Draw And Create "The Cutest Ever Cat Journal"

1. Introduction: Hello there, My name is and yesterday snack. And I'm a teacher, illustrator and author. I love to include little cute animals into my works of art. In this course, you will learn how to create and design a cute cat journal book like this one from start to finish, incorporating your love for tax and the desire to practice and express herself in a creative and artsy way. This is the perfect way to keep some of your favorite memories of your cast that you can go back to Add to enjoy for days to come. This could even make a perfect gift to give to someone else who's crazy about cats, or maybe they have their own Cat Pet. In this course, you will learn how to draw a cute cat from basic shapes. How to use your preferred art medium to add a touch of color. Simple techniques for designing your pages, creating cat content, choosing photos, incorporating lots of fun, putting it into pictures, putting it into words, creating a story about your cats, making it meaningful for you. Capturing best moments and lots of other journal ideas. You don't have to finish it all in one go either. You can work through one page at a time. You could even pick out your favorite pages and work on those. But most of all, you're giving your time to load it with all of those special things, even as your cat grows and changes. And you'll be able to take these skills that you've learned from this course to create many other journals of your choice. Maybe you'd want to make a dog journal or birthday journal, a travel journal. The idea, an aim of this course is to bring new memories and loads of joy. If I were to this journal linked together with you, see you in class and stay positive. 2. Materials Needed: So welcome to this little course on creating the cutest ever cat journal. So I have this book here that you are welcomed to buy on Amazon. You will find that the ink in the description of the course. This will help simplify your job because some of the work is already done. For example, each page already has a topic. There's a space for a picture. You have a nice cover to personalize with your cat's name. And most of the boxes are already done for you. So I'm going to be doing this course following along each class with this book. So feel free to find it either on my website or on Amazon. Or you could also just get a regular notebook, something without lines like this or one like this, depending on how many pages you want to use or make for your cat journal. So you have these few options of materials. If you prefer. You could also just use some regular white paper and just do a few pages, your catch journal and make it as opposed to or picture frame. So really the options are up to you how you want to personalize this project, this course, or maybe gifted to somebody else, so you get to choose. But for today's course, I'm going to be working with this book. I have here, my contents, and we're going to go through each page together as we create our cat journal. Next, you will need a pencil with an eraser. So I have my eraser at the end here. You will need a ruler for all your boxes and lines. You need some scissors and glue, as well as a thin black pen or a marker. And to create all our cute little kitty cat pictures, we will use some colors so you can either go ahead and choose some colored pencils or markers. Or you can even use a set of watercolor paints. So this is really up to you, which you prefer what preferred art medium you like. So let's get started. 3. Sketching: So to get started, I'm just going to take you through a very simple way to draw your kitty cat. If you would like to delve more into the details of this and draw different poses, different sort of cats. Then you can go to one courses, which gives you seven different poses of a cute kitty cats. That just for this course, I'll be showing you one pose. So you get your pencil. And we're going to start out by drawing a circle towards the top of our page. Circle a little bit over polish. We're going to add two triangles to the top for the ears. So I like to start my kidneys with some basic shapes. I think everybody can draw a shape. So that helps to make it really simple for any beginner who would like to do this. And then I'm going to draw another circle on the bottom, smaller than the first one, because we're doing a little kitty cat. Now if you have a cat instead of a kitty, you could make the bottom circle, the lower circle, a little bit bigger than the head, if that's what you wanted, which is going to go with the proportion of a little kitty cat or a baby and go with the big head. Next, I'm going to make just an imaginary line in the middle of my circle and draw two little eyes, again to doodle shapes, ovals, and a third little shape, right in the center tiny bit below the eyes. I will make a little triangle. Handed a little line going down. Next for the body, I'm going to make two little lines like this. Little pause. And then add a little moon shape for his tail. So these are the basic shapes here, just U-shapes and then I'll make little curved shapes on the ears there. And when this side and a couple of whiskers on each side. So these are the very simple shapes. If my cat, we use the oval. Another size, oval, little smaller for kitten. We use two triangles for the ears and a third little triangle for the nose. We used to more ovals for the eyes. We use two straight lines are curved lines twice for the pause. And then we use some three little, use the end of the pause and we use the half moon, crescent for a tail. Then we used a straight line and do more straight lines for the whiskers. Well, that's the very basic gist of it. 4. Inking: Now I'm going to switch to my pen. If you prefer to do this still with pencil, then that's okay too. I'm just going to already go ahead and do it with my ink pen. Because all I need is just to follow the basic shapes. So as you can see, I'm just making little strokes instead of one big stroke, which makes it look more furry, more fluffy, little bit more character to my acute kidney. They just follow the same direction. For my face. I'm going to start halfway into the ear. And again, make little strokes. This time I can do some little back-and-forth strokes like this. Again, starting from the middle, back-and-forth, little bit more fluff on the cheeks. And it'll all less towards the center. I'm not going to fully close it. Maybe add just a few little dots like that. And since we're on the head, on the face, I'm just going to do the ears. The ears again, little lines all the way to the center. Here I can and add a little bit of shade. Since this is inside the ear. Now for the eye. For the eyes. After I draw the outlines of the two little ovals, I'm going to draw a little oval in the center and then color the rest. And then you just follow along and do your outlines on your pencil strokes. Again for the body, I'm going to give a little texture, little more fluff and for just use little sketch lines, as well as for the little legs and pots. I might curve in his pause a little bit towards the middle just for some extra cuteness. And same with the tail. The tail can be even a little bit more fluffy. Make your lines a little thicker. And then of course, depending on your cat, you can add some little extra features. My cat is totally white, so I'm just going to leave it. But I'm showing you here just another example. If you wanted to. You have different colored cat or ginger cat with patterns. And again, I'm just using my pen and sketchy strokes doesn't need to be perfect. And it gives that hand-drawn look, which is very key. There we have our little kicks in. And of course feel free to erase the lines. 5. Coloring and Shading: So you can get out whatever art medium you prefer. I'm going to be using color pencils for this one. You can prepare your paints or your markers, crayons, whatever you have on hand. And I'm going to just add a little bit of color. So I'm choosing a brown as well as a gray. And I'm going to blend those together a little bit. So I'm starting with whatever is in the back or behind. I'm thinking of where my light source is coming from. I think I like it coming from the front. So his ears, this part is a little bit behind, maybe his nose I could add underneath the little bit of shade. A little bit of shade under his head. Since he has a big head behind the paws. I'm just doing quick strokes. Nothing too fancy. You can kind of go with the same look as you are. As you're drawing strokes. I think the more rough it looks than it looks a little bit more furry and fluffy. So don't feel bad if you don't get it perfect. So if your cat is a certain color, of course, go ahead and colored fully. This is just to give you an example, I might add a little bit of gray as well, or even a little bit more shading. I think it helps the little character to stand out a bit. A little bit more depth. Always add a little bit on the edges of the cheeks. Here behind little bit. I'm just going back and forth between both colors as you can see. So again, we're just drawing one cat here for this book, for this project, for our little cat journal, we will need cats and all different poses. If you want to practice your drawing skills, then be sure to check out my class on how to draw Cat and seven different poses. You can download the pages that I've included here, which gives you lots of cat pictures of the ones that I'll be using if you want it to save you a little time. And the other option is to go and purchase my book on Amazon. You decide what option you want to go for. I'm going to use a red or pink, as well as add a little bit to the ears. Just to bring out a little bit of color. You can even check out your cat's ear. What color are they? Are there knows. This may not be too realistic, but there's always a little, a little hint of pink, I think. So. Even though this one is a little bit brighter, It's okay. If you want, you can add some little pink cheeks. But I find fun too is I just do a little color and then I, with my finger, I smudge it a little bit. We have our cute little kitten in color. And I'm looking forward to the next class where we'll get to start our journal. 6. Why and What: So I'm going to take my book and you can take your book, your notebook, or your piece of paper. You can either use the two last pages from the booklet and cut out these cute little cats here to include into the rest of the book. You can just print it out from the download that I've included with this class. That's what I've done here. The other thing that you will need is a few photos. I've gone ahead and look through all my photo albums just to capture a few fun clips of my kitty cat. So some when she was really little so much she was a bit older. Some funny, some cuties, even some of her family, her brothers and sisters, some funny little things that she's done. Some sweet moments. Anyway, so you can go through your photos and print them out or at least gathered together in a file. And that way, you can have them all in one place when you're creating this cat journal, I like to ask myself before I get started with this project, what is the reason for my cat journal? Is it as acute funds souvenir? Is it to give to a friend? Is it a gift for my child? Is it because I love my kidney so much? Is it because she's so precious to me? So you think about why you want to do this project. I think it's a really fun question to ask yourself. That way it will be a help as you're going through this project. And they'll probably be lots of things that you can think of on the way of things that you want to include it in your cat journal. Now I'm going to cut out my pictures, my little photos. As I think about some of the things that I want to include in my cat journal. I think this can be a great time of reflection, getting curious, having fun. And some of these photos might give you ideas of what you want to include in your journal. That's why for me it helped to, first of all, go through all my photos, see which ones I wanted to include. I think it was really fun for me to include some that have a bit of action to them. Not just my kitty sitting down like this one. This one is so beautiful. It's like a Honda ad or something. She's so cute and adorable. But I really had fun choosing other things that she did, like play with a ball or make a friend with a stuffy cat, of course, go into basket. How she loved to get under blankets, SIP her milk through a tea sets with my daughter. And here I think anything that she can bring a little bit of joy and action with your photos, makes this journal all the more fun and exciting and a beautiful souvenir to go back to. So like this little book says, it's a place to create and personalize this kitty cat journal about your favorite pet to record some of your fondest memories together. So that's kind of my goal with this class as well. A DIY journal for animal lovers and pet owners. With this book, you'll create an amazing personalized memory of your little animal friend, guided video tutorials with ideas on how you can fill and decorate each page. So this is what we're doing now. I'll be showing how you can fill up these pages of your journal. I chose, I think one photo for each page at least. So this will take a little bit of preparing in advance as you look through your cat photos. But even before going through the course, you can just pick some of the photos that you love and then you'll decide where to fit them in best. Don't worry about that. I've just printed out a page of them, but I think I'm going to print out a second page because I'll have more space in my journal. I'm just using these ones as examples to show you some of the ways that you can use your photos as you include them into this journal. Just as a little recap. Go for cuteness, go for fun, go for action. Go for different poses. Just so all your photos aren't just one pose, your cat, sitting in the same way, the same place, each photo that wouldn't make it fun. And try to find photos of your cat during different times of his life as well. That way you can compare. It's actually fun to compare when he's young. I'm saying she because my cat is a sheet when she's young, when she gets older. So I have my photos all cut up. Some of them tells stories, some of them share memories. Some of them are just for fun and cuteness. And that's what a pictures for me, a picture is worth a thousand words. So that's why I love to fill my journal with loads of pictures, not just text. And that's what we're going to do in here. Add a little bit of both. 7. Intro Page: So your first page, you will include your kitty cats photo, so his name. And here you have a big blank space for a photo of your cat. I think I'm going to include this one here. So be sure to have all your supplies on hand, your ruler or your glue, your scissors, your pencil, and your pen. That way you'll have everything you need right at hand. So I'm going to start by gluing my first photo. This is kind of like our introduction page, and it's really fun to do this kind of like our title page. I love starting our page. It kind of sets everything in motion. And for your name, you can write it with pencil first to make sure it fits nicely. So my cat's name is Mimi. I'm going to write it in cursive and then I'm going to go over it with pen. And here's a time you can add a little bit more color if you want. Again, how we learn to do a little bit of shading. This is, this part is really up to you, which you want to, you want to decorate this page, I might make this one a full ginger cat. My cat has a little cousin who's this color? For my shades, I'm going to add a little red or brown color. Again, I'm just following the basic shading rules that we went through in the previous class. Maybe an orange. And here I'm going to make a little gray cat. Little pink nose, pink ears, little pink cheeks. You can decide what else you want to add to your page. Either you could add some color here or you could draw a few little paw prints. I never would give a little bit of life to your page. You could even load it with photos if you wanted to. Then I'm including a little bit of color. If there was something your cat and joy, you could include it here as well. For example, if you wanted that little ball of yarn. Just fun little additions like that. So I'm going to trace it over with my pen. Wanted to, you could add little shapes are a little fun toys. Going to erase my pencil lines. So I used a pencil case. I'm not too sure if myself, but really this is your book, so don't feel afraid to add in whatever makes you happy, whatever makes you think about your cat. Our cat has a cute little brush. She loves to be brushed every day. I'm going to include that. Of course, she has tons of little firms that come out that go all over the house good at something fun to remember her for. And her brushes bright pink. So think about little details like that that make it special and unique and personalize to your own cat. She's such a fun cuddly cat too, though. I love her so much, which is why I've included a little hearts. You could add some cute little noises if you wanted to. Something that we liked. Nickname her as is me, knee, even though her name is Mimi like this, she's always thinking about herself. So we call her Mimi this way. There's my food. She's always hungry. So definitely need to add in her bowl of food here somewhere on this page. This is just a fun little page that says it all says something about your cats, maybe your cats character something she loves, something that you do often, a little habit, little cutie thing she does. This is where you can add it if you wanted to. You could also make a little pattern. In this box. I photo doesn't fill up the whole box, so I'm going to add a little pattern to make it fun and cute. So here you can think about your cat. You can think about something that you love. Color that you like a pattern that you like, something that reminds you of her. And then I'm going to just draw a little black line around my photo. Keep messing up. So I'm going to make a little bow out of it. Since I've messed up already a couple of times here. I just turn it into a little bow. So that's my little trick when I make a mistake with my pen. Since it's the hand-drawn look. Don't worry, we can always find a way to fix it up. My cat loves to be out in nature. So going to add some these. Actually, she loves some of my plants in the house. She loves to play with my garden plants as well, or to call her nose in the grass. I'm going to draw a few little leaves. If your cat is a little girl, you can always add some flowers. Make it cute and girly as well. So you have loads of options. For your cover design. You can add it in black and white, or you can add it in color. So you decide you want to add some color to your flowers. You can do that as well. You just leave it black and white. It's really up to you. So there we have our first little kitty cat. Each CAD page for our cat journal. 8. Purr-fect Welcome: So for this page, we have our little box. If you don't have this bokeh or if you haven't downloaded what you needed to, you can just go ahead and draw with your ruler. This is what the rulers for. The rectangle in the middle of your paper. And I'm going to continue by drawing a little bit more to it. So you can follow along with me if you want. I want to make like a picture frame here. I'm going to trace another line on each side. And we're going to make a cute little picture frame. So this page is welcoming our cat. A welcome page to his little journal, which this one can be loads of fun. Then I'm going to make little twirly lines, just like little waves all along the picture frame. That way it looks more like a frame rather than just the box. This is a way that you can personalize it. Your cat. These storylines make me think of the wall or little strings she likes to play with. And feel free to add a photo. Once again, your catch right in the middle. I'm going to go through my photos. Might include this one here. I don't really have one of the perfect size, although this one this is the first time we've ever seen her. She was with my daughter. We went to visit her. She was one month old, but she wasn't even ready yet to leave home, to leave her mommy. But we came and visited her, said hello. So this really would be the best welcome photo. I think. Your cutout also going to cut one of these pictures. So I'm thinking maybe this one, you can choose the one that you feel you would like best for this page. I think it's just cute to have these little cats. Extra, kind of another way to personalize it. You choose your little cat pose that best fits your page. You can cut it directly on the lines or you can leave some space like I have. I don't mind leaving a little space. It makes me think of a little sticker. And these ones, you can feel free to color them watercolor or with marker because it's not directly on your book. So before I glue anything, I'm just going to design my page. Again. I can include the name of my cats or any nicknames that we have for her. And here I'm going to write big letters, big bold letters. Welcome. So before I do that, I'm going to just write it real thin with my pencil. Just to know where to place the letters. I'm just going to go with some fun letters. I might make it each letter a different font. This for fun, I'm including a couple of letters and boxes. This is almost like a little doodle project because we're laying our journal. We're making it from scratch. We're adding photos. So it's like cutting out dude lane. Again, I might make some little paw prints. The pop prints will come from here. They can be working their way up like that. Since I'm just welcoming my cat with my little leftover pieces from the cutouts. I'm going to draw a little, since it's a baby, you're going to draw a little pacifier. Maybe it's too big. Let's see how you can draw a little baby bottles. I'm just adding a cute little details, so that's a fun thing about it. You ask yourself what some, something fun that you could include on this page. You love about your cat that makes it cute. Baby ish. I'm going to start gluing things down. So feel free to have to get a bigger photo if you want. That way you can take up the whole space. Classifier. Can always draw a little baby bottle to course, we know that cats don't drink milk from a bottle, but it could be just acute kidney thing. Here I'll write her name again. I think letters are really key, especially for little animal journal. So company. You can even write a little something to our family or something, or you can write to our home. Here I'm going to draw the line again around since I have lots of space around the photo, we can even fancy up the frame if we want to. I can even draw a double line. So here's our little welcome page. Again, you can fill it with whatever colors that you would like or some extra stickers or more doodles. I'll leave that up to your imagination to personalize it even more for you. I'll see you in next class. 9. Craft Project: I have this book with some old paper and I really liked the look of this old writing, old papers. So I'm going to include a little bit of that in my journal. I might just cut some to make it a little easier without having to measure. I'm just going to cut some lines. And I can glue that on top of my picture frame. So if you have an old book or even some magazines, I'm sure that's something that you can find easily are from them trash or your neighbors might have something. So I'm including things here that I don't think should be a problem for you to find. I don't want to make it difficult for you and continuing this project. Now if you don't have this, it's not totally necessary. I just like adding a little bit of more color and contrast or maybe some different texture to my page. So you just cut it to the right size that I'm going to just measure and draw the little catchy. I know where to cut. Nothing too complicated and fast. He doesn't even have to be perfect. It's kind of nice to have that little patchy look too. Then I just put glue down on my book. And then glue. It. Seems to be the simple, simplest, especially because this paper is very old, so it rips easily. So it's easier to put the glue. On my page. We're not going to do a lot of gluing because this book is not going to take so much that even just a little bit color like this I can each page is going to look really cute. 10. Information: For this page, we will work on some of the information for our cat. Cats journal is not just as a fun souvenir, but I think it also serves as a purpose to remember important details or information about our cat. Things that we don't want to forget or in case you have to move somewhere else and you want to give your cat to somebody else, to a friend, it will be helpful to have this information to pass onto them. So here's what we're going to do with this page. If you don't have this book, you can just go ahead and draw a square. I made it a little bit angled like that, and then a little box on the top. And here I'm going to write first photo. So in our previous page, we had the first time we saw the cat in real life. But this is the first photo of our cats. So a friend of ours gave us this cat. So she had some photos from when she was first born. So here's one of them and here's her with her brother and sister. So I'm not sure which went to place. If you have space for two, you can put two of them. I think this one is her first photo is she doesn't even have much further, so I might glue that wind down. So as we did with the other one, our previous page, we add a little bit of brown paper. For this one, I'm going to include a little side paper. So I'm going to cut my whole book and I'm going to measure, I think I want it around this smudge and I'm going to give it a little grip lock. Something cute about. If you don t have an old book like this, you can also just doodle that it'll freeze on the side. Cute as well. Because it's longer. I'm just going to add a little bit more from this piece. So I'm gonna clue that there. And here's where I'm going to place the important information of my cats. So something, some of the things that come to mind when I think about my cat is her breed. We write it with pen so that you can see it. What cat breed is she, if you know, her birthday, color for color. So some of these things are pretty obvious, but I think they're cute. To remember something that if you had two, you can think about if you had to describe your cat to somebody, what would you describe her ads? So maybe you'd include a breed eye color or four color. So I have her birthday and also I will also include the date arrived to our home. That could be a fun thing to remember. That way you know exactly how long you've had her ears some space for more things as well. Maybe if she had her vaccinations, brother, sister, you get to decide what you want there. I'm just showing you some of the things that I included for my cat journal. So maybe you can find some of these journals in a shock at a pet store or bookstore. But I think there's nothing like making your own version of it. You can show this to a friend, you can show this to your grandparents, you can show this to your kids and be so proud of your work done, how you made this book all by yourself for your special care. So I'm going to also include one of my little cat pictures somewhere on this page. I think I'm going to choose this one. So if you download the file, again, you'll have the same ones as I do. You can choose whichever catch you want. I like this one. He's kind of has a little questioning, curious look. Again, cutting it out like little sticker. So then you can play around and decide where you would die kids. Depending on your photo, how much information you have to include, how much you want to include, and anything else you want to put on your page. So I'm just going to go ahead and glue that. And for the rest of my page, I'm going to add some fun little doodles, maybe some flowers, because again, this is a little curly cat. I could probably add flowers to all my pages. I think it's just fun to add little doodles everywhere. Whether it's related to cats or not, it's okay. You just have fun. You just draw whatever you feel like. Whatever could give your page a little bit more beauty and fun. So I'm just thinking of summer, my cat, let's do it. Stay outside around nature. To add some circles to me, this looks very playful. Alright? And of course you can add your specific information for your cat. I'm going to add them for my cat, her eyes are blue. Her for is y and bij. I need to check on the date she arrived to her home because that I'm not a 100% sure, but I remember it was around Christmas time. Her birthday is October six. I need to verify the date with my kids and her breed angora. Again, you can add some more doodles on your photo. I'm going to add another ball of yarn. Set something that cats love to play with. 11. Cut out Letter Tittles: So to finish our page, I want to include information but in big letters. So what I could do is either cut a piece of my paper here and write information. Or if you prefer to, you could cut out some letters from a magazine. So I have an old magazine here that I'm going to look for some letters, for some words. So you decide on the size that you want. I find here already a few. I could use. I would like it at least the size. I'm going to spell out the words information. So I haven't I and f and our n. I'm just taking the letters that I need and then I'll put them in place. I think it's fun to make some letters, some fonts, different types of lettering and font, but you do with what you have. And then I'll look for the other letters that I need. I like these because they are again a different font. For me Shun, I could use the, oh, I think it's really fun to mix different art mediums. I loved the fact that doing your own, you can include anything, everything you want. Here's another, oh, and I looking for an AI if there is any different fonts I could use. In a magazine like this, I might not find too many to many ones. But at least you could see if there's a different background so that you can see a different color. So here I've found one with the yellow background. Just for some variety, might switch up the ODE. Let's try this one here. I like it when there's different levels. And I might change the R for this one. Let's see if I have different letter I can use so that there's not three in a row that are the same. Here's a nice. So you decide if you want to rather write your word or to cut it out. I think I'm going to use this a as well for variety so that I mix in a different font. And I barely have space, but see if it works. So I'll put away my magazine. Next time. I will think of adding my title before I put everything down. I find that it's nice and quick to add the glue, my paper one or two letters at a time. And then I can glue my TV cat back down. And I don't like my letters to straight eater, but you do what you want. I would like to make them go little zigzag. Here, I'll add for the last two letters. So now, not only do you have your little title, but you also have a little bit of additional color, which is great fun. Let's move on to the next page. 12. Painting: Before I continue on with more from our journal, I thought of giving all my little picture's a bit of color. It's easier to do it all in one go. So I got my paints and my paint brush with some water. I'm just adding a little water to each of my colors that I want to use. I printed it onto a thicker paper so that it absorbs the paint a little bit better. I'm going to start by ginger cat. So you can use the watercolors or you can use your color pencils. And just have fun adding a little touch of color to all your kitty cats away gives them time to dry before you need to cut them out. I find that helpful. I'm using the same colors that I want. I'm gonna make this one look a little bit like my cat, so I'm just going to add a little bit shaky. Most of her will be white. I think it's fun to add variety, even if it's not the same color as your cat, you can just have fun. This is not a great paintbrush, little bit thick, but I like it because it has water in it. So as you saw how to add a little color and shading to your cat, would be the same techniques you would use, whether it's painting, whether it's marker or color pencils. So if you need some help for knowing what cat colors, you can always also find some photographs for some cat colors. If you're not sure. Or just stick with drawing the colors of your own cat. Cats can really be all colors, mix of colors. There's so much variety. Towards the end of your paintbrush when it gets a little dry, I like to use you said for when I want my white cat, I just use it to make some shadings, not for full color. First, I'm just giving the cat at general color. Then I can always add a little bit of shaking after, except if you want your cat or white. I'm just using the color to add the shading. It's hard when you're a paintbrush is in very thin, but you'll see it kind of gives the look of fluff and fors, so cute. Not having to go for perfection here. You're afraid to make a mistake and just go with some little strokes like this. Once it's a little dry, you can add in a little bit of shading. And it's okay if you go out of the lines because you can cut that out. To make this like a little gray cat. Again, just a little bit of color like this can change your page. So it's one I might make it all not so into the color of it. It's a bit messy. But my ginger cat, I can always add a darker color if I want. For the shadings. And the little pattern. Looks like it has a little bit weird. So have fun play around. You're really kidding. I'm going to take some red and just add little pink cheeks. I want some pink cheeks. Since I have a little gritty cat. Even if you don't, it's cute. Want to make the little nose, the ears a little bit. I think it saves a lot of time when you can do all the colors in one go. Saves you time having to get to all your paints ready. You just get to take it all out and use it in one go. So we had a little bit of practice using paints and a little bit of practice using color pencils at the beginning. So as you can see it very much so the same techniques of coloring, just a little bit of color, a little bit of shading. And then you can also fill out some of the details. So I might make my car red. It's a little bit of shading to my book center there. You can add a little pattern to your bed. 13. Shading: And if you wanted to add a little bit more color or more shading, go ahead and use your color pencils. And here's where you can go over again as we learn together. The parts behind or depending on where your light source is coming from on your page. Or if you wanted to add some little patterns to your cat, you could go ahead and do it with color pencils. I find that paint and colored pencils work really nicely together. I like painting with the watercolor and then adding a little bit of shading with the pencils because it has a different texture to it. Kind of a fun texture. So play around and experiment with that. And what you find works best for you and what you enjoy as well. And of course what you have available. And on hand, I think any material can work. So if you're getting to this course right away or if you want to get to it right away, then use which you do have. Because if you wait for all the materials that you need, you might not get to it. So that's what I've learned to just cope and experiment with the materials I do have. You can make anything work. And that's what's the wonderful thing about art. That's how you can practice your creativity, figuring out how to best do it for you. So as you can see, even just a little bit of shading like this really adds to it. Just gives the picture a little bit more contrast, a little bit of texture, a little more fullness to it. And I find that the color pencils on top of the paint has a really nice, it gives leaves a really nice texture as well. So once you do one cat, it's quite easy to continue on with all the others because you follow the same shading techniques. You know how to do it for one, then you can do it for all of them, which is the wonderful thing about these courses. Now you will have had great practice drawing and coloring cats. You can probably do them yourself from now on. Not just create your own capture and all, you can create little cards with kittens, little gifts, personalized gifts, poster of your kitten that you can put into a little picture frame. So if you're a cat lover like me, then you'll find loads of uses for drawing cats. By adding a little kitty cat and some other object. You have a little gift, personalized gift to someone, someone you know, who loves cats. It's their birthday or you want to make a welcome sign for them or happy Mother's Day, Father's Day card. Even a congratulations or get better soon card. I'd be a little harder to draw a real person. But just drawing a little cat is can be meaningful and fun for anybody. You can't go wrong by drawing a little cat. So I think I've added a little shading to each of my cats. Almost done the little color to the watch. So if it's easier, you can just use color pencils might make less of a mess. Then you can always smudge a little bit the pencil to add little patterns. So if you've left out anything with the watercolors, you can always fix it up or add to it with your pencils. I didn't have all the colors I needed in the paint, so I can always include it. Pencil as well. And there we have our little colored kitty cats that were ready to use for the rest of our journal book. See you in the next class. No. 14. Family Tree: So on to our next page, we're going to do our family tree. So if you have your little notebook, you will see that you have to picture frames. And now I'm going to try to match them and add a few more. So first I'm going to take my pencil just to draw a rough shape to make sure I have enough space. So this is for the kitty cats, dad, a mom, and my cat. I'll put here in the middle. So you draw how many you need. I'm going to draw Mimi. It is my cat's name. Her brother and sister or sister and brother. And she will be in the middle. So there's enough space to add plenty more if your cat has more brothers and sisters, but mine just has two. And then you can draw a cute little tree, might make it with some roots. Something like that. So I like to add either a little bit of brown paper to my picture or some letters from that for my title. So I will decide if I want to go like maybe with a brown tree trunk. I think we'll do that. I'm just going to size it. Draw a rough here. I can always trim it afterwards. You have your old book or old magazine, then just draw a rough tree trunk with little roots like so. To make it fun and artsy. And then I'm going to look for one of my kidneys. So I've already chosen some that I want to use for each page. I'm going to go with this one for my family tree. And I might put them right on top here of his little picture frame. This I can cut a little smaller. And let's write together our title. So you do what you want. I like variety. Sometimes I glue letters, sometimes I like to write them myself and add in my own colors afterwards. So because we've glued this one, I'm going to write this one down. So I'm going to write my cats. I'm just doing a rough with the pencil first. And here, family tree, something like that. Then I can trace over it with my pen. I'm just using a normal font and then adding little strokes at the end. I might make this one bubble letters. For some variety. You do what you're able to. I think Kat's family tree is a special page. It's a souvenir. Maybe your cat won't realize it. Well, definitely won't realize it. But it brings special memories, I think for you, especially if you know any of the family members of your cat. And I'm going to draw some rough leaves for the tree. So sometimes I'll make the leaves, sometimes I'll just do the shape. So you can either do it like this, just with your hand or you can use a ruler if you prefer and make it a little bit straighter. I don't I don't mind the hand-drawn look, but to match these ones, I'm going to use my ruler because I know that that will make it much straighter. And this one I might make a square for something different. So I'll make it a little shorter and wider. You can make it a little different if you wanted to, since it's a different shape anyways, I'm going to add a third line. So be as fancy as you want or as simple as you want. Here I'm going to do is little sister in a circle, her little sister, sorry. It's not a perfect circle. And then I can continue to grow. My tree. Here, I can add some leaves. I'm going to cut out what I drew on my leaves just so something like that. It's not perfect. Again, that's okay. We're just having fun here. Not just the final results that we're after, we are after the process. I think that's the wonderful thing about this project. This will take a little bit of time to get through. It's a big project. It's not just gonna be done in one, go in one class. But you'll have an amazing thing to go back to. You'll have a whole book of memories and souvenirs of your cat. So this is something to look forward to. It though it takes a little effort to take some perseverance, takes some time and energy. Of course, we're having fun along the way. That's why to me it's important to have fun. If it's not fun, What's the use of it, right? Alright, my little kitten is here. I think we're ready to glue. So if you don't have pictures of each of this of the cats, family members, then feel free to draw them yourself. Now you know how to draw a kitty cat. I'm going to go through my photos and see if I have one for the different members of her family. So this is her mom for sure. I know. Might just need to trim it a little bit. I don't know if I have her brother and sister. This is her sister or brother and this is her There's her dad. So I do have almost all of them just besides her oh, here she is. So there we have her whole family. I was able to find photos of all of them. So I'm going to just trim them to the size that I need to have a little circle photo, but I'm going to just trim it into a little oval much as I can. And her dad and mom, I will trim a little bit as well. So they fit into the frame nicely. So that's something to look into before you print out your photos. If you have this book, then you might want to check that out first, the spacing that you have. So we're ready to clear down our little family tree. I think it's just so cute to have all this information in one page and one book. Something wonderful to go back to if you're creating this for your family, for your kids, maybe you're doing this with your kids. I think it's a super fun project to do together as a family as well. We get to choose the photos together. You get to remanence on special moments of your cats live together. So it's really special time and also a very crude time. So I'm going to add a few more lines and doodles on my paper. You can follow along or you can make some of your own. These are little frames. You can even add some little de corps if you have space-like me. My grandmother, bouncy frames here. You can add some little leaves falling from the tree, pour around the tree. Pile of flowers around the tree trunk. So we're done all our doodles. Be sure to add whatever colors you want to this page. 15. Cat's Arrival: So in this class of our journal, we're going to work on our page, arrival. So you can take your page that says arrival, page 11 in your little notebook, or you can just take your regular notebook and draw a little box like this on the side of the bottom part of the page. And if you have your printout with all your kitty cats, you can go ahead and cut this one out. So thinking and remembering about the arrival date is really loads of fun. There's probably so many emotions, excitement, joy, curiosity, all types of feelings that you might want to relive or remember. Or maybe from your kids are from you or further from the person who gave it to you. Maybe you got it from a pet store or from a friend. So I think there's loads involved in the arrival story. So you can get your pencil and your pen and we're going to doodle this together. I'm going to start with my little title. You can either just write with bold letters, arrival story. I'm going to see if I can find some letters to cut out. So my last page was written. So this time I'd like to include a cutout. Here on this page. I find that big a, which is a fun one to start with, since it's the first letter of my title. And then the others, I can always do a smaller font. Going to use this r over here. This. So I have a couple in this font and then I'm going to look if there's another type of font or lettering, or maybe a different color. I'm sure you have some magazines at home. Even if it's just some sharp advertisements, you'll always be able to find some letters. I also have a tray where I keep letters from other magazines that I've cut out. So maybe I'll find the letters I need here. I need a V and I. So it's practical to just keep some lectures like this. So when I use them for my journal, I can easily find them. Here. I have my eye and I just need a vignette. So I have my title ready up here. And I'm going to add this little car. And with my pencil, I'm just going to draw a little box where I can include some text as if it were a little writing paper. And then I just trace it over with my pen. So I'm even going to give it a little paper look. The little flap there. I erased the pencil lines. So the reason I've included this page is think there's so many, like I said before, there's so many emotions to this special day. Maybe you've been waiting for a long time. You knew that it was going to come and it finally happened after so much waiting, so much excitement. So when I knew I was going to get my cat, it took a couple of months because she wasn't old enough to leave her mom yet. So it was really an exciting day. I'll write the arrival story. The little appear. So this makes it really official, like a little storybook. And I'm going to glue that down for it messes up. You can put your glue on your lecture or on the paper, whatever you find easier. And then I'll do my little cat down as well. I think it's cute in the corner over here. They arrival story. As you write your story, give it some suspends, give it some excitement. Give it a little bit of fun. And I think the sooner that you can write your story, the better you'll remember it. Because there's sometimes those fun details that are easy to forget. So I encourage you to do this as soon as possible. Maybe you've written a few things down already, so get your notes and put it all together into a fun little story format if you wanted a little idea. So fun way to start a story would be once upon a time. Let you continue with that. And if you have a photo of the arrival date, maybe whether she was with her mom leaving her mom, whether she whether you have a photo of her at your house at home. So this would be the place to add a fun little photo. I don't have one at the moment, but I'm probably going to look for one later on. I'm going to use a little bit of scrap paper because I would like to add little touch of brown. I'm not sure what these words say. They're in German, but I think I'm going to add them as little pieces of tape to bring in some of that color. I find that tiny little details like that can add a little pizzazz to your page. Nothing too complicated. I'm working with what I have. I have one magazine and one old book. And if you don't have this at all, you could also use some tape, colorful tape or masking tape, or even just a piece of colored Pinker would work. And you can add whatever other details you want. I might add a little wheel to my page. Maybe a bigger one here. So whatever else you can think of, I add a little bit of nature again. If you wanted to. It helps to add some lines to write your story in so that you're sure that your story is nice and straight and readable. And this makes it look like a little letter writing pad. You can also just add some information to certain details of the arrival day. So if you don't feel like you're able to write a whole story, just write some fun. Little tidbits are memories that you have this day. You can ask yourself, What were you feeling at the moment? What do you think your cat was feeling at the moment? You could make it like a little interview if you preferred. Once upon a time that it did, or you could write the way I saw it and experienced it. And further down the way my cat saw it and experienced it. Just for a little fun. You decide how you want to fill the rest of this page with your text. I'll see you in the next class. We will get to explore some of your cat's favorite things. See you there. 16. Favorite Things: Hello and welcome again to another class for creating the cutest ever kept a journal. So this time we're going to open our page to number 13 and we're going to delve into some of our cat's favorite things. If you have your little booklet, you can come and join me. And if not, then feel free to draw a little shape like this with your pen in your notebook. So I'm going to use this little shape here for my title. I'm going to start with my pencil to just sketch out the letters so I make sure that they fit in just right. This time, I'm going to write it with pen. You can write favorite things or you can write my cat's favorite things that we personalize it a bit. My cats. I like to mix in different lettering as well. And if you want to add a little bit more to it, you can add a little line and color it in to help it stand out even more. This is the fun thing about this project is we get to create each page and a very different unique way. Because each page is something different about our cat. Here I'm going to add double line to one side of the letters and some little strokes to the ends. My cat's favorite things. And I'm going to choose one of these cat pictures as well. So I'm going to cut out this one. I think this is acute pose because there's a lot of things you can do with it. So I might place it here and I think I'm going to make him hold some little balloons. You can add as many or as few balloons as you want. And I have my brown paper again, so I think I'm going to add a few balloons that color as well. Maybe one more. So you see how many you can think of? I'm going to already glued down my cat so that he doesn't fly away. And sees as well. I'm going to use my pen to just trace around brown ones. So it shouldn't be too difficult to think of your cat's favorite things. Unless you've just gotten your cat. I think by now you've probably noticed some of those things. If you wanted a little bit of help to dig those out, you could think of a few topics or scenes. Here. I'm just going to add a little knot, a little tie of the balloons. Here. When I draw all the little strings coming out, you can fill your page with as many balloons as you want. I'm going to just erase my pencil. You can, of course, include some other photos of your kitty cats on any page that you wish would be a cute little souvenir. You can use as many photos as you want. I don't think you can ever use too many. So if you wanted a few ideas here, I would list her favorite activity. It's not very clear on this paper. Here I'm going to include game or favorite gain. You might want to write with a thicker marker. These balloons, her favorite room in the house. Maybe where does she spend most of her time? Her favorite food, favorite outing that she's been on, favorite drink. These are just some fun things to remember about your kidney. And it could be helpful if you ever have to pass on your kit to somebody else or maybe you have to leave them for the time that you're on vacation. This would be a great book to pass on to your neighbor, to your friend who looks after your cat. Her favorite place to sleep, her favorite person, her favorite nap time. Some of these might be easy to answer and some of these might be more difficult. But I think they're all fun. Maybe your cat has a favorite song, maybe they have a favorite plants. They like to nibble on. Maybe they have a favorite toy. The toy would be a good one to add. So you see how much space you have on your paper. I'm filling mine to the brim here. Although it could also go with game. Game could be like maybe she likes pulling strings. She likes playing catch, hide and seek, toys, more like an object. Activity could be like she liked just hanging out. It's her favorite activity. Mealtime is her favorite activities, sleeping. You can kind of ask herself, what does she do? The millstone. Again, you can add some fun doodles. I'm going to include again some cute daisies. Daisies made me feel joyful. And this page makes me feel joyful. Who doesn't like to list their favorite things. And I'm adding some little circles again. There we have my cat's favorite things. And you can always add a little touch of color. Paints are little touch of other pencil. I might just include a little yellow for my flowers. So do what you want with each page. Sometimes you can just leave them black and white. Sometimes you can add color. Sometimes you can do lots of photos and pictures and that brings out the color as well. You just want to make it beautiful and inviting so that you'll want to look back on it. Later on. You can make little lines or strokes are colored all in your eyes. Just tend to look on the colorful things. So if you want to notice the title first thing on this page, then you give it some color. Since there's lots going on on our page, you add color to what you want your eyes or somebody else's eyes to see first. I think that's a fun little rule to remember when you're working on a page. And challenge yourself by using too many colors either I think it's, it's creative to try to explore using one or two colors on your page. That way it's not too overwhelming. Then you learn to play around and find balance for your picture. So here we have our favorite things page, so don't forget to fill these out for your own cat. You can either use a pencil or you can use your pen with a different handwriting. Just to add a little bit of contrast between your title and your answer. 17. Cat's Dislikes: Hi again. Here we are with our cutest ever capture and all. And today we're going to focus on our cats dislikes. So get your page number 15 or take out your notebook and draw a little banner like this, just two parallel lines. And it looks like a flag and a little rectangle like this, where here we're going to place a photo. So here we're going to be thinking of what our cat doesn't like. Our previous page was some of our cat's favorite things. And it's also nice to be aware of, to be sensitive to and to know what our cat dislikes. That way we won't bother the more tease them. So I'm going to pick out one of my little kitty pictures here. I have one that's a little tearful. I'm going to use this one. So this would be a time to question, what are those things that my cat doesn't like? What do they feel bothered with? An even how do you know that they don't like it? Do they scratch, do they yell and cry? 18. Best Friends: Hello and welcome again to a class on the cutest ever cat journal. Today we're working on our page, best friends. So you can take your notebook, whichever one you have. You can either draw these shapes yourself or use the book that I've provided. You can either print it out yourself on paper. Oh, you can get it from Amazon and get this exact one. So let's go back to our kitty cats and find our best friends. So I'm going to choose two cats this time. I didn't do it on purpose, but there were sort of the same color. So I might change that. Make one little bit more gingerly. This one will be very colorful. It sets them apart a little bit more. I'm going to start by cutting them out. I use these little cats as the core piece. What's fun is using real photographs. That's probably the best it can do. But when I don't have a photograph or even if I do, I still like to include one of these on each page. Kind of brings the whole book together. It makes it one style. And you also get to use the kitty cats that you learned how to draw, whether from one of the first classes in this course, whether you took another course where we drew together seven different cat poses. So feel free to go back to that one if you want to challenge yourself and learn to draw your own kitty cats. In this course, we're just delving more into how to create the cap drown. So I have these two, they might give each other a little hug or something like that. And I'm going to go to my photos and see if I have some nice friendly ones. I have a couple. I have this one with his friends, Teddy friends or this one. So I'm sure you can find photos with the cats, your cat and a friend, or maybe even just a teddy bear or something. Pretend that their friends. I'm going to just trim it to the right size. Course it's a little bit small, but it's better to small than to bake. I'm not sure where I want to put my cats. I could put them down here and up here I would like to write a title. And this time we're going to use our letter cutouts. And I'm going to write best friends. I have a cute sticker page here. I might choose. From here. I'm going to go and find all the letters that I did. So you can go through your collection of letters if you've made one, or you can use a magazine as we've done before in our previous classes. So I'm going to glue it. I just bring these down and I'm adding glue all along there since they're quite squishy, seems to be the easier way to do it. So as you do your pages, you kind of learn different techniques. What works well, what works quicker, more efficient. And I can always add, you want to personalize it? My cats, best friends. So you can ask yourself, Does she have a favorite pets? Does she have a little stuffy that she enjoys to play with or sleep with this when she was always after this little cat. I think because one time for photo, we put a little bit of cream on top of the cat until this day she goes and smells the cat. I don't know if she remembers that it had cream on it once or she's looking for it or maybe it's still stinky like it. So it's a funny little reminder. And this is what this page is fun for. Well, we know it's more for us than for cats. This book. But just like we enjoy remembering our best friends, I think it's a fun thing to remind ourselves of our cats, best friends. So thinking more about this page and best friends, I realized that besides stuffed animals, my cat doesn't really have a best friend besides me and my kids were his family, were his best friends. Going to erase some of my pencil? So I'm going to write here and answer some questions related to best friends. So instead of my cats best friends, I'm thinking of changing it to we're best friends. So to alter that, I'm going to take a piece of my brown paper from my old notebook. I could either write it out. Instead. I'm going to add a little extra color. So I'm measuring my paper to the size that I need. And then I'm going to write, we are trying to write it as large as possible since it's a large piece of paper. And then I'm gluing it. Can always draw a black line outlining the paper if you like. And now we're ready to add a little bit more text to our page. So we are best friends because I'm trying to think of some fun questions to answer related to my cat and I. Another fun one would be when I'm happy that you are just a few prompts that you can answer if you like, but you can of course, think of your own questions. And I'll end with, I feel. So how does it make me feel that my cat and I are friends? So I liked answering some of these questions because it not only makes me think about friends, best friends, it also makes me think about my relationship with my cat. What makes a good friend? We are best friends because I'm going to add a little pop print as a bullet. We spend time together. So that's something that friends do. Another one I would write as she sits on my lap for a cuddle. And another one. She wants me there. While she eats. So little things like that reminds me that like spending time with me and that we're friends. We're friends when I think it's somewhat selfish. Selfish or her, when she wants to eat, then she's really nice and cuddly with me and wants some attention, gives me a kiss. I wonder why ulterior motives than just friends, but I think it's a cute thing. I like being around her and cuddling her when I'm cold. I think she likes it too. So I'm gonna write when we're cold and need some warmth, we keep each other warm when she wants to play. So I think the when is really more for her besides the warm for me. So I coped by her schedule. She's the boss of the house after all. I'm happy that so when she wants me there while she eats or drinks, she doesn't actually drink with anybody else but me. So you kinda makes me happy that even though it's somewhat bothersome, I have to be there. But the fact that she feels she's safe with me, I really like that. I'm also happy that every morning she comes and she wants to cuddle. Sometimes even before she thinks of her food. She wants to cuddle. And then she's happy. She helped me out until I pick her up. I feel I think I feel honored. I feel loved, even though I think it's more selfish love of hers, but I feel loved. I feel wanted because she's dependent on me for her food and her drink. And when we cuddle and stay warm, I feel cozy and warm. Anyway, those are a few little ideas. And I'm going to add a few little hearts. And if you wanted to add a little bit more color, you could also add a brown heart with your old book paper. Going to add a second one, little bit smaller. Why have one when you can have two, Lenhart will be for me and when heart will be for my cat. So the rest, you can decide how you want to color it or fill it up. And I'll see you in the next class. 19. Things You do Together: Hello and welcome to another class of the cutest ever kept journal. Today, we're working on the page, things we do together. Do you and your cat enjoy doing together? This is a fun question to ask yourself so you can get your supplies and let's get started. If you have your little kitty cat page. Because we use two in our previous page, there wasn't actually enough, so we're going to have to draw one for this page. I think I'm going to sketch one right here in the middle. And you can sketch with me if you like. Now you know how to draw your kidneys using your basic shapes. Now I'm going to ink it so you can join me with yours. I'm doing a little pose like this because I want him to be hanging on a little string. And I add some little pattern. I end with some whiskers. I can erase my line. And I'm just going to add a little bit of color to this one. This time I'm not getting out all my paints. I did that last time, so I'll just give a little bit of color pencil makes less of a mess, but you do what you like. And now we can cut out our little kitten just as we did the others. So if you use these little cut-out cats, you'll notice that there's actually just enough for one per page. So if you wanted more, you can go ahead and print it out a second time. Or you could practice your art and do different ones, different poses or doubles at the same pose if you wanted. So now I'm going to do a little sketch of what I want my page to have. I want to design my page. I find that I really like having a general design and look before I get started, I'm thinking this page to have a little string of hearts. Things we do together, gets a little friendly time. And here I'm going to write out my text this time. I'm thinking for the brown part, I'm going to add a little corner piece right here. And then it'll be fun to have a little old fashioned. Again to bring out the same style for the whole journal book, then you can think of what else do you want to add to your page two, and add more decorations or toys. I could add a little ball of yarn. Second one. Cute thing to add would be a little speech bubble. So if your cat could talk, what do you think he would be saying as you do things together? So his real language would be meow and what would that translate to you? Maybe let's do it again, or great fun. Whatever you can think of. And then you can decide what kind of bullets you wanted. Either a little circles or you could do. It'll pop prints again for all those things that you do together. Alright, now that we've sketched our page, we're ready to put into it. And as you're inking, don't worry if there's something you want to change. Sometimes I get some more ideas as I do the inking. So let that be okay. It's your book after all, you get to decide what you want to put into it. And your cat will be happy for whatever you decide. I'm going to add little lines at the end for my text, adding a little style to it. I'm going to glue my cat down so that it doesn't fly away on the string. Actually that way I know exactly where to draw my lines. They will be safer that way. So here he's holding onto the string. You can decide what part you want on top of your cat with part underneath. I'm doing a little mix of hearts and circles here. And I'm going to bring it all the way down to the end of the page, going to outline my little speech bubble. And since it double one, I'm just going to add it like that. You can already add in the TextView, include whatever text you would like. Think about one of those things you do together. And then what's your cat might say about it? Maybe he would say, pause. For awesome. You can think of a cute little word from your tap blend here. I'm going to draw my little balls of yarn. So there are different ways to do it. I'm just kind of dividing it into three portions like that and each time making my lines going in different directions. So 123, this one will be going this way, this way. And this one. And I like to give them some curls. And depending on how many things you want to include, how many little pop prints you can make. One each time I'm going to make them facing a different direction down my brown paper. So again, feel free to switch out the brown paper with maybe some colored paper you have or a paper with a nice pattern or a magazine picture or photograph. And then I'm going to erase all the lines to have a nice clean page. What I love about this project is that you don't need too many supplies at all. You have your pencil or your pen, your printout, or your notebook, and you're ready to go, everything else you're creating yourself, besides an extra little paper That's really optional. So look how quickly you made it. You made this beautiful page. Now, all you have left to do is fill it up. Things we do together. I'm going to write a few and the rest I'll leave to your imagination because I'm sure that you do different things with your cat. So we even work together. I work at my desk and she works on my desk. She always likes to sit on top of my books and papers. He's there to inspire me, encouraged me, and keep me company. And I'm going to include communicate. Even though we have very different kind of communication. I talk and she listens, or shippers or she meows. But I can tell her how I'm feeling, what I'm feeling and she just seems to listen. I'm sure she doesn't understand, but sometimes it's nice to get some of your feelings, emotions out, and know that somebody's listening. I call her a good listener. Anyway, those are a few of the things we do together. She used to be very playful with as she's getting older, she's and it'll calmer. She's a little less playful, but that's okay because we do things together, which I enjoy as well. Alright, I'll leave you here with this page to continue to decorate and fill up as you wish. 20. Your Cat Funnies: Welcome to the next class of creating the cutest ever catch or null. Today, we're going to work on our page. Funny's. So things that your cat does that are funny. That make you laugh, that make you happy. What are those things? I think it's really fun to put them into words and put them into pictures. Which is the great thing about this journal that we're making together. So let's get started. If you take your kitty cats from your page, they are dwindling down because we're using them all up. This one is you're laughing cat. So I think this one is quite appropriate for this page. I'm going to start by cutting mine out. That way it gives me an idea of how to design my page. There are loads of possibilities. I love starting with almost a blank page because you can put it wherever you want. So this one, it could be loads of different options. I think I'm going to write here my kitty cats name. And then here, funny's. So I can already sketch that. Mimi. And I'm going to write in bold letters this time. 21. Cat's Best Moments: Hello again, cat friends. Welcome to the cutest ever catch journal. So let's do our next page, which is best moments. You will already have a few shapes drawn if you have this book or if you have the printout. And if not, get your notebook and you can draw three different shapes. And today we're going to be thinking about our best moments together with our cats. So you can get your page of kitties and you can choose one of these or whatever I'm going to do is draw my own this time. So if you want, you can come and join me as I just doodle on my book. So you will need your pencil. I have these three shapes for adding some photos, but I think it's fun to also include a little doodle on each page. So as with previous pages, we've either drawn some boxes and places to journal and write. Oh, we've drawn a little few doodles. This time we're going to draw a little bit more. We're going to draw a simple camera. So just start by making your sketch with a rectangle and then a big circle in the middle. For the lens. Here, I'm going to make a little shape, almost like a rectangle for the flash. So this is really a simple way to draw a camera. I'm not going to draw every correct button on the camera. I'm going to make a little design like this, kind of like an old-fashioned one. Another little screen there. I think I might even draw my cat holding it up. So he's kind of half in the back and he's going to be holding up with his little pause. So we'll just see his little eyes poking out and his little nose and the whiskers, of course. The little body. Either he can be sitting on the little frame there. I might do that and make his Little Tummy, so something like that. So I might make my tail down here so it doesn't cover up the box. And I'm going to add some of this brown paper again. This time, I think I'm going to make one more shape over here. I'm going to make a different shape just for variety. I already have a square, a rectangle, and a circle. I'm adding it, gone to bring in some of the brown. And I think here I'm going to add some cut-out letters, at least for part of the title. So i'm I need to be I'm going to spell out best moments. And if you don't have space, I'm not sure if I'll have space for both. I'm just going to spell out best and then I'll write out moments. Of course, depending on how big your letters are. Include both if you want it to. I think I'm going to include my cat's name on the top here. That way it really personal biases it. So I'm going to write me my best moments. Again, just playing around with lettering, you decide what you want. You can also just make it very simple. For me means best moments. I'm just going to write moments very clean and simple, since there's so much going on already. Here, I'm going to add some photos. So either I'll look through the photos that already have or if you don't have any photos or if you can think of some best moments, then something fun to do would just be to spend a day with your phone or your camera. And just look out for all those moments. Just have it ready, have it handy to go, click on all those fun things, those cute things that she does. So I'm going to start by gluing things down to keep them in place. I like adding a variety of shapes and a variety of types of letters. You know that by now and they can go in all directions. All right, I'm going to ink name. So in this cat journal we're getting practice writing, expressing emotions and feelings and fun things, asking questions. We're learning to write and doodle and draw. So that's what makes this project really fun. You'll have some amazing book to look back on afterwards. Here we get to draw the little paw prints is Little Tummy. So feel free to use a ruler if you want. If you want to make a perfect circle, you can also find a lid of a glue or a little something to make a better circle than me. But since doodles or just hand-drawn, I don't mind. If it's not perfect. We can do a little light flashing. You can draw some little portal road photos for some extra doodles and color them in. Basically just scribbling them in. I might add some little flowers to this page. Best moments you think about what makes you happy. Flowers makes anything pretty. Just putting them anywhere, everywhere, all over the place. I like them going in one side of the page. To the other. Add some to the caps name. Going to add an outline for this brown one. So that stand out a bit more and there's more contrast. I might even add a second line. And if you have a photo, you can also cut it to this shape if you want it. Going to erase the lines, the pencil. I noticed that I forgot the whiskers in pen. Sometimes that helps. When you erase your pencil lines, you notice what you forgot. And I'm going to also Blackout this part. It's usually dark. I add a little, these little lines here for reflection. Good color this in with a marker if you want it to go a little faster. Now, let's look through our photos for some of those best moments. Here's a cute one. I think she's cute here with the books. I'm just going to trim them a little bit for size two, I take them and use my pencil and then I know where to cut. This is where you can also get a little lid and measure a circle shape. This is one of the best moments because it's one of her very first moments. She was still with her mom and this photo made us fall in love with her. So I definitely consider that as the best moment. So think about something that's special for you. This is a cute moment because it reminds me of when she comes and sits on all my books while I'm working. So I'm going to trim it a bit to this is when she was so little and so playful. Now I can glue them. So another reason I add photos at this time before I add in some color because I get my color scheme for my page from the photos. So that's a little trick to remember if that helps. If, especially if you don't know what colors to add, then add in some photos. I can see that there's sort of a theme here. It's kinda blue and gray. You could add some fun little patterns. I might make a little polka dots on my camera if you don't want to color the whole thing. And I'm going to add a little bit of shading to the middle of my flowers. When you add a little bit of blue like this, it makes the white stand out even more. I'm just making little strokes from the center to the sides, all different sizes. Then maybe I'll color in my camera. Since there's a little bit of pink as well, I'm going to just a little touch of pink. And for her name, I'm just going to trace out the letters in the middle. I still have placed for one photo. And of course, feel free to add in more doodles if you like. Bye for now. 22. Cute Photos: Hello again, cat friends. Welcome to another class of the cutest ever cat journal. Today we're going to work through the page, cute photos. So as you'll notice in the download or in the book, you'll find a few pages that have room and spaces for photos. And the reason for that is, I think photos says everything. Photos brings so much joy and memories and special souvenirs. So this is part of what's fun having a journal is to just fill it with loads of photos and pictures of your cat. So I'm going to start by doodling a few little pictures and declarations for our page. I have an oval shape and a rectangle shapes. If you don't have this book or the download, then feel free to draw your own shapes that you would like. Then I'm going to maybe doodles some branches, a plant, I'm just following the oval, drawing, some little leaves all going in the same direction, along with some berries. So I'm just kind of alternating little leaves with a rounded end. And then a little Barry says just one idea, of course, you do as you wish. Here. I'm going to start in the other direction. I might like double berries, double leaves, and then single ones. Then you can of course, choose and decide on the photos that you want to include in here. It can be on a specific topic or theme. You get to decide that I have one photo here, and I'm just showing you with some photos as I didn't print that many out. And I just want to cut it to the right size to make it even on all sides. And for some extra color, you know how I like to include some of the brown paper from our previous classes. So for this time, I'm thinking I'm going to add some brown to this picture as if it were its own little picture frame. But feel free to use this frame if you prefer. End to add brown paper or colored paper, pattern paper somewhere else instead, I've also cut in advance some letters for my title, as well as my kitty cat from my download page and that we painted together. So now is when you can decide where to put it. I have my title. I think I'm going to call it my cat's name. Mimi is photos are minis, cuties. You can give it a name or if you wanted on a specific topic, maybe minis, toys are minis games. You play round, you can try it out to see what layout which suits you best. Then I'm going to start out by gluing back down. This way. It gives me a clear idea what space I have left to work with. So I might add a little S here. For the title this part. I'm just going to use cursive writing. I can also blew my brown frame that I ripped out. Sometimes I like to have the ripped look sometimes the street look tall place there. And then you have space to include your other photo. Now, I can finish writing and finish my doodles with pen. So with each class I think you get more and more used to the technique, how I like to work. I've shared with you lots of tips and ideas and tricks for your text, for your content, for you, the layout of your page. There's no right or wrong way to do it because you really have to check in and see what makes you happy. I like silly, got my pages, including doodles to make it fun and memorable. But when it comes down to it, you decide what you want to add in each class from now on, I'll probably go with it so quicker since you've already gotten the hang of how to create these. And I'll just share with you some of my ideas. Maybe how I've laid out the page, what I've included on my page. And then you play around and do it just how you'd like. You can follow along or you can create your own ideas. Makes it look a little wooden, old rustic picture frame. And I like adding palm prints everywhere I can. It's like the little cat signature mark. I think it's cute. Something else to add to my page. And I think I'd like to add a little quote, but I haven't done much of that in my previous pages, but I think it's fun as well. If I have a little extra space, I can either doodle or I can add a little text. I like this quote that I found on internet, since cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic. I thought that was cute and applicable to this page on photos. That's a quote from Lydian Jackson Browne. And then I'm going to add some fun lettering to it. I like to do a little mix. And I end my page with erasing all the pencil strokes. And my last little thing is to add some color so you can check out your photo or your lectures and bringing some of those colors again, I have a little read from the letters, so I'm going to add that red to my berries. Somewhere else on my page. This photo, as I mentioned in a previous class, she loved to finish out the little leftover drops from my monks or tea cups. And my daughter would, he'd love to have tea parties with her. So that's a happy souvenir. I have a little green or blue. So I could use those colors and bring them in. Again. Either just one of them or both of them. Coloring them random. So this will be a very colorful page, taking the colors from the photo and adding them around. And that was it. Our acuity cats photo page. 23. Your Cat's Behavior: Hello again, Welcome to another class on our cat journal. Today we're working on the page behavior. So this is a fun one. I'm sure you have loads to think about when it comes to your cat's behavior. Either fun things, she does, the times that she's so obedient and you teach her little tray eggs, or maybe the times when she's naughty and plays knotty tricks on you. So how is she behaving to you? This is a fanpage to think about. As with the other pages, I've decided whether I will write my text or find some letters. And this time, since I have a lot of space, I'm going to go ahead and choose some letters to spell out a word that I want for this page. So instead of calling it behavior or naughties or I'm just going to title it. Oops, see, or group sees like little mistakes. It's not intentional that my cat doesn't already things or maybe it is, I don't know. So here are my letters to spell out the word. Oops, see, because even though she's an artist, sometimes I forgive her. She's so cute and so darling. Our cats, I know with my cat, I get a bit frustrated when she meows all the time and I don't understand her all the time. I've cut out my cat as well, so I get to decide where I want to place her, I think appears with her title. So I'm just trying to get the look for my page since I have the big square in the middle, here's where I'm going to write down and journal or doodle, It's really up to you what you want to do. You can either draw the little thing she does or you can write them down. And here I have a little bit more space I might add. I've also included some brown paper that I've also cut out in advance. And I'm going to make them use them as if they were a little piece of tape. I could put them this way or I could just put them like this as if they were keeping my little frame and place. And I think the rest I'm going to doodle. So once again, I'm going to glue them already so that they stay in place. Maybe I'm going to do something in her hand thinking to doodle, this is not something that she does, but I thought it was cute little mug in her hand. And sometimes she makes a mess with all her food or she spills her water. So I'm going to include a little spill or a little puddle. So if this frame is bothering you, you can either draw your little sketch or doodle onto another piece of paper, or you could write it out or use paint on top. So you have a few options to work with. A little scrap of paper like this always comes in handy for me. And here I can just doodle. Something funny about cats is, I think often they don't even think they're doing something wrong. They're just like, Oh, they act all innocent as if nothing even happened. I know if my cat, when she does something naughty, She's scratches the wall or she just ignores me. I looked at her. I talked to her as like, Mimi, what did you do? And she just either it looks at me and closes her eyes. He doesn't want to listen. She knows she did something wrong, did something naughty. Such a rascal cats really have a funny personality. So I think if they weren't so cute, it would be much easier to get upset at them. So instead I end up laughing or that we've taught her cats pretty well. She's a good cat most of the time. She has her a few little naughty moments and think like every cat, something fun to include on this page too, would be anything that works for her you've trained her in or that she learned to do maybe she was doing something naughty and you trained her not to do it or she was stubborn and didn't want to do something and you trained her how to do it. So that's always a fun memory and it gives you ideas for next time. It helps you remember those happy times to the happy ending to the story. And I have a little quote I want to add here as well. So this quote says if a cat spoke, it would say something like, Hey, I don't see the problem here. Again, are acting all innocent as if to say, Hey, I'm not doing anything wrong here, this is my house. I set the rules here. I thought this one was also quite applicable to this page. There looks are there just to tell you, I'm not the problem says from Roy Blount junior. So it's not that you want to remember your cats mistakes or your cats bad behavior. But I think it just gives a little bit of memory and maybe if they've passed and moved on from that, it helps you appreciate, hey, they've grown up, they've learned, I've taught them well. It's also just to be aware of that and also to appreciate where your cat has come from, where he's been there young and playful. They do naughty things. Then we teach them and they do naughty things. But that's okay. We all learn. We, that's part of life. That's what makes life exciting. We have new little challenges with our cat. So I'm going to write a few out that my cat does. I'm going to use maybe little droplets for each of my bullet. These are just a few that she does or that she's done somewhere not intentionally naughty or bad. Some are just cute and fun actually, but it's little things that could be frustrating or bothersome depending on my mood. So it's also good to question myself. When do I get bothered by these things? It's usually when I'm not in a playful mood or I've had a long day or I'm tired, and then other times it's more playful or funny or it gives me a good laugh. Like how she begs for food or spreads for all over the house. That can be really frustrating sometimes and other times it just makes me think about her, like, Oh, she spreads her love all over for us to pick up. Alright, that's it for this behavior page. And I'll see you next one. 24. Story Time: Hello and welcome to another class of our kitty cat journal. Today we're working on our page story time. So there's a few story times in our journal, as you'll notice on page 2937, 6347. So the reason being is that I think you'll have many stories to write about your cat, not just one. So think about it that you'll have for if you want more, you can even print more out. That will give you already a little idea of how you want to structure your story or what topic with theme, whether it's something related to her behavior, something she does, something that you've done. And there's so many things that you can include in the story, whether fun facts or foreign objects. I've written out a list of a few questions that may help you figure out what kind of story you would like to write about your cat. For now, we're just going to work on decorating it. I brought in my old book and I ripped out some corners. I ripped out two corners just to give my page a tetra brown. So I might do something like this, and I've cut out the kitten with the books. This one is applicable, suitable for this page and I can decide where to place it here would be fun to add a little photo to go along with your story. Or if you don't have a specific photo, then you can just doodle a little picture related to your story. And I'm going to include my title somewhere on the page. I'm not sure if I want to put it on the top or the bottom. I'm going to write story time. So I've also cut out my letters in advance since now you know how to do that part. And you can either place your title story time here, and then you have a space here to write the title of your story. That's also a fun thing to give your story a title. And now you're ready to glue it in place. You can follow these little ideas for your layout or you can think of something totally different if you prefer. Again, you go with the flow. You go with what makes you happy, what makes you feel inspired, what you feel ties along with your story. Also very important what fits your style? Because in all of this journal thing, that's most important, this is about you and your cat. So make sure you put in as much of you as you possibly can. It's all about your cat, but you're important in there somewhere too. That's where you get to decide colors that design, the shapes, that lettering, the doodles, even if you just copy me in what I do. You can also add your own twist and style to it. So I'll put this here and I have a little space to write my title. Again, feel free to add in ever colors you want and any other doodles, I might add another little book or two. Here. I might add a little open-book course. You might want to include doodles that are related to your story. So if that's the case, then write out your story first and then you can doodle, making some glasses or anything Q to one to add if you wanted to, you can even include a number, number one. So this is story time. Number one. I might put it in a little circle, little bubble number, but this is my story. Number one. That way, when you go back to your journal, you can find it easily and quickly. We can also doodle on your brown paper. And there we have our story time number one, Bye for now. I'll see you in the next class. 25. Food and Treats: Hello again, Welcome to another class of creating our cats journal. Today we're doing a page on food and treats. So this is a special one for your cat, a very important one, because where would she be without her food? So for this one, I think I'm going to cut out this cat with the little clock. I think it's applicable because she's always telling us that it's time to eat. I don't know about your cats, but she's so on time when it comes to eating, feeding, and She's always starving even though she's eaten an hour ago. All that to say that mealtime is a very important part of the day for your cat. So you could include a title. I'm not sure yet what to do. I could write favorite foods or feeding times. But what I do know is I'm going to doodle some plates, whatever I want to journal about. As you've noticed, I like using a variety of shapes. I think this time it's applicable to use little plates or bowls or cups. And on each shape I can write a little question. I'm going to doodle around those as well. Let me use a plate that will have crumbs all over and a little spoon, even though cats don't eat with a spoon. Little napkin that we wish cats would use to clean up their messes. I don't know about your cat, but our cat eats quite messy. Just fun to fill your page with all kinds of doodles here I'm going to add a nice big fish. In that sense, that's probably one of her favorite foods. I'll include a little mug. I didn't have another, I didn't have a photo of my cat eating, but that would be a fun little addition if you wanted to include that on your page. For some brown, I have a little piece of this paper which I might make a plate. This. And I'm going to do to all my other tours. And by dueling over the plate, then I can know where to cut. Now I know just where to cut so that I can still see my other pictures. So if I glue that down already, I get to finish tracing my other doodles. So I can scatter around a little bit of food and mess because that's how she eats. You can doodle anything else you would like. A little knife and fork, maybe some milk. For a little puddle. I'm going to make some little pop prints scattered around the page or on the plate. Your title, you could even make it something related to her feeding time, either like Feed me, feed me or feeding time. Erase all the pencil. Some cats they eat almost anything and other cats are very picky and if they eat something that they're not used to, then third time he's won't do very well. So this is quite an important one. This is probably what I'll write in my journal, what she eats. When she eats. And where. For the title, I might just say Feed me, feed me or food, please. I'm going to make these as little clicks. Food please. There will be little spoon, fork and knife, though it's fun to add some doodles on your page. So take a little time to fill up these plates with the answers for your cat. If you wanted to, you could even draw what she eats. He could right here that little make it a little clock of when she eats, where she eats and then fill it with some color. Once you're done journalling, then you can even color your plates or color your background or add some color papers or stickers. That's up to you and have loads of fun as you finish your food and treats page. Cats are kindly masters just as long as you keep their tummy satisfied. To me that shows how important food is for cats I think they live to eat and to sleep and to boot. You can find a little quote or include this one if you want. I love adding funded or things like that. Okay, continue to enjoy your page and I'll see you in the next class. 26. Your Cat's Movie: Welcome to another class, the cutest ever catch journal. Today we're doing the page movies. So you might wonder what this one is all about. So if you have your little book or your printout, you'll find a little TV shape. And we're going to doodle the rest of the page together. And if not, you can just sketch it out and doodle it yourself. So I've also cut out one of my cats. I've chosen this one that way he can lay down on the TV. I think that's cute. And to add some brown, I'm getting my book out and I'm choosing ground without any texts this time because I want to make a little frame to write my title. Then I'm going to probably place it right here to make it little rectangle and then like a little flag. So again, you could use either some color paper, whatever paper you have. So here's where I'll put the title of my page. The title of my page I'm going to put up here and I was thinking of including if there were a movie about my cat, it would be if you can think of a movie or story that you could put into a movie that your cat reminds you of, could include the title here. And if not, it will be something fun to think about ways of expressing your feelings, emotions, or thoughts about your cat. What if you could put it all into a movie? What would you call it? What would it be? What would it be about in here? You can write a little bit about it. Oh, it would be about this. It would have the story of this and he would do this and he would be living here and he would interact with so, and so, and this is what he would learn and the moral of the story would be this. So you can include all those fun little details if you want it to, to the TV set. And before we blew anything down, I was thinking to doodle a few more details on the TV together. So this is just a very rough outline that there could be some extra fun details we could add as well. I'm going to first of all, glue like cats so that I know what to draw and Title Banner, put it whichever way you want. So I'm kind of doodling and old-fashioned TV. So in the center of your TV I'm going to make a little curved shape like this and two little antennas. So TVs today don't have that, but I think it's cute. Look from an old fashion one way to make a little leg as well. Front one. On the side. I could include some knobs and switches and buttons. The rectangle shape, then a circle shape on top. I'm just doing two on the bottom with the volume and the picture, the color adjustments. So here's where you can write down all your little fun details about the movie. And in here, you would include title. And you could write something here, like if I were to write a movie about my couch or if they were a movie about my cat, it would be dot, dot, dot. And you can include the title here. You can do something very simple and just call it movie time, which is what I think I'm going to do. I'm going to go through my lectures and spell out Moving time. How much space I have. So for the o, I'm gonna do something cute and just cut the whole thing out. And pretend it's a little balloon, my cat holding it up. You can draw anything else that comes to mind or that makes you happy. And to add a few little toys. Ball of yarn. Another one. You decide what else you would like, how you want to decorate and color the rest of your picture and of course, fill it up with some fun stuff. And you could even include a little bowl of popcorn. So what is it that you like when you sit and watch a movie? Popcorn all over the place. Like hanging out with friends. So make it a real movie time. Well then just going to add pop prints to remind me that it's all about my cat. Cats rule. After all, they were all their household. Maybe you could find another fun quote if you wanted to. There we have it. I'll see you in the next class. 27. More Photos: Welcome to another class of creating our cat journal. Today we're working on the page, more photos. So we've already done a photo page, but there are few in the book. So I'm going to show you quickly another format and other design for your photo page. You can follow along. You can follow along with your book with the download that I've supplied for the course, for, of course, with your very own notebook. So to get started, I've found one photo. Of course, there's place for one or two or three, however many you want to include on this page. I'm just going to show you with one photo here. And I ripped out a page from my old book to bring back some of that brown paper look, and this time I'm going to make a straight cut. So I take my pencil, you can use a ruler if you like. And I just trace where I want to cut the general size I want. And that way I have a little picture frame for my photo, something like that. I can already glue it. I'm just showing you little options for designs, different ways you can fill your page. So a lot of the times need depends on what material I have. Other times it depends how I foresee my page. So I asked myself what else do I want to add or include on my page, I'm going to find another photo. Here. I might make a title and I'm just going to call it photos. As simple as that. You can choose a fancy font, block font or straight font or bubble letter font. You can always add to your frame to give it some more fanciness. If you wanted to. I don't have another cat picture to cut out and glue here. So if you wanted to, you could always draw one or doodle one. Now that you know how to make them. You can be going peekaboo, little Paul appear as well. And I'm just doing some more doodles that little camera middle string tied to it, flash buttons, and make some more photos. I'm just roughly sketching it with pencil first, I get the general look of it. And if I'm happy with it, then I encrypt with my pen. Even add a second cat if you want it to. If I wanted to add a little bit more brown paper, I was thinking of making some little flags to add to the photos. Just another excuse to bring in some brown paper. That's another cute little addition to your page. Can include them next to it. I'll glue this down afterwards and for now I'm going to ink my doodles. And that way you can also see clear what I've drawn. If you want to follow along. If you wanted to, you could do something in these photos. There are print or something else related to your cat or related to the photos you're adding. If you want your lines straight, of course, just grab a ruler. I'm just doing these curvy lines. There's not really any particular pattern except in the corners. I tried to make them all rounded and somewhat to give in. I don't always follow exactly my lines. As you can tell. Sometimes I change my mind if I feel that it would be better. Another way here I'm gonna give him a little eye patch and his legs can be poking out. Photo and then I can continue drawing the frame. Here again, I'm going to add his little hands, his little pause. So if I have his head on top, I draw that first. And I can give him a little pattern. Here we have our two little cat, and now I can continue drawing my picture frame. I'm going to make it look like a wooden picture frame. So I add the corner pieces like that. Next I'm going to erase all my lines and I bring back my little flags to decide where to put them. One down here for this picture frame, even over the numbers. Okay. It's one good put up there. I liked them opposite sides of the paper. Again to mix in the brown paper, look with my pen, I'm going to add a little circle for the holes. And then as if it were a string, I would include the date the photo was taken right in here. And I think I'd like to include a quarter to so you can either write them out or you can even type them up if you prefer. You can also make a line if you wanted to write very straight. So there's one that says there are no ordinary cats. So I think this one goes cute with this photo. And that's a quote from her name is Colette. There's no second name, so we'll just have to go with that. So be sure to add in some colors as you wish. Whatever you may want to include, you can color your kitty cats. You could color the picture frames, the title, the other doodles around your page and make it really colorful. As plain as you want. You can mix in just one or two colors. That's really up to you. Isn't it amazing that in just a few short minutes, you have your page looking like this and it was totally empty to begin with. If you compare the two, you'd be quite pleasantly surprised. I think. Font color everything, but you get the general idea and it can have fun finishing it off. And I'll see you in the next class. 28. Your Cat's Naps: Welcome to another class today we're going to do the page next time. Chicken fall under, sleep times, bedtime, snack times, whatever you wanna call it. So if you go through your little cat pictures, you should have one like this that we've painted color together. So you get to decide where you want it on the page. Try it out. I'm going to show you how I design my page here. And you take bits and tips that you want to include in yours. Of course not forgetting to put your own twist and your style to it. That's what matters most in this project of creating your cat journal because it really needs to come from you. This is your book, it's your project. So I already have two shapes, two rectangles. Here is where I'm going to put my title. And I think I'm going to make a few little banners like this for a few questions. So I'm going to take my ruler and I'm just going to draw out a few other boxes. I think I'm going to make them different shapes, different sizes, mainly. Just for variety. They don't even have to be perfect rectangles. I'll make another thin one. Let me see if I can fit two more. This is a very easy way to fill out your page. Without too much work, you're just making straight lines. And one last box. So I have 12345. I think that's what I wanted and I'm going to write my little titles, actually, my little questions for each of these boxes. And it's all related to taking naps. So this is what I wanted to include on this page. What about naps? Was interesting to know about my cat or to remember about my cat or to keep as a souvenir or just to know about his schedule. So I thought it would be interesting to list when when is her favorite time to sleep? Could be the time of the day, it could be the hours. Another one is where this one I made a big box because I'm sure, you know already if you own a cat, cats sleep almost anywhere. So I'm going to list some of the places that she naps or sleeps and sometimes it's the oddest places. This one could be interesting. How long, meaning like how long and when go to sleep more during the day or night. So she at night sleeper or day sleeper. That's something interesting. And the last one I'm including is favorite sleep positions. If you wanted to, you could doodle these answers or you could just write them down. When you could make little clocks if you wanted, where you could draw on a chair on the table and the couch in a basket. How long you could write the numbers day or night. You could put a sun or moon. And favorite positions if you're able to draw the positions that could be cute. And if not, you can try and express it in words. So that's what a journal is. It's learning to express yourself, practicing expressing yourself in different ways with objects, with doodles, with pictures, with cutouts, with scraps, with words. And that's what makes it so fun and exciting. Now that I'm done my boxes, I might just do a few doodles around. That's the fun part next. And of course, including my cat's name, Mimi, and I'm going to call it and you can make your title whatever you want. You know me, we're already going to glue it down before we even draw around it. Something we didn't include with some brown. So I will get my brown paper because I want to bring in the same style that I did with the rest of my pages. I might make a couple of these with brown paper. I'm just drawing as if it were a rectangle, something like that. And you can always trim it to the right size afterwards. What I like about this paper is that I do like the words, but I won't be able to write very easily on the words. So I picked parts of the page that aren't empty. It gives an outline for my brown paper and then I'll just write over my title again. And this one is going to follow and cut here and then cut there. So that should work. So you have to get creative when you want to add in some extra design or look me, I decided to go for the brown paper, the old fashion, old rustic book paper. So I'm kind of trying to find different ways to include it on each of my pages, which is fun. It's not just doodling and writing. It's even more creative than that. You find what's your kind of creative challenge and don't be afraid to go with it. So here I'm going to write question where again? Here was day or night course. If you think of any other nap time questions, please add them into the comments and share them with others. And here I'm going to write in bubble letters and add a bold side to it. Let's see recent. And now we're ready to do few doodles around our page to start by maybe making a moon here. And some stars, even though cats don't always sleep at night, but it's just something related to sleep. It's okay if you mess up, stars are hard to get perfect. And another fun thing is some, some z and some more Xie. I'm using these, these as a cute little pattern designed to my page and I can add in more stars. Here my ad is little slippers. Just for fun. You decide what else you would want to include on this page. These are just a few ideas. If you wanted, you can even make some decorations on your boxes for your text. Or add a little drop shadow to your cat's name. What I'm doing is I'm just making a line same direction. Each corner of the lectures does not look like much right now. I think I got them all. And then I'm going to join them. I'm going to join this one. And this makes it have like a 3D look to it. So that it's simple trick to really make your lettering stand out. You can always include colors to this, a different color to the back. And this one I might add some little background. So most of my other doodle pages, I added coloring to those doodles and the pictures. But sometimes it's also fun to add some color to the backgrounds. The shape you want your little stars to stand out and make it dark background. You don't have to add it everywhere. And almost draw a little line. I might even draw a little pattern and color in that makes it easier. That way there's a little bit more rhyme and reason to my madness and coloring the background. I'm making it look like a nighttime sky. I guess. You wanted to. You could add a double stroke. Make it look a little bit more intentional and fancy. I'm going to add little planets or stars around the same color as my background. So I could have called it sleep time, but I called it nap time because cats are known for taking naps more than even a long stretch of sleep time. So what you do, how you want it. There's a little bit of red and green, turquoise here, so I might bring in those colors for the title. Here. I'm just doing the 3D part for now. So once you color this part, see it stands out even more. And there's a little red. I'm going to break a little red on the frame. All right. I think that's it for now. You get to finish it and fill it up however you want. As you finished coloring and as you're finished journalling your answers for your cat. And I'll see you very soon in the next class. 29. Kitty Tricks: Welcome to another class of our cat journal. Today we're working on the page Katie tricks. So you can open your book to page 41 or you can print out the download I've provided, or you can just take your notebook and draw a little squirrel, something like this. And we're ready to begin. I've cut out in advance a few letters. The letters spell out the word tricks. Since this page is all about our catch tricks, you can use your letters for the whole title if you want. I just included part of it. Because for the cats, I decided that I want to bring in some of the brown paper. I cut out. Actually, I ripped out a little piece of brown paper and I'm going to put it here and write cat, cat tricks just for a different way to do it. I like having a variety on all my papers, something a little bit different even though they all join together with the brown paper, the letters, the colors, the style. I'm going to glue that in place already just to have a clear view for the rest of my page. Sometimes I like to have everything thought out before I glue anything down. Other times, I'm pretty sure sounded like this one. I'm quite sure that I want all these letters appear. I'm going for it. I'm going to write here, cat, maybe bubble letters. Stand out from these tricks. I will include a little pulp print already makes it cute. Maybe too. And I think I'm going to do a little doodle here. I want to make my cat doing a little bit of Acrobat. So I started already sketching out my cat. I'm going to turn my book around just so it's a little easier. So you can follow along drawing a cat. If you need to review your page on how to draw the cat and feel free to go back to that class. I'm going to have him do like a head stand. It's going to have a little patch. One leg up in the air like this. So it's a lot of messy lines for now, but something like that. Whiskers. So he'll be doing a little head stand. Then I'm going to draw another one. Think I want a little, this one will be on a little swing. Of course, these aren't really cat tricks that we wish our cat could do. Little tricks like that, but it's cute I think. So this one I'm gonna make him On a little swing. Can be looking up, one leg up in the air. The other one can be down here. We can't forget his tail. This one, his tail. Let's have fun now inking it. See how that looks. Ears are really small because there's sort of in the back. We don't see them very well. I'm making him a little fluffy Tommy. Fluffy tail. The bigger the lines, the fluffier they look. And you want your cat to have little patterns. Comfort kid his arms. And here let's turn it around. It'll be easier to ink it as well. And I can erase all the pencil lines. So of course, your cat can't really do these tricks, but it's cute to think of some tricks. You can do. Anything else that comes to mind where there is. I should have made him with a pointy TO balancing a ball or something. If I don't think cute, I could try to balance an apple. And the second one. So add a little bit of humor to it, I think hits this, that makes it fun. This one he's going to drop the apple. I'm going to add a little bit of shading and shadow to the pictures so it shows there's a ground. Can add an apple here as well. We wanted to make him little movements with the lines like this shows that there's some movement going on that makes it kind of cute and fun. I can have the swing coming up from up here. That way it's a little bit more challenging. It's a high. Alright? And so here is where I would list some of the cat tricks that I want to teach my cat. Some of the cat tricks I tried to teach my cat. A few questions that come to mind would be, this has nothing too important about your cat, but I think it's fun and it brings a little bit of humor. Tricks. I tried to teach my cat. Here. Tricks that worked. Tricks that didn't work. Then you can include some lines to answer. You can include some other questions or other doodles if you like. And I think I went to include a little quote here, which would be fun. I have one here that I printed out. I just cut it a little bit small but saves me having to write it out. Says I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not mine had me trained in two days for good tie along with teaching your cat something. Although I think cats sometimes have us better trained. Well, there's our little page of cat tricks. Now, be sure to fill it with your answers and with all the colors that you wish. 30. Questions and Answers: So here we are with another class for our cat journal. Today we're working on the page together, questions and answers. So if you have your book, it's on page 43, or you might have a download, just the plain notebook. Well, you can draw your rectangular shape. For this one, I've cut out this little cat. I like it because it looks like his tail is kind of in the shape of a question mark. So I thought it could be cute. And I also have a piece of brown paper and a piece of notebook paper. So you can rip out a page from a notebook or you can just draw some lines on your paper. It's really up to you. I'm going to show you how I put this page together. So we've worked through a lot of pages already in our journal full of questions and journals and things about our cat. But I think there's a few other questions that I wanted to include in here fall nicely into one separate page, which also gives us a chance to question a little bit more about our cat or about our relationship with our cat, which can be fun to get curious and to go deeper, to figure things out. Asking questions is the way we learn. We learn more about ourselves, we learn more about our cats. So I think I'm going to use my brown paper to draw some question marks, since this page is all about asking questions and of course, including our answers. I'm going to use it for a little decor for my page. By once again, continuing with my style. You can just draw it out with your pen or marker if you like. That way your lines are a bit clearer. Then I cut it out. So I want to leave enough space for my questions as well as the title. And I like to include the brown on different parts of my paper. Let's see how it would look like with my note paper. So I might make it a little towards the side. And if I wanted to, I could rip out both sides. Just for the perfect duck. Going to take my ruler and draw the line of this box here. That way I know exactly where to do it. You have fun playing around with where you want everything to go. Put your cat under here or on top. And I'm going to rip out my paper just a little bit more. I don't need all that space. That we have a little space for a title up there, right? I'm going to start out by gluing down this page because I'm already certain of that part. Whatever you know, you already want in place, you can glue right away. And the rest you can continue to play around. So again, I'm switching out the question marks. I'm pretty sure about my cat already that I want him here. I have like eight questions I want to add. So 12345678123456. I won't have enough for two each. So some questions might have one line answer, some might have just one word. So it sort of depends on how much space I want to use up for my questions. I think I'll just go ahead and glue them and trust that I'll have enough space. If not, we'll figure out a solution. There's always a way. Then I can write out my questions. What do I love most about my cat? What do I like least about my cat? My fondest memory of my cat so far. First impressions, which you can include, how did it feel? How did it feel to get your cat? How did it feel the first time you held him or her? For the first time you saw them. So sometimes first impressions are the ones that you remember the most. Like including this question, how do I feel differently about him or her today? Like here, your first impressions, how did it feel and how do I feel today about my cat? You might have differing feelings and emotions. What if I didn't have a cat? So would your life be better? Would your life be easier? Would it be lonely yours? So this is an interesting question to ask yourself as well. Had in my life improved since having a cat. Have a little bit of space to write there. So I put these two questions together just so I made sure to have enough space to leave for some answers. And if you want, you can outline your paper either on the outside or the inside. I'm doing mine on the outside because there's not much space on the inside already for writing my answers. It's just just that way it stands out a little bit more. And here I'm going to write a little title, or I might look for some letters. I'm just going to get a Q and a for questions and answers. So I have a Q and a, and I might just write a and in-between, since it's a short word. So I have lots of variety for my letters here, Q's and A's. And I'm going to make an outline. The Q and a, so they can stand out a little more. Launch. You could add a little S, questions and answers. That way it's plural. And I have a few quotes by cat is there when you call her. If she does not have something better to do by Bill older, you cannot own a cat. The best you can do is be partners. That's from Swanson. I think there's a cute never try to out stubborn a cat. Yep. Cats are pretty stubborn. I like all these. It gives a good laugh. It makes you understand your cats a little better. I like how people express it in quotes, sometimes sayings or riddles. That way I have the best of both worlds. I have my own journaling prompts. I get to answer what it feels like for me. And then I also get to enjoy how other people see or experience their cat. Feel free to write them yourself if you prefer. Lastly, you can decide if there's anything else you would like to doodle on your page. I don't think I'm going to add some little nature leaves. I haven't done that for a few pages. Oh, my cat is calling to me. Oh, she is on my table. I wouldn't allow her on my table, but since I'm working on her journal, she's allowed to be here today. Do you know if you can see her tail right here? Here's her fluffy tail. But I don't know if I can work with you hear Mimi? She wants some attention. So I'm just putting a few little leaves, leaves and berries. If you would like to add something specific to your cat or some other questions, and of course, please feel free. You joining us. Cleaning herself all over my table now. I'm going back to work now. Mimi, going to let me work. You took my ball to She's still playful and happy. You like your new book. Okay, So where were we? Were doodling? Some leaves and berries. And to end this, you could add some colors to your page. I have a little bit of green with my n here, so I'm thinking to include some green on my leaves. You ask yourself what other color makes you happy, then could add some more decoration and beauty to your page. I love adding little circles, polka dots, just makes me happy. I could actually make them into little pop prints too. Well, there is our fun question-and-answer page. So take some time to answer these questions for you and your cat. I'll see you in the next class. 31. My Cat's Day: Welcome to another class of creating our cat journal today, where on the page, cats day. So I have my few supplies with my little cats. My brown paper, little scraps of paper from my old notebook. This page is where we're going to include a few details about our cat stay, some of which can be fun and interesting and nice to remember as a souvenir or even just as helpful information. So I asked myself what are all those things that my cat's does throughout the day? Kind of like his little schedule, his little plan. If you have to tell somebody what your cat was doing all day, what would you put on this page or how would you think about it? So the way I see it as just as if our outline, a little plan, a little schedule for my day. I'm thinking about my cat priorities. I'm trying to put myself in his shoes. What are his priorities? What is what are his favorite things to do? Things that he needs to get done, even though cats don't really have that. But it's kinda fun to think about. I think it's just fun to put it into words onto this little page, whether it's with doodles or sentences or words. So I have my little cat here and I'm thinking to create a little banner that would say my day or something like that. So because he's this shape, so I'm thinking he could hold a little string. And the title could be like in a little flag, something like that. And for each little triangle, I'm thinking to write the letters. So that's just one idea. With my brown page, I'm going to draw out some little triangles, so I need five triangles to spell out. My day. I'm going to make these triangles a little bit more pointy than usual. Course, I don't even need that many. Because each time I make two out of them. And you can save the other ones for another project. And I'm going to just see how they look fit well here. If you wanted to, you could also put your cat in the middle. My day. I'm just going to erase my little sketch as you go along. You can change your mind if you find a better way to do it. So since my title is two words, I thought of putting my cats right in the middle, and then he can still be holding his little string. So let's see how it works if our cat is holding or you can make it go down. I like the variety my and then date appear. Something like that. Could be cute. So I think I'm already going to glue it. I like him standing just above the box. So it will be just, just can make your triangles a little smaller if you wanted to. Now, let's see how it looks as we draw it all string. I'm making a little hole in the string as if the string is going through the triangle. And then coming out again. If you wanted to outline your, your triangles, It's up to you. And then you write your title. My day. I have this other paper which is a little lighter brown. I like it. It has a little texture to it. Here. I'm going to doodle a clock just because I feel that my day has all to do with time. What happens in the day. So it's another cute doodle. I could do it directly onto my paper, but that way I get to cover the lines. So I might make a kitty cat clock with little ears. Here. I could make little pause. This is just for fun. So you can get creative. Get crazy sometimes for the alarm. Let's see what's the time she thinks so I'm going to put 1230 because it's very often the time we eat lunch and she's there faithfully on time waiting for her food. Then you can ink it with your pen or your marker. You can make little eyes if you want it to. It always girls. And for the little alarm bells, I'm going to and then we can cut it out. So you can already start to think about what you would like to include on this page. For me, it helps me to think about my day, my schedule, what time do I wake up? What time do I have? Breakfast. You can ask herself, did she follow your schedule with some things? For my cat? She has breakfast when we do because she likes us being there. And she has lunch when we do while we work, you can decide what her work is. You get to decide what kind of work she does her work, cleaning herself, taking a bath, thinking about what she's going to eat, dreaming about eating. So you can add all those fun little details if you'd like. I have a little quote here. It's tiny but it says cats rule the world. Another one to remind us about the importance of our cat's schedule, our cats day. So I might do this already. So again, feel free to doodle this straight to your book or your page. And here I'm going to cover my number. I don't need it anymore. And then if there's anything else you want to doodle on your page. Here, I'm going to make a little box for my quote. Make a few pause. Here. You can make a little sun if you wanted to. Add some little clouds. I'm going to add a little mouse. Part of his day is going hunting for mice. And maybe I'll put a few around the page. So I'm just drawing a little oval shape. Little circle for the eye to little ears, and a little tail. So it's probably the simplest, simplest way you can draw a mouse. I'm going to draw another one, doing like a little pear shape or egg shape. And at the end I do a little nose, too little ears. And your tail. This is not that one doesn't look like a mouse. All right, and for this page, I'm thinking of writing. Here is the time. I'm going to just be my little title. Here's where I'll add the time. Here. Could write activities of the day. Then with my ruler, I'm going to make a line just to divide up my little box without drawing over my cat's tail. So here's the time that you would write. I'm just going to write a few down to give you an example. But of course you do it. What fits you and your cat and her or his schedule? Seven o'clock, wake up. And if we're not awake, we're on vacation. Very faithful to wake us up. 715, breakfast. After breakfast, 730, go outside. She spends most of the morning outside. And I don't know what she does outside. It's probably play time, play hunting time, catch lizards, time, lizards and mice. It's nap time. She's very faithful to find new spots in the garden or in the barn to dust. Because when she comes back in the house, she is just full of cobwebs and dust. We can tell with her white fur. And then usually I have my breakfast at I have my coffee it at 715, and then I usually have my breakfast at 830. And at 830, she has her second breakfast. And she comes and licks my goal. Anyway, that's just the beginning of the day. It's going to take me a little while to continue, so I'll let you finish off. Have fun continuing your caps day. Adding all those fun little cute things about her. Make it fun, make it humorous, make it whatever you like. Bye for now. 32. Cat's First Birthday: Let's see what we have today. First day. This is an exciting one. Your cats, first birthday. Now, what will it be? I'm using a peg here is my book is getting a little bit thicker here. Like all these pages we've worked on. So it just helps to keep everything in place and that way it doesn't fall closed. First of all, I'm starting with a photo. I went to my photos and I found one for her first birthday. And I chosen one of our little cats that we've painted and cut out. And the rest will be all design and fun that we'll do together. So what I like to do for this birthday, I think I'm going to write out a big number, one next to my cat here. So I'm just going to sketch little bubble, the number one. My cat can be right next to it like that, or on this side and go have him here and here. I don't know if you're a cat would let you do. But when she was little able to put on paint, her little kept Paul and then put it on a paper and we had her little pop print. So that's a cute little thing to do if they still let you do that, you have to see. If not, you could include another little photo here anyway, I'm keeping this little box here for her pop print. Whether she lets you do it or not. If not, you could even take a photo of it to size just to see how they grow each year. But at least you have a little memory of your cast paul print. And I think I'm going to include a little cake with one candle. Might make a little muffin. Here. I might write Happy Birthday with big letters, or you can include your cat's name. So I think I'm going to just use cut-out letters for birthday and then I'll write happy myself. Just for little variety. My photo is not exactly to the right size. I'll have to trim it a bit. And let's get gluing going to start with my letters because I don't want them to get all mixed up. Using letters is really fun. Cut-out letters brings out color things. A little design. We can also clue, or a little cat. Since we have a few birthday pages to do, then, you'll have lots of chances to do it different ways. So I'm going to ink my little boxes and doodles. Here. I might put a little drop shadow. That could be fun too for some of your boxes. Here, I'm just going to write pop prints because I can always glue it on top. And we have our one candle for one birthday. Feel free to do anything else you would like. Here I'm going to write happy, Happy Birthday, and here I'm going to write her name to make it more personalized. And adding a little bowl to my text, to my fonts so I can see it a little bit better. I think I'm just going to write like make some little stickers one year old. As if it were a little stickers. You can even think about see if you remember what you did for your cats first birthday. I remember we had a little Tea Party. This would be a time to either add some more photos or doodle some of those things. So since we had a tea party, maybe I'm going to draw a little tea set. And the kids gave her a little gift. So you can add whatever other details or doodles you would like on this page. I'm keeping it fairly simple because we have three other birthday pages to do so. I don't want to use up all my ideas on this first one. And of course, what's fun is to add a little bit of color. So you can choose a little color theme for each birthday page. For this one, since I have a bit of green already here, I'm going to go with green. I have different types of greens, so I might make my mug green. Play. Little pattern. Screen matches a bit better. I think for my number one, I'm going to color a little pattern. It's a nice way to add some color without having to color the whole thing. Goes a little quicker too, but I think it also adds to the page, rather than just coloring it fully. I'm including a fun pattern. Then you can decide what else you want. Green, of course, include another color she would like. I'm going to make like a woodblock here by just adding some little lines. Sometimes some circles. You don't have to even cover it fully. Just giving a little pattern. It's a little trick to make it look like wood. Sometimes I had some circles, sometimes some lines. You can add your little corner lines like this. There we have our little birthday page. I'll see you in the next class for your cats, two-year-old birthday. 33. Cat's Second Birthday: Welcome again to your cats journal. Today we're doing another birthday page, so this time is birthday number two. If you have some photos one or two or more than you can have that ready in hand. You can use your book with the box already drawn for you or the printout, or you use a notebook and create your own from scratch. And that way you can make it to the size that you have your photo. I'm including my little cut-out and painted cats. Then like we did for the previous one, the page, I'm going to write a big number two, that way, right away when I come to this page, I'll know what it's all about. I'm thinking to put my two up here again, just like I did last time on the top. I'm just sketching it out. I liked my cat next to the number on top of the photo frame. And this time I might put another pop print down here just for something different. And I think I'm going to include the couple balloons since today, she or he, two years old. So I will make two balloons. Here. I'll make a little cake again, maybe a little muffin with two candles. So it's just a little cloud of puff of cream. And then I make some little lines like this. Then a curve line and we have our little muffin and our candles is two parallel lines. It's like a little cylinder shape and then I curve the ends and our little leaf shape for the candle here I might make a double frame where it's post-print. Add a couple more balloons again. The balloon is an oval and the not, I just make a little triangle and then a little oval. And I'll do the little strings, have them there. So where am I going to write Happy Birthday this time? I could have a small little sign, happy birthday, something like that. So it's a quick design look to bring in a little paper I'm thinking to draw number two with my brown papers. So I'm just going to measure, I want to use the part that has the text in it. So it would be like up to here, from here to there. And then I can draw my number two again. I drew it quickly on my page because I wanted to make sure it would fit nicely. Something like that. I like to trace over it to make sure I cut in the right place. So I didn't mention in our previous birthday page, but this page is for you to include any special little moments of that day. Whether it's something you did, whether it's a gift that you give your cat so you could put it all in the photo. Here. She got a little doll house with some animals that might daughter we gifted to her. So you could put it in the photo if you did a tea party or if you had a cake. But if not, then you could write down or doodle those little details. Because those are the things that are fun to remember. Two, after so many birthdays, you'll forget, oh, what was it that we did on her second birthday. And at the same time that way each time you can make it a little bit different. So be sure to add in those little fun, cute details about your cat's birthday. Those are all fun to include on your page somewhere. And there's plenty of little spaces like we did last time. There's plenty of spaces to add those little details to your page. Going to erase my two here. And I think I've already glue those things down that I know for sure. Which are my photo, my number two, and my cat. I think it's time to take our pen. Then to trace over our little doodles. You can start with your pictures or you can start with your texts to you. So each birthday picture, I kinda like having something different. Here. I'm going to again use my brown paper and maybe include inst one balloon in brown. That way I bring a little bit of brown on that side of the page to make the little knots. Awake can even go over my little picture frame. And let's do our little candles and cupcake. Again, a little fluff. Add some fluff there. This time I'm going to make my cupcake a little bit different just for variety. I do little zigzag and then follow the lines and then a curved line to the end. Let's do our little frame for either call print. If you manage to get your cat to do that, you just have to put a little bit of ink or paint on her paw and then put the paint on the paper here in this square. And if not, you can add a photo instead. So I'll write again palm print. As a reminder. I like to add little details like this in the balloons. It kind of shows that there are little 3D. And here I can write Happy Birthday. Just going to make very simple texts and add a little line at the end. For fun. And birthday, I might write cursive. So I'm going to erase everything so I can see what it looks like. And if there's anything else I went to add or include on my page. So this one is fun because you can fill it with loads of colors taking some of the colors that are here. I like the yellow, the blue, or the red, and I'm not going to doodle anything else because that way it gives me some space to journal or right, a few things about that day. I'm going to do this later on with my kids and we can each write a few words, a few things that we remember from her second first day. So it's even a fun activity, actually can even be a fun little activity to do. During your cat's birthday. You take a photo if you can print it out right away, and then you make the page together. Have loads of fun with that. I'm going to bring in some blue to add little polka dots on the balloons. One maybe color and the other one. If you wanted to add a little shadow, you could do that to your balloons to make them look a little more 3D. Decide where your lighting is coming from. So if mine is coming from the top here, then I can add a little shadow with black or gray here. I'm going to put some on the balloon behind. You can add those fun details if you'd like, if you want to get even more into it. But you decide what you have the time for. You can either add the shadow before the colors are after. Here I'm going to make a little pattern balloon with some blue flowers. And little dogs. Make it fun, make it artsy, can get pretty. We kinda brought in the yellow, the blue, and the red into our picture. Actually, I'll bring in a little bit more red. So I have the red on this side. I want to bring it down to the bottom of the page. So I'm going to just color in this frame. For now. We have it. The rest I'll leave up to you to add in all those fun special details about this special day for your cat, for you. And I'll see you in the next class for birthday number three. 34. Cat's Third Birthday: Welcome again to our cutest ever cat journal. So you can get your book ready, all your supplies, your papers, your cats, your photos, your printouts. And let's begin for page number 53 are birthday for a three-year old cat. So on this page we have around photo frame. I'm not going to glue one here right now because I didn't have one handy. You'll know that this is for your picture. I do have my little kitty cats that I want to put on this page. Now we can get started with doodling. So for our previous pages we did big numbers, so I'm going to continue with that and also decide where I want to put my other things might pop prints. So I can put my palm print here. I like using variety, so that's why I use the oval shape this time. You can decide where you want your number to be or what type of number you want to make it. Here. I think I might make a little gift bot. So I'm doing a very rough idea for now. So I have the general look and then I can decide where I want to write Happy Birthday. Maybe I'll put it up here this time. And I'll see if I find some letters. Just going to use cutouts for the word birthday, trying to find some that are not so big. So I'm going to already glue my lectures. I'm thinking I might not even have to write happy. I'm just going to write birthday this time because they could just be Birthday three. Since I don't have so much space. Maybe I'll put my cats on top here. Then we can doodle the other things on our page. I'm not sure if this is enough space for my pop print. And if not, it's okay, I can use it to add some other little details about the birthday event. The activity, what we did together, a gift, if my cat got one. All those fun details that are nice little souvenirs. And for the little gift, I'm thinking to do it with my brown paper. I'm just going to cut a box. Square shape. Those smaller. I'm thinking to make a second one on the top there. Since I have a little extra space. And I'm going to trace over it. For more contrast. Add a little ribbon, bow, a circle, and here I do another circle. This time. I go wide on the sides and on the ends I go narrow. So that's why I make my little ribbon. And didn't get add a little line. For the ribbon. I'm going to go behind, one in front and one behind. This one. I do the same. I think I'm going to erase the lines first. Since my old papers very delicate. I don't want it to grip while I'm saying here. Then I can glue those. What other little details could I add to make it fun? We had candles, we had cakes, we had balloons. What else would be u at this one has little gifts, so I think that's cute. Actually, if I make a third one, it will be like three gifts for the three years of birthdays. So maybe I'll put one here. And so what if there's no space for the pop print this time? You can include your pop print anywhere on the page if you want it to go with three gifts for his third birthday time, I'm going to make it double bow when this way as well. Circle. I'll make it thinner. So I like thinking of different ideas for each page. I find it boring to make pages the same as you can tell. See, I could do some little de corps on my number. I'm just trying to see what else I could add to this page to make it fun. But it might be enough because you might have other doodles and other texts to fill your page with. So keeping it simple is also fine. You decide if you don't have many details, then of course, fill it with some art and doodles and drawings. You can even ask yourself, what does your cat like or is there something different that she likes this year that she didn't like last year, something that she does. This would be a fun page to also include new things that she does, new ways she's exploring the world. I'm adding a little frill to the photo frame with some little curved lines. And then inside again, I'm gonna do a second curved line. That way it looks like a real thrill. I'm going to put in a few pop prints somewhere on this page because you know how much I like them and they're so cute. But I don't want too many either because I want to leave space for other stuff. I have a little quote which I think is fun to add as well. If you have space on your page. This one says cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. So I think it could be applicable for birthday because cats are pretty demanding that they have the right to on their birthday or we don't mind feeding them. That'll extra early, or feeding them an extra special snack. It's their birthday after all. You kind of excuse them when we excuse ourselves when it's our birthday. And I'll put it in a little box and add apocrine. Right? I think that's good for this page. Of course, fill it with colors. Any color that you wish, since there's not much color on this one. And have loads of fun. See you next time. 35. Cat's Fourth Birthday: Welcome again to your cats journal. Today we're working on the page, birthday for page 55. So this is the last birthday in this book because after birthday for I figured, well, it's kind of common and they've already grown into everything they're going to do live past their teen years. They're adults now. But I thought it would be fun to still end with this one. So I have my kitty cat. I don't have a photo again, but this would be the place where you add your cats photo for her fourth birthday. Whether the event, whether with her cake or surrounded by her gifts or maybe surrounded by her family with you. So bringing something special to the photo. So this time I'm going to add a little bit of brown paper in a circle shape because I'm going to put her paw prints over here because this one is a rectangle. I was thinking I'll do something a little different. So you just trace on your paper and then you ink it. And you may be, you're wondering how to include your cats pop print on this brown paper. All you have to do is just choose a different color paint, maybe a darker paint or white paint. You decide just something that will stand out on this brown paper. And if not, if you don't have a pop print, then you can include a little photo of your cat, which is also loads of fun and adds decor color to your page. So we're gonna write a big number four again. I sketch it out with my pencil first. And this time I'm going to make a special cake, a bigger cake, not just the little muffin, because we need to fit four candles. So I'm going to make just a straight line and then curvy little lines, waves on the bottom. Then again, two more lines, straight line and wavy lines again on the bottom, which is the icing. Again, two more lines for the rest of the cake, and then I'll put it on a little plate like this. Let's make little ovals for the top of our candles and little flames. And the little line in the middle there we have it. So what can we include? That's fun here. You can think what your cat loves, is it toys? Have a special toy that she enjoys. Think I'm going to draw here some yarn. Since we haven't done that on her birthday ones yet. You can kind of think, what else did she enjoy your life? And if not, if you can't think of anything, you can just add some designs. I'm going to add little flowers for this one. I'm just sketching out a few, maybe two different types of flowers. Once I add flowers, I sort of put them everywhere. So here we go. I love flowers so much. Here I'm going to make another big one. So I'm just very roughly sketching them for now because I'm not thinking about getting too detailed yet. I'm just planning out where they're going to be kind of thing in relation to everything else that I'm going to add on my page. Okay, maybe I better stop flowers now. If you wanted to write Happy birthday, you could also find a place to do that. This time I might write it really small. Happy Birthday, something like that. I wanted to put it in a little box or a little ribbon. Maybe I'll add a little balloon appear. I think the rest of the page, I want to keep it for little details that I want to write about or sketch about the birthday events, the friends, the gifts. Special snack course usually benefits us more than our cat, but those are the little details that we remember about that special day. Now I'm just tracing out my rough lines. I'm coloring it in since I made a few mistakes, I'm going to add a few little lines on the cake. Could be little chocolate chips to glue down the cat. So that I know where to put the balloon. I'm going to have her carrying the balloon to little balloons. Here, my flower. Now I can get a little bit more detailed. So I'm just doing the petals so curved at the ends. And then the middle. I'm going to do little dots and lines for the bigger flowers and these ones, I'm just doing three little dots or one. Depending on how big they are. Smaller ones I make one dot. I forgot this down. If I have space for my Happy Birthday. And we just have to erase the lines. So this one is pretty straightforward because now we've done a few birthday pages and they're all sort of similar. We want to include the same things, the same details. But of course, your cat probably changes and matures and grows. So that's where you would add in all those different details about each birthday. So again, fill it with colors, any color that you want. I would suggest to first glue your picture down, your photo down, and then take some of those colors and add them to the details or doodles around your page. And I'll see you next time. 36. Get Better Soon: Today we're working on the page. Get better soon for what your cat has. Dull moments of sickness, not feeling well. So for this page, I have a little photo that I want to include. My cat is steeping here, but it can also be her not feeling so well. So if you have a photo when your cat was sick or hurt himself or maybe at the vet, it would be a fun one to include on this page. So for my page design, I'm first thinking about what I need to include on this page. So I have a photo and I think I want to include the times that my catch was sick and also when my cat went to the vet because that's important information that I don't want to forget. So I'm going to take some little scraps of blind papers. And on one of them I'm thinking to include the times that she was sick and the other one, I'll include her trips to the vet. So we need to see if we're able to fit all that onto our page. I'm going to start out by cutting my papers two sides. This was from an old used notebook. So it's practical to reuse some empty pages or pages half-full. And maybe the trips to the vet don't have to be so big. I'm going to try and make them the same size, such as possible. And you can decide where you want to put your photo. Thinking of putting mine here. And I've cut out some letters to spell the words vet, and also to spell the words sick. So I can decide where I want to put those. And you know me, I like to include a little bit of brown paper to my page. So let's see how we can do that. Either. I could make a little picture frame for my photo. Maybe I'll do that. I think I'm going to the photo a little bit smaller. There's some parts that aren't very important. And that way I can use my brown paper as a little frame. And I'm just cutting evenly around the photo. I'm going to ink around the photo and also around the little frame. That way it stands out a bit more. It's more contrast. Can add these corner lines to make it look like a real frame. Then I'm also going to draw a line, the edge of each paper. It's okay if it's not perfect. I don't mind a hand-drawn look. Of course, feel free to do this part with a ruler as well. That way you could go a little faster. First, before I write, I'm going to see where I glue my lectures. So I'm thinking to glue my letters down already. And as I'm doing this, I'm thinking about what I want to include on these papers. What exactly would be important for me to remember. Alright, I think I can already glue this down. So some words that I want to include are the date and why. Maybe first start off when my cat is sick, I would write here when and here with what? So what does she have? Why is she not feeling well? And here I can make a little line. Date goes here and then I explain what she has. Same here. I think I'm going to put the date, so I'll put when. And here alright. Maybe why why did she need to go to the vet? Green? I can fill that out with my pen or pencil for my little title. Think I'm going to write it in here, maybe get better soon. We don't need a huge title because I already have the word sick and Vets was very clear what this page is all about. Get better soon. I'm going to take a piece of paper and draw a little cat. Since I don't have any more little cats, we've drawn in painter together. So I'm just going to sketch one out. Maybe this time I'll make him in bed. I'm doing the oval ears survey. This one, be from a different angle. And closing his eyes. Maybe I'll put a thermometer in her mouth. I'll make her a little pause right next to her head with a little blanket. And her little pause. And of course her tail. She could have a little hot water bottle on her head. Little pillow. You draw that odors signs. You draw the details that you want. While we're at drawing, I'm thinking to draw a little medicine, little vitamins, right, fit for vitamin. So I'm making a little bottle shape, but a few that now we can increase our pictures. So I make the little lid. You can just follow along or pause the video if you need to. Watch a little bit more carefully. Two curved lines, one curved the other way. Again, two curved lines, one curve the other way. And then parallel lines. Then the little vitamins for medicine, it's just little oval shapes for the cat. You know how to draw a cat. Now, him with closed eyes. And again, the little patterns I just like kitty cats with the patterns. Even though my cat is all white. You can make whatever pattern you want on the little sheet or a blanket. Again, that'll lines for the fluffy tail. I'm changing my pattern tool circles instead. Then we can erase. Then we can cut. This page will have included our little doodles and drawing. Practicing drawing our cat again, you will have included a brown paper for decor, dark cut-out letters for variety. Our notebook papers for writing on photo. Now, all that's missing is the information that you're going to fill it up with. Coloring if you would like. That, you still get to personalize it in some way to you and what you like, try you feel it suits you and your cat. Then you can decide where you want to put your little pictures. Curse you can doodle these directly onto your notebook or your paper. Since I had already lined papers, I don't like drawing over that, so that's why I drew them on a separate paper. And you decide if you want to add some more to those to your page. Or pop prints. To doodle a little cup with water, a little straw. When you are sick you need lots of liquids. Maybe a little jug of water. Little pillow again. Think about again, what do you enjoy? What is cozy when you're sick? You need lots of rest. Maybe a little moon for sleep. And some stars. Lots of good rest. Here. I could even write some little Zs, maybe a little apple for good food when you're sick. And there we have our little get better soon page that you can add lots of colors to. Anything else that you want to include. And I'll see you next time. 37. A Letter to Your Cat: Welcome to another page of our cat journal. Today we're working on the page letter to my cat. So this is page 59. If you're using the book or the download, and if you're making your own, you can draw or use a little envelope like this. So this is almost our last page that we're going to work on together. There's two more, one for photos and one for story time. But since we've already done some of those together, I'll leave those for you to do in your own time after this last class, that will be your little challenge. So let's get going with our very final page for our cat journal. I thought it would be fun to include a little letter to my cat. Just some ways of expressing my love and attention, thoughtfulness, and care to my cat. Even though it's not something that she will understand or even read or even here, of course, you can read it out to your cat. But I think it's a fun souvenir and also helps me remember all that love I have for her. So we have part of our envelope here. The reason I haven't finished drawing it is because I'd like to include and letter inside first. So I'm going to cut it on the lines here. That way it will fit just right in my envelope. You want to measure it so it fits the width. And I think I'm going to leave it long because I can always folded. That way. I can write even more. I get to right here and I get two right here. So what I'm going to do is measure where I need to cut. I can see through the paper a little bit and I'm going to cut on the line here so that I can still see the envelope. That way it looks like it's coming out from the envelope. I can already glue that down. I'm just gluing down one side. And here I can even write Dear. Here, alright, love. From deer. You write your cat's name and then you write your name there. That way it kind of looks like one big letter, but it will be even longer when you open it. And I'm going to write my title with cut-out letters here. So it's not like your cat is going to understand this letter, that it's more of a way to express yourself. That's what journals are four. Sometimes some questions are useful, sometimes they're fun, sometimes they're informational. This is what this page is for. It's more like for fun. And as a memory for you, I'm going to write a letter and maybe here to my cat. I'm just going to use my ink pen to write to my cat. Can even put it in a little box with stands out a bit more. She wanted to outline the letters as well. I like doing that sometimes to the letters that are white. That way it looks different than my paper. I can doodle few more pictures around my peach. I like making little hard to show lots of loves to my cat. That's why you write a letter. After all. Here will be an open envelope. I have some hearts coming out. Here. I can draw back of the envelope and the little lecture coming out and some scribbles as if I'm writing a letter and it'll pop print, could be from my cat back to me. So what would you tell your cat? If he could understand? What would you tell him or her? One question to ask yourself, and that's why I've included it in our journal. And I even have a little cat picture left from all the ones we painted. I might glue it down here. As well as Doodle, a little lecture as if he's reading his letter. Can add a couple of pages. Can add a little pencil in case you want your cat to reply. And I have a little quote I want to include as well. It says, what greater gift than the love of a cat? The acute one to remember for this page. And that's why we're writing a letter because we love our cat. So you can see where it would fit best. Can even cut it out and put it into two parts if you wanted to. I like the kind of crafty look. I'm going to put it that way. Not even perfectly straight. And then I'm going to even draw rough lines around. I think for more decoration, I could even just cursive, write a few words after. Lots of love. Anything that comes to mind related to writing your letter. Messages. Open and read cute little words like that. And later on I'm going to take some time to write the letter. When I have time to be still and quiet and think about my cat. Then I'm just going to end with a few little colors. So what colors do I have to work with here? I have a red tea, so I'm thinking to include some red on my page. Definitely for all the hearts. You can't go wrong by making red hearts. And it adds some color. Of course, feel free to make them different colors if you prefer, or to add patterns to them. You know how to do that too with your coloring. Now, I'm going to try one here. Maybe I'll put a little brown to the sign. Since we didn't get to add brown paper to this one, it's quite full already. We had some brown letters. And so I'll color my sign Brown. And I like to add a little bit of shadow to my envelope. Since this would be a full here are a little bit of shadow to the pages underneath. In the back. You do how you want to make a yellow pencil. Alright? And you get to decide the rest. What else you want to include? What are the colors and fun things could you make? Well, that's it for now. 38. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on completing the cutest ever cat journal. So you can go and have a look at all the pages you've finished. That was a job well done. Really. You worked so hard at it to make it so beautiful and fun and personalized to you and your cat. This is such a treat and it's such a beautiful gift or memory that you can give to yourself or to somebody else who loves kitty cats. I really hope that you had fun creating this booklet or your own little journal for your kitty cat. And in case you wanted to add some more pictures are fun to your booklet. Then check out those magazines from your shop. Or maybe some pet stores, advertisements, they always have some cute little pictures of animals and cats. So I found a few in my last batch of magazines. And I'm thinking it could be fun to add those pictures of people with a cat. If you don't have too many photos or if you don't have an option of printing them out, then this might be a good alternative. So they might be a little bit small since you don't get to choose the size. And I'd encourage you to even, especially use the ones that look like your cat. And I think it could be cute to include other photographs throughout your book. If you don't have enough. Example here, if you wanted to include one. For this one doesn't even have any even looks like a little sticker. I ain't include mine right here. You decide where else. Could look cute and fun. Little things like that scattered around your papers could be. Anyway, that was the last little bit from our book. You also have a chance to try out your own personalized pages here, more photos and story time. So I encourage you to do that. And if you need more cats, you can photocopy these. You can cut them out. There's plenty to work with. I hope that this was really fun and enjoyable. And most of all, that it will be a wonderful experience to go back and refresh your memory on some of those cute things that your cat does and your relationship together, stay positive. Five for now, see you in another course. I care a lot about it. These carrots. Carrots, please tell me, you care a lot for me. Wait, the snowman snows us. Wonder, snowmen say their burgers taste like carrots, which was nice knowing you see deeply rooted issues, they're not responding. Well. These pans, I don't really care a lot.