 Hey guys, how are you today? All right, so my friend Donna Mulholland and if you don't know who she is I'm gonna try to include a link to her website or blog or whatever in the description below You can look her up on the internet, too. She's a really great artist. Anyway She's been posting for weeks now Topegs and pencil cases and things that she's been painting. I think she's got an open studio coming up or a Show a say a gallery show in sale or something coming up Anyway, she's been making tons of these things and I have to say to her. Oh my god, Donna. They're beautiful and I might have to email you because I might need to own one But in the meantime, I thought I'd I'd give it a shot and do some in my own unique style because it's such a good idea So when I was a Dollar Tree today looking for something else mind you I found these small Tablet cases. Yes at Dollar Tree. These are neoprene now. They're not super thick Any kind anytime you buy a sleeve like this. It is not intended to Prevent your device from impact There to keep it clean to keep it from getting scratched if you want Something that's really gonna prevent it from getting broken in a you know hard impact You really need to get like an order box or something a lot harder than at you know Yeah, neoprene sleeve. It's just not gonna be thick enough now How much no matter how much padding that they put in there and if you don't believe me I'm gonna include a channel linked to another YouTube channel called gizmo slip and they do a lot of Videos where they drop smartphones and tablets from a hundred feet in all kinds of crazy Coverings and cases and including order box and all kinds of stuff So you go watch some of their videos some of them are hilarious Anyway, so I found these cute little slaves which would be great If you have like these little ones are great for like a Kindle or an iPad mini You just want to slip it in there and then put it in your backpack or your purse To keep it clean because you want to take it with you and it has a little bit of padding too It's not a lot. It's from the Dollar Tree, but you know, you could also if you're an art journal or hello These would be great for a small art journal and a few pens To put in your bag, you know to keep the journal from getting scratched up and the edges, you know dinged up They had this little one and then they had these big ones So I got some of each now You hear that That's because I took them out of their plastic packaging I put the plaque packaging inside the pocket and then I resealed it So that when we're working on the backside anything we do the backside if it leaks through it doesn't go through to the front side Then I took some painter's tape and I taped off a rectangle on the back of all of these Now we're going to take some Deco art gesso. This is white. You could use black. I want to use white And I'm going to put it here a big blob of it here on my mixing plate Their gesso is really nice and thick and very smooth. It has a gesso booger in it. Hold on You can see it. I'm trying not to get my finger in there, you know, I Can see it. There it is. Let's get rid of the booger All right, so I'm going to take a nice generous blob of The white gesso and I'm going to add some fabric medium to it now I don't know that this step is strictly necessary and I don't ever plan on Whoever has these myself or if I give them away them ever being washed But it is a stretchy knit fabric neoprene and I don't know if I give them away what they're going to do with them So I want the base coat at least the gesso to be something that has the Fabric medium in it and then I know it's going to really stick now I've added fabric medium to paint plenty of times Gesso is basically paint Granted it's a really thick white base paint, but I've never actually added it to gesso I'm a I think it'll work just fine, but I guess we'll find out right It's an experiment Monday with decor slash experiments Okay, so we've got that well mixed I'm not going to go too far with the palette knife in case I need it so I'm just going to stick it in the water And I've got a nice fat wide flat brush here. This is a Some kind of Chinese painting brush. I don't know I bought it at the art supply store So we're going to take each one of these and we're going to prep them with a coat of gesso and I'm going to like if you were doing if you were doing like a painting on a wall and you had Lots of painters tape on the wall and you wanted when you looked it up to have a nice clean line Then what you do is you start with not too much paint on your brush for one thing and you start actually on the tape and pull down All the way around you can see what I mean about If you peek right there, I don't know if you guys can see that you can peek under the tape I don't know if you can see that but the tape is lifting a little bit, but it's a nice clean line So then you want to just let that dry and you know, hopefully I'm not like gnarling up the back side of the Back side of the case so I'm going to do that to all of these And then we're going to come back with some colors now for the next layer, of course You can use another another booger. You can use of course fabric paint. You can continue with fabric paint But once you have the gesso on here and the gesso is dry you can also Use regular paint especially if you're doing this for yourself and you you know, like I said, you don't ever intend on washing it Then I would just use regular paint If you don't know if it's going to ever be washed Or you're doing them for sale. I would probably recommend to you that you use fabric paint And some of these colors are probably going to take more gesso Than others to cover up the color of the fabric Which is something I do I do want to have as a white of a base as possible. There's another gesso booger I think my gesso has been sitting a little long Okay, so do that to all of them that you want to do and then let it dry and we'll be back Okay, hey guys, so we have our little tablet covers and the gesso we put on there is dry and so now we're going to add color because we put the white gesso on there and Essentially erased the color of the fabric not completely in most of the cases, but at least in part We can put some color on there. It's going to really be brighter and pop. I do have two brushes here I have the deco art a one-inch angle brush Americana deco art and I also have a filbert. I do I am really attracted to using this brush today So I think that we're going to do that. I have this is the tealy colored one So I have a few different colors of Decorate paint here. I'm going to start with this yellow. This is cadmium yellow. I'm going to put it right I'm not going to even put it on a palette. I'm going to put it right on the Fabric cover and you notice I have yellows and greens and blues. These will all blend nicely together Without creating any mud So I'm going to put a little bit of a couple of colors on there and I'm going to put some white Just a little bit. I think we'll add a blue. Some of these aren't even open yet This way might be easier. I Don't like taking the plastic off. It's a pain in the neck. All right So I'm I'm going to just I'm going to keep it very loose and abstract. I'm going to make some marks with the paint I'm going to let it blend on here and create secondary colors I'm not looking to create anything that you know is exact or precise or precious I'm just Creating something that's fun and colorful and abstract Who doesn't love that? I do want to make sure I cover up all the gesso. I like that So now I'm going to take one of these. I have a couple other colors of blue Let's take another one of these and this time I am going to put it on the plate And this isn't dry, of course, but That's okay, I think it'll still be okay And each one of these I'll probably do a little bit differently And then we have to let it dry again, and then we're not done. This is actually the plastic Sanitary lid off of a deodorant and it's this perfect oval shape So I thought it might be fun to make some marks with that that is certainly a lot of fun And we have this lighter blue and this is a piece of a silicone potholder Now my friend Donna Mulholland. She just did the painy crazy You know background she didn't do all this like stamping and stuff Either way you choose to do it is going to be fine. I do think that I want to add Carefully because I don't do it carefully. It's going to turn into mud. I want to add a little bit of pink Just a little bit. I don't do it carefully though. It's going to be like brown. It's not pink So I think we're going to get out some sort of a dauber tool Something to make a dot With this is just a stippling brush by Royal Literally like I'm not going to move the paint around too much Because it'll just not be good Okay So then once you have something that you think you kind of like Go ahead and you don't necessarily have to wait for the paint to dry to pull the tape off. Just do it carefully There we go. Now. We didn't get a perfect rectangle, but that's okay It didn't get the paint did get under a little bit in a couple spots, but that's okay I'm going to do the other ones and we're going to let them all dry and I'll be right back Okay, so they're not completely dry, but they're dry enough. They're dry to the touch barely So we're going to continue and then I let me then you need to let them dry for I think 24 to 48 hours I'm sorry 48 to 72 hours And then if you want to you can wash it and that and that after 72 hours of paint is cured We're not going to wash them, but this way at least I know You know with stretching and wear and tear the paint is not going to go anywhere So I've got some black Deco art so soft fabric paint. I have got a stencil now This is one of my stencils that I cut it's an arrow stencil the design for it is Available as a digital download in my Etsy shop the links in the description below if you have a stencil cutting system That allows you to import images Then you can cut one of these yourself if you don't have that you of course can still buy the digital download And then cut it by hand. I Have a silhouette So I can do those things. I put large arrows and a small arrows on here And I think we're going to I Want it I want to Yeah, I want to put some arrows on here. So we're going to stencil some arrows on here. Hopefully we're gonna do a decent job let us sit down and We're gonna use a stippling brush and just a little bit of paint I'm gonna hold the stencil down with one hand, and I'm just gonna go up and down up and down up and down Not to move it around too much. You could tape of course tape it down if you're worried about it Or use maybe binder clips You could skip this step. I mean, you know you could doodle Once the fabric paint is dry, you could get a sharpie or a fabric paint pen and you could doodle on here Maybe put some inspirational words. That would be cool So I like that a lot. I am going to take a baby wipe and maybe the little smudge I see Will come off Maybe Black paint right there. Yeah, it's that one won't come off, but that's okay So I really like that. I think that's super cute So let's do the other ones. There is a little like whites. I wasn't real neat about this Why would I be neat about anything? There's some like white paint or gesso up here probably from my fingers would be my guess But it's okay, it's you could barely see it. I don't even know if you guys can see it. I can see it But anyway, that's super cute. Okay, let's do here's the other purple one This is the bigger one and and you could do any use any stencil. I really like these arrows There's something about the arrows. I don't know what it is. I don't want to do Then this way the bigger ones and I might want to do all of them That's gonna take a lot of paint. So the paint is going on here a lot differently on the raw fabric than it is over the other Fabric paint that we've got on here. So You want to just you know kind of keep that in mind. Well, that was totally sloppy And if you get some paint where you don't want it if it's on the fabric it's probably not coming off If it's on the fabric paint and the fabric paints dry enough Well, you can just wipe that right off And clean up your image Shall we keep going? Here's the little little one the little teal one now. I don't need these at least I don't need all of them So I will probably be gifting some of them in racks in the future If you're interested in receiving racks from me or someone else Go and join my Facebook group We have a list under files for racks and sign up there And maybe while you're there look up a name Maybe somebody you've never heard of or and don't know and send them a little something Rack stands for a random act of kindness for those that don't know That one's a little smudgy, too, but I like it. I don't care. All right Now on these these are already black So I don't know if I want to put black paint on them On the arrows I might want to do a different color Like maybe on this one. Maybe I don't know maybe I don't know I don't know I don't know maybe blue Let's just do blue. We're gonna just put it right on if it mixes with the black a little bit It's gonna be fine. I'm not gonna worry about it. It made like a blue gray, which is pretty You don't want to do straight block on this. It's not gonna show. Well, that's very messy, but You get the idea So see this is what I mean because we prepped it with gesso and because The color that we put on there is dry to the touch as long as I don't press too hard I Can get this up there we go And so what we're gonna do is we're gonna dry and we're gonna wipe off the back I think the back side of this stencil got dirty. I got a little too sloppy a little few too many times All right So we'll line it up again with the one that's on here Not that we really need to do that. It doesn't really matter. Maybe not be a gorilla with a brush here Yeah, that's better That I like a lot. All right. We have one more. I didn't really want you to do an arrow this way So I think we're going to again on these big ones. I like to know there's something about putting it that way So once you get all your stenciling done, let it dry According to your paints directions, like I said for the deco art so soft fabric paint You want to let it dry for 48 to 72 hours? So if you're doing these for a craft show or you're giving them as a gift You want to plan it to do these well in advance that one wasn't all the way dry. Okay, it's okay So that they have time to cure I'm not the best stenciler on the planet, but I love these They're cool. All right, so that's it. I'm gonna let these dry for a few days and then I will Have them ready to rack I hope this gave you some ideas of what you can do With things found from the dollar store. These would be a cute little gift For anybody who has a tablet or a Kindle. They would be a cute craft fair item I think I'm gonna rack these and think I'm gonna fill them up with like maybe little journals and things and some postcards with my artwork and Send them off. All right, 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 Okay, it is late in the evening and I was working on some other stuff And I just can't help myself but doodle on here. I just I just can't See so I just have a Posca paint pen and a Sharpie paint pen and you know, I'm not getting Perfect lines or marks, but if you've been watching my YouTube channel for a while Then you know that I'm not really about perfect lines and marks. I Just think that there's not enough That you can do to this to just make this look fun and dress it up There really isn't now if you want your lines to I'll look the same way that you might want to keep them on the paint painted part They look different on the fabric than the paint. I am okay with either one And my favorite gold paint pen by the way is a Sharpie I think it's the best one out there and It's inexpensive so I'm just Using the white one on the arrows and you'll see right here on this arrow because half of it's On the fabric and half of it's on the painted part and the Sharpie is going to react differently nobody's home yet They're all they're all I shouldn't say they're all the daughter moved out So it's just the husband and I and he's out at a football game with his buddies So which is cool because that means I get to Catch up on all the projects this week that I didn't get done yet Art-wise so I just love I love the way that looks it's just so much fun I don't really think you can go wrong with this the more you know marks and things you put on there I think the better it's gonna look so you know if you're gonna do a project like this whether you're just doing a One tote bag, maybe you're doing a pencil bag for back to school Maybe you found some of these tablet covers at Dollar Tree Then just have fun with it Decorate it Use what you have and if you are going to buy stuff You don't have to spend a ton of money Deco art products work really well and they're very affordable They do Have some glass paint pens But I don't know if they have fabric paint pens and I had these so these regular acrylic paint pens So I'm gonna use them of course if there's a deco art product out there. I'm sure it works fabulously But these paint pens write really nicely over the deco art fabric paints The nice thing about the deco art fabric paints is when they dry They're not crunchy Some fabric paints dry stiffen kind of they feel kind of crunchy on your clothing These don't they wash really well My galaxy pants are holding up really well You haven't seen that video yet. Go look it up. It should be under a month Monday with that go up playlist And there you go, I love that you could even write a word here if you wanted all right That's it for today everybody for reels this time. Have a nice day, and I will see you later. Bye