 Hey guys, how are you today? We are here for another video for the digital background exchange group Then I am doing this year and last year with Bea grob This year we have besides myself and Bea we have Chelsea and Ayala art and We'll say to start off with it has been a joy working with the ladies this year I don't think we're going forward with it again next year, but it has truly been a joy to Work with all of the women involved in this project, and I have had a lot of fun so The all of that being said Let's get started for winter of 2020 now as always everyone has contributed a digital piece of background art and And For all of us to work with so there's four Pieces of art one from each artist, and then we are given freedom to create something and show you what we do with it However, we wish so I thought this this time Because of where my headspace is at at the moment, and I'm really focused on making DIY supplies and working on my December daily positive affirmations journal Making homemade stickers. Do you see where this is going? So you're looking right now at my computer now. I have an apple. You can do this in any computer In a PC you want to use any whatever word processing program you have whether you have Microsoft Word or publisher I'm going to show you a couple of kind of fancy things to do if you have a Mac and you have pages I don't remember how to do these on a PC. I have had PCs in the past But it's been so long. I don't remember so I can't tell you how to do some of these steps in a PC So you'll have to kind of fish around and figure it out, but I'll show you how to do it on a On an apple. This is Microsoft. I mean Apple Pages, which is similar to Microsoft Word and I'm going to I Have a empty document here I'm going to take the four files of background art Which are over here on the right and I'm going to highlight them all and then drag and drop them into pages Then I can close this Now I'm going to take each one of these and just make them a little smaller and so I can manipulate them a little bit better And this one here is mine. And so we will still we'll start with that one So one of the things I want I want to do and I don't think I need to do it to all of them But I'm definitely going to do it to my own is I'm going to have while I have the image open and clicked on I'm going to go over here to the right and hit image and instant alpha and Then I can scroll to a color if you see this this square that's in the middle of the screen in this case The white I want to take the white background out and anything that shows up blue as I move The cursor or the mouse Will end up disappearing now, I don't necessarily want to get rid of all the grain white, but I want to get rid of some of it Maybe no, that's too much so you can reset Maybe I don't want to get rid of any of it. Maybe it looks okay without it Maybe it maybe I like it. Maybe I take it back, but anyway if you want to get rid of it That's how you do it. I'm going to put this one up here in the corner Let's look at this one. Let's make it a little bigger This one is from Ayala. I think What happens if we get rid of the white on here? I don't know that it needs it But if you want to get rid of the white background, that's how you do it. Let's see. I'm gonna I want them all to be the same size or similar size. So I'm going to go to arrange I'm going to take off constrain proportions so right now because it's clicked that means that I Can make it bigger or smaller But it's going to keep it in the same basic shape or ratio of size if I unclick this I can stretch it lengthwise and widthwise a little bit So I'm going to do that because I want them to kind of be Forgot to do it on this one Want them to be the same size. There we go Okay on this one. This is shells. She did a beautiful job on hers What I want to do on this one is I want to rotate it So I'm going to go down here and turn it Again, this is different Depending on what program you have Take off that constrain Oops, I don't think that's exactly straight. Let's see Let's try that. Okay. I already have a piece of Avery label paper in the printer It's I use the full sheet label paper 84 65 And We are going to make these out of into stickers. Oh well a sheet of sticker That's where my brain is at at the moment Let's go back here and see if I need to I don't think I need to take any white out I was thinking I need to take white out. But anyway Now you know how to do it if you need to. Oh, no So I always check but I don't think even on mine. I need to take the white out. So you can see the colors are shades of Blues and purples cool wintery colors. I want to Have these images go. Oops as much to the edge of the paper as we can And that works so we're going to go up here to file print It'll just kind of do a preview Print one from one to one and we're going to print that and then we'll take it to the table Okay, you don't need anything fancy to do this You can do this with a sheet of the sticker paper or the label paper and a pair of scissors Certainly if you have a cricket or a silhouette you can cut some shapes out of the label paper once it's been printed with your Silhouette a cricket. I had a silhouette I gave it away because I did not like using it and I thought it was wasteful and very the software I thought was frustrating and I much prefer to work with my big shot I do own one. I do have dies and so I prefer to work with this now I was in my closet pulling out my snowflake die, which I've been using For my December daily and I get cut among other snowflakes like this one and it's a Sizzix Tim Holtz thin let's die I will put the A link to it in the description I got it on Amazon But as I was in there, I saw my my set of hexagon dies And this is also a Sizzix die and I think we're going to cut hexagons out of this So the first thing I'm going to do is grab a pair of scissors and Cut these in half. I could grab my paper trimmer, but I'm not going to Now this label paper paper is a full sheet label. So Once you have it printed you can cut whatever shape you want out of it You're not relegated to the normal rectangles or circles that It's already pre-cut out of the Avery paper Okay, I'm going to use a magnetic platform This is Sizzix number six six zero eight three nine by the way I got this because I like to do English paper piecing. I need to put it One of these I'm aware of that before somebody says anything Oh Okay, I think I'm going to do like Four sizes Okay, let's take these off of you You can tell I use it a lot because that's really scratched up if you can see that I don't know how bad the glare is on the camera So we're going to try to not waste too much Paper and always I run it through two or three times and then you have a DI white Sticker that you can use in your planner in your journal on Christmas cards if you are making homemade Christmas cards So I will go and I will use every piece of this that I can I Am finding that I'm having a lot of fun making my own DIY stickers rather than buying store-bought ones. I Thought maybe I had a brief moment of Thinking that I would just use up all the stickers that I had and they're not by anymore Well, that hasn't happened. I've discovered I really like using stickers and I especially like making stickers and doing a DIY sticker out of some kind of digital download from somebody either my own or someone else's Look at that So you could even save this piece and use that piece as for something So I am going to finish making all of my stickers. I will speed forward through the process and I'll be right back There you have it so Simple easy just make some stickers make some DIY stickers I'm really enjoy use enjoying using the ones. I've been making and I have to film sometimes December daily pages today And I can already tell you some or all of these will be used in that So if you want to see the pages that I've done with these stickers in my December daily Well, stay tuned Sometime after day 20, there's a playlist so you can scroll forward to the pages if you want I Hope that we've brought you a lot of ideas of what you can do with digital downloads that you purchase and from Different creators over on Etsy or other sites In support of their artwork, but also because you love their artwork What can you do with it besides just printed out paper and use it as collage fodder for your journals or your journal covers? You can print it on fabric. You can print it on Sticker paper you can do almost anything with it So I really want you to stretch your imagination and come up with some ideas I'd love to see what you're doing if you want to share You can tag me in a post over in one of my two or both of my two Facebook art groups my creative year and a life of art and self expression You can also go watch the other ladies videos Like share and subscribe to their channels if you will and of course mine see what they've come up with and Yeah, support the free content. I know all or most of them have a way To support the free content some have Etsy shops some have patreon some have paypal tip jars YouTube membership myself included. So check out the video descriptions always on your favorite creators Some of them like myself have a link tree list of links in the video description And that has my instagram and my facebook art groups and my Etsy shop and all that stuff So check it out and you know, stay safe stay healthy Please wear a mask big hugs to everybody this crazy holiday season and um, you know Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it make some stickers They're a lot of fun to make and to use that's it for today. I'll see you later. Bye guys