 everybody. Okay, so I'm here to bring you my week of my year 2017 for February, and actually my week is sort of the end of February, the month of love and celebration and that sort of thing, and the beginning of March, which is the beginning of spring and all of that. I'm not gonna give you the March prompt, that's gonna happen on Sunday, but we are going to, we are going to, I am going to, not we, you're not here, I wish you were, work in my journal and I'm going to decorate my February signature, which I haven't done yet, and I am going to focus for me on only, not only celebrating, of course, you know, Valentine's Day and love for my family and my husband, but I also think the month of February and Valentine's Day should also be a reminder to those of us whether you have a partner or not, or a family or not, to love yourself. If you can't love and be comfortable with yourself, in my opinion, it's gonna be difficult for you to love other people and be happy if you aren't truly happy with yourself first, so that should be part of this month, so let's go ahead and let's work on our journal. I've got a bunch of bits and pieces here that I'll show you. This is what we have, and I have been traveling with this. I took it to Creativation with me and it made it just fine. This is the Shaker dashboard I did that I have already shared in the group inspired by the video from Anna Brim, and the link is already out there. I will try to remember to link it in the description below the video. This was a lot of fun to make and really easy. I did use a fuse tool and did just what she did. I do have some ideas on how to do one without a fuse tool and maybe refillable, so I am working on that and hopefully that's going to be one of the videos that I do for this week. This is our February signature and it's just very basically decorated. There isn't much to it. What's on here is just what's on here from when I made it. This is the back side of the Shaker dashboard. We're going to go ahead and we're going to decorate that. The first thing that we need to do is I need to print a book club list, a book review list. I'm going to do that and I'm going to get a tag and I'll be right back. I thought it would because I couldn't remember where I put the file on my computer for the printable book lists and to-do lists and other documents. In our My Year 2017 group, if you go to the file section, there is a file for free downloads and the link for these are in there. Now let's get out some glue dot runner, which is my new favorite thing, and some scissors because we're just going to wing it and cut it out by hand. I have a Ranger number 10 Manila Craft Tag that I'm going to put this on and then we're going to tip it in. We, I keep saying we. You're not here. I wish you were. I am going to tip it into my journal to get started for my month. I do have some cool tape around here somewhere that I want to use and that I just got. I have one with hearts on it that I've been using but I have this new one with butterflies on it that's really cute. So I didn't really need it. I needed it like a whole med but it's super cute. I couldn't read this. Okay so this is works just like a tape runner only it leaves glue dot squares on your piece that you're gluing. So see glue dot squares. I used it. I was introduced to it and used it at Creativation in Phoenix and I love it. So that works great and I'll put a list of everything that we're using today in my materials list for January and there will be a January materials list in the dot again in the files so you can go over there and also the link to all the videos for February. Did I say January? I meant February. The link for all the February videos will be in a separate document which will also be over there. So now before I tip this in, do I want to do it before or after because I'm going to be sticking some tape on here. I might want to do it after. Let's, I want to decorate it with some of my love themed things but I think first we want to tip it in. Now sometimes tape, washi tape is traditionally a low tack tape. So what does that mean? That means that you may find that you have to put some matte medium underneath the tape and honestly I do usually do that. I'm going to get some deli paper out first but any any scrap piece of paper will work and I'm going to just stick that in there so I don't get matte medium all over the place. And I'm going to put a little bit of matte medium. Maybe I am with a brush. There we go. Take some of it and stick it over here. You could use glue, you could use a lot of things. Matte medium is easy and it dries pretty quickly. Leave a little like teeny bit of a gap between the signature and the tag just like not even an eighth of an inch just a little bit of a gap there and then push that down good and then turn it over. Whoops, see. Yeah and once it dries it'll stick well. It has to really dry on there. So I'm going to turn it over gently. Put some more matte medium on the other side. When I'm traveling with my journal and I have to do this I either make sure I bring tape that I don't have to do this with or I do bring a small jar of actually gel medium instead of matte medium which takes longer to dry but travels better because it's more of a gel and less of a liquid and you don't have to worry about it exploding in your suitcase. I've also used things like Elmer's glue in a pinch and it's worked good. You just want some extra kind of glue or adhesive between the tape and what you're taping it to because the adhesive on the washi tape is probably not strong enough to keep your tipping in. Let's give that a quick try. Of all these different pieces I have some Hart Keep Thetty. I have this really pretty napkin that has this beautiful pink flower on it. I have some Hart washi tape sheets. I have some Hart die cuts that I did. The video is a bonus video for this week. They're very simple to do. You probably already know how to do them. I have one thing that I need to from some yeah my car got in an accident last month and it's being worked on this month. I had to rent a rental car which was kind of a process so this has to at least this part of it has to go in here because it was a thing that happened this month. I have some Love and Heart doodles. I found this little love postcard in some bits and pieces when I was working on my tray for my grab and glue journal. I've got some Hart stickers. My Art Snacks bookmark which I need to put in here. I found again this little bits and bits and pieces of Be Mine on it when I was going through my stuff and this clear Hart dashboard and this little piece that I did this month for the design team challenge. So all of those things I want to use in here. So we are going to spend some time decorating our journal hour. I said hour again see and on these I don't even think I'm going to color them. I think I just want to put them in here the way they are black and white. So I'm going to speed forward through the process so you guys can see how I put these bits and pieces in my journal and I'll be back at the end with a little bit of a chat. Okay so here's how I've decorated my journal so far for the month. I'm just going to do a little quick flip. Again this is only like the second week in February that I'm filming this. So by the time you actually see my week this is going to probably look very different because it will be filled up with journaling and everything and I will be closing my week with a flip of my completed journal for February. Just so you all know. So you all can get a good look at what it looks like when it's all finished. So but there's how it looks right now. And what we're going to do next before we do any journaling or anything is I want to do a quick little art piece to put in the journal. So I'm going to use of course my pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen which y'all know if you've been watching me on YouTube for a while I love. So let's zoom in a little bit and we're going to just do nothing you know nothing complicated. I'm going to actually draw some hearts just doodle some hearts on here messy doodles at that this is an ATC sized piece of watercolor paper old stained kind of dingy watercolor paper which personally I think is interesting oops I don't know how to spell that's a good thing I expect it to be messy alright so now we're going to get just this just a small Princeton select pointed filbert number four brush so you have kind of the benefits of a flat and a pointed round brush at the same time. I've already I've got my Daniel Smith metallic palette out here I've already got it wet the first thing I want to do is activate some of the pilot varsity pen and here's a here's a great tip for you if you do something like I did and you spell a word wrong you know when you're using a water soluble pen just put a little water on there and you know do some drippy messy design things and then it'll make it work just kind of blends it in so before I do anything else I want to dry this and drying it doesn't mean it won't smear and blend with the watercolor paint but it will do it less if it's completely dry now of course if you don't have a heat tool you don't like using a heat tool with your water soluble materials that's perfectly fine some watercolorists don't you can just leave it after you do the blending of the pen part and then come back to it so I'm going to take now this is hibiscus which is a pink metallic pink and like I said it's going to pick up some of that blue gray color of the pen but not as much as if I still had it wet you can and you can see that it's picking it's turning it purpley gray in some places I'm okay with that and this color is ruby that I'm going to pick up now which is obviously a red color and I'm going to just drop a little bit of that in here and then we do have a couple of shades of green I'm going to think I'm going to pick the one that's called ocean which is a blue green real pretty duo chrome color you could of course do like we did last month and and do this on a bookmark you could actually do this on a page in your journal just have fun and do some experimenting with some of your materials and see what you come up with just do something really quick and easy okay I want to dry that again I'm going to take some of my favorite bible high glider gel crayons gel sticks and I'm going to add a little bit of pink and green just like that I love that that looks great so we're going to stick this in our journal in my journal in our journal and I'm going to put it right here if it'll fit yeah there we go so I'm going to spend some time journaling about the process of renting the car for my that I needed to have while my car was having its bodywork done which was quite a process and journaling about this nice very nice lovely note I got from a fan and group member here in my year 2017 and she sent me a copy of one of last month's book review books I had borrowed from my friend Cindy Utter and I loved it so much I did return it to her because that's what we do when we borrow some things but I did comment that I really loved the book and that I might have to get my own copy because I really kind of wanted to go through and highlight some passages and she said you know what I have that book I'd be happy to send it to you so she did so thank you so much and so I'll be journaling about that and of course we have the book review coming up and I'm sure there's other things coming up I'm going to write about this month's art snacks and yeah I can't wait to fill it up at the end of the month and see what happens I will be back at the end of this week that you're watching this right now with the completed signature and a flip I also am going to work on my idea for a refillable non-fuse tool required shaker card we'll see what happens all right that's it for today go out have some fun with this month's prompt journal about love loving yourself loving your family loving your friends your partner loving life and have fun with it and you know feel free to film it share it any of those things we would love to see what you're doing over in the facebook group so please join if you haven't already and share your pictures of your projects share your youtube link if you've made a youtube link with demoing what you've done with this month's prompt just be sure to use our hashtag my year 2017 and you know mention the group that's all we ask is to give credit where credit to do and otherwise you're free to share at will and that's it for right now don't forget to like share and subscribe please and if you can support my youtube channel by shopping in my Etsy shop that would be great but the most important thing is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and i'll see you later bye guys