 Okay, hey guys, we're here for another page in our December daily journal positive affirmation journal And if you're watching this part of it, and you're hearing me talk it's because you're over on patreon and I wanted to give you all a fully talked-through version of Doing a page of my journal, so we're gonna always start off with Or at least most of the time sometimes if we're good We're gonna try to start off with pulling a positive affirmation card keeping in mind as we're Pulling the card as we're mixing the cards in the bowl Sending it out there to the universe. Where do I need to focus my energy? What? positive Quality or affirmation do I need to be focused on what do I need to bring into my life right now? and Just in general or to help combat the stress of what's going on What do I need to focus on and and keep all those thoughts in mind as you're mixing the bowl and picking a card? And so then let's pick a card Confident well, that's something I have trouble with confidence I know some of you might doubt that but it's actually true. So that's our card confident put that there and I'm going to Go into my stickers That match and Just quickly up there it is right there find it right on top That can't be an accident. I don't believe in coincidence. So we're going to have those right there as we Work on in our book and on our next page Using Matt finished paints and glues in here So there should be little to no issue with pages sticking together And if there are it's because I let things dry enough before I close the book Which is you know a big possibility. All right, so we've got this open to this page The first thing we're going to do of course is put the date on it number six I have really been enjoying putting something sort of behind the date focal point. I've got You can't really see it on the camera, but I've got bits and pieces like surrounding me all around my desk is literally covered in stuff That's okay, I'm going to look for Something maybe this oh and this What if I did this? Yep, I like that. All right, so let's put Let's just put that there right now and let's get these stuck down I've been using either a glue stick or tape runner to stick things down something quick and easy and semi-dry or dry because this is a moleskin Kaye and The pages are thin You can do a little bit of wet media on it But I mean very little bit for the most part you want to not do that because The paper can't take it and then we're going to stick this on here Take a gift card and Push it in and that's a good jumping off point Yeah, I like that. All right, and then we're going to grab one of our to-do Lists I wish I could find these for you all, but I can't these I'm pretty sure these were from a Target dollar spot bin There are other to-do sticky notes out there and of course you could just take a piece of lined paper and Make something That works for you. Now these Christmas-y bits are from a Tim Holtz Ideology, what is it called a Frem repack? It just says Christmas snippets Which I bought specifically for doing this project because you know I'm that person So I'm thinking put that there. I will have to glue it down of course that might be nice Thinking if I started off by using the snippets I should keep using the snippets. I like to have a color theme in mind. Oh Using the hand might be good Yep, I like that. Okay, so let's get all that glued down. Shall we all right first? Let's glue down on these little ticket things Now what the trick with? Any glue stick, but especially the you who is just be generous with the stick Depending on the climate that you live in you might need to glue your page and the back of whatever it is that you're sticking on I Know my friend Shannon Green Has sort of a love hate hate relationship with the glue sticks. She's not I don't think she's so sure she likes them This goes on blue by the way, but it dries clear So that part I'm not worried about and of course I still have that confidence Our confident word in the back of my mind As I'm thinking of what I want to put on my to-do list Okay, but that glue should dry a little bit before you start writing on there I like the way that looks and I do kind of reference back. What have I done before? On some of my other pages. I like to do a little bit of drawing I of course like to use the ephemera which we're using I do have a bunch of snowflakes, but I don't I've been adding them to almost every page because you know, I don't know it's a thing I'm thinking adding a few like that one might work and it takes up some of the blank space without Making it look too busy At least I think so. I don't know what you all think. I have a giant pile of snowflakes, which is good The only problem is finding one that you like because literally like it's a huge I don't know if you saw my picture on Instagram last night Like it's really big pile of snowflakes What one that's not too pink Yeah, maybe those I'm thinking this this one doesn't go. I don't like that one. That'll work All right, and I think I know what I want to do for the drawing now after I did that So we'll need the glue stick again You could run these snowflakes through or any of these bits through one of the little zyron sticker machines if you have one I do have one fun fact I have two. I'm not sure now at the moment if I got rid of the big one or not. I I Was going to I don't know if I followed through in that. No idea I Have one I could use it. I just kind of find it's more trouble than it's worth I'm not a big fan of the big one. I don't use it that much when I do use them I use the small one now when you do put these snowflakes on just take it easy with the glue stick like don't press too hard put plenty of glue on there, but don't put press too hard because They're kind of on the delicate side Push it into the glue There we go. I'm going to take my favorite drawing pen drawing utensil a big crystal And I think what I'm going to do is just draw some hot more holly mess messy sketches not anything like super neat and tidy Which is good because I messed up right there It's okay. I didn't mess up. I did it on purpose You all can attest to the fact right? It's kind of a miracle. I'm doing this Anything that sort of resembles What it's supposed to be because I just realized I'm doing it without my glasses on I Have reading glasses for those wondering Okay, and then I'm going to take some we'll put those on while I'm thinking about it These are colored pencils. These are just crayola colored pencils. They're Nothing fancy nothing expensive Just crayola They work for what I want them to work for and I don't use colored pencils enough To like have a set of prismacolors or anything I used to own prismacolors. I sold them They're not my favorite. I'd rather just use the crayola I'm going to add a little bit of this blue which I've been using in this journal as sort of a shadow color Again, I'm just I'm being loose and messy about it. I'm not Being neat About it. This is about focusing on the positive releasing all that negative Letting it go Having fun while you're doing it. This isn't about being Picasso or anything So right there you can tell that glue is kind of still wet because the pencil doesn't want to draw over it So you kind of I'm kind of gonna force it which is fine. I have a darker red all uses a shadow color So for me the next step is going to be still thinking about what's going to be on the to-do list But while I'm doing that Finding a quote for the page so a lot of my well almost all my work has words on it and I like to use quotes on my page So I just go to whatever browser you have on your device that you're using in this case Safari And I'm going to type in the word that I picked which is confident and then quote And see what pops up So I find that I find quotes that I like on two different websites that usually pop up all the time Which is good reads calm and confidence quotes calm our brainy quotes calm So we're gonna go to brainy quotes, and then I literally just scroll down the list till I find one that Resonates with me for whatever reason. I like this one Kindness in words creates confidence kindness and thinking creates profoundness kindness in giving creates love loud sue Which I'm sure that's not how you pronounce his name or honey. I'm pretty sure to him, but anyway So then I'm going to write the quote on my page and This is because my hand was sticking to the glue which is still partially wet. Okay. I've got that on there. I can put the phone aside Now we're gonna work on our to-do list so the to-do things that come in mind would be Yeah, and then I'm gonna check them all Cuz we're trying to do all those today and or be all those today. Yeah, I Like that. All right, and then I usually have something that I write that is inspired by What's going on plus we have to add our word somewhere? So I'm thinking I want the word over here We're gonna take this word and we're gonna set it aside and not put it back in the bowl So that next time we don't pull the same word over and over again and pull a different word I am kind of wondering if I want to create do I want to create a tip in I Don't know if I want you for this page Maybe for the next page. I have this paper though It kind of goes with the stickers. I mean the Tim Holtz stuff Y'all knew what I meant, right? This is very paper in here that appeals to me For this page all this paper a lot of this paper appeals to me, but does any like stick out for this page Maybe that one. I like the idea of using this Traditional December Daily Journal Has something that we're not forgetting about Christmas. We're not forgetting about the holidays But we're acknowledging that they're gonna be different than they've been but they're gonna be unusual and That we are gonna make it through and we're gonna be able to cope and we're gonna be fine. I Think I'm gonna tear it a little piece of lined paper That I think will work. Maybe I need some more snowflakes because you know They're cheering all Lord now I'm gonna have to find more snowflakes. I like holy cow maybe Those colors don't go together like at all so I don't know why I like it But it makes me smile. Maybe because it doesn't match. I Don't know but it's good. It's all good Make it work. Oh Maybe that one maybe these white ones I have some that are just white Yeah, that actually works Okay I'm good with that Before we put any of it down and we can put it like our little word Actually up here, okay, let's get These off of here and this off of here. Let's glue these down and push it into the glue Again, the glue goes on blue Don't freak out. It dries clear And you can get you who did I use you who glue predominantly on You can get you who glue that's already clear and it stays that way I Like the blue because I can see where it's going So while that's drying just a little bit I'm gonna take my little piece of paper and I'm gonna write some thoughts on there Literally just thought about just now didn't plan it. Don't know where that came from. I never planted just FYI All right So now we'll bring our journal back And we'll get this glued in Sort of cock-eyed and off-center Put our snowflakes in push everything down make sure like any lifted edges are glued down And then get our wording Sometimes I trim these words down sometimes I don't I'm not going to this time There we go. So there is our page for December 6th My thinking behind it my process they don't take long to do I don't want you to dwell on and agonize over About what you're going to put on the page This is about following your instincts and letting go of all that negativity and bringing in the light and Focusing on the positive even though it may seem like there is not much of anything that's positive There's always something all right, so that's it for today I hope you enjoyed the process Don't agonize over or stress too much about What you're going to put on your page? I want you to try to follow your instincts and Go with the flow on this This is about letting go of the stress and bringing up and dotting on my eyes and bringing in all of the light Even if it seems like there isn't much of light there usually is some to be found Don't forget to support the free content here on YouTube and over in the Facebook art groups If you can by either joining the crew not just for me, but for all your favorite creators Support them on patreon shop in their Etsy shop, whatever it is They probably have a way in their video description And if they don't ask because I'm maybe they have one. They're just not advertising. All right, don't forget to Tag me in a post in one of the Facebook art groups if you have a question comment or concern or leave it down here below on the video Stay safe stay healthy stay creative and go out and do something nice for yourself because you definitely deserve it And I'll see you later in the next page. Bye guys