 Hey everyone, Mary at Espresso Press Design. Welcome on this snowy January morning. I hope you, I think I'm gonna put up a picture of my snow dogs for you to see what what it is like here today. No school, we're kind of in the midst of another mini blizzard and we haven't seen snow like this in probably more than two years. So anyway, welcome. Today we are going to do the modified, I modified this design of this little pop-up gift card holder and we're gonna be making a pop up card holder, tea holder, little pop-up Valentine. So that was fun. Let me get a tee here so I can show you this. Remember, I don't know if I'll be doing a create with me for Valentine's, but last year's create with me is still up if you want to make some Valentine's with that and little housekeeping. I have, thank you Liddy, Kathy, Flower, Tracy, Tracy your reviews were so kind. Thank you. Indigo Deuce and Sherry or yeah Sherry. Thank you Bev and I had a question on the wax paper vignettes. It's been so long since I made these but I thought I would bring them out and show you that they're still in good condition. The wax paper I told you I would wait until I make sure the wax paper is completely adhered and isn't going to come off before I did anything with these and it still hasn't and I think that was well over six months ago. But the question was and it kind of threw me off. Did I use the shiny side or the dull side of the wax paper? Truthfully I didn't realize there was a difference and I was just using scraps on my table so I don't remember paying any particular attention. As far as feel goes I don't really feel any difference. So as far as adherence goes I don't think it would make a difference. And again the most important thing was to avoid a lot of moisture and let your layers dry before you run them through your press. Otherwise you risk from the pressure on the machine you risk tearing your paper because you risk tearing a layer, generally the middle layer which would be your design. And the other question was can I spread with a credit card? I'm guessing the person Bev meant the glue. Yeah you probably could but to get an actual lamination you need the pressure from the machine. So again I don't particularly remember choosing a side for the wax paper. I hope you enjoy the photo of my dogs. I'm going to put up, boy do I miss my dogs. My cat wanted out last night and I told him I did not want to let him out. But if you don't let him out he'll keep meowing at you. And I told him I'm gonna fall asleep and sure enough I fell asleep. Sitting up in the wonkiest position woke up with a neck pain and thought well he's pretty vocal. I'll hear him if he comes to the door and he didn't come in until this morning but my husband said he was completely warm and I'm quite sure they go over to my neighbor's porch and even though I worry they're not stupid. So that all turned out good. Okay so the next thing I have a new kit, wild flowers, these beautiful watercolor illustrations that I purchase that I'm quite sure now are probably AI and they've been in a folder for months and I finally got around to doing something with them. This one got altered a little bit. I decided to make everything big and bold because I was losing some of those beautiful small flowers. So I didn't print the whole kit but it's wild flowers journal pages and just beautiful. Beautiful even though it is AI. So that reminds me what I like to do. AI is not copyrightable so you do have to alter the designs. So what I like to do is I like to combine the old and the new. So I usually combine it with some old book pages, something antique. So I have book pages from a North American wild flowers book and I have some text of a poem about wild flowers. So there is two types of texts. Okay so what you'll need today basically is just a four by 12 and we're going to make this little pop-up Valentine. This was made entirely from scraps and then I have a way for you to turn it into a little book if you desire. So I made a little book but as you can see you'll have your little pop up there which will be a pocket. It has a card. You can put that card at little Valentine. You can put the you can put tea and I'm pretty sure you could probably get away with a Ghirardelli in there if you desire. So that's what we're going to do today. I don't know if I'll get around to the book but I just wanted to show you that you have your little pocket here and your flap. You could turn into a pocket and close it like that or you can close it like that. So that's today. So you'll need a four by 12 and then whatever embellishment you desire. I have a bunch of hearts already. I have some ribbon and you'll need some glue. You'll need a scoreboard. That actually just makes it easier but if you don't have one you can do it with just a ruler and I don't even know if I'm gonna punch a notch today. So you don't have to worry about that. I'm going to use a trimmer to cut off my edge so that's about it. So let me get one of these. I'm going to use this paper again. Double-sided is better but you can use single-sided if you don't have double-sided. So a four by 12 and we're going to score at one and a quarter which is the same as the other one. One and a quarter, five, six and five eighths. That's the one eighth above the half because four eighths is a half and then eight and a quarter. That's the end of that and then we're just going to fold again accordion style except for the flap. Okay if you get a little resistance up here from your flap you can take a sliver off of there but I don't see him to be so okay. So then you're going to end up with your W again except this one goes like this because it's your flap and then we are going to glue. This is where we put the notch so we're just going to glue that three sides. I don't think I'm going to put a notch in this one. Glue down the side and this paper because of these little plastic embellishments. Some probably are little plastic design on top. I'm probably going to have to clip this. It doesn't matter which side you go down. This is just the part that keeps things from sliding through your pocket. Let me just clip this a minute. It's a little wonky. I don't know about my new guillotine. It seems like the measurement at the four inch mark is off but when you get to the 12 it's right so tell me how that makes sense. Okay so I don't know about my new guillotine. I just have some hearts already prepared and I'm pretty much going to follow my design here. That can use a lot more stuff. You can go to town as much as you want on this and then I have another little card or some tea. I was going to do kind of country style because of those dots and then I walked past this paper and I said no I'm doing that and then I found some. I had three different ribbons on the other one and then I found this red so I was like yeah I'd really like to use that so I think I'm going to use some of that and then I have some little buttons and then let me see if this is dry. So the other important thing to remember is my little pop up. I hear a kitty just a minute. I think I'm going to yell upstairs and tell someone that I hear my kitty at the window. Sorry, it's just knowing to beat. It's just knowing to beat the band and I don't want if he wants and I want him in. Okay sorry I got here at the window right behind my head. Okay so then we're going to take off our little sliver and that's important. You don't want to glue your hearts on after you don't want to glue your hearts on and then forget to take off and then realize you should have taken off the sliver because our hearts are going. Our hearts are going on the front of this pocket so there's our little pop up. Okay so I believe I started with a heart here. I thought I heard someone meowing here. What do you mean which window? I'm only sitting in front of one window. Sorry, this is activity day. You'll probably be hearing chitter chatter from her talking to her computer. She's probably supposed to be cyber-scrolling at the moment and then last night, guess what I did? I decided to have a piece of gum and it took out my filling. My dentist said last time you have a loose filling but I can't get you in until February. I don't think it's going to start bothering you but if it does just give me a call and I didn't I didn't feel it loose at all and then last night I decided to have a piece of gum and bit down and out came my filling. Are you kidding me? That was after I burned myself and then the neck pain which thankfully is gone which when I got the neck pain I got a little worried that it was from my tooth but I think it was just because I was fell asleep sitting up with my head sideways waiting for my cat so I kind of just I kind of wanted a plaid or something something a little whimsical so I'm glad I I walked past this paper I was determined not to cut a new piece of paper but then I walked past it and I'm like oh no I have to use that I spent two days purging I rearranged my craft room I almost got my table back doesn't look like it at the moment but almost got my table back and I was brutal probably not brutal enough but with that over just a tad and I have everything separated I'm gonna try the tray method don't really like it sitting right here next to me full of scrapbook paper only. Digitals are all separated but I have so little room right here beside me that every time I stand up I feel like I'm gonna catch a corner and it'll be on the floor I still have my CD holders too which I'm probably crazy look how full they are I think I think the veterans after a couple years they say if it's less than in it less than an inch don't even keep it and then I bet two years later it's if it's less than two inches don't even keep it and then two years after that it's if it's less than three inches don't even keep it so I didn't have enough hearts with that little blue one go might combine a little bit of blue in here just to give it a little punch and I'm I would love to put a string through there but see if I can find a tiny it's too small I did have some tiny cord in here red that's another idea if you have these paper buttons and you're all fumbly with string you can use that thin ribbon to pretend make it a pretend of faux thread in there let me try it try it backwards usually I do this minute decorating after the videos finished but just see if I can get a little slipper over a bin in there will be super cute and I did I don't know where my tweezers are but they would come in handy about now hands are swallowed up I know why it usually doesn't happen in the winter okay oh that's cute I think I'm gonna put another I think I'm just gonna go pink because don't have another tiny white it's this no not like in that maybe I'll just leave that and look for a piece of that somewhere I had a piece of glitter paper I do have I think it will let me see if I have a heart the same size to strengthen that up a little bit I cut a bunch of hearts out of some recycled the recycled bin well that's kind of cute even though they're not the same size okay let's do that for time's sake or just put another little one I think I like the bling so let's just get that on there so I have to make my hole and after I did that other one I thought oh I should have made that reinforcement a heart shape too so I put the heart over it over the circle those aren't the same die but these aren't the same die but I think it looks okay okay how many is that one two three four five six seven eight nine well it's an odd number or an even number but I'm gonna go with it anyway there's a little platter okay that is cute get my other card I just better look you could put another heart Valentine heart in the pocket you could put your card in an envelope you might want to put a notch just because it's a little tricky little tricky the first time you try to get something in that pocket there we go there's our pop-up it's so cute so cute okay so let me get a get a hole in here this is four and I'm gonna go to about half way mark as far as the I've seen that little dot fancy corners are we 33 see that's a little wonky but I don't care the paper is not cut the paper is not cut correctly on the one end that kind of bothers me because then I have to measure my paper before I put it in the gate guillotine get that centered let me find a little heart try to get a find a center on here and use my four squares this is a double so hopefully this punch goes through should I'm in here I'm not gonna turn this one into a book but I'll glue my book in the other one and briefly tell you how I made it of course you can make a book any way you want to put in there but I did not want to I didn't think the seam was sturdy enough to be doing a see look how much that's all I didn't think it was sturdy enough to be doing a pamphlet stitch in there so I came up with a different book okay so this was about string go I had this one on it at first that was too long my twine go there it is that was about 17 inches that'll do and I have a little piece of where'd you go a piece of blue I love light blue and red together and a piece of my favorite yarn at the moment let's see if I can get three through that hole make this a little fancier where is my needle twist tie needle yeah I thought I that's another tip I saw someone using dental flossers to do this so you want to go up through up through the bottom needle three let's do that again get this off and then I used a paper clip to secure it while I got my bow please be long enough or you're not gonna be a bow I don't think you're gonna be a bow you're gonna be a knot but that's okay because then you're gonna look shabby so you want your you want your ribbon equal from this center point if that matters to you if you're doing a bow the velvet would be long enough but I don't think I think the others are so I'm just gonna make it very loose knot here well maybe not I'm not even gonna do that cuz I'm gonna open it again for you to see so that was another thing I saw adapted from a Christmas project and I thought was cute and probably I'll end up taking all that other string out and just using the velvet and making a bow probably what I'll do since I changed the other one three times okay so there you go that's how you do that and then there's your pop-up also fits a tee I'm pretty sure will fit a gear of deli so let me go to this one so I made this little book I just made a channel with some cardstock I glued the back in the front pages this was in a half by three and three quarters I think no three and a half by three and three quarters so I made the channel I glued the back in the front and I only have one two three sheets in here and then I just glued each piece down the seam so you could put this in a belly band you can make another little pocket but I'm just gonna glue it here to the side because I promised in the post how to turn it into a little book if you desire so there's your little book and as I said if you wanted this to be a pocket glue that down first oops now you're coming undone or keep it keep it loose as your cover okay I'm not gonna bother restringing that so let me get paper here my card go back in there hopefully I'll be cutting out that interruption so there's our pop-up so cute that is so cute and I'm quite sure if you were ambitious you could probably even modify this even further to fit a hot chocolate or something I don't think I'm gonna spend week three on that so there's our design we're at the other two guys and there is last week's which was just a simple gift card okay everyone I don't know what'll be next week maybe a create with me for Valentine's we'll see but thank you for your time and have a great week I'll see you next time bye