 Alrighty, so if you're watching this video you've already seen our inspiration dice video I just love these things FYI. I had I said in that video I had another idea and I do our own deck of cards So instead of sticks I really like Kylie give hand and Karen Friedland's cards I think they're fabulous and I like the idea of having an inspiration playing card or Dice rather than something just written on a popsicle stick or a tongue depressor So I got a couple of decks of playing cards at the Dollar Tree when I was getting the dice and I'm going to show you how I did these now. I have a free download of these prompts these art prompts on Dropbox and the file for them will be in the description below a link to where you guys can go download it If you're in my Facebook group the link will be in in the freebies document and so And the link will take you to two files one that says Cards and one that says dice and they're the same prompts The only difference is the printing is bigger for the card ones than it is for the dice. That's all So I'm going to show you how I did these look at all these cards. I have now all right so First you need to print your prompts Right, then I have one of these big Xyron creative stations And I also have the laminating cartridge. It laminates the top and it has adhesive on the back I have it. I figure I should use it. I don't really I bought it by accident by mistake, honestly So I thought well I have it now so instead of taking it back I'll just use it because I had it for a while and before I realized it was laminating not adhesive anyway So I thought I would use that for this and But you could do what use what you have you could use double stick tape you could glue them down I'm going to show you a couple tricks to doing this if you have one of these creative stations They do have cartridges for it that are laminate on one side and permanent adhesive on the back And so if you are so inclined to get that cartridge and that's what i'm using It is a little bit fiddly and um, I would recommend maybe you might need to print a couple extras of these In case you screw one up because it gets wrinkly I've printed three Um, so anyway just for warning So you just really put it in face up And turn the handle And if your cartridge is incorrectly it will come out like that Run the blade across and you cut it off and now it's laminate on the front And it's got adhesive on the back So once I did this with all my prompts, then I cut them all out into their little squares And I had a stack of them and I was ready to go and I have one left here And I have a card So the next thing you need to do is stick it to the card. So you can't just stick it to the playing card No matter what kind of glue you are using and expect it to stick because the playing cards are Glossy and laminated and no matter what glue you use. It's not going to stick. So You need to get a little piece of sandpaper. This is just a medium grit. I don't know Three three thirty two twenty I don't know. We had it out in the garage So just kind of a medium grit nothing too coarse, but nothing too fine Get a little piece of it and in the where you're going to stick your prompt Scratch up the surface Really good Yeah, and then take a um baby wipe and wipe off the dust And then take a rag or something and dry it My table's all sticky from Been working all day Okay, that side's laminated so it doesn't matter. All right, so once it's dry then we can stick this on So all I need to do is peel off the backing and stick it on in the middle where I sanded Use a bone folder or something else like this And just press it down and make sure it's really burnished in and stuck down good And there you have it So then you've made your own deck of inspiration cards Which I like I said prefer over the sticks. I think they're great so um Yeah, I'm really happy I did these and that I have the dice and because I have these now I don't need my sticks So what that means is I'm going to be putting these sticks Into groups of like I don't know 10 or 20. There's a lot in here. I don't know exactly And I'm going to be putting them in sandwich bags and sticking them in my giveaway drawer And when I send out happy mail and those sort of things I'll be including some in there, so Yeah, those are going to go out to somebody All right, that's it for today. That's the last idea I have for something to give you a boost when you need a creative boost A little tool or toy for your art room I hope you find it useful and interesting and print the prompts out now the prompts are both PDF documents that you should be able to edit if there are prompts in there that don't suit your supplies your stash or your style of art So before you print them look at them and see if you can edit them And uh, yeah, then print it. Um, you know, if you're a mail mix media artist I know there's a couple in here that like add a flower you might not like that. So, you know, or maybe you don't have Um Watercolor paints. There is a watercolor one in here So, you know Change them up to suit what you need and what you have and what you do All right, that's it for today. Go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. Maybe make yourself a deck of cards. All right, that's it Everybody I'll talk to you later. Bye guys