 everyone. Mary Dispresso Press Design. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you for your time. I hope you're all doing well. Today it's going to be a bit of a variety. I'm going to go over some tips and tricks and techniques for the wax lamination. I had no idea I would be getting the response I got from that. So, and other things going on, which I'll talk about in a second, but thank you for your time. Thank you for the very kind comments. Thank you for the response. It was a little bit overwhelming and a surprise for something that I just thought I'd try myself and share. But I'm just going to do a little show and tell and what's been going on, share some happy news, and then I'll get on to the tips and techniques. I had a birthday girl in the house this week. Well, this video is late because I took the day off yesterday. Not really off, but it was my birthday. So I had a birthday girl in the house this week. I needed an extra bag to go with the bag I already had. Saw this gorgeous little bag similar to this. It was an oval cut out in the bag topper, but I thought they were so cute. Couldn't wait for the opportunity to try it. Finally got the opportunity and it worked great. So that was from, I made a little gift card holder. That was from Kathy Corville in one of the groups I'm in. So, shout out to her. I did find another craft and hobby glue that a person used napkins on glassine bags. That is, it's called Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA Glue. She used napkins on glassine bags and that was pretty much the closest I could find to using these types of materials. So that might be of interest. Back to the Mamagami. I did mention in one video and then forgot to show it. As you might imagine one of the nicest papers you're going to get is cardstock and this is Mamagami cardstock. It feels like cotton. I was surprised that the cardstock separated. I kept kneading it and then I realized it was separating like a napkin. At first I kept thinking I must have grabbed two sheets but no I didn't. It separated like a napkin. So if anyone knows that cardstock is a multiply I never knew that. I never realized that. I've done all kinds of things on cardstock. I've never had it separated but you can clearly tell one is thicker than the other and it came from the same sheet of paper. Now granted I don't think it was a great cardstock. Might have just come from staples in one of those multi variety packs I think but nevertheless it was cardstock. So there's that. This is my version of a Banshara bag. I know I'm not going to say that correctly. It's a Peddler's bag kind of boho. I got inspired by B. Reborn, Art and Healing, Carol Renee Wolfe who got inspired by Spunky Misfit Girl and I did this little accordion bag because I didn't have the... I really want to do it with mixed media papers much brighter and more authentic but that's how that came out. It's been a very busy week. I'll get to that. This is the start of a little folio from I think it's Vintage, Cartage Rose designs who got it from Camellia Crafts who got it from Pink Strawberries. That's on my bucket list. Okay almost there. This is the kit, the ephemera, still in progress. Love that. Love it, love it. There's two of them each with a different color background. This is not finished probably hopefully this week. This is the ephemera part of the kit. The full kit is going to be on Shopify. 25 pages in total so I really don't by the time it's all compiled. I think it's going to exceed Etsy limits so the entire kit is going on Shopify. The basic kit is on Etsy which I've already showed these so that gets to part B. Well part the news. I'm going to be doing my first craft show which just came up out of the blue. It was, it hasn't been going for a couple of years and then I saw an announcement that it was returning. I knew there was a folk festival. I kind of knew there was a craft show. I never imagined myself doing any of this so it just popped up out of the blue and I thought well here's my opportunity. Just jump. So I went to the meeting, got the contract. I'm going to sign the contract today and then I'll probably be in panic mode until it starts. Because I don't know what I'm going to do in total so I thought I might have to submit some photos to be accepted but in the end I didn't need any photos so I quickly created these little note cards. In the event I needed those and I don't so I am going to be in my first craft show this fall hopefully and I've just been kind of narrowing down in my mind the types of things I'd like to do and we'll see how it goes. So the wax paper, I got so many comments. I mean of course everyone that's creative could quickly see potential what they would like to use it for but as I said before it was just a happy accident. I made these little bags. I know that wax paper will glue to wax paper but eventually they get pretty weak and pretty ragged looking if you use them a lot which I do. This is my little ephemera bag for my little collage book and as you can see it looks pretty ragged. So my initial experiments had to do with can I glue paper to wax paper, strength in a bag, emboss the bag, have a bag turn out and be a little more sturdy and yes I can. So that's where I don't know what you might want to do with these with this technique but that was what I wanted to do and then I discovered they would make some nice little embellishments so that led to the embellishments and then I also tried it on as many bags and things as somewhere I have another little pansy here glued on paper but I don't know where it is exactly. So that's what I wanted to do. That's what I did. Some other ideas you might want to consider. I mentioned last week here's a little mini postcard I did. This is a ATC card from this and I just did that on the fact that with another digital it worked. It's not going anywhere. It's not coming apart. I did this one last night and I want to show you here. I did not wait long enough for the glue between the image and the wax paper to dry so when I ran it through the physics that little white spot is the paper tearing and ending up outside of this particular parameter and ending up in a little, what's the word, wad, wad of paper. So the pressure, the purpose for having the very thin layers of glue and not having too much moisture in there is because that is what is going to happen and I hope you can see that. But another thing, you know, this is this is like a faux lamination. It's not going anywhere. It's not peeling off. The other ones have been weeks now and I see no peeling off of anything in my humble opinion as long as you use the right types of glue and don't use a lot of glue. So this will stay but as I said I'm going to let it sit there for a month or two before I embark on any type of selling of anything with this on it. That's just how I am. I wouldn't want someone getting it and it coming apart. So all that being said, I don't see this going anywhere. It's inside there. I'll give you a couple tips on that and how I assembled that bag and then that's going to be it and why is it going to be it because for the last week I have been in the process of moving everything in my entire house. The office is now back upstairs. The craft room is downstairs so half my life is upstairs, half my life is downstairs and we just decided it's probably going to be better to just empty this entire space as much as possible and remove the carpets and do the work down here that was already on the list rather than try to do everything the way it was already in motion and that was just clear the big room and then do each individual room at a time and then you know as you are working on each room just move everything from where you had the space work on that room get that finished and then move on to the next and I had been and since I'm the one that did most of the work as in painting and organizing and moving I was really hesitant because I didn't want to do all that work all over again and I still don't but I'm just looking on the bright side and realizing it's probably better if the space is as empty as possible get the work done move back in see how it goes so to do the bag as you might guess my wax paper is larger than the image I'm going to do the bag on I'm not going to do the glue or the scissor or anything I like to assemble my bags with a little similar to the store bought to the shopping bags a flat shopping bag or a glassing bag whatever I'm sure they have a technical name or a not technical official name but I don't know what it is so then I just trimmed my edge kept my long sides actually I did that in the guillotine so it was straight put my glue seam down there made sure it was to the point you know 90 90 95 dry before I ran it through the die cut machine because the pressure is just it's much more pressure than you're ever going to be able to apply with a brayer and it's just going to smush everything so there is the front of my bag and then when it was all dry I have a frame embossing folder and I just put that through and that's how I got my emboss it would also work if you had a edge embossers those would be really nice going down the sides of the bag wax paper tip I put a piece of copy paper on the back side before I ran it through the embossing folder because wax paper is a little bit too thin to take an emboss without tearing so I didn't want the I didn't want the back side to be to get as embossed as much as the front because the front has the reinforcement of the paper and it can take the embossing so that's just a little tip and do not run it through twice or you will most likely tear this side of the wax paper but there's my little bags that's how I assembled it glued it ran it through very thin coat of glue what was the other thing for the second technique the one that just made a nice coating on the paper yes I know you could just do that with your fingers whatever but the nice thing about it is when you're using brushing on glues or I use this triple thick gloss glaze when you're doing stuff like that and you don't want to get your brand messy and you don't want brush marks and you don't want uneven application that just made it a very smooth application that's all that was the only benefit of that is it gave it a very smooth application the Elmer's glue happened not to work and I just peeled it off and got that really nice protective finish so that wasn't anything earth shattering except that it gives you a nice even application and you don't have to take the time to get all the glue off your barrier nothing special about that except that these why might you do this well maybe you have a special little piece of ephemera or something you're going to be putting in your journal yeah I'm calling this the poor man's lamination and I'm probably a hundred percent sure it's in some old magazine somewhere from 1910 or whatever ever since they had wax paper and glue I'm sure someone has done it before but maybe you just want to put something in your journal that has a little more protection or a little different finish or whatever it still feels lovely and they do give a different patina to your designs so and it's also it's very vintage so while I didn't have time to do the right the type of postcards I had in mind which would be like something like this that you might get from an old book you know just the old books with the black and white photos and the scenery and whatever and you wanted to make a little postcard and give a little extra strength to that image I happened to back this on file folder so that might be an idea you know I don't know you're you got to take it where you want to take it I took it where I wanted to take it I'll be doing it again when I get time but this week I don't have the time so that's why this video is pretty much going to be ending and here's another one I did and that is just some some of my I think that was Momagami magazine paper that I punched out with a reinforcement wanted to see if those would stick yes they yes they did but again wax paper not the strongest material for a bag that you would want to use all the time and you have to be careful with embossing it so even though that looks lovely I wouldn't trust it for any long-term strength aside from the embossing helps also helps keep those glue seams nice and tight so this bag was done a little differently there's no there's no middle seam in the back it's just folded wax paper with these glued on the one side so that's my busy week and that's why this video is going to be short like it is and what else I ordered a bunch of stuff for my birthday I can't wait till it gets here I finally ordered the envelope maker board I got some new paper and the next one won't be a surprise because that's another thing I've been wanting to try so thank you for thank you for your time thank you for the nice comments I hope you'll take this wherever you want to take it and let me know how your experiment turned out but that's how mine turned out and I'll be keeping an eye on it and I'll be doing it again on as many things as I can think of and I'll let you know how it goes okay have a great week everyone have a great day I'll see you next time bye