 Hi everyone. Mary at Espresso Press Design. Thank you for stopping by. Sorry, adjusting the camera. Thank you for stopping by. I hope you're all doing well. Today is a variety. I'm going to do some wax paper, more wax paper, glassing type technique I came up with as I was trying to clear up my little wax paper scraps. So I came up with a bunch of little things that kind of resemble glassing. I'll get to that in a second. I've spent most of the week coming up with ideas of things I would like to do for my craft show. I thought you might like to see that and give me a few. I would like some help on one particular thing. So my high ticket item is probably going to be something with shaped flowers. I make these and put them in shadow box type things and this is one of the ones I have that was done on a tag. So I'm going to do that. I'm going to do note cards because this is one of my favorite types of cards to make. I took some time to create some bases here that aren't finished. I really like to do something with my handmade paper. This is another version of the shaped flowers. I'm going to do something with these, the Mamagami paper and bookmarks and this is my low ticket item magnets refrigerator magnets because my daughter can help me do these and we can make a bunch of these in no time and there might be kids there. My other I watch these craft show videos all the time and treat type things are always a good seller. I have a feeling the crowd is going to be more pink strawberries if you know who I'm referring to than artsy. So I would like to do some things like this but I ran into a problem almost immediately and that is the majority of my paper is single sided aside from graphic 45, stamp period and Tim Holtz and this is the only other set of paper I have that doesn't crack or that's double sided. So if you can recommend a double sided brand of paper that doesn't crack and has more of pattern type selections than I don't want stamp period. I don't want graphic 45 although they do have patterns and I don't want Tim Holtz. This is Waylene but the selections that they have available right now really aren't what I'm looking for so even though I like the paper and it doesn't crack I just I don't like their particular patterns and I'm looking for patterned type paper and variety of colors and styles. Okay so let's get to this. In this experiment I had a dumb moment I really like this bag it uses my Momagami flowers it's not strong enough so I thought well maybe I could just double the paper double the wax paper and that's what I did and it turned out and it's much stronger and it's not going anywhere and I also thought this kind of looks like frosted glass or ice so maybe for a winter journal or a Christmas ornament I could come up with something to do something with crumpled wax paper so that's what led to this to these they're actually pretty stiff they kind of feel like laminated they kind of feel laminated but in my humble opinion I think what is probably going to show up better especially when you have an image is probably something like a silhouette so I got some of my die cuts butterflies bird and I'm going to use that today these are much or even something like this stamped stamped and fussy cut butterflies so with this technique it goes a lot faster you don't have to wait quite as long to let it dry than the previous wax paper techniques so I have one here that's um dry enough I have my scissor here I have my wax paper and someone asked for the embellishments what side of wax paper I laid atop the image and it was this type of wax paper it's wax on each side I was not using deli paper or parchment paper I was using regular wax paper so that answers that so what I did this one is a triple layer so what I did I got my glue I'll show you how I glued it in a minute and then I ran it through the scissor which I have my scissor here and I'm going to stand up and run it through for you I'm not going to bring my scissor over because my space on this table is limited but I'm going to show you that I um I have a sandwich in there just because if I get a glue squirt I don't want it messing up my plates and I have it a triple layer so that I can get a good press so I'm just going to run this through standing up here let me move my coffee and hopefully hopefully my glue wasn't um no my glue is not totally dry so there's my little specimen specimen type thing when it was completely dry I just trimmed trimmed the edges so it was square if it's not dry it doesn't work very well in the guillotine or the trimmer because it acts like wet paper and it will tear so wait until it's completely dry so I'm going to show you the assembly and these are the types of scraps I had lying here in my what I call my to-do pile that has to be cleared off that has to be cleared off this week that's for sure because my table was getting crowded so I just crumbled it up hopefully this piece is big enough if not I'm going to use a bigger one or cut a bigger one and I think I might because there's not enough space around there just your bigger one so yeah I think a silhouette will probably end up working better and I just folded it and this I'm using the same glue linoco linoco book binding glue I didn't experiment with this one with different types of glues and this one is much easier because it's pretty easy to spread in my glue bottles my glue is really low should have filled up my glue my glue is low and then I just placed that image there I didn't worry about putting glue on top of the image but you can and then that was it ran it through the press and then trimmed it up as I wanted for the bag I'm just going to let that sit a moment for the bag I have the paper and this is as wide as the paper here's the trimmed edge of the paper and I just folded once folded once folded twice and there's the shape of my bag crumbled it up pretty good enough enough wrinkles in there evenly distributed you still see my fold lines trying to remember here yes trying to remember where I how I placed the images okay there we go up here are the flowers I mean up here have your um and I think maybe this one I also put the glue here I'm wiping my hands just place my flowers my mom and gami flowers because they are very thin like tissue paper I just back them lightly tack them on a white copy paper before I punched them out to give them oh but I didn't realize that I thought I checked all those oh well I'm going to have some lettering on the back of one or I just won't use that one use my flowers of glue there yeah I'm pretty sure I put glue down this side as well yeah see this was quick just some manner of uh doubling the paper to whatever size bag envelope specimen you would like it over hold it over there we go if you want it you could also do this side with the flowers I did it but I you know I might because you can still see them through the back so I don't know how much you care about that okay so that's basically all I did was double the paper if you wanted this to be a little more sturdy just do another layer I don't have enough paper there just do another layer I have a big bottle here somewhere that's way too much that's way too much get it all in there and then wipe some off that's what I'll do it's going to squirt I know that well there's nothing there to tear because there's no it works a little differently going wax paper to wax paper than it does wax paper to image to paper don't have to worry about it quite as much okay so I'll run this through the press first then I still don't think that's completely dry feels cool so that's how your image would come out and then I wait for it to dry completely and then trim it I'll just run this through I'm going to stand up run this through even it up a little bit a shim here these aren't big enough to prevent a glue squirt but it's a little there's not enough pressure so I'm using a shim so there we go and then I glued up my seams I personally like to use the embossing folder and that's another thing because it was doubled I didn't have to worry so much about tearing the wax paper so that was another good thing for the envelope obviously I didn't use a embossing folder but it's just glued I don't think it's going anywhere it's kind of like my little bag here it's glued it decides and aside from tearing apart the glue isn't coming loose so I just took some little little ephemera type I took some little stamps and I scattered them through there little things like that stamps that'll be up to your imagination what you want to press between them leaves would look lovely dried pressed flowers would look lovely so then I just assembled my bag that's just basically like a new sheet of paper that you would use however you would use it but in my humble opinion I think if I were to do it to do an ornament or something I would probably go with something that's more of a silhouette type image than a detail type image or I would choose dark colors because as you can see the red shows up better than the pink that's not too bad but I personally think the silhouette type image is a lot better for this type of thing so that's why I grabbed some butterflies birds so that's let me run this through hopefully this is explanatory enough because I really prefer to spend the rest of my day crafting then doing a video but it was just another experiment that's how I approach things I like to explore see I got a glue squirt I like to explore the mediums just like I would is if I were oh wow I got a major glue squirt just like if I were painting or something I would like to explore my paper explore my brushes explore my watercolors and that way when I begin a painting or something I know what what watercolors what brushes what paper is going to give me the result that I want so that's just how I approach things and I don't see paper crafting similar to the paper cracking I don't see paper crafting is being any different and I or mixed media or anything else I like to explore and learn the medium before I that's part of the fun and when I do begin something I won't have to be disappointed I already know if it's going to work or if it's not going to work hi everyone me again I accidentally forgot to delete a previous video so I ran out of space so I'm tacking a little on the end here of my last comment and if you have any scrapbook paper type suggestions I would truly appreciate it if you have any helpful craft show item suggestions I would appreciate it thank you for the kind comments on the previous videos unkind comments get deleted in my philosophy as long as I'm not committing a sin there is nothing I have to feel bad about and living up to my own expectations is hard enough let alone trying to live up to yours so there's nothing I have to be made to feel bad about including my voice my persona how I do videos this is new to me it wouldn't be my first choice of how I would teach a class I have taught watercolor before in person it wouldn't be my first choice of how to interact with people but it is what it is and it's part of the new economy I don't have to like it that's just the reality of today's world and I do the best I can so have a good day everyone I'll see you next time I hope you learned enough to find this helpful and I will be back next time have a great day have a great week bye