 Let me start off by saying this is a video for the Facebook book blah blah blah the Facebook group my creative year If you don't know what that is. It's a year-long journey of art and creativity Accuraging you in a daily practice and hopefully hopefully inspiring you to try some new things If you would like to join it's in the link is in the description below I and my co-teachers all really have a great time bringing you content on a monthly basis and Inspiration hopefully on a daily basis for another And this is all about where my muse is and what she's screaming at me to create right now So for another group that I'm member of art joy of sharing They had a challenge for the month of June you're all watching this in July to create an artist trading card for the every day for the month of June and I moaned and groaned and whacked my head on the table and then said okay And so instead of doing a card. I decided to do a coin now before I moved and for those that don't know I moved from the state of California to the state of Oregon September last and that was a big deal very stressful There was a lot of other stuff that happened All at the same time of the move because the move evidently wasn't stressful enough So the universe decided to dump other stuff on me, but anyway I At the time before the move punched out a bunch of these coin blanks the bases and some Coin backs and I actually had some fronts too, which I think I've used up all of almost all of them now I punched a bunch of them out before I even moved Intending to have these at least work on during the move to keep me from getting stressed So that didn't happen. I didn't I got stressed But I never worked on these I did other things and I was setting up the house So when the challenge came I thought you know, I've got all those coins punched out I should just do those instead of a traditional artist trading card And so that's what I've been doing now a traditional artist trading card is two and a half inches by three and a half inches and A coin is two and a half inches across. I have a punch By ek success. That's a two and a half inch circle punch and that's what I punch everything with I punch a front. I punch it back and and I punched them. I'm sorry. I punch the middle This is just like a base stabilizing piece of mixed media paper I punch it back Which is just printer paper and then I punch something for the front that could be scrapping paper printer paper I Did one or I've done some out of Security envelopes junk mail. It just depends on what's on my desk at the time So I'm having fun doing those And I'm collecting them and putting them in the jar and like I said, I have been sharing them on social media I will be doing a flip of everything in the jar with a little mini tutorial of my process for one of the coins In an upcoming video. So look for that, but I'm having a lot of fun Creating the coins and using up the bits and pieces on my desk If I need to dig through my my my ephemeral bank or what I call my small bits bank for pieces because nothing On the desk is inspiring me. I do do that. It's very handy in the new art room. I can find everything But generally speaking I pull a few things out on the table I try to use all or most of them up then I pull a few more things out onto the table And I just continue that process and that's working really well for me. I'm also having a really hot fun time With both the coins and the paper clips really creating things that are super Dimensional look at this one. These are things that you couldn't possibly ever do in your art journal I do do mixed media sort of sculptural Wall things every now and then But this is really just a new and different way to use them up And it's not something that has to go in a book So you have to worry about the book never closing But at the same time these particular ones these are paper clips So they could be clipped to the journal cover to decorate the cover or the spine And I'm just loving these as you know just little pieces of artwork They are just wonderful and if the lighting is a little funky is because it's the end of the day and I didn't think to do this earlier in the morning anyway, I'm really having a fun time doing them and My use is really screaming at me to continue the process. I do think that I am going to try my hand at Um tags, I don't mean office supply store-bought tag I mean like something off of something you bought. This is one I saved that was off of a shirt or something It says hippie chic so must have been a shirt And I have a bunch of these there's a bag of these in a bin a bag of clothing tags And what if we did something like the paper clips again? I'll bring out the basket the paper clips or the coins, but we did them on tags and then we um attached them all together with a ribbon or a Binder ring or Safety pin or anything. I mean I just I think the possibilities are endless And I think what I'm really enjoying is I forgot the joy of doing these little small projects now I do do something called that I call grab and glue Cindy utter really got me turned on to it. It's just a sort of a random collage Style where you just grab bits and pieces and you glue them down and I still do do that But even with that you have to be flat. It can't be dimensional so With these you can be as dimensional as you want to be the coin I did yesterday You all saw this way if you follow me on social media, is that right way up? Yeah, it is you all saw it this way whoop. Where are we there? We are you didn't see this view Do you see how thick that is on? These coins or the paper clips you can be as thick as you want to be there's no rule this as you can't So this is where my muse is at It's really screaming at me to use up all these crazy bits and pieces to really go way out there Make it dimensional make it fun. Use the random crazy things and see where that takes me I want to encourage you all to do the same thing and I want to see what you can do with that going forward this month Maybe if you're in the Facebook group You can take the daily creative words and see where you can go with that in your creations of things I know I do daily drawings and if you're in the Facebook group and follow me on social media You see all my daily drawings. That's not for everybody. I realize that but maybe creating a little coin or a paper clip or a clothing tag Something small something wacky and crazy and dimensional. Maybe it's got paint. Maybe it doesn't maybe it's all blue It doesn't matter See where you can go with that I'd be really Happy and encouraged to see your ideas on where you can go with this I think it's just a fabulous idea and it's really a great springboard to refreshing our creativity. I Will be again doing a tutorial With a flip of all the June coins and I will also probably be filming a tutorial for the paper clips and Probably be filled in filming one for the tags. They're all going to be similar of course process, but I'll do it if you guys want me to anyway, I hope this gives you some idea of What you can do and where you can go with this if your muse is screaming at you to do something wacky Maybe she's just not all crazy and by the way, mine is even telling me not to throw these little like cut-off feathers away Where I cut the top off and I know what she wants to do with them yet, but Anyway, that's it for today. 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