1:00 Okay.
1:30 Yep. So the iCard is back on. Wonderful. Yeah. Okay. I absolutely love technology, but I hate it in the same breath, don't you? Honestly. All we want to do is craft. Never mind. We'll still do the demo and talk about it.
2:00 It's fine. I'll come back here. Hopefully. I'll share it as well, wait. I'll not do anything with my demo until we know for sure. Check what's happening on YouTube. We're live. It be- Alive on the website. Just
2:30 . Well, I don't know if anybody's there. Did I talk about the kit again? I don't know at what point we lost everybody, darling.
3:00 I'm back. So did I just start where I left off? You just- There's no point going all the way back. If anybody's... Oh, a viewer says she's just tuned in and it's working fine. Sound is okay. Welcome back, everyone. I don't know what happened there, guys. I do apologize. Technology, honestly, we love it, but we hate it in the same breath, right?
3:30 So if you're just catching up, I think the other part of it is still available where we've done the run of the counter. Would that-- They can go back. I really don't wanna go back through the counter again because that's so boring for you all if you've just come back. So welcome back. I'm gonna get straight into it now. We're doing a demo using the brand-new Golden Harvest collection. Now, that is a 50-piece card kit. Have a look at it on the website. It is awesome. And I will just quickly touch on it before I close the show. So if you've already seen it or you've bagged it in your basket or you want to move
4:00 on, then you can disappear at the end. You don't have to stay for that part. But we're gonna do the demo using the lovely Golden Harvest. So I said rather than, oops, excuse me. Rather than use the card blanks and the envelopes that come in the kit, I thought we'd just change it up and maybe make a DL for a little bit of a change. Now, you all know the price that you see on the screen is the full price, but lots of you have your discounts. You have your club memberships also, so you will get it all at different price points for all different varied crafters,
4:30 which is awesome, right? So I'm gonna do a DL. So it is basically the card kit. So this goes on top of the card blank, and then the topper goes in the center, and then you cut your word. You've got your foam pads to do it, but we're gonna just be a bit creative. Let's try something else, because I know that lots of you are way more advanced than actually the kit shows. So I'm gonna try and just make a DL card today, something a little bit different. So before
5:00 I lost you, I just scored this, so I was just gonna fold it over and make, like, a nice craft-colored card blank. So I'm just gonna trim this off here, and then it's quite a wide DL card. But of course, you do the shape that you want to do. So put that on the back there. This would be nice as actually the belly band, wouldn't it? Actually, I like this darker color on the outside that's more
5:30 like... That looks nice, doesn't it? So let's do this one. And then the bit that I've cut off, I always try and not waste, as you all know. So we'll probably use that as a lovely belly band or a raising element of that. So let's have a look at the... Now, I am absolutely loving these, and there's a particular one that I love, and it's this one. Come on, I love this one. So this might be cool to trim,
6:00 cut in half, and put that belly band on. So let's take a little bit off this one down this side and down this side. All okay. Take a bit off each side so that that white aperture stays in the center. Try and get it to fit my DL card. Bit more off each side.
6:30 Let's see if that is... There we go. So you can see I've got the border on the left and the right there. And then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to cut this in half, and then we can extend the design. Don't matter where you really cut it, just in the middle somewhere.
7:00 So we can pop one at the top and then one at the bottom. And then we can put our band in. So look, already we've got a nice card. Can we see it? What it's going to look like, I'm not exactly sure, but we will play it by ear. So let's just move this out of the way for now. Create a bit of space. I probably will do that banner belly in the center a little bit smaller. We'll see. Let's have a look. So I will pop this somewhere here.
7:30 And then this at the bottom. And I'll probably just make this a little bit thinner, just a little bit. It's a bit bulky. "I'm lucky enough to have a voucher holding on for a secret release machine." Oh, she's put "machine" and a question mark. You do crack me up.
8:00 I bet you're all... Are you all thinking it's the new Eureka? I might have said that to throw you off, because it might be. Gold members have had a little bit of a sneak peek, but they know they're not allowed to talk about it. They have had an email with a little bit of story, backstory, and a little snippet picture.
8:30 So the gold members sort of know a little bit about it. I bet it's going to kill the gold members now not to say it is or it isn't a machine, because they can't say. They're sworn to secrecy, guys. Oh. So, I think before I do anything, I'm going to stick this one flat, but I'm going to just grab the black ink pad and take the white edge off the card, because I like to do that, as you know.
9:00 And just get rid of the white on the side, so it just stops it from standing white on my card. Like so. And then we'll stick this one down. "Foiling maybe?" How come you're all guessing now? It's getting close, isn't it? Well, it's getting close for you guys. I'm having apoplexy every week thinking about, "Is it going to all be here on time?"
9:30 You know, where you think everything's going smoothly, and we know in a heartbeat that things change overnight. Oh, all the best plans. And when we were cleaning up, guys, I found a whole bunch of these pens. I think a viewer gave me these. Remember when, back in the day, Create and Craft used to be buy one, get one free? They weren't great. But I found them. I thought, "Do you know what? I'm going to use them." I'm not going to be wasteful. I'm going to use them.
10:00 So I'm just going to stick this one at the bottom. I bet you've all got a ton of them pens, haven't you? They dry out, and they come off like... I never bought any, but a viewer said, "I found a ton of these in my craft room. Here you are. You can have some." I'm like, "Well, okay. Thank you." And then I must have put them somewhere. And then when we've been tidying out, found them. So now we've got the top and bottom there. And then we've got our sort of breaker, which is going to break it up a little bit there. Can we see there? Now what we're going to do next, let's have a look at some sentiments, hey?
10:30 First, going to do brown. Apple. I'm going to use my favorite sentiment out of the set, guys. "Not anymore. All used up," says a viewer. Well, that shows me that you are a crafter, sweetheart. I am very, very happy to hear that. So I've just got this sentiment here, and I'm going to use the die.
11:00 A viewer says, "All shades of inks." They will come, darling. Just bear with. It's where do you put your money? That's the problem. Oh, look. A viewer's happy about something. We're going to have to fade. Yes. Okay. Right. So our team, did you hear that, guys? We have a lot of tech now going on in this room. Easy. And it's all working very nicely now.
11:30 So now we have my card on the screen. That is awesome. Well done. Honestly, guys, I said it at the open of the show. So if you missed the open of the... He's absolutely jumping around now. Honestly, technology can be your best friend, but it can be your worst enemy in the same breath too. No. So, if you missed the start of the show, friends,
12:00 the dream has always been to have our own channel. And the start of that was when our team did mytelly.com, you remember? And we have been on mytelly.com for nearly two years now. Lots of you use it And that was sort of like our learning journey into the back scenes of having something on a TV in your home.
12:30 And we needed to do that because we needed to learn it and understand it, and these things just don't happen overnight, as you know. But we always like to be the leaders, or should I say, our team likes to be the leader in the industry. So now you've all got the sticks that go in your homes, the Amazons and the Rokus and the apps. Do you not? We didn't. We do now. So that's all I'm really going to say. So I'm working on creativity and amazing projects for you all and trying to
13:00 steal every penny that I can to bring you this project that's going to sort of change your mindset a little bit around craft and overconsumption and just a different way to craft, right? And whilst I'm doing that, our team's doing all of the back of office for you all. And he's laughing because he's a giddy kipper, but let me just show you the
13:30 sentiment that I've just cut. Now everybody else needs to move on over because Stamps by Me is about to break the industry. That's what our team told me to say. Nobody else does it like Stamps by Me. I've just been mouthed. Do you agree, guys, or are you just like, "All right, Toni. We watch lots of channels. You're just like everyone else." I don't think we are. I don't think we are, do you guys? Anyway, come on, I'm making a card here.
14:00 So we've got our panel. We've got our lovely sentiment that I've just cut. Okay, so it's going nowhere. It looks awful at the moment. Let's just weigh that down a second so we can see what's happening. I actually really like this mountain. I'm going to get some of the mounts, and I'm going to create my own scene. So I'm going to take the mountain. I'm going to take the butterfly. Mountain, the butterfly,
14:30 some flowers. Anything that's easy to cut out, that's where I'm going. "Whoop, whoop," says a viewer. How exciting, guys. We've got a cabin, but we don't want to put too many folk. Ooh, that's nice, the jar. Ooh. Right, let's just go with these for now. So I'm going to go with that mountain because I think that mountain is going to look epic in the backdrop. So I'm going to just cut around him. "Sounds interesting," says a viewer.
15:00 I'm going to drag all of you into the 21st century if it kills me. So now I have potential. Potential, standby. We have a butterfly.
15:30 Stamps by Me are definitely different. We are. We are very, what can I say? Very passionate about it. Let's just say that. 15 years in, and we're still striving to be the best at
16:00 everything that we do. We have a nice butterfly. And then let's cut some of these flowers. Guys, honestly, I say this every time on live, don't I? But if you could see the background here where I stand for you all, and
16:30 then our team stood behind camera mouthing to me, "So good." My telly has just gone crazy. Whoop, whoop. Just really just sort of like, I'm not the best fussy cutter in the world, but I'll give it a twirly whirly. STAMPS BY ME CARD KIT - GOLDEN HARVEST CARD KIT - 070325A
17:00 So let's have a look where this is going. I have my mountain there. Need something else.
17:30 A viewer says, "He is good." He's right. Besides everything else, no one fussy cuts as fast as Toni. What are we like, guys? I'm just going through my collection here. I'm so distracted. Do you know, guys, I think it's not
18:00 distraction. I think it's excitement because all we do really is, it feels like all I do is tease you and say, "Look, we're working on this, and we're working on that." And nothing ever happens overnight. Can you imagine being the channel that's worked two years on sort of like a mini TV, my-telly.com, for two years to understand what is required Um, to deliver something amazing to you all.
18:30 So that's two years' worth of work. My-telly.com. Go to my-my-telly.com, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Add to basket, blah, blah, blah. So that's two years in the making as well. The project that I'm bringing you at the end of this year, I started it at the back end of last year, just didn't have the funds to put it into fruition. But I was working on it whilst I was gathering the funds. So that's nearly like a year. That's going to be launched October, November, maybe early December for Christmas,
19:00 so you can all get your gifts and things like that. So that's like another year. It's like there isn't enough years for me to do all the things that I want to do for Stamps By Me, and technology's moving at a rate of knots now, and it's enabling us to be even more creative and bring more excitement in relation to craft and who you see on my channel and what we do and just mega. You are a tease. A viewer puts me straight back in the box. You are a tease. All right. I think what we need to do, guys, is I need to get some paper across this panel because it's floating. So let's just get some paper across this panel first.
19:30 I'm going to go back to the topper. I am not using that one. That is my fave. I'm not using it. I'll go with this one. Oh, it's got my fave on, flowers. So I'm just going to trim the top of this here. So I have this panel here, and that's what's going to break up
20:00 my space, which I'm trying to fill with little toppers when I don't need to. So just trim this. Shall we just talk all the time? A viewer says, "Question, question. Is there any plans on the horizon for Stamping Together festival to make a comeback? Miss it greatly." There are no plans. No plans at all. CLASSIC TEXTURES PAPER COLLECTION - 240225A
20:30 I do know that there is a festival happening there from somebody else because they did reach out to me and ask me if they could use the venue, which why they asked me, super kind, I guess. But I know that there is one actually going on there already. But the festival as in itself, I would probably say no. And the reason for that is the brands, lots of them have dispersed now. Lots of the smaller brands have dispersed. People are retiring. I'm not going to say the industry isn't what it was because that would be crazy to
21:00 say that because we love it, right? And we're not going anywhere. But to do those bigger events, it's really problematic. So we will see. I never say never, guys. So this is the panel that goes across here, and I'm just going to trim it down here, and then we'll trim our border down as well. I'm so grateful it's all started to work because now our team's not going to be grumpy.
21:30 He's really happy now, guys, which is nice. So let's stick this onto our craft panel. Leaving a nice border. Let's trim this one down. Such a shame. The industry's different. It is. You don't need me to tell you guys. It's totally different.
22:00 And to be honest, I've been sad to see a lot of the people either retire or go as well. But you have to do what's right for yourself, I guess. So if I get annoyed with you all or I've had enough, see you later, guys, you'll be like, "Oh, yeah, like you think you're going anywhere." So let's stick this on here. Now we've got... Look now. There we go. Starting to come together, guys.
22:30 Shut up talking, Toni. Let me just get my pads. I'm just going to use my pads. Then we'll figure out what we are going to do.
23:00 A viewer, your paints. Yes, darling. And it due any day. We're just waiting. So as soon as they come down, they'll probably be packed in a parcel if you've already got one, or you'll be messaged to say it is en route. So I'll put that there. Got a nice panel there. And then let's have a look. Oh, I might need those, actually. And then it is pretty simple, isn't it? I haven't really done that much, to be honest. HERITAGE TEXTURES PAPER COLLECTION - 240225D
23:30 I've done a lot of talking and all that. Let's pop maybe a flower. Let's just see if we can incorporate a bit of 3D here. Thank you, Toni. You were. A viewer. So let's just do a bit of placement first. So we've got that flower that we cut there. STAMPS BY ME KIT - BOO-BUDDIES - 010626B
24:00 I'm loath to cover that white. Just weigh it down, so it's flopping around. That looks nice up there, and then maybe just bring that down a little bit there, like so.
24:30 And we could add some sparkle Not working. Why is it not working? I always say to you guys, "Don't faff, just get it on." And here I am, faffing. I think I'm going to get rid of legs on this.
25:00 Got a bit too much white space though, guys. We need to put a bit of a flower here too.
25:30 We have our mountain. Has anybody got any nice plans for today, then? Faffing, yeah. Down a bit. Up a bit. You will all tease me and ask, "What's in the box?" Not a chance. I'm not doing that again. Can you remember what's in the box? I'm just going to cut another one, guys. You like the flowers that we've just done down here, and I think I might just make it a little
26:00 bit of a different shape. So then we can just make it a little bit different at the bottom. And put that leaf in it this time. It just started to rain here, guys, this morning. I was like, "Oh, maybe it's time to cover the garden furniture back up and say goodbye for the rest of the year." Is it coming, do we think?
26:30 Or has anybody still got lovely weather? So now we're just going to try and build a cascade of those lovely florals, and then we've got our lovely sentiment. STAMPS BY ME CARD KIT - WICKEDLY STYLISH - 290526A
27:00 And that's just going to break up that white up there as well, and we'll put the butterfly here. Oh, it's coming together now. That is a little bit better. Thank goodness for that. So let's pop a pad here. Put one in half. Let's stick him on here.
27:30 I love this sentiment. And yeah, I'm going to put him in middle because I like the white space here. I'm going to go flat with this one. All this faff for one card. I mean, come on. What are you playing at? You guys are getting blamed for it anyway. Seeing as you all blame me, I'm blaming you today.
28:00 We got sort of like the white peering through. Make sure you raise your tails, give you a bit of dimension, and then we'll put our little butterfly on. All that for one card, Tony. Come on. Some of you would've made 10 cards, I know. Put him on there. Press him on, and then what we'll do is we'll add some sparkle to the frame, and
28:30 then we are good. That's not a bad card, that, guys, to say we did a lot of talking, a lot of technology, a lot of happy smiles in the room, too. I like those happy smiles, though. But let's grab some sparkles. Let's see what... So our team's popped it up on the screen. 82 of you have it in your basket. So hopefully, just me talking and just doing this has inspired you
29:00 to not just maybe use the 50 cards and envelopes that are in the set. You can use it way above and beyond. So the price, £39.99, but obviously, you'll get your points and your discounts, and don't forget to check out the rest of the items that are in the show as well. Get rid of that. Let's just add some sparkle to this, because I think it really will elevate it a little bit. Get rid of the air.
29:30 Now, these Stickles, I tell you about them all the time. They're so inexpensive, guys, and they just finish your projects. I've got one here. This one is called Platinum. There's a whole plethora of colors on the website. They're a couple of pounds, and they're just brilliant. You see me using them all the time. Oh, there you go. Liking you how we're going to talk about it. That is so good.
30:00 Technology. Oh, he's happy, guys. He's happy. So, I'm just going to do the frame, a gold frame. Check out the other colors, though, guys. There is a lot. You just have to make sure that you've got patience, though, because if you touch it, you're going to smudge it. So have some patience to put it to one side, yeah? 100197 - HTCN - STAMPS BY ME NEAT & TIDY MULITFUNCTIONAL...
30:30 Are you a toucher? I'm just going in that frame. Super easy. Get rid of the air in there so I don't get a big splodge All the line down. And I would probably add some little gold highlights to our lovely
31:00 butterfly. It is golden harvest after all, right? So our team's put all the stickles up there. There's lots to go at. So put them in your basket. Just start with one, see if you enjoy it, see if you can get on with it. And then if you like them, you can get the reds and the greens for Christmas because they are awesome. So there we go. Super-duper easy card there, guys. So that was the card blank cut in half.
31:30 Then those flowers are the fussy cut flowers from the little mini football topper cards. The butterfly is from there. The sentiment, I cut off its little legs, which would've been actually all right now, and then put onto a slimline colored craft, and then we've got that lovely sparkle just to frame that center detail. All of the samples are made, which I showed at the beginning of the show, using the card blanks and envelopes in the kit. So if you are a kit kind of crafter, you can follow
32:00 it A, B, and C. But if you're not and you want to experiment a little bit more, you're not too conscious of the fact that you've got 50 of this, 50 of this, 50 of this, and you want to use them all to make 50 cards, then you can cut into them and create wonderful different styles of cards. So, "I never know what to do with stickles," says a viewer. Just add them to centers of flowers. You can create pearls, like the three-dot pearls, sparkles, three sparkle lines,
32:30 one at the top right and one at the bottom left. Frames, brilliant. I love the iridescent ones as well. They're great for Christmas. So the tops of houses, your embossing folders, with the scenes, just do a swipe, set it aside. I use them quite a lot, probably more than a lot of other things. And then probably secondary to that, I use my wow powders, so they're brilliant as well. These are things that you know you're going to put your hands on. I don't like, and I'm not particularly a fan of specialized pieces. I can't even think because I don't actually follow trend, I just follow what I
33:00 use. But you know, like when somebody brings out a new product and then you use it and you like it for that moment, and then it gets put away and by the time you open it again, it's green and dead. I'm not a fan of that. But the things that I know that are inexpensive that can be utilized on everything that we do in craft, they're the kind of pieces that I like. And those stickles are pretty inexpensive as well. So go and grab a few colors, see if you like them, and get them used. And maybe, we can do a show on stickles,
33:30 on all of the different things that I do with them as well for you, if that will help you, if you already have some. There we go. Is everyone all right? What's everybody having for their dinner? I'm starving. Great show. You pulled it out of the bag right at the last minute. We do appreciate it. I do believe that you can go back to the beginning of the show to check out the items. Golden Harvest, those lovely all-surfaces papers. We have the Boo Buddies, Wickedly Stylish. Don't forget your storage. If you've had your eye on the storage and you've been really annoyed because all I've said to you is, "No, I'm not ordering it.
34:00 Not that many people want it." That's your opportunity to get your storage. And if you've got a ton of gems and they're all disorganized, maybe get two, and then you can organize yourself and just pull them out from underneath your counter or your drawer when you are ready to add that embellishment to your cardstock. Organization. "Clean table, clean mind," they say, don't they? I wish I felt like that. A viewer says, "Shrimps and grits for me for lunch today."
34:30 So that in my world, shrimps and grits, is prawn and potato. Is that right? I think that's prawn and potato. Maybe. "Chicken pie for us," says a viewer. Oh, that sounds very nice. So I will love you all and leave you all. I'll see you all through the week. Tuesday for our lovely HSN ladies, for the show for that, and then Thursday, I'll be back with you with more inspiration. So whatever you're doing, have a lovely week, guys. Stay warm, cozy, and if you can share my show, I would really appreciate that. Share the love, love. I'll see you all later. Take care,
35:00 guys. Bye.
