 Hi everybody, my name is Amy Combs and I've been a Stampin' Up Demonstrator for 25 years. I live in Simi Valley, California and I thank Jill for inviting me to present some things in the Holiday Catalog that I absolutely love. So I'm here today to share with you about the Night Before Christmas Suite and it's on page 24, 25 and 26 in the Holiday Catalog. So first I want to share with you some products from the suite. I have the Holly Jolly Christmas with this awesome Santa Claus. I have the Jolly Season's dyes that have some words that can be cut out that are really nice and I'm missing my tag dye on there. It's in my stamp form somewhere and then we have, we'll add the six by six paper which is double-sided and you get 48 sheets in the pack so those are beautiful. If you like the vintage look, you'll love this paper, that's my favorite. And then we have the memories and more cards and Stampin' Up changed the way they did the cards this year and you get six of each card. So if you're a demonstrator, that's awesome because you can do a class and you can divide the cards up with your class attendees or if you're a customer then you can create six of the same card or item that we have. And we even have six sticker sheets and they are all double-sided so you can get different looks there with the cards as you flip them, cut them down and punch them out. So I want to share with you today some things that I made with all of the different items and then the other thing that is in the suite that I skipped over are these great cards that are kind of vintage and I mean envelopes and then cards and then we have some ribbon to add to that which is double-sided cherry cobbler which is super sweet and then a gem I found in the back of the holiday catalog was the Holiday Rhinestones, the basic ones. They go really, really well with this whole suite so you can add a little bit of bling if you like that. Okay so I created a lot of different things and I wanted to kind of break them down for you. This was using two sets of the memories and more so in the pack you're going to get six sets so with this stuff I created it with two of the sets. So I did one card and then very simple I did some tags where I just cut the corners off and put a ribbon through and I used the stickers on the back and then my favorite thing to create ever are banners. So on here what I did is this piece on all three panels are the cards and then I added some card stock here and then I cut cards down like this was a bigger 4x6 one I cut down small. This was a 4x3 card and I cut this here and then I cut the hat to put over here and then I used the punch on one of the cards there. This blue is designer series paper okay and then I just strung it all together so that makes a cute one or you could do it vertical too if you would like to do it that way. So that's my banner and then the fourth thing that I made with the two sets of cards is this envelope book where I think I've shown you this before. You take three envelopes that are these ones okay and you're going to stick the three together you can see how they're going to go and then I cut the back piece here is actually are the cards that fit into the envelope and then I layered and cut stickers the project cards cut them down and then on the back here what I did my string moves freely so I just adhered here and then this is designer series paper and then on the front it has a little secret in here. You can pull these out these are the card fronts to the cards and then you can add some pictures there so I was going to make my daughter got married last year so I was going to make one with her and her husband and then my other daughter has a significant other so I was going to make her and then my son he has us so I was just going to do us. So I was going to do that for them for Christmas and so that's my project with two sets of cards and then I have a couple bigger projects where I did a set of 15 cards and I'll put these up for you guys to see I'm going to just run up through them really quick super simple stickers stickers here some of the rhinestones and some twine here I cut one of the cards down and layered and added here we just have the cards with a little bit of banner with the triple banner punch some ribbon and this I cut out of the designer series paper here's the Santa hat I think that might be my favorite card I don't know they're on my favorite I like them all and I like this one and I just popped up a sticker there this one shows the spotlight technique that we used to do a long time ago and it kind of got forgotten about I think I cut another card with a circle and then just layered it there fussy cut some presents here I cut the cards apart and then this is the designer series paper I just cut the Santa hats out so just play with it and have fun this one this is the spotlight technique to which is really nice and here we have it again and then here I cut some of the presents out and a few more layers back here I like a lot of layers and a lot of texture on everything so I kind of go over one over here's the reindeer which is nice on the sticker pack here's Santa with the spotlight and I made him as the oh for the ho ho ho and then here's the Santa and I just fussy cut him but I did like a little bit of bubble cutting where you don't go in so fat so far so you can cut quite a few at the same time so that would be a pack Christmas cards then I have a scrapbook because I love to scrap so on here what I did is first I stamped with craft ink on the book and let it dry overnight and then this is just a full six by six piece of paper a full card and then I cut a few cards down and added this and then I'll just go through a couple pages with you this is a die from the die set that coordinates and just here's some pages and you might say where do you put the photos well this is just a full book and then I insert another pack of the pages and that's where the photos would go so you can go ahead I'll put these on display you can look through but you can see here where I added them the holiday rhinestones to the ornaments they pop a little bit and then some pages are quite full and others okay so hopefully that brings you some inspiration and then I made a holiday sampler that's a decor piece for your house and I did this as a class and if you have people who say oh it's really pretty but I don't use a holiday I wouldn't use a holiday sampler if they make cards they could still come to the class and put everything then they could just put them on cards instead of on the 12 by 12 piece of card stock this used I used one set of the cards in the multiple pack where you get six sets so that's the sampler and then I had one more thing that I wanted to show you and I'll do a little bit of a demonstration but I don't want to put it all together because it's my measurements for you guys to copy so I went to salt lake city for the onstage in April I guess it was April yeah and Ashley van camp who is an artisan designer she did this project and so I contacted her if I could copy it and then my friend genie kooker came up with this idea so I kind of got it from her and it is a book that you open okay and it has um it uses the acetate boxes and it uses the cards the only thing is is the cards for them to fit in the acetate boxes you have to use regular size cards so I didn't use the cards that are part of the suite these are just um regular card stock eight and a half um by five and a half cut down and so I just wanted to explain to you really quick how to do the box and I have the pieces here and then I'll put them going to put them all back in the back so I have two pieces of crumb cake card stock you're going to cut two pieces five inches across by seven and three quarter inches down and you're going to score both pieces at one and a half inches okay so those will be back there then you're going to have the one piece for the front if I can flip it okay he his piece is layered on this crumb cake so you're going to four and three quarters by six you're going to cut one of those and then this is the little binding up at the top that's going to fold over so how you assemble is you want to use tear and tape and you want to put it like this and then fold these up okay so you can start to see my box then you you can sponge and decorate and do your front the inside pieces that are here are actually an acetate box and you want to cut that in half so now you have two pieces and put it together they're a little bit hard to bend put it together and then I have two pieces of designer series paper I believe they're three inches by five and three quarters and all you do is take that and then fold it over and adhere it with your tear and tape that then is going to become the front there's no paper on the back there doesn't need to be and then you take your tear and tape and you just adhere that here and that's your box and then decorate your cards so I'll show you the cards real quick that are inside but they'll all be on display over there for you this is a fold one this one's a nice fold one too and this one that's it for my demonstration I hope I shared something with you that can give you a little bit of inspiration