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How to Create an Intuitive Mixed-Media Collage Storybook

teacher avatar Karen Dawn, Creative Soul Journeys

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intuitive Storybook Introduction

      2:12

    • 2.

      Supplies to Gather

      9:47

    • 3.

      Binding Your Storybook

      6:32

    • 4.

      Setting an Intention

      4:32

    • 5.

      Gathering Images

      11:39

    • 6.

      Let the Story Begin

      10:22

    • 7.

      Adding Color and Paint

      8:03

    • 8.

      Mixed-Media Playtime

      8:36

    • 9.

      Sharing my Story

      8:17

    • 10.

      Trust Your Creative Process

      0:53

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About This Class

This class is all about allowing a story to flow from your subconscious, using images you intuitively select from magazines. In this class, you'll learn how to set an intention that will magically guide a deeper part of yourself to tell a story.

The steps are simple, but they are very powerful.

Step 1: Gathering Materials - these can be as simple as paper, a magazine, and a glue stick.

Step 2: Bind a small, simple book to house your story.

Step 3: Set your intention - this can be specific or very general.

Step 4: Select images that make you feel curious, excited, or just feel right.

Step 5: Collage images into your mini book.

Step 6: Embellish collages images.

Step 7: Read/Write your story.

Step 8: Share

I know you're going to love this class. It's an adventure waiting for you to participate. You'll get the most out of this class by giving yourself the time to engage fully with the activity. No experience or creative skills are required. 

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Karen Dawn

Creative Soul Journeys

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I love the Magic of Creativity, Mixed-Media, and Art Journaling.

Never before has it been easier to find our creativity and bring into our world the hopes and dreams we have carried with us for lifetimes. I'm here to help make this all possible, and by letting go of what we think needs to happen, we can open up to the magic inside.

Teacher and Creative Alchemist Bio

I specialize in creative learning experiences in Visual Art Journaling and Mixed-Media exploration. My focus is on personal empowerment using creativity. Teaching Visual Art Journaling since 2015 has given me a lot of insight into how people interact with creativity. My dream is to bring this same inner-journey to life for you in a way that makes change easy and fun.

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1. Intuitive Storybook Introduction: Hello and welcome. My name is Karen Don, and in today's class, I am going to teach you how to make an intuitive storybook. Man hour. You don't have to be a storyteller. And you really don't even have to feel like you're intuitive or even artistic. I want to step you through all of the things that are going to help you to create an intuitive storybook. Now what do I mean by intuitive storybook? This is an intuitive storybook. It is a story that I put together in using a method that I'm going to show you in this class. And it's going to show you how to make all of these wonderful pages out of a magazine and then put it together so that it reads like a story. Now this particular book that I made, I created using the, this is a new art journaling magazine, the strawberry moon. And I use this magazine exclusively to create this book. But you don't have to have this magazine or any particular magazine at all. Although some magazines are going to be definitely something you're going to want to gather. In the next video, I am going to introduce you to some of the supplies that you're going to need for this class. And then we're gonna get started. And I'm going to show you this really fabulous process that is going to really free you up to experience something that maybe you didn't know you had inside of you. So let's get started. 2. Supplies to Gather: Now I am going to show you a wide variety of supplies that you will want to gather. Now, you don't need every single one of these supplies, okay? But you are going to need a few key supplies, so I'm going to start with those. The first thing that you're going to want is some magazines. And I really recommend that you pick a variety of magazines if that is available to you or you can. Like I did when I created my first book, I use one magazine for it. Here are just some ideas of a variety. This is a National Geographic Good housekeeping, uh, Somerset studio. And a real simple. The second thing that you're going to need as an absolute must is some sort of paper. Now you could use card stock. You could use mixed media paper. You can use a, this is a watercolor paper, but it's a kid's watercolor paper. And it's very similar to the mixed media. It's not as heavy as watercolor paper is. Or of course, you can pick watercolor paper. The next thing that you're going to want to gather as a absolute must supply is some sort of adhesive. Now a glue stick is certainly going to work just fine. If you have just some Elmer's glue that works too. Or you can get all fancy with an artistic supply which is matte medium, and this is my absolute favorite. The other thing that you're going to want to gather is some sort of tools for binding your book. For this lesson, I am going to be using a tool that can be an all this is actually a bead Bremer is just something that's pokey. And it's going to allow me to poke holes into the paper so that I can do a simple binding on it. To bind it, I will be using some, this is some hemp cord. This could be button thread, this could be embroidery thread, this could be yarn. This can be string. This can be just about anything that you have on hand that you can thread into a needle and put through the holes that you poke in the paper. As another optional tool, you might want to grab a stylus. And I think that this has only really going to be relevant if your paper is heavy-duty like a watercolor paper, you're going to want to score that edge. And I will show you how to do that in the videos. So there you have it. Those are the basic supplies that you are going to need in order to get started, at least on this. Okay. So I say get started because this may what those supplies may be just enough for you. You may be like, Oh, I don't need anything more, but you might want some extra things. It all depends on how involved you want to get in this process, how far you want to take it, and what kind of resources that you have available to you. So let's look at some optional supply here. You'll see some optional supplies that I have that I will be using. And I say these are optional because do you not going to absolutely need these in order to create your story book? But if you really wanted to take it a step further, you're going to love having more supplies and these can really be anything that you have on hand. These are just what I have on hand. So one of the things that I love to work with with my collage, which is what we're going to be working with in this class, is, I love to work with stencils. And of course, if you're working with decimals, you're going to want to have some sort of paints. My favorite paints for art journaling is these Matte paints. They're just inexpensive Kraft paints. But what's unique about these is that they have a matte finish. Now, most of these ones are not going to say they have a matte finish. Okay. If it doesn't say it's a matte finish, it's going to be a matte finish. If it says gloss, it's not going to be matte. And you don't want to work with glossy paints in your art journal because your pages are going to stick together. Besides paints with working with stencils, you are going to want some. Tool to put the paint down for this, my tool of choice is a simple cosmetic sponge. Now these sponges can be the round ones or they can be those triangular ones that you can get. The other tool that I love to work with is washi tape. And I have quite the collection of washi tape. This is a fascinating medium to work with. If you've never worked with washi tape before, I highly recommend just picking up a few. You don't have to go crazy with this, but you can generally get a little packs of three or four of them. And they, they really are a fabulous tool to work with in your journals. The other tool that I have here is stamps. And I have a wide variety of stamps that I've just kinda pulled out for this activity. I love working with stamps that are coming non-disruptive, that basically allow me to put down patterns really similar to using stencils. And of course, working with these, you're going to want some sort of ink to use your stencils with your stamps with and even some lettering stamps. Those can be really handy to know if you're working with the clean stamps, you're probably going to want to have one of these little, they're just like these acrylic blocks. And they allow you to take your your stamps and put them on so that you can put your ink on and then stamp. I will be going through all of this in the following videos. The other way to use these, if you don't have one of these, is to just dab it on there and dab it on your page. So you don't have to have these acrylic blocks, but they can come in real handy. Some other supplies that you might want to gather if you, if they are available to you are some ephemera or some scraps. These are just leftover scraps that I've collected from doing art journaling pages, and I can keep them in this little drawer. I have several of these drawers on my desk. And these scraps are things that didn't make it into a project before, but I didn't want to throw them away. Some of these are actually papers that came from products. So the other ones that I have here and these are new, I just got these because they were having a Halloween sale. And it was like 70% off for the ideology, Tim Holtz products. And these were just the papers that came in the packaging, so I save those. But a couple of these if you don't have a lot of femora and things, these can be a great way to get a quick collection of things. And you'll find in the ideology, you'll find all kinds of little goodies, photos. Just all kinds of really wonderful yummy stuff to play with. So I have that one. And then I have these are the paper from the paper doll collection. They're just photos of people. What was what's really cool about these is they're all cut out. And I really liked that because of course, you know, I can cut these myself, but that's a lot of work. So that just made a nice little shortcut. So I'm pretty sure that this wraps it up. And like I said, this is this is still optional, okay. But you might want to have some paint brushes on hand. I like to have a nice variety of paint brushes with all different kinds of sizes and stuff. So I have my little cup of paintbrushes and of course, I have some water to rinse the mouth. Okay. So that does it for the supplies. Are you ready to get started? I guess Sure. Let's do this. 3. Binding Your Storybook: The first thing that we're going to do is we are going to bind some paper. And I'm just gonna do a really simple binding on it. Okay, It's two holes. It's several pieces of paper folded in half, punch some holes in there, and put some string in there. And there you go. You have a little book to get started. And that is the first, very first step. So let's get started. Okay, so for this one, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to use up my kid's watercolor paper. I actually really love working with this paper. It's inexpensive and it's, it's not heavy duty like a watercolor paper. But in Handel's wet mediums really well. So I have three sheets here. The first thing I'm going to decide is, do I want to create a book that's that big? I pulled them in half. That's gonna be like that big, right? Or do I want to cut this down and make it even smaller? Like I can cut these in half and then fold this in half and then have it, have it that size. But for the purposes of doing this video, I'm going to work a little bit larger because I think it'll be easier for you to see what I'm doing. So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to fold this in half. Now as promised, I wanted to show you how to use a stylus. Because if you've got some heavy-duty watercolor paper and you have any troubles at all folding it in half. It can be really handy to score and a stylus works really well for that. But you could also use the backs of a pair of scissors. Oh, look at that. I didn't even mentioned that you can have another optional supply would be scissors and yes, they truly are. Okay. So for scoring this, you're going to want at the very least a ruler. Now if you have one of those cutting mats that Scott measurements on it, that can really come in handy as well. But if you don't have a cutting mat, take your ruler. Place it down. Find this center mark. These are my, my paper is 12 " wide or long and mark it at the top and at the bottom. So you have two marks and then take your ruler. And you'll have to do this for each individual sheet. You're just going to take your stylus and you're going to score, which just means pressing into the paper and creating a score line. What that is going to allow you to do is to fold the paper evenly and perfectly. Of course, if you're working with even, just even card stock, you can easily fold it in half. And then my favorite way to make sure that I get an even as I match up the corners. And then I put my finger in the middle here and I push out to the edges. And then having a pair of scissors to press into it. That can come in real handy. Now if you're using the scoring method, you may not have to do that. But I'm just showing you some optional stuff. Now, if you don't really care about it being perfect, then by all means just fold it in half and that's fine, that is good enough. Just paper. It's just a little book. Okay, so now that I have all my pages that I want to use for my book, I'm going to put them all together. And when you put them all together like this, this is called a signature. And then I'm gonna take my little pokey tool. Then this can be anything that will poke a hole. I'm going to poke two holes into this. Okay? And I'm just going to eyeball it because it's not really necessary to measure anything. And I'm going to push it to the outside. Just be really careful that you aren't pushing it into your finger. Don't put your finger back here and then push into it. You can go ahead and do that and then move your finger aside and push that through. With my holes in there. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to get out a thread that's twice the height of my book. And I'm going to take a needle. The needle that will accommodate your thread or cord will work. I'm going to start on the outside. And I'm going to put that through. Gonna go over to the other hole, back out. Now I can remove my needle and even this up a little bit. And now I can tie a knot or a bot. And there you go. Now you have a book, tickets started with. 4. Setting an Intention: With your pages bound together. The next step is to set some sort of intention for the story that you would like to see come out, okay? Now, I'm not asking you to decide on the story, okay? This is just simply an intention. And intention is something that might be something you want to learn. Something that you want to experience, something that you want to explore. And having an intention before you get started picking magazine images, which will be our next step, is all about setting something in your mind, okay, and when we start picking images, we're going to do this on a very subconscious level. Okay? We're not going to be, I'm really going to encourage you to not Think about it, okay? I want you to feel into it. So having an intention before you pick images can help connect you with those feelings. Okay? Now, in order to set an intention, it could just be simply closing your eyes for a minute. Maybe take a deep breath, blow it out, and just feel into what wants to come up for you today. If nothing comes up, you could simply set the intention to be open to a story that wants to be presented to you. A story that may help you in some way and just be open to that and have that being delivered to you. Or you may choose, or you may have come up with something. And when I want a little bit more clarity around this intention, and this is great. This is a great opportunity to take, take out a journal or just a piece of paper and a pencil and start writing. This is often something that you'll find helps bring you clarity around your intention and what it's really kinda coming up capping you to get much more clear on it. And then again, you may have come up with something very specific. And that's great too. Okay. So I'm going to assume that at this point you're done writing, you've come up with your intention, okay? Now, the next step that I want you to do, actually, I'm going to start this process over again. Okay? Now that you have your intention and maybe you've gotten some clarity around it. The next thing that I'm going to ask you to do is to set that aside. I don't want you to go into this next step with those intentions in your conscious mind. Just set them aside, okay? This is what is allowing it to come from your subconscious. You've set your intention. Now you're going to trust. Trust that whatever comes up next is just right. Okay. So in this part, I'm going to be using my magazines, Okay? And I have several of them here and I'm going to, since I have them all out, I'm gonna go ahead and use some all or at least use them until I don't feel that I need anything to find anything more. And this is a process that I will give you some little clues and hints as I go along picking out my images and how I do this. All right. 5. Gathering Images: Okay, so for this process, I have set aside my intention. It's there. I mean, I'm not neglecting it or anything like that, but I don't want to approach my magazines with my intention, top of the mind. Okay. I am trusting that whatever needs to happen next will happen. Now when you're picking images with your intention, kind of off to the side. What you're gonna do is you're going to fairly quickly go through the magazine. Whatever images feel like they're they might, they might feel a little brighter. They might stand out a little more. They might make you curious. Whatever feelings come up, pay attention to those feelings and allow images to come up. Now when I pick out magazine images, images, I just tear up the whole page and I set them aside. This keeps me moving. Please don't don't spend time cutting things out or tearing things out right now. Just go through the magazines. Tearing out images, carrying out pages that have images or words that feel like they're really I don't know, I can't really describe it. You'll just have to kind of feel into this. So I'm gonna put out a little bit of music and you can play along with me or you can stop the video and do this on your own. Once you have your pages torn out of your magazines, then you're ready to start refining some of the imagery on them. And by that, I mean, I recommended that you tear up whole pages at once. And now, you know, that was a fairly quick process. And now you're going to add a little bit more consciousness to this. And so you can go through your pages that you select it out and you're going to maybe tear out or cut out some of the words and images that are standing out for you. We're still working on an intuitive level, but we're being a little bit more conscious about what we're picking on these pages. For this process. I know I said scissors are optional. Having something that if you're going to be cutting out words, having some scissors can come in really handy with this. Although I really encourage you for the images to tear them out. There's something that is very freeing about just tearing things out. We're not worried about being perfect about it. And we're just, we're just curious about the images. Now, the reason I say scissors are better for cutting out words is because your pages are going to tend to tear very easily in one direction and not in the other direction. So like I have this magazine here. When I tried to tear it this way, you notice that little jagged edge. See how jagged that is. That means that the grain of the paper is, this is tearing it against the grain. So if I wanted to get this word out of here, these words, I can tear down to it. You can get a pretty decent straight chair by just doing that. But once I get down to that, I should find that it will tear pretty easily going in one direction. So you don't have to have scissors. Next. I really liked the rough cut. The rough cut, the roof tear of things when you do it like that. Now I'm getting very specific about which part of the image that I wanted to collect. So I thought this was interesting. But it was just this part of it that was coming out from me. Always look on the backside. Sometimes you'll pick the page because it's that was what was coming up for you. But before you tear into it or cut into it, the back, sometimes things come up on the backside that you didn't really intend to pick. But they ended up having a significant meaning. I always forget to do that. Look on the back, What's on the back. Sometimes it can be tempting to want to save the entire image. But I really want you to get more specific about what you're going to collect. But that doesn't mean you can't use the rest of the image. It's just that maybe you're going to use them separately. So I really liked this whole image, but I'm not going to cut the whole thing out in one piece. Generally save all of these scraps. I might cut them down. Because I know that this is just garbage. Some of the words that you find might give you some clues as to the topic or title of the story. The curious about what's coming up. And just because you picked out all of these pages and you're tearing out all of the images, doesn't mean that you have to use them all. So they want you to have as many as possible. And you might want to keep separate piles for your words, your images. Now, these are all from the Somerset studio magazine. And I tend to really love working with these images, but I don't want to overdo it. So I think this is gonna be the last one that I pick. And then I'm going to set all of those side. Then move on to the other magazines. You'll notice that I'm passing by some images. So I have some of these pages that just they just no longer felt something just wasn't coming up for me. So I just set those aside. Now, these pages, I can go ahead and I can leave them on my desk top. I can set them aside, but don't discard them just yet because you may want to come back to this because like you said, some of those pages are kinda, you know, it's like, okay, No, not really feeling it. They may come back up. They may become more relevant as I start to put together my story book. 6. Let the Story Begin: Okay, so now you have all of your images collected and torn out, or at least most of them. And you've satisfied maybe some of the pages that you might come back to later, but maybe not. And now we're ready to start putting together our storybook. Alright, let's get started. This is the fun part. This is where you can really get to let go and put things together in a way that doesn't require you to really think about it or you're not trying to create a story. The whole point of this is to do something intuitively. You have some images and you have your book. And now you're going to start picking images and gluing them down. I recommend that you take your images and you spread them around like this. Now I'm on my cover page. Now I may decide that nope, I don't want to work on the cover page just yet. Or I may see an image and go, oh, yeah, that is for the cover page. Whatever comes up, allow that to happen. And then grab your glue and start going. Now I can tell you the faster you engage in this process, the more likely it is that you are going to be working intuitively. The more you slow down, the more you start to think about it. And the less intuitive this process is going to become thinking about it is also going to get in the way of the magic that is going to happen when you simply allow and trust that whatever's coming up is meant to come up. It's a message for you. So what I like to do is I'd like to go through these pages and just start gluing things down. You don't have to work in a linear way. You could go to this book randomly. I want you to feel into what wants to happen. I want you to do this in a way that feels right for you. Or maybe even feels a little uncomfortable. Sometimes. When we do things that are uncomfortable, we get different things that can come up for us. All about tuning into those feelings and those feelings don't always have to be positive. Now, one of the things that you may have noticed about what I did was I only put down the images, at least to start. This was not a conscious choice. It just felt just, it's just what felt right. And I also put 11 of these images on the edge of the paper because I want to trim that off. So now I'm gonna go through this and I have my, I have my words. And I'm going to start gluing down these words. Again. I'm really, I'm, I'm doing my best to not think about this. I'm feeling into this. I love to start overlapping things that again, you just need a view into what wants to happen. And most of all, trust that whatever you do, just without needing to be perfect. Now you don't have to use all of the images or words that you picked out. But it can be really interesting what happens? When you do. You'll notice I'm coming, going back and forth through this and absolutely no right or wrong way to do this. Not pills could pronounce. So at this point, your storybook may be complete. It's completely up to you in how it feels. If it feels like, Wow, this is, there's, there's a whole story here. I can feel it. This is enough. You may decide that your storybook is complete. Now reading your story book, that is an interpretation. The images, and that's kind of an optional step at this point. You may choose to sleep on this. Or you may decide, no, I want to keep going. I want to do some writing around this, or I want to do some painting around this, or I want to grab some of my my optional supplies and do a little bit more with this. I trust that you will feel into what is wanting to happen next. And you will go with that at this point in my story. But I feel that I think I need some more images, but I might be overthinking it. I also would like to work with some paints, add some color to it, and maybe even some of my other tools and such. So for me, being creative and being an artistic person, just leaving it like this is not going to be enough, but for you, this may be enough. Trust the trust, your next step. 7. Adding Color and Paint: For this next part of this class, I am going to just allow you to watch me continue to play with my book. And I'm just going to put on some music in the background. Hopefully speed things up as I go along. You might get some ideas, it might inspire you to do some things. Um, but like I said, everything after this point is optional. Okay. It's just my way of inquiring more into the story that's presenting itself in my book. And when I work with paints and other tools, it gives it more depth and it allows things to become more conscious. For me. This is just part of my own process. It may be part of yours as well, or you may decide that you want to go in another direction. But I hope that you'll watch it and enjoy it and get some, maybe some ideas. Okay. I'm going to introduce you to an optional resource that if you work in this way that I'm working with paint, it really can come in handy. Now you can take a hairdryer or heat tool and you can dry your paint in order to work on the next page. Or you can take a piece of wax paper. When you put wax paper down between the pages, it's going to allow that paint to dry, but it won't stick to. It. Allows you to keep working throughout your book. So what I generally have is I'll have several of these sheets handy so that I can put them down in-between the pages when I'm ready to turn the page and work on another one. And I generally reuse this wax paper. So I'll have several scraps and you can reuse them and reuse them and reuse them until while you can't reuse them anymore. But it can really come in handy when it comes to working in this way without disrupting your flow. Another thing you might be, you might be noticing, as I'm going through this and adding paints is I'm actually picking colors of paint that are already on the images. It's just one of the ways that I love to work with paints and images. Instead of me having to pick a color, I pick a color that's already there. This can also help your images kind of blend in and belong on the page a little bit more. But it is just a way that I, I enjoy working. So now the next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to remove all the wax paper. And I'm going to let my book dry out because it's pretty wet this point. But the wax paper has sopped up some of the excess paint and that will also help it to dry a little faster. So the next time unit do is I'm going to set it out like this. And I'm going to let it dry. Now, I'm using this inexpensive craft paint. This is going to dry really fast, probably in the next 20 min. This will be ready to continue on playing with it. 8. Mixed-Media Playtime: After letting it dry, I've come back and I'm going to do a little bit more work in it. Now, I brought out some of my other supplies that are optional, but they can really help you to dive a little bit deeper into things and keep going. I have my washy tape. I brought back out my unused images, magazine pages that I didn't use originally. And I have some stamps out. Now. I'm just kinda leave these on my table so that they are available to me. And I'm going to continue to work intuitively on this. Reaching for whatever supplies feel like they want to come out and be on the page. 9. Sharing my Story: Let me go through this and just show you what's coming up for me for now. Now, this can be something that evolves over time. I may sleep on it and more may come up for me. But my intention when I first started this was very loose. I have been going through some health issues that are very uncomfortable. Primarily, my feet get really hot and my fingers go numb and weird stuff like that. And I'm I'm used to going through a lot of pain. But this other thing that I'm going through with temperature and tolerances and my body reacting to it. I was just really curious to know more about what's going on with that. What is the story behind this? And there's some, there's a lot of really interesting things that came up for me. And none of this was done on purpose. So I love how it just is coming out for me. On the front cover. I loved that. It says the choice is yours. And Red Hot Mama. We have I put I made her feet read because my feet turned red hot. I mean, they literally turn red when they get hot. And yet here she is. She's got a red hot feet and she's relaxing on a beach. And there's these cool ocean waves in contrast to the hot sun. So I know that if I just look at this little portion right here, There's quite the story just in that. And then we go over here and we have this woman, which may be me, looking down on a bird that looks like it's just died, ads in her hand. So there's there's to me that makes me think of letting go, letting go of maybe some sorrow, letting go of some pain. And then I did these stamps on this page too, which were plants. And that makes me think of growth. That there can be some growth that comes out of this. So that is just all from this one page. And that right there could be, could tell the whole story. But if I go, continue to go into the book, and I'm not going to go through this page by page because this is a story that is quite personal to me. And it may take me a while to digest it. I may choose to do some journal writing on the side or maybe even some journal writing right in here. As I dive into what all of these things mean. Especially like this page, I'm, I'm very partial to things that are magical. And I love how this little stamp right here, I know you can't read it, but it says, I, I'm an artist. And these radiating lines coming out from it. This little girl sitting here, maybe reminding me of the child in me likes to play with threads. Lots of interesting, interesting images going on here. I like this change lives for the better, The moment that changed everything. And this very prominent word, dream. And then there's this little thread that connects everything. And again, we have another little girl, little older. So I'm very curious to know what's going on with this. There's these cards over here. Sometimes they say that you just have to deal with the cards you've been dealt. This has a lot of really interesting images on it. There's a little gambling wheel here. They've got a gal over here. It's kind of like in the shadows. And the words that are stamped on her dress or dare and scape. And that's interesting when I, when I read those words, Dare and escape, that makes me think of this, this gentleman here. He's being very daring and it's almost like he's escaping from something. And it's connected to this dream, dreaming of flight on this very magical tree, which makes me, reminds me of a wishing tree. I don't know why. Something I can explore more. And here's my, here's my feet, my happy, my Happy Feet. See I'm renaming my heartbeat to Happy Feet. And it's telling me the message is telling me that I'm altering my perception, altering my mind. It can remain a wishful thinker. Or you can take some positive action. And just the words on here, wild and free and strong wheel to overcome pain. And look at these colorful toenails and and this postcard that's there's a message in there to again, no. I mean, what is this the message that's coming out? This is the last page in the book too. It's like a message has been delivered to me. Very interesting. Then on the back of the book, which I wouldn't say, I would say that this is the last page of the story. So traditionally, if you look at the back of a book, the back of a book might have a description of what's in the book. And this is the only page that's kinda dark. And it has the darkest day on here. And I even put this little stamp on here this has created for there's this little magical cat on there with the hand silhouette. So lots, lots and lots of things to consider. I think that there is definite healing in here for me. And if I can follow this clues, you know, kind of tease out the story that's coming out. I think that I'm going to find this as this is a very healing story for me. 10. Trust Your Creative Process: I loved how my story book came out. Very, very, very powerful stuff. I don't want you to walk away thinking, Oh, wow, that's just so deep, Karen, and how am I how am I going to get there? Don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. Okay. Practices, steps, setting the intention, letting it go. Finding images, intuitively, placing them in your book, and be curious. And most off above all else. Trust, trust is so important. Trust, okay? I hope you will share what you create and I look forward to seeing it till next time. Bye bye.