 Welcome, welcome, welcome. So far I'm here by myself. We will just hang out for a second here in the room. This is not my normal day to go live and so it might turn out to just be a giant bust but I guess we'll find out. Having a great day and a great week if you're watching this either live or the recording. I'm going to be doing some jelly printing this morning and doing some jelly print slash artwork kind of things. Sort of like these. These are just done on plain drawing paper. But I thought to do, and these are happened to all be the zombie doll art foamy prints. I'll be doing different ones but good morning Kathy. And these are just some plain drawing paper but I thought to do some nicer quality paper ones. These are, this is Bristol vellum. So we're going to be printing on some of this Bristol vellum and doing similar style of prints, different designs of course. Again these happened to all be zombies for whatever reason that's all I have left. But I will be creating jelly prints using my art foamies I designed for art foamies, different ones. And then my rubber stamps from my Etsy shop and then of course doodling or drawing on top of them like these and creating each one will be different and then they'll be going up for sale in the Etsy shop for a very inexpensive price. So I'll put those over there. So we're going to do that this morning. I also have a coupon code for you all. So if you don't have a pencil and paper handy never fear because it's in the video description. So if you use this coupon code at checkout in my Etsy shop you'll get 10% off your total purchase. Now there's a few reasons I'm doing this again. Good morning Linda. So I'm trying to reduce the amount of the inventory I have here at the house for the Etsy shop. There's a lot of things I can make on demand or I can have manufactured on demand which is a very much lower overhead for me than the way I was doing it and I need to transition to that. That being said we've been trying to reduce the inventory of stamps and stencils for kind of a while now with mixed success. So I need to continue that. So I'm going to put another coupon code out and it's good for anything in the shop. If you want stamps or stencils this is the time you know use one of these coupon codes to get them. There's still a lot of inventory. There are some designs that are out right now. That doesn't mean they won't ever come back. They will but they won't be coming back until I've done some more inventory reduction. The stamps will be once they're gone and then re-listed they'll be manufactured on demand from and shipped to you from manufacturing. So they'll take a little longer but the quality in anything won't be any less and the price won't be different for you. They'll just take a little bit longer to get. So anyway that being said I mean you know times are tough right now and for everybody and YouTubers and creatives especially so I'm you know doing what I can to raise funds. So yeah 10 welcome. I just got a message that one of my friends got her first COVID jab. So yay! Anyway and if I seem a little off my tone of voice I have an eye doctor appointment tomorrow I am having trouble with one of my floaters in one of my eyes. It's not necessarily a big deal but I have white coats in room and so I am just kind of yeah about it. So anyway I am going to use the Hemi gouache this morning. I'm good. Ahmet how are you? Good morning Kristen. So again if you missed it we're trying to do inventory reduction of the stock of items in my Etsy shop particularly stamps and stencils. So we will continue releasing different coupon codes throughout the coming months. Right now we have 10 welcome. It's good in my Etsy shop for your everything in your purchase so and that pretty much will cover shipping. So anyway we have a five by seven jelly plate here. I've got a pad of cheap dollar store drawing paper to like sort of stamp off on. We'll be doing our prints on Bristol vellum and again these prints will be doodled on and that sort of thing stamped on with some of the rubber stamps and we will be putting them up for sale in the Etsy shop in case you missed all that. Alright so I have what color do I want to start with this morning? I'm feeling in a weird mood so maybe a cheery color and not a depressing color. I'm just glad there's some of you with me because this is not my normal day and I kind of thought maybe I would be sitting here by myself talking to myself again. I think I'm going to start with this sort of gray blue color. I need some water, water, water. So the Hemi gouache are a water soluble paint and you can see they're resistant to the jelly plate which is fine because you get these interesting like marks on the paper when you do the prints. How is everybody today are we managing to stay safe and sane through this whole crazy stuff that's going on? I'm just discombobulated. Sorry you guys. I'm getting messages that friends of mine are getting their vaccinations today and or this week. I'm so happy for them. I like the way these are turning out. That's just one color with water and because it's a water soluble paint it's resistant to the jelly plate and it just gives you this interesting texture. And Linda, I can so relate to that. Safe but not sane she says. Yeah. Ditto. Ditto. I'm going to get most of that off. There we go. All right. Let's grab a different color and let's go with this purpley color. We'll do a little bit more of it this time. After we did our last round of jelly plating, I went ahead and got metal tins to store all my jelly plates in which worked great. There is a couple of them on Amazon that work really well. The one that works really well is the one that's made by Ranger. Show it very well. Where's my water? Yep. There we go. Let's try that again. The only problem with doing belly prints is I don't have any place to put. I'm going to run out of places to put the paper as it dries. That's going to be a given. So then I just print off, spray it with water and then print off the stamp. Clean it. That's like the most that I do. I don't really want to print that. I want to let it dry. Let's let it dry. And then let's put another color on the top. Maybe this color. Grab some white. A new braille. You know, the one thing I don't need is any more braille. I have so many. I don't need any more braille. And I don't need any more jelly plates like that's like a thing. I have too many of both. But good for him. I'm very happy for him. You know what? I'm gonna do this. Let's see. I want to spray it with water. This one. See what happens. I have like six braille. I don't need any more braille. My problem is I don't like obviously if you can tell from this one I don't like cleaning them. Why is the camera blurry? Okay. I don't know why it's blurry. I'm gonna turn the auto focus off. Oops, sorry. I knocked the whole table. I did figure out what was wrong with the camera by the way. There was of course a Logitech camera update that I needed that I didn't have. You know, I appreciate Tim Holt's creativity and Ranger makes great products. I just don't need anymore. I'm getting rid of stuff. I'm not getting more stuff. I have too much already. And honestly for me, I am best at creating with like the simplest of products, a big pen and a highlighter. Like I don't need I don't I don't need anything fancy. So yeah, so my daughter brought in buying and husband bought her husband bought a new Kia Sorrento. I think that was the name of it. And after she bought it, the battery light kept coming on. And they were pretty sure that it was a computer glitch. But they weren't of course 100% positive. So she had it brought in a couple times and it seems to be one of those sort of ghost in the machine things where you know it only does it when you don't have it at the auto mechanic. And so they looked at it and the you know, hardware on the machines working fine, the battery spine, the alternator spine, the cables were fine. So there was some programming updates that needed for the onboard computer. So they did those. And they just told her if it happens again, bring it back. It is a brand new car. It's under warranty. So you know, there's that. So I think it was an easy fix maybe. But you know, it was kind of different playing, you know, mom's taxi service. I haven't had to do that in a while. And in case you missed it, I wasn't live on Tuesday because I was playing on taxi service to my daughter's car. Yeah, I hope it fixed it too. You know, there's just we used to own a Plymouth Grand Voyager back in the day. And it was one of the ones that had computer issues and the wind you would be going down the highway on a bright sunny day. And the windshield wipers would just come on for no reason. And they wouldn't go off. You had to like pull the car over to get them to go off because they didn't want to go off. So, you know, Bob and I, when she said she was having problems, we both kind of went Oh, because we've been there with cars. And you probably have to you probably had a car that, you know, had some weird computer or mechanical issue that they had trouble diagnosing. I think most of us have been there. Yeah, you know, the nice thing about my husband's new sports car is it doesn't have an onboard computer. It's a 1973 Barracuda. So there's no, there's no onboard computer. I'm going to spray the art foamy with water before I put it down. I don't know what this is going to do. We're just playing. Yeah, there's way less to malfunction if there's no onboard computer. I agree completely agree with that. That's nice. I have this one piece here. I kind of like the way that turned out. But you know what, I think I'm going to Yeah, yeah, you also can get easily to some of the parts and things, you know, to easily change filters and like on the older cars, they were like right there and on the newer cars, you know, it's not as easy on some of them to get to filters and things. My dad is so fun fact for those who don't know my dad and brother are both auto mechanics. I grew up playing in my dad's garage. I'm trying to stack these in a way that they dry and one of the reasons we're using the gouache is it dries quickly and it dries very matte and right now I'm very into the matte finish on the paints. Isn't that pretty? This is the pad of drawing paper. So this is just a spiral bound pad of drawing paper from Dollar Tree. I usually get the different kind of tablets, but right now because of supply chain issues and COVID finding my normal drawing paper is been challenging because it's out of stock. I'm going to use a color I never will not never use, but I don't often use which is this tangerine color. How can you look at that and not think happy? A little bit of pink and let's see. Let's brayer it and see what happens. Shall we? Oh, they're there. They're hiding the moons. So while we're jelly printing, we'll talk about whatever you guys want to talk about. Um hold on. I'm having trouble just yeah. I'm having trouble. Um how are you all coping? I hope you're doing okay. I know times are tough for everybody. Right now, of course, um we're just doing the backgrounds. If we end up with an accidental focal image that I like for the next part when I do like the doodling and drawing on top. That's cool. Oh, yeah. So, without revealing too much, my mom is doing okay, but not great. She says she's doing better than she's actually doing. So, you know, that's typical for my mom. If you knew my mom, you'd be laughing right about now. Um my parents are both in their 80s and mom got an infection which caused her to have some brain fog type issues and balance issues, among other things. They weren't sure exactly what was causing it at first and then they realized it was the infection and when you're of a certain age, any infection is difficult to get over and get passed and um she's in that age category. Um so, but she's doing okay. She is home from the hospital and she's um recovering as best as my mom is going to not completely listening to doctor's advice. So, there you go. Oh, I'm so, yeah, Kristen, I'll thank you for your service so much. I appreciate all of you all on the front line so much as do the rest of us. I know um it's so tough. I'm glad to see the numbers go down, but I am a little scared of people opening uh too soon and going out to do things too soon. That scares me because I think it's too soon. We don't have enough people vaccinated yet. Yeah. So, Kathy, you're you know it's it's hard when you're stressed out like to stay bright and cheery and creative. Like, that's just you know if you all follow me on social media and you saw the page I made last night um I was actually wrapping up the day and I was like, you know, hang on. Let me just slap some paint on a page like you know because why not and um so I did and that's what came out and I just noticed there's red red splotch as a paint on my little drawers back here which I'm gonna have to clean off but you know it's just it's hard but that's when I will just go with it and do a page like the one I did or I will um clean and sort and the psychology I guess behind the cleaning and the sorting and the purging that I'm constantly doing is when I know what it is because I've been in therapy um when I can't control things other things around me the one thing I can control is my physical space and so I will go and I will um clean and sort and purge. Let's see will these put on here and so I you know when I'm not feeling creative or feeling like I can express what's going on with me in my art that's when I just do cleaning and sorting and purging and then also I'm not able to work in a messy environment I'm not one of those creatives that can do that yeah so it's difficult and my dad is they live a couple hours away from us my dad is trying to his best to take care of mom and himself we keep reminding him not to forget to take care of himself um but it's difficult oh yeah well bullet you know some art is better than no art Kristen always I mean there are some days when I don't get anything done up here and all I do is my little daily drawing journal downstairs uh that's that's just a thing some days it happens I kind of what do I don't know what it is about that one that I kind of like not sure all right I'm liking this blue color and Kathy you're not the only one that's going in like ups and downs it's just you know it's the state of things right now we're all I think we're all feeling that way and you know when it's a non-covid year I hate things like grocery shopping and doctor's appointments and I do have anxiety disorder and things like that just get me off and I get stressed out I automatically assume the worst thing is going to happen it's just who I am and um I can't help it and you know COVID certainly doesn't help that it does look like people dancing which is one of the reasons I like this art foamy right here but you know the zombie dolls um both the felt zombie dolls and the zombie doll art foamy stamps started out as and they come in big and small these are the big ones you get the three and then and then there's a little one depending on what size you prefer to work with um they started out as a way to express my stress about COVID and they still are a good way to express how I'm feeling and I still find myself using them this one Kathy I really like this I like the way that one turned out I might not do anything more to that except doing a little drawing on it to bring the shapes out because that wouldn't really turn out cute there's a few of them over here I can see that already and then there's some that I'm like hmm okay that needs something I don't know the colors are interesting but yeah I'm not sure what that says yet all right but we have a couple more backgrounds to do before we do anything else anyway I just you know some days you're going to find through this whole thing that you know the art is just not cutting it it's not helping you as much as I hate saying that it's not helping you work out what's going on and getting through the stress I completely understand find something that does help and whether it's cleaning and purging or it's going out for a walk or listening to music turning all the devices off like just turn all the devices off don't listen to the news yeah it does actually don't listen to the news don't listen to you know any of the craziness just turn it all off and know that you're not alone like you're all there with you did you all can't see this but look so that's using my jelly plate as sort of a stamp pad for my art foamy stamps which is something I do a lot not only with the art foamy's but with the red rubber stamps so when I want to stamp them on paper or in a journal with paint instead of ink and I started doing it because I didn't have any waterproof ink um then I will use the jelly plate as sort of a stamp pad and I will ink up the jelly plate with paint and then I'll use it to ink up the the rubber stamp or the in this case art foamy stamp and then create some collage papers or images um focal images in my art journal now kind of want to see what happens if I spray the paper I don't know what's going to happen we'll find out turn on the telephone for a minute here and I'm going to take the sound out so it doesn't matter what I say but we're going to shoot a couple minutes for the vlog there's something about that purple today that I really like I want but I keep going back to this blue I don't know why now these kind of prints whether you're doing them on thicker paper like this bristle vellum or watercolor paper or you're doing them on thin drawing paper are great for um just making sort of images for your art journal or you know some of this can be used as covers for like a drawing a little a little like sketchbook yeah I don't disagree with you Kristen I alternate between being excited and being scared as hell to be perfectly honest and so you're a respiratory therapist so you have patients all the time that assume the worst right so I'm one of those patients I could have a cough but I just assume it's like something horrible I am that person so and that's in non-covid days y'all should have a conversation with my husband someday like he just shakes his head at me a lot I don't think he knows what else to do with me sometimes yeah see Linda no and you know and then you have things happen like the one time I wasn't nervous about getting doctor visits or tests I had a mammogram right before we moved and I was totally not nervous about it and and that was the time that they found assist and so now that just makes it worse because now it doesn't matter now I'm just going to always be you know sure something's wrong that's very true they have no idea I hope you can too Kathy I'm getting you know messages from friends who are able to get theirs and I hope you end up being one of them I really do Kathy's taking her husband in to get a vaccine tomorrow and they told her if they have extra doses she might be able to get hers so everybody thinks some good thoughts for her I may be able to qualify to get mine at the end of the month so so see you can do something like this with your art foamy's or rubber stamps and the jelly plate you can use the jelly plate to just do a background and then stamp something over it and then to bring it out like go over it with pen or pencil oh Kristen thanks for the encouragement appreciate that glad to know it's not just me ladies this is the last piece of Bristol vellum so now we'll start going back and looking at the prints and see if we need to do any more jelly plating on them or if we need to switch to rubber stamps look at that okay so clean this off yeah so um yeah Kathy I'm about to be a great aunt again my niece is about to have another baby I haven't seen the first one in like a year I look at so these are just the the waste papers and so I might be putting like blocks of these up for sale in the sd shop too they're actually interesting too right so now let's go back and look I might want to do more paint on that one and that one maybe that one this one I kind of like so we're going to leave it alone I like this one see what we have over here that one needs something else I like this one so we're going to leave it and I there's something about this one too that I like see the nice thing about these paints is they're already mostly for the most part they're dry already there's something about that one I like I'm going to just listen to my instincts I think these need to be worked on somewhere so let's get to it shall we all right so we're going to grab some white which is almost out but I have a spare so again these are the water soluble hemi gouache um you can use any matt fin I prefer when I'm journaling or doing something that may at some point end up in a journal I prefer to use a matte finish paint um because you don't have to worry about things sticking together later yeah Kathy I I know a lot of people like that so it's very frustrating but we can only control what we do and not what they're doing though it's Thursday isn't it I hear the gardener's truck outside so you guys might hear that ring go off a lot just FYI I kind of like our weekly chats by the way it's like I'm here in my art room crafting with friends at some point we should have a um party party if you're lack of a better term I have a weekend coming up where I'm free most of the weekend that's actually really cool so oh I'm I'm showing the vlog camera not you guys because I can't figure out where I'm at so yeah we could do an arty party and we could um just do it off camera like on zoom I have a zoom account so we could have like a hundred people there although that'd be a big huge arty party if you guys wanted to film it we could do it with stream yard we could do I think up to 10 people we could craft and paint and do whatever our heart speaks at us to do the way I'm going with this I'm going to need to get some more of this drawing paper because this is getting used up it's okay all right good luck yeah bring your snacks art food friends yeah exactly I think we should try to plan that I have a free weekend coming up where I have like a Saturday I'll have the dog with me but um I also can do it like any other days too I like that one want to do will you be able to do it in white maybe maybe let's see let's find out I'm just glad any of you are here I was worried because it was a Thursday and I know there's other creatives that are live today that it was just going to be me talking to myself and it would be the one time I've ever gone live with nobody here so glad that's not the case smear some of that around girls again well I mean you know I'm not in the best frame of mind these days in case you haven't noticed let's go back to a dark waste page if we can get these on here I try not to do Thursdays too much because I know there's I don't know I just don't well that didn't show up at all okay so we might need to do that again with a dark color let's do this see what happens okay lesson learned don't do white let's actually go wild and go crazy and let's do black no problem Linda and yeah I I like the smaller lives fun fact but I also like the lives that are not super long time-wise there are some really great creatives out there that do fabulous lives but they're like four hours long or five hours long or sometimes all night long I just can't I just can't for lots of different reasons and it's nice to have a smaller there we go it's nice to have a smaller live because it's more like we're just having an already party with friends that's a little bit better we can at least see them now now the question is what do i want to do with that one do i want to put it on here or here or here what do you think we also have these three which one do you think i'm kind of thinking this one what do you all think i'm kind of thinking that one or that one the red one okay let's do the red one let's see what happens so he's a crapshoot yeah so one of the reasons I don't sell a lot of work in the etsy store is because I have trouble letting go of my art but at this point I have a lot of it and it has to go there are some like purge envelopes and purge boxes in the etsy shop that have like random artwork in them now I can't even see the girls that were on there but that is interesting and I have an idea for that but let's let it dry first we still have paint on here so let's use it you want to use it on one of these maybe um what was I saying I don't remember though oh I have trouble letting go of art but there are some purge boxes and purge envelopes of old artwork in the etsy shop right now um and I'm going to be listing more because my house is just I'm running out of wall space so that's a thing yeah so I have an idea what if we went over that with something in a bright red I might actually have to get some of the stencils out because I have an idea okay let's contrast that with this this blue I keep going back to so yeah you guys asked about my mother earlier and for those that don't know Bob's mom also got hurt right before Christmas and she got COVID she got COVID and then she fell and broke her hip she's okay she's recovering slowly she is at home finally um she's 92 so that was fun not let me do this one so it was both um both moms so I'm running out of room again okay so if we take this one I take this one got a bright red here let's see show that again please this one or this one okay so I'm going to break one of my own rules and we're going to ink up the stamp I'm inking it up with paint do I know this is going to work no hey Kathy other Kathy yeah so this one is accidentally really pretty okay so we're going to take this I don't know if this is going to work and that color may be too dark for this but let's try it and see oh left one wait you said left one I think you meant this one because I forgot which is my left and you know I'm scared to take this up I'm scared oh yeah so what if you did that and you outlined them with a gold pen that would be interesting and see you're getting accidental sort of interesting prints over here in the waste paper which you always do when you jelly print like when you're doing monoprinting of any kind and especially if you're using like art foamy is the best way to get clean the stamps is to just stamp them off on paper see look at that and there's a lot of paint on here so you're going to get a lot of these do we want to stop with the jelly prints this one kind of needs something let's get the plate wet try not to splatter paint paint on myself because that's a thing cow let's clean this up a little bit one more time okay um we're gonna go with this color I think that's way too much paint so of course if you want your jelly prints way more opaque than these are coming out then you want to not water the paint down and you probably want to use a acrylic paint this is a water soluble gouache so although it's more opaque than regular watercolors it's not as opaque as acrylic paint before I get myself like all messed up let's clean the mat because I know me very well okay uh nope I want to do moves listen to your instincts because you know it's a good idea so again this is the waste paper and there's paint on here from do it from being on here so I'm not getting any more paint on it I'm just getting it wet and the paint that's on there is coming off on the paper let's see what happens so yeah the three women is one of the favorite my favorite stamps from the art foemies that they chose of the designs I did for them but I love them all and use them all but you know it has a good message right now but I love the zombies too I mean let's be honest I mean when you're really feeling like you need need to express your feelings so yeah so gouache on the jelly plate or or watercolors I mean see look at that it gives you an interesting texture and finish and a little bit goes a long way now it is water soluble so if you're going to use it as collage paper you need to glue it down with a glue that's not very wet um and or don't get the top wet um like I usually use a glue stick or I'll use a me I like a matte medium look at that look at that one more uh there's a little bit of paint on here left let's add it to this one okay yeah let's add it to that one as it slides across the table yeah exactly you can get so many stamps from just one inking and a little bit goes a really long way on the foam stamps much more than the um rubber stamps and regular ink okay so we're going to clean that I also no longer go super crazy with cleaning my jelly plate jelly plates I mean I do I try not to leave big crusty blobs on them but my plates are old you can see this one is kind of yellowed it's not your imagination um I mean I keep it cleanish but let's put this away and let's put that paint away because it's going to be in our way what did I do with the lid for the paint people oh there it is somebody tell me hey Laura okay kind of clean up the mess that we made put that up there I'm going to get out oops a couple of ink pads and the prints that we made okay sorry I was moving things around so you can get them directly through the art foamy's website um after the broadcast there is a link in the video description um but um you can also just google art foamy's and go to their website and under designers you'll see my name and um we have the moons we have this one which is like leaves and berries we have this sort of leafy vine we have the three women and they come with um these cutouts which on their own are interesting because if you look at them without the women to me they kind of look like chili peppers and you do get these with this with the design they come they come like this and then the arrows and then of course the zombie dolls which is what started the art foamy's which is funny kp message me can we do your your zombies as art as art foamy so the zombies come in two different sizes this is about what two about three inches this one's about i don't know seven or so and in each one you get your basic zombie with um a heart yeah they do sort of look like feet um you get um the zombie doll with the stitches you get this this one just stamps just the stitches and then this is the skeleton and um keeping in mind with all of these any of the art foamy's you can not only stamp with the proper side that's meant to be stamped you can also stamp with this side so like with these foamy's you know if you want to um stamp say this one maybe you don't want to do this with the face on it you want to just have to be a solid color to start so you can stamp it with this side let that dry and then go back to the other side and just do the stitches on top um they also would be great day of the dead dolls um and i use them frequently and i like to run i like to write kind of snarky comments on them um i did one of these on drawing paper and that i later put in my journal art journal that said dead to me which i just thought i think that's hilarious um i also have done felt zombies where you do like mr tp shortage you can do like mr coronavirus like all of those things this one says don't hide in the fog stand tall and it's the zombie doll skeleton one coming out of sort of a green purple fog gray fog um and i just stamped him like we did with these and let him dry and then i just went over it with pen and then this one it um is this one then stamped with the stitches and then doodled on top of to bring out certain elements and it says don't be broken and then this one which is just the big skeleton and it says sometimes things are a bit blurry stay focused because when i was looking at the print later um i accidentally moved the stamp when i was printing with it and so it came out a little bit blurry and not so clear so i outlined it to bring out more of that i can break out the coffin if you all would like to see the coffin i have to run downstairs for it if you all want to see that anyway i'm going to be doing um while we're i'm waiting to hear back for you on the coffin i'm going to be doing artwork pieces like these not all zombie dolls but like these well it will be paint jelly print um some drawing and doodling and writing from me on these that we just printed and these will be for sale in the etsy shop don't be broken and these may be too but these may be a little bit cheaper because these are just on drawing paper they're kind of thin so if you're going to frame it you're going to need to like back it with something like a piece of cardboard okay hang on a second let me go grab the coffin be right back this is the zombie doll coffin i'm not even sure it's going to all fit on camera because i think it's too big um so i made the coffin out of just some scrap cardboard because of course you can't find a coffin like anywhere let me zoom out a bit hold on um i made this to hold the original felt zombie dolls that i was making which started the whole that's okay i need the steps it's all right um when covid started i started working out my stress about covid in my art journals but also i started um slow stitching which turned into me looking at kits i had in my art room which turned into me making zombie dolls and turning the zombie dolls into sort of care covid characters if you will of things that were really like annoying me or stressing me out about this whole pandemic situation and then at some point i had so many of them they needed a case so of course what kind of case are you going to make for zombie dolls except the coffin all right so this is and of course this is their you know fabric shroud this is one of the many things i have gotten offers to buy allers or some of the zombie dolls and i don't know that i'm ready to do that and if i was i don't think the price that i would need to charge would be anything that anybody'd be willing to pay to be fair so let me just put that out there um the ones you see on top are the four horsemen of the apocalypse because i mean who else besides me is not only in calling it the year of mondays but the apocalypse like i mean right so this is um created in response to the pandemic and worldwide situations of 2020 each one of the each is one rider and one horse this one is war so this is war and i was raised roman catholic so i used to i looked up the catholic um references for the four horsemen there's lots of different references to the four horsemen of the apocalypse with different things on i went by the catholic version i think i need to keep them to cathie i don't i don't disagree with that i think this is one thing i'll probably not sell and like i said if i did um it would be really expensive so each one of these four horsemen has a horse and a rider um and this is conquest and you can hear i don't know if you can hear that blower out in the background that's the garter this one is death this one is famine or pestilence and depending on which reference you look at um i love the flies i got to put on him see you see you later linda um and then you get into the ones that are sort of my way of working through the ridiculousness of the pandemic um so this one is miss stay at home and i put you know a lock on her that says locked in her keys say the right key it just feels like we don't have the right key to not be locked in i just um this one miss misinformation can y'all guess what this is one is in regards to who i just you know this one is mr social distance you know you're told not to get close to anybody there is a sewing pattern for the zombie dolls because at some point i developed my own pattern and my own way of doing things and i started out doing things one way and then morphed into doing things another way so there is a pdf sewing pattern in um my etsy shop fyi and the uh 10 welcome coupon code will work on that um this one is mr stay safe you know because at some point you feel like you and your whole family are just wrapped in bubble wrap every time you like leave the house right um here we go miss corona virus and i did label the back of all of them i wrote something on the back and the four horsemen have like more of an explanation on the back i do have more zombie dolls cut out and um i do think this is a great therapy if you will for lack of a better term for um um not just what's going on right now but in the future you know if you want to work out what's going on with you and in a creative healthy way um rather than abusive destructive way um which could be a lot of things in my case eating too many m and m's or something um this is a great way to do that and you could make little you know sort of zombie or um um what are the ones you stick pins in voodoo doll type things to express how you're feeling um this one is miss taken faith oh you're welcome see that's the point of me doing this i want to share creative ideas with you all but i also i i don't mind getting running downstairs to grab these if it makes you all smile i'll explain this one in a minute there's a few different ones in here i'll explain those in a minute so here we go um this one is mr wash you hands wash you hands i don't understand why people weren't washing their hands before but neither does mr wash you hands uh this one's funny mr tp shortage and then you know i made i wasn't sure how if i could make little rolls of toilet paper so i ended up making a lot of them and their extra ones are in the box i did save all the extra rolls of toilet paper so they're in the bottom of the coffin i'll explain that in a minute so you see there you go there's all the different ones at the bottom this one is miss front lines in honor of all of you on the front lines and this the stuff part of the stethoscope that's the inside of an earbud just fyi i used what i had um this one is mr shut your mouth because at some point i was just not feeling like i could talk to anybody he does kathy he says what the hell what were you people doing before this is uh miss dead water and this is where i started doing my own pattern so this is a mermaid shape this one is mr death wish this one is mr bloodsucker this one is mr dead treat now these were done this particular one was done in response to a request by mike deacon it's not necessarily covid related um but it's definitely pandemic related because you know who else felt like just halloween and the holidays were just like dead like we needed to just skip it now he does the pumpkin head is a mask and underneath is his skeleton face now i can't get back on just have to like squish his brain to get him back in there there we go all right one of the things that prompted this whole idea was before the pandemic i had been thrifting i like thrifting um and um i found a bad boss voodoo doll and i just thought that was weird enough to buy it was like two bucks and so i did and i brought it home it sat on the shelf for a while then the pandemic happened and i decided to turn him into this sort of pandemic positive affirmation like voodoo doll thing the original doll was red and then i just started adding things to him mostly words on little pieces of fabric and sewing them to him like every day for like a month or something until he was filled up um words that just stood out to me things i thought were missing like laughter which is on here more than once because i evidently really needed that one and um queen and truth and freedom and i put wings on the back so that i could add more words um so he's definitely pandemic related so he lives in the coffin with the his friends the zombie dolls now making like felt dolls is not a new thing to me i used to make dodie dolls back in the day who's old enough in the mixed media world to remember dodie dolls and these are some small ones that i made back these are made a long time ago like 2007 2008 somewhere in there um these were miniature dolls that were made i sold most of the ones i made i happen to have these left these were actually made in miniature to um submit to a magazine for publishing and um these are not named but i have two angels this love heart and then a patriotic star and i knew when i had the idea for these zombie dolls that i had done something like this before and that would be cool let's do it again but let's do it bigger and differently and um because these inspired those in a way they live in the coffin with their friends the zombie doll family and so then they all fit in here sort of like i said i do have a few more that i want to make um and you know i get inspired to make new ones all the time the problem is at some point i'm gonna have to make a second coffin because this coffin's already pretty cool and yeah you um you can do anything with these dolls and the pattern includes the pieces like for the bones if you want to make it more of like a day of the dead doll you could do just the skeleton and then put flowers and things make it colorful and then if you're doing it in memory of maybe a past relative to honor their memory you could um do something like this where you print something on fabric on your computer or just write it on a piece of fabric with Sharpie and sew it to the back with like with maybe their name on it they're great therapy oh there's another of the miniatures a little mermaid so they all live in the coffin and it lives downstairs and it has like a book in here i need to write a letter about the pandemic and stick that in here which i don't think i've done yet and just like stick it in the side so that's the coffin that's a good idea Kathy oops i missed a roll of toilet paper yeah maybe a less depressing coffin and one more of a happy coffin and maybe zombies that are um still funny and snarky but less negative because i'm having enough negative thoughts on my own without help from the zombie dolls to be honest all right so let's so there's again there's the code for the etsy shop it's also in the video description okay so i just wanted to show you guys let's see let's see it's okay Kathy not a problem i i get sidetracked easy anyway so it's fine so here's one of the prints that we just did so this is um did i label this of course not this is one of my stamp sets i don't remember with oh yes i did set number nine again we are going to be running different kinds of coupon sales and sales sales on the stamps and stencils in this store um this year periodically on and off because i'm trying to reduce inventory right now you have 10 welcome and um that will give you 10% off everything in the etsy shop so i have this sort of hamsa hand we've got some black archival ink i could if i had the still had the jelly played out you can ink these up with paint but i think we're going to use ink and i'm going to just try to make sure i don't know how dry my ink pad is so hopefully hopefully it's not too dry it's going to go in the middle yes now everything's good and dry and i will be spending the afternoon um working on these so i'll post pictures later for you all when they're finished i do think i need more ink on the stamp pad but we're going to just go with it for the moment oops there are some words in this stamp whoop i think that's not what i want it's hard to read it when it's backwards now these are deep etched red rubber stamps yeah that's it this is just a big crystal pen so i'm just going to do messy lines i gave up trying to do neat clean lines a long time ago because i could never get them perfect and so then it would just drive me up the wall because they weren't perfect and so rather than make myself completely crazy i just gave up trying and bonus i kind of like the way that has turned out i'm finding some of the leaves that are in the background from the leaf stamp and i'm tracing some of those my niece is messaging me sorry or somebody the one that's about to have a baby this one there and there are some berries on here so the zombie dolls are not hard to make and there is a video out there somewhere on my channel for how to make them they were such a big hit that Mike Deacon even broke out his sewing needles and things to make some which i find funny because sewing is not generally his thing so i like that i'm gonna get a white pen i need a scrap piece of paper just kind of accent what's on there until you like them um composition i will make sure they're all signed i loved Kathy um that he gave them to the neighborhood kids for Halloween i absolutely loved that i thought that was fabulous okay let's i've got these i'm still kind of thinking this one's kind of wet i'm thinking this one needs gold do i have a gold pen out here probably not because metallics aren't my thing but i've got one close by do i know which one's going to work and show up better of course not let's try this one yeah that one's working good old sharpie so just try to follow the lines of what you see in the print whether you actually we're trying to create a particular image or not oh lord i don't want to stick my hand in the wet paint maybe you just did some abstract things and you're just trying to like pick out what you accidentally created that works too and then maybe at some point you're inspired to add or write words on the print this is a sharpie metallic paint pen this is i have the others i have different kinds but i'm a cheap pen girl and they seem to one be the ones that work for me consistently most of the time so i'm going to take the black thick and i'm going to take all of the prints and do something like that to them today and i will post some pictures of them and you might find you don't need to stamp anything else on or that that i like the way that looks so i'm going to leave it alone and i don't know if you all can see that different in the camera on youtube it looks all black it's not all black you can see the original like golden yellow in the background and the girls are red and you might find that there's ones like this my family's like going crazy on the text messaging if you hear my phone going off that's who that is okay so then you know you can make interesting pieces of art things that really speak to you or speak to the viewer of your art expressing how you're feeling your frustration it's good therapy sometimes it's not enough i'll admit that sometimes it's not enough and that's when you need to go for a walk you need to have friends you can safely chat to there's no nothing wrong with of course seeking help if you need it i for the most part find joy in expressing myself in my art not always yeah so positive baby news my yeah she's doing really well she and the baby both she said the baby's kicking so i stamped on this with that leaf stamp a couple of times things are a little bit muddy but i'm just pulling out the shapes that i see which is fine it'll be it'll be different and unique from the stamp no problem yeah i gotta go to i can only be on a couple more minutes i want to remind you all to if you can support the free content here on youtube and in the facebook art groups shop in the atzi store if you can especially right now because like i said the stamps and stencils are going to be either on sale or the or they'll be like right now a coupon code for the entire store so please support the free content by doing some shopping if you can or joining patreon or using the paypal tip jar or any of those things and not just for me for any of your favorite creative youtubers i know they all are struggling right now and they could use your love and support so let's please do that and if you have questions comments or concerns and you're watching this recording you can leave them down below you also can if we're friends on facebook you can DM me ask me you know whatever it is and we'll get it worked out and please stay safe stay healthy stay creative please be kind to each other and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and i'm going to draw the afternoon away all right guys thank you for joining me today and next week we will be back on tuesday wish me good luck at the eye doctors tomorrow all right bye guys