little bits of paper and bits of life so I saved quite a few of them. These are a few samples I'll share with you. This is a sample of a postcard that has the Virgin Mary on the front and it has an address on the back it's from 1917 it looks like no actually I'll take that back because it's written from Europe so it's from 1920 because it says 2917 or at least that looks like what it says and it's too written to Senor Alberto Bronzini who is my I think great great grandfather I don't know but it's just a fraction of a postcard that you know again a lot of people would have probably thrown away but I was like can I have that and then we found a number of these interesting these must have been part of an old game if somebody out there knows just for curiosity's sake I sure would like to know but we found a number of these little cards and on them like this one says Mr. I be damn barkeeper let me tend bar for you I guarantee keep guaranteed to keep your bottles empty I've been before and behind the bar for over 20 years I served 10 years behind bars and it just goes on and each one they're pretty funny each one is different this is Miss Rose nail tips a manicurist this one is I cheat and you graft politicians so this one is Mr. sticker tight glue salesman and I have a stack of them I don't know where they came from if you know let me know I have no idea but they're pretty funny this is I don't know what this is because honestly it's an Italian no I take that back it's in English the front part of it's in script Mr. Renato Bronzini who was my grandfather was admitted into the Apostleship of Prayer on the 21st day of June 1942 I said something else at the bottom I don't know but it's just a little flyer with you know Jesus on the front and my grandmother was very Catholic by the way this one says Mr. Bill do collector I have a lot of these little cards are funny she did so and so this was in her stash of things and there's a number of things like that I've buttoned sheets of buttons and this was one of her many address books I don't know why she had so many of them and it has some examples of her writing in it and I have a number of notebooks and daybooks and that are all like old and vintage like this that have her writing in it or my grandfather's writing which is more important to me because he died when I was about six or seven so I took a bunch of these things and I scanned them on my scanner and created some interesting unique vintage papers because sometimes we have these things and while we may want to use them on a project we're not quite ready yet maybe you don't want to use them on a project you just want to save them alright take them and scan them or photograph them and then copy them print them on your printer or if you don't have the ability to scan them or photocopy them take them and lay them face down on a color copier at the office supply store arrange them on the top of the color copier and then make some color copies then you can print them on standard paper which are these or you can print them on sticker sheets which we talked about last month and instead of doing them with artwork you've done them with these cute vintage papers and these are square stickers so I can just take that little square to decorate a page in this month's journal I did squares I'll take white squares and then I did do some here these are on clear transparent rectangles only thing is finding the edge of where the sticker starts sometimes is a little bit of a challenge and I don't have my glasses on there we go so these are transparent so you'll get the hint of some of the original papers and then whatever is behind it's going to show through and if you put it out of course on white paper then you're going to see it pretty clearly so I think this is a great idea to celebrate our loved ones preserve their memory and use it in our art take some of their special things whether they're it could be a grocery list one of these things on here is I don't know what it is because it's in Italian they're in the background you have a Christmas card list where she's checked people off and one of them has this one here that you can see part of it is a list of plants that evidently she wanted to buy at the hardware store my grandmother saved everything she didn't throw anything away so it could just be a grocery list it could be the inside of a book cover where she said you know to Gina from Grandma Jenny it could be anything that has their writing on it that's unique to them of course it could be their picture you could scan their pictures and reuse their pictures but think about making copies of those special papers to use in your work I think your loved ones who are no longer with us especially would really like that now if you have little kids and they've done artwork for you over the years and maybe they're grown up like mine is she's done a few things I'm really considering scanning some of her pieces and turning them into papers and stickers that I can use my journal now I don't know that any of these things are copyright free so this is strictly to be done for your own purposes and not for resale and you know you can you know gift it to friends or something but you can't sell it make money on it not unless you're absolutely positive that you have the rights and permission to do that I that being said these three papers are going to be available for download in the Facebook group so if you want to get these three papers to use in your art you have to be a member of the group I'm going to put it in a file that's titled Gina's Doodle Downloads and I'm going to actually retitle it to be Gina's Doodles and downloads so it'll be over there and you'll be able to click on the link and download these to use in your art artwork I think my grandmother really really appreciate that and I do I was pretty sure that everything's like out of copyright and I'm also not selling them so it's not really a big deal if you have people who are living and you're using their pictures in your art and or you're wanting to sell it make sure you get their prescription your their prescription their permission and writing glue all over my table alright so that's it for today I hope you give you some ideas of how you can celebrate your loved ones this month in your artwork and in your journaling reproduce some of those things that they've given you and have fun with them and celebrate them in your work all right that's it for right now please check out my description video description if you're here on YouTube for the two Facebook groups my regular group a life of art and self-expression and the one where these are going to be which is my year 2017 check out the video description for the links to those two groups I also will have the links to my happy mail address if you want to support my channel my Etsy shop address is there you can go shopping over there or if you would like to there's the tip jar link all of that's in the description so check it out the most important thing is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys