 But what I really love to do is techniques, and one of the things that was stamping that really caught my eye is that you can take this plain piece of paper and alter it into something completely different. So I'm going to show you a technique called full patina. And when I do my classes, we always do a technique page. And my customers have these six-by-six books filled with pages they can refer back to, and they just love that. So this is the page that we did. And this full patina technique is really, really easy. So much easier than in the old days when you used a VersaMark embossing powder and an embossing boulder. So what we're going to do this today, I'm going to show you how easy it is. So the best thing in the Cadillac that you just really didn't know about are these metallic enamel effects. And there's also a set that are pearlized that come in white, red, and black. But these metallic ones are phenomenal. So I'm going to show you how we do this. So I love taking that blank piece of paper and altering it. So I am going to ink up with three different colors, copper, clay, vocal, blue, and pecan, pine. And a lot of my customers say, well, how do you start? Where do you go? Where do I put the ink? So I tell them that the best thing you can do is start in threes. So off the paper, onto the paper, and you just do one, two, three. So threes, like when you put your embellishments on, is a very pleasing eye-catching number. So I'm starting out with the vocal, blue, and I'm going to do three. So I'm going in one, two, and three. So we're just starting out with the first layer, and then I'm going to use my pecan pie. It's a little darker brown, and I'm going to come in here and add some more. So three spots here, and then I'll just look back at it, and if I wanted to be a real deep color, then I'm just going to add some more color. And it's okay to overlap, but you just keep going with your colors until you're happy. And that's the other question is, how do I know how much? Tell your galley. And then with the pecan pie, it's kind of a neutral color, and then I can actually go over most of the other colors, and it makes it a little darker. You can see you can get a nice in-covering on that. So here's the magic, you need to bring this in. So I first started with our silicone sheets, because they're awesome to use with glue and paints and different things. But I found out this metallic paint really dries amazingly fast. I mean, you get it down on your project, and it's like dry. You can do little dots where you can make embellishments. That takes a while to dry, but if you're doing thinner layers, it dries right away. So it was hard to get the enamel effects off my silicone mat, so I had to actually use alcohol to get it off. So then I thought we'll go to the disposable root, and I'm using a aluminum foil. And this bottle is just about empty, so I'm just going to put out a little glom on there. You have a couple of ways you can apply this. The easiest way is to use saran wrap. You can use a sponge, you can use different things, but what you're looking for is just a little bit of random color of the metallics. You don't want a lot, you don't want to paint it on. You just simply want to lightly dab it on. So I wad up my saran wrap so that it's loose, and you're simply going to get that thinner and moved out, and then it's a gentle touch. So you can see that picks up on your embossed areas, and so patina is like an old antique aged look, and you can do however much on there that you want, but it just is a nice soft look. So the nice thing about this, it's easy to do, it dries amazingly fast. This is pretty much dry already, so that's as easy as it is to put that on there, so you know embossing powder, and no kind of wondering where it's going to go. You apply it to where you want it to be. So that is using that. We're going to also try it on solid cardstock. So you have, this is the Distress Tile Embossing Folder, and I have another card here, and I use it on, and it's on this back piece that actually pops it from the solid navy onto the top. And the other little fun thing on this card I want to show you that maybe you didn't know is there is a die in the autumn leaves stamp set that punches all these little folds out. It is so cool, overlooked, because you can't see it in the catalog really, and then when you put it on something, especially like this, the Distressed Gold, you see those little dots shining through. Who do you think? You know, I had no idea, and I was like, whoa, this should work well. So even easier, we're going to go ahead and do this onto solid cardstock, see it's almost done. So let me show you something else to use with it. And have you ever been in the hospital? No eat, no drink. These are invaluable because you can wet your mouth with them. So we're going to take the end of this. These are actually online, like for a penny a piece. I mean, you can order like $500 for $5. So I'm just going to tap that out. And this time on my card, I want to only do the outsides because the inside is going to be covered. And then you have this beautiful metallic look. And you can like sponge the edges with this too and do different things. But then it gives you that metallic shine on there. And then you say, OK, are we done yet? No, wait, there's more. So now you have this metallic enamel effects on your foil. And you don't want it to go to waste. So the metallic enamel effects are water-based. So yes, you can add water to them, dilute them a little bit. You can paint with them. So you just use your spritzer, spritz a little water on there. It dilutes it, picks it up. And then on the goal, you can create backgrounds. So watch this. You can just take. And remember, like we had that brush stroke background. So you're just taking that excess paint and you're creating a shivery background. You could do like this. You could use a paintbrush. But as you can see, then you've got that nice shivery background. And you've used up all your paint. So that's a huge bonus on that. So just a little something different technique that you can use. So yes, there's more. This pearlized enamel white is their water-based. So you can use your reinkers with this. So you just make a little puddle, drop a reinker on it. You have any color of pearlized paint that you want. So you can do these kinds of techniques. You can paint with it. You can do just so much spritzing with it. If you put it in a spritzer bottle, it's too thick. And it will clog it out. So you don't want to do that. But you certainly, you know, these paints go a long, long way.