 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today so what did I get this week? Well on Saturday I went to Biology which is just an independent just a discount store really where I live. They had loads of just new kind of accessories, stickers, things that I hadn't really seen before so I think again this craft which is just a wholesaler I think they've just got a lot of new stuff that they're bringing out so I will take it out of the packaging and I'll show you what I've got in more detail. Okay so that's a bit better now there's not so much glass so first of all I picked up these little embellishments they're just really nice for sticking on your cards also has little charms maybe on your mini albums they also look great on scrapbooks you can use them on all sorts of gift bags you know all that kind of stuff that we like to do but these were nice because they're actually you can see their brads so you just open up there you can you see the back there so just little this is plastic and then this is all metal and they're the smallest of screws that didn't come out right the smallest of screws in the middle there so depending on what I'm going to use them for I will probably take the brad off if I just want to pop some you know silicone glue or hot glue and pop it directly onto a card but if I'm going to use these on gift bags and I'll pop a hole punch pop them through and they'll look nice on the bottoms of my handles so I thought they were really nice you get six on a pack six in a pack sorry and I got the silver and the gold now they did do a mix so you got three silver and three gold but I just thought I'd get one of each so they're probably are more car more colors god I'm not getting my words out at all there are probably more colors around as well because again this craft company or wholesaler they just do tons and tons and tons of stuff so really like those they were a pound each then I picked up these which I really liked now these are all metal and then little little leaves I've got the small and then the larger and again in the silver now they did do a bronze like an antique bronzy color but I didn't really like that one but I got these now what I intend to do is they've got foam on the back I'm actually going to take the foam off and use silicone glue because that will dry clear because you can actually see once you take that off you can see the square and I don't like that at all whereas if you take the square off it looks so much better and they bend perfectly so you can give it a little bit of dimension but that would look lovely on gift bags gift boxes for toppers it looked nice on your you know card making you imagine if I put a few flowers together like this and instead of using the green leaves you had the silver behind then you had some mirrored silver card stock as your kind of mat and layer what a lovely card that will be silver embossed sentiment so you can see where I'm going with that so again you've got six for a pound so I've got those and then these ones you get two four six eight ten twelve other small ones then I picked up these love these I use these similar ones they've done a slightly different style flower before but the leaves are lovely so they're all paper they've already been distressed as well which I like there is two there I can't get it off right now but again you can just see how you can just make up a lovely little piece there to go on a card you know like that just looks really really nice so so me and my mum always split these so we've got the pinks the blues there was also greeny colors peachy colors and I think more purple tones that was it so you do again there's lots 99p again that same company then I picked up these these actually reminded me of prima flowers especially this color here so I picked up two bunches of those and they're all separate take this off here you can see they come off at the top and then they just you just kind of twist them open again but you can either twist the wires need to kind of rearrange them a little bit they do get squashed but just reopen them up but I just thought it was such a lovely color you can see there and you can put your winkestella or your spectrum noir glitters sparkle pens and stuff and that it makes them look really nice and then with the ends of it here if you just use your pokey tool and just wrap the wire around like so and then you have that sticks out from behind it and then you could layer up again like those leaves for example if I bring in some of these can you imagine you've got leaves and stuff all around it that leaves probably a bit too big but again you get what I'm trying to say there so yeah really good I go through lots of these I use them in my scrapbook layouts and you see them on my gift boxes they're great for the teacup and saucer that I've done so they always get used then I picked up these a little bit different I'm not going to open the bags because they're stapled together but they're just really cute little colors but they're butterflies little plastic ones they do have holes going all the way through so they would work for charms but these are nice with all the kind of whimsical stuff that I've got and I've got a lot of the pastels rainbow colors and stuff so I just thought these would look nice for that and they're just nice little kind of pops of interest to add to your cards and your other projects so I've got those and then I picked up these which are alphabet pieces and you can again see there they've all got a little kind of hole at the top there so you can hang them but I thought that could look nice on some of the cards that I make kind of hanging dangling between you know like the pillow fold card that would look nice or the bridge fold you can imagine this like a little happy birthday hanging so 99p I just thought they were really nice and then these I always use my alpha stickers so these are the puffy ones this has got a bit of a cath kits and kind of look about it so I really like them if I bring it up really close you can see all these pretty florals in between them there I got two of each just because obviously when you're working with the alphabet you don't always have lots of letters to play around with so if I do spell a particular word that has three a's as opposed to two then I would need to use two packs so I've got two packs in that and then this one was at the back and I was like oh my god I've got to get that because it will work and goes perfectly I've already looked at it with the page Evans whimsical collection these will work perfectly with it there's a few other collections that I've got that this will also work with but the that one particularly so you'll probably see this featuring in layout very soon so that was those again 99p each and then I picked up some more butterflies so you know I love my butterflies now these are different because they don't have the holographic outline which I prefer because you know I always tear off the top of it now these ones are kind of already done for you and what I'm going to show you my idea is you get them like this on a sheet if you just cut roughly them out because I like to get everything kind of prepared so when I buy something I will sit here now once I've stopped filming and I will go and fussy cut all of these put them in my little pot and then they're ready to go now you can see there it's got the sticker if you fussy cut around that so just kind of follow that line and roughly cut it out again okay so now I've just cut that out then if you fold the body so just kind of what I do with the other ones but if you fold it either side of the body itself so you have a flat surface in the middle so you can see now I've got that flat piece there with some of my red tape and I will do this I'll prepare all of them this way pop it in the middle because this is exactly how I like to use them like so because the red tape works perfectly with the acetate stick that right down fold it back up again and now that is ready for me to stick on a card or anything else and look just look how real that looks you haven't got the glare of the light on it there we go lovely I just adore these real life real life looking butterflies these would also work though as a sticker just on acetate so again if you're making like the teacup box that I made to go with it you could stick these directly onto the acetate they'd still look nice but you can also manipulate the acetate a little bit by just really working the ends there with your you know your bone folder probably work even better actually now you can see there that has worked again can you see now just gives it a little bit more dimension so from being something very flat I've now got this really nice embellishment and you know you start to play with your you know your flowers around it and stuff you yeah it all soon comes together so I've got loads there so you can see them a bit better rather than just that flat sticker pack so I've got those three I thought there were some really lovely images of them that one I really like and what was the one on here or this one here I thought that was really pretty and that one there I like and these just think they look lovely so I've got all of those and then I popped back into B&M with my friends you needed to pick something up and I just saw these here so this is 199 you get three yards and there are one two three four five six seven eight rolls and it's ribbon but it's like a paper so I'm not going to unravel all of it but if you just grab your double sided tape and run that along there and then you can just put that strip along the bottom of a gift bag down the side of a card but I just loved the sparkle that came off of them I thought that was really nice you could do a bow with them you would obviously not get the glitter on both sides the glitter doesn't actually even really rub off which obviously I thought it might do because it's quite cheap yeah it's not the easiest to form a bow but I don't know let's have a go I think we can you just got to be careful you don't want to pull it too tight because I think it will just snap it's like a coated paper I can probably get away with the bow there actually it goes a bit flat you probably just have to work it a little bit more but let's let's just do this one here while I'm here because I will use this one that's not bad actually I quite like that okay so you can get both of them as well so I just thought I was really good for a two pound for the amount that's there there's loads you see a really nice colours white red gold pink silver like a rose gold and then the black at the bottom but yeah really nice actually quite light that you get the plain in the middle I think that does well there we go so I picked up those if you can grab them do they've only got a very small craft section and it is more geared towards children but you know things like this and they do do the gold silver mirrored cardstock glitter cardstock so yeah perfect for your matts and layers and stuff so grab that one then I actually got this one a couple of weeks ago and I am working on it and this is by the lovely hails couple ditch she done the christmas village for trim craft last year she's done loads of other commissions she's an amazing illustrator she does lots of commission work and she's done this magazine and I follow her on facebook and she was asking about doing the magazine and what kind of things we like and basically she's released this one and it's beautiful and it's all around spring and easter I'm not going to show you all the images inside I don't again don't think it's very fair I purchased this off of Etsy and I will share her shop below and then you can check it out for yourself there she gives you a little kind of overview of what's inside but I don't want to give that all away but those of you that like hails couple ditch if you like her illustrations then I think you'll really like this and I can't wait to share the projects that I have planned for this one so that's and then I picked this up from creating craft now it was heavily discounted I got it for nine pound something the reviews for it aren't great it's basically what I want it for is to just stitch simple straight lines on my scrapbook layouts or maybe on some of my card craft without having to get my whole sewing machine out so for me it was kind of more for an ease now I've watched the demonstrations and even the demos they seem to struggle and it doesn't look like it's that great but that's when they're doing like these things here like love and a leaf and stuff and that's not what I want to do I just want to do simple straight lines so I'm hoping that it's going to do the job yeah we'll see I'm I'm kind of really undecided with this if anybody else has it and you've used it please share your comments your real views on it because I won't get offended certainly not um but I think for what I want it for it should be okay but I think any more than that yeah I can certainly see how it wouldn't work and it's just a handheld stitch kind of pen and you can see there the the thread goes through and you kind of punch it through your paper using this clamp kind of system so yeah we shall see but that I ordered again a few weeks ago and it arrived so I thought I would just show you that one that I've got and then finally the other thing that I received I was really really excited to have been approached by Arteza who are very well established um company that specialise in watercolours oils acrylics papers paint brushes brush pens all that kind of stuff there's loads and loads on there and they asked me if I would like to join their affiliate program and if I would like to try some of their product so I've got a separate tutorial that will be probably already shown now so you would have already seen it and I will link that up here if it has but I received the watercolor cans so this is the 12 colors then I got 24 watercolor tubes so I've got loads of colors there I've got two a bumper really lovely quality 300 gsm watercolor pads I also got these which I've already opened because I have been using and these are three different sizes with the watercolor brush then I got a great big pad of all of um pack sorry of all of these paint brushes there's even more but these are perfect for when I'm watercoloring my tiny little stamped images and the little faces and stuff you can see just how thin some of these are there's an even smaller one just there but in that tutorial I will share obviously in more detail all of this stuff but I will share the links below as well for this product again if you haven't seen that tutorial because there's loads of it there what else did I get I think that was it yeah I think it was those colors and stuff so so yeah I was a little bit spoiled with that because um I didn't quite expect to it to be that much so um and I love watercolors and this is my kind of my relaxing kind of crafting that I love to do so again you would have probably already seen that tutorial if not I will link it in and the last thing I've just seen that I pushed to one side was this ribbon that I also picked up by from biology it's five meters and it was a pound or 18 no it's 89p I think but I grabbed it because it is the perfect match for the stamping up lemon line twist so I know that they stock this particular packaging this brand in the range so for any of you stamping up demonstrators or anybody that has the inks go grab this because it's a bargain like I said get five meters and it is exactly the same color so yeah it's just nice when you do get the odd bit that matches perfectly but I just love that color anyway and it's a really lovely ribbon woven ribbon so yeah another good little find so they did have other colors as well they had a really nice kind of pinky color it was like that pink so again they work really well together you can see there they look great so there's everything guys a little overview I'm now going to sort it all out take all the packaging off recycle as much as I can I usually use a lot of this card goes into my card a little kind of tray that I've got because it is it's you know that you can get so much more use out of this and die cutter and stuff so yeah so I hope you like it as always I'll try and share as many links as I can in the description box below and I will be back tomorrow with the tutorial thanks for watching bye