 Hey guys, how are you today? So we are back with the Genomi machine and we are going to do some collage bookmarks and tags with different paper and fabric scraps. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to take these little small like inventory office supply tags. These are from Staples. I used to use them for price tags way back when and I want to use tape runner, scrapbooker's tape runner and I want to glue these two these tags maybe if I can get the tape to work. Well it might be empty. Yeah well it's empty. Let's try something different shall we? I'm going to grab the ETG gun. I'll refill that after I'm done. All that worked. So I've got a couple just inspirational words here. Well this one says beautiful. This one says imagined but I need to trim it. I'm not going to use the fabric scissors which are still out here. I'm going to use the paper scissors. Now when you're doing collages with fabric and paper and maybe paint that are going to be sewn you want to not use your best sewing machine and you want to not try to not to sew through any wet paint or wet glue. That's not good for the sewing machine. I do think I want to take some ink. I have some chalk ink here. We are going to use this color and maybe this purple. Yep I think that's what we're going to do and we are going to use one of my stamps from one of my stamp collection. I have this stamp set. It's called Arrows. It has other things in it but I am going to pull one of the arrows out. And the only block I can reach is the big one. Yeah that's the only one I can pull. That's what we'll use. So it's an arrow and I'm going to use this color I think. Now the ink is better choice than paint because if we sew through it it's not going to damage the machine. And I am going to do this. That worked out well I'll show you in a minute. So I lined them up like this and I stamped them both at once. That turned out cute. Okay I'm going to set those aside and let them dry a little bit. We're going to do a bookmark first. So I've got these extra pieces of the firm, extra firm stiffener from doing journal covers. And this is kind of long though so I'm going to trim it off here. Got all kinds of little parts here on the table. I'm going to take a piece of scrap fabric. I want to put some scrap fabrics on the back. I've got these random pieces here. I'm thinking instead of cutting a fresh piece I could probably use these. Yep that'll work. So I'm going to line them up here on the back side. The non-pretty side. Oh that's better. All right and let's use the genomy. Let's lengthen the stitch length to like C which is still a straight stitch but it's not the longest one it'll do. And we're going to just go around the edge. Make sure you go backwards and forwards a little bit at the beginning and the end. Stop in the corners with your needle down. Lift up the presser foot and turn. Now normally if I was doing a regular sewing project I would trim this off and I would trim this off. I'm going to trim this thread off but I think I'm going to leave these long ends. I might like them. I might want to wrap them around to the front side. And I'm not going to do anything with this right now because we're going to sew things to this side and as we do that that's going to seal this up. All right so now we're going to turn it this way and we are going to start arranging fabric scraps and paper scraps on the front of our bookmark in a semi-random fashion. I've got random crazy bits of pieces. I've got this piece of old paper from a stamp collector's book that I think I want to use. And then maybe we want to flip this down and put this card on here. I like that. And flip this up and put this here. Yep I like that. So let's just we're going to just be random. All right now when stitching through paper make sure that you adjust your tension to not be too tight and that you use a longer stitch length. So we're going to switch to D now. The more holes you punch in the paper the more delicate it's going to become especially with the old paper. You notice I didn't pick up the presser foot. I didn't stop. I wasn't careful about sewing exactly properly around the tag. I was very random about it. That was intentional. That gives the piece a lot of texture and interest. I like that. I'm going to flip this up down here and we're going to sew this on and then we'll just keep going. Now you can hear right there how much harder it is for the machine to get through all the layers now because it's getting kind of thick. So just don't fold fast. Give the machine a break. So that's what we have so far and we have more bits and pieces. I've got more. Let's see. I have these little envelopes. These are little envelopes from the dollar store, the Japanese dollar store that I think I want to stick one of these on here. The question is do I want to sew it on or glue it on and do I want to put it face up which is pretty or face down which is less pretty but then I could get the tag in there or do I want to just put it face up and then do this. Decisions, decisions. I have these little, these are labels from watercolor paints. I do save these and I use these in like collage projects like this. I think I'm going to use this one which is from a green color, what color is sap green. I think before I decide on the envelope and the tag that we're going to put this on here somehow, some fashion. And this little piece of tape. This is a leftover part of fancy packing tape. You know after you've gotten all the way down to the cardboard roll this is the part that was on the cardboard roll so it's not sticky on the back. Now of course when you were done you could do something like laminate this or you know coat it with mod podge or something if you wanted. I probably wouldn't bother. You could also put it in a clear plastic bookmark sleeve. That would be the probably the wiser choice. There is a website called clearbags.com and they sell bookmark sleeves in a number of different sizes so you could find a sleeve that's the right size for this and stick it in there. This would also just make it a fun tag. You know I might want to do that with it. I don't know. Do-do decisions, decisions. I do think I want this on here though and you know you don't have to leave the string on here. I could take the string off right. I could glue it on or tape it on both. I think I want to do that. You don't always have to sew everything on the tag or bookmark or whatever you're making. Yep it's like a hidden message on the bookmark. I like that. All right I do think I want to I have an edge here that's not sewn down so I think that we're going to sew it down. So there's one. Let's do another one. I'm going to take another piece of, oh let's use this piece and I've got some more of this mixed media fabric. Get that sewn on there. You can hear it with this mixed media fabric. There's a lot of layers of paint and stuff on the fabric so you can hear that it's having a hard time. I have this little watercolor sample thing that I did. Maybe not. I don't know. I have these yoyos too. I think I want to put the yoyos on there. They're cute on there. So it's just a matter of picking and choosing different pieces. I like that. I've got another label. Yep okay let's get some of these on here. Yep you can hear it's not liking all that fat. That's getting a little thick for it. It's like I don't like that so much. You can't glue things on. I don't know. I have this impulse to keep putting some of this fabric on here. The machine's not going to like it. I'm going to trim it so that I'm not doing too many layers because the machine already hates me. There we go. So I just cut it so that it fits up next to these other pieces. So let's try that. That's better. So when you're doing these thick fabrics with the layer of the stiffener, no more than two layers of fabric and one layer of stiffener because your little genome is not going to like it. Let's see. I'm just piecing different pieces together here. I could trim that I suppose. I don't want to though. I'm going to switch to a zigzag just because. So sewing on your paper or fabric and making mixed media pieces should be about texture and color. So don't be afraid to switch it up and put some zigzag on there. It's not going to like this but we're going to try it. Hopefully I don't blow the machine up on camera. That's interesting. Already it's interesting. These are little fabric yoyos and I don't make yoyos. I buy them from other people who do because I have no patience to make yoyo. And really I'm just shoving stuff underneath the presser foot as it's going around except I can't get that under there because I'm too far over so let's trim some stuff. Put some paper on there. I think we're going to do that. I like that. Press the needle up and turn it around. Go back up the way we came. When we get to the bottom of the tag I'm going to have the needle up and I'm going to switch back to a straight stitch D which is the long one and I'm going to go this way. I like this. I like this a lot. I like it better than the first one. That's cute. I would have that stuffed in my book in a heartbeat. That's cute. Or you could have it as a gift tag. That's cute. Okay let's do one more. I've got a store. This is a store. This is off of a top or something that I bought. Yeah top from Target. So we're going to cover we're going to work on this and I like some of the designs on here so I don't think we need to cover the whole thing up but we're going to cover up some of it. I want that one. I pulled it off too quickly. So these are some of my labels that are from my Etsy shop. You can buy the digital download and then you can print them on the label paper and I tell you what label forms to buy from Avery that will work for that paper. So I'm going to put this sticker on the front side. I'm not worried about covering up the whole because I like the design that's on the tag but we covered up the store, the manufacturer name there. Impulse to do this with this and tear this. Yeah and then I'm going to take my purple ink that's sitting over here and I'm going to just ink up the edges. These are cheap ink pads so they're not actually they don't stick down to the inside the container anymore. They're from you know the $1.50 bin at Target. All right so we've got that so let's stitch that on. Again we're on a long stitch length and because I do lots of mixed media on this machine the tension on it is set to something that's not super tight so that it doesn't pull too much when it stitches on the paper so the threads don't pull. But it's also not too loose that I get lots of loops at the bottom so that's cute and you could leave it like that and put something blank on the back and that could totally be used as a gift tag. I could very much see that. I don't know if we're going to do that. I don't know. I'm really kind of getting the impulse to stick this on the back um which we might do. I don't think I want anything else on the back. I've got other little bits and pieces here but I think I just want this though. This was a I think molding paste in ink experiment or molding paste in watercolor experiment. Something I did on camera I don't know. I save all the little bits and pieces and use them later like this. Okay so let's put let's see about putting that there and then do you want to put anything else on here? Let's see. This paper does have stamps on it. I told you it's an old stamp collector's book. I got these from someone I want to say Beth Swalwell from the Art Barn but I'm not sure. It might have been Secret Soto. I don't actually remember who sent them. It did come in Happy Mail. Yeah I think we're gonna put these on here. You could of course glue these but this is about using your sewing machine in Mixmedia so that would not be the purpose of this video but you totally could glue these on. It's gonna cover up the barcode side of the price tag here. I don't care if the price actually shows so again this machine's having a hard time on this not only because of the thickness of all the paper but because the label has on the other side has adhesive on it so this is another reason why you don't want to use your best sewing machine to sew on paper. So that's cute right. I'm getting the impulse to stick an inspirational word on here so let's just really quickly reach into the word box and find, will that fit on there? I think I don't think that fits on there. I don't think that is the right word. We need a little word. There we go. Two words. So we're going to put simply on one side and for this we are going to use the ATG gun. I'm going to put simply on one side and then the other one we're going to put love. So there we go. Made out of something I just had laying around. So here's three different ideas about how you can sew on paper and other different kinds of mediums with your sewing machine and use them in your mixed media piece to create something interesting. And they're very simple. They don't require perfect sewing. They don't require any fancy stitches. You can do them with a little tiny genome machine and just have some fun to remember to play. Yeah? All right. Please like share and subscribe and don't forget the most important thing. 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