 Hey guys, all right, so we are going to experiment and play with an idea. I got from a video I saw I think it was Nick the books book smith. I'll link it in the description below and let me go check YouTube Hold on it was Nick the book Smith and it's DIY printable glassine a new technique. She At the time of filming this which is July 11th. She Posted it a week ago, so I got some ideas after watching her video And I'm going to show you what I got up to and we are going to see The different things I tried using her ideas from her video and what conclusions. I came with what came to you with what I have I Do recommend before you watch this video any further go watch hers and show her some love and then come back Alright, let me switch and go to the table. I'll be right back Okay, after we I watched her video my husband and I went to the library and they have a used book sale Section which most libraries have libraries have a used book sale section where there's books that Can no longer be lent or they get donations of books They don't have room for or they're not you know in this case. This is a dictionary I you know how many dictionaries does a library need in their lending library? So they had this one for sale. I think it was a dollar. So of course I bought it Did I need it? Not really don't tell anybody But anyway, I bought it because as soon as I saw it I had Nick's video in mind and I thought how perfect is that This is a traditional new college edition American Heritage Dictionary with Your traditional Thin dictionary paper, which was the key for me So I took and literally ripped some pieces out of the book and Ran them through my printer that in itself was interesting and I've got some tips for you You don't necessarily have to be more careful than that about ripping them out of the dictionary At least I didn't one of my tips for you though is don't put more than two of these into your printer At any one time because the printer tends to jam up and the next thing you know you get this So it didn't like my I have an H pre and HP and V printer. It didn't like that at all I put like six of them in there it did not like that it jammed up now Even if one with one or two if you're having problems with the jamming take your dictionary page and at the very top Tape it to a piece of standard printer paper and feed that taped edge in first So that when it goes through into your printer it grabs that taped edge first. It's less likely to Get jammed up in your printer So that's my first tip for you My also my tip I had I readjusted the size of my paper in the program where I had my images on my computer To be more appropriate to the size of my dictionary you'll have to measure the book that you're using and Either set custom settings in your printer on your computer if you can or find a preset set of settings or measurements that closely resemble The size of your book paper. Okay. Most printers will have some sort of Adjustment to hold your paper or whatever you're printing on more firmly in the case of my HP and V it has These little things on the side if I push one and it pushes the other side in I don't want it to be too tight Where the paper does that I want the paper to still lay flat But I want it to guide it in there more evenly than it would if it was all the way out here, right? So I'm going to just do it just until it touches That's perfect thing I'm going to do is use my computer behind me and find some digital images to print on those dictionary pages Now you may be like me and you may have a file folder on your computer full of Sorry, I keep fiddling with the camera file folder full of old clip art images back from your scrapbooking days when Dover and other Publishers would sell books of clip art with a CD that you can put on your computer And then you could reprint them to use in your scrapbooks. Y'all remember that? I don't know about you But I still have file folders full of all different kinds of images including botanical images holiday Images like all kinds and along with my own digital downloads from my Etsy shop. I Have some from Mike Deacon. I have some from Tim Holtz. I have some from the graphics fairy There's lots of places to get digital images not to mention You can scan your own artwork and print it on the dictionary pages Wouldn't that be fun? Okay, I'm going to try to film this for you. So I set up a document in my word processing program I have an Apple computer So I have pages you definitely could do this in Microsoft Word or a Microsoft publisher that exact details of how to do it I'm not sure because I have a Mac But I'm sure y'all can figure it out. So I'm going to enlarge my images. This is one of those images from the scrapbooking days and I Am going to not quite make it the size of the paper I'm using a b5 size document that works with my dictionary But it's not exactly right it's actually a little bit bigger, so I'm going to make the image a little bit smaller then The page then I'm going to go up here to the top to format image Instant alpha, which is the part of pages we use to take out the background color I don't want it to try to print the background. I just want the flowers So I'm going to just do that and that takes that out that I'm going to do it here and here Nope, well, that's There You don't have to do it everywhere, but I just do it. I don't want it to try to print that beige Yellowy background on everything. I'm not I don't really mind if it does it in a few places, but for the most part I want to leave Dictionary paper the color that they were and do you have to do this? Probably not, but I I just I do just in case That looks pretty good. So I'm gonna hit done And this is a big file that I have I don't know how many pages it is It's just the last page. So I just wanted to print the last page. So I'm going to go file print and Then I'm going to have it there's 12 pages. So we're going to do 12 to 12 oops and and print Okay, so any digital images once you have them On your computer and if you need to you've taken out the background color you can print them on the dictionary paper You may have So this one here Got caught up with Or so here it is So these two sheets I'm doing this one handed. It's not easy. So so these two pages got caught up and came out of the printer printer as one You know, I'm not mad about it. So I'll keep this one and use it as it is I took this one and I put it back in this side up and printed on it again in there you go So whether they're digital downloads from my store, which these are That is too Something maybe that you created that you know, it's just for your personal use which of this is This is one of Mike Deakins digital downloads It didn't print perfectly because honestly, I was doing like five things at once I didn't have time to fiddle with a paper size But how cool is his owl design going to be on this dictionary paper? That is so cool Or it's one of these other sort of stock Images that you've already got from the scrapbooking days on your computer. They all print really well on the paper so then the next step because this is an inkjet printer is to seal them because If you don't this ink is going to run all over the place when you try to glue it down with anything wet So I took these two Hold on gotta move some stuff out of the way. Okay. I have these two that kind of got caught in the printer I've already used a piece of that one. That's why there's a piece missing. I've used it in a project but I took these two and I sprayed them with Spectra fix now spectra fix is a non aerosol fixative spray I don't like to use a lot of aerosols because I do have asthma Spectra fix works pretty well It did make the ink run a little bit Mostly you can see it a little bit here on the butterfly wings. It's not too bad actually and then I took the other two and I just did just wax so after the spectra fix was dry Then I took Dorland's wax on a brush and Covered both the ink side and the back side of the image with this wax now Why this wax not beeswax because once this wax hardens it doesn't reactivate Like beeswax would as soon as the beeswax got hot it would turn liquid. This doesn't do that at once. It's hard It's hard. It does leave a traditional sort of waxy feeling finish It didn't add a lot of transparency to the paper Like Nick's the book Smith had I was thinking maybe it might but it didn't add a lot at all if any So I have a bunch of these other sheets. I've printed not that I don't like these these worked great I did use this one in a project already glued down fabulous the finish The feel of the finish that you do get with the wax and a little bit of a you can see a little bit of a shine Like a like a semi gloss. I love that. It's just not it's not super transparent or anything if you want that So I do have a stack more of these botanical prints and then some of these other things that I just printed so we're gonna spray some of these and or wax some of these and We will see what happens and I'll be back and the spray that I'm going to use the other spray I'm going to use is the same one Nick this book Smith had Rust-Oleum American accents two times ultra cover semi gloss in clear They make this is there like outdoor spray paint and this is just they're clear in semi-gloss They make it into matte semi-glossing gloss. I didn't want it matte. I didn't want it too shiny. So this will work All right, I'll be back We can let those dry and then see what happens when they are And I think I have just enough time for that for before Bob gets home from work and wants to park his car here So yeah, that's a thing Okay, as I said before these are the ones that not only didn't quite make it through the printer But are the ones that had the wax and the and two of them had the spectra fix and they have a Distinctive sort of waxy appearance. There's a little tiny bit of shine on there. I'm not even sure you're gonna be able to pick it up on camera little bit They worked great once they were waxed and the wax was dry if you're using Dorland's you need to let it dry pretty well Before you do anything with with the paper. I would let it dry overnight And then I actually made a paperclip and a tag with this one Paperclip and an artist trading coin. I honestly don't remember but here's the paperclip and you can see it in the background here I used tacky glue. I didn't use anything special to glue it down And it worked really well So that's if you have something like Dorland's It works really well. I Really wanted to try to see if I could get the paper a little bit more Transparent I mean it's It's thin paper it but it's dictionary paper It's not gonna be like doing this on some of the papers nick the book Smith tried But I wanted to I really really Wanted to try this I had to order it because nobody around me had it then afterwards I find out that I Walmart might have it the hardware store doesn't have it around here That's very weird. Anyways So I took these the rest of these Just now if you're watching this you saw the clip where I sprayed these With the spray downstairs in the garage and then let them dry. They only had to dry about 30 minutes They dried very quickly. Okay, they dried really quickly and you can see let me grab one of these ones That's not cut up So I don't even know if you can see the very very slight shine that's on that from the wax I'm not even sure you can tell can you see it on here? It's much more pronounced and Shiny and it's definitely more Transparent paper. It's got a very different finish to it Much more like vintage glycine paper and I can see why Nick prefers to do it this way So I liked it so much. I did them all So like I said, you don't have to have this you could definitely do it with something like Dorland's wax You probably could do it with whatever other wax you use for your art Just keep in mind that if it's something like beeswax and you put it on a page and then you go to heat dry it that beeswax is Going to reconstitute so to speak it's going to melt and so that's I don't know what that's going to do to your work Dorland's won't do that And this is not going to do that. I Generally don't heat stuff too much that I'm collaging but I mean it does happen, but this is so cool, can you see that? And these are all of the different images I had in my stash of things from you know, God knows where Different books that I bought back in the 1980s that had CDs with them. Do y'all remember those? when Clip art was called clip art because you cut and pasted it onto like newsletters and things Like cut and paint. That's yeah. Anyway, I know I'm aging myself, but And this is the one that was of mine that I did for personal use so cool and I should say this is it on the dictionary paper with the Semi-gloss spray This is regular printer paper So this is very cool, and this hasn't been coated or anything This is Mike's owl How cool is that? He might be the tag I have to do today I'm gonna set him over here Some other images of mine So I really want if you haven't watched your video yet. Go watch it. Give it a try definitely the door lends worked and The spectra fix I would just be careful with it. Oops because it did make the ink run It could be me using too much of it But it worked I was very I thought light-handed with it It did run a little bit But it worked and then once that dried and then I went over it with door lends and the other one I just use straight door lends. I don't really think in a grand scheme of things. It made any difference if I used Just this or this and this I don't think it made that much difference in the appearance the feel the texture or the In the ability for the ink to stick and not run Both of them work just fine This stuff is stinky. You have to do it in an open ventilated area Definitely wear gloves if you have a mask probably wear a mask. I didn't don't tell anybody It definitely gives you a finish you don't get with the other things so There you have it. It is a lot of fun I am gonna really quickly make a tag and a paperclip and Let's see how those turn out with us. Shall we? Hey guys, all righty Little projects finished with the paper inspired by Nick the book Smith The main image of course as I've said is a download from Mike Deakins shop I'll try to find it and link it in the description below. I really like this paper I took some of the plain dictionary paper and did the back which I usually leave blank like that And on the paperclip I usually put a paper, but then I put this white strip of Tyvek That's Tyvek by the way. I keep getting questions about that. I was attaching the paper clips with glue and a strip of Cardstock, but the Tyvek is stronger and is more likely to keep the paperclip on there better and adhere better And I need to trim that just a little bit. There we go. Oh in there Okay So that's that's what that is. It's a piece of a Tyvek envelope You know those envelopes you get in the mail that you can't rip open you have to cut open Tyvek So I usually buy a pack of them at the office supply store and I only use them for art for things like this So these are two cute little projects And I still have this whole stack of papers that I will be using going forward. This is a lot of fun I would make a Big batch of it because it is sort of labor-intensive paper to make between printing it and then spraying it or waxing it and then letting it dry and Just make yourself a nice stack of it What I did on my computer is I have a file on the computer for micro for Apple Blah blah blah for Apple's program pages, which is their word processing program And you can do it a little bit of image stuff in it. Anyway, I have a document in there It's about 25 or so pages and I have just saved these images in a file there for me to print So that I don't have to constantly go hunting for the images I can go open that file and I can just print the whole file and When I have an image I want to add to it I just go add a new page and then I print that new page But I would just do a whole stack of them make yourself a file and just print all of them Again, you need to do just one or two sheets at a time in the printer So that's kind of a pain too, but it is worth it in the end I think you get a really interesting piece of paper an interesting image to look to look at and use in your art And in different ways in journaling and tags and paper clips and whatever so give it a try see what you think Go watch Nick's channel Don't forget to show her some love like share and subscribe if you will If you want to follow me on social media and see what I do with regards to Paper clips or tags or whatever or drawing every day because I do do art every day And you want to and or you want to support the free content here on YouTube or over in the art groups over on Facebook Click on the link tree list of links, which is in the description below my happy mail address is down there, too You'll find a bunch of stuff about me. 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