 Hey guys, welcome to another video for my year 2017 for August, and our prompt for this month is hot and cold, which is a challenging prompt, I admit, even for us teachers. I will encourage you as I have done over my week that I'm showing you different ways to use the prompt in your journal to think outside the box, take it as something other than literally, you can take it literally if that's your choice, but you also can, instead of using it as hot or cold temperature, am I hot or cold? I could really go off on that one because I'm menopausal, so you know, those of you fellow women out there of a certain age, yeah, we could just go all crazy with that one, and you can be my guest. But also, maybe you could take it like, are you in a hot or cold mood? Are you, is your creative spirit cold and dead and flat right now, or is it hot and fiery and driving you crazy, or are you somewhere in between and just content? Nothing wrong with content, by the way. So take it outside the box, and maybe you just want to decorate your pages in either cool or warm colors. So take it however you choose, watch the lessons this week, and what the other teachers are bringing you also, and see what you want to do with it. I did have kind of an idea for something really kind of super easy that you could put into your journal. I'm going to do it in mine, and I think I'm going to do it here. Okay, so what about your favorite hot or cold drink, right? Maybe it's coffee, maybe it's tea. For me right now, at the moment, the one that came immediately to mind, I know, shocking, it's not coffee. When we went to Alaska last year, my husband and I, we spent some time before and after with my parents, who live in Washington State, and I also was back there recently with them, and they have totally gotten us hooked on, it's probably totally bad for me, but this Nestle Splash flavored water. I know it's probably, I don't drink soda, but this is probably good because I drink a lot of this stuff. I shouldn't. It's become my current favorite drink. I do love coffee, don't get me wrong. So we're going to do something with this, that's going to revolve around the lemon flavor, happens to be my favorite. Now I will tell you, I have in my line of stamps a citrus design, and I also have a citrus stencil. If you're uncomfortable with your drawing of whatever cold drink you're choosing to do, like in my case I'm doing a lemon, I have, I could choose not to draw it, and I could choose to just stamp this citrus shape for my stamp set. This is stamp set number six. You can get it in my Etsy shop. I also have a stencil, let's see, it's in here somewhere. These are all my stencils. There we go, citrus. So whatever your drink may be that is your favorite drink that you want to give a special place in your journal this month, maybe it's a cup of coffee, and you know, see if you have an appropriate themed stamp. Maybe you have a stencil that looks like coffee beans or something like that. So look and see what you have. I'm going to just draw something, because I have, I'm in the mood to doodle, but you don't have to. So I'm just going to put that out there. I do kind of think I want to, I was going to trim this, but I don't think I'm going to. I think we're going to just put it on that way. I just pulled this off the water bottle I'm currently drinking. I'm going to use some of this Aileen's Turbo Tacky. I'm a little bit out of breath today. My azeba has been acting up lately, so I apologize if I sound weird and I'm hard to understand. Okay, so we're going to put this here. Not quite in the middle, you know, moving around a little bit. So then we're going to take our trusty big crystal pen, plain old big pen, right? So let's doodle a lemon that's sort of coming out on either side of our water bottle label here, more on kind of one side than the other. So just like a, I'm going to zoom in a little bit for you all. And I'm, I'm being messy, but I'm kind of being intentionally messy. I don't want it to be perfect. And Lord knows that's not perfect, but I like it. I'm going to go in first with my white gel pen. Now of course I did say you can, you could do this with a stamp or a stencil and do something interesting. You know, you can use your stencil and trace around it. You don't have to paint with it. So you could lay the stencil down and then use a pencil and trace around the shapes. You know, we all forget that you can do that with stencils because we think we're too used to painting with them. Okay. I've got these yellow pens. This is the Postilla paint marker from the Diso, the Japanese dollar store. I think it's their version of a Posca marker. What I do notice from using them is that it's not as pigmented as Posca. As you can see, it's a little bit more like translucent, transparent. The Posca's are usually more opaque. I love lemon. There's a little secret about me you probably didn't know. My favorite flavor of biscotti, which is an Italian cookie for those of you who don't know, is lemon blueberry. I haven't made them in a long time. I think I need to rectify that soon. I don't make them often because I want to eat the whole batch by myself. That's not a good thing. This is a yellow Derwent graphic liner. Turn it around so that, you know, I don't stick my hand in anything that might still be wet because, you know, that would maybe be bad. That is interesting page. So now I'm going to go back to the big pen. Let's see. I'm trying to figure out how I want to write this on here. I'm going to write here. Then I'm going to go back and highlight the word lemon with yellow. Actually, maybe white and then yellow. So the yellow shows up better. Some white over that. I dry dry. Okay. So now I'm going to continue highlighting certain words. And I'm going to go over them first with a white gel pen. This is a uniball signal. Any white gel pen will work. This is just the one I have. And it's written over a lot of acrylic paint. So it's, gel pens don't like when you do that. So learn from my mistakes, people. All right. So we'll go back with the Derwent graphic liner. That is a cute little page. I love it. So have some fun decorating your journal this month, doing something that you love, highlighting something that makes you smile, keeping in mind the theme for the month of warm, hot and cold. I almost said warm and cold. Hot and cold. And just go with it and play and have fun. Ann is coming tomorrow and she is going to bring with her, her take, blah. She's going to bring you her take on the same prompt. 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