 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today so I've got some really exciting things to share with you. So it was recently my birthday and I had to laugh actually when this one was given to me so I have this one, let me show you, so this is Mary. Now Mary got introduced to you all a few months ago and I found her in a charity shop, fell in love with her and she now holds all of my ribbon scraps, she actually needs a good sort out and I think I might start using her for something else because I don't like the way the ribbons are just like that anyway. And I just love them, they're lovely storage pieces and I've got a very quirky craft room and I just yeah I like things like this, I don't like conventional storage things, I either make them or I use things that aren't intended to be used for how they are, does that make sense? Anyway so yeah this is the one I love and I got it in a charity shop local and then I went in the charity shop a little while after and it's always that thing, you see them everywhere now, I'm seeing more and more of these swans but I thought I don't need any more, this one is fine, she's really pretty and yeah I really like her but then I did see this other one and I was with my mum and she said oh look and I was like oh it's so lovely, I said no can't have another one, got no room for it, don't need it, anyway it's still there, it's still there every time we go in, there's that swan, there's that swan, so what happened? I opened up a birthday present and here is this one and she is beautiful, I love the gold features on her eyes and her nose so it was really funny because I named this one Mary, I then said so what GEOs do you know like Mary and who and I kept thinking of Mary and Joseph and then my mum said Chris now some of you well all of you are going Chris, well my mum's two best friends are Mary and Chris and the three of them have just been the best of friends for decades so she's called Chris or Christine so this is Mary and we have Christine, I absolutely love her, I'm going to make room for her of course but I'm probably going to have them displayed like that so they're looking at each other oh I know there's going to be loads of you going, these are awful Sam but I'm sure there's many of you as well that can see why I love them and yeah she's actually a lot more open so I need to have it, I'm planning on another little sort out in my craft room because I go through phases and now I'm like using other things and they're kind of more packed away so I need to bring them out so I want to have something in here that I maybe grab or don't want it on my desk because I don't really have the room and it will kind of just cause too much clutter around me but I want them to be somewhere you know nice and I want to put a nice little bow around her neck because I added that one there and I think it looks really pretty so yeah this is Mary and Chris now they've got you know they're back together again so maybe I should find another one and that'll be Julie which is my mum and then I've got all three of them so anyway that was just a little bit of something fun I thought I would share so I'm just going to pop them there I also got this amazing mug which I've got a nice hot cup of tea in there while I was filming it's brilliant my sister got me this she I love these um and what you call them um what do you call them my mind's gone I'll think of it in a minute anyway right this is the next thing that I'm really excited to share I'm going to do a separate video on this it might have even gone up before this video now I've been using phone board a lot recently in the last I'd say maybe last three months and I've done I've done quite a few projects but some of you find it really easy and other people have been finding real challenges cutting phone board and I'm seeing it regularly you know kind of mentioned in our craft group and um there has been a tool that I've seen but it's really expensive and I thought there has to be just something else out there and I was looking again on Amazon and this one's come from China I'll share the Amazon link that I've used and basically it will cut a 45 degree and a 90 degree so that's the two that you need really the 45 degree is your straight right angle and that's the one that I commonly use but it also does that 90 degree which would have been perfect for when I was creating like the roof and I got that kind of angled cut so and this is what it is and what you do is you use it with your metal ruler so underneath here you've got like a little kind of piece where it will stop so you would line your ruler up here's your blade here so yeah if you do it like so obviously measure with a pencil mark it where you need to cut and stuff then would use the ruler then as a guide to keep it where it needs to be but what this does is you can bring it down as far as you need to so you don't need to bring it down too far it's very sharp the one thing is I don't know how you get replacement blades for this I paid 4.99 or 5.99 and I'm sure it's free postage and then so I'll pretend the blades down so I haven't got any foam board here and it will cut up to a depth of it did say oh seven millimeters and the foam board I use is five so it's again it was perfect but then you just cut straight down so you're going to get a perfect cut it's going to be completely straight and at the right angle and it's easy so because I still want to keep using the foam board but I'm because I was concerned that some people are struggling I don't want anybody wasting their money I don't want people throwing projects away when I saw this I thought I need to get it and I need to share it with people because I think a lot of you are going to really find this a really handy thing to have and then here's your other blade that comes down you can see it comes down on that angle just there so again you would put that on let me work this out so it would go how would you do that one if it's on that side oh I guess you would use it there so you draw your pencil marks the ruler is your guide to sit it against so push that blade back up pretend that blades down and then say I wanted to cut down this line here I would then line it up because you line up this piece here and you can see that through the top here so you just line that up the rudder straight with this line here and you just cut but the the most important part is it's going to cut straight down you're not going to be wonky you still need you know obviously this has got the knives with it so it's you know the sharp knives and that's the the biggest tip I always give is make sure your sharp your knife is very very sharp but I did cut some foam ball as soon as I got it just as a trial I'm waiting for some more foam ball to come and I'm also going to be cutting all the pieces for my mum so that's what I'm going to show in the video so like I said by the time this goes out I've either got the foam board or it's not you know it will be after this video so just look out for that one but um yeah it's um I'm really pleased with it like I said it's inexpensive and I think it's going to be useful how long it's going to last who knows you may have to see if we can take the blades off and sharpen them or maybe there is a replacement blade for them but I didn't see anything with it but anyway I'm going on too much but that's what it is so um yeah let me know your thoughts maybe some of you have already got it as well um I'd be interested to hear what you think but um look out for that video when I'm cutting all of that foam board for my mum then I picked up some cardstock so I like to visit I like to visit Taverstock which is local to me um it's just a really nice little town it's got lots of charity shops which I always like to rummage in it's got some nice places to eat and it's got a really lovely market it's indoor it's not long been newly renovated actually lovely warm heaters it was so toasty in there when we were looking around um but there's always a really nice craft craft shop in there and um every time I go I always buy something there so you know I know that you can get cardstocks for better deals online from the bigger brands but I think we should all be supporting our local craft shops where we can so I like I said every time I go I always like to get something and I thought I'd get a real nice selection of some pastel colors it's something I'm lacking because coming out of Christmas I've got a lot of dark colors lots of reds and greens so I've kind of been sorting it all out gone back through a lot on my cardstock that I've had from numerous companies and started to colour block it so um yeah I've picked these ones up here there are a mix of GSM they're pretty much all heavy weight though so I've got 300 in this lovely cornflower blue really really pretty that was £1.20 for 10 sheets then this one here is 250 GSM and it's a pastel lemon beautiful again they I've gone for the same kind of you know tone so they all work well together this one here is latte it's 300 GSM but it's a shimmer really really nice 10 for a pound this is pastel blue so I've got cornflower blue but then I've got pastel blue it's borderline grey um you know it's sitting more towards that end I would say and it's 270 GSM 10 for a pound then I got the rose pink this is 225 so these are the lower GSMs that I've got but still great for card bases and this is 10 for a pound yeah it's the Tavistock Panier Market and it's open Tuesdays to Saturdays and then this here pastel green I love that pastel green but I think they work really really nice together she's got loads of colours there there's tons and my mum brought quite a few bits from her as well brought some a lovely um a couple of lovely stamps and she's got loads of embellishments and things like that but they're just really really nice colours so I picked those up then just outside the market they have a really lovely haberdashery shop again it's just one of those places you just love to work in it's like you walk in there and it just hugs you there's just wool and fabric and just so much lovely stuff all around you and they have heaps they have patterns they have stuff literally from floor to ceiling it is absolutely packed but they had a sale on their fabrics and one thing I've promised myself this year is I'm going to start making some Christmas gifts within the next few months and I'm going to put them away and um because I I kind of rushed a few bits this year I made a beautiful stocking for my best friend's little baby or little boy he's well he's 18 months now um and I personalised it I put his name on it and I didn't I totally forgot to share it actually what I'll do is when I see it next time or if she's got it at hand I'll take a photo of it and I'll post it but I wanted to make um some more stockings so I picked up this here let me just move that out of the way because I don't want to get any tea on it so here you've got this pattern on the back so you can make this style front and back and I like this one because I've got room here to again have the name I love putting names on stockings and um I can put some ribbon for a hook or something like that and I always um pad mine as well they're fully lined I really enjoy making them I can make them pretty quick now so it shouldn't you know it won't take me too long but I just thought it was really nice images and again this is going to be for a boy and I know you know little boys can wear any colours so can little girls I'm totally for that but it has got the little blue scarf there around the the cat so um I just I thought that was quite nice so on that side that is that and then on this side you've got this really colourful one which again I need it for a boy so I thought this is going to work really well because you've got the blue and you've got the sky there but you've also got that room at the top to be able to do the name I just thought they were really nice so I got that for £6.75 so that's £3 something I mean you know it's a lovely gift for for pennies so I'm really pleased with that one it's got beautiful images there they're both the same it's just a repeat repeat anyway so yeah I just saw that and I thought that was a bargain and then I picked up this fabric I'm actually going to use this one I think for myself I want to make some more Christmas cushions and I just loved this print and I like to do pom pom trim so I'm going to look for some red pom poms or red pom pom trim which is easy to get older but I want you know quite a bit of it because I just love the red I want to pull out the red so it's very Christmassy so I'm going to do hopefully I'll get two two nice sized cushions out of this because I like mine the big size and then pad it out so it's a real big chunky nice cushion and then yeah I think I'm going to pull out the red have the pom pom trim all the way around and then I'm going to have Merry Christmas with some probably going to do some heat vinyl transfer and have it not huge but I need to once I've put the pillow and got it all out then I can look but I'd probably have it maybe going through this section here so you still got all the houses in the snowman but that's quite a nice section to have just something I might you know I may decide not to I might even try and do like a gift tag look which I've seen on Pinterest which I thought was a really nice idea and you actually make a gift tag out of fabric and then I could have Merry Christmas on the gift tag and then it stitches to the top so the the pillow looks like a present I really like that idea so yeah I just thought it was an absolutely beautiful print and this one this was end of the roll actually so I've got the last piece and I've got this for five five pound something I think so yeah that's what I'm going to look at so I will post some pictures I actually posted some pictures of some cushions I made must have been over a year ago now and they were pom pom trim I just love them and they're really easy quick to make and again make nice gifts so if these ones work out well I always then usually post it on like my group chats with my friends and then if they say oh we want some then I'll make them some for Christmas presents so because they had loads of other nice fabrics as well but I was drawn to this one so I can always go back there and pick up some more fabrics so yeah that was what I got there and then lastly saving the best or last I've received the brand new latest release from Daisy May designs you all know how much I love Claire's drawings and her images and I just love the collections and these are so cute really really are sweet and yeah I can't wait to share them with you so starting off I've already got some card designs and I will be sharing these very soon the the cards this is all available on the website Claire's stuff does sell out very fast and I know that she's going on to Hachanda soon as well so yeah grab it while you can if you're a fan of Daisy May designs so first of all we've got this one here which is a very good friend for a very good friend and it's the lantern elf stamp set so you can see there she's got the lantern really really cute and it says spread your wings and then you've got the die too much love that one this one here is the toadstool love this toadstool brilliant one they're so easy to color and this is called the toadstool seat stamp set so you can sit her on top of the toadstool and then you've also got your pumpkins there so that's going to work really well for your autumnal cards and going into Halloween Thanksgiving and things like that so you can certainly use them there but I'm going to change the color of mine and I'm going to incorporate them all together so yeah that's the toadstool one really lovely this is one of my favorites this is adorable so there is your die to go with it as well and it's so cute it's literally the little fairies clothes hanging on the washing line the little skirt the shoes the hat those tights are just wonderful so that for me is more of a background piece so I'm going to have it in the background and then other of these in the foreground I think it will look very very cute he is another favorite so this is your pocket elf but look at him he reminds me of something from like the 70s or the like early 80s I'm sure there's somebody that's done something like this it was a cartoon or something it's it's certainly and I think that's why I'm always drawn to again these kind of designs because a lot of them do remind me of my childhood sometimes we need a bit of magic make a wish and then you've got the die there as well and they're really nice sizes and yeah like I said my mind's already buzzing and then this one so they're really cute and it's nice because they sit well together because of the way that she's stood she's kind of facing him so you can certainly have those you know together sprinkling a little fairy dust your way twinkle again really really cute can't wait to color this then you've got this here which is your autumn leaves die set but if you so they that's what you get here once you start yes use your autumnal colors but once you start using pinks and purples and yellows you can use these in your summer cards easily especially this like magical whimsical meadow kind of border you know I'm going to color that in brighter colors and even with this here I'm not going to do the colors that you would expect these things to be I'm going to do them so you like your acorns there I'm going to do them in bright colors you've even got that ladder it's a little wooden ladder it's like a fairy ladder and you've got dies for all of it again I cannot wait to start making cards the cards that I make with these are always so popular with my friends I gave them all do you remember the shaker cards they all had those for Christmas cards and I gave them to them all at the same time because we all went out for drinks and they all loved them so much they were like shaking them and they were just like looking at every bit of detail they really enjoyed them so they do always go down very well and yeah again can't wait to start and then this one this is your tree house and it's literally like little fairy or elf little house there's the door you've got your toadstalls then the windows another toadstall there and then the top of the tree trunk and then there's the day the day the die to cut it out it says there hope your day is full of sparkle and believe in magic really really nice all of these as well you can buy separate or as bundles so if you're someone that has maybe like a brother's scanning cut and you just like to buy stamps they do have them you know singly you don't have to buy them all together and the other way around as well you might just want the dies although I can't see why you would because you'd want the detail but anyway this here is the toadstall house die and this is my favorite along with the next one here I just think they're adorable and again just so nice to color I think I'm going to use my brush pens to color these ones so yeah again you'll see them in the videos anyway just so nice really big size that one there actually tell you what it measures you are looking at five and three quarters so that's going to be and then width four and a half that's going to fit nicely onto a five by seven card definitely and then you could go for six by six as well yeah so both both your common sizes there in the UK at least anyway it's definitely going to fit really nicely on that and then this is the other one look at that it's to me as well it's got like a cinderella the pumpkin it's it is it's that whimsical magical just it's just really really lovely it's got a little heart in the middle of the door there as well it's all those little details that once you start coloring it really comes to life so it says have a magical day believe perfect really really nice and it works across the board for you know boys and girls for adults as well I just think it's really lovely and then I was really excited about these ones this here is going to work so this is your arches it's your stitched nesting arches and it's always that distressed finish that Claire does throughout the collection so I have the circles and I have the rectangles so now I've got the arches but also that there is like your fairy door so again I've got some ideas popping into my head now of how to use this but it's lovely you know if you die cut this on like a craft card and distress it it looks like you know it's got that aged look or it's maybe cut from like it's a piece of wood or something you can really you know if you're clever with your distressing you can really make them look awesome and then you also got this one here which is your stitched borders die set so these here will create really nice edges to your cards and they will go up to a five by seven because it's seven inches there so your five by seven cards you can create all these edges on them and then anything smaller than seven inches as well but also you can create I like to do my underwater themed cards this here could be like waves or like the ripples in the river or something and you could cut a few different staggered kind of heights you know cut some different heights and then stagger them and you could have little things popping up you know if you've done it it's like a tunnel card diorama kind of card you could have these so they're really cool and again with these other ones so you get a one that actually cuts the edge and then the other one is your stitched detail so then you've got the banner this one is actually been a repeat from another die set that Claire brought out I think maybe not wasn't last one but maybe the one before so it's nice that it's in there because if you didn't have that stamp set maybe you want particularly a fan of maybe that design that it was in but you like that one you can buy it within this bundle and you've got another banner one there as well so it's great for framing like the believe there that will fit nicely in there have a magical day will probably fit in there so um yeah it's really exciting like I can't wait to get cracking I just get so excited all the time I'm just a genuinely genuinely happy person most of the time anyway so yeah there is my wonderful daisy may new release I can't wait to get crafting I'm going to file all my cardstock away although a lot of these colors I think I'm now going to start using with this collection because I think it's going to work really really well and I'm going to now go in she needs a bit of a clean but you're going to clean up Chris pop a little ribbon around her neck and let her and Mary um you know get used to their new home together so and enjoying my cup of tea because it's still hot so I'm going to go now hopefully this video has made you smile thank you for watching as always all the links to be shared below and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial see you later bye