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1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Monica
Lewinsky and I'm an artist and nature lover
living in upstate New York. I love being outside
in nature and letting it inspire
my own artwork. Unfortunately, as an artist, and many of us spend our
time inside creating, which is what led me to create
this summer art series. Let's combine our
love of nature and the outdoors with our desire
to create and get outside. All of these classes in the summer art series are designed to help
you do just that. Including this one. In this class,
we'll be capturing the beauty and abundance
of summer on paper. This process is one that
will take you outside on an adventure to
gather plants for creating this magical
eco print paper. I'll walk you through the
process from start to finish. Show you all of the
supplies that you'll need. And you'll watch me
as I make my own. And then I'll show you the
ways that you can turn this paper into all sorts of different things
including gifts. You can beautify your home, or you can just use it in
your own creative practice. You'll have a variety
of options to choose from as far as picking
a project goes. You can choose one of them or you can choose
to do them all. So I am super excited to get started and to share
this process with you. So let's go ahead
and jump right in.
2. Supplies: So let's talk a little bit
about the supplies that you'll need for making
your echo print paper. You'll need a large
pot with a lid, preferably a pot that you
will not be using for food. Again, you can always go to a thrift store or use a canning pot, which
is what I've done. You'll need the plants that
you've gathered from outside. You'll need some paper. Pick a variety of paper. I find that the £140 watercolor
paper works the best. White vinegar. You'll need some chicken
wire or something to wrap around the little booklet of plants and paper
that you've made. You will also need
some rusty items to throw into your pot. And also some heavy stones
are a couple of bricks. Now, I'm only going over the supplies that you'll
need for making the paper. In this section, I
am going to provide a master list of all of the supplies used
throughout this class. I'll also add the supplies for making your paper along with his step-by-step written recipe, if you will, so that
you can print that out and have it with
you in the kitchen. So I think that's
pretty much it. Like I said, I will provide
you with a master list of all the supplies for this
class in the resource section. So let's get started
making our paper.
3. Gather & Make Paper: So I thought it would
be fun for you to see where I gathered my plants from. And you can see the
Queen Anne's lace is just in abundance this year. It's beautiful. And I love the fact that they have not Mode out
here on this trail. Usually they mow it
back a couple of feet on each side of the trail. So I was happy to see that everything was kind of overgrown and wild and there was
plenty to pick from. You want to choose plants that have an interesting shape and maybe some feathery bits or leaves really you
can pick anything. It's fun to experiment. So whatever catches
your eye would pick. If you're worried about
the toxicity of a plant, if you're not familiar
with the plant, then my advice would be
to just leave it alone. But if you are
familiar with trees, oak trees, maple, you can always pick leaves off the tree. And I would say only harvest as much as you
think you're going to need. So I was picking some
Queen Anne's lace, some Black Eyed Susan. I think I even had some clover in there, some fern leaves. I know I had a couple
of oak leaves. And we're back in the
studio and I'm going through all of my plant material here to see what I've got. And I believe that plant, I think that's in the
mustard family, if I'm not mistaken. But you can see I've got
a wide range of plants and I was not able to get
to my plants right away, so they wilted a little bit. If you know that you're
not gonna be able to do this straight away after picking than I
would suggest leaving them in the bag and putting
them in the refrigerator. So now what I'm doing
is I'm taking each one of my pieces of paper, which are all folded in half. And I'm going to range
the plant material inside and try to make a
pleasing composition out of it. And you'll see all
these little bugs trying to scurry
out of the paper. I'm just trying to
pick some plants that I find interesting
and I want to lay them in there in a
way that looks nice. So I'll shut that and I'll move on to the
next little booklet. And I'll place the plants
inside of this one. And before I lay it on top, I'm going to make
sure that I have some plants
in-between the books. So a lay that on top of that. Make sure everything's arranged
the way that I want it. And I'll just keep layering. So layer inside and in-between. If you have some plant
material that's hanging outside of all of the paper,
don't worry about it. It's not a big deal. Just keep stacking. And here you can see I'm using my watercolor paper and I
haven't even pulled off that that edge where it was
attached to the notebook, which is not a big deal because we can do that after the fact. And I'm also using some
linen textured card stock, which is a little
difficult to work with when it's wet,
it's very fragile. And I find that the
watercolor paper actually holds up the best. And I find that the watercolor paper
creates the nicest prints. You can see all those little
insects trying to run away. So I'll just keep going. And once I'm finished layering everything and I have
this nice little sandwich of paper and plants. Then I'll stick this inside a piece of
chicken wire that I had. And I'll make sure it stays closed by using a little bit
of jewelry wire that I had. You could probably use a zip
tie or anything like that, anything that will hold up
in the heat of the water. So I just folded
it over and I've used this before and
it worked great. And a little bit of wire
just to keep it shut. And I will be placing this
in-between two rocks anyway. So it will stay shut. So this doesn't need to be
like super secure or super tight into the product goes. And I do have a brick on the bottom just to give
it some stability. And so it's not right on
the bottom of this hot pot. And I've got my rusty
chain and a bolt and I'm placing this heavy rock on top to keep it submerged. I've got my vinegar and
the pot, the heat's on. We'll bring it to a boil. Once it boils, turn it down, let it simmer for a couple
of hours with the lid on.
4. The Reveal: So here is the reveal, and this is the most magical
part of this entire process. And I wanted you to
see what I saw when I took my sandwich of paper
and plants out of the pot, I did let this sit in
the pot overnight. And if you can let
it sit in the pot, turn the heat off and
just let it cool down. And I think it helps. Pigments become more saturated. If you let it sit in the pot while it cools down
that way you can handle it easier and remove
all of the plant material. So this is, like I said, this is the magical part. This is the best part
of this whole process. I think. Once I finished pulling all of the plant material
out of the paper, I turn the tap on
a gentle stream, not too much pressure
with the water. You don't want to rip the paper. And I rinsed everything
off with cool water. And then I laid everything
out open On paper towels. I even added layers
of paper towels and stacked the paper in-between the paper towels so
that it could dry. And just be careful when you're opening up your pages that
you don't rip the paper. And I think I'm just going to
let you enjoy seeing what I saw when I opened each one of these little,
little booklets. And once I have all
of this finished, then we can move on
and I'll show you what the dried version of each
of these papers looks like. So I have here a couple of
piles of eco print paper, and this is the paper
that we just created. And I wanted to show you all of the different beautiful
designs that it made. And this was a green leaf. And you just really don't have any idea what you're gonna get and what's
gonna come of it. So the designs are
really beautiful. Some of them are a little
more subtle than the other. And I think the hardest
part is deciding which side to keep or which
side you're going to use. This turned out really
beautiful and I love all of the little
detailed areas here. So this pile I actually left sitting in
the pod overnight because I wasn't able to get to it later in that day,
which is fine. I feel like a lot of
these colors are a lot stronger than I would have anticipated because I left
them in the pot that long. This is the watercolor paper. This is amazing. I think, is really beautiful. And I find that the
watercolor paper works the best as far as detail and color. I feel like you just get
some really beautiful. Areas. And I love the fact that these firm leaves left actually a green pigment. Now, I have heard that you
can add die to the pot. And this is just a matter
of experimentation. This is beautiful too. And I love the way
that this is shaped. And I love the spontaneity
of this process. You don't know what
you're going to get. It's really though, it's really a fun project because you can include kids
when you're picking. I have another pile
here and this is from this is from last
year that I made. And this pile. I think it was late in the
year when I picked all of the plants for this and I used
a wider variety of paper. And a lot of these
are watercolor paper. But then I also used some
printer paper and it was very difficult to work
with when it was wet, but once it's dry, it's fine. This is a thinner paper as well. I'm not even really quite sure what kind of paper
this was that I used. But I still got some really
beautiful unexpected results. And you can see I still
have a pretty decent stack. And when it comes to
projects like this, I love, I love doing this. I love working with plants and I love creating
something beautiful. But for me the big question is, well, now what do I do? I have all of this
beautiful paper. What can I use it for? So that's something that
we're going to talk about. This is probably one
of my favorites. We're going to talk about ways that we can use this paper. How, how can you
incorporate this paper into your creative life? So you'll see that
in the next videos. We're gonna go over a
couple of different things. And I'll be using paper
from both of these stacks. And you can pick and choose which projects you
would like to do. And you can always make a
batch every couple of months. Try this in the summer, in the fall and in the spring. And you might get different results with
different types of plants. I loved the detail in a lot
of these and the different colors shifts depending
on the paper that I used. So let's move on and
we'll talk about the different uses for
your Eco print paper.
5. Make a Journal: In this video, I'm
gonna show you how to quickly bind some of your pages together so you can have a little journal to
play and experiment. And so what I have here are some pages that are approximately the
same size actually, I think these are
pretty right on, you can use the different
types of paper. These just happened to
all be watercolor paper. And they're fairly thick. So I'm probably only
going to put four sheets together and call it and
call that my journal. So I'll put those aside. And what I'll do is start
folding nice and half. And I do have a a bone folder here to make
my life a little bit easier, just so we can get
a nice clean edge. And you can do this with all different types
of paper. Obviously. This is just a
really great way to make little take along books. Especially if you'd
like to travel. You can always throw one
of these in your bag. And they're fun too,
because you know that you've made these and it
makes creating in them. I think just that much more fun. Once you get these all folded. Then we'll decide what order
we want these to go in. And if it's terrors
a little bit, I'm not too concerned with that. I think I want to use
I think I want to use this one as my outside. It's kind of like the cover. And then I'll just go ahead
and stack the rest of these one inside the other. And I have one of these
big bulldog clips and I'm just going
to anchor that down. And if you're using
more sheets than I am, then you may want to do maybe for small clips
to hold it tight. Now I haven't all here, you can most definitely
use a needle. Just be very careful. The OLS are made to
obviously pierce through paper and makes life a little bit easier because
of the plastic handle. Now for this size of paper, which is relatively small, I'm only going to
punch three holes. If you have anything
larger than that, you may want to punch
four or up to five holes. But I'm going to show
you this kind of down and dirty way to get these get these pages
bound together. So I'm going to poke
a hole right in the center and I'm just
going to eyeball this. And then I'm going to poke
two more holes that are equal distance from
the center hole. Swatch your fingers
when you're doing this. Now I have some book
binders thread here, and this is kind
of a waxed thread and you can use
embroidery floss. I would stick with
something that was cotton and doesn't have a
lot of give to it. And I'm going to cut
myself off a decent piece. You have a choice to make
whether you would like the not to be on the inside or
the outside of the book. And I do have a journal here where I have left the
not on the outside. And my thought was to
leave this tail was that I could actually
add some beads to this. I just haven't done it yet. So if you're planning
on leaving a tail, just makes sure that you start on the outside of the book. And if you want the
knot on the inside, which is what we're
gonna do right now. We're going to start on
the inside of the book. And this is super simple. We're just going to
go down like this. We're going to leave a tail. We're going to come
up. We're gonna go back down through
the center hole. I'm going to make sure
this is smoked duck. And then I'm going to come
back up from the outside. And that's pretty much it. I'm going to tie this off. I'm going to make
sure that I go under this stitch right here. While we have the
needle on still, it just makes life a
little bit easier. Make sure everything is SMED up. I'm going to cut this off. Not the best scissor
in the world. And then I'm gonna go ahead
and tie a few knots here. Amount should do it. And then I just
trim off the excess here. And that's it. Now, I have myself
a little journal. It's nice and neat. On the outside, I have two stitches and everything
is held together nicely. So give this a try and
experiment with any, any type of paper that you have.
6. Bookmarks, Tags & Postcards: In this lesson, we'll be using our eco print paper
to make bookmarks, postcards, and even gift tags. So I wanted to show you, demonstrate actually I have
some scrap pieces here. And if I were to use
these for gift tags, I would just use my
little corner of punch to round off
these corners. And I would punch a hole. And that is really it as
far as a gift tag goes. And not only can you use
these for gift tags, but you can also use these as cute little place
cards or thank you cards, especially if you like to
package up gifts and mail them. These make great little
cards that you can include. Now as far as bookmarks go, It's really pretty
much the same process. And I always like to look for papers that have something
interesting on them. It would make a great bookmark. And I looked on the back of this and I don't feel like
I'll be losing anything. And I also have a little
bit of a tear here, so I have to keep
that in mind as I'm deciding which part of this I want to include
on my bookmark. And I know for sure
that I want this part. So I'll use my handy
dandy paper cutter here, which I love. And I think the way
that I want to do this, obviously I'm not going
to include the RIP, but I want this to be cropped. So we don't want a lot of
space around the edges. I want this to be pretty tight
up against the bookmark. Now, I could very easily
just leave it like this. But I think I'm going to
shorten mine just a little bit. And if you want it to do any sort of
enhancements to this, if I wanted to add any
other embellishments, or maybe color this with some sepia ink or
something like that. Then now is the time to do that. If you're fine with it
the way that it looks. And I really liked the way
that it looks just by itself. I would just cook this
with some mod podge. And the reason that I
would do that would be to just make it a little
bit more durable. And this is how easy this is how easy
this process really is. I would just apply a
thin layer and yes, I did drop a little bit too
much of this on the bookmark. But you get the idea. So once you have the
mod podge on there, let it dry, flip it
over, add another coat. You can even paint
the backside of this. And then it's really done as
far as the bookmark goes. If you wanted to
add a little bit extra embellishment
to this bookmark, you can always cut a hole. And then I like to use this hemp cord to put
through the middle. So now that I've coded both
sides of the bookmark, I'll I need to do is
grab a hole punch. And this is optional. Punch a hole at the top. And then I'm going
to grab some of the coding here that I have. And I like to use this because it goes
really well with the, the kinda natural look that
these eco prints have. Just cut a good length of it. And I'm going to feed
this through the hole. Both ends. If I can get it, and
then we'll just loop it around and send it right
through like that. And tie a knot in the bottom about where
you want it lengthwise. And then you can
cut this tail off. And that is a nice
little bookmark that you can give or
keep for yourself. As far as the postcard goes, it's really the same
idea as the gift tag. And I have used my echo
print paper for postcards. And all they did
was cut it out to the standard size of a postcard. And then I snipped my edges so that they would
have rounded corners. And that was pretty much it.
7. Collage: So let's talk a little
bit about collage. I have a couple of pieces here. And these pieces were
done on thinner paper. And you can see that they're not super defined and
they're not super, really not detailed at all. I mean, it's a little
bit difficult to see this fern print
on this page, and it's also very wrinkly. And I also have this piece here. And this does have some
really great detail on here. And it turned out
really great as far as the contrast goes. I wanted to show you
that paper like this. Don't toss it because it's
so thin or it's wrinkly. This makes great collage paper. And I wanted to show you, I have one of my journals here, and this was a journal
that I have been using for my tarot cards. So it's basically like
an exploration of the major arcana and the archetypes that go along
with each one of the cards. So I have done quite
a few spreads here, but I wanted to
show you this one. And if you know taro at all, this is based on
the card strength. But I wanted to show you that I use some of my echo print paper. And this eco print paper
was done with rose petals. I found some wild
roses where I live, and I wanted to see if any of the pigment would
transfer onto the paper. And surprisingly, all of
the pigment was very, what happened was very dark. It didn't leave
any color per se. It was just these really
beautiful dark spots and they were
reminded me of rocks. So I knew that when I was constructing
this journal spread, that I wanted to use this
paper as a collage elements. So if you have sheets
that are really thin, they'll take glue, really great. You can post, put
them in a journal. And you could just
do this randomly to you don't have to have a big spread like this dedicated
to some sort of a theme. But you can always
just rip out a couple of pieces and maybe design
an abstract kind of, uh, a look would look really great too with
some dried flowers. So I wanted you to
have that option. Something you can put in
your back pocket as an idea. Don't throw away any of
your echo print paper. I promise it will come in
handy at a later time. So here's a little demo that I put together that I
wanted you to see. And this is just
really off the cuff. And I grabbed my small
nature journal and decided which dried flowers
I planned on using. And I'm just putting
those aside. And I'm going to start
this whole process off by adding some water
to both sides. And I'm going to drop
in some watercolor. I have two pallets here. And this first palette
is a vintage palette, so all of the colors
are very soft. Some of them are a
little more opaque than normal watercolors
are a little bit chalky. But I wanted this soft
feel on one side, and then I wanted a more vivid color palette
on the other side. So this palette I'm working
out of his called Woodland. And you can see that the
colors are a lot more vivid. So I'm just randomly laying
this in and I'm adding more water as I go and just
pushing the paint around. So it has an abstract field because that's exactly what
we're going to create. We're just going to create
two little abstract collages with our eco paper and
some dried flowers. So we did add a little bit
of the Woodland colors on the other side just to unify these two
pages a little bit. And I've got liquid
texts matte medium here and some mod podge. And I chose to use the
matte medium to glue down my collage paper
because my mod podge is, has a gloss finish and I didn't want a gloss finish on this. And you'll see later
in the video that I accidentally can pick
up the mod podge. But that's fine. For the majority of this, I'll be using the
Liquitex matte medium. And I'm just ripping some paper and you can see
I'm ripping the paper away from me because I don't want that torn paper edge to be on the front of
what I'm going to use. So I always rip away from me. And I'm just trying to create some interesting
shapes and figure out exactly where I plan
on laying these down. Add some liquid texts matte medium to the backside of this. And then I'll lay it down where I want it and then I'll go over the top of it to make sure that the entire thing is sealed. Make sure to get the
edges really well. So they don't lift up later and you may get some
bubbling, but that's fine. We're just doing a little
abstract collage here. And I'm going to do the same
thing on the other side. And then I'll go back in
once everything is is down, I'll go back in and start
adding in my dried flowers. And you just have to be
very careful when you're adding dried flowers because
they're very fragile. So I have everything laid
out here how I want them. And instead of trying to
put them on the flower, I'm just adding the matte
medium on the paper itself and very
carefully laying these. And I'm just going to pour the liquid tags matte
medium right over the top and then very
carefully brush this on, especially over the petals. They are very, very fragile. And then on the thicker
pieces of plant material, you'll see me dab. I'm trying to
create a thick coat so that it will stay put and have a it will be
sealed basically. So I'm going over
to the other side and doing the same thing
with the matte medium. And just dropping
it right on top and making sure that every part of the plant has some of
this matte medium on top. And the, this larger flower. After I get these Violet's down. And these are pressed
flowers that I picked earlier this year and
they've just been in, I have them between two
pieces of wood with some screws and some wing
nuts to tighten it down. But you can very easily
just put this in some paper towel
in a heavy book. This one was a little tricky
because it's really thick. And I just had to put
it right on the back. And it was, it's a hardy enough press flower
that it'll take it. So the key here is to let
everything dry completely. Now that I'm coming back
and looking at this, I've decided that I
wanted to add a couple of extra pieces of paper to add
just a little more interest. And this is where I pick up
the mod podge by accident. I wasn't even paying attention. I was just so focused
on what I was doing. So I ripped a couple of extra
pieces and laid those in. And you can see they are from the same two sheets
that I worked with before. And I just wanted to add a little bit more interest with the texture and detail
of the collage paper. So same process, glue it down, more color on top, let it dry. And then I decided to go
in with my walnut ink and a bamboo stick to make
some marks on the paper. And I'm just dipping
my stick right into the ink and basically scribbling and grabbing
a brush with some water and playing around with the ink. Where I want to add more ink. And then I'll pick up the
bamboo stick again and start making some abstract
kind of plant shapes. This is a really fun process. This is something you can
do in your nature journal. And it's a great way to experiment with your
art supplies to. There's always something
that's been kind of in your head that
you've wanted to try, do all of your experimentation
in your journals. It's a lot of fun and
there's no right or wrong. And you can just be as
free as you want to be. So I'm just kind of mimicking
some leaf shapes here. And that's pretty much it. I add in a little
bit of lettering. On the left side, I write in the word summer, and on the right side I
add in the word violet. And then I let the whole
thing dry and I call it done. This was a fun little
collage exercise with my eco print paper. So give it a try. I hope you enjoy this process.
8. Frame it: I wanted to show you a few more things before
we wrap up this class. I wanted to show you that
I have this print here, and I've pulled this
one out before, but I love it because
it came out so detailed and you can still see
some of the green pigment. So instead of drawing on this, I think what I'd like to do is just rip the edges
to create a dipole, the edge like this. And I'll show you how I do that. Before I had talked
about when I was ripping the collage paper that I
always rip away from me. So in order to create
this tackled edge, I'm going to flip
this piece over. And I'm gonna get my ruler. And I'll just lay
it down and start. It's easier actually if you start to tear before you leave, before you lay the ruler down. And this watercolor
paper can be a little bit difficult sometimes, but you can see what I mean here with the way this looks. So it usually pulls off that layer of paper and I'd rather have
that facing the back. So this is what it would
look like from the front. And I think I'm going to
redo this edge because this is where it was folded in half and I can
still see the fold. So I'm gonna go around all four edges and rip these so that they have
a nice tackled the edge. So now I have this nice print and the edges have been tackled. And I could even go in a little
bit further on this side, but I'm gonna go ahead and leave it because I want to show you what kind of
frame I would use. And this is called
a float frame. And the only difference
between this and a regular frame is that there is no Matt is just
two pieces of glass. And you pull the one
piece of glass out. And you basically
create a sandwich. And I already have the second
piece of glass pulled out. So what I would do
is I would line up my print where I want it. And I would use some
little adhesive. They're like little they almost
look like pieces of gum. And you just pull a piece off. It's called Super Tech. And I would put
that to the back of this and it's not permanent, so and it's not going
to hurt the artwork. But just for
demonstration purposes. I want to show you how this
looks when it's all finished. So this is this is
how it would look. And I'll probably go
back and get some of that super tech just
so that it stays in place when I'm pushing up
that other piece of glass. And when I get this all set, I will show you what this looks
like hanging on the wall. So this is what this looks
like hanging on the wall. And one of the reasons
that I like to use these float frame so much is that it uses the background
to basically create the mat. And it's an optical map. It's not actually a mat, but I think these
look really great. And I think if you were
to take several of these prints and put them together as a
grouping on a wall, it would look fantastic.
9. Journal Flip Thru & Wrap Up: And one last thing
that I wanted to talk about as we wrap up this class was I wanted to show you some ideas that you can use it in your
journal that you made. And you can see for
the cover of this, I have outlined the
leaf shapes and all of the little textured pieces
that I saw within the leaf. And I could keep
going with this. And after I did that, I went back in here and I brushed on some walnut ink
around the leaf shapes. And then I splattered it with water so that it would
have a texture and feel. And everything that
I do in this journal is pretty much based
on experiments. This was, I was
playing around with some watercolor and
actually in some ink. And I was painting a rock. So some of these pages I
haven't gotten to yet. This was another
experiment and these are obviously two separate pages, not a whole spread. But what I did with this one is covered the whole
thing with sepia ink. And once I let that dry, went back in with some
gouache paint and painted around this shape. And I added in
some white details with my posca pen and
my ballpoint pen. And then I also added in the little butterfly
at the top with my ballpoint pen and a
couple of posca pens, the yellow and the weight. For this one down here, it was pretty much the same process. I just use different colors. So instead of using this walnut ink in the
background that made this color, I used a magenta colored ink and then I painted
purple gouache around. I just wanted to try out
some different colors. And then I just
played around with my pen, my ballpoint pen, and some white posca ink, and my yellow posca pen. And you can take these
obviously in any direction. These are really fun to do as far as tracing the
shapes that you see. And it's very meditative. This was another one that I did. And instead of using walnut
ink or a sepia colored ink, I wanted to try blue. And I coded the entire
page with blue ink. And I let that dry. And then I went back
in with my posca pen. And one thing that
I discovered is that when I use
this kind of ink, it, and I believe it was a
calligraphy ink that I used. The Posca pen is not as opaque
because I'd like it to be. But I still liked the
way that it turned out. And I just wrote the
word leaf over and over again in my posca pen, and I added some metallic
details in there. I have a gold
metallic posca pen. And that's what I used for that. This is just play. This is all play and experiment. And I haven't
gotten to this yet. I threw on some extra ink. I use some sepia calligraphy
ink and some blue. And we'll see what happens. And I loved that you
can still see this. So I'll probably do
something with that. This one I haven't gotten to yet and this one I
had just started. And I was actually
using a white chalk and then outlining everything
with my ballpoint pen. And that's pretty much
it for my journal. And I have one other thing
that I wanted to show you. I haven't started this yet, but it did want to show you because when I looked at this, I actually noticed it
when I was looking at the video that I had
taken for this class. And to me this looks
just like a person. There are the two eyes
and it couldn't be any more perfect as far
as the irises go. And it looks like the
beginnings of a face with maybe some sort of
a flower crown. Whenever you come
across something and something like that. To me, it's so much fun to go in and start detailing
out what you see. And a lot of these shapes, even in this journal. When you look at
some of the shapes, you'll be able to
see certain things. It's kind of like looking
at the clouds and you see a flying pig or a horse
or something like that. Well, you can take that, let your imagination run. This kind of reminds me
of a bird over here. So maybe I could
detail this out in some crazy looking way that would end up
looking like a bird, but This is your journal, your interpretation,
have fun with it. Use your imagination. And I know that I
will definitely be detailing this out because
it's just too perfect. It couldn't be any more perfect. So to wrap things up, we've made a journal. You have a journal to experiment and you have plenty
of sheets that you can go through and
use for prints. You can tear these, tear the edges and frame them, and you can have a nice
grouping on a wall. We also made some gift tags
and we made some bookmarks. Don't forget, you can
use these four postcards or you can even make yourself
some affirmation cards. So find a really
pretty card and you can write a little quote
or just maybe a word. Trim up the edges really
nice and throw them in a bowl next to your
desk or something. And if you need a little bit of a bump in your day draw card and let yourself be uplifted
by what you've created. So I had a lot of fun
making this class. I hope this inspires you
to get outside and to collect some leaves and some plants to make your
own ego print paper. And I would really, really love to see
what you create. And if you come up
with some new ideas, share those in the
project section. I'm sure everybody
would love to see it. I know I would because I have stacks of this and I'm always looking for
something to do with it. So I hope you enjoyed this class and I will see
you in the next class.
Monica Stadalski, Artist, student, maker of things
