 married espresso press design welcome on this February what is it 13th it looks like we escaped the nor'easter I'm a little I don't know I was kind of looking forward to it maybe having the world stopped for a day would have been nice but nevertheless the sun is shining and I don't know where it is but thank you for stopping by and today we're going to do the metal and painted hearts or not hearts well hearts and emboss this is for Eve as promised how to show you how I did that first the usual housekeeping thank you Susan Maike Maike Sarah and Laura Laurie thank you for your purchases and your kind reviews Charlotte thank you for your kind concern over my mental state in a video about a year ago and no worries there must not have been anything of major importance or lasting importance new products is this is vintage herbal papers just various herbs in like wallpaper like patterns and I only printed one I've only been printing one because my digital stack is getting out of control and Italian floral fashion which is very shabby distressed this is from elegance a feminine and Italian an old Italian magazine with some very Victorian shabby distressed flowers and that's new I think that's five pages herbal is ten pages and then hopefully this will be up by the time the video is up I think I'm going to title it Mila Fiori just very tiny floral patterns kind of like a calico which is something I always wanted and a little show-and-tell I started a new little journal here still have the needle in the thing my table is a disaster from these I love these little pie pie packaging and I've walked past them a million times and thought when those make the cutest little journals so I started that and as you can see it's not put together yet I started with four signatures designed my own paper for it and decided to go with three so I still have one there with the needle still in it so that's a work in progress finally finally took the time to do another journal begin another journal so today what you will need are some acrylic metallic paints some pastel acrylic paints I'm using gesso but you can use matte white acrylic a little text stamp an embossing folder and what you are going to do is pre emboss your pieces just stick them in there I usually give them a little squirt with water so I get a nice deep emboss emboss your pieces and you will have emboss pieces ready to go now these original ones they were created from they were repurposed from cards that didn't turn out and here I still have some of those left and those were embossing folders that were inked so that's why they are dual color and why I went over these ones first with the gesso so I think that's all we'll need I think that's it trace to put your paints on whatever you use I usually use a plate and I'm just going to gesso these up you're going to want to have a cloth because your hands are going to get covered with paint so I'm just going to gesso these lightly and I am I'm going to lose my voice today I know it sorry this this called just doesn't want to go away sorry but it just doesn't want to quit so I spent worked yesterday and then I kind of didn't feel good and I went to bed and this morning I was had my third year oven repair so I was dealing with the appliance repair man this morning so please forgive I'm scattered today yes the every three years he comes to replace the same part in the design to fail model which goes along with the planned obsolescence model so I'm doing the gesso first and I'm just giving over the top lightly and then these were the ones that were getting the pastel paint and the stamping the text stamping like so so yes the repair man writes on the stove and even admits that it's because the part I think it's plastic so he says yep right on schedule because he writes on the step every time he comes to replace that every time he has something on the oven to fix and it's always the same part I don't know if you saw that story on the internet that they are getting sued for fraud LG I don't know why it's just LG because they all do the same thing whether it's your appliance your car or whatever but this time they are actually getting there's a class action lawsuit for fraud because apparently they have the receipts that it's designed to fail so that they can keep making money which I had that much wish I could come up with that model well no I don't actually because I'm not a grifter but so I'm gonna put those aside to dry this one I think I'll do this to these white ones I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do because I never actually did any white ones I don't know if I'll be doing those at all actually okay so these ones I'm going to do with the metal and they're curling because I gave them a little squirt of water and I'll just put those under a book and these ones do not get the gesso so just gonna choose three different types of metallic here and I usually go with this is antique copper love this one was wondering where it went and I finally found it way back in the back and this is I know it's a gold but I'm not sure which gold inca gold I think this is a favorite must be because it's almost empty yeah that's that's getting old so maybe I better get another one out here too glorious gold and these are for the most part deco art pretty sure most of them came from Walmart some might have come from Joanne's and then it's silver I don't know where the other silver is I don't like this one it's so runny I'm gonna use it anyway and there's my metallic choices I think I'm gonna get I also have a bronze I'm gonna get that too so I've just been busy and oh geez look at that what is up with this maybe I won't be getting a bronze I never use these as you can tell rarely use them now that I have my pens which are so much easier so like once a year I generally go through and throw away paint I should use them I haven't had time to do my jelly plate and ages okay so then generally trying to remember which one I started with I'm pretty sure I usually started with the gold and I'm getting very very thin I'm getting a glob this is gonna be difficult to see on camera and I'm just skimming over the top so that I'm trying to just pick up the embossed then I'm gonna go in with the second color just silver and then I'm just gonna go in spots so that I get a mixed metal type look and then last choose the copper usually I choose the copper or the bronze same thing just slightly let me stand up here see if you can see that so it's very it's very random and I'll put these over here to dry here's a flat one so again back to the gold just skimming and the silver just going in places and the bronze I think I'm gonna stick with the copper because it shows up more for your sake there we go you have a mixed metal look okay do one more gold try to get some of this maybe it'll show up better you know that's a little more gold there silver then copper okay so you get your mixed metal okay oh he's back already I hear footsteps okay I'm just cleaning my hands off here okay so that's all I'm gonna do for those for now I'll finish the rest off-screen now I'm going to put some pastel on these these ones are more I would say like shabby chic and I'm pretty sure I use pink almost out of this pink love it this is some dailer rowney portrait pink I think I use this blue but I'm not really sure I can't find another light blue I'd have to turn that down and then I just I have two it's this one cream so I just kind of did the same thing except I used pastels I do have some yellow but this is ancient I don't even know if it's gonna no I don't think I'm gonna get anything out of there so I'm just gonna stick with these and this is this is a little thicker in two paint don't know if I'm gonna get a good blend or not oh and then I have to remember to show you how I did the patina on those metal ones so there's two I'm gonna let that dry hopefully it dries fast try to get a little light blue on here but oh I don't want it that dark see if I can put some gesso in there there's that blue turning it down sorry turning it down as much as I can that blue going here with cream some mint green might be pretty but I don't have any I was just kind of looking for colors that I thought were shabby chic I'm also trying not to lose all the gesso because that's where my text is gonna show up the most when I stamp already do this one kind of looks like it did well there goes my cream after gesso this went a little more okay so I'm gonna let those dry and find a place to put that tray and then I used broken china these are dry already and that is how I got my old patina on that metal you see that old metal and that worked really well I mean there is an ink pretty sure Tim Holtz has an ink called patina but I feel like this just really really did the trek to giving me the effect I wanted for that particular video which was inspired by art jewelry so there we go there's another one old metal and now I'm just going to see if these are dry dry enough that one is and then I went I probably use days on I'm not sure though let me just get a meadow see how that's gonna work here this stamp has it I just grabbed the easiest tech stamp I could find okay looks like memento is gonna work whoops that's not very good and then I just went randomly over each piece to do the text I get another one that's dry here and I try to keep it on the gesso spots there's another one so those are the shabby shake let's try it on this heart and then here my husband coughing too this cold just doesn't want to go away there's another one and then this is the last one and tomorrow I'll be getting holes in my head so you have to go to the dentist there's the last one make sure all of your paint is dry before you begin stamping otherwise you will end up with paint in your ink and you don't want that so yeah have fun tomorrow I'll be going going to the dentist and then going to mass with a probably a headache and a mouth sore mouth I'll survive so where are we 31 maybe I'll quick do one more here for you so remember it is oh I didn't try these leaves yet so I'll do that the gold I began with the gold generally I do that see you end up literally wasting a lot of paint because you don't need that much and then the silver and I like the bronze as much as the copper but for your sake the coppers showing up more because it appears to be a little darker and you can you can use you can do these in whatever layers you prefer okay everyone I think that's it for the week I don't know what I'll be doing next week I'm hoping to get to the envelopes at some point here but we will we shall see okay Eve I hope you found that helpful I do use these quite a bit for various embellishments on cards and all kinds of things tags envelopes closures I actually use these quite a bit so and you as you see you did they don't have to be hearts they can be any shape and yeah I use them quite a bit so it's probably a good thing that I'm replenishing my stash okay everyone thanks a lot I'll see you next time bye