 Good morning, Laura. I'm not sure why I'm not seeing a picture of my desk on the YouTube's because the Broadcast studio behind me shows the desk and the camera is on Let me refresh the iPad and see if that helps Otherwise, it's going to be a pain if I can't see the chat. Let me know if you guys can see the Desk or not It's all black. Yeah, I that's okay. Hold on a second The screen is black. Yeah, hold on It's still black. Okay. Hold on one time one other thing Grandsons are definitely loose now. You can see my face, but that wasn't what I wanted to show you I mean we can do it just chat with the camera video, but now it's working. Okay. That's crazy See, this is why I try to come on a couple minutes early all of you early birds get to see the technical glitches All right, so how is everybody today? I don't have anything specific in mind not that I usually ever do have anything specific in mind But I'm a lot of little things I need to do today. I Needed to start a storage box for the 2021 daily sketchbooks and little art journals. So if you don't follow me on social media, then you might not be aware that I do It started as just daily drawing It's kind of morphed into other stuff now, but I do a daily drawing or daily journal page Downstairs After dinner every night and then post them to social media. So I either this right now. I'm doing these little Sketchbooks and I have these old like art prompt lists from this one's from 2018 that I never got to So I'm kind of playing catch-up and then I take the word for the day And then I do a little drawing or something inspired by the word every one every day I Fill up the book till I'm done with a month Sometimes I'll do an extra one on the blank page in the back. Sometimes I don't and then This one is done for my Facebook group my my creative year and we have a Similar kind of list of words and for that one I'm doing sort of a journal page two page spread in these Moleskine kais and I do again I do one a month and I share them on social media. So if you want to follow me on social media Look at my link tree list of links down in the video description I also have an email newsletter and an Etsy shop and all that stuff and FYI While we're on the subject the Etsy shop stance and stamps and stencils are on Sale until the 20th of February they're 25% off So if you want them get them now All right, so anyway So I need a box to store these in because by the end of the year I have a lot of these little journals and it looks nicer on the shelf and a little neater and cleaner if I have a Box to store them in so I have a cake up coffee pot and I take the box This is the cake cups come in and I cover them with paper and I make these little sort of file storage boxes Every few months to store the journals in this one. I glued up yesterday and it's dry now, but it's I need to wax it So we're gonna do that first. Oh Laura, I'm sorry. We we've had that Oh That sucks. I'm so sorry and yeah, well, you know, all I can say is that the art helps keep me from Having my anxiety go like off the rails Most days not always most days so this is Dorland's Wax medium Yeah You can use regular like daddy vans wax with Shannon green, of course has turned all of us our journals on to door the difference between Dorland's and Daddy vans or another bees wax Based wax medium is when Dorland's dries it doesn't Like reconstitute with heat and melt Once it's dry, that's it. It's dry over You don't need a lot either. Oh That's terrible Laura My mother-in-law Has had some health issues Not the least of which is cove it but anyway, she's fine that she not not only not no sooner got home from the hospital Then she also had plumbing issues. It's just been a year Okay All right, so once it's waxed then I just go ahead and I put the journals in and I Just fill it up with the months with journals and when it's full then I just start a new box And this is the one I had I was cleaning off my desk and I just had random bits Of magazine images and things on the desk. So I just decided to use those On the box every time I do one is a little different Yeah, so it's called Dorland's with a d at the end d or l a n d s. It's a wax medium It's intended for people who do like oil paintings So it can take a bit to dry completely although I don't put much on there and I just let it go Once it's dry, though, it doesn't read, you know, you don't have to worry about your piece getting hot and then having the wax drip off We've all been there So this is a great medium to have around I think So that was one kind of Thing I had to do today It's just kind of a maintenance thing. So I thought we'd do that and then the other kind of funny thing is I don't know if it's funny ha ha or funny like crazy. So I have this hanging off my desk because my table is in the middle of the room And so when I want to use my heat gun, I have to plug it into this extension cord and run it to the wall um I use it a lot. So wrapping it up and putting it away after using it each time is kind of Silly. Um, at the same time, I have these little baskets hanging off a shelf At the end of my table I have three baskets I'm going to show you all of them Because this is what this is what I do. Okay, so I have these three baskets these are from Daiso and This one i'm going to leave as is but i'm going to show you so They're nice because they have these hooks on them and therefore hanging off of things like the ikea raskob cart or Shelves or you could hang them on pegboard and stuff like that I use them off of the wire shelf at the end of my table to hold things like these weights I use these weights all the time These are these are the ends from an old pair of hand weights that my sister years ago was getting rid of They make great fabric and art weights when i'm Needing things to dry or wanting to weight fabric down while i'm cutting it out You can see they've been well loved by me in the art room because they're full of stuff Those usually live in one basket but then How many binder clips do you possibly need? At your art desk like I have a habit of doing this and instead of putting things away or limiting How much of something i have i just keep collecting it until i can't get any more in the space and That's a problem and my house would be filled up if i let that go so And most of these are too small to use To clip your journals together anyway, and there are four smaller weights in this in the bottom of this one basket Which honestly i use the big ones more than the smaller ones not that i'm going to get rid of these But they don't need to live in this basket by my desk I would i put a piece of metal in the bottom of this one with the idea of putting my heat gun in there and then it never Landed in there and i put the metal sheet metal in there so that I'm going to flip that up so i don't poke myself So that if it was hot it wouldn't melt the plastic coating on the bottom of the wire basket Yeah, so it doesn't need to be super cute. It just needs to be useful and if I could just shove the gun in here and Kind of fold the cord up and stick it in there like when i'm not using it That would be more practical than what I was doing. So my idea was to get all of this like this is This is really i mean this is a This is a lean weight. I don't need to keep that. I want to keep these but they can go live somewhere else Unless I need them That I don't need Um This is just and then it gets to be so much that it's just completely overwhelming So these are big clips I do use Oh yay Darlene i'm glad you got somebody to take care of that We have a break in the rain here where I am in Oregon Um, thankfully So I also like these clips And these pink ones work well too now these pink ones are from the dollar tree And I think you get six or eight of them for a dollar. They work really well by the way um I'm not going to save these because they don't work super well All these binder clips are cute and all but They don't really work well for what I need not the small ones I have all these teeny tiny ones in here which are great for decoration But they don't work to hold your journal open when your journal looks like this This little tiny clip doesn't do anything These aren't bad I think i'm going to just do that I think that works And we'll do something else with all of those Not hanging this back on the table one more And then I can put the heat gun over here Yay, that worked This is just hold on that's just the tip of the iceberg But we did this the other day on a live And you know, I'm always thinking oh, you know I'm really doing good and I've caught up and you know, there isn't too much to have to worry about and keep straight and keep clean and You know, we've got it all I like lying to myself, I think well, I'm not going to fix the cord right now because that will take forever but Leads me to this So that's my drawer for my small bits bank Of clips clips So like how many clips does a person need? And this is what happened to me like yesterday. I started out with Um Doing one thing and getting some things ready for the patrons because i'm going to be sending out some snail mail to those of you Who are patrons and supporters fyi? um And while I did manage to get that ready it led me to cleaning and purging and I realized at the end of the day That I have this And I thought okay. I have just got to do something with that's crazy That's too much. How many clips do I need? Hey now? And this is what I keep finding in my collection of things is that At some point like instead of buying just a small package of like eight of these cute little mini teal Close pins. I evidently bought like 50 of them because there's like tons of them in here, but how many do I really need? Probably that's enough And i'm never probably going to use the rest I do like these mini binder clips because they are really cute to like just add to a journal cover or page I see some clips in here that shouldn't even be in here again something that I have a lot of Um, but anyway, let's just for these mini ones because I like these mini mini ones. They are great. There's some more that doesn't go there They're great for um, and this style too. They're great for like just adding a little something to a cover I'm decorating a tag and adding it to the front of your journal Um, they add a little bit of you know metal decoration without adding a ton of bulk We'll talk about these in a minute Okay, these with the hooks on them. These don't even go here So these are what I use to clip stencils to my floor rack That I have here in the art room and hang my stencils from the floor rack so And that being said I have a huge bag of them. So Do I even need these would be the question? There's evidently a lot of them Yep, there's a lot of them. I can see them. Are you guys finding that I know this is like riveting content? No Are you guys finding that? as the pandemic Continues that you are Like so many of the rest of us not just me Going through your art room your house and taking time to Finally go through those parts And rooms that you've been kind of ignoring because you just don't want to deal with them and you're finally like just taking a deep breath and just doing it Or is it just me? I don't think it's just me No worries I will be putting some of these clips like in a purge box because i'm not going to just throw them away Well, at least it can be treated Kathy, which is a good thing So i'm pulling all the little ones out that I find And all of these style because they don't even belong in here We're putting them back We're separating separating like and this is the other thing I just dumped a bunch of random stuff in here and it got crazy at hand now these I like I do think these are like a Tim Holtz thing So and that's kind of why I wanted to have this talk today because I think there's a lot of you now that are Natalie that are like that First of all take a deep breath and put on some happy music I know that sounds like kind of silly, but just It does work and don't feel like When I first started doing this especially during the pandemic I it's easy to get overwhelmed and like yesterday. I was I almost overwhelmed myself because that was crazy. Um One drawer just one drawer You don't have to Do the whole room at the same time Let's let's be honest. We're not going anywhere And there is plenty of us in the creative community here on youtube and facebook to support each other in our journey with getting our spaces Sorted the way we want them to be To help you and keep you motivated I don't even know why I have these so anybody have any idea I don't even know um Don't feel like you because one thing i'm guilty of is Just feeling like I have to do the whole room like in an hour. You don't have to it's very Charmin is Charmaine is not wrong It's very easy to get overwhelmed But Kathy is also right slow and steady wins the race Just do like last week. We did my well it was two drawers, but we did the um handmade embellishments And I didn't do any more than that until yesterday and I knew I had to do this But at the same time I knew I was on the verge of being overwhelmed and I it was time to just stop Who I like that um So I just let it go. I thought you know what we could do it on the live tomorrow and we can chat about it These I do think are also a Tim Holtz thing now. I do like these to add Different things to the covers of my journal or to use on tags or honestly, I hang things from my pegboard That's behind the camera with these so we'll save those I also like these are like a slidey. I don't know what like a slidey clip thing Yeah, so I'm right there with you. I have so many kinds of crafts that I love to do What I have done Lately I like these we're going to save those is Gone through all of them there's a random bead in the clip drawer because I don't know why that's in there No, I do. Um And I think I missed the garbage can that's all right. I'll step on it later and find it um Is go through them and decide if you really love them if you do I find for me I used to sort things by art Technique so all the clay tools and supplies would to be together All of the sewing tools and supplies would be together All the fabric would be together what I'm finding is more often than not technically I'm a mixed media artist and it serves me better to have Other than a few exceptions All the tools in one place All the small bits whether they're fabric or paper in one place All of the paint whether it's acrylic watercolor or gouache Or in one place And yeah, I have made a bigger mess you can't Get to the piece without getting into the chaos in my opinion when you're doing this because I mean if my husband wasn't working right now I'd have him come in and tell you guys in our old house especially because my art room was really small I do not know how many times I filled up the hallway with all the stuff that was in the art room I think I talked about this last week He would come home from work and just shake his head trying to get in the Back door from the garage because I had filled up the hallway with everything that was in the art room Hey, lisa Because I had emptied out the entire art room and but the problem with doing it that way is then it took me You know a week to put it all back. I'm not sure about these I don't know why I have them But they look interesting enough for me to if I'm unsure About letting them go then I keep them This is interesting we'll keep that These are like suspender clips so And these four pacifier clips These are actually pacifier clips Yeah, I probably Natalie. I probably bought them for junk journaling now These are pacifier clips and they're the kind of clip That when you push this flat piece of metal down this locks So once you do that it's not going anywhere and then it has this loop on the back so that you can hang a ribbon or something Yeah, yep. Okay, so I and I do like these so I do think I'm going to keep them. They don't need to live in the plastic bag But anyway, I want to you know, I just want to encourage you all that you know If you're happy with your space the way it is cool if you're not Then just take you know one drawer or bin at a time and go through it and Sort and organize get rid of some stuff if it's not making you happy If you spent money on it you can't afford to just get rid of it and or donate it then you know Put it into a purge box or something and sell it in an etsy shop Or there's a lot of facebook groups for letting go of old Supplies and things that are no longer making you happy. So I'm going to keep these now our bin is almost full Do I need to keep all of these probably not so I'm going to put a few of them up here and get rid of them Evidently I went on a binder clip rampage um, and you know what I'm going to Grab a few Because I have room in my drawer that kind of make me happy the rest are going to go these I'll I'll show you why I don't need these. I did not know those were in there Or at least I didn't remember they were in there in case you thought that was all of it. It's not all of it So I have bigger clip clips and s hooks here these um By the door I have an old nightstand for my daughter's bedroom and there's a drawer there that I store just random bits I don't need often um and here Yeah, so I have all of these Which these are the same Yeah, they're like a curtain hook. I use them for holding my Stencils to my rack It just keeps coming So what I thought today is I'm going to just tackle one category so And then deal with that one category The already said I don't like him so Nothing wrong with him. I just don't care for they have these little like Things on the end. Can you see that? And you have to remember to like flip them in this way Otherwise you get a weird mark on your page. They just make me they make me crazy The s hooks are a conversation for a different day, but I have too many of those also We're not going to do anything with them today How many of you know what that is and that does that just crack you up? That is a Adapter for my ipod ipod not pad ipod Doc for my ipod speaker, which I don't even use anymore Like yeah, okay, and then this random. I don't We have so many wrenches. I think that just needs to go I don't even know why it's so hard. So this is where the like big giant clips live And this is also where the small weights are going to live And they'll live in the drawer over there But wait You thought that was all of it, right? So I have more than just these two bags of these so I'm going to tell you what I use these for what they were originally for And if you guys want any You should let me know we can like have you just pay for postage or something so Um, I have two led lights in this room for lighting. Otherwise this room is not very well lit Um, and we haven't replaced the light fixture yet um One of them is on a stand and so when I move the stand I have these the pole. It's like a tripod pole So the pole isn't very um Thick around So I clip the wires for like the webcam And the power cord for the ipad because it's plugged in right now To the pole for the light with these and it keeps them Attached to the pole. It actually does a very good job for what I use it for Do I need like eight bags of them? No So these when my daughter and her husband bought a house these were some of Many things that were left in the house It was kind of a hoarder house to be honest The parents passed away and the kids got rid of the house. Anyway These are plant clips. These are intended for intended for using in the garden for clip clipping plants to stakes clipping vines to you know When you are like growing like peas you want to clip them up to the like a fence or something behind the peas That's what these are supposed to be for. I find them great for clipping cords out of the way in the art room I don't even need these two bags of them Much less the other four or five or six bags that are in the other closet because I do have a lot of these Trellis, that's it. Thank you. Kathy because you know, god forbid I should remember the English or anything Anyway, these were great and even for the cord for the um Heat gun where it is right now I could clip this like this to the side of the shelving or table next to me and run the cord through the Clip because it's got this space big space for clipping to a trellis. These work really great in the art room I just don't need this many of them This is ridiculous So some of them have got to go and I have again. I have a lot more than this So if you guys need any of these, let me know because they're all going to go But yeah, I'm going to keep this bag of clips with these little brown ones that don't need to have them I used to get these little clips at Daiso and they Have a bigger one too that I have on another rack. I used to dry papers those. I'm not going to get rid of They work great, but you can also buy them on amazon Yeah clipping tomatoes to the cage. Yeah, they're great. I mean I will probably I mean listen, Kathy, you know very well um, I live in Oregon It is not a bright sunny state And I live next to the woods so Growing tomatoes here. I'm lucky if I get like five tomatoes We keep trying, but we don't get enough sun And I can't put them in the front yard where we get more sun because then the deer will just eat them all If somebody wants any like there is a lot of them So I'm going to let all of these are going to go away I need a something to stick them in You would think I'd have a box around here somewhere But no But no, I don't know do I maybe let's see temporarily put them in this box Okay, Laura. See you later So if you have a stash of something like this And you're wanting to clean and purge your art room Just do the one category. It takes just a few minutes And bam you're done Yeah, so I might want to do something like that in the front yard with the tomatoes provided the HOA isn't going to like say anything bad about it Okay, now should we work on a journal page now? So this is my mole skin. I have a video on how I like expanded the spine Because you know, it's getting really fat We did this quick page last week When I was cleaning I found some jelly prints with my art foamies That I forgot I did and I want to use in the book. So we're going to use Some or all of these Um, I think I'm just going to use A glue stick They do um So yeah, see look Because they're so big they open a really wide See So especially if you have journals like mine that tend to get really chunky These work really well. I mean, it's a night and it's a nice sturdy strong clip I just don't need six or eight bags of them. That's like that's crazy private message me and Anyway, okay, so we're gonna start with We're gonna start with that one maybe Does he want to be on there he might want to be on there So this is one of my art foamies one of the zombie doll art foamies and I printed Him on here and then I wrote Don't wait in the dark make your own solution I don't know why I wrote that on there, but okay So I'm not gonna fussy cut him. I'm gonna tear him out And this is a page that last week I just um Wiped paint brushes and stuff off on From another project I was working on and I'm just Let's see putting my finger here so I don't tear too far into the design I'm sure this is not new to you. You guys probably are like, yeah, yeah, I've done that I also want to encourage you while we're sitting here chatting and I'm tearing paper You know, if you're reorganizing your art space again because hello, we can't go anywhere And you want to get your space sorted so that it makes you happy and you can be creative and you can get your frustrations and feelings and emotions out in a healthy way in your art all which are all good things Um, you don't have to spend a lot of money You know, one thing I do is really try to use what I have around the art space See if I have something else I can repurpose from another room That's maybe not working so well in that other room, but maybe it would work really well in my art space But there's also a lot of affordable solutions out there Um, some of which are from dollar the dollar tree I think now just he fits just barely Kathy Once I tear the excess paper off There is a smaller version of this um when you um look at the art foamy's page and the smaller one would probably work better on here Um, but of course that's not the one that I used Ooh lemon curl nice Natalie. We all want to come to your house now All right, so now I have my gouache paints out next to me My acrylic gouache. There's some water soluble gouache tubes in here. It's my tubes. There we go tubes I'm feeling like because of what it says on here I'm okay with the dark colors in the background, but I Feel like he needs to have like a glow behind him. So I'm thinking this color will work yellow orange light. This is Blick matte acrylic And I'm going to use the paint that's in the lid I should probably put my glasses on because you know, there we go. Oh, hey, that's brighter. I can see that better Now when I do art journal if you've been watching me for a while, you know this already I'm not about necessarily covering the entire page I think that if you have a page that is like an old plan or like this one is The texture of the printing in the background. It just makes things interesting I almost went to go put this away and drop it in my cup of water next to me I don't think that's what I meant to do Yeah, that's better Okay, um Oops, let's do This is black And then I have gray It's off the brush sort of a little bit kind of Yeah, these are matte acrylics. So when they dry they're going to be, um Very flat and so then it makes it really easy to draw over and journal on top of Well, it looks like that's the color I used in the background. So bonus Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, and then we'll take some black, but I want a different mark making tool Let's see I'm going to use this Will it work? I don't know. We'll find out We'll use the back of this card Now in case you missed it before anybody asks, these are the protective caps off of a bunch of new paint brushes I just bought I just glued them all together It's not perfectly flat. So you get sort of an imperfect mark, but I'm okay with that You'll notice I'm not doing a lot right here. That's because I know that's where he's going to go. So Yeah, all right. So now it's time to dry Oh helps if I turn the power on That's another thing if you guys are feeling like, you know, as part of what's happening with the world You're getting, you know, forgetful and sort of losing it You're not alone. It's part of the stress Get out those art supplies clean your art space Keep yourself busy And turn off the news I'd say that with love in my heart and as somebody who's a fellow sufferer I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder among other things a long time ago I am currently unmeditated and have been for a long time I have Emergency things if I need them but haven't needed them. That one's dry, but Completely but that's okay So now let's get this Little guy glued on So the trick with using a glue stick in your journal A lot of glue that's the only trick use a lot of glue So I'm going to glue the back of him And then I'm going to glue the page And then I'm going to take my spreader And if there's any paid places where I missed It is I really like it and you know, you don't again you don't need You know expensive stuff to make interesting marks in your art I missed putting glue in these one spaces. So that always happens. So then I just put some and then Do this um My favorite some of my favorite marketing tools are homemade ones I do have a lot of rubber stamps including some of my own designs and one of the things I did yesterday I talked about in my friends chat and there's pictures of things coming out in the february Use it or lose it video But I went through all my rubber stamps and I got rid of a large priority about mailbox full of rubber stamps And I pulled some out and once a month I'm going to pull out different ones To use in my art because I love my rubber stamps and I love my rubber stamps that I own and I've designed and let me turn off that automatic so one of the things that I um Love or my rubber stamps and the one I've designed but if they're stuck in the closet, I'm not using them So I pulled them out and every month I'm going to pull out different ones and we're going to use some of them in the art Yeah, art is definitely my medicine kathy and that's what helps keep me from going off the deep end And I don't say that lightly bubble wrap works too and like This one is another favorite And maybe we'll maybe we'll use this one. This is just glued together pieces of cardboard packaging It's all this is so then and I usually do this on a piece of card or You know or sometimes I'll break out one of my jelly plates and I'll use it like an ink pad See It's just glued together pieces of cardboard with a little tiny piece in between the bigger pieces So that they're spaced apart to make these lines That's all it is So kathy same I I but over the years. I really kind of gotten real and honest with myself When I first did my first purge of rubber stamps, it was all the holiday stuff So other than this last christmas where I did the december daily, but I did it a unique kind of way I don't like making christmas stuff. You can't see it. Oh, yeah, hold on So that's what this does So the first when I first did my first purge. I just got rid of all the holiday stuff because I don't enjoy doing holiday cards or holiday Things um probably because I did a lot of holiday craft shows back in the day As I'm sure we all did trying to sell our arts and crafts and make a little money And it just wasn't really my thing So those were easy to get rid of and then over the years I just looked at You know, I would save things I wasn't sure of like with any of the purges I've done And then if they were still here, you know after a year, but I hadn't used them. Maybe it was time to let them go Not unlike that closet thing where you Refresh because I can see it on the camera it's nothing but um Camera issues today. Anyway, it's not unlike that closet thing where you do with your clothes where If you follow some of the methods they have you turn all your hangers backwards And then as you wear the clothes you turn it the other the hang or the other way and at the end of a year Anything that's still hanging backwards Is stuff you haven't worn so maybe it needs to go away. It's the same kind of idea It's just you know, the last couple weeks with youtube and you stream And I think we had problems didn't we the other day on zoom kathy. It's just been crazy Anyway, that was these lines here that was done with this. This is just this is a priority mailbox And when I glued them together You know, I wanted one end flat So I did it on the table And I would take a big piece glue a little piece to it take the next big piece Flat on the table and glued it You know so that I did it like pressed up against the table so that the bottom part would be flat I also like bottle caps for making marks and I evidently have a lot of them and that's I don't think that's a good thing But some of them had to go like that was crazy You can't you shouldn't save everything make do the bin system And you know give yourself a bin like the drawer of clips and once it gets full You need to either purge it or use it before you can get more I'm right there with you wanting to save every single box that comes through the house because I can Quote and quote use it for something But then my house is just full of boxes that I never use so that's That's what the recycle bin is for Or friends that maybe need a box It's weird the camera issues are very strange There is an update for my computer. I have an iMac Um, it asked me this morning when I glued it up to get ready for today If I wanted to do the update I am not doing the update right before alive I am not that crazy I'll do it after we're done. Let's find some words. Um, oh do we even need words? I don't know maybe let's get the words out just in case So this is how I store all my words. I use words in lots of my art And these are pencil pouches from Dollar Tree and I've just used some of the cable binder clip things these To clip a bunch of them together and then I have different kinds of words in each pouch And laura gregain and I were chatting the other day With kathy and she was we were talking about the t-bag quotes kathy. Yeah, there's more downstairs. I have plenty to share Maybe I'll put some in the patron in the patron envelopes That might be a good idea Right. So no, yeah, I was not going to do that right before I went live I thought that was kind of not a bright idea I'll do it later So these are um word downloads from my etsy shop Ooh There's a word that sticks right out Right out to me right there now. Do I have Maybe in the tim holtz big chat stickers. Let's see. I could spell have because I have these Yeah, this is a great I use this all I've been using this for two years like this it is a If you're like me you have a lot of letters and word stickers And I don't use them for scrapbooking anymore. I use them for art journaling That being said they were all over the place And this works great for me I should be using tweezers for this and I should have my glasses on but One edit two isn't bad Because it's going to come out crooked, but that's okay So again, this was inexpensive. This is from the dollar tree and any pencil pouches will work I liked these because they're clear on both sides And I have like miscellaneous stuff here. This is all tim holtz big chat stickers I think there's some of the little chat stickers in here too basically tim holtz These are um cards and um Some things in here that don't belong But that's okay. Um cards letter cards and word cards. I think these might also be from ranger These are teabag quotes and fortune cookies These are things I've printed or cut out of magazines and these are Fat words printed on fabric These are things I've punched or printed on my computer Yeah, so it's the same idea so you can just flip through it and go oh, I want to use that or oh I think I want to use one of these you can just flip through it easily rather than digging through a pile The digging through a pile is okay for me for some things, but not everything Okay, is that dry? Yep So we can turn the page and do another one So that's how that page turned out. I'll be sharing it later on social media It was quick and easy your pages don't have to be complicated I am going to need a clip now because Yeah, don't tell it. I said that okay So now we have all these other ones here Ew, I like this one There's another zombie guy I found I'm only using these zombie ones because I found a big stack of them just so you all know And I do want to use them all in pages Um, and then there was this one that you can't this is an art foamy on a gel plate You probably can't read it because it's red on pink, but it says my love is uh Let's see my love is as bright as the moon and the stars I don't know why I wrote that on here. I have no idea. I don't want this too pink Maybe that one The message on him is not great says dead to me Love the red and green one this one. Yeah, I'm thinking this guy. I have this one too Okay Yeah, and and you know again, you could use your shoebox you could use a um Cardboard mailing box that you got something in the mailing And just organize them maybe in clear plastic folders You could make the clear plastic folders out of clear plastic packaging materials from something else The bright one Oh, this one this one Kathy you guys tell me which one This one This one, okay I don't know what it's going to say, but we'll use that one again I'm going to tear the edge closer to the paint in the background We don't need all this white paper And again, this is just a wipe off page from something else that I was doing that I was filming And so if I want to I can just cover the whole background with another color because it's not that big a deal Because that's just I don't like to have the paint to get wasted And this is a moleskin journal that I work in so the paper is pretty thin So that extra layer of matte Matte acrylic paints or matte gouache paints kind of acts like gesso And looking at this I might use Yeah, this one in the background with some white Yep He's a skeleton. So he's part of the zombie doll set You get the big one I shouldn't say that he's part of the zombie doll series There's this one. There's one with stitching lines. And then there's the skeleton I don't remember if the set has two or three in it, but You guys can look it up on the r-phomies website I feel like my brain isn't fully engaged today. Is anybody else feeling that way? Of course I will say I feel that way more often than not. Thank you coated How cute would that be on here? We do some of this paint in the background I've got this color Like what if we change the background up a little bit? I have a These are probably the colors I used on there. I do think I'm gonna want a gift card Yeah, you so just so you know you guys aren't alone You know, I keep making fun of myself because I keep saying that You know, I can't remember the words for things. It's a stress thing and You know, I don't have the luxury of some people like um My friend, I know Laura. I don't know about you darling, but I know Laura speaks French um I don't have the luxury of some of you that know other languages. I barely know English On a good day And you know when things are tough the way they are right now like I just feel like a moron because I can't remember anything. I was trying one day to remember The word buffering because youtube was just being ridiculous And I couldn't remember what it was called to save my life It was just stupid That's probably too much over there over that red, but that's okay So I'm lucky to know how to say sprakensi English So in german and that's only because we went there and I had to say it a lot So I want to make it look more uneven I'm this is I'm just getting in here with a baby white Let's see I'm kind of liking getting this mark making tools thing out. I think we've done that in like five million years Let's get a silicone tool Ooh, let's get this out. Is this still wet maybe some of it is This is a silicone scraper tool. I took three years of french in high school, but I don't remember any Which is funny because I think I got a b in the class But that was a long time ago I don't know what this page is supposed to say Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, my husband used to I guess sing different songs taught by his dad In german. I don't know that he remembers any of them His dad Was born in hamberg He's passed away now. But yeah so this is a hair coloring brush I want to have it be like in the same idea as the jelly plate print you um When you are using your stamps and stencils in your journals, of course, you can do them right in the journal But sometimes it's nice to do a bunch of prints on this is just plain dollar store drawing paper and then Go through the prints afterwards and figure out which ones you like like I did And then paste them into your journal and kind of try to match the background to what's going on in the drawing dry it Yeah, my husband's always saying other than the song that he sang as a kid The only other german words he recognizes are bad words And he doesn't speak any german songs. The question is do I want to that's pretty busy I have a that's a great question. I have a bin of painting papers And all my painting papers live in the bin And again, I do the bin system because I know me. I'll just save one of everything And that'll make it so that I don't use any of it and so Once the bin gets full then I have to pull things out and either Sell them give them away or use them So fun fact, I don't do a ton of painting papers unless I'm running low That's better So I use the target why weave bins Um, this is this one here next to me is the small one where the gouache paints are in I use the medium size one for things like Painty papers So you can look on line and see how big that is. It's about I don't know 12 by like 14 And it's probably six inches deep Oh, look at him. He looks great on that page I like that. Okay. Now. What does he need to say though? Let's see what speaks to us Sometimes it takes me longer to find what needs to be on the page than it does to create the page See, I have to stop doing this. I buy like pads of words Because oh words. Oh, they're cheap at the dollar store It doesn't mean they need to come home with me. Let's see what's on here. Let's see Did you get that should say that that's funny These are Teresa some Teresa Collins um words Well, maybe there's two sentences on here though that fit So the first one says time flies in the blink of an eye And then I think that question did you get that? That speaks to me today. That's pretty funny So one of the reasons I have these in here is because I'm messy and even with those in I sometimes get paint on the prior page And so yeah, that's like a thing like I mess up my pages all the time. Good thing. I don't care if they're not perfect Also, evidently, there was some white glue on there. There we go See I got a little pink. That's fine No worries, Kathy. Um, so I have A bin so I do do the bin system and I have a bin of painting papers And so I don't do a lot of jelly prints Unless that bin is running low When I am wanting to do some more jelly prints If the bin is full then I go through the bin and I do some purging and I don't throw them away I usually pass them on to somebody who can use them or I pull them out like I did these Knowing that I want to use these in the journal To use them up. I have a tray that's over that way behind the iPad You'll see in an upcoming video That lives on the end of the table, which is where tools and supplies that I want to use up Or make a point of using going forward That's where the rubber stamps are That's where there is a folder of painting papers and bits and bobs that I want to use That's also where all the journals that I'm currently working on are Everything else is in the bin or I don't have it Yeah, so the lime green the lime green was perfect and that was Um, turner acrylic gouache in the color. I don't know because I don't want my glasses on again Oh Jay green light is what it says. I don't know what the j stands for but it says color 343-a But this is just the lime green He's cute. I like that page But yeah, so I have a bin and it's it's the I use the target why we've been for storage And this one here with the paint in it This one here with my journal. These are my art journaling paints. They're all matte finish or gouache paints Um This is the small why we've been I use a medium one for painting papers And yeah, so if the bin gets full Then I make journals and then I'll list them in the etsy shop or I'll just make envelopes of paper and Send them off to friends or sell them in the etsy shop or something like that But yeah, the bin system works really well for me. I mean Everybody's different, but I can even show you hold on because I can get the bin. I know where it's actually works at I don't even think it's going to fit on camera So the and it's labeled on the end. So it says painted papers copies dryer sheets wipes paint skins transparencies and dead canvas So all of that sort of diy Junkie collage paper stuff is in here So there's distress papers um paint skins Dead canvas just means a painting that I did that I didn't like that I took off the canvas and the fabric is good for a journal cover Um, these kind of what are these? These are like prayer papers I don't know I got from somewhere they live in this there's wrapping paper Old wallpaper When I do things for the etsy shop I have to make color copies and so then If I think I can use the copy it goes in here copies of journal pages Things printed on old typewriter paper This makes a great collage paper. Maybe I'll pull one of those out to use um more copies plastic packaging material this is um tie back envelope It's painted and inked and then melted with a heat gun Oh, that's a good one Kathy Maybe I'll type that up and add it So that's all of this stuff this this whole thing. There's some sun prints in the bottom Painted tags, but yeah, this bin is full right now. So that means I can't add too much more to it And if you haven't seen it, I have cube storage. It's behind the camera. So I have a wall of um low cube storage And the bins fit in the cubbies Each cub each square has two bins in it for the most part The ones on the bottom just have one big bin Your old paper shrinks and wrinkles on the gel plate um What kind of old paper now before I try to answer that question So depending on what the paper is while I'm waiting for a response It could just be because of the water and the paint is reacting that way with the paper And um, sometimes the paper gets, you know, when it dries it gets wavy And the best way to solve that is just let go ahead and let it dry and then turn it Paint side down on your ironing board and just iron it Typing cotton typing paper. Yeah, I would just iron it Because it probably because it wasn't really meant to get wet Now this is old typing paper, but I um Put it through my printer rather than print right on it um If you have a paper you're not sure of the content or how much heat it can take I would maybe put it between um, some muslin or some kind of scrap cotton fabric for pressing pressing cloth or scrap thicker paper But don't get the iron too hot until you know how much heat it can take But I would just iron them flat when I do inky papers I'll show you hold on Okay, I did these recently because I was using up some old ink and and um paint And all of these these are first of all dollar store drawing paper So not the best paper on the planet But it's nice and thin and so when you go to collage with it It works great and doesn't add a ton of bulk to your book At one number one you get a whole pad of it for a dollar number two um, and it does really well With absorbing The paint and ink Now these I crinkled these up into a ball Then spread them back out flat then got them wet and let them dry in a cookie sheet They were wrinkly as hell and they still are a little bit, but once they were completely dry I took them off the cookie sheet and I ironed them flat and so now they're all pretty flat now Some of them were more wrinkly than others, but where all of this um ink Is darker that's where the wrinkles were Now I did iron it on a pressing cloth between a pressing cloth until I was sure that Not the paper I knew the paper could take it but that the ink Wouldn't rub off on my iron because I also sew and I didn't want ink All over my iron But that being said it they ironed fabulously and yeah, some of them are Really pretty on the back some of them got you know more water than others But yeah And this was like, you know, sometimes you're painting and you have You know ugly paint water Or you have a palette with leftover paint on it if it's water soluble You can add water to the palette and then sort of squeegee it off into a small container or jar Add some more water to that makes sort of an inky painting mixture with it and That's how I did these and in case you're wondering because you didn't get that explanation When I'm water coloring or sometimes art journaling if I'm using water soluble paints like watercolor gouache of some of which are in This bin somewhere. Well, I can't find them right now, but Anyway, I have some watercolor gouache I do use when I'm painting and I have a tendency to put a dot or three or ten on this mixing plate When I'm done with my page If I don't want to let the paint dry on the palette and reuse it again because I can reconstitute it with water right, um If I don't want to use it again and I want to just wipe the plate instead of wiping it and just throwing the paint away I will get the paint on the paint on the palette really wet mix it all together scrape it up off the palette And then I will get a jar And I will dump the inky painting water off into the jar Add some extra water. That's what what is in here Put the lid back on give it a shake It comes out some sort of bluey gray color because you're mixing all these different colors together you're gonna Get some kind of neutral, but then when you want to do painting just make sure before you do this the lids on tight Trust me on that mix a mess And just you give it a good shake And then you have this nice bluey gray color that you can just distress some papers with You don't have to you know, one of the things this channel is going to be about going forward for sure Is just encouraging you all that you know Yes, if you want to buy new tools and supplies Go for it because they're great if you can afford it and it's in your budget You don't have to you want to make inky painted papers Cool use your leftover paint like if I was really more with it. I could scrape this off and get it watery Distress your papers with your leftover paint. I had a dried up fountain pen not long ago yeah and um The cartridge that was in there had ink in it, but it was dry and it wouldn't work So I put a new cartridge in it and I was going to throw the old one away and I thought there is some ink in there So I took one of those little jars. I put it in the jar I put some water in the jar and you know what it reconstituted the ink and I was able to distress some papers with that Even if you don't want to use paint water So you could use again the dried up paint on your palette You know if you like to stress papers You don't have a lot of them and you've painted a journal page like this one And you've got paint on your palette before you put it away put the journal to the side Get your pad of dollar store paper out or whatever you're using to make your painting distress papers with Put that on there with some water to stress a few sheets until you clean off the palette Let them dry along with the journal page and if you do that every time pretty soon You're going to have a good decent selection of painting papers You can also use coffee tea Um, I've I boiled a bunch of avocado pits recently and I got this interesting color I'll be using hopefully sometimes soon. We may do that on the next slide. We'll reduce some some papers It'll be interesting because you guys won't be looking down at the table If I do that you'll be looking from the side because I have this whole like way of drying the papers and it requires lots of walking around and All of that stuff And I love vintage typing paper to go back to nel's question The vintage typing paper is great because you do have some thinness It collages down really well But I would definitely put it between some dollar store drawing paper or some cotton before you try to iron it flat um But yeah, it probably can't take the water content of the paint that you used to print on it with And that's why it's um wrinkly and warped um Cool. Yeah, I have this whole like clothing drying rack thing that I yeah, so Maybe we'll do that next week I like the challenge of using the vintage papers in my art and I like the challenge of Working with paper that's not intended to be used with water mediums. Um, when I first started watercoloring I used um Drawing paper to watercolor on it. You shouldn't really do that, but it was interesting Yeah, and Kathy was saying he should say just another day in paradise. I don't think she's wrong I'm having a vintage typewriter behind the off camera We'll see if we can get it to work today It's an vintage manual typewriter Yeah, so they do sometimes and when you have a textured paper it's sometimes difficult to jelly print with I try to embrace the flaws like in this one But sometimes it's just frustrating Um, if you want a thin paper, but your vintage typing paper isn't working because it's too textured like there's definitely a texture to this um, maybe try printing with deli paper instead or um tissue paper Although I think the tissue paper would wrinkle or tear trying to lift it I think you'd be better off with the deli paper. Oh, thank you. This is vintage typing paper I just printed one of my older designs um on with the computer this fun fact is a design That was from the old Happy mail and letter journaling days for from crazy island family who remembers that and this is Design that went out to somebody that I did. I liked it so much. I scanned it before I sent it off Who remembers all that one of one of you all How how's that out there if you still kept it? um, so deli paper you can get deli paper in a lot of different places um, I don't want this here somewhere um But it needs to be smaller. Um, I usually go to someplace like smart and final but you can get it at Fred Meyer The grocery store really Yeah, that works So, yeah, anybody who remembers crazy island family, um, ha happy, uh, what it what is it letter journals and and Happy mail days. This was on an envelope that I sent off to somebody back in the day And this right here homemade marketing tool that's cardboard packaging. I still have that one So you're right. Kathy. He didn't need to say that So it says time flies in the blink of an eye. Did you get that just another day in paradise? I love that. That's perfect So in the vintage typing paper, by the way, I just happened to like be out thrifting back in the day when we could all still do that and I was at um, a shop that I didn't think had any um, office supplies and I turned a corner and they had a pack of vintage typing paper Two packs of avery label paper and a and something else I don't remember and I was like, um, I'll take that and I think the whole bundle of it was like a dollar Now I am going to flatten the wet paint on this card that I use is it like a makeshift palette because the back of it has this print on it and I like to kind of use that on something someday So deli paper is just thin. I can show even show you a sheet heather actually in the whole box um The other thing you might find that works like part like deli paper. Okay. This is deli paper. This is um I got this at a restaurant supply store a long time ago And I still have most of the box It had 500 sheets in it. That's a lot of deli paper. So if you get a box like this, you probably don't need to buy more than one Um, that makes great palette paper great paper for doing jelly prints You also can do parchment paper The parchment paper is a little thicker Than the deli paper. You can see you can see the kind of see the difference But they're the same idea This is parchment paper sheets. So instead of a roll it's on sheets Um, and this is from fredmeyer aka kroger This one is from the restaurant supply store So if you have one of those near you and if you're not in the us I don't know if you even have those at all. But here we have things like smart and final And um other different kind of cash and carry And they carry deli paper big boxes like this Yeah, so the parchment paper is a little thicker and it's not going to like disappear as much lease is not wrong The deli paper once you get it wet with a medium and you glue it down it barely shows The vintage type of paper typing paper tends to react like the part the deli paper The problem is as was pointed out earlier It's it's a bit of a textured paper So if you want a deli print directly on it and then use that on your page You probably need to iron it and try to get it a little flatter or just be okay with the fact that it's wrinkly And once the paint dries on it, it may wrinkle even more. So you probably need to iron it some afterwards Yeah, so Good thing I had him because we were doing some baking the other day We were literally out of tin foil and I'm like wait, I have parchment paper upstairs Both of those usually live over by my painting easel because I usually use them for makeshift palettes That way I'm not constantly washing things out in the sink and the sink Um, they're big Say I'm here. Oh, yeah it does 10 in three quarters by 15 inches So they're big But you definitely could cut them in half and if your husband has that like a table saw You could just bring the box home and have him chop it in half before you even bring it upstairs No worries, Lisa You have scale paper. Is that the kind of paper darling that they Put on the scales like at the grocery store before they weigh things I am not a huge fan of using tissue paper because It rips very easily and So I usually use deli paper that doesn't mean I don't have tissue paper, but um I find deli paper or parchment a lot more um versatile Well, Kathy he and my husband could be friends because you know That's all I can say about that That's a cute image. It's going to end up in something at some place at some point All right. I think that's it for the minute But yeah, you don't need to have fancy stuff to do art journaling again packaging These are packaging materials that normally would have gone in the trash These are the two to the caps off a bunch of um paint brushes You could use straw you could do this with straws So you could get a bunch of straws and they come in different sizes Um drinking straws come in different sizes You could collect them in different sizes and glue them together And then this is just literally pieces of a priority mailbox glued together with little smaller pieces in between as spacers Yeah, when it's safe So yeah, so it's the size of copy paper, but it's the stuff they use on. Yeah, that would work Any thin paper will work And again when you print with it if if it prints and it comes out afterwards It's all like wrinkly wrinkly Get out your iron your if you're like me, you know iron your clothing I don't iron my clothing if I need clothing iron. I give it to my husband's iron fun fact I have an iron up here. I use it for crafting Um, I use it for ironing paper and stuff the occasional fabric project that Um, I iron the paper flat if it comes out wrinkly and I need to collage it down into a journal and my favorite collage paper jelly print paper again is From the dollar store It's dollar store drawing paper You too everybody have a great day. We do have again a sale going on in the etsy shop for stamps and stencils I'm not going to stop making them. I'm not, you know For no other reason than we're just trying to reduce inventory a little bit to reduce overhead I'm still going to be having them available Stamps that are currently sold out will at some point be Available shipped to you direct from the manufacturer Um, I just don't need to carry as many of them in stock So they are up for sale until the 20th of february. 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