 Hello. Hi guys. Welcome to Stampin' Chat with Stampin' Jill. I'm Beth. And I'm Aubrey. And we are part of the Stampin' Jill creative team. Yes. If we're missing Jill again today, she is on her way back currently from Virginia, so she will be here with us this week, the latter part of this week. I'm sure she'll be here next week with you. Yes. But we are, bless you, Jen. Jen Stifing. We are excited to play with some retiring stamp sets today. Yep. Our last chance stuff went on discount today. Yes. Which I checked this morning to make sure that the stamp sets we're showing you are still current and there. And they were, but I can't believe how much has already gone. Things are going. Yeah. So if you have anything on your wish list that you want to get before the catalog, the current catalog goes out. I would jump on there and get them ASAP and even better if you can get a discount on them. Yes. Right? For sure. Well, hi Mary Ellen. We're glad to have you here with us. Yes, I know. From Montana. From Montana. Very good. I know. I wonder if it's still snowing in Montana. You'll have to let us know. It's been chilly here the last couple days, probably not compared to Montana. But I sat at a softball game last night and froze my little toes off. I'm sure everyone would die to know that it's like 60 degrees and you're freezing your toes off. Well, it was less than that, I think. For sure in the 50s. Anyway, okay, what set, do you want to show what set you're going to be playing with? I do and I just made the best discovery. So I chose some of my favorites. They're a couple years old, but love for you. I put how much they are on here. So I remember here's the stamp set and it's been around for a minute. So some of you might have it, but if you don't, this is a great staple to add to your collection. And here's the dyes. They're not like super great to see right there, but the stamp set is $10 on the sale and the dyes are $1280, which I thought was amazing. And such a good deal. I just realized my shirt says love, like love. And the color she chose. I know I'm going to show you are that same kind of scheme. I know. It was all because it was meant to be. It was. Okay, the set that I am playing with is this super cool set. It's $10. $10 discounted to $10. And this is one that from the minute it became live. I loved, love, loved and I fought for it because Jill didn't love this one and I did. I had to sell them on it. So I had to do some really fun cards in order to get everyone. You should start by showing them cards you've already created with. Okay. So, Jen, if you will switch the camera. Oh, hi, Jen. Let's see. Jen is from the UK. So it's probably close to the evening in the UK already. Yes. And Mary Ellen, maybe Mary Ellen will tell us if it's cold where she's at. Yes. In Montana. Okay. So this, that looks so yucky on there. I'm just going to not have that in this. Okay. That's a good idea. Okay. Okay. So these are fun cards. I, um, how long ago, I feel like it was so long ago that I made these ones. It was this catalog though. So maybe, yeah, it must have been at the beginning of the catalog. So I made these fun. It's like a flip card. We did, I did a YouTube video on this and a whole blog post and everything. So if you want to know how to do this, we'll put, can we put the description for that and the link for it in the description? Um, so if you want to go and see that, but these fun flip cards, so I have one that goes that way, one that goes this way. You are so super cool. You are so super cool. And then one that goes this way. So you can go and check that out if you want to see, but the, this is what I did with these cards with the stamp set. Oh, that's so cute. Sorry. This is what I did to sell them on this set. It does. The colors I chose kind of match my shirt a little bit. It is so cute, right? That is so cute. Did you show it closely? Well, I, I mean, can you kind of tell a little bit? It's a little bit of like an ombre type thing. I saw a stamp ball in the catalog that I thought was so cute and I wanted to replicate. So what I did, let me show you this technique so you can play with it at home. I just choose, chose two colors. Actually, Aubrey chose the colors for me. I said, Aubrey, give me two colors that kind of can meld together. And she said, always start with Coastal Cabana and then add another blue to it. And so I chose Azure Afternoon for my other blue. So I'm going to ink up in Coastal Cabana, just the whole thing really well. And then I'm going to take a sponge dauber. You guys know these that go on your little finger. And I'm going to just take my Azure Afternoon and I'm going to add it kind of to the bottom part of my words here. The fun part is you're going to get a different look every time you do it. I don't know, maybe not. If you're just kind of do it in the same spots, but I kind of like the randomness of it. It's almost like tie dye-y. Is that a word? Tie dye-y. Yeah. So cute. So just ink it up like that and then huff on it, right? Huff, huff. React well. We don't live in a super humid area. So we have to do that because it dries really fast here. And do that and then stamp it and I should be using a mat because that's what a polymer. But look, it's so cool. Those colors look so good together. They do. They meld really well together, right? So it's kind of a fun idea. I'm going to pair it, I think, with some of this just kiddin' around paper. This DSP, I thought the colors matched really well. So cute. So I'm going to make a little card with that. Let me show you. This is another card I made. So the DSP on this is discontinued from our last catalog or the last mini we had last spring. But I made this card for an event we had and just pulled it out because I remember loving it so much. So such a fun layout. So much love. This is the dye that's like put on top of there and then you open it and it's a little gift card holder. So cute. You put the gift card in there but so much love and then stamped for you. We need to do a gift card holder like that again. I know this was a popular one. That was a that's a great idea. Yeah, that one was really fun. But this is just kind of a really great basic stamp set. And if you can get the stamp set on the dyes right now for under $25, seriously. That's a pretty great deal. So and it's a good staple. Like I said, you can have it in your collection forever. And there's dyes that cut out like all of this sentiments here. So I'm just going to run this through and cut it out and then layer it in. And I'm so excited. So cute. I think it's kind of fun. Okay, I'm going to tell you what I am playing with. I think the the thing that drew me first to this stamp set is the pretzel. Mostly because if you are an office fan, I guess not the UK version, but the American version, either way you should be an office fan. But if you know what pretzel day is on the office, there should always be a pretzel day at work. Pretzel day. Pretzel day. Do you know my husband loves soft pretzels? I do too. And the reason I think he's always loved them, but while he was on his mission, he lived in Philadelphia for two years. Oh, right. And Wawa is a gas station, but it's like a convenience store corner store is what he always called it. Well, you have that little strip of petal pink. Sorry. Oh, you're good. Anyway, at Wawa, they have like filled pretzels like cheese or cream cheese, or they have like sweet stuff. Anyway, we went back to visit and he was just enamored with Wawa. He loved it so much. Yes. So much love for Wawa and pretzels and pretzels. I should make him a card that says so much love. Yes, for pretzels. But I found, so I was looking on Pinterest and I found this card. I don't know if you can see. It's actually like a super cute Etsy card. But I was like, those pretzels are so cute on there. So I'm kind of trying to recreate something similar here with the pretzels and just do my own take on it. But where I'm starting actually pretty simple. But I love the pretzel in this set. I think it's so cute. I think it's cute too. And I, the color scheme I kind of went with was petal pink bubble bath clipped silk coral and then I added in pecan pie, pecan pie, pecan pie. Anyway, who knows? I added that in because that's the color that a pretzel is. It's kind of funny because that's the color shirt you're wearing today. It is. In that same round. I'm wearing like bubble bath. You are. Nice. You just do what you know. It was just planned. I wish it was. We think all of this out. Days in advance. We decided this morning and then how to change because I chose one that was not available anymore. I know that was a bummer. So I had to shift a little bit, but I'm actually really glad I did this one. I am too. Super cute. I am too. That was another one on my list of ones that I wanted to do. The other one that I was thinking about showing today was what's Beth, what's it called? Milkshake. Shara milkshake. Shara milkshake. That one is a good sale too. That's a cute one. Do you guys remember that one? It's like a Valentine one. That one was really fun, but it doesn't like, I think it says happy Valentine's in it, but it doesn't have to be for me. No, we use, we made a lot of samples, I think, without using the Valentine's Day stuff. The other one that was fun was the telephone. Remember we did the telephone not very long ago. Yeah, that wasn't too long ago. And that one was, is on sale, a good sale as well. Yeah. So, so many good. And the nice thing is, you guys, if you're not sure about having ideas, right, we've done some videos on them so you can go back and look and kind of get some samples to our ideas, I guess, of what you could do. Yeah, that's true. What else have we been doing today, Abby? Fill them in. We have, well, not just today, the last week, two weeks, or longer, I don't even know. My life is like forever. My life has been cardstock the last couple of weeks. We are preparing for our virtual get together. So we've just finally finished making our packets. Beth is going, we're going to finish putting them in the millers today. And Beth is going to get them out into the mill by tomorrow. Yeah, so if you're joining us for our spring virtual get together, they're coming for you. Expect those soon. We're so excited. That's one of our favorites. And I know we talked a couple of weeks ago about Pinner's Conference in Idaho. We're going to be heading to Boise at the end of the month and we'll be teaching a class at Pinner's, which is going to be so fun. So that's next on the docket. Now that we've kind of got virtual, our virtual class covered for a minute, it is on to Pinner's, planning for Pinner's, getting that ready to go. Yeah, that kind of stuff. I know if you guys live in the Idaho, the Boise, Idaho area, you should come see us. There's going to be so much fun going there. You're so excited about it. Come meet us. Yes. But Jan, I know that's a little bit out of your way, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Just a little bit. Jan liked the telephone cards that we made. Oh, so sweet. I liked those ones too. That was a really fun set. That was fun. Okay, here's my pretzel one. Hey there. Cute. Pretzel day. It's pretzel day. Every day should be pretzel day. Okay, the other one I wanted to show you, I was playing with this. I thought this was really cute. So actually on this other sample that I had previously made, I did this kind of look with these ice cream cones in the back. What I did, I'm not sure how well you can see, but I stamped it full strength and then just kind of moved the stamp over just slightly and then stamped it off so that it gives it a little bit of dimension. And I loved it with these colors that I chose. But then I was like, you could do this and make it like for a girl or a boy. So I wanted to make one up with some different colors. So I chose It's almost like vintage looking. It is. Where you kind of made it a little blurry. Yeah. It's really cute. It's kind of fun. And so I'm going to use these three colors, soft seafoam, misty moonlight and balmy blue and kind of make this same look and come up with two hard ideas that will use that cute ice cream cone because it is really cute. Thank you. Yes. Well, here's my simple. I mean, simple, but I still use dye so cute that kind of showed off the technique so much love. And I just cut out. I guess I didn't have to cut out. I could have just put it on top of that paper, but I cut out and kind of popped it up. So it's got a little bit of dimension. I love it with that paper. Yeah, it works perfectly with it. Yeah, really cute and so simple. Yes. So I wanted to do a simple more simple one and then more one that used the dyes a little bit more because the dyes are really fun. You can kind of build the build the words up and layer on and make them look kind of dimensional. They're cool. Yeah. Okay, so there's that. How I did that full strength and then just stamped it off right next to it. And it does it kind of gives it like a vintagey look with that. It almost looks blurry. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. And then I'll just clean my stamp and do the same thing with these other two colors. Yeah, this stamp set is cute. It's got some flowers in it as well. And then it's got the big sentiments, but it also has all these cute little ones each and every day. Thanks for all you do. Happy Valentine's Day. Happy anniversary. Congratulations. And nobody gets me like you get me, but the flowers are builder so you can like stamp a lighter color and a darker color to kind of get them dimension to and there's dyes that go along with all those as well. Isn't that fun? So cute. It's a good good stamp set. Awesome. Okay. What are you? Are you going to do another one with that? You have something else in mind? I do. Okay. What about you? Are you still going? I'm still going. I'm going to finish off this. I guess you'd say typical masculine scheme. What is a typical masculine scheme to you? Like those colors are really cool colors. Okay. I can jump. I feel like that's kind of how it how it leans like cool colors are more masculine and maybe bright. What are cool and warm? Warm color schemes are more feminine generally, but I mean really you could it doesn't mean you have to give it to one or the other. Sure. But it's nice to kind of have that in your repertoire. Then you kind of know what's what. Yeah. So I'm going to I want to use some of these flowers like I was telling you some light, some dark. So I'm going to test it because I don't always have Aubrey with me to say Aubrey what color is map? Map. Mix. Mix really well. Kevin. So I'm going to test out some. So I'm going to test here is flirty flamingo on the bottom and melon mambo on the top. Let's see how these ones go. I'm trying to decide if this lines up exactly. I can't remember. Oh, maybe it's like that. That looks about right. I love that they're photopolymer too. Yes, it makes it kind of nice. So that's kind of a cool color combination. You can see the lighter on the bottom and the melon mambo on the top. That's a fun one. But what if I do you have petal pink out, right? I do. Petal pink is a good one. I usually have lots of colors in front of me. Yes, you do. That is true. Very true. Can I use your? Yep. Cleaner. Try. I'm going to try petal pink and flirty flamingo. So that'll be a little softer, right? Uh huh. What do you think is going to happen? I, yep. I think it'll go good. I think that it will definitely be softer. It'll be super subtle. More like a subtle look. You'll be able to see it for sure. The thing about petal pink is it has more orange in it than people realize. Yeah, it's more peachy. Yeah. I feel like sometimes. Yeah, see, and it kind of brings that out in the flirty flamingo. It does. Doesn't it? Isn't that funny that those are the same colors, right? The base of this one and the top of that one. Isn't that crazy? It is. It's crazy how that works. And it just brings out the tone that is there. So I like to start like that and kind of decide my colors if I want to do more of a soft or more of a bold. Okay, here's my two different ideas. Cute. I'm just going to finish off those cards, I think. I love those color combinations. Kind of fun. Okay, and we don't have to stay while I stamp this entire thing, but I have a direction, I think, of what I'm going to be doing. Cool. So I can always finish it and show later if you want to finish your cards and then we can... Yeah, I'll finish mine and you get going and... Perfect. Okay. I just have to choose now what color. Maybe I'll do bubble bath on that one. Yes. And I really kind of like soft seafoam. Oh, hi, Lisa. Thank you for joining us. Hello. I think I like the soft seafoam. So we're going to do... Remember where I'm going here? Seafoam. There we go. That was like a diabolical laugh. Well, you know when it's like, it doesn't line up and you're just like, maybe it could be and then it lines up and you're like, yeah, it's definitely that one. That's about where I'm at. Like, that could... I could see it. Okay. I should keep track of you and then it wouldn't be so difficult every time, Beth. You got this. I got it. You can do it. We're harder, not smarter sometimes. It's my plan. Oh, well... I should have been. I'm not saying that. On some days. I'm saying be smart. And I love this for you. I think it's so pretty. So I'm going to... Let me decide. I think I might stamp it and then layer my dies over it because I think that's kind of cute to give it like a soft base. And then are you doing the... Are you using the dies on that? Yeah. That's my plan to fill in and use the dies. And the stamp set is so fun because it is kind of just an all-occasionally type stamp set where you can add some of those things in. Oh, I kind of did like a blue and a pink too. There you go. We didn't even know that was the challenge. Just kind of what happens. Okay. That challenge. There we go. Cute. Don't be surprised if I add some gems or bakers twine or something to those, but I'm happy with it. Do I have those and then my pretzel card? Well, I did this one and I'll finish my other and add some dies and we'll post them in the Facebook group. Yes. Lisa is so sweet. It makes you want to go plant flowers. The nice weather. Yes. But she thinks she's going to stamp flowers instead. Oh, great idea. I love that idea. Yes. I know. That is a great idea. Although it is beautiful outside. It is. Yes. Go outside for a minute and then... Or open your window. Right? We just open the window and stamp sometimes. And we hear the birds come in. Yeah. Let me get that outside and we get the inside. It's perfect. Okay. Well guys, don't forget that the sale starts today and things are only as supplies last. So if there is something on your list, outgoing in colors, anything like that, make sure you go grab them before they're gone. Yes. For sure. Okay. Thank you for joining us and don't forget the Facebook group for our samples and we'll see you tomorrow for Watch It Weekly Wednesday. Yes. Okay. See you later. Bye.