 Exactly, I've been doing my paper clips that I've been doing for the whole month of June. I do think I'm gonna do some more of them in July. Am I gonna do them every day? I don't know. I got the idea from Lollipalooza. I will link her channel in the description below. I really was inspired by one particular video of hers where she showed she was making paper clips. And if I can find that particular video, I will link it in the description below. For the base of the paper clip, she used a craft stick from Michaels. It comes in a 30 piece pack. It's by Creatology and she calls them short fat popsicle sticks and it's actually the one you see me here using and gluing to that scrapbooking paper. There's also another one that they have that I got when I was there that just is called Wood Shapes. It's another 30 piece pack. And it has ovals and different sizes of rounds and teardrop shapes. And they are both found, and I was just looking to see if it had any other name on it. It doesn't. They are both found in the Kidscraft section of Michaels. You know, where they have the pom poms and the felt and the jingle bells and stuff like that. So look for them in your Michaels store. I like these particular shapes because I really enjoy doing the paper clip art with a four inch paper clip. I buy them when I see them, but generally speaking, I have to order them from Amazon. So that also is something I'll link in the description below. Other than that, you can use what you have, papers that you have, glues that you have. Here you see me using some old scrapping booking paper to be honest, I forgot I had. I've been trying to use up what's in my stash and some tacky glue to glue a piece on both sides. And although the backside, aka ugly side, is gonna have the paper clip on it, I do want it to have a piece of scrapping paper or something on there rather than just raw wood. So I start with covering always the front and back of whatever little wood piece that I'm gonna use. And in this case, you see the paper clip to the right there between the wood piece and the ballpoint pen. This happens to be about a two and a half inch paper clip. It's not my usual four inch one, but it's one I had in my stash and it already had sort of a metal charm at the top. So I wanted to use that. On my desk happened to be lots of small crazy little bits of ephemera, including that butterfly stamp and random bits of paper and pieces of lace. And I literally just look through what's on the table until I find things that inspire me to put them on the paper clip. I did just get a bunch of happy mail sent to me by Carolyn Shanks. And between this paper clip and an ATC card that I did, I used just about all the happy mail. So thank you, Carolyn, that was great. I have random little bits of all kinds of stuff. Well, there's my messy bun right in the way. Hello. You can't see what I'm doing. There we go. I was just layering a little piece of a security envelope underneath the postage stamp and that letter G right on top. And then I have some printed out words and quotes from my SE shop. And so I'm gonna pick one that I think will work on the paper clip and I will, usually I stick it to a little piece of paper, which I do believe I do in this case too. And then I cut it out from the piece of paper and then glue that to the wood that's gonna be the front of the paper clip. The other thing that I do to attach the paper clip to the back that you'll see me do in just a minute is I don't just glue it by itself or glue it with a piece of paper. You could, I guess, do that. I want it to be a bit more secure than that. So I did do the first couple of paper clips that I ever did with paper. Then I realized I have a bunch of Tyvek envelopes. Why don't I just grab one of those? So I use a piece of Tyvek envelope. If you don't know what that is, that is the kind of envelope that feels like it's almost fabric-y in construction and it's difficult to tear. In fact, you can't tear it. You have to cut it open when you get a package in the mail that's on Tyvek. So here I'm just using tacky glue to glue all my pieces, not only to each other, but to the paper clip. I don't mind if they hang off the edge. I'm not gonna trim it. She sent me this really cool letter G for Gina. So I'm gonna use that too. Then I'm going to take the quote that I picked, which I don't remember at this moment what it says. And I'm not sure we can read it on camera. It's pretty little. So these quotes are printed pretty little so that they will fit on the paper clips and also so that they will fit on the artist trading coins, which I was also doing in the month of June. Sometimes they're still too big and I've got to cut them apart, but usually I can if they're that size or shorter, I can just fit it the way it is. So I stick it to the little piece of paper and then I trim it out from the little piece of paper and then I glue it onto the front of the paper clip, the wood base for the paper clip. Again, we're just using tacky glue. Every now and then if something is heavy or non-absorbent like a metal piece or a plastic piece, then I will use E6000 glue, but otherwise generally it's tacky glue. Okay, so we're gonna let that set for just a second. I am going to grab some flatback gems. Now the flatback gems here that I'm using are from back in the day when we were all melting pearler beads in toaster ovens. Do y'all remember that? If you're new to the mixed media game, you may not remember what I'm talking about, but just type in to YouTube melted pearler beads. Something should come up from somebody. I have bunches of them from back in the day still and I've been using them up. And so I attached those also with tacky glue. I slide my little piece of Tyvek envelope under the paper clip. The longer part of the paper clip gets glued to the back of the wood piece and the shorter end is free and that's where you can actually clip this to a piece of paper. So I carefully pick it up because everything of course is wet and I can't be bothered to wait for anything to dry. I slide it up onto the paper clip having the little charm dangle up over the top. Carefully flip it over, push the Tyvek and the tacky glue down onto the backing piece of paper, make sure the paper clip is straight. I usually grab a couple of binder clips after I give it some kind of a little trim and I attach the binder clips to the paper clip and the piece of Tyvek and as like a mini clamp and leave it there to let it dry and that holds everything together while it dries. Tacky glue doesn't dry immediately so you have some working time, open time to really get everything positioned properly so that it can sit and dry. So here we are, it's dry or just about dry. Oh no, sorry, I lied. Here we are putting the binder clips on and then you just let it dry and once it's dry you can slide it onto a piece of paper or a journal cover or a journal spine for that matter to decorate that or even you could line them up on a piece of string or a clothesline and hang them on the wall of your art room. That would be fun too. That basket you see is all of the paper clips I've made for the month of June. It's crazy, right? I know. Anyway, they are a lot of fun to make. I'm gonna keep making them. They're fun little projects and here I'm just, it's still wet but I'm gonna unclip it and just kinda show you what it looks like on a piece of paper. I don't wanna push it down too far cause again it's wet but it would slide generally all the way down but there you go. That's a piece of cardstock by the way. Anyway, have some fun with it, show Lolly some love, go check her out. If you have any questions, comments or concerns leave them in the description below and don't forget to go out and have a great day everybody do something nice for yourself cause you deserve it. Check the description out for links and I'll see you later. Bye guys.