 Marietta Spresso Press Design. Welcome and a very happy new year to you. Thank you for visiting with me today and we're gonna make a little project, a little, I'm calling them photo cards, and I have a couple of surprises for you. Let's get started. Happy new year again. Here's to a much better 2024. Thank you to April, Natalie, and Carolyn for your nice reviews and purchases and thank you Marie for your nice comments and Lynn. Thank you for that wax paper tip. I am definitely going to try that. Lynn said that you can iron napkins between two sheets of wax paper and make some nice wrapping paper and you know you guys know I love I love my wax paper. I did recently see that you could iron things on freezer paper so I also want to try that but I haven't I don't have any so next time I go to the store I'll pick some up. I have a couple surprises for you today. I did this, I found this, I did this antique ice skate so that'll be a free download for you and I also have from my vintage supply company what I use to make these little photo cards. Consider yearbook photos so I have a three pages from a yearbook PDF that's available on vintage supply company and that you can craft along with me today if you want to. I thought these little things would be cute for those of you that do these kind of envelope things or window tags. I don't particularly have any appropriate envelopes but you know those of you that make those little pull-out tags or window tags I thought these would be cute to add to something like that. So we'll get started in a moment but first the usual I have a couple new paper collections. This one is Victorian florals and it's 10 pages. Gorgeous. This will go good for any type of if you're doing your summer journal, springtime, Paris, feminine. So there's 10 pages of lovely Victorian florals, multi-color. Not sure if I have, yeah, all different colors so that's, can't wait to do something with that it's so pretty. And I have a new kit, Boudoir, which is floral, corsets, French, English, and Italian text and I think it's seven pages. Very feminine, very pretty, nice for Valentine's Day. So I have all that. So what you'll be needing today are some black and white photos, your various ephemera for layering. I made these two by three. I thought that was a cute little size to put on there. Some glue, maybe a stapler if you want to put your tabs. And I'm probably going to top up here to get some more tape, some stamps. I have a bunch of little stuff here for composition layering behind these photos. And I meant to cut that, what I'm going to use for my tabs. So let me get some tape, sorry. I went through almost an entire roll of tape and I might run out. So I think this might actually be a feature. So let me just choose my, I think I'll be able to get two done today. Let me pick this distinguished guy here. I'm pretty sure the pages I chose I'll be doing as well. So you can get a heads up on what they look like. And I pretty much just did a composition. I thought for today let's just keep it light. Everyone is probably, if you're like me, you're probably getting ready to take down the tray if you haven't already. Today is my daughter's first day back at school. So where did that go fast? I'm just going to fold these, not bother scoring. Okay, so I made some, oh and you'll be needing some stamps, some glue. I made some homemade tickets. So I'm just gonna be layering these up, seeing what I might like to put on them. My little, I don't know if I want blue. Probably not even though I love that pillow ticking. Let's see what I have in black. And I still, I barely touched these packages all summer, so I really have to start using up some of this stuff. Oh, these are kind of cool. These are vintage magazine ads. Probably use a couple of those. That little, that might work. I put these second ones on book pages. That might work. I thought that was kind of appropriate for yearbook. That'll probably work. I need some music. I can't go wrong with text. Maybe some of that. Okay, I'll keep that out. I've mostly been straightening up a little bit down here. Time for the annual. Try to get the new year started off right, but these yearbooks are cool. And it just just made me realize that's one more thing. I don't have to go go out buying Tim Holt stuff. So I thought you might like it too. Maybe I'm going to angle that ticket just to be a little different. I think I am. Other than that, I've just been working diligently to get my shop updated. Mostly I am really, really hoping to gain some time this year so I can, I haven't made anything yet for my boutique. Haven't curated anything new. And it's really, it's really kind of bothering me that I have so little time to actually do the something besides sit at a computer. So I've got my list of all my products that will, I want to lose that number. Right, I'm going stair step just because I don't want to lose that number. That's what I'm doing. I made this ticket with some coffee dyed paper and I have this little, it's for the most part, solid ticket stamp, but you can make out the little number. And then I just put my little number on there with that little date thing. I picked up a good will, hardly ever use. So I was thinking I might make this a series where I use junk and something old from my vintage supply company. It's my Mudite response to AI. I really think that's going to be the ticket. That's going to be the direction, the only direction to counteract. Let's make a little piece of ephemera out of that. There's on there. Hopefully should. If I have any, yeah I do. Good. I'm assuming I've got my sponge here. Okay. I was trying to layer these up as much as possible and do a little stamping. We had our ham and sauerkraut yesterday. I don't know if you're, if that's a traditional dish for you or not. I know, I know, I think in the south they have, maybe it's not sauerkraut, maybe it's cabbage. We didn't have the lentils, but we did have the pork and sauerkraut and it was delicious. My daughter doesn't like sauerkraut. My husband being Italian. I don't, they don't eat sauerkraut as much as, did I forget my stapler? Yes I did. They don't eat sauerkraut as much as those German, German-Irish, Polish, which is what I am. Oh shoot, I meant to do that the other way. I'm quite the mutt. German-Irish, Polish, and ho was the other one. Oh no, my Slovenian, so half, half from my mom and half from my dad. It sounds less, less like a love story than a bar fight, but my husband has grown to like German food and my aunt, she sure could make the sauerkraut kibasa dish that was fabulous. Okay, I'm gonna add some more on top of there with some stamping and then I'll probably add some tape. Maybe this one will just be a little different. Just stamp. I like this typewriter keys. So I hope you had a delicious dinner too. My cousin called me for New Year's. Saw my other cousin. He lives in a different town, but he came up to visit one of his friends and saw him in mass last week. Who's about fell out of my chair, you know, because like I said, he doesn't live here and walked around a corner and there's my cousin. Other than that, oh I didn't meant to bring down. I had to make a thank you card. I forgot. I don't know if it's down here or not. I'll take a look here in a second. I'm not too thrilled with it, but I'm keeping it. Oh yeah, it is. Okay, this is my new embossing folder. I wanted to make these die cuts look like sugar cookies. I don't think I succeeded very well because that was what the thank you was for. Neighbor brought over 10 of cookies. They're delicious and my nails are a mess. I'm sorry about the condition of my nails. I broke one off last night and all mine didn't hurt. Well, I actually pulled it off because it split and I knew it was going to come off and I was like, well, it's probably going to hurt a lot less since I've been soaking my hands in more water. So I just bit the bullet and then it hurt all night. Now it feels better, but it doesn't look better. I'll age these up after the video. Wait, there's staples in the front. That one shifted a little bit and it's not in there great, but good enough. Geez, what's wrong with my stapler? That didn't work at all. Here goes another nail. Okay, let's see. What else can I put? I don't have my Tim Holtz stuff out here. Maybe let's make a little row of numbers. Just put that there. I'll keep the border on the outside. Okay, now a couple stamps. I guess I'll stick with black since I already have a little touch of red. I'll put an E. That didn't show up very well. I should have done it red. Okay, stamping thing here. Well, maybe I'm going to do, let me see if I can get limited edition to show up on her. And not too bad. I think this one's too big. Let's try it. See what happens. This says original. I hope I get that original. Looks like baseball font. Not too bad. Not too great either. Maybe I should have done it in blue. I think that's good for the stamping. Now let's just get some favorite tape. Where are we 29? Okay, got some new GQ's down here. Oh, that might look cool. You can need something kind of bold. Hopefully red. Oh, perfect. What am I going to put? I don't know. I'm not going to get the whole thing. I know that. So just try for the good enough, I guess. No, maybe not. Can you read it? Okay, I'm going to waste that. That's kind of cool. Looks like the logo on Converse sneakers. Let's try that. On my other one I got the real world. I got something about Elvis. You have to look at the picture to read it, I'm sure, but perfect. I'll need some glue. I get my creamy glue. I'll show you a close up of this in a second. I put that over the white of this shirt so it shows up. Burnish it in. Here we go. Do you see that? Let me stand up. Doesn't that look like Converse logo? Okay, something for her. This one. Look at that number. I think it's number three. That one was cool. Let's try that number. See what happens. See all this stuff. I feel like I don't need any stamps. I feel like I don't need anything anymore. I wish I would have known about this four years ago. Let's see what we get. Looks like prison number and it might be a little bit too to cut in half. I know some people work in Tim Holtz style all the time. I don't like covering her face that much. I think you get the gist. I'm sure I can add some more to this and I probably will. Something maybe on top of that tab, but I'm pretty sure you get the gist. Get a piece of paper here. Another one. I printed a page of the teachers too because that guy kills me. Okay, everyone. 36. I hope you have a lot of fun with this. The link will be in the description in the video for those two, the skates and the yearbook photos. So happy new year, everyone. Have a great week. I'll see you next time. Bye.