Hi there, Sandy here.
Welcome to another Friday Findings video at KeepsakeCrafts.net.
Today I have for you a terrific product that you can use in so many different ways in your
crafting, jewelry making, polymer clay and all sorts of things and not just in the kitchen.
So Glad Press'n Seal is a product that came out quite a few years ago and I never really
bothered with it because it seemed just way too expensive compared to plastic wrap, but
then I started seeing all the different ways it can be used in our crafting and I finally
just recently got some and I am in love with it.
It makes so many things so much easier.
Now the main reason I bought the Glad Press'n Seal was because I was starting to amass a
collection of polymer clay sheets, techniques and left over bits and pieces.
And the way I had of storing them wasn't working for me.
So all this is, it's one of those photo boxes that you get at the craft store for just a
couple dollars and what I have is, this is my polymer clay sheets, left over bits of
foiled, crackled, silk screen.
Here's some mokume gane.
You might recognize this mokume gane from a video I did not too long ago.
And you might recognized this silk screen and it goes on.
I've got layers and layers and it's so nice because you can just pick it up and handle
it like this.
You don't have to be gentle or ginger or worry about it.
And all you need to do is tear off a piece twice as big as you need to store your pieces
of clay and put your clay sheets on one side and then fold the other side over and it doesn't
damage the clay.
The clay doesn't react with it and you can just gently peel them up and then use that
in something.
It's really wonderful.
It keeps it clean, free of dust and then when you're done, you just put them all back and
then I like to kind of rub in between them so it's all sealed and there you go.
You're off and running.
Here's another cool trick.
You can use this in the kitchen when you're cooking, but sometimes we're working on things
out of books and it can be messy and I don't know if you can tell, but this page I have
covered with a sheet of the Press'n Seal and of course if I was working with the book open,
I would have covered both sheets, but you can read through it.
I thought it was a great idea.
Not only can you cover books, you can cover your electronics.
If you're working from a laptop you can cover the keyboard and still use the keyboard or
a tablet or even wrap your phone up in it if you're going somewhere that's gonna be
maybe damp or dangerous to the phone.
I thought that was just a great idea to protect your pages.
I know all of my cookbook pages have splatters.
I can tell which recipes I've made by the ones that have food splatters on them.
And then here's something you might not expect.
This is my little velour beading mat and this is a beading project I was working on last
night.
I actually finished it, but I just thought I'd leave all the beads out and this occurred
to me because I have this sitting---all right those little ones are being a bit ornery,
but the big ones come right off.
I was working on this and my cat hopped up on the table to hang out with me and I really
had to work to persuade him to perhaps not sit in the middle of the beads.
I was thinking, "You know, if I had something to cover it with..." and this is perfect.
It actually sticks well enough to the velour sheet.
I mean I wouldn't fling it about, but if I pick it up carefully, it all stays in place.
I can move it.
I transported this between rooms and then when I'm done, I can just peel it up and you
might have to scrape some of the beads off a little bit.
You're not gonna be losing them all or having them fall all over the place.
And now that I've shown you that, I'm gonna put this on.
And not only will it stick to the velour, it will stick to one of these, your bead design
board.
So the same thing, if you're working in the middle of a project and you have to leave
and you're afraid it might get bumped or knocked about or sat on by a cat, cover it with a
sheet of the Press'n Seal.
You could also use your Press'n Seal to protect products that are prone to drying out.
If any of you have used Gilders Paste, you know that they tend to eventually dry out,
which makes me sad because I like my Gilders Pastes to be nice and creamy.
So these are Gilders Paste and whether you have the type that pop open, you can just
put it in there and easily open it, just as easily, and then this just gives it an extra
seal of protection.
Or if you have the type that twists open, again it's all protected in there and it's
not going to dry out.
Now I've been meaning to do this with my Gilders Pastes for ages and I finally did it last
night in preparation for this video is to cover all these with Press'n Seal because
I had several that were in the process of drying out and I've actually kind of filled
those with, you can see it's all wet, with mineral spirits.
It will be all nice and soft and creamy again.
And notice that the mineral spirits didn't do a thing to the Press'n Seal.
It's just fine.
So anything else that in the packaging that it comes in is prone to drying out, you could
add a layer of the Press'n Seal to keep it fresh.
And speaking of keeping things fresh, here is one of my favorite tips of all and that
is that you can save paint.
Have you ever mixed paint colors?
Like here I have some copper and pearl that I mixed.
You can see it through here to kind of make a softer copper color.
Sometimes you use just the tiniest amount and then you might need to match it again
later on, maybe in a day or a couple days or whenever you get back to the project and
it's gonna be tricky to match that exactly.
This is paint that I squirted onto this tile 24 hours ago and then I left the brush and
the paint all in there.
Here we are.
Paint that was squirted out 24 hours ago, fresh as a daisy.
I think that's just a fantastic idea.
My brush is still good.
My brush isn't wrecked.
I don't know how long this will last.
If any of you test it, I would be interested in hearing, but I imagine it will last a good
long while unless you go off for months without getting back to your project.
I imagine it would keep it fresh for quite some time.
So those are just a few ideas for using this really cool product in your crafting.
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