 My name is Amy Combs, and I'm a Stampin' Up demonstrator for 28 years now, and I am in Jill's second level of Stampin' Up, so I guess she's my grandma, and I love everything about Stampin' Up, but I'm here today to share with you some things to do with the memories and more card packs. I've done that before when I was here, and the products I'm going to use today are all out of the annual catalog. So this is the card that I'm going to show you how to make. It opens like this, and then it's going to open this way, and you can put a little gift card or some cash in there for a new little baby. So I'm going to show you a lot of different tips and tricks here for this card, so let me go ahead and get started. The first thing I'm going to use today is the memories and more cards, and this pack is called Today is the Day, and it is in the annual catalog, and you get 54 cards in the pack and some sticker sheets. So they come in four by six and three by four, and they're double-sided, so you get all kinds of different cards here, and then you get some sticker sheets, four of them to be exact, and then you also have the larger cards, and so I'm going to go through my project here, and I'm going to find the cards, and I'm going to give you a couple tips on how to do that. When I use the cards and I do them at home, what I do is I put them like this up like at the top so I can see all of the ones that I need. So what I'm going to do today is kind of just flip through here to find which ones I need, and then I'm going to show you this one, and sometimes you can't find the card you really need. Let me go over here to the small ones. This one is for the front. You see it? I wanted to show you guys the pack, which is why I didn't go through and find the cards earlier, which I probably showed you. So they're all double-sided, so we'll just flip through them to find the ones that we need. Oh, here's my green. Garden green, and then this one is going to go right there, and we're going to use this one is right here, and I think I have all of them. And here is this one. Let's go ahead and get started, so I'm going to put all the rest of my cards away because I don't need those. I will need the sticker sheets, so I'll keep those out here. Okay, I'm also going to use the memories and more card pack. The cards and envelopes are a great value. You get 20 cards, 10 large ones and 10 small ones, and then of course 20 envelopes, and what I am going to do today is I am going to use one large card and one small card to make this. So what I'm going to do first is fold my card in half, okay, and this part is right here, so you understand what I'm doing, okay? And then this smaller card is going to go like this, and I'm going to go ahead and adhere that, and it's going to adhere to the back because I didn't put like a liner on this in the front, in the middle here, so if you are going to put another layer here, you could put this this way, and then when you put the layer on it, it would not show, but I'm going to go ahead and pop it onto the back right now. I use steel plus, that's my adhesive of choice. I like it because it is very sticky, and then I'm going to take this and I'm going to place it right onto the back, okay? So now I have the card that you see, it's going to fold like this and like this. So we're just going to start on the front piece, and I'm going to go panel by panel and show you how to put it together. So this is the black polka dot here. Go ahead and layer that, and then this piece here is this larger card, and it's a four by six card, so I'm going to take it and I'm going to cut it down to four by four, so get my trimmer out. Line it up with the four-inch mark here, and make sure to use the dark blade. That is your cutting blade. And then all of my scraps I save, and I use them on other projects with the rest of my cards. Okay, and then for this piece, I'm just going to go ahead and put that here, and you kind of line it up with a little bit here. Okay, now I'm going to go ahead and do this front piece. So I'm going to take the mint macaroon polka dot piece, and then I have Hello, Sweet Pea, and you'll notice this right here. So that's a sticker, and I'm going to go here and just pull that off. Okay, so I want to put this on my card, so it's like this, and so I don't want to put the dimensionals on this side of the Hello, so I want to be careful when I flip it over and just put them right here, and then I always put one in the middle so it doesn't sag in the middle, and then peel your pieces off, and you want to put it on so it doesn't, you want it on the left-hand side to line up so you have this here. Okay, then I'm going to go to my sticker sheet, and I'm going to pull off this one, so you have to flip through your sheets, and it is actually this piece right here, and it has this, you could trim that off if you want, but what I did was I just went ahead and tucked it underneath, like so, and then I'm going to go ahead and put my embellishments and my ribbon on at the very, very end, so we're going to open this up right now and we will go to this panel here. Okay, this piece here is cut from that scrap. Okay, my card measures three inches, so I'm going to just go ahead and cut this at three inches, and then this is about an inch, so I'm going to do an inch and a quarter. I should have put it on before I put the dimensionals on, so I might need to trim it a smidgen, so now it's cohesive with this piece here, and when I close it, you can trim off the edge just a little bit if you need to, and you can use your existing card as your little template to trim that off, so if you don't like the backside of one of the memories and more cards and you're doing something like this, you can just cover that up with a piece that you already have. Okay, this piece here is what is going to go right here, so I'm going to go ahead and fussy cut that, and fussy cutting just means to trim around it, and I'll go kind of quickly, and it kind of looks hand-drawn, which is really cute, so you can do a lot with these cards, and that's what I'm trying to show you today. The cards are a great value. They are beautifully colored, and the colors all coordinate, which is what is wonderful about Stampin' Up product, and you then can everything coordinate, so it's going to go wonderfully together, no matter how you put the cards together with each other. I have this card here. The black one is going to go here, so just when you look at the cards at first, you might get a little overwhelmed because there are a lot of choices. I kind of play with them and put them together as to how I would like to use the cards, you know, which ones go together and which ones don't, and you'll find that you can put a lot of them together to make some great projects. You can do scrapbook pages, you can do cards, you can do bags, all kinds of stuff. Banners are really fun with these cards, too. Okay, and then I'm going to flip this over right here. I went off a little bit right there to just kind of cover up the seam, and so here is the inside piece. Now at the bottom here, you are going to put your sticker, which is right here, so I'll pull that off, and I'm going to go over the fold, about a half an inch, and put that down. Trim with my snips, and you can save these stickers to use on something else. I just kind of put them back on, and then this card is what goes right here, and what I'm going to do is put it into my cutter diagonally, like this. So this is going to be the top here, which is right here, and then I'm going to move it over, so I have this pocket right here, and just just trim that piece off. Again, make sure to save all these little pieces for some other project that you want to do, and then on here, so it's going to go right here, and I want to use some dimensionals because I want it to be popped up a little bit. So what I'm going to use is the corner pieces, so I'm going to kind of lay them like that and see where I need to cut, and I'm going to use this whole strip. Oh, and I did it backwards here. I love to save the strips, the edges of my dimensionals for projects like these, and then I'm going to use a little piece right here, and go ahead and put that down. I'm going to cover up where that little black-and-white strip went there, and then I'm going to take the other one off my sticker sheet and lay it down, so it looks cohesive across here, and then you can just snip this piece off, and then I'm going to pull in this sticker here, and I'm going to pop a couple of dimensionals on the back of that, and that's going to go right here. Okay, now my stamp here, I chose to use the Charming Sentiment Set, and I wanted to show you a little trick that you can do with this. I'm going to use a couple stamp sets, or stamps in here, so I'm going to use the So Tiny and Precious, and the congratulations, and I haven't really used this set yet, but what's awesome is once you peel them off of here, you can stick them right here, so that is nice. Okay, so I have a block here, and when I put my stamps, the photopolymer ones, on the blocks, what I do is I put them onto my paper, and I don't want them sticking to my fingers, of course, and I take my block and I put the block down so that my stamp is on here straight. I found if I do this, sometimes my stamp is crooked, or it goes up on one end, rather than being straight, so I do it like this, and then I can layer that one there, so I'm putting two blocks, or two stamps onto the one block, and then I take my Memento Black ink, and I'm going to go ahead, and because it's photopolymer, I can see through and stamp that like so. Okay, now I want to get into the favorite, my favorite part about making cards or anything with Stampin' Up! product is doing some ribbon work on it, so what I'm going to do is I have this black and white gingham ribbon, and I'm going to wrap it around and bring this up and snip it off. I'm going to tie this in a knot right here, and then I'm going to go in and bring probably my second favorite ribbon, which is the white crinkle ribbon. I'm going to take this, and I'm going to take, I don't know, I might just pull some off, like I probably have 15 to 18 inches, and I'm going to take a Stampin' Blend marker, I'm going to take the bullet tip, which you can tell there's a fine tip here, and the bullet tip here, and I'm going to pull that off, and I'm going to color my own ribbon, so just go ahead and color it with the brush tip, make sure you have a paper underneath you, because it will go through a little bit. When you, this ribbon is a little hard to work with, and when you color it with the blends, it makes it a little bit stiffer, so it's a little bit easier than to work with, so I'm just going to color the whole thing bare with me while I do this, and because it's alcohol-based, it'll dry pretty quickly. It does go through to the other side, yes. So I have this, and then I double it, and I bring my card back in, and I take this, and I put it underneath where that knot is, and I tie it, and then I tie the bow. Okay, so I have this, and then I take about 12 inches of linen thread, and I do the same thing, so you have like a knot, and then a bow, and then a bow. And of course, whenever you're doing a demonstration, you can't tie the bow as quickly, and just go ahead and tie your bow, and then you can kind of fan out your pieces here, trim off what you don't like, and then I'm going to trim this a little shorter, and this a little shorter, and then what I did here is I just cut it up. I'm only going to do one side because it takes a little bit of time. Just trim that, it just kind of makes your bow a little bit fuller, and then you have two tails instead of one, and I'll do that one later. And then to finish my card off, I want to pull in some black matte dots. These are my favorite embellishment in the catalog, and I'll grab a pair of tweezers, or you can use your take your pick tool, and I'm going to do a small one, and then on the inside, I'm going to follow my sample and do one here, and that is my card. Okay.