 Hello! Happy Tuesday. Yes, welcome to Stampin Chat with Stampin Jill. I'm Beth and I'm Aubrey and we are stamping with you today. Yes. With the landscapers outside. Yes, if you can hear us study. They are working on Jill's backyard today. Yep. Today was also supposed to be Jill and Aubrey, but we told you a couple weeks ago Danny had shoulder surgery. Well, he had a gallbladder attack over the weekend and he had to have his gallbladder out today. Yes. So he is currently recovering from surgery. Okay. Jill is with him at the hospital right now. So we're here. We are here. So welcome and hopefully we can have some good banter. Yes. And maybe some cute projects. Yes. So am I allowed to see how many people are on or not? Not this way. Not from here? Nope. We just... So welcome. We're thrilled to have you. Yes. And we're sure there's people there. Let us know if you're here. We want to say hi to you. Yes. Say hello. We... So we use some streaming software to do this. It's not straight through YouTube so we can't see how many viewers are on currently. So just give us a little shout out. Say hi so we know we're not talking to ourselves. That always is very nice. What are we doing today? Okay. So we are focusing on kits today. We have a sale coming up on kits in August starting in August. August 1st through the 31st. Yes. 30% off all kits that are... Just not paper pumpkin. Not paper pumpkin. So what they've told us so far is it's up to 30% off. So I'm not exactly sure what that means. I haven't released like prices on which kits or whatever to us yet but we're really excited because we love kits. Yes. Kits are so fun. Such a great way to get started into crafting card making if it's not something you've done before. It's a great way to just kind of get your feet wet. So we wanted to feature two of our newer kits. What are you using? That have come out recently. Mine is called Forever Friend. Forever Friend or Forever Friends. I think it's friends. I'm gonna switch the camera so we can show them here. Okay. I have a thing that says... Here's mine. Boho Beach is the one that I chose mostly because I saw the stamp set. What's on here like that? Here's the stamp set. I thought it was so cute. Enjoy your day. Sit back and relax. Then these cute little florals that I thought were really fun. So that's the one that I chose and I love the colors. Really, really fun. And mine is, yes, the Forever Friends. So here's what the little front looks like. In this one, there's eight cards and envelopes that you make two different designs. And the stamp set is cute. It is this little flower and some petals and little flowers and then just some sayings that go with it. So that is cute. That's a cute one. Yeah. So in every kit, it's all inclusive. You get everything you need to make a certain amount of projects. So for this, it's eight cards and envelopes, two different cards, but four of each, right? And then it comes with these really, really cute pre-printed envelopes too. Here are the cards that came. So these are the two different ones that you would make using the kit. The fun part about this is, like, I've remade another card using elements from the kit that just I came up with on my own. So there are a lot of alternative ideas out there for different projects, but we wanted to take the stamp set and some of the elements and come up with some different projects so that you see there's use for these kits in the longevity. They're really versatile. They're great for gifts. They're great to make up and give to people or give to somebody as a little introduction. And if you're a demonstrator, we love doing kit classes because there's very little prep for us, but our people love to get together and craft and so we make sure we do that. So. Right. Anyway, so Beth showed you one of the ones that she did made up that was kind of a different look. So this, I wanted to show you what I did. These are the two cards that come, like how these are made the way that they say to make it. But then I wanted to show you different ways to make the cards. So I came up with some different ideas. So here's this same layout. I just did it differently. So this back piece here that comes pre-printed and instead of stamping on it, I to give it that little extra definition around it. I didn't. I just kept it just the printing and so it makes it a little bit softer, but super cute still. And I just changed the direction of it. This one I completely did different. I stamped around it, but then I just cut those flowers out. So same look, but just different layouts. And then for this one, this is what it's meant to look like. I did the same thing. I didn't stamp around it to give it the definition. So that's just kind of how that pre-printing one came. And I just switched the direction of the paper and really easy, but it just makes it a little bit softer. And then here's another one. I just cut the piece apart. I just gave it a little different layout there. How cute, Aubrey. That's awesome. So fun. I love that. So just a few different options. Yeah, so the kits come with a lot of pre-printed or pre-dye cut little pieces that you can play with. I even thought it would be fun to take some of them and like sponge over and create like a negative type of thing, but I grabbed some watercolor paper. I'm going to make like a little panel here. I think I just need to let that dry a little bit. So I just watercolor that with some pool party ink on watercolor paper. So let that dry for just a second and then maybe work on something else. So this is really fun. The pre-printing and the stamp work perfectly together. So you can just stamp right directly over that. What comes in this is the Night of Navy stamp in spot. Oh right. This little one. I'm just using my big pad because I have it. So that's a little bit easier, but you can see you can just stamp right over those images to give it a little more definition. So I'm kind of doing the opposite on this one than what I did by leaving it blank on the other card. I'm going to stamp all of the little images to give it extra definition on this one. Yeah, and if you haven't done the kits before, let me show you. Where did I put it? Oh, under here. So this is what comes with the kit. It's in instructions and it's got in color kind of exactly how to assemble the card. It even tells you where to stamp, which stamps to use, how long you should cut your ribbon, everything. And if you're much more of a watching videos person, they also have a video. You can scan the QR code and you can find the little video that goes along with the kit. It comes with all the adhesive, everything you need to make the little, to make all the cards. So these are also really good gifts because if you're not sure what to give to somebody, I love to give these to teachers like my kids teachers at school. I feel like they always can use cards, thank you cards. And if they're crafty, I'll let them make them. If they're not, I'll make them up for them and give them in the cute little box and let them keep this down set or whatever, or I could keep it, I guess, but I've always just let them. It's kind of fun. Yeah. So I'm just finishing up my last one there. So you can see, I'll show you the difference. Here's how the card is stamped from the kit. This is how they have you do it. This is with just all of those images with the stamp around it. So it gives it more definition and here is it is without it. So really just by stamping around those images on that printed image gives you such a different look. It's really fun. Okay. And I want to play a little bit and come up with a card using some blends that's using watercolor paper. I am with the water painters. I guess I should like do all this on camera. Sorry, I'm like so into it. So I wanted to create like a little band and kind of do less of a scene and more of like a, I don't know, more of like my typical style of card. That's the fun thing about these kits is they come with kind of a particular style, but if you have a different style, you can always kind of figure out how to make them your own, you know, which I love and love, love, love being able to do that. So I just wanted to figure out how I wanted to assemble this here because it comes with these cute little elements I still wanted to use and put in there. And then I got to figure out how I want to add my sink, which on my other card, I cut down this piece. Let me see. Do you see here's like the original? It's nice and big and bold and I cut it down just so I had like a little rim around it because I felt I wanted to put more in the background. I think I'm going to do that again because I quite liked cutting it down. I think I'm going to use, I like this saying you can do hard things, but I think I'm going to do, I'll show you, and I'm just eyeballing this, so it's probably not going to be perfect though, but that's okay for me, which I'm just a little touch more here. I'm going to do where you cut each of these words, like make them go down the page rather than, do you know what I'm talking about? Yes, like trim it out. Yeah, cute. I do love that. Two, five and a half, like this, you can do hard things. I love that, something like that. Cute. Let's see. Well, when we're talking about the kids going back to school, we've got, we each have four kids. Obviously we have four girls. I have two girls, two boys. My four kids are in four different schools next year. Your four kids are in three different schools next year. I have one more year before I have to do the four-school thing. This stage of life, man. It's wild. It is pretty busy and school is coming. The kids don't want to think about it yet, but... Are you ready? Oh, I'm ready for them to go back because I'm ready for some structure at my house. I'm just ready to like have a queen house for five seconds. But thank goodness for teachers, eh? Oh, I know. They are the real heroes. As we're like ready to get rid of them, they're just getting ready to take them. Take them back. I know what, they're the best. So grateful for that. Although I do, one of my best friends is a teacher and I saw yesterday she just broke her arm. Oh my gosh. Who? Christy. Christy? Yes. She... How did she do that on her family reunion? Yes, she fell off a horse and broke her arm. And she started school in a couple weeks. And she's a first grade teacher, so everyone send your heartfelt love out to her. Send your good vibes to that sweet girl. Oh my gosh, I can't imagine. That is a lot. That's rough is what that is. Yeah. So I think I might need to go take her some cookies or something today. Oh, I feel bad for her. Does she have to have surgery? They are hoping not, but I don't think she knows yet. She has to go see an orthopedic surgeon now that she's home because she wasn't even home when she did it. Yeah, that's right. They were traveling, right? Traveling, yes. I know. I think we start school in southern Utah a little earlier than some other places, which is nice because we get out of school a little earlier too at the end of the year, but our kids go back mid-August and but we get out end of May, right? Yeah. Which is very nice. This is cute, Aubrey. Ooh, I'm excited. Sometimes it's nice to have four of the same cards, but sometimes it's nice to have some different things too. Well, I just have the option to kind of play and but I like how they've like chosen the colors for you. It kind of gives you a little bit of a direction without having to think of everything, you know? That's true, although I am totally going off of what they have, which is great. I'm doing my own things. I think everyone's different though, right? Yes. Like it's important to have both. I think so, but I think I'm digging these colors though. I know. With the, look how cute that watercolor is in the back there. I know, just adds a little bit of a little detail. Have a fun thing. And this one didn't come with any accessories. Did yours come with any dots or anything? No, it didn't. Sometimes they do. There's ribbon or bakers twine, I guess. Not a full ribbon. I might add some little cute faceted things here. You know, that's the nice thing. If you do have some things just around that you've purchased previously, add them to your cards. That's the nice part about having coordinating products, right? Yeah. You can probably find something that will match. Yeah, for sure. Because they really do use a lot of those same colors in different things. Okay, enjoy your day. How about that? Cute. I like adding the watercolor. That's kind of fun. And then look at the, here's the envelope that comes with it. They're so cute. It's like, oh yeah. Oh fun. They're so fun. Those are such beautiful prints. I know. And like you could add, I think my favorite part of this stamp set is this little crackle stamp. You know, like the little spotted stamps. The little wave bubble. Oh, oh, that one. That's just a good like background stamp. It is. It's like a good little, so if you got this kit but you haven't looked at this little stamp, that's like the best little edition type stamp ever. Well, and you can use it in the background of so many different cards and styles and that's a good one to have. Yeah, those are fun ones. Okay, I had another idea. Okay, good because I'm still coloring. Good. Well, I hope you have some friends joining us. And yeah, that kit sale starts, which is nice to always get them, you know, on sale or whatever, but really even at the price they're at right now, they're not a bad price point. They're a pretty fun way to start and get things going. Yeah, look how cute with that dot background. Oh, Aubrey, that's really cute. I wasn't even watching what you were doing. And then I'm going to do my little ones, this purple. Cute. Which I don't choose purple very often, but It's such a trend right now, though, man. It really is. And this is Highland Heather, but I actually really love the Fresh Freeza purple. Mm-hmm. That's a really pretty one. I feel like we do gravitate toward Fresh Freeza more. Yeah. But they're right together now. Yeah. Oh, and bubble baths in the same family. I know. It's pink, but it's kind of a purply pink. Well, and Fresh Freeza is almost a pinky purple. Pinky purple. Yeah, they work really well together. Good little pairs. If we had to count how many flower stamp sets do you think we have today? Oh, I don't know. A lot for sure. Oh my God, I love it. But that's the nice thing. If you have a favorite flower, we probably have a stamp set to go along with it. Yeah, that's true. That's a good way to look at it. I just want to trim down this little the front of this envelope, and I'm going to make it a card front, because I think the print is so cute. That's a great idea. So I'm going to make it four. And that prints different than the card? Yeah. Oh, okay. I mean, they're just different patterns. Like here's one of the cards, right? Oh, yeah. And there's that. I don't know if I'm going to use it together, but I might. It's just so simple and easy, but it is kind of papery. So we'll see what we can do with it. I don't know if I'm going to use that or if I'm going to just use a piece of card stock and see and play a little. Hello from Georgia. Oh yes. Glad you could join. Okay, there's my kind of little background look. Oh, I wanted to use this, but that doesn't go. It does not. That's all right. You can do hard things. Is that what we're telling our kids as they go back to school? Are we telling ourselves that as we get to the end of this summer? Oh, it's been a long summer. I don't know how I'm doing this on here. I didn't leave myself a space. I should have thought about this. Can I go over the image? Sure. You can do. It's so small. I don't know. It makes it kind of busy. Maybe I'll have to do two cards, one with this and one with the other. Yeah. Oh, I could do it over here, maybe. Oh, that's cute. That's kind of different. Should do it on that side, huh? Yeah. Best part of creating lives is we get to see the whole process. I know. I would, I actually really love to watch other people create life for the same reason, because it's so interesting to me to see how people do things. I don't know. Everyone's different, right? Even in our office, we're all kind of different in our process. Yeah. So it's kind of fun. Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's really pretty. Yeah. Wow. I think I might use green glue. Oh, here. Oh, you have it. Not its technical name. We know what it is. Mono. Multi? Combo, mono, liquid glue. Multi. I'm trying to remember what it actually is. Like, I'm kind of like, I kind of know, but I don't remember either. I need some, like, a full saucy foam. I don't know if it'll even be able to see it. It's so light on this blue background. It just gives a little, little look. That is really pretty. That crumb cake on there looks so cool. Yeah, it's kind of a fun little addition to it. Yeah. Oh, fun. What other accessories are in there? You have that chair. There's shells. At least I think they're shells. That's what I would call them. Okay. These little, this little guy. I have little sentiment, like, things. Okay. Like, they're popped out, you know. Yeah. So smaller shell, bigger shell, or leaf, maybe they're leaves. They could be leaves. The umbrella. Have you used most of those? Oh, yeah. Let me see what else I can find in a brown one like this. It came with some little linen thread, which I love. Yes, for sure. The little chair, the little, what is that, that Adirondack chair or whatever. Yes. I like these ones. But it also has a crumb cake one. This, like, the two leaves, they're connected together. They're real cute. Very fun. I know, it's so fun. The nice thing about using this liquid glue is I can kind of move these around and I have a little bit of freedom after I put them down to get them how I want on my paper. Get them as straight as I can get them. That's fun. I love it on this. Oh, that's a fun idea. Yeah. That's right. It has that little shiny metallic detail there. That is really cute. Let's see. I did enjoy your day. So I'm going to say sit back and relax with this one. Oh, maybe I'll do it in the crumb cake though. I wonder what that would look like. Fun. Okay. Well, what do we think? Should we finish our cards and we can post them? Yeah. Okay. Well, guys, all that to remind you to sit back and relax. Just kidding. Definitely sit back and relax. Sit back and relax. Grab a kit. Maybe if you have a kit that makes you feel like I don't really like to stamp in a box or I don't really like to just follow instructions. Maybe pull it out and see what elements you can use to create some of your own creations, right? Yeah. Because look, did you show what? This is what Beth did like differently. She water-colored this background so pretty. Yeah, it turned out kind of fun. So you can think outside of the box and do other things. There are even like, I can think of stamp sets and dies that would coordinate really well with this boho beach look that we have that we carry. I'm sure you guys have a home. So. Okay. Well, we'll finish these up. We always post our creations over on our Facebook page, Stampin' Jills VIP. Yep. VIP group. And we'll put the link in the description of this video so you can find them there. We'll also put the link to the kits. But remember that sale starts August 1st, which if you can believe it or not, is next week. I think it's, is it next Tuesday? Yeah, a week from today, right? Yeah, it would be next Tuesday. So, so we'll be in August next Tuesday. It's not crazy. Oh, that's crazy. The year is already going by so fast. We are there. But yeah, if you're stuck in a little slump, we're kind of waiting for the mini catalog here. Go grab a kit, find something fun to do. Always a fun choice. Yeah. Okay, we'll see you guys.