 Hey guys, how are you? Welcome to my creative year for July. We're here in the beginning of the month with the tipper review or that thing Okay, because our topic this month is actually tips I'm actually going to in my review give you some tips and our prompt for the first week is favorite go-tos so I am going to Tell you what my favorite things are and give you some tips. Hopefully These are some of my favorites. I love all my supplies, of course, and you can never you know Do bad by having some stencils these are my from my design line and I have some senses to have four designs on each one and here's your first tip cut them apart so they come a lot of Designers will make stencils with four or more designs on the stencil cut them apart These are way easier to not only travel with but to use in your journal. I love them. So I always have a bag of Small stencils right literally right here by my desk Everybody talks about what pen to use in your journals. They hem and haul over it And which one's gonna write over this or that ballpoint pen Plain old big ballpoint pen it does its job. It writes almost over almost anything. Nothing will write effectively over oil pastels but this will write over almost everything else and They're cheap. They're easy to find this one is your regular big ballpoint This is the big bold Is that what it's called? No, I don't know. It's big crystal 1.6 millimeter on this one It's just your standard bit crystal. I don't know what size it is both in black easy Easy to find easy to use an inexpensive white paint pen. You don't got to get fancy if you want to that's fine But this is just a sharpie water-based White paint pen it works great. It's always reliable Never I've never had a problem with them clogging or anything and yeah in again inexpensive easy to find I love this Water brush and my pilot varsity disposable fountain pen now if you've been watching my channel for a while You know, these are my favorite things whether I'm home or not If I'm gonna grab supplies to take with me somewhere these are the things I grab That's why I'm showing you these all right the minimum minimum that I grab My journal and these is the minimum. I don't even always bring color, but I bring these There's nothing In my opinion More fun to have in your room, it's not a necessity, but an exacto knife This is a new one to me. This is a by Ulfa and I do have my reading glasses on I don't know what it's called Art it's a Ulfa art knife and I like this one because it has a nice small blade And when I want to do some delicate cutting, this is the regular and This is the Ulfa So when you want to do some delicate cutting like stencil cutting this one is great and you can do it do with this one, but it's a little bit clunky for some things and I'm really loving this one. It's a new favorite when you want to do Cutting especially like paper cutting like this. It's easier done with less mistakes with a smaller blade And that's in a another video. So if it's already been aired I'll link it down below if it hasn't been aired yet, and there's no link below. It's because it's coming soon Of course a small pair of scissors a pencil a white gel pen is handy now I'm not a personal fan of jelly roll pens. I seem to have nothing for problems with them They clog up all the time. They drive me crazy, but I do love the uniball signal It's a little bit for me more Difficult sometimes to get but if I go to the office supplies store They usually have them in packs of two or three so that works and there's always of course Amazon watercolors You knew that was coming didn't you if you've been watching this channel for a while my favorite brand on the planet Daniel Smith You don't have to have a brand like this or a tell it that big But watercolors are great because they can give you a lot of color a big bang for the buck and They're easily portable So if you want to take them with you, they're not wet. They're not going to leak Yeah, so I love I love my watercolors. I can take them with me on the road I can add a little color to a page now if you're working in a journal like this one with thin paper That's not meant for watercolor media. You don't want to get it too wet But you can usually do a little bit of something with this And the other thing my latest and greatest favorite thing My Bible gel high gliders now This is something else. If you've been watching my channel, you know They come in a lot of colors. I think that's all of them Yeah, so 10 colors you can get a 10 color pack in Amazon. Whoops I Obviously bought these at different times because some of them are fat one some of them are skinny ones But these again are great to take with you when you're out and about doing your art because they aren't gonna leak And they'll give you some nice color. They are water-soluble before they dry So you can move them around with a baby wiper or your water brush I frequently when I'm sketching use all of these together And usually my travel art bag has these things in it so those are some of my favorite things this month and I I Hope that gives you some ideas of the things that you can do. You don't have to spend a lot of money if you don't want to Get into watercolor paint. You're like, I just don't want to go there. I like the idea of the other stuff And of course, don't forget glue stick. I my favorite is you who a lot of brands Amsterdam included and Liquitex make these little tiny Baby tubes of paint they are 0.7 fluid ounces and the Liquitex one is 0.74 These are great for traveling. They're not really I mean, I wouldn't buy them for any other reason Because they're awfully small and they're like a little bit pricey for how much paint is in them but that being said if you have a coupon and you can get these cheaply and you're gonna take Wet paint with you on the road Especially or you just want to dabble in paint without spending a ton of money these little baby tubes are great or Don't just don't forget about your craft paints. There's nothing wrong with them. They're great All right, and then of course baby wipes You wipes baby wipes It's my like if you're gonna buy nothing else as far as tools for your art room Get yourself some baby wipes because trust me you're gonna need them for one thing or the other All right, that's it for today. I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do if I can I'm gonna try to remember to Put a link of these for these items in the description below if you're curious about looking any of them up and Don't think you have to spend a lot of money even on your journal. This is an old moleskin Weekly notebook from 2017 that I picked up at the Goodwill for three bucks So you can use anything you can use junk mail you can use An old planner you can use anything. It doesn't actually have to be a fancy paper notebook Just use what you have And that's probably my biggest tip this month use what you have don't go out and buy anything special use what you have That's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys