 Hi everyone! Marianne Espresso Press Design. Thank you for stopping by. I hope you're all doing well. Prayers to the Southern Mississippi and Tennessee and anyone else experiencing turmoil this pre-Easter season. It's been distressing. Today I have been played around with someone asked about can you print with wax paper and I was in my mind I wanted to try to see if I could do some boutique techniques and full disclosure you see the good in the fails. So today I'm going to do some the only fairly effective treatment I thought you could manage to transfer from wax paper and the best part about it is the beautiful prints that you can get on wax paper itself. I'm going to go over some of the things I've been doing with wax paper. This is one of the this technique I'm going to show you just glued onto a tag. I think it's lovely and of course you can't feel the texture. This is similar tissue paper watercolor tissue glued onto wax paper embossed and then ink over the tissue to capture the ink. Excuse my hands I've been rubbing over ink all morning. This is another one where you can prevent the bleed and keep the color and not have the ink transfer off the wax paper but I'll show you another way you can do that. A couple other ways you can avoid that problem. Here's another envelope tissue glued onto wax paper and then I lost my scores and was just trying to square it up so I wouldn't say that was actually a success but it's just been busy, busy, busy. I'm sorry it's just been busy around here. I have done this laminated some labels very cool. You can poke a hole in there without having to worry about it tearing. Very cute. They actually bend kind of like vinyl so that's another thing I did that I don't a few of these things I just don't think for another video so that's one of them and then I doubled and tripled some wax paper and did some die cuts. They're similar to vellum but they're also different. Double layer is better. You can get a completely different effect whether you crinkle the paper or not. Get this on here and get it up here so I can show you. The birds are crinkled. It's probably not going to show up white on white but the uncrinkled wax paper actually looks pearlescent. Very pretty. The crinkled paper looks a little more matte but to give them enough strength to go through the die cut and pop out easily you definitely want to double or triple and again it's just a matter of making sure you use the right glue. So I'm going to just demonstrate the transfer. I truthfully don't think you can. I'm going to include the link from Gina K on transferring with an iron and then some other things I think you could try to transfer design with an iron using die cuts or the embossing folder but I do not think you can get a true batique effect just a basic transfer and like I said the best thing that comes out is this beautiful patterned see-through paper and that would make I think that would make a really nice flip or something like that. So you'll need some embossing folders. Your choice. It's better to try not to get tears if you want to use this type of thing instead of a transfer so it's definitely better to double it if you don't want tears but minimal tears will work for this technique. So you're going to run it through your embossing folder. These are just single layer scraps that I had lying around and ran them through once and then I'm going to show you. You can also just do a crinkle paper and transfer the texture if you wanted to try something like that and then I just have some white sheets here and I'm going to try it on phone to see if I can get a better transfer. That's one thing I didn't try yet so I have my foam. I have my paper. I have my embossed image. I have some ink and for your benefit I'm going to use my most juicy colors and dark colors. Now I'm going to go over the embossed side. I personally think that worked better if you play around and do what you want and I'm just going to go over this a couple times. If you are more comfortable taping this down be my guest because you're going to want to make sure it stays in place. Flip it over get your brayer and spur. I'm just doing that on white. I'm sure you could probably get another off there but see even with the iron it's going to transfer the wax. Here's another ghost print. This is also a good way to pattern the back of your digitals. With the iron you're going to get something similar except this is going to be wax. The design is going to be wax and then you're going to go over it with ink and your design will be resists. It will be a resists. So that's the effect when you use, when you flip this over and then iron. Surprisingly it doesn't iron out the embossed but that's the effect you're going to get except the blue flowers will be white and then you'll go over it with ink and they will pop out. So I'm just going to do another one here and my embossing folders. Embossing folders are probably about the biggest bang for your buck you're going to get. I use them for printing. I use them for I can put them in my stamping foam and make stamps. I can make metal effects. I can make painting effects. I can transfer. I can print. I can laminate. My embossing machine and embossing folders are money well spent in my humble opinion and it's always gratifying. It's always gratifying especially while that one that one shifted a little. That's okay. Yes I do think you get a better transfer if you put some foam in the back. Definitely. So there's that one. I got a new embossing folder. Oh I love it. Absolutely love it. I don't do that one next. I'm going to be doing so much with this embossing folder. It's right up my alley as far as design. Oops I got a tear and I'm catching that tear a little bit. So again if you don't want a tear, double it up before you emboss. Very pretty. Very pretty. I think it depends on the folder and the design. What kind of effect you're going to get. Let me go over. This leaf one is pretty. Let me try that with a blue so you can see it. Make sure I get my right right side here. Let me try purple. Some of my oops see I got a tear. Some of my inks are more juicy than others. These these are colors I rarely use. Got another tear but that's okay. Again if you don't want this to shift and you want a more perfect transfer, tape it down, hinge tape it, and hinge tape your paper. So moving on. If you want to keep this paper and not have the ink coming back off just take another piece and glue it on top. That is this one. This one. You can see it kept the white. It didn't smear. That's that one. It has another layer glued on top and actually another layer glued on the back for strength. So that's a triple layer and the this colored one is sandwiched in between them basically. So for the ironing technique one thing you might try. Take your die cuts to your iron. Transfer the die cut design to the paper. Go over it with ink. I didn't have time to try that. If you want this effect which is beautiful, I mean I'll be keeping all of these and sealing them and I'm going to seal them. I didn't bring it with me. I forgot. I'm going to seal it with acrylic gloss. I have one little piece left here and that's what I did. The ink will not come off if you seal it or you can use stays on and then it won't come off and then you have your vellum type colored wax paper and it really is beautiful. I mean I just don't doubt about it but you know it's going to have its limitations but again if you use stays on if you want to use it for an envelope pocket you're definitely going to have to strengthen it in some way in my opinion. I mean okay I've seen people make wax. I've made them myself and I've seen people make wax paper bags but they do not they do not live up to wear and tear. Eventually they just wrinkle and the more they wrinkle the weaker they get the weaker they get the more they're likely to tear. So that's about it. Oh I think I think I've explored the wax paper. I love wax paper but I think I've explored it about as much as I'm capable of exploring it this time unless I think of something else and I think that'll probably be it for the wax paper series for the time being but I've come up with a lot of little things that I am definitely going to keep using in the future and how Solve is sitting right here beside me for one use or another in the craft room. So I'm always lived with wax paper scraps and whatnot so I don't I don't foresee that it's um I don't foresee it leaving the craft room any time soon and if I can find a way to use up the scraps of it and create something let's see what I mean I'm still sitting here with a pile and another pile so okay everyone have a great day have a great week keep exploring keep creating I'll see you next time bye