 Mary and Espresso press design. Hope you're all doing well. Thank you for stopping by. Sorry I'm late. I'm late. I'm late for a very important day and that's you. Busy week. What can I say? School started yesterday and I wasn't any more ready for that than my daughter was I'm sure. But today we're gonna do Off the Charms for a video or two and little show-and-tell and then we'll get right into it. Today we're gonna do marker batik. Batik. Marker batik. So just a quick little show-and-tell here. I don't know if you're gonna see that glitter or not. But that's another framed piece I did and that's the last one for that. A little more rustic. Put the word smile in there. I don't know about that part. I usually don't do that kind of stuff but I did this time. So there's that and this little tea treat holder I made. Tea treat with a butterfly collection. Papers and the digital kit. So that's that in in print if you want to see something actually made with it. Okay, this is kind of cool. I have some charms here but I some new little charms here but I decided not to do that today because this will be faster. But you're gonna need markers. As you can see I've been I have tons of markers. You're gonna need some alcohol. Doesn't matter what what strength. You're gonna need some water. You're gonna need a stencil and you're gonna need some white paper. So I'm just gonna show you step one or if you just want to get some nice tinted papers here without dealing with spray alcohols and all of that. Which is what I had been doing. I don't know where it is at the moment but I've been tearing apart markers to make my own alcohol links. And then I found this and I realized I don't even have to do that because I can get all the color paper I want by eliminating the step of tearing apart markers. So I came up with this. So I'm just gonna do step one and this is marker fatigue. There's the front and there is the back. So I'm just gonna do step one. This one's already dried and I can show you step two. So it's gonna be better if you stick with color families. Warm colors or cool colors because now this isn't bad. I'm not saying it's bad but in the end you're gonna start getting muddy if you go mixing warm and cool. Okay so it's better if you stick with either warm. This I started with yellows. Then I moved on to pinks and reds. Here's the back. Both sides are nice and this one I started with greens and I'm gonna move on to blues. After I show you just how to do, well I don't even have to do that. You'll get to just after I put on the ink. Okay so I'm just gonna move on to my blues. Because all I really have to say is, and you need a clear file folder, insert, a clear sheet. It doesn't even matter what it is. You can probably do this on wax paper. So I'm just gonna add a bunch of blues here. Well no. Okay I have to do it. I have to do the first part so you can see the central part. Okay I'll do it twice. Just move dry it. It doesn't matter how you put these on. If you want to keep going in circles, get a different design in there a little bit. Kind of like this one. I just went in lines, brown and green. Whatever you want. Okay so I'm gonna be doing blues. I'll do a starter one and I'll go from blue to green. It's probably better if you go from light to dark. Better if you go from light to dark. That's where I started with the yellows on the other one. Okay that's probably enough. Now you're gonna want this to be soaked. I'm gonna take your stencil and lay it on there. You're gonna take your sheet of paper. Now for this step you can start out leave the stencil out. Make your first color as a solid. And that way you don't get, and then when you do the second part, your first part will be the white. Okay that makes sense. You can do this. You can start out with coffee dye and then add color. Whatever you want. You can add a second stencil after the first and you have two stencils for your second color if you want and then keep building up layers. Okay there's your first layer. I'm just gonna pick this up and pick up some more at the edges and there's the back. The back is the opposite of the front. Of course it is but you know what I mean? The pattern is reversed. So kind of always remember that when you do your second color which I'm gonna put my, the one I'm gonna put face down on the next one is this side. Okay. Okay so there's step one which as it's dried is like this. Okay so I'm not gonna dry that and go it and go back into the green with this one. I'm just gonna do the opposite and go into the blue with this one. So I hope you can understand the layering. It helps if you know a little bit about boutique. You still have to keep in mind your color families otherwise you'll end up with mud. Okay and you can do it monochromatic. You can start with light greens and go to dark greens but as long as you stay in the same family warm and cool you're good. Okay so I'm gonna put down another layer of blue and I'm probably gonna try to make it as dark as I can. That should probably be a little drier. I'm gonna try to make it as dark as I can so you can get the full effect here. A whole bunch of blues. You get one that works really good. That doesn't work too well. Not working too well this time either. Let me see. Okay so I'm just going in with blue and I can even add some blueish purples. There's a different blue. So I hope you're all doing well. Hey you L my friend L from West Virginia. How about that guy Oliver Anthony turning down an eight million dollar contract. Good for him. Good for him. I hope that gives you a real feeling of being proud of your neighbor. I hardly watched anything this week so this was the only thing I saw that brightened my week. Learned that I don't have to spend all this time doing cutting up dried up markers. I wish I had a super dark but I don't. Well that's gonna do. Okay step two. I have my green that's already dried and I'm gonna go in with my blue. You're gonna see okay it's gonna make things muted because you're layering this. Remember that's my stencil side and that's the reverse of my stencil side. So you're gonna see it's just gonna make something darker. It's my reverse. Basically trying to get the white out of there and there's my batik side and anywhere I don't want white I'm just gonna go in here and pick up the rest of this stuff and let her dry. But if I wanted to I could have put a different stencil on there and then add another color. Okay let me try to explain this. I could have started with yellow as my stencil layer and then I could have went to orange and added another stencil and then I could have went to pink red for my final this one and then I would have two two different stencil layers and three different colors. So I hope you can understand that. But this is a great way to either just color paper. You don't need to buy those alcohol inks. Not even necessary. Who isn't sitting around with 28 million markers. Don't give them away. Don't give them away anymore. Just like with my crayons. Although I did find a did find another bag of crayons and I do have some more to show you about using crayons but this is just the marker part. So there you go. Batik marker. When that dries it's going to be a little wood. And they're step two. If you still like if you'd like to keep the white in there you can use that for your stamping part. And it will like you steam some words in there. Some cursive. Stamp over that. It's going to show up on your white and there you go. And there's your batik. And of course if you don't want to even do the stencil there's your beautiful paper. I got a bunch of it here. I've been messing around with this for a couple of days now. I just didn't have time to do a video. So okay where are we? Okay that was simple enough. I hope I explained it well enough. But I will make something with these. I'll probably just use these as they are for the photo. I'll make something nice. And then I'll take another photo of what I made. And that will be on the blog. So okay guys remember warm or cool families light to dark. Alcohol water about 50-50. Your paper and a stencil. So that's about it. Have a good one everyone. I'll see you next time. Bye.