 Okay guys, you saw a little speed through there of me altering our title page a little bit after thinking about it overnight I wanted it to look a little bit different and a little to go a little bit more with what I plan on doing in the rest of The journal and so here we go. I'm not worried about covering up all the writing in the background It just adds texture in my opinion, but now I'm much more happy with the way it's turned out I'm still very pleased with the cover. I'm waiting for a few more sort of winter themed parts to come in They're not here yet But hopefully they'll be in some time today. Anyway, we are going to get started with our first page Which I'm going to sort of talk you through if so, we're going to start off our pages Always with putting the dates so I printed the dates For December on these labels. These are Avery 81 67 little tiny labels and I Have this as a PDF document. You actually get two months on here So because there's 80 labels on the sheet So you definitely could you know cut some off here and give some to a friend? I am going to put this PDF document in both Patreon and my creative year To download so you need to be either a supporting patron over in patreon or you need to be a member of my creative year Now my creative year are getting some of these downloads free. You don't have to Give me any money for them, but they're getting less of the downloads than you would get if you're in patreon They're getting all of the downloads in patreon And a few extra well, they always get extra things over there And I have an idea for a special video series for them over there, too. Anyway, that's different for 2021 so I'm going to start always with pulling off the label for the date and I'm going to put it in the upper corner. Oh, but wait But wait, I punched out these large snowflakes. Yes These are a scissor's die Label just went on the floor. These are a scissor's die that I literally just got in the mail Yesterday I ordered it to Amazon They have it's a Tim Holtz Die, I need some more you good thing I have more I will put the Name of the die here somewhere and there'll be a link in the video description We are going to put that down And then my my date date label fell on the floor, so let's get that and on the page There we go So we're going to always start the page off by putting the date We don't need to put the year because the year is in the front of the journal and the year is also here on the cover so We're going to always start out that way My desk is a disaster. Okay. Anyway, then we are going to take our bowl of positive Affirmation words. I'm going to choose a word at random. I'm going to mix them up I'm not going to really look while I'm looking in the camera I'm not going to really pay too much attention to the one I'm picking Playful that's a good one and then we are going to find the coordinating sticker For that word It was near the bottom of the pile there Now you might ask why am I not just putting the stickers in a bowl and putting one at random You could definitely do that when I originally envisioned this idea It was taking this card pulling a card at random and actually Stapling the card into my journal because I have a number of these sets of cards positive affirmation cards These are a digital download in my Etsy shop the people over at patreon got this as a free Download for them, but you can go buy it in the Etsy shop and I have a number of different sets So it's not like I don't have plenty of them to spare. I've got two or three sets upstairs I got one set downstairs There's a lot of them to go around because I have guests when they come over at random just pick a card take it home Why not anyway, and then later I thought hey, why don't I make stickers? So this was kind of an afterthought so you could do either way or not at all Maybe this part doesn't appeal to you whatever works for you So we're gonna be using that in our page And we are going to be using the positive affirmation word as a jumping off point for whatever we do on the page Now the other thing that I want to do is grab one of my to-do sticky notes Because we're gonna add that I have a few other random pieces, but I think that's enough for this page So I'm gonna put a page together. I will probably I may print a couple of images with art foamy's on just printer or drawing paper thin printer or drawing paper because again This is Moleskine kayak the paper is very thin Plus it's kind of nicer to work with thinner papers and gluing them down rather than lots of card stock which Because this is thin paper the card stock will make bumps and ridges on the back side Which is then hard to write on and blah blah blah you get the idea, right? All right, so I am going to Work through my page. I've got my word playful Which inspires an idea for an art spoke foamy to use I've got my to-do list which again we are going to put We're gonna put things that Will send us in a more positive direct direction this holiday season again. This is not a Traditional December daily by any stretch. We are looking for the lightness in the dark the bright spots in what is a crazy insane Slightly depressing holiday season this year. We are trying to find the light. We're trying to find the lesson We're trying to find the bright spot. Yeah, so we're not ignoring what's going on But we're trying to find the message. So I'm going to use this to-do list rather than writing, you know Christmas gift shopping wrapping decorating cooking whatever I'm going to write breathe and listen and Peace and things like that on my list. Yes. All right, so I'm going to Get my mojo going and I will be right back Here is the first journal page in my version of a December daily. It is part art journal part Diary journal part positive affirmation journal call it what you will And it is similar in style to my daily drawings journal that I've been doing already I'm really enjoying that process and I thought to carry it over to December with a particular theme in mind of Positive affirmations in what is bound to be a very strange holiday season So anyway, the two art foamy stamps you saw me use one is mine And it is from my collection of art foamy stamps which you can find on their website the others The other one is not mine Okay, this this one is from in at Kessler over in our foamy's and I will link Both foamy's directly in the description below, but they have a lot of designs So browse around the our foamy's went website. It is a an American owned mom and pop company So show them some love and if you need some foam stamps to add to your tools this season Please be sure and do so you don't have to buy mine. Of course if you do that's great But you know just shop with our foamy's and show them some love anyway I love the way this turned out. I can't get wait to get started on page two and Yeah, so I hope you join me this December in what we are affectionately tongue-in-cheek calling our December daily and You do some sort of positive affirmation December journal that you may not need want to do it every day That's you know crazy town and you know leave it to me to decide to do that But anyway, maybe you just want to do one or two pages I would love to see what you do regardless and if you're in my creative year, please share over there Of course, if you're a patron and patreon, you know how to get a hold of me and message me I would love to see what you're doing. You can also leave something in the comments below You can direct message me my contact information is out there, but I would love to see what you do leave any questions comments or concerns down below and Okay, and that's it for this page for today December 1st And there you go Don't forget to like share and subscribe and support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups If you can I would sure appreciate it that not just for me But other content creators and small companies like art foamy's We would all definitely appreciate that if you don't know how to support your favorite content creators Ask them. They probably have a way in their video descriptions if they do YouTube videos Don't forget to stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later. Bye guys