good morning and welcome to another studio vlog that as you've seen this
morning I packed up a parcel and have been to the post office and now I am in my comfy
clothes I've got this jumper back out it's my Gilly Hicks jumper that I got
from working with them last year and I absolutely love it and it's that time of
year again but I am feeling inspired and today I
have dedicated to drawing and kind of drafting up ideas for new products and
exciting new ideas for soul and fire so I really really really really want to
create some pins I've wanted to do that for ages I just keep putting it off I think
I doubt myself before I even started and then I just don't start and just anyone
else do that I do that a lot and I've been thinking about it for ages and I
am like right just get it done even if I don't like the first draft you can just
draw it again like I put too much pressure on myself for it to be like
100% perfect straight away but I'm gonna try and avoid that today so I am I'm
gonna do some sketches I was scrolling on Pinterest last night so I'll be able
to show you the process of that we'll see how far I get I'm not really sure
I'm just gonna roll with it and I also would like to create some
cards so like greeting cards for soul and fire I want to create a little series of
some sort sort of themed around Valentine's Day but more along the lines
of if I like I send my friend car friends cards every so often like just
to tell them they're doing good and stuff I want little like we call
them love gifts in our family like just buy any gift because like for no
particular reason other than you want to buy them a gift so I want to do some
little cards that aren't specifically Valentine's Day but are centred around
like love and I like you when you're doing good you know like motivational
happy little cards so that's what I'm gonna do today I'm gonna start sketching
for those literally don't have any specific ideas for the cards at all I'm just
going to use my iPad and go with it let's hope that my iPad is charged
actually because I've not picked up my iPad since I got back from the cruise
are you charged are you charged that is the question
let's hope previous Alice turned it off fully charged before she went on holiday
I also need to take all this down to the bin that needs to go like in the garage
or downstairs I just need to sort my life out and I've still not tidied
this corner up so we're just having a bit of a moment but I can't be bothered to
get dressed today we're gonna create if in doubt create 57% I can deal with that I
spoke too soon my pencil is not charged why am I like this I've
literally been home for like five days six days and I knew I was gonna create
today and I haven't charged my iPad oh why do I do this I do this so often but
I thought I could show you my Pinterest so we can kind of get an idea of what
I'm going with the things that are going on in my brain to be honest even I don't
know what's going on in my brain sometimes so good luck trying to
decipher that so last night I created this pin if you aren't following my
Pinterest by the way highly recommend I don't know why I have this many people
looking at it every month but you know and it's got a lot of designer boards it
has boards for like my stuff yeah just like all the stuff kind of
that I find useful I put in here I love Pinterest a lot but I created a board
yesterday I've only got 23 pins on it at the minute but I wanted to do a little
enamel pin board for inspo these were just things that I scrolled past and
kind of sparked a little bit of creativity in me so I'm thinking this
could inspire me somehow I like the simplicity of ones like this and like
the writing but then some of these are super intricate which I thought were
really really pretty I'm enjoying the colorful kind of vibe as you can
probably tell kind of swishy writing I like the creative themed ones
like this is a little paint palette thing and so yeah I have got a few ideas
in my brain so just need to put them on paper I wrote a little note on my phone
yesterday with some ideas so I was thinking doing one that says
hangry approach with caution there's like a little warning sign but we will
see and create a life you love is one of my like favorite little mantras so that
would be nice and then you've got a friend in me from Toy Story possibly but
the top two were like my faves so far and then in terms of like cards
I started pinning Christmas cards and I was going to create some but it's got
too late and I feel like that kind of limits me to only like one month a year
whereas I'd prefer to do kind of ones that could be applied all year round so I
need to figure out the card thing however there's a wonderful girl that I
follow she's called Polly her Instagram is incredible I'll put it on screen she
like is so down to earth and talks about her daily struggles you know and she's a
young independent business lady as am i I mean I'm not as young as her but I
could pretend and yeah her style is really really cool she creates unique
little pieces she's bringing out something called mountras which should be
live by the time this video goes up so yeah I'm excited for those to come out
but basically I love her cards like her greetings cards I mean I love everything
she creates she's a big source of inspiration for me but I love her
greetings cards because they're like simple but cute and effective so yeah I
feel like this is my personal Pinterest board at the moment obviously never
gonna copy another designer but she really does inspire me a lot for now
however I am going to put a youtube video on and I'm gonna sketch out a few
ideas for some pins so wish me luck
okay so we have some initial ideas I am struggling for more inspiration at this
point so I'm gonna take my little lunch break which involves me getting my mom
to dye my hair for me so in the next clip I will have wet hair no doubt but I
will see you in a second and we're gonna start on mocking up the pin designs on
my laptop so let's go this is where the lighting in this video goes dramatically
downhill because it is five pm and it's already pitch-black but I am gonna go on
my desk now I've dyed my hair and I'm gonna use maybe my Wacom tablet I have
this I bought it years ago when I was at uni i love it a lot I might use this but if
not I will use my little trackpad which is a recent battery died and it's just
the Apple trackpad it's the magic is it called a magic pad I don't know and it's
very expensive let me tell you that but I thought seeing as I have my new
screen I needed a track the pad because I'm just so used to working with
my laptop I have the magic mouse the apple Mouse thing I got that like years ago
with a gift card but I just don't like using an actual Mouse I prefer having a
trackpad so I bought the trackpad long story short and I'm gonna split screen
my laptop I think and sort of sketch out the ideas I have so far in Illustrator
we're gonna give it a go at least so yeah I'm gonna open it let's try on
the new screen probs gonna put some Netflix on maybe I can watch The Grinch
I'm like buzzing watch Christmas films has anyone watched Claus and the new
Netflix animation film Christmas film I loved it I did accidentally fall asleep
through some of it to my boyfriend's annoyance always happens
but yeah I thought it was very good film so I need to watch again
so maybe I'll watch that or the Grinch all the many others I have
it is the next day and I am still working out the pins and I actually
ended up switching back to using my iPad to get some more fun ideas because using
illustrator was like kind of restricting for the work I want to be
doing so I used my iPad I'm gonna show you what I was creating and this morning
and last night when I carried on without filming I do find it quite difficult to
be creative on camera a lot of the time it's very contradicting me struggling to
be creative on camera when that's what I've made my channel about but yeah
sometimes I do prefer just to be kind of sat by myself downstairs with my parents
just drawing because I want to not because I have to do cause I'm filming it
so basically you missed a bit I'm gonna show you what I've been doing so this is
progress so in this corner I had the original
sketches just to kind of narrow down these ones decide which one I liked I
came up with this kind of style I was trying to recreate it in here like
that was the vibe I was going for but couldn't fit the words in right and I
think I'm getting that I've been so many different layers of like this text and
deleted it and start again and to try and fit it in the circle shape I think
I'm getting that I just need to go over again and I add just to where these red
lines are that's kind of where I'd prefer the letters to go it's the same
kind of vibe as my little note card that comes with the soul and fire orders which
is over there could you see that I could get up and show you but that's a way too
much effort it's the style of writing that this thing is in be fearless in the
pursuit of what sets your soul on fire that so that's the vibe I'm going for
well it was a lot longer than it needed to be wasn't it so yeah I will get there
with that I'm gonna do hopefully finish this today but I like to kind of like
leave it sleep on it and come back and see what I think I do so really like
this this morning I do want to adjust the you word but we're getting there
although I did very quickly double-check like pricing and
manufacturers and stuff I do need to like go into it properly
and pins are so expensive to buy I had not really registered obviously they're
metal so and like they're all handmade so it's obviously gonna cost more but
I'm not really registered that I had to buy like a certain amount like the
minimum amount you can generally buy is fifty and each one costs quite a bit per
unit so 50 times that it's a big chunk of money for me to like pay out with no
real knowledge of whether they're gonna do well and whether I'm gonna like make
my money back but I guess this is the risk you have to take with being an
entrepreneur like these risks always happen they happened when I bought my
notepads if anyone remembers that or my notebooks should I say and my notepads
it's a big investment and it's very scary it's a very big chunk of money going
out your bank account yeah it's a big big chunk of money to be like bye now I have
products I have to sell but every other thing I've done it with has sold so
fingers crossed I'm onto something here let me know what you think of the pins
and of course follow me on Instagram because I'm going to keep updating
things on there but yeah alright let's let's just these drawings and hopefully
I can come to some sort of final design I'm excited good morning it is now a
couple of days later and it's been the weekend had some time off and we're revisiting
the pin designs so I am gonna finalize one of the pins I've decided
I'm gonna start off with just the one and then see how that release goes and
then do the other one so I think I'm gonna go with the one that says create a
life you love because I feel like that's fitting with kind of my mantra
and everything that I like to do so I thought I'd show you the progress so far
on the iPod and then we're gonna outline it and adjust it on my laptop and then
it should be ready for like color choices and all that kind of stuff so
we're getting there alrighty so here is the kind of pretty
much finished version of the text I'm not sure about this color I'm gonna work
that out I might do some Instagram polls or something
if you don't follow me on instagram follow me and then you can influence
what this is going to look like but that's the basic idea I'm going to put
it into illustrator now and just make it a vector so I can show you that
okay I'm at my desk we've created the little mock-up thing and it's not the
final design I'm getting there I'm very close to liking it and I've
just had a brainwave though and I have these old tiny circle stickers that I
stick on my merch and they are pretty much the same size as what I would like
these little pins to be so I've been printing out some stickers and this was
like the first attempt and you can kind of see what I'm going for but it was a
bit chunky and then I realized I could change the settings on the printer so
this is the new one so if the lines are a bit thinner a bit more crisp however I
am reading it like wrong now I'm reading it like create you a life love I'm
reading it backwards now it's that small so I'm gonna maybe post it on Instagram
and see what people think what size-wise I think this is quite a nice size like
it's big enough to be noticed but you kind of have to like go closer to read
it I'm quite enjoying that size and these are like 24 millimeter stickers I
think like 24 23 millimeters so yeah the size is good it's just the font I'm gonna
give it a bit of a rearrange to try and make sure that you read it the right way
round so what I'm gonna do I am going to share a little bit of this process on my
Instagram so if you would like to see how these turn out in the end and like
vote on any polls if they're still live when this video goes up head over to
my Instagram I'll put it on screen and you'll be able to follow the process
obviously also follow a soul and fire that's where I will be selling these
pins and but yeah watch this space they are very very close to being
completed I'm gonna order them this week so hopefully we'll have them um maybe in
the new year so yeah thanks for watching this vlog I hope you've enjoyed this
little creative pin making process I will create another video of me
designing the greetings cards so stick around for that please do press
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