 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So this week I have been let's just say spoiled. One of the great things about doing what I do is companies reach out to me and they like to send me product and it's even better when you get to choose the product. So two of the companies that I collaborate with are Craft Stash and Arteza and Craft Stash reached out to me a few weeks ago now and asked if I'd like to choose some product for myself and show you guys, create with it, have fun with it just as I would with any other purchase products that I would buy. So here I have my order from Craft Stash. Craft Stash are a huge online craft company in the UK and I've shopped with them regularly. They're great so they offer like I said a huge variety of things. So I have chosen this here. First up I have the Apple Blossom. Now this is a bundle so you get these five stamps together here. So you've got the Garden Party Birthday and this one just I think was brilliant. I love the barbecue and you've got the little sausage there on the fork. You've got the lawn mower it says happy birthday and many mower. Have a smoking birthday and then you just got all these little gnome there. I like these here with the garden lights so you get that one. Then I've got the Relaxing Garden Retreat. So this is really nice. You've got the hammock, the birds, the trees. You've got this nice like wooden I don't know what you would call that. It's almost like some kind of like awning, like the corner of like a summer house or something and that's just the vines growing up the side of it. You've got the Champagne and the Champagne Flutes. That there is your kind of foliage to put on the tree and then take it easy. That's a really nice font there and that little squirrel like that one. This one here is Spring Countryside. So you've got Don't Let Life Ruffle Your Feathers and Chase Your Winter Blues Away and you've got a little ladybird feathers here and that lovely wreath, the little nest, little birds. It's just really pretty. This one here I loved because of the hedgehog and it says no matter how long the winter spring is sure to follow. And it says my special friend, you've got a nice bow and then the flowers and blooms and things there. So that's cute. And then this one here is another favorite. This is Lazy Summer Garden. I love you've got the chairs here with the table and then again you've got Take It Easy, similar images. Some of these are doubled from other ones here but it says your happiness is and then you've got all these lovely subtitles. You've got a lazy day, a new home, a summer wedding, relaxing with friends, enjoying your retirement, a sunny summer birthday. So you've got so many different occasions that you can use that stamp set for. I thought that was brilliant. So that's going to get used a lot. So that's the ones from Apple Blossom. Like I said, that's a bundle. Then I think these are possibly my favorite. Daisy May designs are beautiful anyway. I follow Daisy May. She makes absolutely wonderful creations. These are just amazing. So these are stamp and die bundles. So the first one here is Welcome Cottage Stamps. You get this lovely sized stamp here. All of this is photopolymer along with the Apple Blossom ones as well. You get Home Sweet Home and Have a Beautiful Day and you've got Welcome Home. So you can use that again for a few different occasions. And then you get the matching die there as well. And that just makes life really easy. Beautiful. So that is a bundle. So you can buy those two together. Then the other one here is the Bloom and Grow. You've got the little toadstools and it just says they're just because. And then you've got Bloom and Grow. And you've got the dies to match that as well. I can't wait to color all of this in. You know I love coloring my stamps, which is why I was excited to receive these. And then this one here, I can't believe how big it is. It's absolutely gorgeous. You get this bouquet here and you get the mason kind of jar. You've got this lovely bow and then more florals. So you can, this one here is this one here. So you can have it almost like decoupage. So it lifts up. And again with the leaves, these leaves will fit on here. And you've got Happy Birthday and Full Bloom. And then you get the lovely dies there to match it. Beautiful. Again, can't wait. It's so satisfying when you've colored all that to then just be able to dye cut the whole thing. And it looked nice with these bits that are lifted to give that decoupage look. That is going to make a stunning card and I can't wait to use that one. So again, that was another bundle. Then I chose these ones here. So this is the Craftwork Cards. This one I love because of the embroidery. So you get the embroidery hoop and the die to cut it. And then all of these stamps here are to make it look like it's stitched. So again, I don't know how well that's picking up, but you can probably just about see it there. But it gives the illusion that it is actually stitched. So again, you've got all these little bits to die cut them and you can just create lovely little images there. And I love that font on the happy birthday and the just for you. So again, can't wait to use that one. And then this one here is the again stamp and die set grand floral rose. That one was called embroidery. And again, you've got that layering here. So you would stamp this one first, which is your background in the lightest color. And then you've got your detail here, which would be your second and then your outline there, which would be your last stamp. And that would be in the darkest color, really. So you layer them up and, you know, layer those as well. Again, a really nice sentiment there, a nice font, and you can cut them all out. And this one here is a nice gift tag. So you can frame that on that tag, which will look really nice. Then I picked up this embossing folder, which is a really nice six by six embossing folder. And this is of all the handbags. And this one I've got to go with the fashion Easter, but it's got the perfume bottles and everything. And I thought that would work quite well with this, which leads me nicely to this huge A4 stamp set. And again, the reason I chose this one, and I love it so much, is these are just such big, plain stamps. They're going to be beautiful, just with some very light watercoloring, just to give a nice little kind of blend, just a wash almost. This one here is obviously a very famous perfume bottle, along with that one as well, both I have. So I can get my colors right for those, which should be good. But you've got the nice little designer handbags, but I love the sentiments on this. I think they are absolutely brilliant. Behind every fabulous woman is a beautiful handbag. Shoes are a girl's best friend. You are oh so glam. A girl can never have too many shoes. For the beautiful birthday girl, have a beautiful day. Have a gorgeous day. Birthday wishes. Love to shop. And then you've got B classy and fabulous. A girl can never have too many handbags and time to sparkle. Well, I think many of us can relate to these, or have someone that that is going to work brilliant for. And I just thought that is fantastic. And it's timeless. It's something that will get used over and over again. And this one here, when I saw it, I thought how good would that look in red. And it can be the Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz. And you've got the little lips there as well. That lovely bow. Yeah, it's just brilliant. And I cannot again wait to create some lovely cards with these. And then I've got these last two pieces. So I've got the DewCrafts Paper Mania Sweet Treats. And this is the 48 pack. This is the Ultimate Die Cut and Paper Pad. And in here, so I peeled off the back. It's just stuck on the back here. Just peeled that off. And you have, if I do it that way, so these sheets here are all pre-die cut. So you can pop out. And these are all little circle alphabet letters. And numbers as well. Is there numbers in there? Yeah, you've got everything else at the bottom. Then this one here is really nice. Again, you just pop them out. So you've got a really nice font there. And then you've got numbers and the rest of the alphabet there on the other page. These are all kind of like little tags. And again, they're all pre-die cuts. You make them up. So I've been making projects with these. And these pieces slide inside. And then you pull them out. So it will have two and from on them. It's that sweet treat theme running through. That was a mouthful. And these are a lot of the treats that I had as a little girl. I still enjoy now as well. These are your bows. Really lovely to make up. They're going to finish off gift bags perfectly. And these are just some nice kind of strips here with just the same patterns that run throughout the collection. And this is when we get to the fun stuff. So these are the sweets that I, like I said, still kind of enjoying. You've got the custard creams. You've got bourbon biscuits. You've got the pink wafers. You've got a rich tea finger. You've got the iced rings. You've got a jammy dodger or a jam dodger. Another iced ring. What's this one here? I can't remember what this one is here, but bring it up a little bit. It's like a shortbread, isn't it? It's a shortbread biscuit. Again, I remember eating them. But pretty much everything here is my childhood in terms of treats. So yeah, really nice. Although I still love bourbon biscuits now. You've got these lovely gift tags. I just think they're really, really fun and I've got some really great ideas to do. Gift bags and gift boxes with these things. I think they're going to look great. And then here are tiny little gift boxes. So this is like a little, it almost looks like the style you will get. I think it's just a standard box. It could be like a milk carton. I'm not sure. But then you've got your tags. So this is perfect if you're doing a party. Everything is here for your little party favours. You've got a daughter or even your son and they're going to have lots of sweet treats to take away. How nice to put them in these little boxes here. So you've got the others here. So that's the same. And then again here, just with different designs. You've got all these extras that you can stick on them. So you get two of each design or each pattern. And then these here, these look like they're all little tags in some way. I might have to have a little look on how they intend. Well, these here are your whole punch kind of protectors. So ring protectors you would fold them over. And I guess these here could be used as little tabs in like your planners and things. Or even on a card. So yeah, I've got a few ideas to use them. You've got the bunting. Really, really like those. It's nice to have something a little bit different. These are your envelopes. So these are like your tags or kind of like little sentiment things to write on and they will go inside here. And then these will fold in on themselves. Again, I'll be showing this all in more detail in a tutorial. And then again, you've got the same there in other designs. You've got all these little kind of note cards here to do list. Just a little note to say. Like those. This is another kind of like just a little envelope, little sleeve. And you've got little bits that you can pop in there. I love that one there with the custard cream. It's a bit more of a real kind of life-size size of a biscuit there. These are the papers. And you get one, two, yeah, two of each designs. You've got the row of all the biscuits there. And then you've got this one. That's a really nice one. I like that one a lot. And that one there. Again, you can easily make gift bags out of these. This one here. That would make a nice scrapbook layout. Yeah, that's really cool because you've already got your border kind of set out for you. And then you've got that one there. Donuts. Brilliant. Love it. You've got the sprinkles. And then just some real nice backgrounds. You've got the blue. You've got the green there. And I think, yeah, the pink. So that's nice. And then it finishes with vellum. So, and they all just have these little perforations along here. So you can just pull them out. So you've got this beautiful one there. My favorite is coming up. I love that one. That's brilliant. Really fun. And then sprinkles. And then that yellow one. So in that pack, you have everything you need if you want to do like a party, you know, all your party favors and things like that. It's just everything. So I thought that was a really handy one to have. And I can't wait to share some fun tutorials with that one. And then this one here, I just absolutely adored the palette for this one. And it's not something I've really got. So this is called A Touch of Romance. It's by the Paper Tree. It's made in the UK. You get 40 sheets, 160 gsm. It's all 12 by 12. And it's single-sided, which I don't mind. So I like single-sided because then you don't have to decide what one you want to use. So I'm just going to pop it on its side here. And it's just really, really beautiful. Like I said, palette of colors. So it's all water-colored. So again, which is what I like. So it shows you each single one first. You've got this design and then you've got a polka dot. So again, that will work really nice together. These here are just ready to do scrapbook layouts with. You've got the beautiful corners there. But also, that would look nice as the front of a gift bag. If you do one of my 12 by 12 gift bags, you can have that as just one side and then add, do like a deconstructed version, which it is that I show you. So that'll look great. This one here again, beautiful. And you've got the stripes. So you can see how well that works together. And then this one here. And then another one there with the borders. Again, looks really nice. That one there. Love those sprigs. I just think they're really cute. And then that one there. And that's the start again, isn't it? That was the, yeah. So back to the beginning again. So that is, you get, yeah, like I said, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight designs. Love it. Absolutely love it. So I'm going to be making, yeah, like I said, lots of nice gift bags and some scrapbook layouts with that one there. So that is everything that I have chosen from Craft Stash and all of the videos will be on their way. You may have even seen a few before this video goes out. So I will share all the links to this product below. And if you already have some of this, let me know what you've done with it and what you think. And yeah, I can't wait to start crafting with it all. And then the second delivery I received was from Arteza. So again, those of you that follow me regularly know that I'm currently collaborating with them. And yeah, I regularly get to choose product and share it with you guys. So it was actually really nice because it was an introduction to Arteza for myself. I hadn't used their products before. And I've been really, really pleased with everything that I've received. They get great reviews themselves. Their customer service is excellent. So it's been really nice working with them. And I hope I continue to do so. So what I've chose this time is I have my craft knife that I use. I've got a couple and they're okay. You know, there's nothing really wrong with them. But I've just got this real kind of fear that I'm just going to one day really cut myself. It's just something that is, yeah, just I always, and knives in general, I'm just not very good with things like that. So they have this architect triangular scale ruler 12 inches. And I thought it's metal, which is great. Just slide it out there. So the reason I thought this is going to work well for when I'm using my knife is I can hold it at a height so I can pinch the top of this and push down. And the knife will cut along the bottom here. And it's away from my fingers. So if I slip that knife, the likelihood of me cutting myself is very slim. So I thought it's going to work really well for that. Now you've got inches and centimeters and there's other bits on there, which I probably won't ever use. But like I said, it's an architect triangular scale. So there'd be other bits on there that will, yeah, not mean anything to me. But I've got my inches there. So that'd be the one that I will use the most along with my centimeters. And then with that, I put their hobby craft knife set. So in here, you get a real nice variety of blades and knives to choose. And the one that stood out for me. So you get this little self healing mat, which is the same as my artisan mat here. So obviously just a smaller version. I love this mat. You see it. I use it all the time. It's in all my tutorials. And it's, yeah, it's working really well. I need to give it a clean, but yeah, other than that, it's fine. So in here, you get your three kind of knives. And then you get a selection of all these different blades. And there's a magnetic strip so they won't fall out. And then there's all the blades in here as well. But I like these straight edged ones here. You've got the thicker and the thinner. Sometimes when I'm cutting papers and you get to the very end, you want to just be able to cut it off without cutting further. These kind of straight edge ones are great for that. But the one that I like the most is this one here, believe it or not, because it's, I feel like I've really got control of it. It's nice and big and I can grip it. I have other ones like this. And I know you have the grip here, but they're quite, just quite slippery. And when you're using a knife, again, it just petrifies me, but I need to use them when I'm working with certain materials. But this one here, and already I feel so much more confident now just using this and holding this. I've got so much more control and I can just slide that. Let me grab some cardstock. Okay, so I can use the ruler to actually hold my paper in place as well. I'm going to use the grid underneath, kind of line everything up straight. But I don't know, everything just feels a bit more comfortable now than before. So now I can just push down the ruler onto the cardstock and then with my knife here, kind of butt that right up to the ruler. And it just cuts again really nicely. So it cuts like my other knives do, you know, it's a nice sharp knife. But in terms of me feeling safer and in more control, that does feel, and this feels so much better. So yeah, you're going to see this featuring more, and it will probably now make me feel more comfortable to use more chipboard and use the knife and stuff with other projects because sometimes I do, if I think I've got to use it, I'm a little bit like, oh, I don't want to. But yeah, it's, and even without it, I mean, I can obviously cut away there like so, but it's, yeah, it's really sharp. It's a knife. Back there as well, it does list all of the information about the different blades there as well. So actually it tells you that for heavy duty, chiseling, close corner cuts. So I'll look at that in a bit more detail. And like I said, I will talk about it in more detail. This was really just to show you what I've got. Then I picked up this one here. So I did start opening it and then realized that that is literally the packaging it comes in. So I'm going to have to, I've got a big draw for these. And this is your 30 adhesive felt sheets. Now I'm hoping that these are going to die cut. So that is the intention to use these because I thought how nice and look at the colors, such a variety. And on the back, you've got your coating there, which you peel off and then it'd be sticky underneath. But things like the green, you've got some real cool like moss green. I'm hoping that they will die cut in like some, some of my leaf dies and I'll be able to use them on my cards and on my gift bags and things like that. And they'll add some real nice texture to, to my projects. And you've got some great neon colors at the back there. But again, you've got a real nice variety. They're A4. And I just thought, yeah, it'd be nice to use a different texture when I'm crafting. So like with most of our taser stuff, you get your, you know, your packaging there with your little kind of swatch of all the colors over the top there. So real nice mix. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to trying them. Then I picked up their 12 by 12 self adhesive vinyl sheets. I'm really pleased with these. I've already had a sneak peek. And again, but you can see the colors. That is literally all on the front there, all your different colors. But I didn't realize, I mean, I'm sure it says somewhere. Let me have a look on the back here actually. See, it says gold and brushed gold. But I don't know for some reason, I didn't think that they were going to be gold gold like I, well, like I'm going to show you. It's so nice. Look at that. I can't wait to use it. So I have some great ideas to use these with my Cricut machine, but you can also die cut this. At least I think you can. I will double check. But I'm pretty sure you can die cut. I'll put a little thing up here that just to kind of confirm that yes or no, you count, but I'm pretty sure you can. These are going to be mainly used with my Cricut and I have some fun decorative ideas to use all of these lovely, well, lots of them anyway, lots of these colors. So yeah, that will all be coming soon. And then lastly, I was so excited to receive these. And again, thank you Arteza for sending these to me. These are the 60 Ever Blend Art markers. So these are your alcohol markers. Yeah, I don't do alcohol coloring. It's not something, you know, I do have, I've got Spectrum Noir. I've got the touch pens. And I just kind of thought, you know, I like to do my watercoloring. I like coloring. I think I'm pretty good at blending and things like that. So why not try the alcohol markers and kind of look into it a little bit more. These ones here are the 60, but they do also do 120. And they have doubled their kind of color options. This is perfect for someone that hasn't really used alcohol markers a lot. This for me already just seems like it's going to be enough. Then over time, if I really start to get into this a bit more seriously, then I guess I'll be like everybody else and I'll be feeling that I want a bit more in that color or in so on and so forth. But first impressions, you get this really nice carry case, which is great. Again, if you're on the move and if you're limited on storage, they're already stored for you and you can hang this up if you need to. You have the Velcro sides here. And then it opens up to show all of your markers. Again, I'm not going to go into it in too much detail. I'm not going to do all the swatches and stuff. I'm going to do a separate tutorial for that. I just wanted to show you what you get here. And this bit in the middle, you can take out completely, which I thought was quite nice. So again, you can take all that bulk off your desk and you can just have this with this side here. So yeah, I thought that was quite good. And they are dual tips. So you have your chiseled tip and then you've got your fine tip there. And it's easy to obviously tell between the two because you've got the different or you've got the little images there, but also you've got the colour ring on that end. So I would always remember it's triangular barrel. So again, it's nice to hold and you've got the colours on the end. So if you do take that tip off and you've got more out, you know that you're going to put it back on the right pen. Clipping really nice. They're not too difficult to take off, just standard. You want them to be tight enough because you don't want there to be any air in them. So yeah, I'm really excited to use these. I've received a lot of stamps. Obviously, I've got all those lovely stamps that I received from Craft Stash and my intention is to use the alcohol markers with a lot of them. And yeah, try and start to really enjoy using these instead of my watercolours. I mean, I'm never going to not enjoy my watercolours, but it is nice to always try something new. So yeah, watch this space. So the proper video on these on their own will be coming. So I know a lot of you do like that and I will be going into more detail and giving my kind of first thoughts on it all. But first impressions are really, really good. Okay, so again, I can't get everything in. It's just, it's all too big. But yeah, it's been, I've not brought anything this week, but I've been given quite a bit. So again, I'm incredibly thankful to the companies that have sent me this product. I can't wait to, yeah, just bring you some really nice tutorials, introduce you to product that you may not have heard of or seen before, because that's the kind of thing I like to watch on YouTube is different things. So hopefully for some of you, this will be new things that you've seen. I will share all the links with everything that I've shared with you today. And yeah, just watch out for the video. So like I said, you may have seen already a couple that I might have got up before this one goes out, because this is, I pretty record a lot of my stuff. So yeah, until then, give me a thumbs up if you like what I've shared today and subscribe to my channel to get to see more and I'll be back again tomorrow with another tutorial. Thanks for watching. Bye.