 Hello stampers. Hi everyone. Welcome to Stampin' Chat with Stampin' Jill and Stampin' Aubrey. That's Aubrey. I'm Jill. Yes. Today we are excited to play with what? with the memories and more. Yes, the, let's see, the very Christmas. That's what it is. Right. The very Christmas memories and more cards and envelopes and the card pack. And I've got some samples. Yes. They're designed to go right on the cards, in other words, and they're pretty cards. They're super cute. But actually, before we get into that, I wanted to talk about our giveaway that we did last week. If you remember, you were here with us last week. We I made these little tags with the Sending Cheer. Is that what that stamp set's called? Sending Cheer stamp set and the dies that coordinate and we are giving away those tags that I created. And Beth just gave me the notes of who won and Ramona, Ramona Promitas won those tags. Yay Ramona. And actually, I think she's on already. Where are you from, Ramona? You'll have to put down where you're from. So awesome. Congratulations, Ramona. Beth will get, she'll get with you to get your information and get those in the mail to you. Awesome. Have some cute tags. And just before we get started, we are gonna do another giveaway this week. We have an extra very Christmas memories and more cards and envelopes set. It's a set of 20 cards and envelopes. So it has the card front. There's, so there's 10 of each of these colors. And look how cute the envelopes are. And the envelopes. So 10 of each of those. And they have insides too. Super cute insides too. So if you want to have a chance to win that fun card pack, what do they have to do? Well, we're asking you a question and I'm gonna ask you first Jill. Okay. I have to tell us. I already know the answer. So it's kind of controversial, but do you decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving or do you wait till after? Well, we start with our outside because we light up all our lights the day after Thanksgiving. So we don't turn it on till after Thanksgiving, but it takes a month to set up because we have so many lights. So we'll be honest Jill is looking for Christmas things in July. So She's kind of a Christmas all-year-long type of lady. What can I say? Yeah, I I don't know. I am usually an after Thanksgiving, but my husband tends to be before Thanksgiving and because he does a lot of the outside stuff, it ends up up before things like we have Halloween up and It's been up since mid-September. So your husband, my husband, is hide-and-seek, but you're the I'm slow down. I'm like hang on. Let's enjoy fall for a minute. Yeah, so comment and let us know which you prefer and We will send next week. We'll draw for those Merry Christmas memories and more and send those out, too. Awesome blossom. So let's let us know where you're from too. Yes. It's always nice to see where people are from. So I'm already starting with something that basically I use this card, but I cut out that. So let's show him some of the cards that are in this memories and more. Oh, yeah. First if that's okay. We kind of just have them all out. They're kind of like spread out, but you can use either both sides. You can use them for scrapbooking, but we're using them for card making. And there's two different sizes that come in the pack. There's this four by six size that's bigger and this three by four size that's smaller and I could tell you how much of each, but I can't remember. And they're designed just to go right on the card. If you want it to go right on the card and you're done. Basically the same thing with these. Unless you want to pop something out. I kind of sometimes like to go out of the box. You can always add a cute like sticker on there. It has two of each. They come with two sheets of each of these stickers. So they have just some cute little design items. There's some sayings to from these cute little cozy animals. So you can decorate them up with that, but it's a really fun and kind of a simple way to get some Christmas cards made. It's very simple, but they're really nice and sturdy. Yeah. These cards are like a card stock actually. Yeah. So what have you done already? I've already done a few up. They're just kind of simple with the smaller ones and then just added some of the stickers in there. So I have let it snow. And there's some little gifties on there and then wishing you the best this season with some trees. And then I also were using this iridescent ribbon on there too. Do you have that handy? Iridescent ribbon. So we wanted to pair that with it too. It's just really pretty white iridescent. And it kind of pulls whatever color. If you put it over by the reds, it kind of pulls red. If you put it over by the blues, it kind of pulls blue. Yeah. That's the best about iridescent. So love it. Yeah. We're just gonna keep playing here and I love how you can use this for journaling if you want to or you can use it for, you know, a background. Add it onto one of these like if you wanted, you know, this to be on the side of each one of those. So I like how easy it is to do. It is. It's super fun. Very easy. Pretty much no stamping. You just kind of choose what saying comes and and these these Christmas ones are nice. They usually try to give you multiple of the same cards like there's probably like six of these good tidying ones. So you can make multiple of the same card for your Christmas cards. Right. Oh, and you cut out the good tidings on that one. Yeah. So you can cut them out if you want or just use them plain. So I'm just making mine a little bit different. Oh, did I just put that Christmas together down? No, I didn't. So I'm just gonna use this other card and go the other way. The reason why. And then I'm going to pop up the same. I like how you can make some of these designs a ribbon. In other words, you can just cut it long and skinny and make it a ribbon if you want. So you can do it super simple or yeah, I love that one. I love. Yeah. This is on Christmas together. Turn that over. Oh, yeah. How cute that is. How cute that is. I thought I might use this, let it snow sticker on there. Oh, that's good. But that yeah, it's just on the back of the season's greetings. Because this is what Christmas is better together actually looks like, but I wanted to do it a little bit different. So the other side is that. Yeah. Super cute. So I'm not wasting any of the design because I basically just cut it out on my trimmer first. And these are sticky, they're little stickers, but I like to still use some dimensionals and pop them up. I know. Me too. What can I say? Dimensionals are amazing. Yes. Okay. So that just says Christmas is better together. And I might put a sticker on there. Let's see if I want to or maybe just a ribbon. I don't know. I may come back to that one. So I've got a couple more that I've did earlier. I took these two, so the regular card and envelope and this one I took and just used it as is on this side. Then the season's greetings, I went ahead and just cut it out and put it, just popped it up and then used it on the edge of the card. And so by doing so, I had, I needed to, because I put it on the edge, it's a little smaller. So I popped up this tree right here because it's a sticker. So that's how I did that one and then I have one more. This one, may your Christmas be cozy, actually says Merry Christmas, which I could have used it just then, and I could have just cut this off and that off and then popped up Merry Christmas, which would be super easy. Yeah, that would be easy. But I went ahead and just cut out may your Christmas be cozy. Cute. So that's how I did that one. That's the one I'm using now. I'm going to do something completely different with may your Christmas be cozy. That's why I think it's so cool with these is you can decide however you want to use them and there's no right or wrong. Yeah, I know. There's lots of different options. I think I was going to use the Let It Snow. There's so many, oh, so many choices, maybe the gift of Christmas cheer. I want to use my cute little cozy animals on my may your Christmas be cozy. Oh, I like that too. Well, I think what I'm going to do is, because I'm going to use Merry Christmas on two of the cards, but I think I'm going to go ahead and do this one like this and I think I'm not going to pop this one up. I could, but just going to leave it flat and you could go ahead and use ribbon if you want. Okay, so I like the option of either wanting to do the red background or the blue because that's actually I think I'm going to use the blue because this is blue in the back. I like the contrast. How about you, Aubrey? Do you like contrast? Yeah, but sometimes I really like monochromatic too. That's true. There's with the cute little cozy creatures. Oh, I love that. So this is super simple. How much is the Memories and More card pack? I think are they usually ten dollars? Beth will look it up for us. And these are nice because they're almost a five by seven card, so they still take only one size or one stamp, too. Yeah, so. So yes, the Merry Christmas Memories and More card pack is ten dollars and the Merry Christmas Memories and More cards and envelopes are ten dollars. And you get twenty. Twenty cards and envelopes for twenty dollars. That's a great value. Yeah, super fun. So what are people saying, Beth? Is the consensus Christmas before Halloween or before Thanksgiving or after? It sounds like after. After is the reigning. It's after, but I have to start a month before because we couldn't get it all up in one month. But we do have some that live in areas that are so cold they have to put their decor outside up before, otherwise they freeze. And I shared that sometimes we get sunburned putting up Christmas lights. It's true. It's a little warm. It is a little warm. Because we have a black roof or, you know, asphalt shingle roof and it's because we have to walk on our roof. Yeah. We have about, let's see, about two hundred and fifty thousand lights on our house. It takes a minute. It is a little, a little grisvaldy. No, it's not tacky. No, not. It's classy. I just mean in the amount. All right, there's my five that I, and seriously, like, in maybe a half hour, right? Yeah. We just barely caught this out. The cool thing is, is like Aubrey did it totally different than I did it. So that's why I think it's fun is you can go ahead and do it however you'd like to do it. All the different ideas. Yep. Cute. Super simple and another way for, this is great for your grandkids to be able to do or people that have never stamped can put them together and just make cards. Just put it, put it all out there. Do you know what I did? I took the cards and I cut them in half and I used them as tags for my neighbor gifts for Christmas. Oh, that's a great idea. Oh, so you cut the actual card, this part in half. Or I just, I didn't give them a card. I just cut the card front in half and used the card front as like a front of a card. Oh, okay. And then just attached it to my little neighborhood treats that I gave out. Oh, that's a great idea. And my kids put them together and they all looked really great. You could do the same thing with, you know, this. You could go ahead and do two tags. Like just do a hole in it and have it offset. Yeah. That would be cool too. That would be fun. There are some awesome ways to use this. Yes. Okay. Hope you've enjoyed our Stampin' Chat. Do we have anything else to say? Well, we, if you've been following along for the last little bit, you know that our virtual Stampin' Get Together is coming up at the end of the month. It is on October. We are in October now. October 27th and 28th. Thank you, Beth. And it's the last day that they could sign up. Today. So we'll have Beth put a link in the description. So if you want to go and check out what we're doing for our classes. Yes. You can do that. And all of these cards that we created today, we'll put a different link that will take you to our Facebook, VIP Facebook group. Right? Yes. And you'll see them there. And see what all the specials are and it's free shipping. Yes. There is, is that, and tomorrow free shipping with Stampin' Up? Yes. Yep. We have free shipping today and tomorrow. So. Yes. So lots of fun stuff going on. If you don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator, we'll be happy to be that demonstrator. Yes. And one last thing. Remember to comment with whether you like Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving or after. And we will draw a winner to win some of these very Christmas memories and more cards and envelopes. Awesome. Okay. We'll see you next week.