 Hi guys, alrighty This month for the month of March we've been exploring the idea of using trash and recyclables in our journal in a unique creative and fun way and Making it pretty making it interesting. I have a lot of things. I've been collecting here on my table since I wasn't you know doing any of this until week three so Yeah, so I've been collecting some fun stuff and I I really I don't have a plan We're gonna go with my gut and we're gonna see what happens these two food bags We are going to work on in a different video. So I do have an idea for these kind of a revival on something I used to do for Mike the gift shop back in my artist cooperative gift shop days that I used to actually sell a lot of so we So look for that. That's coming in a different video. So I'm gonna put those over there My We know somebody who had an Arbonne party the other day. So I have This so we might Use there's some interesting images in this catalog. I'm not interested in really buying any more skincare, but so we're gonna set that aside This is These are envelopes that I printed a shopping list on years ago I got a giant stack of them in the kitchen This was this week's grocery shopping list and I print them on an envelope Because I put the list on the outside and then if I have any coupons I stick it in an envelope and I just recycled a bunch of coupons that I had at the time So I was gonna throw this away and I thought hmm Maybe we'll save that I've been saving product tags garment tags packaging scraps of tissue normally this would have gone in the garbage There's another tag some little scraps of watercolor paper These are just little samples of things that I did for something for on camera and Generally speaking I would probably throw at least this one away, but we're not going to more product packaging My art snacks bookmark and sticker Some tissue That's from art snacks. These are some stickers I made out of again trash This was the you know tag that goes around your suitcase when you traveling And when they generally pull the backing off and stick it to your suitcase They don't pull off the all the sticky sticker backing. So some of this is still stickable Is that a word stickable? And the part that's not you can just cut the images out and glue it down. So I save that This is from my prescription company. So that literally is trash I was at the mall the other day and I can't really go into lush without Having an asthma attack, but I held my breath so I could go in and grab a few bags So that's product packaging and when you get home. That would be trash Takeout menu chop sticks wrapper We had some edamame from the grocery store the other day My art snacks card Another another tag, so we're gonna take some of this stuff and we're gonna do our basic setup for March And this was our April. I mean April holy cow February our February pages So we're gonna do March now February was a lot of fun to do So here is February. I mean March. I don't can't get the thing straight and my thing is ding All right, so I'm gonna pull it out of my Travelers notebook and we're gonna work on it this way and I'm gonna turn all my devices to silent. I'll be right back so over The week as we work on our journal and over the month I will be using some of these little bits of trash in my journal in hopefully unique and interesting ways and I Definitely will be Showing you a flip at the end at the end. So I have an idea immediately for this envelope Again, that would normally be trash. I think we're gonna use it for our book club list. I know, right? And bonus I can stick some things inside if I want so let's get some washi tape. I have a bunch of this Measuring tape washi tape. I've had it forever. It was one of the first washi tapes I ever bought. I Love it But there's no sense hoarding it. Let's use it up now again. I think we've mentioned before Not all washi tape is created equally and some of it is not very sticky So if that one that you're using is not very sticky and I'm not sure that this one is very sticky Then you might want to put some glue or something underneath it. We're gonna find out here. Let's just wrap it around Tear it off looks great I do think I want to cut this open so I can get to the flap Get to the envelope So let's grab a pair of scissors and snip Perfect all right, so we can get to our Book club we're gonna turn that into our book club list leave the tape out So the next thing I need to do is I need to get one of our copies of our list to tape on to paste on here So let's do that. Let me print one and let me get that printing They aren't going to I Don't want to cover this up completely But I don't want it to be as obvious so we're gonna send it to the background by flogging More trash some tissue paper over it Tear off a piece of this star tissue and we're gonna take this little piece of pieces of arrow tissue also This bottle of matte medium. I'm trying to use up. So Let's work on that. Shall we just spread the matte medium On the envelope and printed a small book list. I think I want to use that one I printed a couple of different ones, but I think I want to use this little one These are free downloads for you all to use. They are under our files. There's a few different versions of this You can print it out. You can adjust the size to fit what you're doing Yeah, I like that. So let's get that We're gonna get that in there and remember all of the stuff that I'm using To decorate the journal. This is would normally be considered garbage things we most ordinary people that aren't us Would throw away So, you know, don't do that Take a second look at it before you do that because you might find that in the midst of that trash Is something free that you could use to decorate your journals and your planners and Make them really pretty and really interesting and if you you're traveling or doing something special with friends and family No way to preserve some memories. You can pick up, you know confetti off of the table at that party Yeah, or you know a printed napkin from that restaurant where you went to dinner All of those things I do all of those things and I'm gonna Push that down with a dry gift card. How cute is that? Cute cute. All right We have this arrow tissue. I want to put on here. If you hear me crunching it's because I have a cough drop in my mouth As per usual for me, right? I can already tell it's gonna be a super fun spring for those of us who have allergies and stuff I'm gonna tear the piece of this up. There we go because I'm already having issues. So it's only March I'm not really concerned too much if the tissue has wrinkles Or anything like that in it doesn't matter. How cute is that already? I didn't even do much Love it. All right. I'm gonna just pick a spot like here. Put some more stars. I love this star tissue my art snacks box add some fun Stuff in it this month and some of it was wrapped in this star tissue, which is great I love tissue paper because you get the semi-transparent look to your collage from using The tissue paper when it gets wet. It's just fabulous. Great look And this isn't any special tissue paper. Like I said, this is out of a you know, mail package You can use gift tissue. You can use Really anything Maybe you've had a birthday or other special event where you've gotten a gift and it came wrapped in pretty tissue Save that feet for use in your journal. I'm almost empty I've been trying to use that bottle up for a while now So now as I'm adding some more of this tissue. I'm thinking ahead just a couple steps ahead What else? Oops Can I add here? Another little piece of tissue So just make sure you get a nice clean even-ish coat of your Map medium if you're using a map medium and then I just use my paint brush to push the Tissue paper into the map medium and onto the paper and then if I have a little piece left over like right here you can just Put some more map medium on the other side and fold it over You could cut it off. Of course. You could cut it off if you want to But you don't have to The map medium is nice because it dries fairly quickly. So It's a nice product to use. Okay. I love that so far What else do we want to do in our basic setup here? Let's do some drying. Let me do that and I'll be right back I think that when I decorated this signature when I made it I added just a few decorations to all the signatures for each month and it's interesting that I chose this orange Colored paint in this stencil pattern of my own That is reminiscent of citrus fruit because in this catalog wasn't there a picture of oranges. So let's pull that out Yep Love it. Okay. Let's pull that out and then of course the debate becomes Actually cutting the oranges out or just cutting shapes I'm gonna cut it in half right here first because that I know I want to do And I'm gonna cut the text Part of this off That is actual trash. I Know I know What what do you mean? It's actual trash trust me. I think I Think I want to just cut random circles At least to start with What's the harm if you you know if you mess it up it's garbage, right? So it's not a big deal And the shapes don't have to be even far from it Right just make use of what you have In an interesting and unique way and go with your gut. It doesn't have to Say anything to anybody except you Need more that soon gonna need to break out the other bottle. Okay, so more mad medium Stick this on here Wasn't the part of this that I thought I was gonna use But it works We'll let that dry for a minute. I am gonna cut that a little bit off at the bottom while we're waiting Again push push your pieces down into the map medium and it also scrapes off the extra map medium So if you have way too much on there You can scrape the excess off and it'll dry a little faster And we can take this a little bit down here and turn that off that works for me Let's I missed a spot. Let's cut some more circles So you really could use anything I've whether I'm home or away from home I Save all kinds of little pieces like this interesting patterned throw away papers To use in my journals So now we have all those pieces to play with I need some more map medium though Because let's face it that bottle is finally dead. Okay, brand new fresh bottle See what we can do so I don't I don't edit my collection of things that I think I might want to do it use in my in my journal for the month At all I literally have a little bag hanging off of my Ikea cart with my journal in it and as the Month is going along anything that I think I might want to use in my journal goes in that bag And it doesn't go in the trash Until I know for sure that one I don't want to use it on On the journal or two I don't want to use it at all on anything then it finally goes in the trash Or sometimes if it's a really cute piece of something I'll send it often happy now That does happen. You know, it's funny. I'm using all this orange because orange is really not my favorite color By any stretch of the imagination So it's kind of funny Don't freak out if you tear your paper Just paste it back together Stik so I do like to carry over and use You know and like this I consider a whole page So whatever element I've used whether it's the tape or the orange Paper, then I want to use it across the whole thing not just in one place I think it looks more cohesive that way. All right got this other page back here. So let's do something back here Let's put some more More stars Because who doesn't love good stars? Think something like that. I'm not going to think about it too much and I'm just going to paste it down The other teachers so far have bought you guys all some great ideas So I hope that you've enjoyed it so far and if you have any questions comments or concerns you remember to let us know leave a something down in the Comments here on YouTube or if you're a member of the Facebook group you can post something in the group. Just make sure you tag us So that we see it Not medium way over there because I'm a slob I love this orange paper. It's so cute. I'm pushing it into the page now Now some of your papers that you use out of your trash may not be the ink may not be waterproof So you may notice as you start doing this the ink starts to run a little bit I would just call that a learning an art opportunity Experience, I would just let it go All right, so dry some more more garbage more garbage. I know so this if you've seen my design team video for my Stamp line rubber stamp line this month This is what I did for that prompt this month and All of my designers did a great job and they all did something different. This is what I did If you haven't seen the video, I'll try to remember to link it in the description below But literally again, this is garbage. It is that sticky tag strip of tags That's off the bottom of your suitcase when you travel and see there's my name down there at the bottom I wonder if I can I might use that All right, so and then I just randomly painted the whole strip And then I stamped it with one of the stamps in my from one of my sets stamp sets Some of this still has the sticky back paper intact and some of it doesn't so some of these will have to be glued on and Some can just be peeled So I'm going to just give them all a little bit of a trim and then we're going to use them, too I got a lot of them out of the one strip of luggage, you know, it's that thing with the giant barcode in your name that tells the Computer system for the airline where to send your luggage so? Theoretically your luggage doesn't get lost, right? You hear that buzz. It's my phone somebody's Chit chatting with me or something I'm not answering right now Throw all these little bits away. You could go crazy and save even little bits like this, but I'm going to okay Fine one to start with it has the sticky back. Why am I always trying to peel stickers without my glasses on? I don't know why that is I'm gonna put it right here And I'm gonna wrap it around the edge. There we go. I'm gonna take this one with my name on it Will it peel? Oh, yeah, this is the part of it that had my name on it We're gonna use that too Because why not? It has to be glued sticky sticky good Okay, more matte medium If you have just pieces of paper the matte medium is gonna work great to get your stuff glued down Elmer's will work Glue stick will work If you have things that are heavier like cardstock or I've even glued down in some of my old journals smash pennies and things like that You're gonna need heavy gel medium. So if you're thinking to yourself, does she ever throw anything away? Well, not really Not until I've at least thought about it And when I'm traveling, you know anything that I acquire When I'm traveling whether I'm traveling or at home. That's a sticker That is still like got it sticky Whether it's a luggage tag like this or it's Sometimes, you know when I pick up prescriptions they print a sheet of labels for your prescription bottle And they always give you a couple of the extra labels In your bag with your prescription. I save those I'll paint over them Like I did these and use them again Here I like to cluster my images on top of each other That's one of my favorite things to do And I also like to put them in a way so that you're like traveling around the page to see them And because this is a journal that I'm documenting my year and my life and my travels I want to leave myself some open space to put things on Pickets, pictures, journaling, that sort of thing Alrighty, that's looking pretty good Alrighty, let's see. What else do we have? I don't know if I want to put any of these tags in at least not yet We may come back to that later in the week. I also have these bits But what I do want to do is I do want to put my art snacks stuff in here So we need a clear pocket, a clear sticky pocket So if you look in the Getting Started Materials list, I have links for these clear sticky pockets. These are from Amazon I do think they're originally some sort of warehouse inventory control kind of a thing I don't think they were intended for the use that I give them But you know Lots of things weren't So I'm going to take my art stacks bookmark and my card and put it in there. I have some stuff here that I want to Put in here. Let's see. So my husband and I have this habit now and we go out for faux a lot Is it called faux or faux? So I'm going to cut off. This is the menu for the restaurant that we go to. It's local Actually, we can walk there from home, which is wonderful. I'm going to put that there And for this Do I want to use the matte medium? I might want to just use the table Of course, leaving room around it to do some journaling to do some writing. I do also have this Bag from the chopsticks, which I think I want to use And I'm going to just cut the top off like that I also started back on some asthma maintenance medication So We're going to put this in here And I think I'm going to leave it I don't think I'm going to cut it up just in case at some point I need to refer back to the information That's on the on the paperwork, right? Never you never know So I'm going to use another clear sticky pocket. Actually, I think I want to put that right there Pill pack is my online pharmacy But I use I'm going to use tape runner to stick it on but I am going to also Use a little bit of Elmer's glue the tape runner will stick it on there until the Elmer's can dry If I can get the Elmer's out of the bottle I saved this little thing and I don't know why because I don't know what it is I brought that was from bought that was from Lehman, New York. No idea So I'm going to just throw it away because I don't know I have no idea. I did get some new water Daniel Smith watercolor paints in this month because we are worked I am working on something for you guys to do with Watercolors And I needed I had some constant patience with them via email And I needed to add a couple colors to get done what I wanted to do So I'm going to they sent them in this box, which is great So I'm gonna Use the box I'm gonna keep the logo Daniel Smith extra fine watercolors, and I love that made in Seattle, USA I love that part. That's my favorite thing about the Daniel Smith paints I'm gonna put that over here Now product packaging in general what I don't use in this journal I will probably save and add to my stash of Stuff because if it's interesting because I do use product product packaging and other arts and crafts So I will probably not save that but I will probably save this one and this one And this m-gram one because they're interesting and the edamame one So those go over there All right, so let's fold it up and let's see what we have So far for this month. All right, so this is what we have so far for this month Just using some trash and things I had laying around Literally like the the envelope things that were literally gonna go in the garbage can to create something new and different and unique in my journal I love the way it's looking so far. We haven't done any journaling yet or anything But this is just to get you started So think about what you can do when we come back with the next video Tomorrow I will be showing you how to add some painterly bits to this journal and some unique things emphasizing Some of these shapes that we've put on here and I will also show you some of how I do the journaling and things on here So I'll be back so get your signatures and sections ready if you haven't already and Have some fun with it and I will be back with you And we will keep working and I have some surprises in store for you So don't forget to like share and subscribe if you want to be part of the my year 2017 Facebook group and you're not yet Go over to go to the description the links for that in the description below along with If you want to support me by shopping in my Etsy shop the link for that's down there my Mailing address if you want to send me happy mail all that stuff's in the description so to go down there and take a look and Also 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 Okay, bye guys