 Hey guys, but you're wondering what the heck that is on camera This is another video for art joy of sharing this month. We're talking about mark baking tools So here's something not a lot of people know about me. I have been and still do collect homemade mark making tools and I have since my first beginning journey into mixed media and My baskets occasionally need to be purged because I save way too much stuff to make marks with and then I have no room in the two bins for anything else We're going to go through some of them. What's in my bins and we are going to I'm going to share with you some of my favorite things that I have that I've used and Where I got them how I acquired them Hopefully to give you some ideas of things that you can save that you maybe even have around the house things that you think are trash That you can use to make marks with in your work So let me move one of the baskets or both because we cannot get them both on camera at the same time They are huge. Okay So here's one thing now this I picked up at an art salvage place when I was in North Carolina not long ago And it still has the tag on the back. I haven't used it yet, but this is a piece of plastic canvas And this is great to put on a page and then say spray your spray or acrylic sprays through or inks or Something like that. It makes a really nice mark Plus you can put it on your jelly plate Press it into the plate and then take it and and use it use on the jelly plate as sort of an ink pad to get Paint on here and then put that on your journal page to make a mark Plus it leaves a nice mark on the jelly plate that you can transfer to paper. So Plastic canvas is really great. I Don't remember where this came from somebody might have sent it to me, but it's the same idea It's a plastic-y canvas kind of material, but it's diamond patterned. This is cardboard This is cardboard packaging from something that we bought. I don't remember and I've had some of this for a long time Here's another piece that I glued to some regular cardboard. You can see this is well-loved These make great marks on paper and journal pages. Can we get that in camera? Yeah, maybe Alright Here's some more plastic canvas is what I'm talking about. So I love you can see this one's very well-loved So I love the plastic canvas this one happens to be circular so you get a little bit different shape with it But it's really great This is a Martha Stewart brush that is So sometimes you see old dead paint brushes in here that brushes are These are dead But they're stiff and hard with paint medium, but they make an interesting mark on The page through the paint. So even your old say you have a brush that you forgot to wash and it just dried up It's like a rock, but maybe if you drag it through or scratch it through some wet paint It's gonna make an interesting mark. Don't throw it away right away Anything that's around Lit with lids Without lids. This is a old prescription bottle from my dog that passed away Yeah, this is banded. This is galliprant And not only does the bottle make good marks, but the lid too you also can use the bottom or the closed lid to make marks This is from I don't remember what it's from something that we bought But it was just garbage. It was part of that, you know product packaging and it makes an interesting mark This is a from the dollar store and this is I think to clean like your fingernails Or something at the sink, but Here's another piece of that cardboard Different kinds of fittings. This is actually a nail art tool From Wish. I think this is a back massager thing again from the dollar store Piece of a silicone potholder You don't need the whole thing So one thing a couple friends of mine and I did was we got some of these silicone potholders And then we cut them in halves or in fourths Because we really only needed a little piece to make a mark on our jelly plate or our journal page We didn't need the whole thing and they come in a number of different patterns Now you will see a lot of homemade stamps before I started Manufacturing my own stamps. I made stamps out of craft foam I got the thick craft foam for the base and then the sticky craft foam to cut the shapes out of There's a bunch of those in here. This is one that I carved out of rubber There's a bunch of those kind of things in here More plastic canvas Here's the piece of just plain cardboard like from a box from Amazon I peeled away some of the top layer not all of it to reveal an interesting texture Then I could put paint on it and push that on a journal page. It makes an interesting Textured mark. This is This is the leftover piece of bolt from a hobby lobby Some kind of trim. I don't remember what kind of trim it was but when I bought it I said can I have the Bolt and they said sure Do you know why can you see why it again makes interesting marks What else do I have in here? This is I haven't used this yet. This is a base plate for Legos So here's another sort of plastic canvassy thing is the squares These are nonstick Like table shelf table runner shelf things the nonstick like plasticky fabric you put under stuff So it doesn't slip around and they make interesting marks We have a Game of Thrones clue game and when we were putting it together and getting ready to play it We pulled a bunch of things out of this and I saved it Wouldn't this be interesting to painter stencil through painter stencil through this painter spray through These are from some Christmas lights Again, they would make interesting marks to spray or paint through or to use on any of these could be used on the jelly plate Here's more that non-slip stuff These are some rubber like bookmarks from our local library. They're textured So they would make interesting marks bubble wrap This is a makeup cleaning thing That you can use to make marks with or clean your paint brushes This is a art supply tool that has different teeth on the edges that you can use to scratch through your paint So it's in here because it's a mark making tool, but you could make this out of hard plastic or cardboard What's that? That's the center to your roller scotch tape So again, it makes interesting marks Here's some more of that cardboard pipe fittings nylon shower things Giant chess pieces Here's one. This is um These are ice cream lids glued to cardboard They make it again interesting mark making tools on jelly plates and stuff Here's mini rolling pins covered with things like rubber bands and you can roll them on your jelly plate plate Get them covered in paint and then roll it on your journal page And then you can still take your paper to the jelly plate and get an interesting print from this More of the silicone potholders. Here's another mini rollie pin covered in bubble wrap This is from the inside of a ball of yarn the foam This is from the inside of Cash register paper. I was at the store one day and they were changing it out and I said can I have that plastic thing? Yes, I did actually say that. Here's more of the silicone potholders I also have like a jar full of little things here in the bottom another prescription jar Which in its own makes interesting marks, but then it's filled with things like these plastic washery things that came in product packaging and Metal washers, there's some can you see I Don't know if you can see but there's some tile spacers in there They all make interesting marks either on the jelly plate or your journal pages Okay, what's the but what's that? Do you know? It's the bottom to a cane So that's what I'm telling you. There's a lot of stuff in here. I don't remember what these are from They're called sticklets. I don't remember what what they're actually for but again interesting mark making tools The bottom of a flip-flop a plastic placemat Piece of one more cardboard. This is just cardboard with littler cardboard in between to space them out And what else do I have in here that might be interesting here's an old comb So the idea is oh here we go, that's a hockey puck or Ice rink, I don't know. It's something from the heart sports storm More plop pipe fittings Sponges here we go. This is one of my favorite tools. I've been using it for years. It's a big giant foam die from Dollar at the dollar store So my point is you don't need to spend a lot of money to find interesting mark making tools You can get things Inexpensively you can repurpose and recycle what would otherwise be trash So look around you and see what you have that's adventurous and interesting that you might be able to make interesting Marks with as you find something new and unique that you think we might all be interested in leave it in the Comments below share your favorite thing and Let's start a conversation. You can do it here. You can do it in over an art joy of sharing We would love to know what your favorite mark making tool is. Maybe put it with picture with it and Reassure me. I'm not the only one with a hoard of mark making tools Maybe please. All right, that's it for today. I hope that you check out the video description Don't forget to like share and subscribe All of the artists and art join sharing are bringing out videos this month with their favorite mark making tools So don't forget to show them some love support your favorite artists and youtubers as you can Most of them will have something in their video description. So check it out Whether it's patreon a PayPal tip jar or something we all would appreciate you doing that and Above all go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and we'll see you later Bye guys