 Hey stampers. Hello. Welcome to Stampin' Chat. I was gonna say watching my mind just went into that mode all of a sudden. Yes, we are today We're doing our Stampin' Chat with Stampin' Jill. Today Jill isn't with us. Do you want to? Yeah Her husband Danny is having surgery today on his shoulder. So they are currently at the hospital So Aubrey and I are covering today for Stampin' Chat. Yes So we are playing with two Sweet collections that are in that annual catalog. Super cute. Yeah, very fun I'm very different very different. I'm looking at the colors and the style and everything super different Yes, hopefully we'll find something that you like. Yeah, so should we just get playing? Let's get going. We've missed you guys I know I guess you could say that we had the 4th of July and then we had we were traveling one week So we haven't been here for a couple weeks. So that's the rustiness of my opening. That's okay That's okay, but we're glad to be here with you today. Yes for sure, but we thought we just get stampin'. Yes So I'll move this screen over Perfect. Okay. You want to show them what you're doing? Yes. So I'm gonna be showing you The bright and beautiful sweet Sorry y'all. You're good. Um from the annual catalog. This one is fun bright Birthday celebration. I'm really digging it. And Aubrey, oh shoot, is playing with inked botanicals This one's really fun because it Has punches with it. Yes, it has two punches. So rather than Having a die set that goes with this it is these two punches. They're kind of shape type punches and then Here's the stamp set inked and tiled and that is so pretty and then I Have this paper that goes with it. Did you show them your paper? I didn't I know both of ours are 6x6. They are. I didn't think about that till right now. That's true You can just see some of those really fun Colors I want to say spring but they almost are fall type colors. I think you can make them either you really could They're so pretty so pretty And let's see the backside is less flowers and more just pattern Very cute So I'm playing with that. Oh, it also has this really cute Ribbon, let's see. It's called bordered ribbon And it's in the last lagoon color and it I don't know if you can see it has kind of like a Acid it it reminds me of like acid wash jeans. I like it. It's got a whole texture. Yeah, it's really pretty almost like a canvas II material so that ribbing kind of comes with it Yeah, we're just Kind of playing we're just playing well. I've got one card I well I have like a million ideas is the problem. So we need to edit here and just kind of focus on what I'm doing Yeah, well on this one. I was Just intrigued by the colors in there And so I used this stamp that's in there and made kind of my own little background I thought I'd put just a saying on there. It's pretty almost looks like DSP Yeah, kind of cute and then I was playing with another one this I thought Kind of a matte monochromatic Blue card would be really pretty. So I took pool party and stamped This fun leaf Image in lost lagoon on there and then a lost lagoon background And then I did this with the punches actually I wanted to show you how I did the that just a note punch because This was interesting when you go First I had stamped it straight on like this, but then when you go to punch it. It's Like the X shape instead of like the plus if that makes sense when you go to punch it So if instead you stamp it diagonal Kind of like in a corner over here Then you can come in and line it up. Oh And that makes I see what you're saying a little bit easier on that plus sign Or X I guess I'm sure and then the fun thing is with this other one so this is the other punch that looks like this and that They kind of line up together if you want to put them together and it just makes it kind of look like you have a little square behind there Like that, so I thought that was cute. That'll be my little focal point There and then I'm gonna that this Ribbon I'll put on too because it's the lost lagoon Cutie. Oh, I like it. So that's one of mine. So let me show you I've been playing with this train with this seat like look at the DSP. It's got so many color combinations that are possible There's just so many bright and subdued and it's so fun blues greens I could see this being really great for masculine and like feminine cards. Um So it's almost hard for me to edit like down to which ones I want to do but I started making this card and I like having like a dark focal point with the lighter colors and the dies are really fun like you can cut out the balloon I did I did Gold embossed on top because I like kind of that little color, but and it matches with this cute Acetate paper that goes behind that has like the cute little celebration one on it I love that and the designers here's paper is really really fun with this set. So I need to just kind of assemble this card I've got it. I got to figure out what I want to do with the ribbon If I want to add the pink or if I want to stick with the gold I'm trying to decide so I can finish up this card and then I've got an idea for just stamping Because I love when you have a stamp set you can use the dies which is so fun But I like to if it's versatile enough you can just stamp with it. So if you need like a quick card, it's not hard to How make that happen, you know, I always like when an awful offer is that versatility? It's always nice for sure But we've been gone Aubrey, what have you been doing? Yeah, so I've gosh I we had like three weeks in a row where it was just Busy busy out of town busy. So the first week my we had a niece that got married In northern Utah, so we live in southern Utah and she got married in northern Utah about five hours away So we made a trip out of that took my husband's dad with us and Yeah, yeah, that was that's so kind of fun and then Came back from that and went directly to camping. I went camping with the young woman of our church So that was fun. So here's my Monochromatic pull party and lost legume card. I might yeah I might add just some rhinestones or something So is this one just a piece of card stock cut into a square? No, it's the oh, it's the punch Yeah, it's a punch that just right behind. Oh, how cute is that? Okay, I know lines up. I haven't seen it done like that before. Yeah, it makes it really really simple Yeah, but yeah, so then I spent a week camping with the young woman of our church, which was super fun and Super dirty. We all got really dirty But it was great and then I came home from that and it was Pretty much the fourth of July that's right after that and so Independence Day we went up to a little town Just north of us called Brian head and spent a few days there with some friends which Brian has usually a ski resort town But in the The summer they do they do all sorts of activities. Yeah, there's lots of biking up there It's actually really a fun place to go. Yeah, it is so what you beth was on vacation and doing stuff, too So I was we went with I'm down in Jill to Lake Powell, which we love to go to It's just south of us in Arizona near page Arizona and We love boating and our kids have just grown up going there. I've got four kids and My oldest is 16 my youngest is eight, but we were reminiscing we took care there the first time when he was six weeks old Can you believe that I remember that crazy? Yes, and now they're just big and helpers and it's kind of like a working trip We just kind of work really hard while we're there and play really hard and eat lots of junk and sleep when we want and But we have such a good time. So it was nice to get away and Dan eat my father-in-law Dan Jill's husband. He Was gonna have surgery. We knew that the surgery was coming up So we wanted to get out and have him enjoy a time in the lake before he's down for a few weeks So he's having rotator cuff surgery. Yeah today so That should be good a little healing after that some downtime for Okay, I need help and opinions whether You guys want to tell me on there or Beth you want to tell me, okay? What color I want to do just like a little band of designer series paper across here Which should I do there's crushed curry? You could do lost legume Or Clip so cool. Those are hard. They're also cute. Okay. Well, that's that everybody comment I know if anyone wants to comment and let me know I Actually have another little One I wanted to show you. Oh, here it is Another little idea here that I had I actually saw somebody had done this on a sample that I saw So I don't know who it was to give credit. I wish I did but That just this idea with inking it this way and These are our little sponge dobbers. They're kind of fun Sponges on the top and then they just have a little plastic thing. You can put your finger in and I'm just going to Sponge dob on this because I want to use this flower, but I don't want it all to be one color So I'm gonna start with my petal pink and I'm gonna go directly onto the Image here and I'm gonna just sponge that hole like the flower part With well, that's a great idea petal pink Sorry, my kids keep calling me Summertime. Yes Okay, just like that and then I'm gonna take Clip so coral and I'm just gonna Kind of do lightly. I don't want to do the whole image just kind of lightly toward that base Oh pretty That's a great idea with those stamps too because they're kind of watercolor they they are you can add a couple colors Yeah, I like it So I'm just gonna kind of do it lightly just toward where this stem is so that that light color is out toward the The back end of the petals and then I'm gonna do last lagoon on the rest of the stem Cute yeah, so show us what you okay. I just finished this card I kind of like the mixing of the pinks and the darker pinks and then adding just a dark The misty moonlight is what the blue is that I used to there Sorry, I'll stop moving so the camera doesn't autofocus What do we think I like the little touches of gold? I think it kind of dresses it up and makes I love the little tassels that they have that little dye is kind of fun That cuts out tassels and I used the designer series paper so that it moves a little bit more and it has some like Ombre effect with the colors. I thought that was kind of fun. Yeah, but like I said I want to do a card with just stamping to and not using the dyes So that's my next venture and I kind of want to use Different color combinations. I think I'm gonna use pretty peacock and lemon lime twist for this one So not so bright and pink and maybe you could use this a little more masculine. I I don't know about you guys I always want masculine. Okay, here we go. We need them. Can you see that? Oh my gosh, that's so pretty isn't that pretty and I actually love how simple it is. I'm just gonna I So I cut out a piece of the designer series paper Just to the size of the front of the card and then that will be my front and then I'll add just a little Saying on there so They can see a little bit on camera, but honestly in person so so so maybe we'll post pictures and hopefully it'll Yeah, maybe the autofocus makes it harder. Yeah, the autofocus is not making us much today But yeah, we'll post pictures so you can get a better view of that. But yeah, that's really fun Okay, no one has responded to my so I really like That kind of thing to me kind of brightens it Yeah, but I mean it's kind of just depends on the look you're going for right now, but I Trust me all is great. I love that. So I'm just gonna trim a little piece here Let's do it I'm on for that calypso coral look and I like a three-quarters inch strip I Feel like when I'm doing a strip across Like this is one just to one. I feel like it's too wide and a half-inch is too skinny. I really like Three-quarters inch that's kind of my go-to. Oh, I don't know what that means playing checkers I don't know. I don't know. I've never heard that before Okay, you're not playing checkers, but we are going back and forth. Maybe that's what they mean. Oh, maybe Smart way to say yeah Okay, so that'll be my little strip there Maybe I'll add some ribbon on this too. So you do have that whole part or that love that lost the good Ribbon is really pretty. Oh, that's kind of cute. What do you think? Oh? What are you doing with your saying do you have an idea? I don't know yet There's this thank you that I really like but I was thinking I might do that on the other one I don't know. We'll see what comes out here. Cool. I'm just making a little background here I love this one that comes with the balloons a little tail. You can't see it super well, I guess, but oh, yeah It's cute because you can turn it like Different ways so that it looks different for each of your little balloon tails, and they're not all uniform Yeah, I thought that was kind of a fun idea My husband and I were watching not even a show last night And they had this big bundle of balloons on the show and this little boy was trying to jump from the couch and see if He could fly. Oh with balloons. It was really funny He did not do well. No, and his sister kept telling him I think you need to jump from somewhere higher Nice sister. Yeah sisters are cool For sure for sure. Well, you're my sister. You're super cool Yeah, I agree For sure I'm just gonna add a little happy birthday here in the corner. I Think I might use this as like a masculine card. I like that idea pretty simple. Yeah Pretty easy colors And then we've got these little gems that kind of the colors coordinate well So you'll add a few of those What there are actually are a ton of Sings in this one Maybe I'll do the hello friend Hello, friend. Thank you on the other one I'm gonna punch it out When you layer things sometimes it just like brings it to life do you ever feel that it's so true like that Get that little bit behind it and it just helps it pop this frames it and pops it So there's a very simple card Little bundle of balloons. Happy birthday. Nice and quick. I really like that color combination. I think that's kind of fun This is a fun stamp. This is the same stamp I used to add the embossing on this balloon So it fits right over the big balloon, but it can kind of take shape of a balloon too and you're stabbing I can like it Fun fun fun I'll finish this one up and then maybe we'll end here and we can post our Pictures we post our pictures over on Facebook. Yeah, and we'll put the link In the information for this one But we also are doing some virtual classes with these two sweets. Yes at the end of the month Do you want to tell them how we do our virtual classes? Yeah? Yeah, so we We are offering two classes so just this from these two sweets and What we do is we send you a zoom link and you can join us through zoom Um This time we're doing a PDF only so we send you the PDF and instructions on how to make I think it's four different projects from each of these. Yeah, I'm from these sweets and Then we get we spend about 45 minutes together and we just Stamp and put the cards together teach you some fun ideas and techniques and Yeah, it's so fun. Yeah, it's really fun and we'll send you ahead of time. We would send you the Some PDFs that we make that have all of the measurements for what you need so you can prep everything ahead of time And then we'll get together and create and even if you don't have all of the product We don't we try to keep it pretty minimal the things that you'll need, right? But even if you don't have everything we have some customers that love to substitute Some people who join us they just use things that they've got on hand But they take the idea of the layouts the different things and then they can use them kind of what works for them Yeah, and it's just so much fun to get together That's the best part we we love to get together with our friends and stamp and we have friends all over the country So this is a great way to get everybody. Yeah together. So yeah, we get together spend a couple hours this one is on July 28, yeah, it's a Friday evening and we'll just get together for a couple hours on zoom Hang out and make some beautiful cards Right. It's so fun. Should we give them a sneak peek? Oh, that's a good idea. Each of the classes. Do you have them? No, I think I think they're over there. Okay. Oh, okay. Sorry That's gonna grab them and we'll We'll choose one from each Class. Oh, that's hard. I know Okay, here's yours. Okay Let's see. I might show you on here. Oh, that's a fun one. Maybe I'll show this one. Okay Okay, I'll go first. This is one. This really showcases the punch That the punches that come with this. So we're making this one And making kind of this quilt looking card With the punches that go with this paper and the designer's tears paper. So cute. Okay, and here's this one from the the suite This is a fun Let's see So we would give you instructions we can make it all together It's not fun. Yes So fun. I know and this little die that comes with this that is so cute a little friend It like makes this little Fringy fun. It is so cute. Let's get our celebration on. Oh, I'm excited So yeah, guys, if you want to join us for that, we'll put the link for those classes in two Oh, sorry. Yeah, let's flip flip our camera. Jen has to run out and take care of her baby. Okay. There we are. We're back. Yes So again, those classes are Friday The 28th of July we need you to sign up I think it's within this next week that we've got our deadline so we can get those The measurements and everything to you ahead of time. So you've got time to prepare. It's just ten dollars a class Sorry, I don't think we mentioned I don't think so It's not a lot you just get the PDF and then join us and even if that time doesn't work for you We'll send you the recording of that class So if you need to do it like the next day or really whatever works for you You can always help on and do that. It'll just be linked to a YouTube a private YouTube video, right? So super fun with these sweets and yeah, we've had fun I think I'm gonna keep going and finish this other idea that I have in my brain. Yeah. Yeah, and then we will go and post the pictures Yeah, so hop over to our Facebook VIP page. I'll also put that link here so you can see our finished projects that we made from today Yeah, and thanks for joining us. We'd love to see if you've created with this too You can post in that group once you've joined. Yeah, and we'd love to see your creations as well. Yes Okay, thanks guys. We'll see you next time