 Hi everyone, Mary Despresso Press Design. Welcome. Thank you for stopping by. Today we're going to make Mamagami dimensional clips. I'm dimensional button clips. I might add the word pillow in this. I'm not quite sure yet what I'm going to put in the description, but they are dimensional clips with a paper clip on the back and get one here. As you can see they are, I'm having a sunlight today, they are dimensional so they kind of look like a little pin cushion or pillow and they're very soft because I'm using the Mamagami paper. They aren't that hard. They don't take that long, but first I'm going to do a little show-and-tell of what I've made using this, what I've learned and a few pages of my kit on Shopify using the papers that I showed last video and the actual Mamagami technique is also in the last video. I'm not going to do the paper kneading technique this week. I'm just going to describe what I learned, etc. So here are a few of the additional pages in the kit that will be on Shopify only. It has labels, journal cards, templates for making envelopes and tags. This is a page of stamp type images, labels, journal cards, backgrounds. I didn't print all of the backgrounds and this is an example of the page in the kit that's also available on Etsy, the reduced size file size kit that's available on Etsy. So as you can see I've been very busy. This is this technique is so beautiful. I've been doing it all week. So what I've learned, I've learned you can do it with tissue paper even though it took much longer to get the desired softness on tissue paper. You can do it with magazines. You can do it with printoffs. I have many here. Today I'm going to glue that one. Many, many printoffs here and it just feels like cotton. Different weights of paper are going to give you a different degree of softness. Surprisingly I used a paper from a sketchbook and even though it's a better quality of paper it didn't give me the same amount of softness as a printoff. Why I don't know. Maybe I just have to need this sketchbook paper much longer. I then went on and sprayed this with coffee dye. Took the dye very well. So let me explain the madness behind my method. I felt of course I'm going to make a book but this is one thing I made. I felt that since the beauty of this is in the tactile experience I wanted to come up with things that kept that feature. So I just made this little flip book because that's what you'll want to do is just sit there and touch it. I made this little strippy cluster. This is also dyed and dye cut tissue. Toilet tissue actually I believe layered or napkin and it's also very soft so I just made that. I made a card and I only glued little dots in a small rectangle to keep it dimensional. Also very touchable. I did one page in my collage book with the magazine. Also very touchable and then loosely glued another scrapbook paper. Also works with scrapbook paper. So those are just a few of the things I made and then that led to the clips because I think when you see something dimensional you automatically want to touch it. I have a clip for this book, this one which is very nice and works very well but I think I'm going to make another one today and use it for clipping this particular book because it needs it got a little bit chunky and it needs a clip. So that's what we're going to do today. I forget how long it actually takes to make one about 15 minutes I guess. So what you'll need I also made a heart one. It's also dimensional. I'm having a sunlight thing today I hope. I have to remember to stay right here in the middle. So I think I'm going to make one with this. What you'll need are some for the top dimension cardstock. I'm going to use file folder to keep the dimension. In the beginning I used foam but I accidentally bought the wrong kind of foam so it was thicker than this and it ended up being a little too thick. So this is pretty much all I have of this particular width and that's what's going to keep your pillow or dimensional from being crushed. So you can use foam, you can use dimensional tape. If I had a sheet I might have used that but in the end I just use cardboard from a Amazon box. So that's just your typical cardboard which I have in there. You'll need two of those, a punch. I'm going to use the circle punch for the back and the front but I'm going to reinforce mine back today with a cereal box. You don't want to reinforce your front because you're going to be shaping it. So you'll need shaping tool. If you don't have a shaping tool you can use a round end of a crochet hook or the round end of a gel pen marker, something to that effect as long as it's smooth and round. You're going to need some pink markers, deco color, oil-based metallics which is what I use to make the gold edge. It's not necessary. You can ink the edges. I'm going to show you that and then I think they take about 15 minutes. I already have one glued and dried on my paper, a front and a back because you're going to want to make sure that your glue dries completely before you punch it. For some reason it slows down the drying time and then if you try to punch it you're going to tear the paper so that's why I have one pre-glued and died. So let's just get started here. So what else I learned regarding the use of starch or oil is that they use cognac, cognac, plant starch, cognac is a plant, fibrous, starchy plant, kind of like a potato. They use it to make flour and gelatin. Let me get a ruler here and tear this and it's used to strengthen the fibers or stiffen the paper, strengthen the fibers for dying or stiffen the paper. So I did not use oils. I did not use any other medium. I just kneaded the paper and it worked fine. If I were going to use another medium I would use the starch. Some people use tapioca starch but you can get cognac starch in the US if you want. It is K-O-N-Y-A-K-K-O-N-J-A-C. So that's all you do for the first step is glue your paper on your strip. Oh boy, I meant to glue that backing on this but that's okay. I'll just cut a piece and glue them together. Punch a piece so that for some reason that stays wet even with this fast drying glue. So I'm going to use my prepared one and if that's dry by the time. If that's dry and this doesn't take too long, which I really didn't time myself, I will do two. So for the heart if you have a paper punch that would be better. But for the heart I die cut the heart and then applied the Mamagami and then trimmed the edges. So there's my back, there's my front. So this is where the shaping comes in. I clip back in my glue. You're going to want to have something to shape on which I have my little shaping. This is just a packaging, foam packaging, piece of foam and you're going to shape the top piece, not the back piece, which maybe I'm going to punch and glue this so it can have time to dry. I just want to strengthen the back piece a little bit. I think that's that would be helpful. In some pieces I used a different type of glow so when the back piece got really soaked it began to warp a little bit and I didn't like that. So hopefully this will work or I'll just be punching out another circle and using a plain circle instead. Okay now if you want to spray, lightly spray the back of your circle to make it easier for shaping you can and then you're just going to shape the edge, create your dimension depending on what size stylus you use. Let me try this. We'll determine the depth of your piece, want to be a little more and how hard you push. Basically you just want to end up with a little pillow shape like so and then as you can see because you did that you have a tiny edge there. That's why I cover that edge with gold. I'm going to show you that in a moment. I found the cardboard. This is the part that's going to be different for everyone as you're going to want to match the depth of your circle with the height of your cardboard. So I found it took two layers to make my cardboard the depth. One and a half layers would have been perfect but as you can see you're going to have a little tiny space. You're going to have a little tiny space. When you get out of the sunlight you're going to have a little tiny space and the cardboard is going to be so that you cannot crush this after it's put together and it's going to give you something to adhere the dimensional disc to. So I hope that makes sense. So basically I just cut my cardboard to size which ended up being about an inch, one inch by one inch. My circle punch is an inch and a half and then I put a smaller one on top like so. And I just trim the corners. But if I were making these to sell I would probably use black foam. You can also if that little opening bothers you it doesn't bother me but you can also glue some cord or something which this one I glued twine on that sunlight. I glued twine in there but the additional amount of the glue kind of made my circle warp a little bit so I didn't love that. So I just skipped it. Okay so I have my we have our dimensional piece. We have our center reinforcement. We have our back. Now I'm going to apply the gold. It's going to get covered up. I just applied the gold around the inner edge of this and then I applied it around the edge of this. I'm going to show you that you can you can ink both or you can do gold or silver or whatever you want to that little edge. So I'm just going to ink the top to give a demonstration of how you just do either one or both whatever you want. So one is inked and then my paper clip. Paper clip or size is your choice. I chose to put the you could also make this a hidden paper clip if you desire. That really doesn't bother me so wait a minute. Word to be readable. I chose to put the longer side on the back. Okay there's your clip prepared and then just a matter of gluing your cardboard. This is also you do not have to use mom and mommy paper to do this. Of course you can use any type of paper. Make a dimensional clip but I found cardboard if I wanted to smush it a little bit and make it flatter. I could. Foam. Foam worked very well. Dimensionals would work well so they're step two. They're step two and then I'm just going to lay this on top here so you can see. I suppose I could describe that kind of like a little hamburger. So you want to make sure your dimension matches the depth of your your dimensional support matches the depth of your pillow for lack of a better word or cushion to avoid crushing it and distorting it after it's put together. So then it's just a matter of gluing your top piece onto your backing. It's a little more glue or a glue gold around the edge. Reason that it's not showing up unless it's just the light in here and they are just... I also applied a tiny touch of glue to my glue. Same glue. Gold to my paper clip so you don't... after you glue that you don't want to just want to put it aside and let it dry because it will it will shift if you keep pressing it and you don't want it to shift. You want it to remain perfectly centered. Okay. There's number one so we're at 30 minutes so I don't know that I'm going to do a second one. So that's how I did it. Let's get that back in there. This is hopefully dry enough. Let's try. Yeah, I'm ready to make a second one and I knocked these out. I don't know. Pretty fast. Was it anything too difficult? I hope. I don't think so. The heart. You can do other shapes. If you glue the Momagami paper to the heart and run it through the die cut you're going to lose your texture of your paper but you will not lose the softness. You can also... the heart is also shaped but it's not as noticeable as the circle and I just had those hearts lying around so I thought I would try it. But you can do what you can try to do whatever shape you want as long as you're able to get the dimension and then they just clip on your designs. Beautifully, beautiful, beautiful and I think when people see dimension they automatically want to touch it so that was another reason I wanted to try to make something else be tactile. Okay, that's it. I hope that was... if that wasn't explanatory enough and you would like me to do another video I'll do another video but I think it's pretty simple to grasp the concept and why you would not... I don't know what type of glue you would actually find to keep those edges completely glued down without making a puddle. Maybe a glue gun would do that. I don't know. You could try it. If that little separation bothers you but it doesn't bother me I think it adds to the dimension so it doesn't bother me. Okay, that's all I can think of. Thank you for your time. Thank you for stopping by. I truly appreciate it and if I didn't make something clear or you would like another demonstration just pop it in the comments and I'll do it do another video. Thanks again everyone. Have a great week. Bye.