 Hey guys, how are you? We are back for another episode of my creative year for July. This is week two and our topic for this month is tips. Our prompt for this week is warning. I want to like I did last month in June. I want to build a page over the month. Last week we used the topic for the month which is tips and the prompt for that week which was favorite go-tos to draw the tips of my favorite go-to supplies, a pencil, a paintbrush, a fountain pen, and a ballpoint pen, which I think was kind of fun. It was quick easy page. This week the prompt is warning and I want to continue to build on the page and I thought about it a bit and thought I got a really good idea. So I've got this piece of painting deli paper that I sometimes use between my pages so I don't get the rest of the book all marked up and I think we're going to cut a paint-pallity kind of shape out of this. I'm gonna just cut a square of it and then I'm gonna just freehand it. It's got layers of really great like marks and paint and all kinds of stuff on. So I'm gonna cut sort of an old-fashioned-ish shaped paint palette. I want to punch a hole in it because you know it would have a thumb hole, right? I recently moved all my punches and stuff around so it's a little interesting trying to find stuff. Okay, that doesn't even want to go in there, which is weird. Okay, I know what's wrong with that punch. Let's try this one. Yep, that one works. Okay, I don't know what's wrong with this and I'll have to see if I can fix it later. So then I thought we would put this on here and you're probably saying, what does this little paint-pallet thing you cut out really quick have to do with the warning? I'll just do it in a minute. I have such a cute idea. I think it's a cute idea. So we're gonna take this and I'm going to take a black pen. I may use a Copic, which I do own a couple of Copics, not too many. I like to test the pen on a scrap of paper. Yeah, that'll work. Let's zoom in. Make sure I spell all the words correctly. That's usually a challenge for me. Once you get the letters on there and you can go back and touch them up, make them bigger or make them bolder if you want. I'm sorry if my dog barking is driving everybody crazy. So I like that, warning artist at work. In case you can't see what it says because of the glare on the camera. There you go. Oops. How cute is that? Warning artist at work. Okay, let's put the Copic marker away. Let's grab some yellow or orange neon paint as if it was an actual warning sign. Safety orange, right? So this is some Americana neon and torrid orange. That dog is just like going at it. Holy cow. All right, so we're gonna just add some, add just a little bit of this. Like that, that's cute. I'm looking at the calendar for next week and what the prompt is for next week and I want to make sure that I leave room for what I think I want to do for there. I'm thinking I want to put it somewhere like that. Okay, so we're gonna, let's dry that and let, I'm gonna get some glue out and we're going to see about getting it on there. I'm gonna use some fluid matte medium, but you could use Elmer's glue. You could use probably a glue stick and you could use any painting paper or you could make a painting paper. I happen to have this piece of painty deli paper, but it doesn't have to be deli paper. It could be anything. It could be a piece of wrapping paper. It could be a tag, could be anything. So we're gonna put our little warning sign on our page and hope that our Copic marker doesn't run too much. It looked like it did a little bit because I probably got it way too wet. There's a tip, a warning. Be careful when you're doing this that the markers you're using are water soluble. Now I like that, but I'm thinking that the warning is not showing up bright enough for me. So I'm going to dry it again, and I'm gonna come back with a different color of marker. Maybe white. I do actually have neon paint pens. So let's see what we can do with that and I'll be right back. The first thing I'm gonna try is I'm gonna go over my lettering with a white paint pen. This is the white Sharpie and it, if nothing else will just give me a nice base to redo the letters with something else. I'm also going to take a Stabilo all pencil and I'm gonna go around our little warning sign or paint palette a little bit. Now remember what I said about this paper not being super water friendly in the other video, well, in past videos. So be careful you don't add too much water because it really doesn't like it. I have a baby wipe ready at hand. It's good to blend that out just a little bit. Let's do something about that lettering because that's really not cool. I have this jelly roll pen in neon orange like a safety color. So let's try that and see what happens. I think part of the reason it's not showing up well is because the paper I cut the palette out of is so busy. I think it's very busy and I like this jelly roll pen but it's, I don't think it's, let's see. Sometimes things are like this. I just have trouble figuring out. I have these Elmer's painters pens in neon colors but I don't use them very much because the tips, yeah a little bit on the big side. Maybe the answer is a fatter black pen. Let me think about it. I'll be right back. So what I've done is I've gone over the words three or four times with the paint pen to really make them as opaque as possible. Of course as soon as I turn the camera back on the dog starts barking. I'm going to take my neon jelly roll pen and just kind of highlight the words with the jelly roll and then I'm happy with the way that looks. It's better. And I've got the prompt for the week warning in my mind and as I was trying to figure out what to do with the lettering, I got an idea. So I like that looks much better. Okay so now I have an idea. We're going to set the journal aside somewhere out of the way hopefully. And I'm going to take my table here. Let's do Mount just a little bit and I'm going to, I wish I had caution tape, washi tape. I know it's probably out there somewhere and somebody makes it. I don't have any. But I have just plain paper masking tape. So I'm going to put a couple pieces down right on the cutting mat on my table. I'm going to get some yellow paint. I'm going to use a couple different yellows, a primary yellow and a neon yellow. Both, this is Americana, yeah both Americana. And I'm going to put them on my little palette here. Oops, that one needs to be mixed up. That's better. Okay and then I'm going to use a cosmetic sponge. And we're going to color up our masking tape. I almost forgot what it was I was using. Now if you have a nonstick mat, you want to do this on there. This is a cutting mat, a quilting cutting mat. So something the tape will peel off of and you can clean the paint off easily. I'm going to dry it. I'm going to take a black pen. I think I'm going to just use my big pen because this is the one I normally use. And we're going to just write caution on here like would be on actual caution tape. And yes I googled it to see how to spell it because I wasn't sure. Spelling is not my forte. That's why when I wrote my book I had so many editors. Use a paper tape so that you can write on it like this or paint or stencil on it easily. I want to take a black paint pen. Let's give that another dry. I do have this neon marker. This is a letre set marker. Right warning caution colors, right? Okay so now we're going to peel it off. And we have, so we're going to peel it off and set it aside. And clean the table. So on this particular cutting mat which I got at Joanne's I've had a couple of them over the years. This is just a green and yellow kitchen scrubby sponge and water. There's no soap on here. Excuse me. So there you go. Just, there's a tip for you. This whole month is going to be about tips. They're going to be hidden in some of the videos but it's just going to all be about tips. Okay so I liked the idea of putting caution tape on the journal. So like caution caution caution warning artist at work. I like the idea. So we're going to put this on our page. And I like to dry fit it to see where it's going to go. I'm probably going to put a couple pieces on here. So I think one right there and I think one up here. So but what we need to do is make sure it's going to stick by putting some mat medium underneath it. I don't know what's with my dog today. I'm going to have to go check on him. There must be somebody in the front yard. Probably gardeners. He hates gardeners. How fun is that? That's even more fun than store-bought caution tape I think. I love that. So there you go. That gives you some ideas hopefully of what you can do to build on your page this week. The prompt is warning. The topic for the month is tips. Maybe you have some tips in warning that you want to tell people not to do. For instance, here's one. I said it last week. I'll say it again. Oil pastels and those type of oily, crani mediums. You can't write over them with anything. They have to be your last layer on your page, whether it's a Faber's Castell Gelato or it's a portfolio water-soluble oil pastel or some other kind of like medium. If you're going to use a waxy oily crayon on your page, even a crayola crayon, do it last because once you do it, it's really difficult to do anything else on top of it. It doesn't want to stick. Pins don't want to write on it. So there you go. Trust me. I've done it. All right. That's it for this week. I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do. If you're not a member of the Facebook group and you'd like to be, by all means, we'd love to welcome you. The link is in the description below. And we would love to have you as part of our art sharing community. The most important thing is, though, to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye, guys.