 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So a while ago Creative Craft approached me and asked if I wanted to join their affiliate program, so I said yes. So they have kindly sent me some product which they wanted me to share. So between the eighth, so today and the 14th of April, it is a week long of celebrations for Creative Craft turning 16 so that's why I've got this birthday chocolate here as well and they're going to be having a variety of great big brand launches, there's going to be club membership deals, prizes to be won every day as well as exclusive offers and you get free postage and packaging throughout so that's really good anyway. So Creative Craft have tons of good stuff on their website so all the links will be shared below, they are affiliated links so if you do click on it and you go to the store and you purchase something then I will get a small percentage of that sale but it's at no extra cost to you, I just need to say that because you have to just say all that stuff. So they have sent me this canvas shopping bag which is always handy, nice to use and then this lovely bar of chocolate which I'm yeah looking forward to trying, it looks like, let's have a little look, Creative Craft, everyone's a winner, I imagine they're going to probably be giving these away throughout this week as well in terms of competition so let's just get into this, I'm not too too precious, yeah you can see if I rub over it it says what's that there, I think that's a pattern and then that says oh sod it let's just have a look, oh golden ticket everyone's a winner, oh my god that's so cool I actually have a golden ticket, let's have a little look, maybe this is, I haven't even looked at this guys this is like so does that mean anything? Everyone's a winner, handmade from Finest Quality Belgian milk chocolate, that's all it says, anyway I've got myself a golden ticket, everyone's a winner, right let's just see, I'm intrigued to just see what is on the front of this chocolate bar quickly, my hands are clean, yeah happy birthday, there we go, that's cool, I really do like that, thanks guys, love it, so yeah and I've got that ticket as well but yeah, right let's pop all that away, that won't be long till that gets devoured but that can go back in the fridge and I will just keep that wrapped up nicely there, okay so they sent me these punches which I will show you in a minute because I've already used them and I've made some cards, so I've got three punches here, two floral petal flower ones and this leaf there as well so these are flowers, craft punch, really nice ones and they punch beautifully so I know some punches can be quite stiff, these ones aren't, you've got your little cover there which just flips up and then that will hold in your die cuts and it just clicks, she says, there we go, back into place again so let's take that one out as well and I will show you those in a second but they are really nice, punches are great, I do love when I can just grab a punch, quickly you know use it and you're done so I'm going to get rid of those bits now and then this one here is a card making kit so this is the creating craft get the nation crafting card kit and this is your instructions, you've got this top sheet here all step by step you've got inspiration so let me show you in a bit more detail what's inside, this is actually really good and the images are really really nice, beautiful, you've got the torso there dress makers torso, I love this one here which is this lady with that really gorgeous dress I want that dress, you've got another one there the teacup which reminded me of my teacup and saucer that I done not too long ago the birds more fashionable style cards for guys because I think yeah this one I'm not so keen on I'm not into those kind of photographs of sports things it just reminds me of like 1990s cards and I've just this personal preference it's just something I've never been into others love it just like other people may not love these other styles so is there's something for everybody I love everything apart from that so and on the back here you've got more inspirations as well complete step by step tells you how to do everything but me as with most kits I change it and I you know I do my own thing so for those of you that aren't familiar haven't seen these kind of things before you basically just get pages and pages of toppers so and this is a topper for example so you will die they're already pretty die cut they're just kind of um tacked in there you just take them out and yeah start making your cards so I'll just briefly show you some of the ones we've got here this is this dress one isn't it gorgeous let me there aren't they stunning beautiful beautiful images there's two cards there now this will make 25 cards I believe let me find it was on here it tells you here oh 24 these are your decoupage style ones so you have your main base topper then you have your framed toppers to go on top then smaller frame to go in again and again and again and I'll show you the result that you get with that style this is one of those I guess more modern style ones which I like I think that's a nice image I like the colors that they've used and again that's got that decoupage element to it which a lot of them do these are the ones I actually was really quite surprised with I like them because it just looks like that teacup there's the butterfly there's the saucer all the flowers coming out of it so I'm going to make one of these ones up with you in a moment because I think they look lovely and you got one there you got the bears this is what I mean there's something for everyone those more kind of watercolor images I think they're still okay I probably personally wouldn't use the gold frame I would probably matte it and do something differently but I will certainly be using those images and I know um I know some fishermen so that will definitely get used and even that nice sports car so I do like them these are the ones for me maybe not what I might do that one's not so bad actually because of the sunset in the background I might even kind of fussy cut that will do something with it but I never really waste anything so I will find a way then these are all your backgrounds so they will match everything so there's the background to match the teacups there is a lot more but I've already made cards you'll see them in a moment so you can see there there's your toppers and then these will be you know what you use to make the backgrounds that's that one so that goes with that dress that's the other dress one these are the ones for those kind of guide cards you can see there and so on and so forth and then you get all your envelopes so there you're large eight by six six by eight you've got six by six you've got six by four yeah and then these are your card bases really good quality it's about 300 gsm all folds in half so these are your little three by and four by six card bases so like I said you can make 24 cards out of all of this there's your plain ones and then you've got these ones with this decorative edge you've got plain edged ones you've got larger with that decorative edge I've messed them up a little bit there you go you've got that one there and then you've got your real large ones here it's a plain and then like the scalloped edge and then with that edge there as well so that is what you get tons and tons of stuff this will keep you busy for quite a while but also you could probably make up all of these cards in an afternoon you know so it is something yeah it's good so I'm going to show you I'm going to keep that this one out here oh no not that one let's have a little look there we go so let's pop all this to one side I'm just going to show you what I've already done so these are the cards that I made with other toppers that were in that pack and I really enjoyed making these they've turned out beautifully so this is this one here which is the other teacup one and look at all that dimension and just look how lovely it's come together so I have matted it on some silver card stock of my own and then also some of this green card here which I also used in this card here so it's the same background so you can just see how you can mix them in and I decided to almost make that whole topper the card so that is I just thought was really really cute I'll show you that in more detail in a second I added this gorgeous bow because I just thought it needed a bow and then those little flat that pearls but isn't that gorgeous really really pretty I'm really into the teacups at the minute I think they look beautiful so there was that one love that and then this is one of those dressmaker's torsos and you can see all the levels there now I've not followed what they've given as inspiration I've done my own because that's just what I like to do you can see there I've added that one I've put a little diamond to there another huge bow and then that is actually there is a bow in the image underneath can you see it so you don't have to add that but I thought that would look quite nice with a a natural material though so that's that one there so again I've got all the envelopes ready for these to go which is good this one I really love so you can see how they've done this one you just die I just punched these out you know they're already pre-cut I've had a little doily behind there and then this lovely big ribbon at the bottom and again I've just used the silver mats behind there and then used the card corner punched the two opposite edges and corners and again really nice honestly these take me this took five minutes if you know it was literally the time consuming part was adding the double sided tape to the back and cutting the silver mat and there and tying the bow they're really really quick so for that reason kits can be very good when they're all with the pre-die cut then I decided I thought I'm going to turn this one into an easel card and this one here is using one of those flower punches so this one here punched really nice through this very thick card stock and I just added a little flat bat pearls onto that and then this here I've added onto some foam dimension to make the stopper and you can see there I've got the happy birthday and that is all raised up as well and then the whole thing folds flat and that will fit into my envelope and that's a six by six card so I've done that one and then that was that one there and you can see that's the other flower punch which is this one here along with the little leaf there underneath initially I just put the green flower on and then I thought oh well I put the leaf behind it so maybe what I might do is change these flowers to a pinky color just so you can appreciate the leaf behind it but you get the idea and I put one down there as well but I just love that image a beautiful watercolor scene I think it looks lovely so that is what you can do with these so I think sometimes people get them and maybe they see the inspiration or the style and think actually I don't really like that because I think that sometimes and then I think to myself well actually there's there is no rule you don't have to keep it that way so I'm going to totally change this up and do something different so this is how they come so this is the birthday celebrations paper topper papercraft topper and you just go along and you can see they all pop out really easily if you do get any little kind of pieces I'll show you in a second from where it was attached you can just kind of carefully snip them away or you can use a nail file on them as well now this piece here you can keep as well so I'm just going to trim that off because that's like a decorative matching strip and then you can discard all of this now you don't need that unless you need to use it for anything okay so here you will see this is now you know the signs of a good quality one where there is hardly any bits so just probably hardly even see it just there this little bit there's a tiny little bit you can see it against my hand ever so slightly just kind of sticking out you can just snip it off so you do see any but also you can grab and I don't have one at hand just a nail file and just just brush over it but there's hardly any on that so I'm not even going to worry then they supply you with foam adhesive so you've got these little squares so I'm just going to take that out and you also get some double-sided tape as well it's a perfect if you're a beginner and you have very few supplies you know kits are good because they usually you know give you all that stuff so then I'm just going to break down these little pads you don't need many just pop a few there's actually another little bit to punch out there there we go that's to make your little handle more visible and then pop one down here take off your backing I've kind of got back into Decoupage and it's only really been since I've been buying the Dovecraft Decoupage kits even before I joined the design team I purchased some of them and I yeah I just kind of fell in love with them again I really do like doing it but I change it I I kind of yeah mix it up a little bit okay and then you get the next one so you all start with the biggest die-cut piece so that was that one and then this is the next size down so again just take off the backing and you're just mirroring it over the same image that's underneath but each time there's less and less of the image that you're sticking down so the image underneath you can see had this piece the one I've just stuck on top top doesn't have that piece now again the next piece you're always working down so you will end up with the smallest piece left um actually oh yeah so there's that one good job I nearly missed that so that's you can see that's the next one then it would be this one this one and then finally that butterfly and I might add my own big butterfly as well because I think that would look quite good rather than a bow on this one we'll see so and then again you're just kind of playing around take some time line it all up and I really like mine lifted obviously you have to then bear in mind postage these ones will probably get hand given or my friends kind of raid my card stash whenever they come around and visit and they will take these and usually hand deliver them anyway so there we go and then the butterfly will go over that one there and what I might do actually is just fold him in half not put foam on him but add some a little bit of glue and I'm just going to rest it in the middle there like so if I bring that up now so you can see where the butterflies lifted and you can see just all that dimension and what a beautiful pretty card that is now parts of me is thinking I'm going to fussy cut all of this out not have with love and have this which is sending lots of love on your birthday because I would rather have that on the top so I am I'm going to fussy cut this out but you don't have to do that you could now stick that right down onto your card blank but because they've sent this beautiful decorative paper I think I'm going to have a landscape card yeah they're both the same image with this one side and then the teacup here that's my idea anyway so I will speed this next bit up but you can watch me fussy cut there you have it look at that that's a beautiful topping out because I love that we've got this real flat kind of background of the actual you know flowers drawn on and then the rest is all lifted off so now we can bring in the background I'm going to use yeah I want to use that red because that really stands out okay what I'm going to do is I can't make my mind off and some of my mind up and some of you might be like oh no what are you doing I'm going to stick this and offset it on that cream one because my idea is so although I've lost a sentiment you'll see the cream against the ribbon and then the red against the cream there and I just think that works so again it's just yeah something that you can do change it up make it work for you I prefer that couldn't actually make my mind up between the two so use both of them so again I'm just popping some of the tape they give you as well as this glue just because it's sticking on fabric and then I'm just going to make sure that's nice and lined up there like so and then what I might do is with this strip here that matches and some of these punches just show you how nicely they punch out and then just open the back there and just give them a little bit of shape just on my mat I'm only going to use three because it's good to have an odd number just pop a little bit of glue there and just kind of tack them down so again let me just recap the card so I think this might be my favorite just love that teacup love the colors that one there also love that one as well just really really pretty this one lovely lovely and then pretty easel card and this little one here as well which again I love that scene and all the dimension that's on there so that's one two three four five six cards I could probably get even more than the 24 that they say that you can get so I think it's a really nice kit I've enjoyed it and I will finish off everything I become one of those people that I need to get the kits done and dusted so that you know that's it everything's finished and then these little punches which I really like really handy good to have on your desk I've got a little tray actually they will sit in so it's just handy when you just need to finish off a little embellishment so that is what I have here plus my chocolate which I'm going to eat thank you very much creating craft and then just to recap so you get free pmp all of this week from the 8th to the 14th started at 8 a.m this morning exclusive offers prizes to be won every day so head on over there because they've got stuff going on on the website club member deals big brand launch big brand world launches so www.createandcraft.com so I think that's everything I will share the links to this kit in the video description below so you can go check it out along with the punches give this video a thumbs up if you've enjoyed the cards that I've shared with you today and giving you some inspiration and I'll be back soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye