 Hey guys, how are you today? All right, so I'm gonna start off by being really honest with you I am filming this a couple of days before Christmas. I know right so I have to work on finishing my or working in my last journal for 2016 But that's not why we're here today. So I'm gonna that's what this is. This is my last journal for 2016 I talked about these journals in the Startup videos So if you want to see more about these journals and what I'm using why I'm using it what works What doesn't go look at the getting started document in the file section of the group This is the last one for this year This is November and December and I've got a few random bits and pieces here. I need to stick in here and I need to I've been just sticking pieces and I haven't done much actual writing. I've done a little bit So I need to work on that later today, but not right now That's another bit or piece that's gonna go in there Today we're here to discuss the January prompt and to work in our journal for 2017 with the January prompt now The January prompt is confetti bubbles and bling Interesting, what do you do with that? Right? So the premise behind this prompt is to celebrate and embrace the incoming new year, right so Think of yourself as having a party in your journal a new year's party in your journal, right? this is my 2017 journal for those who don't know and Let's see. I don't know if it's right set up or not. Let's see. Oh, yeah, maybe Yeah So it is a It's a faux midori journal or traveler's notebook. It's from Amazon and again, there is Information about it in the getting started Document and the videos I am noticing that this little brass thing should be up here So I'm gonna have to switch that around I won't do it right now but I have some different little random pockets in here to hold little bits and pieces a pen and Let's get started and let's go to our January section which is right here And this is the card that we tipped in for December To get started for our new year, which is our little sketchy girl that we did With all of her little inspirational words and symbols on her Kind of our our girl full of goals and hopes and dreams for the year, right? So now we're gonna use the prompt confetti bubbles and bling to decorate our journal and I'm gonna start out really simply by Grabbing let's see. Let's grab a metallic getting the I'm getting the impulse. Let's grab a metallic gel pen I'm gonna just quickly grab a few colors because I don't know what color I'm gonna want to use Jelly roll house some really great metallic gel pants, so let's grab some of them I'm kind of wanting to go with this dark red one And I'm gonna go right on January 1st and write happy new year here my dog barking Somebody's in the front yard. Okay, and then I'm gonna put a big exclamation point Yeah, I love that and I don't know if you'll be able to see that on camera But it's just a little bit sparkly You don't have to go hog wild and crazy on this but you know add a little bit of sparkle and shine to your journal when you Can I do have I want to let that dry just a little bit. It's wet And I do have these gel highlighters. We may may or may not put some of that on there But I like that. Okay, so now we're gonna go and we're gonna take something square I happen to have these Zentangle cards because way back when I thought I was gonna be really into zentangling. I have a whole stack of them and Save over the holiday and the crisp and New Year's parties If you're going out to any events for the holidays for Christmas for whatever holiday you celebrate or New Year's You know all around you you're gonna find Hopefully you're gonna get some gifts that might be Chris wrapping paper involved There might be confetti involved little bits of sparkle and bling save them. I Recently got a package that had this creeper wrapped around it Actually inside out which was interesting, but when I ripped it open Look at all that sparkle and shine and little chair type angels on it. So what I want to do is I want to cover The back Kind of rip off a piece And if you've seen my post on social media lately, yeah, my desk is still this I'm going to cover the back of this coaster where it says all that bit about zentangle on that backside with this fun sparkly paper And what I'm going to do is just use double stick tape So I'm going to run the tape as close to the edge as I can get it and then Get a little bit in the middle kind of line it up with the edge There we go, and then cut it out now if you have Gone to a party or an event and you have tickets you could save the tickets and put them in your journal if you have Confetti you can save a few pieces of that and put it in your journal Really look at what's around you when you're out and about with your family And you don't have to make a huge deal out about it just you know I tended to just grab a few bits and pieces here and there and shove them in my handbag and Most of the time they don't even notice. I've grabbed things and put them in to put in my journal Okay, so we've started out by making a point of celebrating the day by writing happy new year love that I am also going to go in here And one of the things I've been trying to do with all my journals for 2016 and I'm going to continue to try to do it for 2017. I'm really bad about birthdays like really really bad But I do have a couple birthdays in January and as the month goes on I do want to mark them One is my little sisters, which I'm pretty sure is the ninth and then my dad's which I think is the 14th So as they go along as as the month goes along and I they pop up on my YouTube. I'm sorry my Facebook Page I want to make sure that I take a point Make a point of writing their birthdays in here and to celebrate their birthday And if I can figure out their days ahead of time, of course I would write them ahead of time any special events that happen places we go if we go out on a date night I would make a note of that I wouldn't make a point of doing a ton of day-to-day journaling because that's not for me what my journal is about But that being said there's a calendar in here for a reason so I will mark down special things All right, so we're gonna get back to our card Remember confetti bubbles and bling, right? So we already have this shiny bling. You just love that. Isn't that cool? All right? Sorry, just dragged it So I'm going to just quickly let's zoom in here. So I want to just loosely and quickly Sketch a couple of Champagne flutes on this way You of course don't have to do this in pen if you aren't confident in your drawing skills There's nothing wrong with that do it in Pencil and then I'm gonna just draw some bubbles. I'm gonna take a small brush This is a snap Princeton snap Philbert number four Philbert. It's teeny tiny. See that? It's a little little And I just get it wet. This is the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen So when I get it wet it is going to bleed Which is one of the things I love about that now that being said it may not bleed a ton on this paper I'm actually not sure so we're trying this For the first time live on camera It's bleeding a little bit just to get my little bubbles wet Okay, we are going to go in and grab some I'm just gonna really quick grab a little bit of watercolor and I'm going to use Something that's sort of champagne-y colored, right? So I'm going to grab a little bit of the French ochre from my Daniel Smith muted palette and I haven't pre-wet my watercolors Or anything so that means they're going to be a little harder to Activate which is okay. I kind of I want that I don't want a ton of color. This isn't this is just a quick little Sort of piece of artwork, and I'm adding in so a little bit of the buff color Just that just that much nothing more than that now. I'm going to get out some this will work This is just some kind of chunky-ish gold glitter and I want to take some glue And I'm going to put the glue here on them on the plate. I'm going to mix in a bit of this glitter Which has never been opened This is like glitter shavings. It's like little hairs of glitter That's probably enough. I'm gonna get a different brush because for this I want something that I don't mind getting glitter stuck in And I'm going to mix The glitter and the glue together doing it this way ensures that Most of the glitter is going to stay on your piece and it's not going to come off Over everything else on your page. So I'm going to take my glitter and glue mixture and just Kind of dab it on the champagne flutes and The bubbles hopefully I can get some on the bubbles This brush might be a little bit big Well, we got it. Okay, I like that now before this dries Whoops Before this dries here. First of all, I'm going to take this and stick it in the soapy water And before this dries, I'm going to take a Baby white we're going to just do this now Of course, you could take this you could spread it on a piece of deli paper or something like that to use somewhere Else in your journal. You of course you could do that There's no wrong way there's only your way All right, so that's all clean now we can go back to our journal and We can tip in our little card Or do we want to stick it in a pocket? Nope, I Do have some of these pockets will be using at some point They're actually receipt pockets from Heidi swap and they are sticky on the back So they would be fun and will be fun at some point to use in the journal You could put part you could put event tickets in there Of course, you could put receipts in there. Maybe you're going on a vacation You could put stuff for your memory your vacation in here I always like to have some sort of sticky pockets and when I do take my journal traveling I take the a few pockets and I stick them somewhere in my journal either in here or in the zipper pouch And I take some with me always Because believe me they come in handy. So I think what we're going to do is tip this in I think I want to tip it In there you want to tip it in here See that's always the debate Maybe I want to just do it here Let's get some tape washi tape and You know, it's confetti bubbles and bling, right? So we're going to get some sparkly washi tape. I Have these two sparkly colors. I Don't remember where I got them some one of you is going to ask me but sparkly washi is all over the place No matter where you go if you find the washi tape section, especially at this time of year, you're going to find sparkly washi tape Whether you're at Daiso or you're at Hobby Lobby or you're at Michaels It's everywhere Getting it open might be a challenge But you know, I want the blue one. All right, of course I do So let's let's put this in with some sparkly washi tape Now if your washi tape isn't super sticky, then you want to make sure Also put some glue down there or some gel medium or something to ensure that it stays and it doesn't come off Not all washi tape is created equally and some of it's not super sticky And so then we go and flip it open and put another piece on the inside. It seems to be more like a fabric Tape again, I don't remember where I got it. Yep. I Like that. All right, and it will I mean it'll it's gonna flop open. Oh, let me zoom out It's gonna flop open like that for right now But once it's been closed in there for a little bit, it'll stay closed You just have to trust me on that. I am gonna take a little bit of the sparkly washi I think I have I want to do something else. So I got I picked up these craft paper banner ribbons at Hobby Lobby So I want to take some of these See if we can find the beginning And I want to take some of these and I want to use maybe the tape and these and I want to decorate Our January page here again, we're adding more sparkle and bubbles and bling So I'm gonna just cut off a strip of these Hear my devices blinging back there They're going crazy So I don't want to put a flag on the fold because then then things won't close correctly And I don't want to necessarily cover everything up, but I do want to put this on here. So we're going to just glue it in I'm gonna kind of place it and then Lift the little flags up stick a dot of glue back there Don't put too much glue because if you need to like move it around so that your journal closes You can move it, you know to the from side to side a little bit now the other teachers and I Are each as you all know by now we've changed the rules and procedures for this whole journaling program Recently and we'll discuss it while I'm here gluing these little flags in And we've created a special Facebook group just for the program It's called my year 2017 a link will be in the description below I am teaching this week And I believe Anne is teaching next week Cindy's Week after I will check for you Remember the lineup. I just know I'm the first week. So I had to get my button gear. Oh see right here I was gonna glue it over the elastic Whoops, so I want to make sure you know as the year goes on that I can take this January one out and put the next months in That means you need to be really careful about not gluing over the elastic, but putting things under the elastic Otherwise you're gonna have a trouble. Oh, I like that. That is cute. And yeah, that'll fold All right Let me get my planner. I'll be right back. Hey, I was right So I'm gonna teach for the first week of any given month Mott the week will start on the first Sunday of that month not on the first of the month the first Sunday My week will last in for until the Saturday and on Sunday the next Sunday And we'll post her video and her thoughts and she'll be sharing with you for the week After she's done it will be Cindy and then the fourth week of the month will be Jerry and If there is a fifth week in any given month, it'll be a free week and we will be posting randomness and sharing maybe some of your videos and things like that I did go into Facebook and I figured out my family birthdays for January and wrote them down so my sister La Maria and my brother-in-law Rich My little sister Elizabeth and my dad are all in January I am going to take something I have liked to do for 2016. I still like to do it It's still one of my favorite art journaling things and when I go on vacation. I bring these with me. These are Bible Bible high gliders there gel highlighter crayons meant for Bible journaling and I don't do that kind of journaling But I love these things. They're fabulous. They go on dry. They dry quickly So we're gonna use them here For the birthdays and I think we're gonna go with purple No, we're gonna go with pink and We are going to take the birthday days and we're gonna Just do that and then for new year. I think we're gonna do we have it's already bright and sparkly I don't know that we want to do anything. I think we're gonna just leave it Happy new year the way it is Maybe we'll take that same pen Don't overthink it just work in your journal and do what feels right have some fun playing with all those random products That you've got probably laying around in your art room and that you never use and work on them in here and have fun with it and See what you can come up with Now you can see right here. This is lifting. It's not sticking to the other washi tape So this is what I was talking about. So I'm gonna take some of the glue And I'm gonna put it underneath the tape and then I'm gonna push it down and This glue dries pretty quickly. So I'm gonna keep pushing it down for a little bit until it dries You could use gel medium. You could use You know, whatever you have on hand. This is just some generic adhesive clear adhesive glue from Tuesday morning You don't want to put glue on top of it because it may Eliminate some of the sparkle and we don't want to do that We like the sparkle and it's just I think because it is on the waxy plasticky washi tape down there Which it's not really liking sticking to I am gonna cut another piece of this off This sparkly tape the only thing about it that I'm not crazy about is that it doesn't It doesn't really tear I'm just listening to my impulses right now, which said that I wanted more tape on here So I'm adding more tape. I like that. It's just a randomness How's the month of January goes along and we do different events and visit certain people? I will be of course taking pictures with my phone. I do have an LG pocket photo printer, which is a small Printer hold on something stuck to my journal Which is a small printer that prints small photos like this I will try to remember to put a link in the description below and I will be taking pictures and I will be putting them in if we go to events and we get tickets or I get a present with a special gift tag on it over Christmas It'll either go in here or go in the other journal for the end of 2016 if we go visiting people and there are bits and pieces on the table or we go out to dinner I always pick up a business card and Stick them in my journal That sort of thing so I want you to think about picking up bits and pieces of your life as the month goes on Putting them in here and then writing about what you did that day It doesn't have to be a big, you know long essay just you know put a couple of sentences Take some pictures and put them in also see it's not wanting to stick so we're gonna I'm gonna work on that I'm gonna need some gel medium Alright, so when nothing else works I break out the heavy gel medium So let's do that All right So this is golden's heavy gel medium in matte Has been still is my favorite glue on the planet It'll stick anything to anything. I've even stuck smash pennies to my journals before with this glue You will take a random piece of deli paper Again, we don't want to get it on the front sparkly side. We just want to get it on the back side So we're gonna put some on this other washi tape. There we go We can slide it around the gel medium takes a long time to dry So you have plenty of time to slide things around But once it dries, I can guarantee you this isn't gonna go anywhere. I'm gonna wipe off the excess With a baby wipe and there we go You notice that the sparkly tape stuck really well to the zentangle card. It's this other washi tape That's on here. It's not wanting to stick to it. So sometimes you got to break out the big guns and Break out the extra heavy gel medium or heavy gel medium Golden makes not only heavy, but extra heavy Alright, clean off my palette. Alrighty So over the month think about adding bits and pieces of your life to your journal if you are Wanting to do more little drawings and doodles then do that You definitely could do something a sea lemon-esque and take your Calendar and do a little doodle in every day of the month if you're not sure what I'm talking about Go over to sea lemons YouTube channel and look up her any one of her doodle Videos she's got a couple of them up on her channel where she just doodles the whole calendar. They're really fabulous All right, that's it for this month go out and have some fun Don't forget the most important thing Couple more I should say I should edit myself a couple most important things because as I'm as I'm gonna say that my standard I'm thinking of another one. So one there's no right way. There's no wrong way There's only your way so whatever way you decide to do that do this journal for the year Whether you're doing it like I am or like one of the other teachers follow your heart listen to your muse and do what feels right for you and Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. All right, there we go bubbles and bling I've added some nice bling to my January page now I can't wait for New Year so I can get some pictures in here and I will make sure and do a flip Before we do anything for the next month's prompt and that's it for right now Everybody have a happy holiday and a happy New Year happy and safe one and I will see you later. Bye guys