Today we're gonna do something a little different but just as crafty and fun as
always and I'm gonna be showing you guys how I made this inspiration board or
mood board behind me so let's get started
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Hi guys I'm Shayda and on this channel I make art tutorial like hand lettering BuJo and
watercolor so if you're into that consider subscribing if you haven't
already and for those of you that don't know Chris and I just recently moved to
Charlottetown Prince Edward Island permanently and so we're still getting
settled in our new apartment and part of getting settled for me of course was
building a beautiful studio space that's very functional but also is very
beautiful not just for my sake but just so that looks cool on camera too and so
one of the projects that I took on was this inspiration board and it's really
fun to build but then it also really helps the artistic process and the
creative process I think so I'm excited to show you guys this but before we get
into it let me just say a few words well I mean being creative every day is a
challenge and even though you're an artistic person and you have a good eye
sometimes it's really difficult even though you've got that good taste to
know exactly what color palette to choose for a landing page or a social
graphic but a mood board can really help that when I hold this postcard I got
this in Iceland but I didn't bring it home to remember the trip I brought it
home because I love the color palette I love the soft pink and the dark cool
blue green and I can draw on that picture when I want to create a color palette
for say a social landing page or some webpage that I'm building some project
that I need to work on so I can pull up the black the white the warm brown the
cool blue that soft baby pink and all of a sudden boom I've got a color palette
and Adobe products now something like Photoshop can actually if you scan that
photo in you can use your eyedropper and grab all those colors so it's pretty
cool but even without that it can inspire you the artist towards the right
colors for the project that you're working on okay let's get started let's
stop talking and I'm gonna show you guys how I built this thing so the supplies
for this craft are fairly simple you're gonna need those pieces of foam board
that you can get at the dollar store or craft store I used for them but you can
use as many as you like to make yours the size you need and then you'll need
duct tape and scissors and some nice fabric and IKEA actually sells linen now
and I love the look of linen on this board and you might want an iron for the
fabric and then of course you'll need some pins and maybe washi tape to
decorate your board so if you're like me and you're using four pieces of foam
board you're gonna start by taping two of them together get them nice and
straight then you're gonna tape the next two together and then you're gonna take
those two large pieces and tape everything together and that'll help you
create create a nice straight giant board cool now once you've got the board
put together you're gonna want to grab your fabric and give it a good iron
especially if it's something like cotton or linen that probably has a ton of
creases in it and then you're going to cut it to size which is just slightly
larger give yourself six inches at least on each side of the board and then
you're gonna tape it down and you're gonna pull as hard as you can and tape
it down to the back of that board and then for the corners just try your best
to fold them in nice and flat just do a simple fold and
then you're gonna tape those down while pulling hard as usual so you just want
to make sure the fabric is nice and taut that's the main thing and I did that by
going around from side to side so I'd start on one side tape a bit down go to
the next side tape a bit more down and so on okay now for the real test do we
pull hard enough on the sides and tape it we'll know if we have a nice smooth
forward without a lot of creases or bumps so let's take a look oh wow that
looks really good yeah that worked out just perfectly I'm super happy with that
I love the color that it brings to the room it's nice and neutral and it's
really warm grey and so now I'm just gonna take a couple finishing nails tack
them up in the corners so that it's flush on the wall and then I'm ready to
decorate so yeah I was able to put mine up with just basically a finishing nail
in each corner so not a big deal at all and not a lot of damage to the wall and
then once that was done I started decorating and I just put things that
inspired me so some work from one of my favorite artists some of my own projects
from the channel some photographs and different pieces that sort of inspire
the color palette for the channel and the blog and so it really is it becomes
this mood board this inspiration board that you can look at every day and draw
a lot of inspiration from hopefully let me know what you put on your mood board
in the comments below thanks for watching today guys and don't forget in
2018 I'm releasing a lot of supplementary material that goes along
with the videos so last week we did a boo Joe video and there was a planner
printable to go along with it next week I've got a hand lettering video for you
and there will be a worksheet to go along with that and to make sure that
it's really fair I'm releasing all of the supplementary content on patreon for
two bucks a month so that way you don't have to pay for each printable or each
supplementary worksheet so check out my patreon now for the February printable
and lots more goodies thanks for watching and I'll see you next week
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