 Okay, so what I did for the mini kit is I just took a smaller sized Blending stump. I forget what these are called. It's a French word, but anyway blending stump. There's these are cheap you can get them at Any arts and craft store or Walmart and Any place they have drawing supplies and they're really inexpensive like sometimes you can get a pack of them for a dollar You can also just put a q-tip in there that'll work too I have these two water-soluble pencils. I Don't remember the brand I cut these in half a long time ago and the other half is actually in my art travel kit But you could just take an inexpensive colored pencil that you have and cut it in half Get some kids mini colored pencils those will work, too. So you have a little bit of color in your kit Okay, you're gonna want an eraser. So again, we're gonna get out our exacto knife And we're gonna just cut the eraser in half or smaller depending on how big of an eraser you want in your kit So now the next thing we want is some a journal. So I have a bunch of scrap paper Which I need to do something with so I'm glad I'm doing this project So I'm gonna grab a bunch of it. That's hopefully a similar size like maybe these I'm gonna make two of these. I actually have two boxes so Okay, so we're gonna divide this paper in half We're gonna fold the pages in half. I'm gonna crease it with my bone folder This is nice Heavyweight drawing paper. This is the drawing paper I used to make my little journals with that I use all the time I'm gonna get some bookbinding stuff out and we're gonna give these a quick stitch. Can we? All right, so I have some bookbinding thread and again, I'm gonna try to link the products I can in the Amazon store the link for which is in the description below This is some book bookbinding thread from Lyne Co. I think And I'm going to thread a really long bookbinding needle I'm not gonna measure or pre-cut holes or anything my glasses on so I can see to thread the needle. There we go Okay Simple we're gonna just do simple binding. So I'm gonna tap this on the table so that hopefully these two sides Are kind of lined up and I'm going to poke hole in the middle and then I'm gonna I'm holding all the pages together And I'm gonna after I poke the hole with a needle. I'm gonna go back in through From the outside to the inside Because I want the knot. I'm gonna have to tie it. I want it to be on the outside Don't pull it all the way out. You want to just leave a tail of thread Then go about an inch up towards the right Poke your needle through all the paper You of course can do the proper thing and poke your holes with an alfers before you start doing the sewing I'm just being lazy to be honest Then I'm gonna go up to the top about an inch Up from that center hole and poke another hole then go Back out the center hole Pull the threads taut and hopefully you have one on either side of this center thread that goes all the way across from the top to the bottom And if you don't you can weave it under But then tie a knot. I usually tie Three times If you're worried about it coming undone you can put a little dab of glue there Cut them to about a half an inch and we've got one bound Okay, now we're gonna do the other one and The next thing we're gonna need is to trim these down because they're not gonna fit in the box So let me get my paper trimmer and I'll be right back. So the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna mark with a pencil This should fit in the box This way, but obviously it's not gonna fit in well. So I need to trim some of this off so I'm gonna just mark it with pencil and This is gonna be tough and you should really probably use a straight edge and an X-Acto knife Or I should get my big guillotine out, but So I'm gonna do a few pages and then I'm gonna open it without moving it too much And do some more pages. I want to just show you guys how you can do this Using what you have if you have like limited tools and supplies But you want to have something you can take with you Maybe shove in your bag when you're traveling or at the doctor's office or any of those things Okay, so now look what we did that was easy so now Look at that fits in there really nice. Okay, so let me do the other one. They each have oops I'm gonna I'm gonna crease these at the bone folder. So they hopefully stay closed a little better Got a pen a colored pencil a graphic pencil a blending stump an eraser but what what's gonna happen here what I don't like is that I If it was my kit would like some protection between the mark-making tools and the journal because I don't want any Random pencil marks usually on my sketchbooks. I mean if they happen they happen, but so I'm going to make a little And and what I'm gonna make can be used as a little dashboard. I'll explain in just a minute Okay, so when I draw in my sketchbooks or I'm working on my art journals If you've watched any of my videos, you know, I usually have a piece of hard plastic between the pages Not only so that I don't get any painting marks on the other page But to give myself when I'm drawing a hard surface to draw on so that I'm not denting or creasing The other paper that I haven't done anything on yet. So get a piece of plastic Dollar Tree plastic cutting boards work. Well, this is actually a piece of plastic from a report folder My husband had that he was throwing away. So we're gonna use that because I he was throwing out Can I have that so we're gonna cut this to be about the size of the journal and The plastic is thin enough that it cuts with a just standard paper trimmer Okay, and then when you're drawing You have this piece of plastic you can stick in here and you can draw and push on here as hard as you want If you're using water soluble materials, you can do that You don't have to worry about the water or pen or anything leaking through onto this page Because you've got this piece of protection in between by the same token if you have a kit like this you can put your journal in Which I should probably trim a little bit because it's a little bit bigger than the other one You can put your dashboard in and then put your pencils in and those pencil tips or or pen Are not going to get on to that paper because there is that piece of plastic in between of course if the pen leaks That's a whole other ball game. So And that does happen occasionally So I'm gonna trim this I'm gonna actually trim this one journal a little bit smaller because it is a little bit It's like a quarter inch too big. So I'll be right back Okay, you could leave it at that and you could Maybe add a few more of your favorite mark making tools cut something that you have in half Maybe a little piece of charcoal or a water soluble crayon you could also add a mini watercolor kit and it would fit and You could add a water brush I like the Koi ones that Have the stopper in them for an application like this they come Like this and they have a medium tip a small tip and a large tip and these will fit in with a small watercolor kit and You can fill the handle up with water put the stopper in it's not gonna leak I've taken it on planes and all kinds of things and it doesn't leak all of that will fit in your box and You have an art kit to go Whether it's a watercolor kit or a sketching kit or a mixed media kit. It doesn't matter These are mini children's watercolor Sets they have eight colors and them originally What I do is I usually this is actually the first one I've opened that's been broken But anyway, what I usually do is take the watercolors out now you could take the watercolors out and you could glue in little pieces of Neo color to crayons or water soluble crayons you could put in Glue in maybe little pieces of pastel But I like to just put watercolor in them So I take the kids watercolors out That one's just coming out and I wash them out. They pop out really easy and then I put in Artist watercolors now you could use the watercolors that are in here, but their kids watercolors are a bit chalky So what I'm gonna do and actually for a few of these little mini kits What I'm gonna do is I'm going to wash these I'm gonna pull the pans out The pans hello, what are they watercolors? Let's pull the watercolors out. Okay. I've shown this before I have a couple of these mini watercolor kits in my sketching stuff personally Not only the mini one I take on an airplane, but the one I have downstairs and I refilled them with a selection of colors that work for me now you may have a certain palette of colors you'd like that work for you and You may not have to paint you may not have expensive to paints use what you have if you are gonna buy something You don't need to spend a ton of money These are not expensive watercolor paints. These are Van Gogh and I have one grumbacher. None of these are expensive They're like four or five dollars a tube and Frequently, I get them at one of the many arts and crafts stores with a coupon You can buy one tube with your 40% off coupon. You end up paying like two bucks for it You can also get Koi to paints Koi is a good brand in my opinion a good student brand and I have good luck with it So I have two yellows two reds Sort of two blues I have a turquoise and then Ultramarine and then I have a green and a paint gray. I really hate mixing green I'd rather mix purple. So I just put a bit of each color And each well It's gonna dry down and shrink as it's drying So don't put too much in it But if you think like it's that right there is kind of full that's gonna dry down That's about don't put any more than that So one of these is more lemon yellow. One is more of an orange yellow so you want sort of a Couple of tones in each color a cool and a warm The cool ones will be bluer. The warm ones will be Oranger or redder Again that use what works for you. I Do have this thing that you can put your paint tubes in Big ones and little ones and then you just do this and it pushes all the paint down to the end I forget what the name of it is, but I call it a tube squisher. I don't think that's the proper name Now this these palette these don't hold a lot of paint But this is just a I'm bored of the doctor's office paint palette And you don't have a lot of mixing space, but there's a little bit in the lid So then what you would do is you would just set these like this and you would let them dry You don't want to close that up until those are completely dry But once it is dry, they fit right in here. You can close it and you're good to go, right? So I am going to Actually show you a couple other options if you want to just do watercolor kits Yeah, so in part two we're going to come back and I've got I've got these cute little Small kits which are from Daiso and then I have this one which my friend Cindy Utter gave me a while back I think it had candy in it originally. I don't remember now. I house a zipper around the edge So I'm going to show you how you can turn these into watercolor kits too in Part two. I also Don't need all these travel kits So all or some of them will be for sale in my Etsy shop along with These four extra small children size pallets now I'm not going to fill them with paints but I am going to have them in my Etsy shop either on their own or with one of these other kits and Who knows with maybe other bits, but I will have them for sale in my Etsy shop and If you're interested Check it out. I'll try to put links in the description below At the time of filming this I'm not sure exactly what's going to be in the shop I know how much it's going to be but check it out and by the time hopefully I edit this and get it loaded to YouTube I'll have an idea Anyway, that's it for the moment watch out for part two on how to make a custom small Travel art kit for yourself that fits in your handbag your backpack your pocket whatever. All right That's it for today. Don't forget to like share and subscribe and the most important thing is go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys