 Hi everyone. I hope you're all doing well. Sorry it's been so long. I've been a little busy doing Christmas cards and Christmas crafts and things like that so I just haven't had time to do a video but for my own needs and because I have always wanted to redo this technique with a proper video setup and since I'm in need of some of these items I decided to do that today so what we're going to do is making your own vellum with wax candles and an iron and so I'm just going to go through my newest kit here that I had some runoffs from a happy Christmas. I'm probably going to be waxing these in the wreath and I've made for myself and I'm going to offer it for free some Christmas words, Christmas phrases, texts that I can use because this is one of the most used ways that I use this technique when I want to make little word tags to put on cards and tags and things like that when I don't want to stamp words but these look very nice when they have, when they are wax vellum and they look professional so that's what I often use on cards and things when I don't want to stamp. I have this to show you what it looks like when it's see-through. So what you will need are some plain white wax candles. You can use just old copy paper for blotting. You can use aluminum foil to make the paper hotter, more hot and you'll need some things for blotting which I'll talk about that in a minute but I often use either just scrap copy paper or construction paper because it absorbs a lot of ink. You can use old watercolor sheets or it absorbs a lot of wax I mean and then I also use baking paper or parchment paper for my top before I put my iron on my whatever I want to vellum. So I think I'll try the aluminum foil and you'll need a hot iron which my iron is hot. Just open these candles here. It's my utility knife of course it's hidden down to the wick so I had to get a new one, some new ones. Okay you might also be able to do this with a heat gun that I don't know so I guess first I'll just do these little kids from one of my this is printed in a smaller percentage but I wanted to do some things in color as well as black and white. Let me put another sheet, putting a sheet and I have a towel here on my table because I don't want to melt my table or my working mat so this is not my usual setup. Usually I just do this in the laundry room. So you put down your sheet what you want to vellum. You can use your aluminum foil to make it hotter and then your piece of parchment and you get your candle handy and you just go over it until your paper is nice and hot and you'll know it's nice and hot because you will barely be able to touch it and as soon as you put your candle to it it might go a little slower here because my iron is in as close as I would like it to be but yes okay my candle is melting I think I'll do away with the aluminum foil just for quickness and so you can see through here hopefully so you just heat your paper let me try to groom a little closer here usually I have to do it several times but once it gets hot and the wax helps keep the heat which this is probably too far away and you can't see my wax melting but I can see it and you'll be able to tell because um where your wax is is a little shiny and the places you've missed will be a little dull and this one is done already and you can see all that wax left on the paper so I'm going to quickly blot I don't know if you'll see that see that shine on there you want to blot until that shine is gone because that's excess wax and also what you can do I'm going to do that you can use another sheet that you might want vellum is a blotter and it will take longer but as you go you keep that with your stuff and always use it eventually it will become vellum as well because you're using it to pick up all the wax now I have had some of these things I've vellumed um and see hopefully I've had some of these things I've vellumed for at least two years and they've never oh geez I have a sun glare coming in today let me stand up a minute because I have glare also on my screen so you can see that through there and as I said I've had some of these for two years it's never cracked it's never deteriorated it's never yellowed um the only thing I do not know these are great for book it feels so great too you're gonna love it the only thing I do not know is if you use it to make bookmarks and you put it in a book it's never happened but if you put it in a book in a warm car or something uh it might might have the potential to melt again but I highly doubt it so anyway it's a lovely tactile feel and um it when you have a floral or something let me just where's my wreath going to do the wreath here quickly for you when you have a floral or something you can use it as a flip down on a page I'm pretty sure you can still write on it but I honestly can't remember in a pen here yeah you can still write on it back yeah you can still write on it that I did not know so anyway it can be a flip down and you can see through it on a page it feels beautiful and just do this little wreath and then I will do some words this this will be lovely for on a card or um a tag gift tag taped on a cookie cookie tin or something you can see how much of my candle melted already keep plenty of candles on hand to maneuver around maneuver around cords here too so I hope you're all doing well I'm fine it just happened that somehow I got a little bit oh that's very hot now somehow I got a little behind and it seems I've been behind ever since so I'm just going to cover the whole thing here and even my scraps will be vellumed I can use those to stamp on maybe after I busty cut that see all that wax on there I don't know if you can see it but you do get a lot of wax leftover and I would be very curious to know if the heat done would work as well I think that way I could just keep one tool in my craft room so there let me blot some more I still have some shiny so I can show you what it looks like after it's blotted so there's virtually no there's virtually no shiny left on there there you can see how well you can see through it just very similar to vellum and again it's um just beautiful beautiful the way it feels okay now I'm going to sort what I need this for I'm going to use it for mostly let me get one here that you see to cut off and do the whole sheet maybe a little close together for some of you but I'm sure most people can manage it okay so I'm going to put these all free in a link below to my site so that it is always there and I don't have to worry about the link disappearing don't need that yet so this looks like you um when you use it to do words this literally looks like it's already picking up wax from below it literally looks like you just stamped on vellum so I have a whole sheet of other words everyday words thinking of you just to note oh get well things like that that I keep in my drawer when I need a quick word and I don't feel like stamping because I don't have stamps I'm starting to collect more texts stamps but you know how stamping is if you're not a pro at it and I'm not a pro at it I'll tell you that right now so usually I try to get the whole sheet just so I don't have to worry about it this might take a couple tries here and again I hope you're all doing well I'm hoping to do my first Etsy shares soon behind on a flower tutorial I wanted to do I don't know what happens it just seems like you get behind and then you can't catch up so I haven't done a video in a while let me see if you can see that I haven't done a video see those little white spaces that's how you can tell when the sheet is not covered with wax so I have to keep going a little here not long like I said I'm hoping to do my first Etsy share a lovely person I met and purchased from have um I have created some things have created some things with what I bought have to get some presentation paper oh that's pretty good doesn't even need much a little bit of blotting and I missed another spot to get some presentation paper and even make some flowers or buy some flowers and I have been using my fonts for Christmas things let's see the dies that's a so the new embossing folder got some Christmas color paper which I'm not prone to using those colors so okay there is the um there is the text let me stand up again here is the text and I just cut that out put it on my cards tags whatever and it looks like it's very professional and add a little diamond or make it a fishtail whatever uh ink the edges um sometimes I gold go around the edges in gold add a little embellishment and you have a very professional looking word and you can also you know use it as a cover on top of the card another flip down you can use writing text print it out whatever and it just it's just absolutely beautiful so I think that's good I hope this won't be a better demonstration um a little wreath here's my little girls these will look pretty on a card and again you can use another sheet for your blotting paper and then over time as it picks up more and more wax it will become vellum too so that way you don't waste your wax and you can create something new so um I think that's it I think that's it I guess I'll just stay here and finish these while I'm at it and I will again I will post a link to these let me give them a run through here they're uh summer cursive some are um larger the summer just took from a free png poster and re kind of redid it so it was more cuttable easier to cut and some are um non-script texts but it's just simple usual christmas words merry and bright joy noel merry christmas wonder believe in wonder let it snow good tidings to you blessed christmas happy christmas it's the most wonderful time of the year are things I'm going to be putting on my own cards so if you go together there's four sheets so that link will be below you can use it if you want you can vellum your own things um again I use this technique pretty often and then I just keep the vellum items in a folder and when I want something vellum I'm just going that folder and use it for that particular project especially words okay have a good one everyone sorry it's been so long and I hope you didn't forget about me have a great day and a great week bye