 Hi everyone. Mary Dispresso Press Design. Thank you for stopping by. Welcome. I'm hoping I don't lose my voice so I'm going to take a drink before I start our weather. Our weather has been so changeable. It's very hard to get used to. Two days ago we were near zero and tomorrow will be 50 degrees. So you never have time to adapt but today I'm going to do a paper technique and then I'll show you what you need in a moment. At first I'm going to do a little flip through of the latest products. French postcards of Enifemera, a very sweet little kit and I've included all the postcards because some of them were tinted, some weren't hand colored and some weren't and there were multiple variations. Some have writing, some don't. So I really wanted to keep the French as much as possible and there is one image in here. This one that has two different styles, two different colorations, so I included both and then after I put up the product I tried it on presentation paper. Presentation paper, Epson presentation paper absorbs too much ink so I decided to lighten page two and that's in the description so there were a couple of them sold so I hope they will go back and revisit to note the change in the product but it's a beautiful little hand-drawn postcards. And the second one is floral messages, very simple and I also think I changed the location of my lighting in here so I think it's actually improving the video quality of the representation. It appears to be and that's actually not quite so gold but a little more, it's much, the background is more pale in between what I'm seeing here in the monitor and what you're seeing but it's a nice little kit especially, there's a double print off, especially if you're doing a yearly journal there's even a winter Christmas type page that you can include or not include and plenty of room for your own embellishments, clusters, whatever you would like to add to a page. The florals are absolutely beautiful and it's just a lovely little floral kit so we don't want to, I'm here at five minutes already, don't want to take that much time but and there are 16 pages so that's housekeeping. So you know how you always try these bed techniques and you're never, you're never really impressed with the results? Well I'm happy to say I try them, of course I try them. I do like trying new techniques but I'm happy to say this is one that actually lives up to the faux technique and it is Mamagami, a Japanese paper kneading technique where they kneaded, I believe it was mulberry paper and then incorporated the paper into fabric, clothing I believe and once you do this I wish I could translate the tactile experience but it literally does feel like paper or not paper, fabric and you will just be wanting to sit here and touch it all day. So I've tried it with several different types of paper, this is just printed from one of my kids beautiful memoirs. I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with it yet aside from sit there and feel it all day so I just matted it, loosely glued it and matted it because I want, I really want to retain the tactile experience of it and to incorporate this as a page in your journals would be fabulous, absolutely fabulous or a flip flap or a little you know how they make the sample fabric ideas something like that was was all I could think of at the moment. When I did run it through the Sizzix die cut you can still it's still very tactile but I didn't exactly like that the all the wrinkles got ironed out so I have to play around with discovering how to retain the tactile feel of it and still create something. So I tried it on several different types of paper this is tracing paper absolutely beautiful I even tried it on magazines as my original first one of my first videos I'm happy to say that this will actually make magazines useful for me and I never use magazines I don't like the glossiness but this will I just wish you could see what it's like I mean it literally even it no longer feels like paper feels like fabric acts like fabric and I am amazed at what happened this one I took some very watered-down metallic acrylic because I wanted to try to capture the gold that I've saw in traditional Mamagami papers and then I tried I noticed that it doesn't matter what it almost doesn't matter what type of image you choose because you basically just end up with patterns and so then I thought okay let me just try something stupid and well I don't mean stupid stupid but you know like this is a window there's a table this is a chair that's a hunch that's a painting sorry but then you basically just end up with patterns and it looks and feels like fabric I'm just it's just amazing so I tried magazines a few times and I am truly blown away by what I could the possibilities of this and I spent four or too long I thought okay I just want to try one more one more one more so I then I moved on to just trying a printed digital and that worked just as well so what you'll need is an image of your choice and that's pretty much it some people use oil some people use hand lotion lotion I didn't use either because I didn't want that didn't want any of that on my paper and I thought well if it's going to work it's going to work traditionally they use a type of starch I'm going to post one video where they do have a recipe for adding tapioca starch but I didn't I personally didn't find it to be necessary and amazingly virtually all the shine has gone from the paper and if you want to add it at the end you can put some acrylic gloss back on top or my parts so that's what you'll need so I'm just going to show you how to get started here I chose this image why they begin folding at the corners I don't know and the other thing you'll need you're going to be wanting to wash your hands if you're using a magazine because your hands get covered with black ink and it's kind of disgusting I didn't notice that happening with a print off but I did notice it with magazines so I have an alcohol soap alcohol soapy cloth next to me but if it's worse than I can handle and it doesn't work very well if there's a split in this clip it's because I went to wash my hands but this is what you're going to do folding and folding and folding your paper be a little careful of your fingernails a little paper paper is kind of a meat there I got a tear already but that's okay tear right in the center so this is basically what you're going to do is just keep crumpling and folding and eventually there won't be any crunch left in your paper and unfold the paper will appear to shrink but it's not actually shrinking and do it again from what I understand you want to try to get the wrinkles evenly distributed so that you are sure that you broke down all fibers so I know this is very simple but I can feel it beginning to change its character already but I did it about I don't know 15 times or more yes already it's beginning to feel different and look at my hands that's the only bad part if I have if I don't want this to be too long but if I have enough time I'll do another image if I didn't lose it no I have another one here but this was just I'm always looking for something for mixed media it doesn't require making a mess I have another another new thing I tried up here to the side if there's time I'll show it to you but in the end I always want to adapt it because I just don't have time and I just ignore inclination to keep getting out paints and rollers and gesso and you know when I come in here I want to relax I don't want to clean and having to keep get up clean my brushes clean my plate gather my materials for the second part of the technique that's just not for me oh there's the back and the back is just lovely look at that already I can feel it becoming looks like a this one to me look like a kimono it is truly a keeper technique for me almost as maybe as good as the block printing I love it's I love explore I love paper making I love I love traditional techniques dying I don't die as often as I would like to but paper making block printing I love the traditional techniques and it's I mean it's just wispy the feel of it I wish you could feel it I truly wish you could feel it and it's just amazing to me so I will probably come up with something to do with this quite sure what yet but I will I am certain and look at that well one of my ideas was a locket you know using my metal you know but to cut it out like a frame look how vintage that looks just absolutely beautiful absolutely beautiful I am so impressed with this even the modern texts I don't know if you can see that even the modern text takes on a totally different character so I would encourage you to try all different types of paper look at that look at how vintage that looks I would like to try some metallic watercolors there there's the top of the text in the image let me see if you can see that but even that begins to look vintage truly amazing truly amazing okay let me see if I can quick wipe off my hands here move on to the next probably probably I'm going to chop this in half so it doesn't take so long with my faux paper tarot wait a minute I have the wrong one because I did tear off all sides previously so I hope you're all doing well hope you've had a nice weekend and a good start to your week this one even though the paper is much thicker it actually doesn't take much longer tracing paper was lovely I haven't tried cardstock but I imagine that would give you something that resembles leather so I have a couple of announcements regarding my shops I've decided to decide for my best sellers I'm going to well first of all I've lowered my prices almost half and I decided I'm going to redo all my product offerings and stay within Etsy file size limits and rather than rework 100 products which would take three to 400 hours I've tried to I've tried several ways to try to reduce the time of that and I simply can't so I will never see a return on that investment so I've decided it's just easier for me to phase out the old products and create new products that are within Etsy file size limits. Eliminate the extra work for myself on Etsy as well as the customer frustration of having downloading not understanding how to download from a phone or device or whatever sometimes the newer device the newer phones it's possible but I don't know I'm not I'm also not willing to keep up with technology that changes every five minutes to continue to accommodate things like that so that's what I decided to Shopify where I don't have any of those issues and I can upload any size product and they invest in their platform pretty soon I'll be able to easily bundle products so the product offerings on Shopify and Etsy will be different and Etsy products are just going to remain within their file size limits at lower prices generally and I did figure out a way at first I was like okay so which one do I choose JPEG or PDF and in the end I decided on PDF because the printer what the printers professional printers print from the PDF today so I chose PDF just because I can put some more pages in a PDF rather than keep with a press quality JPEG with no loss of quality so I went with PDF but still there might be one two three four or five PDFs depending on the image size file size everyone should end up being a lot happier that's oh my gosh that is so beautiful let me just take a credit card here and so you can I mean you can see that you can care them you can wet them you can paint on them you can ink them it might be nice to try to rub over that with a metallic ink rather than go at it with water but I wanted to try to get the gold to seep into all those crevices so that it more closely resemble the traditional paper which you can just do a Google search and then images where you can see what it looks like with the gold and there you go I should probably do that a few more times but you you want to once you try it you'll get it because you can literally feel the paper changing and that's just too hard to explain on camera but you can feel it it becomes like a piece of cotton this type does the tracing paper feels a little different magazine feels a little different magazine feels more like a thinner cotton but it is just truly astounded and I'm truly in love with this it's just a matter of what am I going to make with it yet now and maybe next week I'll have something but for right now I just chose to come up with something to keep the tactile feel and if you have any suggestions a page in your journal I would do an entire page I would do an entire book of this actually if I could and it wouldn't be for anything except feeling but of course you'd have to interspersed it with writing pages but I truly cannot describe what it's like and how beautiful it is okay I'm taking too much of your time for needing paper so that's gonna be it but do it at least 15 20 times but I assure you you'll begin to feel you'll begin to recognize when you're at the end in this I mean it no longer feels like a magazine truly it doesn't in this one even with the paint on it it feels a little different feels a little more stiff but it definitely still doesn't feel like magazine and these ones are so thin they do not feel like a magazine at all so that's it for this week I this is one that you can rest assured is going to not disappoint and what you think is going to happen I mean that is absolutely beautiful aside from my black hands okay everyone I hope you enjoyed this I'll come up with something and maybe we'll do maybe we'll do a project with it next time have a great week everyone thank you for your time it truly appreciate it and I'll see you next time have a good one bye