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Today I'm going to do a little break from the tag series Because I ran across an exciting technique I want to share with you and first a little show and tell and Then we'll get started Craft show Craft show item these cute little purses Adorable they hold a little I'm going to put Probably Hershey nuggets in there, but they also hold a gift card so a little Velcro closure there which I might have to go get different velcro than Dollar Tree because Doesn't appear to be holding very well But they are Super simple to make I will probably do a post and A blog post and post the video where I learned how to make them No cutting just scoring and folding and gluing So those are adorable Okay on to announcements Senior Susie stamps did a Really nice collage this week last week the two-part series where she She doesn't collage very much, but she did very well I thought and it was kind of a unique idea where she Used scraps and stenciling So I thought it turned out lovely and then this week's um Technique I'm going to show you here is How to age any paper? Let me get my Things straightened up here because some of these are already done and some aren't Okay This one's not done So we all have it those shiny images Magazine images cards whatever But this technique is how to age Vintage any paper Using wax And I have been playing around with this all week because I thought it was so cool This is from a glossy advertisement or Periodical I'll show you in a minute here This is from a magazine Take that Make it look like 1950s for sure This is from the same Periodical I Tried a book page and this is from my glossy book that I showed you a few weeks ago or a month ago or so and um very glossy pages So you don't even have to make them look vintage if you don't want but You can at least take away the gloss and That's great So I was very excited about this And it is not my idea. So I'm going to give credit where credit is due and That is from willow 57 sander robinson I'm gonna post a link to the video. I Like you to head on over there and subscribe to her So let me do a brief, you know, we all have them she used So that I don't copy I'm using some different types of items than she used Um, she used greeting cards We all have them Nice cards, but you know Some of us don't like the bright colors But she also shows you how to get rid of text, which is sandpaper but You know, we all have them they don't necessarily bother me, but If you want something vintage And you think well, okay, this is nice, but it might not. It's not doesn't look too vintage So I'm going to show you how to vintage age any paper using her technique So here are some other this is the Periodical where I took one of my images from I've used magazines Um Here is the here is this I have these lovely butterfly books That have been sitting around forever tons of Butterfly images that I can use Never Never knew what to do with them finally. This is my first First and second one here. I also did this little little card so There's some more So today I'm going to be using several different things everything except greeting cards So I went to Goodwill found this lovely book With these lovely images and it is not glossy at all. However Most people would say oh, this is way too bright way too bright and Way too modern so This is what you can do to um Vintage these up Okay so What you'll be needing Here's some more pages. I'm going to show you what I'm going to do here What you'll be needing are your images? I just backed mine on index cards You'll be needing a heat gun an iron or a candle Some stamps or glue Some stamps and glue and that's about it. But if there's anything else, I'll let you know So I am going for your sake. Oh And you'll need your cover paper she use packing slip roll tape You can also use tissue. I use tissue Tissue is actually my favorite. I also use Regular 20-pound coffee paper This is tissue This is copy paper This is tissue. I did use her packing tape on one Maybe this one is packing tape or the one thing. I didn't try which I'm going to try is the other the separation from your napkins So and that's another one. I'm going to try today, which is the very bright napkin So here is for your sake. I have these already stamped And I'm just going to do one for your benefit and then I'm going to show it off the camera set up the Everything for process to and then I'll turn it back on so this is tissue Samt and the image from the book This one I particularly particularly wanted to show you because it's a magazine image and it's tissue and Just to age it on its own even if you don't want to do the wax That's that's aged so you don't even you can just leave it with tissue and it looks fine, but Wait until you see the magic This one is Copy paper and I'm going to do a magazine here with you Which I already have it glued and I'm going to show you two techniques if you have your Scrapbook paper that you don't like is too too bright You can add that and and on one of my magazines. I use some very bright Scrapbook paper along the edge here to cover text like this So another thing you have to be aware of is that what is on the back might show through I Don't know if you can see that, but there's a little bit of text That's showing through because this is a magazine from the opposite page is Going to become a little bit transparent as You apply the wax, but usually that's not a problem and If you don't If that's going to bother you You can simply take little piece of sandpaper And just blur it out a little but be careful because this magazine is so thin You think you're going to go right through it in two seconds So be careful and just look if there's something like you know, I might try to Remove that box or just blur it out a little so it just looks like a color Something like that, but generally it's not the problem you might think it is so Don't worry about it too much So I'm just going to put a little tear edge on here glue this down Do the stamping? Glue down my top sheet do the stamping and then we'll get on to the reveal of All of them. I didn't do that part because I want you to see the Surprise on camera a little bit of that, but Just trim trim that off and then I'll do As I said, I prefer that I really prefer the tissue look myself But it depends on the image depends how How much you will really want to obscure it or bring it out? so if you really don't if you want it to really fade into the background I Would use the Copy paper if it doesn't bother you then use away. I still need that Okay Doesn't bother you Then use something lighter the tissue or perhaps the napkin Yeah, and if your roll tape doesn't fit which it's not I'm gonna I Did a little tear edge and I'm just gonna have a little overlap But that didn't bother her and it doesn't really bother me either. So Make sure your paper is nice and Covered with glue because that's another thing if you Don't get your top piece Glued securely you're gonna get a white. Oh What would be kind of like a ghost? But that's another thing You might use that to your advantage Maybe you don't want to bring out the entire image And there's some text or something that you want to hide So don't glue that spot and then it won't become transparent as transparent Okay, so you're just gonna cover that Like so Nice and secure Trim it off Hope everyone's doing well I'm jealous my one friend on a beach vacation although it's It's been just as rainy There probably as it is here, which is getting to be quite depressing It's been raining now for probably almost three weeks And I decided that tomorrow I'll probably do two videos because this is kind of a bonus But it might not be till Wednesday because I've decided that rather than sit around Being depressed about this weather might as well head out and do my Do some rainy day photo shoots, and I hope I didn't do that, but I did or no did I? Maybe not. I always have a tendency to turn my Index card upside down instead of right upside up, but it doesn't matter just Clip off the top line if I have to and I might have to Get in that edge Just to get it more straight, but there you go. There's your The next step and now for your sake again, I'm not going to do a lot of stamping But I'll do some here and let me get it I'll do some aging and Stamping I'm gonna use gray Don't really like black Really want to use black Just do this one and take this this stamp is I really wish it wasn't this size, but This stamp is a really nice quality stamp. We happy with it. I Was hoping I would have the same luck yesterday That good will but I didn't So let me just think I put that probably should have went the other way, but oh well You get the drift Clean it off And I'm just gonna go probably around the corners here Lately. Oh, actually, that's brown It's not gray That's a spresso It'll still work Lately go on the corners here another section And I'm just randomly Not stamping in this whole square shape so that I can get More random just see if I get a ghost there on the top and bottom my gas a little bit So anyway, it's been rain rain nothing but rain We finally Snuck in dinner last night outside and then sure enough within an hour. It was Thunder and lightning, but at least we got to eat outside That's That's depressing to me. I Look forward to summer. I like every season, but I Look forward to summer And I spend as much time as possible Soaking up the sun. So there you go. There's the stamp We get around the edges here a little bit and I should be going over the center of this a little bit with antique linen, but My antique linen is finally running out so See if I can hopefully get some out of here and Age up this center a little bit Please get that. I mean, I I can barely see this so I know you're not going to but Just going to try to avoid the white as much as I can using walnuts being Aged as aged and that's vintage enough, I guess Okay away Okay, I will be right back in five minutes Get set up here and then we'll do the second part and We can all see the reveal together Hopefully I didn't lose my oh It's that one. Okay the bird the magazine and the napkin and another magazine I'll be right back in five seconds Hi everyone me again So I changed my setup. My iron is nice and hot I want you to know that she used a heat gun, but now it's time for the candle And you'll need a blotter parchment paper and something to melt your wax Which I use an iron you all know I I've shopped a little for craft irons. I don't know. I'm still on the fence I'm still on the fence about a heat gun Because of long fellows wife who caught on fire melting wax and I don't know This is not very well ventilated down here So here is the one we did and I just have nightmares of heat guns and combustibles space So I go with the safe method even though If you touch this paper too fast It is quite hot But you can see Watch that watch that background coming out This is so awesome And it's quite shiny. I'm gonna blot it up here in a minute Soon as I get this other side Maybe my iron wasn't as hot as I thought it was Here we go You should do it Hopefully and as you know, I use a digital to blow up my excess wax and then I have By the time I'm all done waxing I have a new vellum sheet to use for something else. I always use a digital For my blotter. Here we go. I hope you can see that scrapbook paper showing through and the magazine and there is a little more Opaque line from the overlapping tape, but that doesn't bother me But that is awesome Make any magazine vintage So cool Okay, now I'm going to do the bird on tissue and y'all I kind of like tissue the best Although it depends on the image So if you want like a 1950s vintage, I would probably use the copy paper or the or the roll tape But if you like your image, it's just not It's vintage as you would like it or it's just Yeah, it's just a little too bright. I'm going with And that gets hotter much faster So put that up. So there you see I'm getting a vellum Getting a vellum digital as I go Let that a little more make sure I'm in camera here and I know this video is Probably going to be a little longer. I hope I'm not shaking the camera as I go But that could be blotted a little more, but there isn't that gorgeous Love it Love it Okay, now the one Now the one I don't necessarily think needs wax But I'm gonna do it anyway Just so you can see This is getting super shiny. So you're probably gonna get a glare here until it dries Let me get the entire thing That is too cool And I don't I can't remember what was on the other side so I can see if it's Showing through Wax on that one. Look how much of that That's hot It needs blotted more. Just gonna let that cool a second That is gorgeous and I should have Maybe done by stamping in dark, but there it is Still looks vintage though Although I kind of lost my stamping, but oh well Maybe I should have used black on that one But that is awesome Okay, what's next? The napkin Where's my new one go? Oh, there it is. Okay, that's the first one There's the bird There's the other magazine The napkin. Let's see what happens to this bright thing This one has the copy paper It's a pot. Oh, that's nice. Oh, that's nice Just muted it That'd be lovely for a nature journal That's nice. Got a sheet here. That is very nice I kind of find that some of the brightest things You might not want bright or napkins. Don't let me forget one thing To tell you here Don't worry about if it soaks through to the back of the index card the wax that is Because you can still write on it I think I Think I have an example here where I wrote on the back So you can see that. Oh, yeah, that's that's gorgeous. Look at that I think that might be one of my favorites. Look at that. That's gorgeous So that went from I Just bumped the camera. Sorry that went that went from that to that That is fabulous Love it. Love it and see it so through I would Keep going until it soaks the whole way through just to avoid that splotchiness but Here I'm gonna show you here in a second. Let me get this out of the way There see I wrote on that You can write on that with ink if your pen doesn't go at first Just keep going it will Don't worry about it. You can write on it. You can stamp on it it's not as Doesn't become as waxy as you might think it still retains somewhat of the paper quality So, okay, let me get this out of here Love it. Love that Love that. Let me see here. I can't really see That needs blotted some more but I can't really remember what was on the other side of the paper But it doesn't appear to be showing through love that too Love the bird, of course, that's just from the book and it's just some Original color here There you go, that's the original Underneath my iron I'm I'm posting I'm posting the photos of these images before they were covered so that you can See what they were and then what they became There's the bird and their These have to be placed under a book as well and there's the one we did today There's the lavender and the scrapbook paper So, okay, this is going to end up being about 45 minutes, but I think it's worth it That is absolutely Love it. Love it So, thank you Willow 57 Sandra Robinson Please head on over there and give her a subscribe No skin off my back to subscribe to someone And I do it all the time. I think I'm Subscribed to over 450 channels at this point, but Head on over there and be kind and do that Because that is as I said, thank you for Bringing some excitement back to my craft room on this rainy summer fabulous technique especially if you're doing jump journals and you're Harvesting all your images from books and things like that Especially if you do not like the glossiness of magazines, which I do not like you can just cover them with tissue as I showed you or You can do the wax Again, don't worry. You can write on the back Okay, I'll see you probably Wednesday everyone and we'll get back to the cake series, but This is fabulous. Thank you again, Sandra. See you next time. Bye