 Hi guys! We are here for week one of my creative year for October 2018 and our topic this month is salvage and our prompt this week is self. I'll be honest and say to you that I had a hard time associating salvage and where my brain obviously wanted to go with the prompt of self that what the heck was I thinking when I created those and then I thought okay wait a minute the topic of salvaging oneself of rediscovering yourself of saving yourself yeah that that that clicked with me so I want to take that and I'm going to start our page for the month and again we're going to build on our page over the weeks at least I hope that's where we're going to go with this and we are going to start by adding a picture of ourselves to the page or something that represents our self to the page I'm going to do it literally and I'm going to do a hopefully an image transfer onto the page this is when I was just testing out pens and washi tape on hopefully it works I don't know we'll find out so I printed a copy of my photo this is the one that's on most of my social media and I have altered it a little bit in an app to make it more painterly it might be a little bit big but that's okay so I'm going to cut it out I should probably know we'll cut it I was going to say I should probably tear the edges but let's see what I think about it being torn or straight I think I want the edges torn so I'm going to I don't want the edges to be white I want them to be the color if the image transfer comes out correctly because so who knows what if it will or not I'm going to tear it away from me so that the edge of the picture is torn but it's there's not a white edge there yeah that also fits on the page a bit better so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to get out some omni gel which is the medium that I use to usually do transfers it's an acrylic polymer resin and it's for image transfer and texture medium seems like the lid is all got dried up gooping it yep it does okay let me clean it I'll be right back if I fixed it and unclogged it we'll find out nope that lid is really clogged so yeah it goes to show what happens so we'll just do it the other way and I'll just get a flat brush I guess I need some new omni gel and as to my Amazon wish list whoa that's too much so you only want enough in here to stick your picture down not that much you can use regular gel medium for this or matte gel I find that omni gel works a little bit better and easier mess okay so we're going to just put a nice thin coating of this on here okay then we're going to lay our picture face down into the gel and then we're going to take something like a gift card and we're going to push our image into the gel you don't want to get the gel on the back paper side of the image much if at all and if you do get it on there wipe it off right away so what I usually do is push it into the gel and then clean the card off if you need to grab a little bit more gel make sure all your corners are down or have gel underneath them okay now after you are sure it's pushed down all the way and there's no air bubbles and that the paper is making contact with the image let it dry don't do anything and let it dry so I'm going to do that and I'll be back okay you really want to let it dry completely I think it is I hope it is this is a moleskin daily notebook and it is thin paper so the possibility that I do this and damage the paper is a little bit high to call it daily notebook daily something oh weekly notebook but we're going to be as gentle as we can so the next thing you want to do is spray the back of the image that you stuck down with water because of the nature of this paper I'm going to try to only spray this image right let it soak in just a minute I'm going to hold the edge of the page down so that it doesn't move around too much so that I hopefully don't damage the spine too much and I'm going to just start rubbing gently not too hard sorry about the thing in the background that's my cell phone going off because you know soon as I turn the camera off people are on people start trying to message me that happens so you want to rub basically the bat paper backing off let me zoom in a little bit for you there you go so if you rub too hard you're going to rub the whole image off and that's not what you want and this was a you know altered image of me so it wasn't I just rubbed my nose off so I was saying it's an altered image of me a lightly colored image so it's not going to be very dark it's going to be faint but I should still get an interesting suggestion of the image on there so take a little paper paper pills off and just keep working at it until you get something that you're happy with again try not to be a gorilla about it and rub too much of your rub too hard because you'll rub the image that you're trying to transfer off like I just rubbed my nose off so I have no nose no I guess I have a little faint nose so just keep working at it I'm going to keep working at it and I'll be right back so that turned out exactly how I wanted it to and how I thought it would go was going to I generally when I do image transfer do rub a little hard and I rub places off I also don't rub some places enough it's perfectly imperfect and that's what I thought it would be nope I'm not perfect I didn't want this image that represented me to be perfect so anyway it's really I really love the artistic quality of it and I love that you can see that experimental doodles and washi tape behind it I have a couple of different kinds colors of Arteza fine liners here and we're going to just go over some parts of my face I was going to say that face but it's my face not because I really care that some parts aren't you know faded or rubbed completely gone I don't care really about that but I would like to just add some more sort of marks to the page this was a good makeup day in a good hair day and I did that shot from the right angle so my chin looked good and you know I liked it all right I have a slightly darker one too I'm just keeping it loose and sketchy okay and then I'm going to do some journaling here for this week and the word words or phrase that come to mind really for me are you are worth salvaging so I'm gonna write that on the page so for this week that's what we're going to do I want you to do something on your page that represents you that represents yourself that represents salvaging yourself or being mindful of yourself or doing for yourself rather than for other people I want you to express that on your page this week if you're not part of my creative year but you'd like to be click on my link tree in the link in the description below the video and you'll find every single place I am on the internet including my creative year the Facebook group so click on that and request to join and we would be happy to have you and yeah if you have any questions comments or concerns leave them in the description here below the video or if you're in the Facebook group you can put something over there and tag me in the comments in the post so that I can see it and that's it for the moment do the most important thing though I want you to go out and I want you to have a great day and I want you to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys