 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So I've had a lot of people ask me over the months throughout the year, you know, things that I use in my tutorials, the scissors I use, where's my scoreboard from, what do I recommend in terms of tape and all those kind of things. So what I thought I'd do to kind of round up the year is I would show you my kind of go-to pieces, the things that I will always use, things that you'll see regularly feature in my videos and I'm going to link them all below but also I'll keep them linked in all my videos so I'll put it under something like my favorite things for example. So I'm going to get straight into it, I'm going to try not to keep it too long but like I said everything would be linked below so you can if you want to find out sizes of things or more specifics of that item then click on the link. I'm just going to talk you through quickly why I've got them and why I enjoy them. So first of all I'm going to start off with the scissors that I use. So you will regularly see these ones, I've also got these and then I have some snips. I also have lots of other scissors, I've got my fabric scissors here which I have very badly used on paper but that's fine, it won't you sharpen them, you then don't want to you know do that again. I've also got things like this as well so you will see me kind of chop and change. These are more I guess heavy duty and you might have seen me cut plastic wire, things like that with them but in terms of my paper crafting these are my favorite ones. Now these here I actually got when I was living in Shanghai so they're by a company called Hei, they're made in Italy and they need a clean but they are just wonderful scissors. Now I know a few of you have these exact ones because you've asked me for the links to these. Now unfortunately the actual Hei ones or that was sold within the shop Hei I can't get a link for those but they're these are you can buy these exact ones and I think people just put their own branding but they're just really nice because they're so long so you can get you know you can do like one nice cut you know if it's like just a short card or so it's just nice they just feel really nice I know the ones of you know those of you that have got them just really like them they've got a nice weight to them they're just a really nice quality scissor and I'm really glad I've got them so that's those but then I've also got these ones here which are the Tim Holtz tonic ones and these are like a large pair of snips really you could use these to fussy cut but they do have a slight perforation here which can be a little bit frustrating but if you're just wanting to cut stuff quickly and to get a real nice cut then they are really nice scissors and again yeah apart from that perforation which is not a bad thing if you're just doing a normal cut if you're fussy cutting then I don't like it so I wouldn't use them for that anyway but otherwise they're just a really nice scissor and they're Tim Holtz you know they are good quality and then moving on to the snips I've got these these are my favorite ones these are the tonic snips you just get a really nice again they need a good clean but you get a lovely when you cut right to the edge it doesn't kind of break the card stock it just cuts it you know so it's it's perfect for fussy cutting they feel really comfortable in the hand the lightweight again just very good quality but then also with these ones here which are even lighter I mean there's nothing to them it's just they are very very light these are crafters companion and again they are a nice little pair of snips very similar to the tonic sorry not tonic the x-cut ones that I've had which let me have a look I have got quite a few here they are they're very similar to these ones which I've had for a while and I do sharpen these but I'm finding they're just they're not keep it they still cut nice but they're not just kind of crisp anymore so these I guess are quite similar and then these are tonic these are the older tonic ones but again these had a perforation on them and I didn't like it for fussy cutting so I changed it for these tonic ones which are just you know that nice straight cut so those are the two that I'm currently using and I would recommend but I would still recommend these ones and these are a nice scissor but if you don't like a perforation look then don't get them because that does irritate me a little bit so that's the scissors so that's what I enjoy using there then I've got my cropper dial which you'll see me use a lot now I guess this is a considered purchase it is a bit more of an expense to this but you can also go for something like this one which is a lot cheaper so and it will still cut through grayboards you will sometimes see me go for this one if this one's I just can't reach it or it's I've put it down somewhere I will also get this one so it will also do your eyelets okay that will do that part there on the front but here is your hole punch so that you can cut through a more heavy duty you know cardstock or grayboard things like that this will work through that because I've done it before the only difference really between this and this one is this is just a lot stronger but you also have two hole punches here so you've got your normal standard hole there which is your three eighths of an inch I think and this is one eighth of an inch here this one just has the three eighths of an inch on the top and you also with this one you would have to buy it comes I don't know you probably could take these out I never have but you just get your standard kind of eyelet punches there whereas with these here you can rotate and you have the option of four different settings there that you slide in and again with this one here you've got the two settings depending on what you're using you can also adjust all of these pieces as well they've got the rubber you know if you're doing a lot of things they are comfortable to use so you know you get what you pay for really but this is still a nice one especially if you're starting off these are very inexpensive you can pick these up on amazon so again I'll share both the links and you know see what you know suits you best but if you do like using the greyboard you like making mini albums and things like that then definitely you'll need more of an industrial style hole punch so that's that one then I've got my poke tool to be honest I pick up lots of different ones in my videos I'm just looking at some other ones I've got this here which came in no actually this one I brought out the craft show this was just from every craft's pound but you also get them in some of your like little toolkits and stuff exactly the same this is very sharp this is like dangerous it's actually lethal but these here are your Tim Holtz ones now this one is blunt it but it will still work with things that's why I've not thrown it away I can still kind of you know pick bits up and kind of scratch with it and stuff but this one here's the newer one and that's nice and you know sharp still they're saying that doesn't look it does look like it's kind of gone but it is sharp so the reason I like these ones is they're safe and they're great for traveling because it's got the retractable pin or pokey part whatever you're going to call that the point so you can obviously put it away and protect it and I just put that in my pen pot you can also hang it as well if you want to things like this that's how they are I mean you can put a little kind of piece of foam on the end which I have done before but I end up losing them so that's yeah my poke tools I do like the Tim Holtz ones again just for a bit of safety and just convenience really but you can pick these kind of things up you know in a lot of kind of craft shops and places like that then I've got my bone folder so you always get a bone folder on your or a scoring tool on your scoreboards so for example I've got this one here because I'll be showing it in a moment but that's one of the ones there sometimes I pick that up in videos I've also got one of my hunky dory scoreboard but I brought this one first and this is lovely but it is quite soft you can see I can actually bend it there but it will also then go back again but I still will pick it up it's great for using on your cardstock now the reason why these ones now they call them Teflon however Teflon is a brand so I don't really know how they get away with calling this Teflon when it isn't the Teflon brand but I'll share the links this one I got it from the paper the vintage paper company I believe it is I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Teflon is a brand and not a material so this the the name of this material is something quite long I can't pronounce it it's a form of very hard plastic and yeah anyway that's I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I'm right so the reason I like these is because they don't leave a shine on your cardstock so when I use this it's this one solid as well this one doesn't bend um but whenever I use it you just won't get a shine on your folds it's a very minor thing if things like that don't bother you then you don't need to go out and pay out this was about 15 pound I think maybe even 16 this one was a little bit less I think this was about 8.99 it still does the job but otherwise you know a normal let me see if I've got another one I can't see where the other ones are I've put stuff in my drawer but anyway you know this is just I'm doing this video to show you the things that I use and why I like them plus I've been crafting for a long long time so these are things that for me it's like an investment this is my bread and butter it's I use this every day so to me that was worth the money and also the great thing about this is nothing sticks to it so you notice how clean that is I've never cleaned that that's just how it is whereas this one here does have a little bit more of a I guess a bit of a dirty finish to it um and that's why they give these things sure it's got a like a lifetime guarantee so glue everything ink color the lot it will not stick to this it will just come straight off I've just got mine with my washi tape on just so that when I go to classes and any crafting kind of retreats and stuff they you know I know it's my one so but I do I love it I really recommend it and again I've recommended it to quite a few of you and shared you the links to those so that will be linked below and I will try and find this one I've got a feeling I got this one off of amazon or ebay but that is obviously from a company itself so that's those then the scoreboard so you saw that I love this little one it's ek tools I can't find many small scoreboards it's not something that's quite I don't think very easy to get hold of this is an american brand I found this on amazon I've had it for quite a while now you also have on the back um information there on your envelopes so to you know make your own envelopes there so if you don't have the envelope punch board I'll share with that in a moment then you have this on the back and they also do it in the 12x12 as well so if you do like things matching um you know you can get it in the large size but I love this little one it sits perfectly in my little storage that I made and shared it on my channel not too long ago and again you would see this feature regularly on my channel but also I have this is the hunky dory adorable scoreboard and I love it I really do and it's great because on the other side it has centimeters and on this side it has inches and you do have your little bit there as well but the other ones that I've had and I've you would have seen in my older tutorials is the score power and this one's really nice but I did find that sometimes if you do have a card slot because everybody kind of cuts them differently some 12x12s wouldn't fit within this section um and it's just little things don't they they just kind of get you and yeah it was just nice to have a kind of a change really however the nice thing about this one is you can clearly see all of the measurements so you know you have to kind of look at those things and see what works for you I didn't like the score piece that's gone I've lost that and I found that it kind of got all um marked on the ends and kind of buckled and stuff and I was going off the tracks a little bit and you just I think it's been probably quite worn it would probably still work quite well now if I started using a metal one within there but um I always keep it spare you know if anybody comes around if I do go to classes it does still work um it will certainly work perfect for just doing simple scoring on cards and stuff like that so I don't get rid of these things and it's a very very good brand and like I said it it's apart from me not having that piece everything else does work fine so this is the other one sorry these are dusty because they've been underneath the um they're underneath my units because I don't really use them anymore this is the stamping up one now I did really enjoy this one and the reason being is you don't have a wall along the side or the bottom so you do you know if you have got that larger cardstock you can overhang and it's brilliant but the thing that started to irritate me a bit with this and it what I I wasn't the only one is that my stylus so this is the stylus that you get with it this goes in the bottom there I was just kind of falling like coming off the track I'd be like mid-scoring and I just start going over onto other tracks and I have I have no idea why because I wow they don't look like I guess when I look closer you can see they look like they are wearing a little bit but it is a really nice scoreboard so um it was it just used to really annoy me and the amount of cardstock sorry that is really embarrassing that's so dusty um the amount of cardstock that I'd sometimes just end up ruining because it you know jumped the track so that's why I stopped using it and then I started looking around at other companies and I saw this one and this was again highly recommended you've got the handle there to carry it and I like that you have the two options of either inches or centimeters this one you can buy the top plate for and I have got the top plate so it will convert it into centimeters for you so you know you can do that and uh yeah this is just really nice but my only downside with this one is the numbers are the same color everything's the same color as this it takes some getting used to I'm completely used to it now but I do sometimes still find myself saying a wrong measurement even though I am scoring it correctly I'm saying the measurement wrong so I guess for me when I'm teaching a tutorial and I'm filming it that can be not the best thing but it it doesn't happen a great deal you know enough I think it's still an amazing scoreboard I do really enjoy it and when I'm not filming it's fine so you know take it for what it is but um yeah it's the hunky dory adorable scoreboard and that's the ek tools a couple of other things so I was talking about the hole punches before and that's the other one is this one here now this one will go through grayboard but you do have to punch it kind of screw it a few times so it will twist down so I can do it on this itself healing mat but you basically just do that that will slowly disappear and it will punch your holes and then all the pieces will go inside there and eventually you can just push them out you get four other mine of a snapped off it should just sit in the lid like so when it comes up but it just sits in there you get three sorry extras you get a very small one then you've got the medium and then that's the larger hole so this is another really good one if you want to well you'll see I use this a lot when I'm making my gift bags because when you want to make a hole punch you know further down maybe for a decorative handle this allows you to do that you can be restricted with the hand ones by it's probably just as I think about an inch so it's nice to have something like this where you can just punch holes wherever you want so again highly recommend this one and this is the x cut screw punch so again that one will be linked below deal with the tools I also have this one which is the x cut circle cutter this I use loads and loads and loads I went through a a few months actually of using it pretty much on anything and there's quite a few companies now that have done this as well and I think they even sell it in Lidl I'm sure somebody shared one it's the Aussie Aldi the so crafty range I'm sure it was Lidl actually maybe they both do so it's not just x cut and I think even craft stash have their own branded one there's a green one by another company I think Hunky Dory have one so there's all kinds of one so I'll share it below but it's called a circle cutter and you basically adjust your little dial here so you have centimeters on one side and inches on the other and you just screw that move it wherever you need it so say let's do eight and then under here is a little blade this is the center you put it down and you basically twist that around and it will cut that eight inch circle for you is brilliant it really is I think this one cost me $8.99 best $8.99 you know and it's the same one that I've had from the beginning and I love it really really good so there's another highly recommended tool to have in your craft stash also is I'm just literally looking at what I've got so this one here this is your T-square ruler and this is brilliant when I'm doing a lot of my maybe like my mini album making or I'm making 3d storage and projects like that the way I'm using like a larger area and I need to cut and make sure everything's lined up T-square ruler perfect because this will catch on the side of whatever it is so let me just grab got a piece of cardstock here I can put that along here and I can mark five there come down five again come down five I can then go along here get a nice perfect line cut it do whatever but it just means that you're getting a perfect nice straight line each time so when I'm doing things like the triple wiper card or the sliding card I use the T-square ruler to do that because you're cutting within a section so again if I needed to come in two inches put a little marker here and then from that two inch mark I needed to come down five put another marker you know that that line is dead straight it's really good another ruler that's good for that as well but I find that I use this still more but it's the Tim Holtz because with this one here all of your measurements are all within the ruler so you can lie this one down and you can line up say that 11 inch line here with the top of the cardstock and then you know that that is going that ruler is now dead straight all the way down because it's straight with that marker there but also then you can mark half an inch you know three quarters you could then come in you can just it's a handy piece also it's good to use with your cutting knife because along this side you have a metal side mine is broke see there it's coming away which is a bit frustrating I also melted it a bit on my glue gun so I can't even use that straight edge because it's all gone funny there so I do actually need to just buy a new one and yeah get rid of this one really but it is it's a it's a nice ruler so but I find that I go to this more I just I don't know I like that you can just slide that along the top quite freely and this was very inexpensive this was from Amazon I think for about $3.99 this one here I think comes in I'm gonna say around $8.99.99 so again you know you know find what works for you that was the other bone folder I was looking for this is the bamboo one and I really like this is a lovely um folder bone folder it was from eBay it was $2.99 and again this has been recommended the thing that I like about this is over time it's gone so shiny and really kind of smooth on the edges there because it for a while it went a bit almost a bit kind of rough and you started to seal the grain in the bamboo but now it's gone so smooth and it's really lightweight it's just a nice a nice one so again I would recommend that one as well then I've got my blending brushes I know when I shared these a while back on one of my what did I get it just went crazy so many of you purchased them and you're enjoying them and they are they're great so mine are you know quite stained now I've got one like you can see there that's got a red kind of tinge to it so that's the one I use when I'm doing any reds I've got one that's a bit more yellowy I think it's this one here this one's browns I do want to get some more and I keep meaning to just put a little sticker on the back more and more companies have come out with their own branded ones I think there's one called something impressions or personal impressions an American company I think it is and they're like colorful like rainbow they're white with all different colored bristles they are gorgeous and they come with a lovely little display stand again it's a you know if you if you want to have something like that I possibly would go for it maybe I don't know but these were makeup brushes and they do exactly the same job also picket fence they done them as well but they're exactly the same some people have said they're slightly softer but it makes no difference these are just really really good so these cost me 6.99 I think it was for I've got two packs so I think I might have been 12 in a pack or eight in a pack something like that again I have the original link no actually sorry I tell a lie I had the original link and then I found the seller put his prices up so clearly he saw that there was a lot of traffic going to him because I can see how many of you I don't know who buys what but I can see how many people buy different things from the Amazon links I share and he had you know I sent a lot of traffic to his way and it just really frustrates me when companies then go and hike the prices up and I'm glad I caught it you know sooner rather than later and I just I deleted his link so you don't go to him anymore and I found again the same exactly the same ones much cheaper again and actually after this video I'm going to go and check that one to make sure they've not increased it you don't really want to be paying anymore than I don't know eight nine ten pound max don't pay any more than that I paid 5.99 6.99 something like that and you can buy just like two of them for 99p or something and I know some of you pick them up in like pound shops dollar stores things like that just don't pay a lot for them especially if you're starting off you really don't need to so but these I love them you know I grab them a lot when I'm making my cards and stuff so that's your blending brushes also when I'm making tassels I like to use these vegetable cut scissors so they're basically to be used in the kitchen to make your veg look pretty but I use them for making tassels I have got a blue pair as well and I need to sharpen these or I probably will just buy another pair they're really really good and you get lovely effects it's great for making grass like I said tassels and again I know quite a few of you have gone and got these ones so yeah again another little recommendation then I'll quickly talk about glues I've done a whole glue kind of review comparison video I've done a couple now so I'm not going to talk about them in depth I'm just going to really show you the ones that you see me use this is the 1000 mil calau that I buy it's much cheaper to buy the 1000 mil than to buy the smaller bottles I've got this the cheapest I've seen it was 15.99 which is this one that I got so and I think it's the most I've seen it's maybe 19.99 you certainly don't want to be paying any more than that I then decant mine into this small tonic this was a tonic studios glue it was just like a pva tacky glue so I cleaned it out with warm water made sure everything was you know completely out of the inside from like the original glue left it upside down peeled it all out and it works brilliant now because this one doesn't you don't get air bubbles so much with this so it doesn't like sometimes it can be a bit like a volcano and it just keeps oozing out glue whereas I don't get that with this one and I've got the lid there as well so I just decant this into this and yeah it works really well for me but also the other one that you can get is this one here which is the beacon three in one and this will work I think just the same as this but I believe the three in one is easier for people to get that are outside of the UK especially in the States and Canada a lot of you have messaged me to say that you can get this one and I've used this and it works just as well these are solvent based glue so they don't create any warping because there's no water in them so they won't leave any moisture in your paper crafting so you won't get any warping at all whereas even you're out glitter glue your dorm bibby all those kind of glues they are still a water based glue so although they're precision so you only a small amount comes out so you you won't notice any warping but if you were to take the precision off and to use a larger amount you will see a warping appear so for me I just don't like it I love this stuff and it's just yeah it's totally changed the way I craft now because it's it's like a cement on your projects so your card bases your boxes the lids the bases you put a layer of this in between and it really does strengthen everything so again can't recommend this stuff enough absolutely love it but also saying about you know a white glue a pva based or water based glue I do like the cosmic shimmer this is the acrylic glue again it's got a precision nib so a small amount will come out but this has an extremely fast grab I guess like the arglitter glue and the dorm bibby this one as well has a very very fast grab and they're great for small areas I would say so like your tabs when you're connecting lids you know all that kind of stuff then these are very good the calow is I guess very it's very like slimy maybe slimy is not the best word but it's well yeah I guess it can be hard to get a very very small amount because even that will go a long way but it does rub off really well so on little tabs I wouldn't go for the calow or the beacon you'll see me go for this one so that's why I kind of chop and change sometimes between glues but they're my go tos they're the ones I really love but you may also sometimes see me use the tombo as well this is extremely tacky and it doesn't dry fully it will always stay tacky so if it oozes out the side of your car stock it's going to stay sticky and that's when you'll want to have one of these and this is a glue eraser and it's brilliant it is so good you need to make sure the glues completely dry it has to be completely dry and then just buff over it with this and it will totally remove it and it does work very well with tombo but it has to be completely dry I know I said it doesn't dry it doesn't but it has to be at that that kind of tacky stage for this to work and they're great again very inexpensive I think this might have been a creative expressions I'm just picking off some of the glue there because that's all I do as I just go around the edges there and just pick off any of that kind of just the black stuff really because that's just your dried glue that you would have rubbed off and you can also cut some of it I've used a cutting knife and just kind of trimmed it as well but again it's inexpensive and they're good little things to save your projects really from you know being ruined so yeah that's that's all I'm really going to talk about in terms of glue if it is something you want to look at in more detail check out my glue review I think I reviewed 16 different glues and I talk in more detail about them so yeah go and check that one out if you want and they touch on a few dies and stamps not a lot but ones that I have really fallen in love with and ones that I've used for a year or maybe a bit longer there's a couple that have come in really kind of within the last few weeks but I think they're going to be big hits as well first of all is this one here and I know loads of you will have recognized this one lots of you will have it it's just been one of those stamp sets that I have just found myself going to time and time again I love the three different fonts and the sizes these make not only do they make lovely toppers but they're great for inside of the cards they're great on gift tags and they're just really lovely they're photopolymer they're very good quality as are all of the woodware stamps and I love them and they also then done the Christmas versions which you would have seen me use they got their Merry Christmas Happy Christmas and Season's Greetings and I used a lot of them when I made the silhouette cards along with loads of other cards as well they're just lovely stamps so these ones here are called big birthday words I will link them below I highly recommend them I just think they're a great one these are like your forever stamps I can't see myself ever getting rid of this unless it just I don't know dissolves or it just starts to you know just wear which I can't see it will because I do look after my stamps mine are stained just because I don't use a stamp cleaner I just use warm soapy water or just rinse them with my my lint-free cloth that's how I maintain my stamps I don't like to use too many chemicals on them I'd rather just use water so that's those ones there also sticking with the stamps because I'll talk about the dies in a moment because I'm not going to show too many dies because I think we've all got a different taste but I think when it comes to like sentiment stamps we probably will all use quite similar ones at times these ones here I've not had for too long but I really really like them and these are by card making magic which is by Christina Griffiths and they're just lovely sentiments to put inside your cards again you can have them on the front if you want this one I've used a lot so it's happy birthday to you on this special day may the warmest of wishes all come your way then also this one here for two very special people a wish for you today for a forever kind of love that will never fade away you've got a baby greeting you've got this one here which I've used this craft this crafted card handmade would love created just for you is sent to wish you happiness in everything you do this one to a lovely friend on your special day wishing you happiness in every way and then you've got some other ones there as well and I just like it it's just a nice one that can kind of cover quite a few you know different occasions and then this one here this is a little bit another big hit I got this from trim craft probably back in the summer and I can honestly say I've apart from Christmas cards I've used it on so many cards like just absolutely tons whether it's been on the front of the card or inside again it's got something to cover most of your occasions and it's really really good value for money this one here is either $2.99 or $3.99 I know it did sell out very quickly on Amazon with the link that I had and then I was linking to craft stash and again I'll check below and see but there's probably some eBay sellers and Etsy sellers that may well have it you have to have a little look if my links you know don't obviously have it available anymore but it's by Dovecraft and it's just again a great one this one is a silicone or acrylic stamps and but they still work really really nicely those are photopolymer and those are photopolymer I do have lots of other ones but I don't like I said I don't want to go into too much this was more about for me showing you the staples the things that I think will work really well within your craft stash if you really like this video and you want me to start sharing some other things that may be Christmas related or just birthday specific or my favorite kind of critter stumps things like that then just pop the comments below and if I get quite a few people saying that you'd like to see more of this kind of video then I'm quite happy to do so so that's just those stamps there and then just a few dyes that I've pulled out so the first one is this one here I haven't actually labeled this this was by creative expressions and it's the happy birthday and I've not had this long they sent me this one so I've started I'm an influencer now for creative expressions and they send me very kindly some really really lovely stuff which I have some nice tutorials to come using some of their product this is one of the Sue I believe it's the Sue Wilson die the happy birthday was something in die form that I really struggled with I just the ones I had were too small they were just a little bit fancy I just wanted a simple font and a nice size and this is large and I've already been using it a lot you would have noticed my tower fold I think it was the center panel tower fold card that I done it looks really nice on that one and again very inexpensive but I just think it's a good staple to have in your within your dyes when it comes to a sentiment and you can also use them separately so you could have birthday and then you could stamp wishes underneath you could have the happy as the die cut and you could stamp birthday or you could put happy days or you know just you know what I mean you could do it with all kinds of things so I really do like that one so I'm going to pop that in there also I like this thanks actually I didn't get it out to show you that one but that is a I think it's my favorite things and again I've used it on a lot of cards and I've done it on my thank you cards for last year Christmas so maybe I'll use it again I don't know it's just really nice anyway then I've pulled these ones out so these are all the bright Rosa ones apart from that one there and I love them and I think they're so versatile you don't obviously have to have all of these but these are the ones that I've got and this one here they come with it as well and then they're on the back of that one there and you basically just mix and match them so this one here is the birthday words this is sentiment words this is sweet words and this is friend words so again it kind of works in how I kind of said that happy birthday once you can kind of mix and match so you have happy but the way these work if you haven't seen me use these before is you can just have this die and it will just cut the word happy into the cardstock so you could have a beautiful image you could have happy through the middle of it or the image coming you know over the word is there's just many effects that you can create with this but also you can die cut it and and with this frame and it will be a natural die cut piece and you could then back it you could put it you know gift tags or gift bags you can do all sorts with them and then you have the birthday in this lovely font here with the shadow die so again you can have it just like that but you can also have it then with its shadow or its bubble so you can see there how that sits and you get a really nice effect with it so you would have there's your happy and then you'd have your birthday underneath that's just one way or you've got birthday and you could have best so best birthday you've got happy there so you could have happy birthday with that one then you've got wishes so again birthday wishes best wishes loads just mix and match them they're really really good to use and I have gone to these a lot so when I've had to do any quick cards when friends have asked me to do cards even though I have lots of cards there's always someone that will go oh but I love that one but is there any way you could change that word for that or something these just always kind of the other ones that I go to so that's the birthday words the sentiment words you get hello thinking of you and thank you and then you get you special lovely and friend I think that one is well family is it friend family anyway again the links will tell you exactly what they are and then this is the friend words which is beautiful family friend and lovely and then here you have hello for special a friend but I love the a the way that you've got that effect with it so really nice these are the newer ones these two here so I've got you know some more tutorials that I want to use those with and then this one here is the sweet words and it says memories dream sweet and home and then here it says lovely a wish was that make let's make create new and sweet you can see you can have home sweet home new home so she's covered all occasions you know there's something there for everything and I just love them I think they're really good so if you like something a bit more modern more contemporary then these are really good for that because you know you they're just they're very different there's something I haven't seen before until you know the collection came out and I've really enjoyed using them and it's something again I can't see me ever getting rid of I think there's something I'm going to keep but also I wanted to pull out this one here um I absolutely adore it and it doesn't have to just be for Christmas it's the Ponsettia die set by Simply Make Crafts but you change the color that you use this on so white silver pink you can make some beautiful bouquets you could have lovely bouquets in your house all year around yellow this will look absolutely stunning in and they're just huge so you can see how big they are there I made a beautiful basket of Ponsettias which I gave to my nan and I made one as a um sample and um I loved it and I want to make one for myself so in the new year I'm going to think up some really kind of bold and wacky um project to use these and have it as kind of a feature in my craft room I think it would look really nice um you get the sprigs there as well but I just love these great big leaves and depending on how you distress them depending on what you cut them in you use this with your flower foaming flower forming foam sorry you get again a different look altogether so I just think it's really nice I think it's a nice sized die and I think it's something that you have to look past when sometimes these dies come out for Christmas and they really push them as a Christmas die think of them you know in a different kind of cast a different color a different fabric and it will just totally transform it and make it something that doesn't have to just be used for Christmas so I'm going to prove that to you when I show you what I will do with that in the new year so that is another one that I love then kind of back to tools a little bit so I missed these out but these are the stamping platforms that I have so I have the Tim Holtz one which I really like and um yeah it's a nice piece it's heavy there is a weight to it but I like that you take the perspect lid and you just change it over depending on whether you're using your rubber stamps or your clear stamps your photopolymer your acrylics things like that so here it will say rubber so you know you've got it now ready for to put your red rubber on this side and then stamp it this needs a good clean as do a lot of things in my room I am doing like a winter kind of clean instead of a spring clean I'm doing a winter clean just after Christmas and stuff just to get everything nice again and then if you flip it that way it will then say clear but it's all easy to clean off I need to put some new wash sheet on my magnets as well but I do really like it and I again you'll see me use it a lot but also a few months back now on Hachanda they the Hampton Arts were on there and they were had a promotion on for these ones here for $9.99 now I don't think it's just me I think it's pretty obvious why these are on Hachanda because of the whole misty kind of copyright thing I think this was caught up in amongst all of that because this is very similar if not the same as the misty stamping platform and the the reason I really like these ones actually is they're much much more lightweight and there's a lot more bounce and spring within the plastic the Tim Holtz one this this is a very very strong perspex and you can't bend that that is a solid piece so when you push it down you have to sometimes have to stand up and really really put some pressure on there to get a good impression so you know if you're using red rubber it's perfect I don't ever get an issue but if I'm using clear on this one I can find sometimes I'm really pushing it but that's the great thing with the stamping platform is that's the whole point is that if you miss the stamp because everything's lined up and it's on this hinge you just ink it lay it back down again and push down so you know it's not a problem but I do find that it can be a little bit harder to use whereas with this because you have that flexible here look you can see it just bends you don't find that you have to put as much pressure down on you know your stamps as you do with that one so the deal was like I said 999 for the 557 was this one it's got the measurements there no six by then that one's what's that like that one hang on was it one two three four five six seven eight nine maybe but um so this is the smaller one so this is great when you're just doing little sentiments and stuff but I do use this one a lot to put the whole card in and um you all you do with this one is you just take out the foam when you're using your red rubber so when you've got your stamps that already have the foam attached attached remove this and just put your card your paper whatever in here the other thing that this one doesn't have which is a good perk that the tim holts one has is that this doesn't have a wall around here so you can put larger stock card stock in here whereas with these ones you are you're restricted because you have this wall around here so you have to have a card stock that will fit within that section saying that if you're using a clear stump and you've put the foam in you could you know go over the edge um I have done before and you can still kind of get away with it the magnets are very strong I do I've got new magnets and I do need to put washi tape around these um but just keep them you know spread apart because they could snap and um yeah again really recommend these they are lovely there's lots of different brands out there there's lots of companies that have them but these were a bargain um I don't know what the offer is once that deal had gone so again I will link these to Hachanda and you can check them out um and I'll see if craftstash have them as well because they may well have stocked them but for $9.99 you literally cannot go wrong and they are brilliant they're really really nice so I'm super pleased I got them and I would definitely recommend a stamping platform um for yeah if you love doing your stamping and stuff they're really really good and then lastly I'm just going to finish with the trimmers that I've got but also I just wanted to show you this one I just found it it's the we are memory keepers precision press so it's another form of the stamping platform but the only reason this one is it is nice but it doesn't have a magnetic base but it does have this slightly kind of I guess it's not sticky but it's meant to grip your cardstock um but as long as you push it into the corner each time you know this one can work and it has a little sponge corner there so you can obviously squeeze down onto it but it's again it's that thick perspex like the Tim Holtz um and this one doesn't flip over so it's I guess it's more limited with what it can do for you but it's a nice little one and it done done well for me I did put a magnetic sheet on the back thinking that maybe then I could put some magnets on here but it didn't really work let me just yeah it didn't work if I remember rightly no there's nothing there at all I think there's a little bit there actually but anyway maybe a stronger magnetic sheet might have worked but yeah there is that one as well so I'll link it because it was a nice little um one I did enjoy using it okay trimmers so I do have a few now I've just brought these two in just to talk through those in a moment but these are the ones that you will regularly see me use so here I've got the cropper die sorry cropper die this is the cutter pillar crop and I've had this now you can say about three three maybe four months so this is a consider purchase this was more I paid oh gosh it was between 15 60 I can't remember exactly um these have been going a long long time and I love it I have fallen in love with it it's brilliant you have a rotary cutter it's safe it will not cut you because it's all concealed there's a light there if you want it extends to 16 17 18 inches um and it's brilliant it has I've got nothing to complain about it so again the the the reason I've gone for this one again I've had other trimmers um but I wanted something that had a lifetime guarantee and the blade does on this so you know as long as I look after all this this will last me forever so I know I've paid that little bit more but now I will never have to buy another trimmer so it for me that's what I look for I want to make that one kind of investment buy and then not have to worry about having to do that you know buy it again so that's the cutter pillar crop and I adore it and then the other one I love is this and I think since buying a guillotine I I just I I haven't now seen myself go back to any kind of replacement blade trimmer so I've got my rotary one here which you know that's that that's the only blade I need now and it's self cutting as well or self sharpening so every time it runs along that blade it it does trim itself and I'm as long as you push that in each time you have your little grips here so you'll see there it kind of swings out you push it and it locks in and then you will always get a perfect cut I've not had any issues and I use this a lot I mean you see how much I craft how much I share I do commission work I do other private work this is always this gets battered and yeah I've not had any issues and if that was me using a trimmer that needed a replacement blade I can guarantee within the last four months I would have gone through quite a few blades with the amount of cutting I've done and blades can be quite costly so I think I've probably already made my money so I'm really pleased with that I do I love it but then the other one I love is this one and this is another self sharpening and this is the Tim Holtz guillotine and it is just brilliant and again I've dropped this I've I'm not I wouldn't say I'm like I look after my product but I'm very you know I just push things around and I shove it under there and things like that so it does get bashed about and it's brilliant I really do like it it's great for those smaller projects you do have the larger one as well my mum's got the large tonic I can't remember what the name of her one is she's got the orange it's gray with the orange handle another guillotine it's lovely so I guess you know if I had the larger guillotine in this would I have maybe gone for this one I'm not sure because they both say that they are self sharpening and that they have a very good guarantee with the blades and stuff so I don't know but this one was a deal and I just love it I really do so you just find what works for you but this one I just think it's it's just great it's a nice size you can easily see all of your markings you have all the scoring and the grids here you have your different card sizes here as well and it works for me also what I did do is I got some white acrylic paint and I rubbed it over the letters because I believe when I got these they may have changed it now because I do think it was it was some feedback that was given was that this was all black so it was a bit like this here you see that's all green you know you've got a look I can see it all when you're in person you can see it fine but I think the black on this people were struggling with so I think it was even Tim himself said get some white acrylic paint on your finger and rub it over and then just rub it over again with a cloth so that's what that is now all within the white there that's all white acrylic paint and all along there as well and it doesn't come off that's it it's in there so you know it's a quick way to to fix it so if any of you do still have this and it's black just get some white acrylic paint so um you know it might make a big difference so those are the ones that I will always use and hopefully we'll continue to keep using for a very long time because I love them both but one other ones that I have got so occasionally when I'm making mini albums I will need to cut my greyboard and I would never advise cutting greyboard greyboard greyboard with a guillotine because it will you won't get a straight cut it's very dangerous and you could end up slipping and cutting yourself so that's when I use this one here the fiskers or the we are memory keepers this was the first one that I had well I had others before that this is the first one I started using in my tutorials and it just clips underneath and then it will fold out to 12 by 12 but these here you need to replace the blades and I found these particular ones were getting blunt quite quickly so I'll get down the bottom there and you just have to have you remember you clip this one out maybe it just I'm sure it was down the bottom well there you go anyway um so there's your blade I'm sure it's in there and you just yeah you just clip it in and you just you know cut away but you also have a scoreboard attached so the bottom here you have your stylus and you can just you know score so again if you're starting off and you want something that can do more than just cut and more than just score then get the ones that are combined so this is your scoreboard and your cutting tool in one and I enjoyed using it when I had it it was good but then I found you know I was replacing the blades so that's when I then moved on to the fiskers so that's this one here so again this one has your extension and again lift it up there and then you can take your blades out on that little larger opening pop them in and you can cut along it and I do like this one and this is the one you'll see me use when I'm cutting any grayboard and things like that and um yeah it's just really nice but again you do have to get the replacements I think these ones I think you can get three pack of three maybe four and they're 5.99 up to 7.99 you can get them in hobby craft but again I did find I again my level of crafting I guess might be quite different to most because I do a lot I craft every single day and I can make maybe three four projects a day and if I'm making a mini album you know it's a lot of cutting so I am using them like sometimes maybe a lot more than others so you know if you're someone that maybe just crafts one or once or twice a week maybe then you'll find that maybe having something with a replaceable blade isn't going to be too much of a problem because you won't be replacing it as much so you just need to see what works for you but because of the level of crafting that I was doing or the amount should I say um this one now is perfect for when I cut my greyboard because all of what I did is when my blades go blunt for paper cutting I put a black mark on them because they're still sharp enough to cut through your greyboard or your um chipboard so now I've got loads of blades all my blunt blades from before actually now cut my greyboard perfectly so this is my greyboard cutter that's all I use it for and if you ever wonder when do you know when a blade is going blunt you you can probably you would you should be able to tell because when you pull it down on your cardstock it will buckle it might actually just pull the cardstock along the blade or you'll get a fluffy cut so when you take the cardstock out you might have lots of fluffy edges on it it's just not getting a sharp blade um a sharp cut and that's when you would need to replace it so um yeah so that was just a little bit on the trimmers and then finally I think I'm going to keep this short I'm just looking on my monitor and I'm coming up to an hour hopefully I'll be able to edit a little bit just some of the gaps in between the envelope punch board this is the older one I believe there's one now with the extension so when I share the link it will take you to the newer one um I just haven't got around to it I keep saying I should but it's it's a great little tool as it is anyway um but if you do like to make bigger cards and you follow my channel and you make a lot of the display cards and again the larger styles then you will need to be able to make your own envelopes and an envelope punch board is perfect for that you can also make other things with it as well it's not just envelopes there are lots of tutorials I've also got some myself where you can make gift back um yeah gift bags gift boxes Christmas crackers and uh lots more so they're a really nice kind of it's a really nice tool to have because there's so much more that you can get out of it and again we all know we are memory keepers they're a great brand their products are really good and they last so I've had this for quite a few years now and I do really enjoy using that one and also very quickly I'm just going to show a few punches whilst I've got my drawer here and these are ones again I would say are again I would recommend they're useful ones to have within your craft stash so here I've got my corner punch so if you like to round off your corners whether it be on your card mini album pages on the top of a gift bag they're really highly to have this is the x-cut one again I'll link it below and it's great it does just that it will just give you that nice curved corner rather than a square corner the other thing I love and again it's relatively new I've had it within the the later part of the year I'd say the last five months of the year and that is this tag punch so this is by Hunky Dory but again there's lots of companies that do this I know that Dress My Craft have one and there's a few other brands as well I think even Hobbycraft have their own out now as well so I will share as many links as I can but it's lovely you can get these three style gift tags you can have them as long as you want but the wits are one and a half two and two and a half brilliant and the other ones I love are any kind of like shaped punches so I have here the two inch I have a two and a half scalloped one I have a one and a half scallop and then I also have a one and a quarter and a one so I could now punch from here all the way down and they would layer up on top of each other really nicely just any of these are really handy when you have a sentiment and you want to just quickly you know cut it out if you want to make little finger pull like thumb what's the word you know when you've got like a gift card or something you want to pull it out you want that little kind of half moon things like this will work great for that and just punches in general are just really quick and just that ease of you know to just speed up any crafting you might think oh I just really need to quickly make a quick sentiment topper if you've got a punch you don't have to worry about getting your dye machine out looking for the dye it just does it straight away for you and the other one I've got is this one here as well which is Dress My Craft which does the corners but you have two sides two sizes so you know have a little look around for corner punches I'll share the links to these ones below but there are others as well so I'm just really telling you the things that I think would benefit you in your craft stash and then you can go and see you know what ones are available and around there so there is a ton more stuff I could talk for probably another three hours and still not cover everything you know there's Nouveau Drops sequins pens pencils everything so like I said if it's something that you do like and you would like me to maybe share some other videos focusing on other materials products different brands things like that just leave the comment leave a message in the comments and yeah I'll have a look and see if it's something that more people say so I hope you found it useful I do get these questions asked a lot so that's why I just thought I'd just quickly throw it all together in a video I'll try and make sure it is with under the hour and just yeah make sure you had a cup of tea or something I'll put a thing up to say grab a coffee and a little something to eat and then sit back and watch the video so thank you for watching and I'll be back soon with another tutorial bye