Hey guys I'm Shayda in today's tutorial we're printing our own gift wrap I have
some hand-painted gift tags to share with you and make sure you watch till
the end as I have a little Amazon gift card giveaway
Before we dig into today's
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today's video so here are the supplies we'll use today you're gonna want a
piece of paper it can be newsprint or craft paper whatever you like and then
you'll need a piece of glass to act as your printing or you're inking plate and
that can just be a piece of glass from an old picture frame you'll need a soft
rubber brayer it's like a roller and then you'll need some block printing ink
and I'm using the block printing ink from speedball now these are specialty
printing supplies I'm gonna link them in the description below the video I can't
recommend printing projects enough so I do recommend that you go buy the
supplies because we do so many printing projects on this channel so if you're a
fan get yourself some block printing ink and a soft rubber brayer and then of
course you'll also need a stamp now you can carve one and I have many
tutorials about that but you can also use a household object like an eraser or
a wine cork so to prepare the inking plate I'm just squeezing out a little
bit of the block printing ink you want to go light on this if you get too much
ink you'll just have a sticky mess if you don't have
enough you can always add more and then you're just gonna take your rubber
brayer and run it across the plate like I'm doing here until you have a nice
uniform color a nice uniform gray and the peaks of the ink are small and the
roller isn't sticking to the plate too much that's when you know when you have
this nice thin coat then you're ready to print now today I'm just using a little
eraser brand new eraser from the dollar store and that'll serve as my stamp and
I've just inked it and then I'm gonna create a pattern using just this one
stamp one color and I kind of create some visual interest because some of
them are gonna be darker and I'm using the stamp multiple time so some of them
are gonna be lighter you can see a pattern quickly emerges the paper is
whimsical and fun and festive and this doesn't have to be a major project you
really want to bring out your inner kid with this one and just not overthink it
here I'm preparing a paper using my pine sprig stamp that I carved last year and
I'll show you guys a couple of the different papers that I did these are
all with sort of woodsy stamps that I carved for the covered notebook
tutorials so I'll link that tutorial in the description below as well if you
haven't seen it to complete the look simply cut your gift wrap into strips
wrap a piece around a gift wrapped with tissue or craft paper and then finish it
with a piece of twine and a gift tag of course my hand-painted gift tags are
available on my blog there's a file there just download and print it's best
printed out on cardstock and then cut out the tags and simply punch a hole in
the top okay let's talk giveaway if you would
like to win a $20 Amazon gift card simply go to the video description click
the giveaway link and retweet my tweet that's all there is to it contest closes
next Friday December 15th thanks for watching guys don't forget to
subscribe and I'll see you next week!!