hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world you know I have always been an
entrepreneur when I was 10 years old I started my own little company that I
called Imprints and they were thumbprint art that were on stationery and little
picture frames and that sort of stuff and I sold them for like $1 a piece and
this is literally the sign that I had set out to sell my wares and as you can
see it says impress yourself we'll turn your fingerprint into art $1.00 for
framed personal prints with your designed traits pick from one of our
pre-made designs or come up with your very own talk about this is me at 10 what's
hysterical though is I was looking at some of these going back in time and my
handwriting has not changed one iota I've always written this way so anyway I
thought you know let's do a blast from the past with you know miss entrepreneur
here and I'm going to show you how I first started out my first
entrepreneurial gig and that is with thumb print art so all you need is your
thumb and an ink pad and a pen and you too can impress yourself I'm going to
show you how right now for this project you will need an ink pad preferably not
black paper thin point markers and baby wipes now it takes a little bit of
practice so you're not going to want to do this on the sheet that you're gonna
actually make your artwork but it does take a little practice to make sure you
get the right amount of ink on your thumb and what you don't want to do is
you don't want to roll your thumb you just want the pad you don't want the
sides you know like when they do your finger prints when you're being taken in
by the FBI they roll your whole finger now you don't want that you just want to
get a nice good amount on your thumb and then just give it a bloot like that now
that's not bad it's a little dark then you can do a couple and you'll get
it to about where you want so that's about perfect that's a little too dark
that's a little too light this one is just right as they say with you know
Goldilocks and the Three Bears now I'm also gonna do one little guy
just to show you that you can also do pinkies pinky over there there we
go and you don't have to use your thumb
you can use any any finger that you prefer now this is why I told you to
have the baby wipes because you're going to want to wipe off your hands make sure
you get rid of all that ink before you do your artwork now the reason I say
don't do black is because it's just so dark that you just can't see anything
when you draw on it it's just dark so first thing we're gonna do is
we're going to start out with something simple now do understand I am drawing
upside down here but I'm gonna give it some ears like this and I'm gonna give
it a neck like that give it some hair and one eye
two eyes two little nostrils and I have myself a horse now what's fabulous and
wonderful about these little guys is that you know they're very very very
very simple so it's just like you know whatever speaks to you about that shape
they can become you know that can become an elephant's head that can become an
elephant's body and you know you don't have to do it just this way you can turn
yours and you can make it into something sideways like this
and there you've got a ladybug so use your imagination and go to town and remember
I told you the little one check this out...it's a
mouse let's give it some little ears I think they did the most fun thing to
do though is to make people and so I'm gonna make myself ready I'm gonna give
you some eyes some hair that crazy hair of mine that I can't do anything with I've
always got a big smile I can't forget what the overalls gotta have the overalls
and I've been way into ugg boots lately so I'm gonna give you my boots and put a
little pocket on there you can't forget the arms, Tada
and then just have some fun coloring it in and there you have it that's all
there is to impressing yourself take that thumbprint and just go crazy with
it let your imagination leave the station I mean it can be so much fun and
listen if you need a little inspiration I've written a blog about this and I've
scanned some of my earlier artwork and you know it's all there for you to enjoy
so whatever you do make sure you check us out Sophie-world.com you'll be
impressed you