 Hi everyone, welcome to espresso press design, Mary here. I promised a little project and today is the day. I think you can call this one that was on my bucket list and it turned out pretty well. So I'm going to demonstrate how to do it today and it is vellum paper napkins. You can also use for washi tape and I'm going to... here's a little piece of the... this is the closest thing I've ever come up with that truly resembles washi. So first of all I'm going to show you the difference between the wax napkins and the regular napkin. And I'm also standing up for this so I'll show you the difference and then I'll tell you what you need. Okay there's that one. Here's this one. Here's this one which has less white in it. Of course if you're doing it you're probably going to want to look for ones with more white and there's the difference in that one. Okay so what you're going to need are your napkins of course, some candles. I just use white usually, some parchment paper, some blotting paper, whatever you want to use. I have two different kinds here. I usually use construction paper, kids construction paper, or you can use as you're blotting another digital which this is vellum. And you keep blotting with this and eventually it gets covered with wax and turns into vellum too. This is 24 pound. The lightest copyweight paper actually works better for this and I have one little piece to show you. And you're going to need a hot iron. So let me get my, I'm going to do a few with you and tell you what I've found. Small one of that one and another one of this one if we have time. And a leaf. Okay sorry if I'm moving out of frame here. So what you're going to do, put your napkin down and what I have found is the napkins do not get as hot as if you're doing them with paper, as if you're doing this technique with paper. So you have to go over it a lot more times with wax and do each side because you have to get the wax to soak entirely through. And for some reason napkins, I don't know if the word is conduct, but they um, then once your napkin gets nice and hot you're just going to keep going over it like this. I can tell right now that the paper is harder than the napkin and you're just going to keep going over it until it's nice and soaked with your handle. And you're going to have to, I have two cords here intertwining. So if things move like they just did, that's why. And if the table moves, that's why. So you want to get your paper and your napkin nice and hot. You got to be quick, quicker than this, that's for sure. And then keep going over it, and I can tell it's getting more see-through. Put this one over and do the other side. If you have some little white in there, when you're doing this on paper or whatever, that's your clue to know that the wax did not soak entirely through. Just a second here, I'm going to see if I can go under instead of over. Probably just move the camera. Okay, when you do this on paper, it gets so hot that you almost can't touch it. The napkin takes longer, that's all. And the thinner the napkin, the better it works. See all that wax went through there? I still missed a few places, but I want to keep this video not so long. And the one you'll see most is the next one because it has the most white. I'm hoping the orange is helping you to see it getting more transparent as it gets a little coat of wax over it. Maybe you could try aluminum foil under this parchment to increase the temperature a little bit. I don't have any here with me right now. Make sure your iron is on dry. And I did separate these napkins to get the only one ply. Okay, and they're going to all feel different too if I can get this whole thing or not. Since this one has the most white, it's the one you're going to be able to tell the most difference. And then I'll tell you what I've found using this technique. You can glue it. Whether or not you can sew it, I don't know. I've had the papers, some of them at least two years now. I've never noticed any cracking, discoloration. Yeah, you see the difference in that? That's telling me it's pretty well-soaked. And this is a very thin napkin. I'm really glad. If I didn't, oops, I just tore it darn. Didn't mean to do that. And that's the first time I've ever actually done that. I usually get pretty, pretty strong. I haven't had any problems. Well, actually that's what I think I did. I rub the side of my candle over this one. So thin. And you'll be able to tell some of them get more waxy than others. It's actually, whoops, that one didn't work very well. But I've actually put this one through the trimmer and it didn't tear. Maybe I already had a little tear in there. And you could and you should keep going as long as you can. Get as much wax on there as possible. That way it gets stronger. Because you're still, you're not putting glue or anything to strengthen up the napkin. You're not doing Mod Podge. But that's also the beauty of it. It doesn't feel like that big plastic stuff. Just feels like a beautiful piece of... whoops. Boy, this one's really weak. You know what? I know what's going on. It's not hot enough because I can't feel the candle melting. So maybe just go slower. Go slower. Okay. So I'm gonna show you the difference between paper and napkin. This is probably gonna pick up some wax. See. You can tell it like melting right away. Much almost done in two seconds. Because it gets much hotter. 11 minutes. See those few little white spots? Definitely hotter. Okay. See that shiny on there? Not the entire thing but it will kind of look like drops. That's when you put your blotting paper and blow it off the excess. Because you don't want those little... I can see it here but I can't catch it in the camera. So there's your wax film. This stuff is gorgeous. Feels gorgeous. Works gorgeous. If you use the thicker papers you can make bookmarks. I put it in a book in the sun and I never... in the hot sun I've never noticed any residual wax ever coming off. Okay. So yeah that's what happened. I couldn't feel the wax melting whereas on here it just glides because it gets hotter. So you do have to just iron it longer. Make sure it's very hot so that your wax is melting. Okay. Now on to the techniques. If you were going... no I personally think it would just make a beautiful page. You can glue it on a cover. You might want to test your different glues but I know it works with the glue that I use which is like a book binding glue. I'm pretty sure it will work with Babertag. Oh the other one. Oh what's it called? I always forget the name of it. The one that everyone uses with the steel tip. I'm sure that would probably work. Where's my little piece here? When I say can you sew it? I don't know but you can still tear it quite easily. So if I were doing a pocket I would probably reinforce the top and I would probably reinforce the sides. See if I can get a little strip here. Reinforce the sides with a with a channel edge and I'm pretty sure you could probably get away with using it as a pocket. A little bag. I'm not sure. Just not sure. As I said this was on my bucket list to try and this was actually the first time I got around to trying it so there's that napkin is a little beige. This one has some white but it has a texture so that one definitely did not want to get hot but it finally did. So that's the trick is to make sure it gets hot. The paper the best way is to make sure while not make sure the thinner the coffee paper the better it works or the more translucent it gets and then again for washi, homey washi it's the best technique I've ever found. I'm just gonna see if I have a piece of I do. Here's a piece of scrapbook. I've never actually tried it with scrapbook so let's see what happens with that for my remaining few minutes. This is also much safer than trying to melt wax and then brush it on with a I mean unless you have warmer a wax warmer or something or scraping wax pellets or melting your wax on your iron and then it's dripping down your arm and that really doesn't work very well. In this I mean it might take you a little while to do a whole sheet see that's that's much hotter much much hotter your scrapbook paper while that's double-sided choose one that's single-sided I forgot that's double-sided that's kind of a wouldn't call it heavy scrap paper but I don't know if you could do it on the heaviest cardstock scrapbook paper. Give it a try there it is you can see that it's not very translucent because I think I should have chose one I should have chose one not double-sided and the napkins I found they really don't need blotted paper needs blotted it's nice nice little bookmark there let me see if I can quickly find I know I don't have any in here to try this which would be something akin to scrapbook don't have any in my little box here single-sided but not a thin weight scrapbook paper thin weight I'm sure it would work see how hot that gets when it's paper it's like one and done that's probably picked up from the other side I don't want to run out of time I'm at two minutes pretty soon see those little light areas that means it doesn't have wax that is our project that one's done that one's done this is what I'll be using it for mostly I'm sure maybe I'm gonna try a pocket but I don't generally don't put so paper in my sewing machine so if any of you so you can try it and let me know in the comments if it will so I don't know super fun super easy doesn't feel sticky gluey tacky and it's actually pretty strong once you get enough wax in there but like I said you can tear it okay I don't know where it cut me off okay I know it cut me off sorry it wasn't paying attention super fun there you go there's your washy there's your napkin if you sew which I said before and I probably got cut off I don't know if it will sell I generally don't put paper in my sewing machine so you can try it whether it will make the bag pocket I don't know I won't probably primarily be using it for washy I am going to try a pocket like I said I don't know if that cut off but I'll be using it for and that's another thing in my d-stache I have hard time finding pretty napkins around here so I have packs and packs of ones I don't really like and this was one of them and I couldn't find something to do with this those packs were also going in my declutter use it so many times I'm tired of looking at it you can use these in slides you know the little I'm one total blank that is I think it's a slide make a nice little or you know cut a circle oh my what's it called the insect things you know what they are I don't know throw me off track it's a nice little project I'm sure you can come up with things to do with it I will try a pocket like I said and I'll let you know how it goes I think if you just reinforce the top and sides it'll work I definitely know you can glue it and I definitely know beautiful washy so I hope you had fun something gets cut off in here that's why I try both whenever I get around to it I try to make some because it feels feels beautiful okay I'll see you next time everyone thanks for stopping by and thanks for your time bye