 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today for this week's What Did I Get is a bit of an odd one so well I say odd it's just lots of things that I got from a charity shop or thrift stores so as you're a lot of you are aware I love to shop in charity shops and I have been very fortunate to find some amazing bargains over the years in charity shops whether it's been home, materials, clothing, craft supplies I just love them so I recently had over the weekend popped out and went to some charity shops locally and this one I grabbed which I thought was great it was pound for this great big spool and on here is this really nice black ribbon but it's not it's um again I'm really rubbish with the the proper description of this it's fabric it's woven fabric so lots of you in the comments just say what this one is try and bring it up there so you can see the detail can you just make it out there anyway that's what I brought I couldn't tell you how much is on here it's really deep so there is tons and it's yeah black it's just going to be really handy for when I do more masculine projects and monochrome and things like that and I'll also use it within my you know sewing and stuff anyway so pound thought that was brilliant originally they were selling it for 16p a meter or 26p it was before that so anyway that was a good bite with that was also this one so this here is from international trimming single polyester satin this is called kia royal burgundy there's 100 meters again you can see it's gone far down but look inside but it's a really lovely burgundy color really do like this I'll just twisted it oops let me go the right way that must be that way yeah there we go look at that see it's got a lovely shine to it really good quality as well and it's just huge so I grabbed that one that's two pound then I picked up myself a embroidery hoop I've got quite a few of these I've always got vintage ones I've got the real old 60s plastic ones which are lovely I've got different pops of color and I have them hanging on my ball and this is a wooden one I just like the size and I will be sharing a really fun project using this if you do have any embroidery hoops lying around or you're intrigued and it's something to put in your craft room you can put it anywhere in your house but it's got that craft room kind of look about it then keep one spare or if you see one between now until I put the tutorial up and it's cheap just go into your charity shops usually ask as well because if they haven't got them with where like all the wool and the yarns and stuff I've usually asked the ladies there I'm sure there's probably one out the back so yeah really good and that was only a pound so that was another good little buy then I picked up go through that in a moment these here are buttons now there's loads again these have obviously come out of a I guess maybe it might been someone's own stash but I think they've come from a shop maybe it closed down years ago but they are vintage these are really old ones and the reason I like them is they're not your typical button where you've got the holes kind of on the front these are all covered so they are great for using on your card making you just add some hot glue on to the back and you get beautiful embellishments they're just like a brad really and so I've got these blues which were really nice I just thought I don't really have anything like this I've got one with a silver um got a larger one there um pull these other ones there we go I've got the same in the two there and that one so yeah I've got two of each so two of that style and these are 20 ph so two of that style and they're metal again really nice quality just for more of those special kind of cards or gift bags and stuff you imagine these on the bottom of all your handles so they look really nice I've got those blues then I picked up these which just thought oh there's another blue one there for nautical cards so I have I'm sure I've got them all the right ones yeah look how lovely these are so good and they are this is actually raised you can see there so I've got those two I've got the three small ones and then the yeah again 20 ph I just thought they were really nice they're going to look lovely on you know blue white and red cards how lovely would they look with like your die cuts and things so I'm just trying to show you how I see things slightly differently and how I try and bring them into my card making so if you have got any you know charity shops locally or you've got a big button box have a little look through and see how you can you know use those things but there's those that same style as the blue again in that like burgundy color so already you can see here I could use this burgundy ribbon how lovely will that look on a card with some lovely pattern card stock a nice happy birthday sentiment some die cut flowers and you've got a really pretty card so again yeah that's how my mind works you a lot of you always message me saying how do you think of these ideas and stuff it my inspiration comes from many places and then I got these again really nice kind of you could use them as a nautical thing but I think they're going to look great on again more of a masculine style card they've got like a shield on the front again there's probably a proper name if anybody knows but I've got those ones and they look like coins as well which I think is really nice and then just those plain ones thought they were really nice um got a couple of like mother of pearl yeah that one's a bit plain and that one's more mother of pearl there actually but again really nice these ones here my nan's got things like this on her cardigans that's what that reminds me of but again really like those ones and then these were vogue ones um and they are fabric so again I don't know how well you can see just bring that up for bring my light on it a bit better but they're really pretty and I love that color it's really infashion at the moment I see a lot of sofas and home wears in this kind of real deep green so that's that one so that's charity shop this is still charity shop here so I'm actually working on a few baby projects for some friends I've got a commission that I'm doing for somebody as well these are 50p each they are by they're they're pretty old I think doesn't really say any company on those when some of you might recognize this I don't but um they're acid and lingon-free so again perfect for your scrapbooking but they're just made in China but they look like they've got a little bit of they look more like quite 1990s early 2000s but these are embossed I just thought there's some cute little I'm not so sure on the baby's face I'm quite particular with things like that but I love that there and the rattle and the dummy and the teddy there I think they're really nice you've got that lovely whale and then those two there again I just like the nappy pins you got the little rubber ducks here and I like this trim which I'm going to use um in the project so they were 50p each again I will share that it will be more of a probably a product share rather than a tutorial um but that will come over time these I just thought was great I always grab whenever it's five by seven because you know five by seven is my preferred um card size these were £2 50 I think they actually I'm sure she put this all through and just rounded it up anyway which a lot of them do in the charity shops when you buy a lot of craft bits they just kind of round it off but you've got that colour there um I've got this really nice like lemon yellow and these are hammered so I've got the hammered card effect again I don't know how well you can see a little bit of something on that one I'd get covered anyway but yeah there's like a slight hammered effect you've got the peach the lemon you've got a limey colour that lovely light blue I think that's all the same purple I think there's two these are two shades no anyway and that like lilac colour there and then you've got all the matching envelopes and it's five by seven which I thought was really good because the works do this similar kind of colour palette in cards but they're six by four and I don't really work with six by four I just find that too small for me five by seven is my perfect size so I was really pleased to get those nice coloured and they're really strong as well I reckon it's about 240 gsm let's just have a little look there yeah it's a really nice strong weighted card there so you'll see them featuring in up and coming tutorials so that's that and then a couple of new bits I brought so this is craft which you see a lot in the range and in a lot of like more independent kind of bargain shops so these are new I've not seen this style and I was drawn to this hibiscus it's really lovely she'd die cut this one in red and then you would die cut this in like an orange or a yellow and that's kind of the the stem piece in the middle and then you've got these bits that you add to it and on the back here it shows you just how it looks again if I bring that up it actually reminds me of stamping up it's got a stamping up look to it and I do have one of the stamps and the dies and stamp sets that this reminds me of but I love the big leaves here but you can see the hibiscus and then you've got these two little dies here which go on the end I think it's lovely really do like that one so that and then these are just nice so I've got that one I think it's a new little range they've got because they've got one two three and four so I've got these bottom two I'm not overly keen on the top ones it's not really my style but certainly those bottom ones and I don't think you can have enough of when you know like the foliage style dies they're just perfect to just kind of pop in behind any of the flowers and things that you might use so yeah that's those ones they're just really nice and they've got you know perfect for Christmas as well you know you can make wreaths with these on your cards and stuff so really good they were £3.99 each I reckon these will be or if not are already in the range the works I think they do stock some of this same company as well and we've got a shop called biology and chaplains which is where I got this from which are more independent shops so yeah really pleased with them and then I picked up these as well so I've got my stamping up big letters I've got my do crafts carnival letters for alphabet I've got my mini first edition and I've got another small first edition but I don't have this kind of in between and this is just perfect for putting something like friend on the card without having to use a really really big card and then I could have like you know stamp best above it or something like that so I think I'm going to use these a lot more than all of the other ones just because of the size that they are and again $3.99 so yeah they were the kind of dies that I say are like your forever dies you know you're never going to be not needing to use your alphabet dies they're always going to be needed and anything to do with flowers and leaves I think are timeless so yeah that was a little bit of a splurge what was that £8.12 let's say so and then I picked up this so at the minute what I find I'm always doing is because I use five by seven my mats are four four and three quarters by six and three quarters or four and a half by six and a half so obviously if I'm cutting that from my A4 I don't know I just find that my A4 is going into scrap bin quite quickly so what I've gone and as I've purchased this from chaplains now they've just got all of this in because this has never been in there before and I'm really pleased I think somebody's maybe been given I don't know the job of overseeing the art and crafts department or they need to drive sales in that department because whoever is kind of you know sorting it all out has gone and ordered some really nice stuff so what I did is I got these here which is this black A5 card stock so I could map that now directly onto my five by seven card if I didn't want to frame or if not I just need to slice a little bit off and a little bit off the side I just found it just it's just going to be easier I'm going to have these on my desk I'm going to take all the packaging off I've got a little plastic tub and I've got all these different colors and I just think it's going to be so much easier for me to just take from that there's going to be very little waste and nothing going into my scrap so yeah I know you get two of these from one sheet of A4 but what I'm saying is I'm cutting my A4 and then that half piece I'm not using I'm putting into my scrap bin and then I'm not necessarily going to I just think this is going to be a lot more easier for me so there are a pound each so the black one you get 25 sheets for a pound take that one out there it doesn't say what the GSM is it says it's made in the UK stationary and craft select limited I will look them up and I will share any links that I find below I've never heard from them never record I don't recognize this packaging but it just says ideal for car designs hobby craft arts and crafts okay I am guessing that that is about 180 maybe 216 GSM yeah that's my guess but it's perfect for maths and layers so I've got a hundred sheets there for four pound I thought that was quite good um so that's the black I picked up 12 sheets because the prices the quantities vary everything was a pound but it's the quantities that varied so this one here is the silver card stock I go through silver more than any other mirrored card stock sorry it's kind of catching there in the the light so this is 12 sheets so again I just thought that was handy and then I picked up these so this is the pastel and this is a mixed pack again 25 sheets for a pound and let's have a look here I think again this might be something that maybe you might find in the range because I know that he buys you know a lot of I say he because I'm talking about crystals and the owner because he's local to where I live so he's like a local local celebrity but as in the people that buy for the range this might be something that they would buy in but here you get that nice pink again that's more of a richer yellow to the kind of lemon yellow I shared earlier darker purple so the idea is I want to just get all my kind of different tones if I now put these in amongst it like already I could have a nice patterned paper and those two purples would work really well together and again with that yellow against that yellow you can see see how my mind's thinking here and even the blues there see you've already got quite a few different shades which is good so again I've got 50 sheets of that for two pound I just think that's really good I think it's good value for money and considering I'm using it for matting and layering this isn't going to be folded I might make the odd little box maybe it's going to be strong enough for that once you obviously you know cover it with some nice papers so that was the two multi colored packs and then I just picked up these so I have spent maybe about 20 pound but I think I've got quite a lot of card stock I think this is going to last me quite a while considering how many how many times I make things now these were 149 and they restickered them with a pound so this is a slightly different company and I think it's all in French so anybody or from Europe somewhere it's it's definitely French I'm sure it is this card deco again never heard from them and it's just says here the art of making card deco so it's saying the colour here is baby blue which is obviously baby blue I'm probably killing this this one here is gil gil gil there we go someone please tell me what language this is that's just turquoise as we spell it in English and then orange obviously it's orange but I can't I'm again I'm really rubbish like I learned Spanish French and Spanish but I can't remember now which is which that's just flamingo because of food rose that's obviously light green but I'm not going to say it in however it's meant to be pronounced there zalm fuchsia so some of you would be laughing now going oh my god sam you're killing it I'm sorry and then that one there I mean should I try it guangalil gil anyway those are the colours I got really nice you get 10 of each for a pound so I've purely got them because they are the size that I use and they're going to be able to sit on my desk which is going to be nice as well so just at hand so for me I've got it for ease and so I get less waste so there are my crafty guys from this week I will share as many links as I can or just direct links to the range and maybe have a look and have a browse on those sites yourself hopefully you'll be able to pick up certainly this stuff from somewhere but obviously the charity shop things maybe not so much in terms of the exact things that I have here but certainly maybe go and raid your buttons and your embroidery hoop and stuff like that but yeah okay guys see you later bye