Awesome! I'm so glad it worked for you! I do have other ideas that I've played around with as well. Here's one of my more recent ones... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hK5pg6ecy9ilfmg.htmlsi=XnJtreakRzl8Bbs4 Thanks for watching and for commenting! Have an awesome day! 💖

@@UrsulaSmith OMG YAY! Thank youuuu

@krizsays you're so welcome! ❤️

Good morning! I have one where I talk about it at least I'll find it and comment again. I started doing it after watching one by Patti's Pearls. I'll try to find that too if I can. 😊

Here is the one I talked about cutting the bangs... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irSAq8R5qdixpXk.htmlsi=5OH9_XRs-eAJSMQi And this one... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsiKrdGhsLbJnoE.htmlsi=okeGbiZLXdzgsswh Here are the ones by Patti's Pearls that helped me... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNqIoaqUp8C8k5s.htmlsi=HgPt36apDdhtp0Iw And... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oadynZl71qzKgp8.htmlsi=AVoyWQEUv8-2vs7F Hope this helps! Have an awesome day! 💓

Thanks so much! Have a great night! ❤️

Hi Donna! Hope you're having a great summer! I have tried the spray removable adhesive either the stuff they make for quilting or mounting adhesives- Blair makes a really good one and krylon is okay as well. I go back and forth whether I'm going to use either the sprays or the zig marker with my stencils because a lot of times I use both sides and having sticky on one side can interfere. Also sometimes spraying over with lots of wet media can reactivate the glue and then cause problems. So it's probably a personal choice and if I had all the time in the world I would make doubles of everything, maybe even triples so I could have one that is sprayed with adhesive on one side, another one with the adhesive on the other side and one that was just plain. But, I never have that kind of time 🤣🤣🤣. Have an awesome rest of your day!

Hi Dianne! I have another video on clamping systems if you haven't watched those yet. They should be in the same playlist as this video. The clamping systems have made all the difference for me and now I'm able to saw and file much easier. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching and for commenting! Have a great rest of your weekend! 😊

Thanks Catherine! They are loads of fun! And you aren't always sure of what will happen so that makes it even more interesting! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have an awesome weekend!! ❤️

Thanks Anne Marie! I have a couple more videos related to this. I tried different combinations. Trying to finish editing it soon! ❤

Hi Deby! Thanks! Hope you are doing well also! Have a wonderful day! 🥰

@@UrsulaSmith You also beautiful lady !

Thanks again Karen! It's the Mirapure. I can't remember if I put the link to the blog post about all the wigs I've made videos about in my newer ones. But I try to keep that updated as I learn new things and use more products. Here's the link... ursula-smith.com/wigs-with-bangs/ Hope that helps! I'm trying to finish up another one right now that's by Ellen Willa and it looks very similar to this one. It's a little less hair, however it's more expensive. But at least it's another idea for that long straight style. Thanks again for watching and for commenting! I love interacting with y'all that watch my videos 🙂🥰

Thanks Karen! I'm so glad they are helpful! I remember when I first started wearing wigs how frustrated I was with the lack of bangs. I still wish there were more fun styles with bangs! If I were a wig maker I'd make wigs both with and without bangs. And have more silver gray styles for those of us blondes going gray😉 . Thanks for watching an commenting!!💕

Thanks Anne Marie! I made a bunch of different shapes from scrolls and they make great embossing plates. I also have an Owl 😉 Have an awesome day! Thanks for watching and commenting ❤❤❤

@@UrsulaSmith Always love to check out your tips. And I'd love to see the 🦉 Owl

Karen! Thank you so much! I wear that color almost exclusively now because it matches my bangs color. And that is definitely one of my favorite styles. If only my real hair could do that 🤣. Thanks for the lovely comment! Have a wonderful day! 💖

Thanks Anne! I've got a whole bunch more to do with those form stamps! They are fun to play with! And definitely don't forget those pens!! 🥰

Thanks! My lovely friend got me that nail polish 😍

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and commenting! 💗

I'm glad you liked it!! Hope you try it! Thanks for watchin AND commenting!😘

Thanks Anne! ❤❤❤

Thanks! It makes some really cool backgrounds 🙂 Have fun with it! And thanks for watching and commenting! Have an awesome night!

Thanks for all the tips! I do have to adjust the blade on my Blackcat Cougar but not on my Silhouette Curio. I have tried Recollections and that definitely works as do a lot of other papers when I am doing less intricate designs. The problem is I love scrolls and tiny cutouts for my jewelry work and so for those-especially the combination of intricate scrolls and tiny- the normal papers don't work well. I definitely agree with you that the stickiness of mats is one of the most critical pieces to make sure that the cutouts work well! I try to walk that line between having good stickiness and tossing another mat. I actually have some footage of some of the things I've done with old mats but it hasn't been edited and released yet haha. I'm still so far behind! 😁 Thanks for visiting and especially for commenting with all that great information! Have an awesome day! ❤️

@@UrsulaSmith Thanks! I would love to see how you use those old mats, at the moment I use mine almost as a protector for my table as I can't run it through the machine anymore as the corners are bent up. I'm really enjoying your videos, I love that you are using your own reference photos and artwork, as well as stamps and svgs, I'm finding that very inspiring!

I'll try to get that edited soon. It's been a while so I've even forgotten all the things I did with them but I know I keep them to hold little pieces down and sometimes I use it with my Sizzix Big Shot again to hold things down and also as a shim when I'm trying to emboss with something that's out of the norm 😁

Hi Kelly! Yay! Happy that helped!! Thanks for watching and leaving the lovely comment! Have an awesome night! ❤️

Another craft friend and I were just talking about how we never throw any scraps of paper out. 😂 They are so useful at times though! I love that you experiment too! It's always fun to "meet" like-minded crafters! Thanks for visiting and thanks for commenting! Have an awesome day!

Haha thanks so much for the comment! I sometimes try to hide my fingers and nails because they look so bad! I am using the super glue bandaid stuff to try to keep my fingers from falling apart 😂😂😂. Thanks for watching and commenting! Have an awesome night!! ❤️❤️❤️

Good tip Milena!! Thanks for posting it! Have an awesome day!

Hi again Deby!! I love your comments!! Thanks again!! But just an FYI on those sachet thingys (dessicant packets or something like that) I did the same thing, but apparently if you leave them ON anything steel, they can eventually fill with enough moisture that they leak and start to rust the metal!! I forget which jewelry related group that was posted in, but I only leave them in or around, never on my tools and only for a little bit and check them often and toss them after a while. I keep my good stuff in tupperware or plastic bags too. And I run a dehumidifier. It's not super humid where I am thank goodness so I don't have to battle rust like some folks do- that would be a pain!!! Have a fabulous night! I'm turning in PS- I need more drawers in my space 😊

@@UrsulaSmith Thanks for the tip Ursula, You know I might put them in a netted sachet/jewelry bag and stuff them back in a corner...haven't had the problem but no sense on waiting for it to happen. Have a great night.

Hi Deby! I use my Accucut steel ruled dies too on leather. I made a bunch of ornaments that way this Holiday season. So much fun! And I agree- the Sizzix has served me well for so many years!! I haven't video'd or posted these, but I've done embossing on the super thin metal (like the cans) and then glued to altoid tins. Very fun indeed! I do have the self healing mats (they are black) and I have to say don't love them all that much. I like the purple ones from Accucut much better. They seem to last forever! And those you can cut with tin snips to make them smaller when you just need to cut/emboss a small part of a die. Hope that makes sense. I have filmed that buried in one of the videos in my leather series ;) I think I got the mylar from Sizzix if I remember correctly. It might be listed as plastic shims. One of the Stamping or Scrapbooking sites like SimonSays or Scrapbooking.com might have them too. OnlyOneLifeCreations is an awesome site too. Thanks again for watching and commenting! Have an awesome night!!

@@UrsulaSmith What a great idea with the Altoid tins and I have a few around. I was also going to cover some old larger cigar boxes to make purses. Temu sells the cutest antique looking feet, latches and hinges for cheap. What did you not like about the self healing mats if you don't mind telling me before I buy ? Did you try alcohol inks on the embossed tin ?I saw someone do that and blow different colors around and it was really pretty.

@@DebyNieto-kq2ci I can't quite take credit for the altoid tin- a guy on one of my jewelry sites mentioned using it with the press and I decided to go another route since I wasn't that experienced with the press yet 😉 I'd love to see your purses! I bet those will be so cool! And If we are talking about the same thing- I didn't love the black magic mat because it didn't seem to do either cutting or embossing well. The Accucut mats worked better for me. If I am doing tiny or intricate cutting, I use the Sizzix Chrome Precision Base Plate and if I am doing embossing with alternative stuff like my Yupo paper embossing plates, or stencils, etc I use the Sizzix Embossing mat and rubber that came with it. Hope that helps! Oh an yes I did use alcohol inks on some of them. Some of the copper ones I actually flame colored, but others I either left plain or used the inks. Have a great evening! Thanks again for visiting!!

You're welcome Jann! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have an awesome night!

Hi Crystal! I have an older one- it's a Xerox Phaser 6280. I bought that one because it also did color not just black and white, but if I'm being honest I probably wouldn't buy a color laser again. Just in case you were wondering that 😉 Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope this helps ☺️

Hi Erica! They are very fun! Thanks for watching and commenting! Happy Holidays!

Haha ok 😊

More great advice! Thanks for sharing! ❤️

Awesome advice! Thanks for watching and commenting and sharing your experience! Have a wonderful day! ❤️

Yay! OMG you are going to have so much fun!!! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a great rest of your day and enjoy the sprays!!!

You're so welcome Ruby! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a wonderful day!

Hi Ursula! My dad has a camera store when I was growing up. He always used seating wax when wrapping gifts. No tape allowed. My first job was wrapping presents at his store. We had sticks of wax that we would melt in the flame of a candle. Sometimes you’d get a little swirl of soot from the flame. We would lick the stamp just before stamping the melted wax. It seemed to keep the stamp from sticking to the wax.

@@PaulaZF Hi Paula! That's so cool! I'm still playing around with them, so we'll see whether I get to do them for all my Holiday cards this year ;) Thanks for stopping by, and sharing your story! Have a great night!

Hi Kathy! You are so welcome!! It's so frustrating that there are so few wigs with bangs! In general the heat friendly ones work best. I'm behind with videos but I've also tried Raquel Welch Bella Vida and Wavy Day and Ellen Ville Music and they work too. The Music one has less hair so the fringe is thinner. Hope that all helps!! Thanks so much for the kind words! Have an awesome day!!

Hi Donna! You can certainly try to do that and if the design is simple it should work on a digital cutter. My designs are typically very intricate and I never had success trying to cut stencil material. So when I found Yupo and the other plastic type papers I was ecstatic! They cut great and although they are a little thin, stacking them makes them equivalent to the depth of the stencil material and works just as well. It's a little fiddly but for my designs it works much better than the stencil plastic. But absolutely give that a shot if that's what you have. You may have more luck than I did! 😊 Thanks for visiting and commenting! Have an awesome day!

Hi Donna! I love playing around with the results of my paint, ink, etc results in Photoshop. Except that there are days where I sit down for a session and lose all track of time and it's 4 hours later and I'm still there 😂

I so relate to that!!❤️

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Hi Donna! That definitely works. I've tried more distress oxide ink, metallic ink, white ink and white paint. I know I've mentioned in some of my videos that I'm way backed up trying to get filmed footage edited and posted. I definitely have some video footage where I do just that but it isn't released yet. Hopefully soonish. I'll prioritize that one 😉😁. Thanks again for visiting and commenting! Love the way you think! It's nice to converse and exchange ideas with like-minded people! ❤️

Hi Donna!! You're so welcome! Thanks ks for stopping by to watch and comment! Have a great rest of your day!

You're welcome Renda! And thank you for watching and commenting! Have a great rest of your weekend!! ❤️

@@UrsulaSmith, I appreciate that you took the time to respond. I respect that you did that. ❤️👍🏼

You are so welcome! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a great rest of your weekend!

You're so welcome Eliza! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a great day!

Hi Marcy! I'm not sure if you mean the machine that I'm using or the tools to actually make the impressions. I have a whole playlist of all the different things I've tried to make the impressions including embossing folders and paper cut outs, polymer clay, and embossed metal, etc. In all of these, well actually most of these, experiments I am using the Sizzix Big Shot machine ( a pretty old one 😊) to do the embossing. There is one video where I use an Accucut machine and a Potter USA impression die to emboss with, so that is not for the general person probably 😉. Hope that answers your question? Let me know if it didn't. Have a great night! Thanks for watching!

Hi Fiona! That would certainly be worth a try if the die is flat on the non cutting side and is the exact shape you want. However, sometimes the dies have holes to poke the paper out on the non cutting side. Also, the wood does wouldn't work at all. And many times I take just pieces of the die cut image not the whole thing and some shaoes I even cut myaelf on the digital cutter. So for all those other instances, using the die cut is your best bet. Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a great day!

Hi Debb! You are so welcome!! I love playing around (although truth be told I am really bad at finishing projects 😁). I started this channel to help my crafty friends and family (and me!) remember how to do things. It's been so much fun, but the big bonus has been hearing from fellow creatives- especially those with minds that think like me 😉! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment! Have an awesome day! 😘

Hi Barbara! I'm not sure what you mean? The paper? It's just plain Neenah cardstock. Or the stamp? It's Baroque by Stamper's Anonymous/Tim Holtz.

​@UrsulaSmith thank you! Great stamp

@@flgirl1937 You're welcome and it's a beautiful Scroll! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a fabulous day!

Hi there!! This one is an older die, I believe by Sizzix. It is a cutting die. This trick can be used with most cutting does, just be sure to use the embossing rubber. Good luck! Thanks for qatyand commenting and have a great day!!

Thanks Erica!! My intro post to this leather series also has a link to a leather company that sells colored leather that embosses really nice too! Have fun!!!