 Hi everyone. Thank you for stopping by. Mary here at Espresso Press Design. Welcome back. Thank you for your time. Today I was going to do... I had a journal that I wanted to make a closure with a brooch pin. Maybe an earring if I could find one. And I never found the appropriate one. So I... Oh, for another thing. Some of these mini journals and things, which is kind of what that was. A clip-on earring works well enough to use as a closure. So that was my original plan. And then... Is that my cap? That was my original plan and then I couldn't find one. So I decided to try to make some. And this is also a use it or lose it because I picked these up at the Dollar Tree. And unless I'm doing something that looks like it should be sewn or something, cutting apart these to use like a pearl and things like that is just too much of a pain because you have to cut off all the little. It's like on a string. So I mean it's good for some things, you know, like if you want to run it along. But just... So this is a use it or lose it. I was planning on just giving these to Goodwill. But yes, that is my cat. I didn't know you were in here. Sorry. I'm sorry Spencer. I didn't know you were in here at all. So I was just going to give them to Goodwill. But then when I... Necessity caused me to create something instead. And I think you don't have to use a ladies hat or anything. This is just an emboss piece that I clipped out. You can make it whatever design you care to and today I'm probably going to use this and like try to follow this pattern a little bit. So anyway, I made these and they were on... These are hidden paper clips. But what I don't like about hidden paper clips is you still get the bulk and they also have it back. So this actually has two and then you put your paper clip on and then you put your circle here, your other design on and then I had my printable on top of that. So that's one, two, three, four, yeah one, two, three, four, five, six layers. I mean they're not that bulky. So then you know that your paper clip is hidden and then it goes in like that. So I did not like the bulk. So then I decided a bobby pin is going to work so much better because then you only need your two and then actually you don't even need your two because I left the back. I didn't mind that and I could still put something over that if I want to. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to use two, glue it on two. Actually I glue it on the front part because I don't want those ridges of this side of the bobby pin pressing into my paper. So then I just have that and that one I didn't even back it on anything. If I wanted to I could just use this and then I only have two because this is pretty sturdy cardstock. But another reason these had so many is because you're gluing beads and that's a lot of glue and then that just a printable would get pretty soaked. So I put them on packaging material. That's why they're also a little thicker. I'm sure at least on the back you can get away with book pages but on the front you really probably should have something a little heavy since you're using so much glue. So anyway what you'll need are jewels of course. Whatever image you want to glue on. This, like I said, this was just an embossed piece and I took some gel pen and went in the debossed and then added the jewels to where I thought they followed the design somewhat. So you'll need your design, your back paper, paper clips or bobby pins, some heavy stock if you don't think your paper is thick enough but I'm pretty sure I can get away with book page and that's it. Oh and your glue. I used this Jewelette, Eileen's Jewelette embellishing glue because I found that fabric tack, at least for this one, these ones, it did not work and I accidentally got a Christmas card back in the mail. Wrong address and took the card out to put it in a new envelope and the jewels were falling off and I thought oh boy that's not good. So then I bought that glue and I've never had any problem since. So okay my first I'm just going to prepare this base and then I will probably speed it up as I add the jewels and then I'll hopefully I will be done within my video limit and then I'll come back and show you the finished piece. And of course you'll also need something to make your shape. Eventually I'm going to use some die-cut shapes to make these. You could cut out your own shape whatever but I'm just going to use a circle again just because it's easy. So I'm just going to take, let me see if I can get an inch out of there, I guess I'll start with this. I can glue it, if you can see me. I guess I'll take that. I love this paper. I'll save every little scrap of it. Oh that's pretty cool. Look at that. So then I might just use paper for the back. Just make sure. And I'm going to do it on a bobby pin. Yeah maybe I'll make that back side the heavy side. Puncher. So this is going to be my base and I'm going to glue it to the bobby pin. My ridge is covered and another thing you can do like this bottom. I took some gold thread and made a little bow and glued it on there. But if you have a pair of jewelers pliers, which I do, you can just curl it up. Make a little, what you call it, make a little curved circle and then you could dangle something from it. So then this is what will hold the bobby pin in place. Wait that's backwards. Did it backwards? I didn't want to forget anything. Okay this is what will hold the bobby pin in place as soon as I glue that. And it will be ten times more flat for going on a page or something. Kind of like that. So I hope you're all doing well. I'm fine. I will tell you about my, hopefully I don't have tremors so much today. Let that dry a second. I mean maybe I should move this off here. This was just by something else I did. Maybe I'll talk about it at the end. Here we go. So I probably only want this color. I'm going to run out of this color first. I'm quite sure. This is the tricky part. Just trying to decide where I want my big jewels first. But this is another use it or lose it unless I make Christmas ornaments or something. I save my pretty jars and I have three jars of these. Well one is pearls. I can't imagine using that many jewels in the next 15 years. Don't see a light purple but that would be pretty. Maybe I'll do pink. So first I'm just going to do my larger jewels. Let me see if I stagger those in size. How that looks. Let me just think moment. Yeah I don't want it to look like eyes and a nose. So it's probably what I'm going to do. Do I have a smaller one? Maybe go the other way. This is part of the other reason why I'm going to speed this up. By the time I get a jewel in the place I want it has to be. That's better. And maybe I'll just I don't know go down here around here. A couple little dots on there. We'll see. Okay I like that color. Let's see if I can get two little ones. I want them both green. I don't want my favorite. Let's see one. I know some people separate these in size. I hope it should separate them in size and color. Make my life easier. But the pearls are even worse. Come on. There's one. There's one. There's one. Okay. I can look with that. Oh that's pretty. Should I do something like her there? How do I have a blue? A blue would look better. Too big. Medium blue. Too bright. You know I should have had all of these as it sits. It's not medium. Oh. Honest to paint. It's a purple. It's not medium. Oh I think it's staying just because this is taking forever. Okay. Get those three glued on and then I will speed it up. So this is how I do my glow so that I don't I found with this bottle when you squeeze too much comes out and you're left with a sticky mess. So anyway I'm sorry about my tremor last time. I well I'm always sorry about it but I have an autoimmune condition and if I don't take enough don't pay careful attention to my nutrition and take a ton of B vitamins. It's prone to come back or get worse put it that way. So I'm not gonna name the condition but I got diagnosed I don't know 15, 14 years ago or so and it never progressed to the state as predicted. Thank the Lord. So it doesn't impact my life that much and in addition I am. My ethnicity doesn't allow me to absorb B vitamins very well. I forget which one it is but that might have something to do with it as well. So I'm Northern European. I guess we have a problem synthesizing or absorbing B vitamins. At least that's what I read. So anyway that's not the only thing that happened. I had a relative I'll let that dry a second that was had a crime perpetrated on them. He walked into a situation well not walked into it came to him but anyway he was robbed he was lucky he wasn't killed while he was in the hospital we his aide called us and the police told her to that the house had to be secured and we had to go over and put new locks on the doors and things like that and at the time I heard it through the rumor mill kind of so to speak that those the perpetrators might still be watching the house so it was quite scary having to go over there and make sure the house was secure and everything for the whole two or three weeks until I was also told that they might be watching the house so for that three weeks to three weeks until I was sure he was all right and they weren't coming back and so quite a bit but he's like very lucky they didn't do something worse and I don't know where they came from or where they went but trust me it wasn't good and he should never should have let them in his house and it was very poor judgment and it cost him a lot and it was quite nerve-wracking until it was over so that was part of it I didn't sleep I didn't eat I didn't it was extremely nerve-wracking so okay I'm going to figure out my next ones and my and what else I want to add I love some of those little diamonds but I guess I'm going to do a lose it or lose it with a little bit of this I'm going to leave the silent space so I know where to clip this video and speed it up okay if I didn't have to cut speed through that before I have to now my husband was running the vacuum so here is the finished piece I think it's quite pretty and I thank you for stopping by and I hope you'll give these a try I mean get imaginative little butterfly follow a leaf that would be very pretty follow any shape you want and make some little brooches beautiful beautiful beautiful for holding something on a page and not taking up a lot of not adding is quite as much bulk as these ones so the bobby pin worked better so okay guys thank you for stopping by thank you for the your time hopefully this is not too choppy give it a try have a good one see you next time bye