 Welcome to Stampin' Chat with Stampin' Jill. I almost said Watch It Weekly Wednesday. And Aubrey, that's Aubrey and I'm Jill. It's not Wednesday though. No, it is Tuesday and guess what? The first day of school for us. Yes. So it's really quiet here except for the cat. He's missing the grandkids. Yes, very true. So we are excited to play today with a new stamp set from the new mini catalog. It's this fun year to celebrate. And this actually has Happy New Year in here. But we're using it more on the Happy Birthday Congrats Let's Party side of things. Right. Because we're just a little bit too far from New Year's right now. But I like this because it's any kind of celebration. For sure. And it's really cute. And we paired it with this really cute paper. This is designer series paper also from the new mini catalog. And this is called Merry Bold and Bright. So it actually is a Christmas paper. But it's really bright and fun colors. And so one of the sides has kind of Christmasy. It has lights, blah, blah, blah. Or maybe just blah, blah, blah. Nope, there is a fall. And trees. But the other side is just really cute, bold and bright, colorful patterns. So we thought. This one has both. Yes. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So pretty. Stripes. And guess what? We have all the colors. Yeah. So we thought we'd get our color inspiration from this paper and use it because it's so cute. And make some kind of celebration birthday cards. There's blueberry bushel, pool, party, crushed curry, melon mambo, flirty flamingo, poppy parade, shaded spruce, lemon lime twist and granny apple green. That's reading upside down. Yeah. I'm impressed. But yeah, there's just all sorts of colors, fun and bright. And yeah, this is what we're choosing to do. So have you gotten started on anything or do you want to show what you're doing? I am. Well, I'm just starting with, I'm going to use this as my color scheme. And I'm just kind of using this like as a ribbon or a base for the card. And I'll probably stamp it in some of these colors. And another one I'm thinking about doing is something with this. I haven't decided yet, but something with that color scheme. Very cute. So maybe a masculine and feminine celebration card. Awesome. I made this one. This is more a feminine card, but happy birthday to you. And then I just stamped a bunch of the congrats and let's party. The congrats. So they're all separate. And then I just added some paper there and just really pretty simple, but yeah. And what have you, what else have you started? Yeah, I also stamped this happy birthday and then just kind of did it's this little, what are they called? Little whistle blower horns. Yeah. And I just went all the way around, but it kind of looks more sunbursty. So you didn't even mass that, right? Nope. I just, that's awesome. Yeah. So this, this will really good be a good celebration for anything. Yeah. Super fun. So we're going to, that's what we're going to play with today. Yes. We will get started. Let us know where you're from. Yes. If you're joining us. Make sure to comment where you're from. And if you've gotten any of this product and played with it yourself, we always love to know too. I'm kind of thinking maybe I might use that stripe. Oh yeah, too. Oh, that would look really good with that particular one. Yeah. Or would you use the blue as, no, or would you pull out the blue or just. I might do like a whole party background. Got it. And then we'll see what happens here. You never quite know what's going to. On Tuesdays, remember, I mean Aubrey just started playing with this and anyway, it's just, and I haven't had a chance to play with it. So it's kind of fun to create on the fly. So yes, kids went back to school. It's our first day of school for our kids today. Beth's, mine, and Annalisa's all started today. So we have kids in all age groups, high school, down to elementary. All of them went back to school. That's crazy. Every single one of them. Even the kindergarteners now, well, they're half day this week, but I guess they're full after that. Just really weird. But oh dear. Let's see if I can fix that. I just stamped this for the first time and I know it's hard to over stamp again, but see if I can get that. Oh, I did pretty good. You did. You just never know. And I guess these are like the thing to blow them. I don't know if there's a long one and a short one. And I guess it really doesn't matter which one you pick. Pick the Poppy Parade to go with the Melon Mambo. That's kind of like also another strip of paper that I cut out. I wasn't sure if I was going to use, but there's the Melon Mambo and Poppy Parade on that too. Awesome. We have, let's see, Patricia from New York joining us and Darlene from Las Vegas. Las Vegas, not too far. New York is quite far. You have a cleaning pad over there? I do. But we have Jill's daughter, Rachelle, just moved to Virginia, for husbands in the Air Force, and they move super far. It's about every three years, but this time it was only a year. So it was crazy. So fast. Okay. I think I'm going to do one of these too. Sorry. Rachelle, yeah. I'll do a little green. Okay. Yeah, we're using a lot of colors, the Crush Curry. I'm going to use the Granny Apple Green with this one. So many. Pretty. Oh, that is so cool, Aubrey. Now, what are you doing? You're stamping pull party, correct? Yeah, pull party on pull party. I should have done it before I put that DSP down, but I didn't know it's what I wanted to do. So that's okay. I'm trying to not cut anything out. I'm actually trying to just use what I've got here. Yeah. Sometimes that's hard to do. It is tempting when we feel like so many stamp sets come with the dies. You feel like you got to always cut something out and pop it up, but look how cute it is. I know, just stamped right down. I think the designer series paper, even though it really doesn't go with it, really adds extra. Now, there's several different things to go with this. There's like the ones that look like French fries to come out. I know they do. And then there's this little skinny one, too. Yeah. And what were you going to show? No, we just also have Denise from Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada. Oh, that's cute. It is. It is. It's way cute. The colors are so fun. You can use so much. Yeah. So it's just, and I'm going to put the poppy parade behind here. Or I could use another color, either one, but. Okay. There's my. There's my one so far. I'm going to put that together. So then I have a more masculine one there and feminine, but really these days just choose whatever color you want. You will love this designer series paper. I think it's a must have because it's not just for Christmas. It is. I mean, that's what I'm loving. I'm just like, you can use it for, I think, even Valentine's Day. Oh, yeah. To a cute Valentine card. That looks like, you know, those old shops that have like the balance thing over the door. That's what it looks like, too. Yeah. So cute. Like an ice cream shop. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. There's my little happy birthday to you. No pop ups. Things which I love to use. That paper is so cute. Let me clean these in case you decide to use one of these stamps in a different color. Let's see. Probably be. I think I got them all cleaned. And I want to use that stripe. I mean, you just love that stripe. It's on the backside of the stars. The backside of the stars, yeah. I just, oh, that makes me happy. It is so cute. How many of you like polka dots or stripes better? Oh, yeah. That's a good question. Because I have a hard time with that. I know. What would you choose? Because I would think you would choose polka dots. I know. I think I would. I think actually I would choose polka dots. I think you would. So, yeah. What about you? I think I would choose stripes. Okay. I really like a straight line. That's weird. But it is like, if they're not straight, you kind of, although you just put some things on a diagonal. I've, I've learned to, yeah, to kind of embrace the skinny wampus, but. So cute. All right. I'm trying to see if I want to do three-fourths. I think I want to do three-fourths. The problem with so many colors is narrowing it down. Four and three-fourths is one of these. What colors? Three-fourths. One, two, three. Oh, Darlene says stripes. Okay. How many of you love this stripe right here? I know. With all the colors? It just makes you happy. It does make you happy. Always be happy. No, I may have to, I may have to cut this out. I'm like, go for it. It's okay. On your first skirt, you didn't. I know. So it's okay. I'm like, oh my goodness, look how cute that is. Although I really think the crush curry would be pretty too. Rhonda says hello. Hello, Rhonda. If you want to share where you're from, we love to know where everyone's joining us from. Those are both pretty, but it's like... Which color? Which color? Look at this color. I think that's going to win. Oh, cute. Very cute. What can I say? What can you say? And this color I'm using is the... It's called the lemon lime twist. So the granny apple green is a little bit darker. If you look at these rainbows, there's the granny apple green. It's kind of in the center of the spectrum. Oh, that's cute. Just kind of doing it down. Yeah, I have no idea yet. What's going to happen? I'm going to use your blocks to sometimes brush your paper. Well, when it doesn't have your bone folder right in front of you. It'll be cute too. Okay, I'm going to do a semi. So I'm going to probably do a semi cut out. Let's see. Lara says hi from Wisconsin. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Rhonda says from Camden, New York. Oh, and maybe Denise and Lara know each other. That's cool. So I love that. Friends. Okay. Okay, you have to think sometimes when I'm trying to cut something. Let's see, that's one and three-fourths. I mean, off of the paper. One, two, three, four. I know. You're like, what am I doing? I'm trying to figure something out. Okay, I'm kind of making a frame like that. Oh, cute. I'm not cutting the whole thing out. I like it. But I'm going to stand on this. And I have to look at the congrats. I think I'm going to do congrats. Are you going to do congrats? I don't have that here. But I do have some colors here. Okay, I'm kind of using some right now. Maybe I think I will use the darker green, which is granny apple green. So on the congrats. And let's see, you got, I think I'll, this will be kind of fun to go around with this. I've seen it where they've used this one right here. It's kind of little confetti. So I can use confetti in different colors. Oh, I like how you did the double. So tell them what you stamped with the two colors. I'm just Poppy Parade. This one is stamped off. Cute. I just did the double color. I don't know what I'm doing next, but I'm just kind of flying by the seat of my pants here. Let's party would be cute. Let's party, let's party, let's party. Oh, yeah. Kind of going down congrats. I know, I'm trying to think of summer birthdays. Who could I, I have a, one of my good friends, her husband and two of her kids all have birthdays in August. So, Danny's birthday. Yeah, Danny's on Friday. Jill, yep. And I think we're going to find out if anybody wants to go see the Barbie movie. No, not the Barbie movie. He doesn't want to go see that for his birthday. He actually wants to go see Newsy's, the little play that's in Hurricane. Anybody wants to go? Okay. Poppy Parade, am I not seeing that? Oh, there it is. I was going to do the green. I think I'm going to do a contrast. Makes it kind of pop. Let's party. That's cute. Yeah, it is cute. I'm going to do one more in blueberry. If you need the clear, it's right there. Let's see. I think I'm going to have this coming out of one of the blowers. I'm going to decide which one I'm going to do. Let's see. I probably don't. Let's see. We have two different ones, right? A stripe one. And I have to look. Yes, there's a stripe and a polka dot one. Let me do the polka dots. Again, choose between them. Because I basically have a favorite child. Beth says it's like choosing your favorite child. We know Darlene's favorite is stripes, but the rest of you, I need to know. Stripes or circles or polka dots. What's your choice? Just drop it. Oh, just on your finger. At least it was on the card. I kind of got inky fingers anyway. That happens all the time. It's kind of fun. It is. It's cute. I like how it's pretty fast because of the two step stamping. You know, just switching the colors. You're not using markers. You're using your pads. So it goes pretty fast. One thing I like to do when we're using like a certain color scheme, like from this paper, we're using this particular color scheme. I like to just have a piece or two of each of the card stock in that color. So I can just kind of see like. Which one you like. What color I want to use. Kind of how it comes out. It's kind of cute with the blue. What do you think? Oh yeah, I do like the blue. I think the blue. Yes. That's really cute. Of course, that's one of my favorite blues. I know. That's the blueberry bushel. Okay. This is just having a bunch of. I think I need to have a different color with it. Let's see. Rhonda says polka dots. Denise says polka dots. Yeah. Wait. Stripes. I like wait. I know. I can't ever decide. Well, I really love polka dots, but I know I'm using the stripe right here. Well, I was going to use the polka dots on this one. So you use my favorite and I'll use yours. Okay, sounds good. I'm just taking this cool confetti and doing two different colors of it. Oh, cute. And I could have taken it and just gone that way too. Maybe I'll do a third color. Maybe I'll do the lighter green, which is right here. I've kind of remembered. Clean the staff. Clean the staff. Cute. That is going to be really cute. Yeah. I'm going to turn this over so it's shooting out some other colors. Oh, cute. I think we need some yellow in there. Kind of getting a lot of confetti here. Some people I was like, okay, less is more Jill, but I'm still going. Just don't give those people that part. I just love all the colors in here. I need to cut clothesies. I'm sure everybody's freaking out that they're not closed. Probably. I'm just sometimes I just get going. I just make a mess. Okay. More confetti. Let's see. I want it to come out this way a little bit. Probably. Or actually this way. Let's see. Maybe I will cut. I think I'm just going to actually make it come out further. And then we have a bunch of confetti. All different colors. Oh, cute. Okay. See my multicolor confetti with a multicolor background. Now we need to go ahead and stamp this color. Oh, cute. So let's do yellow and mamba since it's already in the confetti. So I always think it's really nice if you don't know what colors to use is to really look at, excuse me, the designer series paper for motivation or for, you know, something that will work for you. Yeah. So they put them together and you get to see them and you're like, I like that. Yep. Do you kind of feel that too, Aubrey? Yeah. Yep. And like I said, again, I'm just going to be like a record repeating myself, but this one is so fun where it's Christmas and you can use it for really bright and fun Christmas. But look at these birthday cards and celebration cards. That is just so fun. Cute. And you can use whatever stamp head colors you have. Uh-huh. So, you know. Yeah. If you don't have all the ones that go with it, you could just use the few that you do have. Yeah. I think I'm going to want to put the poppy parade around the edge there just a little bit. Yeah. Well, maybe what we'll do, we'll keep playing, but we will finish up what we're doing and then share our pictures. Yes. I can do this one too. Really quick show what we created today. Let's see. Oh, we have Charlene. Oh, we know Char from Orem and she has to have stripes. Let's see. And Darlene says that would be a cute New Year's Eve invite. Yeah. Because we have, it has in this the Happy New Year too. Yeah. So it has the Let's Party. Happy birthday to you. Congrats. Yeah. And the Happy New Year. So fun. And you can even stay up happy, happy, happy. And grab your other one that you did too. Oh, yeah. This one too. So fun and so bright. So we will finish up what we're doing here, but let you, let you guys go and we'll post our pictures of our finished projects over on our Facebook page. Beth always puts the link down in the description. So, yeah. So remember that, look at your paper, even though it's Christmas on one side, it could be something else on the other. So, yeah, this paper in particular is really fun.