 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so I've got a couple of bits to show you. First of all I've got these here that I got from Craft Stash this one here is a medium mat so it's kind of like a jelly plate I saw this one and this is a what size is this one I'm not sure the size I'll pop it in the links below but it's just basically if you imagine a large stamp but with nothing on it so it's a large clear stamp but the great thing is is the effects that you can do with this so you can you take your backing off oh just pull that one off there there we go so you've just got this like I said it's you can use it like a jelly plate but I want to do some really fun effects with my stencils and my inks and things like that so I had all those lovely luster polishes and the the Cosmic Kiss you know the oh gosh my mind's gone anyway all the stuff from Cosmic Shimmer I had that and I want to use that and I've thought I'm going to get this because yeah I want to have a good old play with it and create some nice backgrounds so I'm just going to pop that back on there so I picked up that and then I picked up some of these wobblers because I want to do some little action cards so I've got these of the Hampton art ones you get 12 and they're um peel and stick and then wobble so you'll see those feature so I just pop all that to one side because I can put all that away now then I popped to the charity shop and I saw they had all these for a pound now I did share a large amount of the jars that I got these ones here I have them all in front of me on my pegboard with all my sequins in I've got beads in them all sorts I love being able to see everything and their glass they're going to last forever they're just lovely so these are slightly taller but then I've also got these ones which are from IKEA so I got a set of six of those you can see they're slightly shorter and then I've got these ones which are just that little bit smaller again these are more like preserved kind of ones so they probably had some jams or something in them but I've already started filling them so I've just down to the last few of my little um like snowballs there and then I've put some of these little wooden elements in there some little Christmassy bits and again I've got all little shelves on my pegboards and then everything's kind of sat on the shelves but I got 10 there for a pound 10 peach that was an absolute bargain and I got a Christmas tin to go with it so I'll be using that to put all my Christmas stuff away but yeah I like to yeah I like to see everything and then my mum picked up this amazing find this was a pound from the charity shop and it is vintage paper now looking at the images we think it's probably 60s coming into 70s and it's beautiful I absolutely adore these images so let me just show you I mean I love sheets of paper anyway um you know I remember when we were younger we'd go and just get sheet upon sheet when it was Christmas time to wrap everything up but I can smell the the it's got that you know just that old smell love it so I've got that one that is the excitement over paper but it's just the scenes and stuff just take me back and they're just lovely so we've got that Christmas scene there then you've got this one here we've got which is your three yeah it's your three kings you've got your angels then you've got your nativity or your manger scene there yeah and then there's more angels you've got your shepherds yeah just really really lovely and then look at the some of the colors just so fun it gives me inspiration of different colors to work together as well so you've got your red robins with the balloons you've got your skating penguins these two lovely peacocks some owls there with their little stockings penguin and the sleigh a bit of big peacock in the middle there and everyone is different they don't repeat you know they're all individual look they're penguins with a little baby then they're eating their Christmas pudding the owl's having a toast with some red wine you've got the one in the little tree they're just so lovely look at these ones these ones really I've got birthday cards with these images on them look at them look at that aren't they lovely so cute I've got loads absolutely tons here this is one of my favorites look at that how cute is that Robin happy Christmas so so lovely beautiful and this one is another favorite I've got them all upside down should turn them around there we go look at that one look at these they're so cute oh my god I love them you've got the little mouse there with a Christmas hat I just love it good cheer joy peace love just again just so different and then this one here let's turn these around this way so you've got Father Christmas and the reindeer going over the rooftops you've got a large one in the center there there's that nice big one there and then that one I've already shown you there's a few repeats but not many there are quite a lot of here this one's another fun one that one yeah we've seen that one this one here now they're all up that way again here we go look so he's on his plane Christmas greetings and then he kind of shoots up you've got reindeer there that's it's not Rudolph there's no red nose but but he's carrying a a cart you know it's like an old like a wagon and he's got his umbrella so different on the tv and then Burry's on his rocking chair with the cat flying again it's just so different in his hammock and he's playing chess and he's trying to wake up it's just before midnight he's trying to wake up the reindeer really good this one this is what makes me then think of more like coming into like the 70s because they used to use a lot of photographs real life images on cards you just have a big picture of a candle on the front of a christmas card or a real ponsettia flower really really really kind of some of them were really tacky and um yeah just as soon as I saw this I thought see this is very 70s so I think it's kind of yeah I don't know that one I think I showed you that oh no that was different that's a slightly different one done that one I think that is now it oh no there's one more here so we've got that one's loads of sheets absolutely tons and tons this one here yeah this is a new one there's a couple different ones here so we've got that's another cute one Mary and Joseph baby Jesus you've got the angels there but they've got such cute faces I mean look at those aren't they adorable so cute so that's that one so that's the same that's the same yeah I think that was it actually was just that other one and then did I do that one the can't know that one might be different hold on I'm checking again now because I don't think I looked through that properly I think that one might be the same as the other one I think the images are home sweet home again just really cute so what I find all that lovely vintage wrapping paper plus I've already got my 1950s great big roll I promise I'll take a picture I forgot last year and someone did ask but I said it was an ex-department store and it had never been used and it's one that was on the roll so when you buy your stuff in the department store you could go and get the department to wrap it for you and it's from the 1950s and it's absolutely beautiful I love that stuff but it's such a big roll it's probably about that big nail and it's orange with these really lovely images all over them so I will try and remember because I'll be getting that out again so that was the wrapping paper then I received a couple of magazines which I featured in so I've got the latest making cards and papercraft and then the latest papercraft essentials so we're talking about papercraft essentials first you get two really nice free gifts with this one this is a 3d embossing folder which is your hexagonal which is your honeycomb kind of style but it is slightly different but you could yeah it could be that honeycomb as well because they're hexagons so but um I haven't used it yet but it's it's lovely really is nice it's a very very thick embossing folder and then you get this stamp set so this is your geometric stamps so you've got the reindeer you've got the fox the rabbit you've got that lovely star and it says foxy lady you're a gem congratulations with love and happy birthday so very nice but the embossing folder I'm really and it's heavy you know it's a nice nice free gift that one and then this is the magazine so this is issue 181 always I do you know love this one I brought this one even before I was you know started to do the shape up features but I'll just show you my one there's lots of inspiration using the free gifts as well which is always good here it is and it's the quadruple slide out I love how this turned out in the photos I really enjoyed this one it's so pretty and um just lots and lots of fun to make so I've done a simplified you always get a simplified version and then the more advanced version you get all the step by step to go with it so that was the the simplified which is just your double and then I've done the quadruple there loved it really really like that one it's always nice I always get a little you know a little smile when you see your um projects in print so yeah that's that one and then I haven't even opened this one yet because this one's only just come through the door and this is the December 2019 and I was so excited that I got to use you know feature the December papers so this one you've got an adorable stamp set last month's was a really nice stamp set and then this one here this is Pablo the penguin oh you're going to see a couple of cards because I have to use him he's so so cute let me just take this off here and I'll just bring it out there look how cute this is a very merry Christmas to you warm wishes magic time we wish you a merry Christmas merry Christmas and let it snow but he's adorable he is absolutely adorable I mean look love it so the papers in this one are lovely I already use them I use these papers oh gosh a couple of months ago now to make the the cards so they're lovely again I'm not going to show too much because I like to you know keep it a surprise but the ones that I done always like to show them a nice big double page and this was the Santa and he's on his motorbike um he's sunbathing on the beach there he's got his clothes hanging up on the beach with his coconut there were just some really nice scenes you've got you know the two Santas there enjoying their um yeah toasting in the Christmas just really really fun they were yeah really enjoyed making those ones a lot love that one there with the little red car and the Christmas tree and the presents on top so yeah that was that one but the stamp set really really good let me just grab that was last month's and that is the Christmas cat and you can get back coffee copies as well online so I'll share their links below but if you're a cat lover you've got Xmas mood happy new year magical Christmas merry Christmas and with love so you get those two nice stamp sets within the two magazines I think that's great and their inspiration's always really nice and then lastly I got some wonderful friend now from my friend Tati and she sent me some lovely bits actually it was really I was really surprised it was a complete surprise actually because I'd missed the message that she'd sent me and then this came through the door I was like oh my god it's lovely so she sent me this this is my first Christmas card it's gorgeous look at all that foiling love that this is beautiful and all these lovely they look like they've been cut from like a pink vellum and then she's put glitter on the ends really really nice so thank you Tati that was gorgeous and then she's also just sent me this one here you are so special to me and it's a really nice one she's wrote some lovely words in there she's got beautiful handwriting when the parcel came I knew it was from her straight away so they're the envelopes that she sent me so I'll pop those to one side and then she's just sent me a few bits and pieces so this is it looks like because it's got string in it that it would have been a tree decoration but I guess you can use that on a card yeah I would have thought so it's a lovely shape you could probably stencil that as well so I have to play around with that but it's got a very thin you know like jewelry thread through that so I'll have to have a look and then this here Simon says stamp I was like oh and it's a beautiful stencil it's really nice this one's called the leaves and she said in her letter she said I know you like leaves and you know all like the the sprigs and the twigs which I do and so it was really nice to have this one here and the thing I love about it is that you you get both pieces so you can create some really lovely effects with this because usually a lot of stencils that companies sell are just that but you get this piece so you can lay that down onto you know your whatever it is that you're using and then stencil and then peel it away and you'll have that effect so I love that so thank you again so much that was really really kind of you I haven't got one like that so I'm looking forward to yeah so I'm making some nice things with that one and then I've got these here which are really pretty these tiny little flowers on paper clips it's funny actually because I'm starting to put together my journal and everything for next year because already I've got commissions that I've got deadlines in January I've got one that's February so I'm already into my next year so things like this are going to be really nice to start using because they're not Christmassy and yeah it's just nice to start making things yeah that aren't Christmassy anymore and then I've got these here which are just little stamps and they're so cute a little look a little photograph so I love that one the little girl with the penguin they're just really cute they're nice to put on cards you know when I send them out I think they're quite sweet and if you're doing like a little mini album as well though things like that are really really pretty that's those bits and then she sent this lovely cardstock which she'd ordered some for herself so here I have got so this is a fog and this is Simon Says Stamp lovely color so it's just it's almost in between white and gray fog funny that but again I've never used Simon Says Stamp cardstock let me just have a little look here that's nice it's a nice weight we're about 250 260 maybe you need to have a little look yeah so that's the fog color and then I've got this here is Gina K so this is again I've never had Gina K and again the thing that I thought was so nice is that Tati said she remembered saying that one of my favorite colors was teal and she sent me teal cardstock again I just thought that was so thoughtful again similar weight to the Simon Says Stamp it's lovely those colors all three work so nice together on the color wheel these all complement each other so that's good so thank you very much and then this one here is the Hero Arts and this is and the thing that's going to be different for me is that this is eight and a half by 11 all of my cardstock is A4 all of it but I try to cut it down so that it's eight and a quarter by 11 so that everybody no matter where you are in the world can then make my projects so it's yeah it's going to be strange to have already cut it's the eight and a half the width we don't have that width ours is always eight and a quarter so yeah that's really again it's really nice thank you so much and this is I'm telling you the weight though on the front of them does it just having a little look there no I like that it says the Hero Arts is a family run green certified solar powered American small business it's not nice oh this is a heavy this is nice that's like a 300 gsm that is a real thick this is like the thickness of the little cardstock I mean you can even hear that is really that's going to be for special things because I don't have a many heavy weights in colors it's usually the craft card the white black and then the little but I don't have any like A4 that heavy so I'm going to keep these in the packaging just so I know where they are because a lot of the time I break down my colored papers and just mix them all in but these ones I want to make sure because of the sizing that yeah I don't get those ones mixed up that's everything for this week so you will see some fun cards coming along with the Pablo the penguin and the cat so I've got a few more cards that I want to do with things like that and then I'm going to yeah that's a nice one because that's not just Christmasy that can be used all through that's going to be nice to spring with your bees and things like that great cardstock cannot wait to use that and then I've got some fun projects using my media plate I'm going to put my Christmas card up and just enjoy all the other lovely things so thank you thank you thank you so much Tati it's so kind of you really was very thoughtful and thank you for watching everybody I will link as much as I can below as always and I'll be back again tomorrow with a normal tutorial thanks for watching bye