 Hey everyone, thank you for stopping by. Marietta Espresso Press here. Just checking my focus. Let me get seated. Welcome, welcome. Today we're going to hopefully create some old jewelry. These are some things I've been working on. I hope you don't mind the photo introduction. I thought if you didn't want to head over to my blog to see my post gatherings, which is a feature I do from time to time where I just gather my inspiration pieces and complete my project and then see if I hit the mark or not. It has all kinds of things, usually cards. Sometimes things made of fabric and this one in particular was inspired by wearable art. And these are a few of the things I made with it. A couple made with these. This is an ephemera project. I made this little mini bio folder and I made this tag. So that's what we're going to be doing today. What you'll need is your shapes. I used my die cuts because I don't have punches would be good. But I used die cuts on my various shapes here. You'll need some embossing folders and you'll need some metallic paints, acrylics. And I am going to use, this is, I use Broken China to get the, let's see if I have one here, to get the patina. So it looks like an old jewelry. After I did the acrylics, I think that's it. Today I'm going to do, I'm still experimenting with this. So I have all these little card bases that are already embossed but I want to see what it looks like with color. And then you'll need, oh it's probably way in the bottom, a little punch, little die cuts. I have a couple. The one I want is a leaf pattern. It's too hard. I'm going to use this leaf pattern today but I also have, I also have a little heart because this is the part I didn't do very much yet because I kind of want to keep these unembellished and then work on them for the final project. But as you'll see in the inspiration pieces they had all kinds of little things on top of the wearable art like little clock bases, dragonflies, stuff like that. And I had to think about what kind of things I might use to do that part. So I thought of my little punches for one and I do have some tiny leaf die cuts but I didn't get around to cutting all those out yet. And I have a lot more experimenting to do with this. Some of these I'm going to put a frame around and stuff like that. So I want to build up this stash of ephemera. So I kind of got pre-started here because she's easier. And I have the pieces already embossed but what you're going to want to do is probably going to stand up here is you're going to take your embossing folders like this. Hopefully you can see the pattern. And you're going to look for the place you're going to look for the place where you might get a nice focal image. So this one is great because obviously I have many choices. This one would work because it has the flowers. This one I use, these little bird houses because I have the little bird as a focal image. So you might as well, this one was nice. It has the letters to that one. This one is just an Oliver pattern. This one has another little bird. So that's what I did. I have more but I didn't use them all. So I just used my first one. So as you can see I got quite a few different patterns just from that one folder. So we're going to get messy. Pour out some paint here. Get a rag, get a cloth, handy. And I'm using copper, silver, metallics, all metallics. I thought I had a bronze but I must be out of it. This silver is so runny. I think something must be wrong with it. I just bought it. I have Glorious Gold. I think I used that one first. A piece of plain cardstock within reach here. And I have Champagne pretty well too. Some of them are really thick. Some are like water. Champagne isn't very old either. Talk amongst yourselves. I'm checking in here to see if I have a nice color cardstock piece. And I don't. So let me go to my drawer a second. Sorry. There we go. Sorry. I just wanted a nice darker orange to use as an embellishment. Choose that one. Okay. So I'll do the first ones I did. We're on craft paper. And you're just going to stick your finger in there and dab it off, clean it off, and then rub over the gold. The gold you're not going to see too much until you get the other colors on. And then I did the copper. And I think the key is that I used the three different metallics over the same piece. That way it looked. Oh, I did that too much because this is so runny. This one. Let me go back over that with the gold a little bit. Starting to look old. So can you see that? Just using the three on the same piece. I'm going to let that dry. Now this one is the gray cardstock. I'm going to start with the gold again. I just want to skim over the top as best you can. But it doesn't matter. I mean, the whole thing can have a patina. And I know there's an ink. Maybe it's even called patina. Tim Holtz ink. That will put the perfect finish on there, but I don't have it. Then I'll do the copper. Hopefully you see everything there. Silver. And if you do the silver and gold more than once, it starts to look more real. And then another thing I did. Get my finger clean here. This one kind of like has an edge. Took my finger. I just kind of did that along the side until I got like a little... I also do that with a paper brush and my glitter glow. At Christmas time when I want to make something look like it's edged with ice. So that's how I got that edge. And then that one might take a little while longer to dry. But this one is looking nice already. Then I'll do the black. And put the gold first. So this is more experimenting. I also want to do some in plain card stock because the effect I want to try to get is like... Oh no, don't do that. The effect I want to try to get is like when you have enamel and usually I didn't go over the whole thing like that. I just did parts in different color. But the more you begin to rub with your finger, the older it looks. And then I'm wiping my finger off between each color. So I don't want... Because it's kind of like half and half edge that one because I don't think I'll be able to put the patina blue broken china on top. So I'm going to try this because I want to see what it looks like when I have different colors in the background. It might not show up at all. The one on the tag was a sepia paper. A vintage paper with a black engraving type drawing on it. And I thought the drawing might show through a lot more than it did. But it didn't. So it still turned out nice and I still used it. But it wasn't the effect I hoped to achieve. Like I said, this one was already embossed. I don't know how much the colors are actually going to end up showing through because acrylic is opaque. When you see the art pieces or photos at least similar to using me embossing folders to find a focal image, my feeling was you might as well try to find something that does have to work for you. Have to design for you rather than try to look for all those little ephemera. All those little embellishments that you have to glue on top. Like these little flowers. So there's one, two, three there's four. And that's pretty much how I did them. I know that's... I know that one's going to take a little bit to dry. So let me get the blue on there. Hope you're all doing well. I'm still a computer hell. I told my husband I want to go back and I thought he would do it this morning but he didn't. I'm going to do it on this one because it's most likely to show up the best. So this is the part I gave the patina. And if you had that other Tim Holtz color, is it bare-degree? I'm not sure which one it is but I know you would get... I mean that's fine. That looks old to me. I know he has another color that would be perfect. And I'm sure there's more than one way to do this. Sometimes it actually shows up better on the silver than it does. These are dry yet. Examples here while I wait for that to dry for a minute. So this is the one that I had the image in the background. It didn't turn out exactly as I hoped but I still think it's pretty. And then I just mimicked their on a fabric chain, so to speak. So I just kind of mimicked that of the side of the tag. And then this was also one of my favorite ones. They also put buttons on there and all different kinds of things. You can put little charms but I want to keep them relatively flat so I'm not going to be adding any actual metal or anything like that. My goal was to translate the entire thing into paper and see if this is dry yet. So yes, I'm still in this. If I have to click off and restart. So if I go silent when you're on a submarine and you disappear from radar, that's nice. That looks old. Looks like an old penny kind of. Do you ever get a penny that kind of turned greenish blue on you? That's what that reminds me of. I want next ink and paint to be standing up here. Hitting record again. I'm sure it's dry. I don't want to get paint on my old. Okay, that was just the basics and now I'm just going to do a little bit of decorating. But I think I'm going to hit record again and then I'm probably going to have to refocus. Bear with me. Yeah, I'm back to ground zero. I'm back to ground zero with the video. Probably going to have to look for another camera unless I keep using this one. I don't like having to keep hitting record. I don't like that. Usually when I hit record it zooms in and zooms in. I have it on single focus. Just punch in a little couple of little leaves here. I have it on single focus. What I thought I might do is tinge the edges of these. It's pretty hard. It's pretty hard to just get the edges so it also looks like metal. But in the end I don't know if that's it might look better. I just leave them solid because of decoration. And if you go there you'll see they also have some little tiny, tiny, tiny book page words here that you can put on there. They did that. So I've just kind of been looking for embellishments. Like I said I do have some tiny Tim Holtz leaf dies. I think I have some tiny clocks I can cut out. You could crochet some tiny gold thread. Make a chain. Drape that across there. That would be nice maybe. In the meantime I was just thinking of demonstrating to you how to embellish them to make them look more like the art pieces take. I was going to use this but I think it's too big. And of course you can make these as big as you want. For cover might make a nice frame. That's what I'm going to do next. Another one is I have the smaller shapes and I'm going to do the frame. And then the inside might just be silver. Like these are pretty much either they look more silver or gold. I didn't put any copper in these. So it would be like this would be the inside and then the frame will be a different metallic. So yes I still spent a nightmare. I still haven't finished my latest product. There are three sheets left to do. Three sheets and hopefully he'll be sending me back to the edge of 2018 tomorrow. Thank God I have him. That's all I can say. But what I found out it likely wasn't me at all. It likely wasn't the camera the computer the software it was that who else you know all the platforms whatever they prefer a different video file format. And how I found that out is when I updated everything and then went to and then the video editing software wouldn't recognize the film at all. Wouldn't recognize the video at all. So then I decided to do a search for the actual camera model. See if anyone else was having problems. And sure enough I'm going to put a little more copper on that one. Sure enough so I have to look for a new camera I guess which I started and it's really I don't know. I said I didn't have to be Spielberg but I do want to make nice videos that are clear and bright and easy to see and represent most of all represent color properly. You know because that really bothers me when things don't look like they do in real life. And this one you can tell the difference even in this one between the video quality and the camera quality because it's a Nikon and the camera quality is 10 times better than the video quality. So there's a major disparity in the colors just between the video and the camera when it comes to this. I do want to get better I want to be Martha Stewart minus the jail time. No that's actually not true. I don't want to be Martha Stewart but I if people are coming here and spending their time you don't want to waste their time with a crappy video and that's how I look at it and so again I hope you don't mind that I added the photos but I thought if you didn't want to leave to see the blog piece then you're going to have an idea of how these feature posts work that it's called gatherings and I gather my inspiration and I try to translate it to paper or whatever. In this case on my Pinterest board I have tons of things that actually aren't paper but I always think I want to translate that to paper some of the posts actually are paper and I just see how well I was able to pull off the style or whatever. So I really really really love these. I know this is going to be a camera that I'm going to use for a lot of things this one I just I love that little bird. I love birds actually this one I did try flowers just down the side this is the other little bird I love that one too this one is the letters I also have an embossing folder with script and actually I used the two on the project with the pattern. So I'm going to work more on these this week and do my other ideas, see how they turn out like I said I want to try it this isn't actually what I thought it would be but I want to try it on this I don't know I might gloss gloss this and then emboss that reminds me you emboss after you cut the die cut unless you have a punch then you can die cut first and then punch but if you emboss and then die cut you're going to flatten your image I don't want that so I'm going to gloss at some point I don't know and then emboss and then go over it and see if it looks like an enamel with a filigree on top and I also have some more ideas for different types of jewelry pieces if they turn out if they turn out they'll be coming in the future so I hope you give this a try I really really I know I'll use these a lot I know I can make them bigger they will look good on a Christmas card they will look good on covers and I kind of think they're just perfect for this love letters paper because you know some of them kind of look like a locket and you know men often buy jewelry for their loves so it kind of all went perfect and I'm glad I have a new type of ephemera to keep in my stash because I like to make my own watches I can instead of buying it because number one it's more personal and it's more original and I just like to do it okay thanks for your time everyone I hope you enjoyed it see you next time bye