 everyone, Mary and Espresso Press Design. Hope you're all doing well. Thank you for stopping by and another charm project today. But first housekeeping, thank you to my customers, Terry, Brianna, Elle, you know who you are. You didn't have to do that, but I thank you very much. Dana, Nicole, thank you all for the kind reviews and I hope you enjoy your products. Let's shout out today to Hawaii and, oh boy, that's been hard to watch on the news. All that devastation and I can't even imagine, but thoughts and prayers for you and to also to China. Your recent flooding has been also quite horrifying to watch. So thoughts and prayers to those in China. I've had the occasion to meet some Chinese people. I think you're very kind and nice and very sorry to hear what you're going through, some of you. Okay, Susan, I hope you got my town. Talk a little bit about that shortly. And Nancy, I hope that you were able to find the how to make tiles video. Susan, I hope you know sometimes I don't like to put my town publicly. I know I am public. I know if someone wanted to find me or us they absolutely could because we have a business. But on more than one occasion I've watched people on YouTube get stalked and I'm just, you know, I put myself out there and I accept all the risks of being public on YouTube but you know my family is a different story. So I hope you understand that and your idea for the stationery and going through my papers. I really didn't have that many I wanted to part with. And the ones that would be usable are background papers and I use those all the time. So I came up with one little pad and that's about it so far. But I did take the time to explore your idea and thank you. And I'll see, you know, if I need some fillers but my table is actually pretty full. The space I'm allotted so I'll see how it goes. Okay today is charms. Another charms. And these ones I really do love. I mean I like them all but you know you always end up with your favorites and these are so ridiculously simple. Another ridiculously simple and I know that you could probably achieve this using pearlescent paint or whatever but I didn't have that. And one day I was just goofing around and had my glitter out so I came up with these and I thought oh isn't that pretty if you I know you're not going to get all of the shimmer on there. I know you're not even if I shield my light a little bit. So those were the first ones and they're fine but I thought I'd like like to do this a little differently. So I came up with these ones and they are beautiful. Okay well first of all I tried them on a word background. I didn't particularly like that so I moved on and these are I think I'm going to call them Old World and I know you're probably not going to see that but in the photo it's stunning. There are little flecks of gold in there and I doubt you're going to see it on the video but there they are. And I did some, I thought let me try it with some background paper and see what happens. So I used some of this from Love Letters and while they did it there you can see a little bit of the gold maybe I don't know. The colors are very muted so you really can't see the background through them and then on these ones I use a lighter tone of ink so that's what happens if you use the background paper. Still lovely and this camera isn't doing them justice because you can't see the little flecks of gold. But what you'll need is some packaging material. I did mine four by six. Hopefully I have something I do. Packaging material for the first ones I use some coffee dyed paper, some wax paper, some glitter. It can be fine or chunky or if you want absolutely no mess you can use glitter glue. Some punches although some of these I did in a more square type fashion and just used my fancy corner rounder. So some punches. I have two here because I made different sizes for these ones. And I'm going to use Mod Podge but if you want to use glue be my guests. So I'm just going to show you the step one and step two and I'm just putting a very thin coat of glue here and I have one already finished because again before you even attempt to put it through the embossing folder or the press it has to be completely almost completely dry or you are going to slide your paper off of your packaging material and then that will just be a big mess. So I'm using Mod Podge here because I don't know why I never use this tool. It's actually quite handy. And then I just put that on there with a good burnish. Trim it off. Okay there's step one. I'm going to let this dry. I already have one here in the next phase. I'll show you in a minute. And then take this put a very thin coat of Mod Podge on here. I almost want to do a different color but I'm not going to. I'm going to do this exact same as I did these different color ink I mean because I always I don't like doing the same things. And already look at my pile there. I have to find, probably might find another container to put these in because my compartments are full again in my little embellishment containers. Okay this is where the glitter comes. So I just didn't want any puddles, the glitter. So I just poured some out and then I'm just going to sprinkle, lightly sprinkle. I just want flecks, little flecks of gold. Okay, I think that'll do. I'm going to put this over this and burnish very well. You could also do that with glitter glue. But I kind of like the effect of this glitter because it's a little bit chunky and it kind of looks like flakes. So that's why I went with this. And amazingly in the light it still retains the, still retains the sparkle. Okay, so I have one that I did last night and it's completely dry and there it is underneath wax paper. So I'm just going to trim this off and I hope you will visit the blog so you can see the photos. I probably won't do another photo of these because it's going to pretty much be almost exactly the same. Although I meant to use, meant to use the opposite side of paper on this one and then guard it on there and I did it because you can see the striations and everything from the coffee dye. And I meant to use that side and this side is a little more plain. Okay, so I'm going to run this over to the embossing folder and I'll be right back. So see how that is. And I did, I was playing around with some other glitter things but I didn't like the, I didn't like the feel of it. So that kind of led to a mini experiment. Just didn't like the feel of that chunky glitter in this embossing folder. I'll tell you why. And I just used a scroll embossing folder. So there, try to get both there. How's that? There you can see the glitter through the wax paper and now what I used was vintage photo. Close this mod podge lid. So remember that that was that completely dried. This is still too cool and too wet. I would not run it through or I'd be asking for trouble. So this one was completely dry and you're gonna say, well the ink isn't gonna stay on there. Well yes it is. It's not going to go anywhere after it dries. It stays. So there is your gold world. See that gold flux through there? I hope you can see. There. Finally. Okay. So now it's just a matter of punching or cutting and then rimming with more gold with my trusty pen. I'm sorry this series has been a little bit trite. Charms. I feel charms should have a little bling because they're not exactly in the same category as embellishments. That'll make a nice, let me chop that off first. Make a nice square one so I'm gonna chop that off. And by the way this was 4 by 6. I keep that. That's not straight but oh well. We'll get her at the end. I keep those little pieces and I can make little rectangle ones. A couple big ones here. So the craft show is still going. I'll tell you what. I'm getting pretty burn out on it. Wait until it's here. Okay. I'll finish this row up and I'll make, I'll show you how I did a couple square ones. I'm gonna get a tiny one out of that little end there. I'll do that later. Oh, my book just fell in my trash. Okay, well wait one more cut. I do this one and three quarters, two. I'll get a little tiny square one. Then I took this punch here with the three different corners. I'll tell you what. This is one of my favorite tools and I made a few different types of corners like this. That's a book plate too if you want to consider that. I'll do this one. This punch is one of my best investments and yes, the wax paper being thin, the paper and the packaging material. You shouldn't have any trouble going through the machine. This one might be a little, oh that's cute. Do this one a little different. I didn't know I could get a tiny tag. Go in that width. Oh, that's a little odd. Okay, I'm gonna set that off. There you go. Can you see that? I don't know if you can see that tiny tag. Okay, so then I just did the usual. Took some time yesterday to clean my room and I have little bits on the floor already from those flying pieces. I'll do that one later. I'll just room a few here. I'll room that one. I should poke my hole first. Tiny hole punch. So I haven't seen that much interesting this week but shopping to get the last of my containers. Hopefully the last. Maybe I'll need one more. I plan on putting a basket of odds and ends and freebies. I should put a basket of candy too but I don't know if I'll have enough room. And then I gave up on my Christmas tree, metal tree, ornament tree to hang things from. Well, I found a tiny one at Goodwill and I just didn't like any of the styles. Now it has to go in my house after use for the show and none of the styles. I've looked at those before and I've wanted one for years and now that I finally decided to buy one. Set for the very largest one which is a full-sized tree. None of them really fit the style of my house so I didn't feel like spending that amount of money. So I hope you know what I'm talking about. One of those metal trees that you hang your glass ornaments and things like that from at Christmas. I was going to get a 30-inch one and hang products from. I guess I'll do that one. That's a little wonky to hang products from. I'll get a hole in there but it's cute. Hell, I don't have to buy one of those dyes. I always kind of wanted one of those tiny tags dyes. So I can't wait until this is over. Getting a little burnout. A little. Getting burnout on making products. I think you have to be one of those people that you did this for years or a year at least that you would have enough inventory that you're not so rushed or don't feel so rushed. Not that it's really rushed. It's been since April. So there we go. Let me see if I can get the glitter in a show through there again. Come on. Where was I when I did that? I'm trying. Shield and light a little bit. It's not showing. Not that much but in the photo it is very evident. So hop on over to the blog. I shield the light completely. No, still not working but it's there. You saw it before. So okay these are I think very lovely but simple but lovely and just a couple of those. A couple different shapes. There's another one. There's some we did today. So I hope you'll visit the blog so you can see these close up and do them. Oops, what do them justice? They are quite pretty. Okay, have a good one everyone. I'll see you next time. Probably another charm. Probably. Not sure. Not sure. Okay, have a good one. Thanks again. Bye.