 Hi everyone, Mary Yudispresso Press Design. Thank you for stopping by. Today we're going to do a project. I hope you'll think it's a lot of fun. It's something I wanted to try for a while and it's based on something else, but I kind of modified it to suit a different type of card making, specifically journal cards. So it's based on a style of card making called four-way, tea cards. They have all different kinds of names. And basically you also can do something similar to do ATC cards. And basically what you would do is stamp in a cross fashion. These are upside down, I think. No, sorry. I cut this. It's not proportional the way it's supposed to be. Actually they are upside down, I think. Anyway, there we go. That's how it's supposed to be. And you stamp like that, usually with one or two stamps, one or two images, different colors, or first and second generation. And then you cut them apart and then the beauty is if you're making like a set of note cards or something, you can decide which way you like them to be. And then you put your sentiment. So I quickly stamped one five minutes before this and cut it apart and didn't do it proportionally. But that's what they're called and we're going to do something similar. This is my latest. If you didn't see it, this is just the one page on presentation paper called My Vintage Valentine. It's just a little ephemera collection. So here are some of my samples. And for size sake, well, I did most of mine on my watercolor card basis because I'll probably be putting them on little mini note cards. But I also wanted to do this for journal making, especially for people who can't decide they're just beginning and they don't know how to create all the ephemera in a journal. So this goes a lot faster than something like a master board. But at the same time, you can use the papers that you used in your journal. You can use your scraps. You can do two or three different sets. Like say you did three sets, that's 12 cards that you can put in your journal. Another good thing about them, if you wanted to turn this into a pocket, it could be a pocket. If you wanted to put something over it, do a little cluster, whatever, you could do that. You could turn them into a tag. You could square them up and go corner to corner and then you'll have a little corner tuck. And this would keep however many you did cohesive throughout your journal. You can mass make a bunch of these and there's another thing that's really cool about them, which I'll show you in a minute. And I even did some, took some old magazine, vintage magazine and did it with a different type of theme. It would be, and I also did these ones and I just cut them apart a different size. So it would be really cool if you use certain magazine images. And then another one I did, I didn't cut this apart because I like it and I want to keep it like it is. And the second technique is just using scrap paper. So we're going to do both and they're going to both be smaller. So you remember to scale this up to whatever size you want. Okay, so you're going to need your paper, some things I have pre-done. You're going to need your paper to do your four-way, whatever size scale you want. For journal card it would probably be like nine by ten. Then you would get four and a half by five or eight and a half by nine. Then you would get four and a quarter by four and a half. That's kind of like typical journal card sizes. And then I'll leave these on top so that I can explain. So then you're going to need whatever you want for your motif. This one I just did torn paper pieces. This one I just used a punch. You can use a punch. You can use leaves. I was going to do some with this flower shape die cut, smaller flowers. And I was actually going to do that today but I need new plates and they weren't poking out fast enough so I gave up on that. So today my motif is going to be I cut out a bunch of stamps. I was also going to try buttons but you can do little strips of paper. Washi tape would be cute. Just use your imagination, whatever you think you would like to put in the tea. I personally think this is super cute, especially for a junk journal. And then here's the other thing. If you wanted this just for a base and you wanted to do something else on it instead of normally you would put a sentiment. You could put another little cluster on top there. You could put another little you know piece of ephemera and it's just a background. But this way you have it's a mass make. You have four at a time already made. So I have this already done. You're going to need some glue. You're going to need your scissor to do the final technique. You're going to need a trimmer at least a pair of scissors or a guillotine. I personally find a t-square helpful which I'm not going to need because I already did my lines. And then you're going to divide that as shown into equal the middle of the vertical line and the middle of the horizontal line. So let me just sort out some stamps here. And another thing usually they use two different types of stamps and on this one I really thought another motif might be helpful like little dots or something. I probably would have put two motifs try to incorporate two motifs. That's just a personal opinion but since I don't have two today either I'm just going to go with stamps. So I'm just going to um I really wanted to do buttons but I don't think my buttons are large enough and there wasn't enough contrasts. I didn't think they would show up well enough for you to see what I'm doing. So I hope you'll stick around for the second technique. I'm going to try to go as fast as I possibly can. Get this pressed and cut up so you can see. And if I don't do this perfectly and I want to add something after I cut them I can. And if you have a little pencil line showing after you get your arrangement just erase it. Generally usually when they stamp they kind of start in the middle but I'm just going to go top to bottom side to side. Sorry about the bandaid. I had my first guillotine mishap. I scraped my finger along the blade and I also um I also uh had one finger with superglue on it. Now this is kind of no think but at the same time you want to pay attention to what is going to be being cut down the middle and you also want to pay attention to what your background is. So I chose generally I forgot to flip through my scrap paper here. I'll do that in a minute so you can see what type of things I chose. My table is completely full here. I just chose scrapbook type papers that had a pattern that wasn't overly in your face and another one you might want to be mindful of is if you choose one with text. So these are just a few of my choices. I'm also going to have try to have at least one. I might cut up some of these tiny ones over here to my left so that I can at least pop one into my negative space since I don't have two motifs going here. So this goes faster than a masterboard but it's um still something similar but at the same time different. Pop a little one there into my negative space just so I make sure I have it gets a strange cut off. Then I will be still having something nice and if I have to stand up and there's okay you can go off the edge just trim it off. I'm going to cut some of these tiny ones and by the way um Dollar Tree finally did have. I think I went in there every few weeks from September looking for these pet trimmer scissors to do stamp edges and I must say they work very well. I wouldn't use it on a pet but you make a very cute little edge. These stamps are from Love Letters by the way. I think I want alternate the color. Probably what a second motif I could have punched out some postal stamps as in you know with the date. Punch those out with a circle but you just get creative and try to think of what you would combine for a background and that kind of popping in there just you know because I don't know how this is going to cut apart. And pay attention please to my measurements. It's actually two that I didn't cut proportional but I'll show you the part about this it's really cool. So I hope everyone's having a great start to their new year. Mine has been busy more busy than I would like at two appointments. Hopefully I will be my daughter got a pixie yesterday so her hair is quite short but she looks cute. She has the face shape that could pull off a pixie quite well I don't and I don't particularly like short hair but it's her hair and I can no longer dictate while I haven't been able to do that for quite some time what she wears or how many hairstyles she chooses but I suppose it's just typical for a teenager every time she goes in it's a completely different look and she has beautiful hair not like mine. Mine is straight as a stick. Okay now for the fun part and I'm probably going to stand up to do this and then I will explain. So I'm going to run this through my scissor and I'm using all three plates as if it was a die cut and I'll show you hopefully I have enough room here to actually turn the wheel and don't spill my coffee. This is generally not where I keep my scissor and I just made it. Okay this is the cool part so what this does you're not going to be able to see it but what this does is it presses all this into the paper so much that you can barely feel it. Okay and it is so cool. They virtually become one paper that's also handy to do with your masterboards and your tile making by the way keeps everything secure and we're also going to do it with this one so there you go. I'm going to cut that when I get to the second one so that's the first one and you can see I kind of went in my tea. So the second one what I did actually I did two ways three different pieces of paper you can add as many as you want and I just began let me choose them here it really doesn't matter because what I what I was going for is boho one of my favorite styles so I was going to do this one because it has green and then where did my stripe go I'm going to do my stripe and probably that one or I don't need four I could cut one of those off and I would have enough room. So what I did just pretend these are your chosen papers you just want to make sure that you're going off the page and I just lined up my first one traced around it and that's the only one you really need to worry about placing so I hope you're going to stick around till the end of this a little smudge because as I said I think I am going to refrain from using glue stick so much this year and I'm just going to do this one the way I did the first one and just make sure this is going to work out that I don't have to align it differently is what I'm saying okay this one suck it or no wait I do that I'll do this one suck it I don't know why I didn't do my crazy quilt like this my crazy quilt card it would have been a lot easier well I kind of know why because I started with the five the five inch piece in the center like a crazy quilt but this is another another thing on my list because I saw this boho pattern fabric and I wanted to um replicate the design and if you used um say you cut up a bunch of cards or something and you use the main image and you saw all your corner pieces but also use those just generally generally um just stick with what you used in your journal good way to use up your scraps and I actually got to print and cut some paper my um scrubber stacks are actually getting quite low and I only have two it's kind of amazing to me so as you can see I have a ton of a ton of waste here because get this off meter at the end maybe this means I can buy more paper that particular one this this book is falling all apart I can't even I don't think I can even store it where all my other papers are anymore I'm gonna quickly run this through here just to get out my glue lumps the one that's showing so that's great to do with that too that press that beautifully let's just trim this up 33 that's amazing yes I'm going to keep these to 33 30 minutes or so 20 would be better 15 would be ideal although I'm sure I could probably speed up my glowing my stamps maybe I will okay that's still cool see this one here and that also needs a little more glue already I'll do that later this one's a little cool but we're gonna cut it anyway okay let me just remember what size it was this is six by three let's see what we get and I don't think I've seen this done before for this particular function although I'm sure probably it has been done before because there's nothing new under the sun cute let me just back together cute let me come up here and so you can try to I know you're not going to be able to get how flat that is sorry about my finger that's super glued that was a that was an eyelet mishap when I was doing my Christmas ornaments um um yeah those literally are one sheet of paper so remember if you want you can turn those however you want they can be a pocket you can put something else there a little cluster they can be a tag just cut your page proportionally uh square it off corner to corner they can be a corner and there you already have four journal cards if you want to leave them all cards fine they'll slide down in a pocket that's another thing you know they can be a pocket tall sideways and you already have four cohesive pieces quickly made see if this is dry yet you just tack that little corner down press it again you don't have any cutting cutting problems and then you'll see this is going to come out a little crazy so yeah that's a great that's a great thing to do in general for just if you want to quickly flatten something plus make sure it's all nice and secure we want the hands so this one is the same and I can tell that one edge is a little each trim six five it went that is so cool and again those can be do the same pocket tag corner journal card made from your papers that you use in your journal let me put these back together there's our two styles remember magazines would be cool especially if you use the letters you can use numbers you can use letters you can use torn bits you can use punches you can use dyes just remember to keep in mind you're going to have a background paper and an image or a motif okay everyone 40 minutes that's too long but maybe I can speed something up anyway I hope you stay till the end this is super fun I'm gonna do it again definitely for the boho look that I want to achieve similar to this one okay have a great week everyone I'll see you as soon as possible I don't know if it'll be the weekend or Monday but we'll do something see you next time thanks for stopping by bye