 Hi guys, so we are here for week two of my creative year for August. Our topic for this month is Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Our prompt for this week is Reuse. We are, as we have been doing in months past, building on a page over the month. Yeah? Last week was, the prompt was Reduce, so I reduced my color palette to black, white, and one other color. I chose green, and this is what we ended up with. This week our prompt is Reuse, so we're going to reuse items, found objects on our page to add to our page. I happen to have one in my hand that not only is something to reuse, but it's also green. It's a bread tie. I love using these in my work, and I do it frequently. Sometimes I just tuck it in somewhere. Sometimes I stamp or write a word on it, which I think I'm gonna do this time. I'm gonna use a Sharpie maybe. My name is maybe a Sharpie? I need a paint pen, that's for sure. Something that's gonna stick. Maybe a black Copic. I'm going to zoom in. I don't think I have more than one of these that's green, although I do have a green tea bag wrapper in my stash of things right here by my desk, because I have a box of things that never quite get to put away. Yeah, there it is. I kind of would like to challenge myself to do the green. I would like to use found objects of which there are a lot of things in here, because we're trying to reuse things in this case for me that would normally end up in the garbage, in the recycling, you know, something like that, keeping things out of the landfill. I'm all about that. I think those two things are gonna fit best, so I think we're gonna stick with those. All right, do I want to write a word or just a draw? I think I maybe just want to draw something. There's these shapes on this little scrap of paper that I picked to use. That's actually part of rubber stamp sets that I have in my stash, and I don't remember who the designer is, but has these little like seed shapes on it, and then I'm gonna take something teeny tiny, teeny tiny. Maybe my pokey tool. I don't know, that might be too pointy. I think we need something littler, but blunter. Yeah, let's do, let's do this. Oops, I have these kind of, they're called Style Sticks by Low Cornell, and I got them at Hobby Lobby, and they have different shapes. I have had them a long time. They do still sell them a Hobby Lobby, but they're just for like dotting and pushing paint around in this. I should be, yeah, that should work. Yeah, and I'm gonna push that over there, let that dry. I'm gonna trim the top of this. I'm gonna just pop it open. Seems to want to come open anyway, and get that T residue out. No idea, by the way, how I'm gonna use this on the page. Just so you know, absolutely no plan. I just know I want to reuse things on the page. So the next thing I think I'm gonna do is I think I'm gonna take some washi tape, green and not sparkly people. Everything I own is sparkly. I don't think that's a good thing. That's not what I want. Oh, here we go, green dots. Tape our little teabag back together and make it into a pocket. Put it over, push it down, trim the top. I found there was a scrap piece of paper in here. Here we go. That was from an art experiment. So let's use that to cut a little tag from. Let's reuse, because that's what we're doing is reusing, right? We had some scraps of our same feather paper and plastic from last week. Before somebody asked me, I don't remember where this paper is from. I think it's from an old issue of Flow Magazine. This is a vellum paper. And the plastic with just doing what makes me happy on it is from a set of project life cards. Okay, so we're going to have this punch from Croppadile. It should be an ankle punch. I guess we should try it on a scrap before I do the actual card. So it just cuts like a tag angle like that. That's the large one. It's the small one. I think I want the large one. It makes any rectangle shape piece of cardstock into a tag shape immediately. And then you just need to punch a hole. Gonna just eyeball it. Staples. I love the look of just the industrial sort of look of staples. It's not quite dry, so I'm being careful with a little bread. This is a bread tie. You know it's the little thing that comes on your bread bag. I saved them. I know it's crazy, but so here's our page. Let's zoom out a bit. Oops, wrong way. There we go. So I think I want to just put this right here. And I think I'm going to just staple it because you know I like staples. So there you go. Reusing things I already had. Things that were basically trash. Interesting little bits that I found. I didn't buy it. I'm creating something interesting, interesting composition from just things I had and reusing what I have. So think about how you can do that. Think about what you have in your stash that you can try this with. And I hope to see what you do. I hope you share it over in the Facebook group. The link for which is in the description below on my link, tree, link list of social media links. I hope you that you join us over on Facebook for the art, the community, the camaraderie. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please leave them in the description below here on YouTube. I will get back to you ASAP. And above all, don't forget 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.