quotes or artwork that your kids have made that you don't want to frame them but you
want to protect them and tuck them away or maybe use a magnet put them up on the fridge but you
don't want them to get dirty i'm going to show you two different ways that you can laminate
at home really simple really easy and i'm going to do this um colored pencil crayon picture that my
daughter did for me and i'm going to do this quote i thought this would be really nice to laminate
if you wanted to take it into work you could put it up on a board at work with a little pin
lots of ideas that you can do with these laminated pieces after you're finished two methods let's do
the first one the first thing we're going to do is get our surface ready i'm going to use my cricut
easy press but you can use your normal household iron and ironing board that works just as well too
i'm going to put a tea towel down just to protect my cricut foam i don't want to get anything on it
and then the next thing you're going to do is you need some parchment paper you're going to
put one piece of parchment paper down on top of the tea towel and then you're going to take your
pitcher your colored pitcher and the first one is a ziploc bag now my ziploc bags i only had
the ones with the writing on the back but i actually don't mind this because after you
laminate this you could write the child's name or whoever did the picture for you and the date
and um and then you have a memory of that so the first thing that we're going to do is put this
picture right in that baggie
and just push it right down to the bottom right tight in that corner
and tuck it right up in there tight and then you're going to take your scissors
and just cut and leave a little bit of an edge around the photo for the picture and trim it off
okay now the next thing we're going to do make sure it's not slipping around in
there that it's up nice and tight and you've got a little bit of extra around the edges
you're going to take another piece of parchment paper lay it on top i'm going to get my
easy press and i'm just going to set it down you don't want to move it because you don't want
that pitcher to move around in that plastic bag so i'm going to leave it for 30 seconds
and then i'm going to pick it up and i'm going to move it down to the very end
because it didn't quite go all the way down to the end of the picture
okay now we want to flip the whole thing over and this was a double-sided uh picture in this
coloring book so we're going to take that easy press again and press from the back side and now
it's melted so you can move that easy press up and down make sure that plastic is melted
right onto that coloring page really well okay we're just gonna set it aside and let it cool down
this is completely cooled off now and you're just gonna peel away that parchment paper
and you're left sorry that's noisy and crinkly you're left with
a coloring page that's laminated now what i like to do is i just like to take the scissors
and just kind of trim up around the edges make it look nice and this one's going to go on my fridge
i'm going to put it on my fridge with a little magnet and i think it's going to look really cute
second method is cling wrap you can use cling wrap saran wrap you just want to pull off
two pieces the size a little bit bigger than your actual paper
so that's the one and then we're gonna get a second one
same size again
okay and of course cling wrap is clang wrap and it sticks to everything so we're going to lay
the first one down on the parchment paper we're going to put our
our print on top of that
smooth it out really well and then we're going to take that second piece and lay it on top
now this is i mean a lot of people maybe have oh that when i got kind of crinkled up so we're gonna
do another one some people may have a laminator at home i don't so this is a pretty good alternative
to doing it quick and affordably at home i do know that you can sometimes at the dollar store
find the laminating pouches but i don't always find them there at mine so this is works just
as good for what i'm trying to achieve so you want to make sure you've got it nice and flat
you don't want any wrinkles or creases in your cling wrap it can kind of be a bugger
getting them all out just take your time though and press them all out
okay i've got it all smoothed out and i'm going to cut off the extra
and leave a little bit around the edges and make it nice and neat and tidy before we press it
these are also great if you have something that you have to keep in your purse or your wallet
and you don't want it to get wet and you want to protect it you can do these methods on that
if you're going hiking and you have a map that you want to take with you
and you don't want to just have the piece of paper stuck in your back pocket you
want to protect it from the rain or the elements this works great for that too
okay we've got all the edges cut off and again i'm just going to make sure i got them nice and flat
this one's a little bit trickier to get it ready than the ziploc bag method but it still works
really good we're going to put the parchment paper on top and then we're gonna press it
the exact same way that we did this the first one
okay this is all cool we're gonna take off the parchment paper and peel it off and then
trim around the edges now of course this isn't as perfect as if you were using a laminator
and doing it that way but in a pinch and you want to save a document or
protect a nice little art piece for a kit one of your kids this works fantastic
trim that all up and what a beautiful reminder to hang up somewhere on your
uh on a board or take it to work and hang it up at work
so there you have two different ways to laminate paper on a budget so if you have
pictures from your grandkids or your kids and you want to save them try this out thanks for
watching and i hope you enjoyed the video and we'll see in the next one have a great day