 Hey guys, I'm here again this week in the my year 17. Oh, blah blah blah my year 2017 Facebook group to bring you yet another idea using markers pencils or crayons and This is my idea. I did that. I didn't use any paint on this. I Know right super cute. Alright, so I'm gonna show you how I did it These are just simple fabric tags now Can and they're made out of canvas now. You can get these at any fabric and craft store There's a million places you can order them online You could also make them and I'll be really honest. I have all the stuff to make them I was just lazy today and I decided to go buy them instead of digging out the box of eyelets and making a tag You don't have to make it a tag. You could just make it maybe a little strip of fabric Unhemmed a cute little patch and I do plan on doing some of those We'll probably post pictures of them at some point during the week because I think these would be really cute Attached to any mixed media project much less our journals or something So let me show you how I did this first thing you want to do and this time I'm gonna do this banner shape because I think this is really interesting first thing you want to do is get the fabric wet Really really wet my What art water that's here on the desk is dirty So that's why we're spraying it with a spray bottle rather than sticking it in the But this one up here says it go it's the rather than sticking it in the in the glass jar because It's not good. All right, so I'm gonna just you saw me blot it a little bit So it's not dripping wet, but it is wet. I'm gonna take some Watercolor markers any water soluble marker will work if you have only Inexpensive products like Crayola markers any of the Crayola washable markers will work for this Choose some really bright colors because they're going to fade a little bit as the piece is dried I chose to do the other tag and I think for right now for the sake of ease. I'm gonna stick with these colors I chose permanent rose turquoise and dioxazine violet So we're gonna start with the permanent rose and I'm gonna use the fat tip to end of The markers and I'm literally going to color on the fabric and because the fabric is wet and this is a water soluble marker It's immediately being soaked into the fabric Just like it would if it was regular watercolor on paper Any place where the fabric is dry that was kind of a dry corner you can tell right away. It looks a little different So if it was regular watercolor on paper, I've always I'm telling you guys the Watercolor is always going to take the easier road and it's going to follow the water That's true with these markers too So get a nice coat. It doesn't have to be super even and then I'm going to go to purple I'm going to overlap the colors a bit and go back with the pink and And blend it just a little bit into the purple and then we're going to go into the turquoise Like I did with the pink will blend it into the purple. So things are blendy We'll go back with that purple lightly Go up and down Into the blue and into the pink okay, if you feel like you're It's not blending enough you could I didn't do this on the other one But I immediately wanted to know what would happen and I like the effect that that's getting you can also kind of blot it a bit Don't do that too much because the lighter. This is before you dry it the lighter It's going to be when you're done. So I'm going to dry this and let's do it happen Okay, so it lightened a bit from what it was before I dried it and it's not quite all the white all the way Dry you could let it dry more This is water soluble. This is not in here permanently I wasn't too concerned when I started working with these about whether it was washable or any of that This is for a mixed media piece. I have no intention of ever washing this. It doesn't matter. All right So just have fun with the process The next thing I'm going to do is take just a plain sharpie permanent marker. You can try other things I have a paint pen here. It would work But honestly, the Sharpie works better. I have a Posca, but I still think the Sharpie is going to be the best thing for this. I have a paint marker. I Don't know if this one's activated yet. I don't see. Nope So yeah, you could use a different kind of marker one of these paint markers might work But I think your best bet is to do just use a Sharpie marker You could probably use a big brush pen If you have the Faber-Castell big brush pens or a Alcohol marker they might work too Copic black Copic Let's try it. Let's see if it will work. Shall we? You could do a doodle or you could just write inspirational words. I kind of write want to write another word Keep it simple. Oh Yeah, they brush tip marker Copic works nice on here, but the Sharpie works good too. I did the other one with Sharpie Now drawing or writing on fabric with your markers is going to be hard on the felt tips of them So be aware of that. I used the brush tip end of that Copic by the way I'm going to take a gold Sharpie paint pen And I'm going to just put some accent dots and then you have that So you definitely could make a bunch of these to use in your journals. You could do like I did with my Prayer flags and if you haven't seen that video, I'll link it in the description below for all of you You so you could make a banner out of these and do something like that You could do doodles on them. You could do just about anything on them They're really cute really simple really fast if you're worried about the ink Coming off at some point or rubbing off. You could probably spray them with a couple of light coats of Kind of some kind of aerosol spray varnish and then I would then you wouldn't have to worry about it I Would make sure that your paint pen and words are in permanent marker when you do that because the background is going to blend And bleed of just a little bit more than it already has All right, that's it for today I will be back in my year 2017 with more information for you later in this week and inspiration and ideas And I'm just bursting with stuff. All right, that's it for today Please like share and subscribe if you've liked to be part of the my year 2017 Facebook group and you're not yet Or my other Facebook group or support my channel by shopping in the Etsy shop or send me happy mail or anything like that There's a bunch of information in the video description. Please check it out and don't forget the most important thing Go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys Okay, I know we are bringing you a lot this month that has to do with crayons but We love crayons so In addition to taking these tags and bat little banners and Decorating them with your water-soluble markers and other pens you also did you know you can Crayon right with on them with crayons. So these are some more of the metallic crayons, and I am literally going to doodle on the tag and Then I'm going to show you a little trick to sort of set it Into the fabric and I'm not I'm just doodling. I'm not I don't have anything planned To be honest. I literally just started doodling this right before I turned the camera on I was like still deciding What I was going to do so like with the mono printing on Paper trick that I showed you you want to kind of push hard ish and then to set it into the fabric and Make it so that it's something that you can write over or paint over with other markers or whatever and instead of having the wax kind of Resist everything to make it something that is not Going to do that Then I'm going to show you a trick So I'm going to add a couple colors of crayon here Got a blue And that was a bronze and then I'm going to add this. This is like a gold Which you probably won't really be able to see on camera, but I'll hold it up in a minute. So it looks like that oops Okay, so then I'm going to take my tag then I'm going to take My paper that I was mono printing on before and I'm going to use it as an ironing Press sorry pressing cloth and I'm going to put it over my tag and then I'm going to iron it with my little craft iron and That's going to melt all that crayon and The paper will pick up some of the wax and pigment and the rest of it will sink into the fabric and You will get these little like ghost prints on your paper Which is interesting and you're going to want to save that for later because it'll make interesting collage paper so then you have this and Generally as we've already discussed crayon You can't really write over unless you do one of these techniques with it then you can iron over it So I'm going to take my Copic marker. I think let's use The brush tip always looking for a word to write. Okay. Let's do this one Once you have that crayon ironed into your fabric Your marker just really it really just glides over Now I will admit that writing with a Brush tip marker is a little easier than a Sharpie, but the Sharpies I did this one with Sharpie over the watercolor background and I used Sharpie on this one and it worked great and also the blue is some of the Spectrum noir Pens and they work great too This one even has a little bit of colored pencil on it from a from this set here. So then you can So the lighter colored pencils don't show up very well on here, but the darker ones do so. Let's choose This is a set of Mar V color in watercolor twist pencils that you could use anything Just to add a little more color the pencils are the one thing that doesn't show up super well But they do show up a little bit. There we go And you can see where the pencil is on there now Just adding some highlights So give that a try create yourself some fun little tags again You could make them into little patches and just use them in your mixed media Sew them to your paper journal covers use a brad to attach them are just staple them with your tiny attacher I'd love to do that's my favorite thing. All right, that's it for today 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