 Hi everybody it's Sam at mixedupcraft so for this week's what did I get? I have a few bits and pieces so I've been to Bastins which is again I think they're online I've mentioned them before this is from the one in Brixton so and then I got these as well along with double-sided tape now I've opened one up I'll show you my kind of ideas behind all this so this is this craft brand this is stocked in the range and lots of independent craft places and stuff like that so this is quite readily available anyway I always use this tape or the one from the pound shop it's just the foam adhesive it's nice and cheap and it does the job like any any other ones so that's fine for me I picked up these embellishments the reason again for these ones is I like the size they're really thick really large quite raised ones but this kind of I guess well yeah it's a silvery kind of metal gun metal looking one again it's perfect for more masculine cards I am trying to build up that kind of you know craft supplies really because I don't have a great deal of stuff for guys I'm just trying to get some yeah for those things so I've got them and then I picked up that pack there just because there's lots of different colors and again I'm making so many cards I make a lot of cards that I don't share with you guys because they're for magazine commissions so a lot of these things get used you know in other parts of you know things I do so then I picked up these bits here now these ones here I take them out they are this here I thought they looked really nice but I don't like all this I don't like all the plastic but it easily comes off so you just take that off and then all these bits can come out and they look to me personally they look loads better without all this plus they will fit perfectly onto your cards and they won't you know you won't have any bulk so if you take get all you know take all that off keep it all because it is handy if you do want to you know make up different flowers you might you can add paper flowers to this hole punch the middle and you've got all you know your gubbins there to kind of put it all together so I will keep all those but the idea is is that just off of that one flower I've now got all of these pieces and you could probably just get away with two of them on top of each other like so let's do three pop that one in there as well but you could mix up as well but then so if I just pop those on like that and then if I use this one here which kind of goes pop that in the middle and that's just one example but you've got a really nice very flat flower these are super soft so yeah but you could always just use one in that color and then if I get the white so I'd already taken the white part to test it but I could put a white in there and then put another yellow on the top and you can see you get the you know the mix of it there so there's loads so I'm actually going to take all of these apart keep all them in a bag and I'll just put them away somewhere but I also got the pink and the purple bag there but for £1.35 you actually get a heck of a lot of flowers so yeah and the nice thing is you can really scrunch them up as well so you know you might want to do something like that and if you make like the teacups and things you could really kind of you know wedge those into little spaces and just have this little spray kind of poking out the top so yeah I liked them more for the fact that they're fabric and I think I can get a lot more use out of them so I'll leave that one on there anyway I'll probably make that up I'll just put some hot glue in between because it is fabric but yeah I thought they were quite good so anyway that's why I brought them so you know when you see stuff and you just think oh I won't use that because that is really bulky I wouldn't put that on a card but it's perfect for gift boxes that way all the teacups and stuff because you could just cut that piece off and see if it cuts okay it should do because it's only plastic yes it cuts right off so you could just add some hot glue and then again that looks really really nice you could also put it on a long straw or a stem and actually make them up as flowers so there's loads of uses for them but that's what I will be doing so yeah two bags there loads of flowers and a bargain price and then I picked up these I think I shared the other colors before the green I think I shared the green so the thing the only thing I annoys me sometimes with the packaging is you have to take it off and then it's all open so I have to put this now I mean I've got lots of storage but I'll put in something else but look here so £1.35 you get absolutely tons not sure what that is in there and there is loads here absolutely tons and tons and tons and what you do or what I'm going to do is make up my own flowers so these are all little individual petals you just put some glue in the middle let's make one up okay and then I'm just going to add this purple one on here just fold those bits of the sticky bit in pop that right over the middle this glue all all dry nice and clear anyway but there you have another really pretty flower again you can just stress them up a bit you can obviously make them up just a quick one to show you guys you can mess you know change up the petals and stuff but it looks really pretty and you put some green leaves behind it I've got a few left over here from I mean I wouldn't put those leaves exactly but you get the idea although they don't look too bad you imagine that just on the card there we go so yeah I like things like this when you get so much of them I mean there is loads there for the price that's going to last ages so I have got the green this is the purple yellow I think there was a pink but I don't know for some reason I didn't pick it up but anyway so I might go back and get that another day but and again they will get used I'm just pushing that all out the way and then I picked up these feathers here you get so many here some of them are a bit that one's not really going to make it onto a card but how pretty would these be you know just behind some flowers on a card or you've got a nice sentiment you have a couple of feathers hanging out there are really pretty kind of pinkie pinkie movie they're not over they well you can see what color they are anyway very nice deep pink so yeah just thought they were nice they did have another color but I don't think I liked it too much but I'm always looking for nice you know more kind of different embellishments to add to cards to gift boxes nice on a gift tag kind of you know again layered up you know you can imagine again you popped a flower there as well you get the you get the idea just trying to layer up bits and pieces there and stuff so yeah so I grabbed all of those then I picked up this one it's already been used it's from a charity shop it's only 50p but there's still plenty of ease left I've still got yeah they've only used one of the f's there they've used an M so I've only got the one M and I think they've used P there so if I want to write a happy that's kind of gone out the window but anyway I've got three S's still got a couple of T's and they've used one of the Y's there but again good for you know my scrapbooking and stuff so they're just these kind of shiny oh look listen ice cream van if you're wondering if you're in other parts of the world and you don't have that that's our ice cream van coming around mmm maybe I should go and get an ice cream okay so yeah 50p so just grab those then so I'm not a stamp collector but if you followed me for some time you will know that I do like to kind of stock up on used stamps because I put them on my envelopes so if I'm not posting a card and I'm hand delivering it I will put my own stamps on so these all need to be sorted but these are just little bags so you got here 50 world stamps they were a pound there's 50 in there but I sort them all out I have all my floral stamps I've got all animal themed I've got sports related Christmas Easter Thanksgiving all the different seasons and they are just a really nice addition to finish off your card so if you are making somebody a card like for Christmas for example it's nice I think to just put some Christmas stamps on it even if it's been hand delivered so those are going to be sorted out this one here is 50 Australian stamps they've all been franked as well I like that they've been franked because again I just think it gives a bit more of an authentic feel when you're giving it to that person but straight away I haven't opened these yet but look you've got the beautiful little koalas on there so some of them are really old but these are the two books which I love now these are old this is somebody's collection there isn't a huge amount of value to this it's just someone's personal collection there was loads there actually but I'm gonna actually keep using these stamp albums to keep filtering in so I will be adding these into here but I'm gonna sort this out even more so I have with all my other ones all flowers together and so on so I can just go and grab the book when I want to add some flower stamps rather than me still kind of having to sort through it but I'm not gonna go through all of this but there are all over the world stamps in here got Botswana I've got the Republic of Indonesia Trinidad and Tobago Christmas Island these are brilliant so these got Australia on them and they are like a sand dune with Santa Claus and craps you've got the presents on the bottom of the ocean floor this one here is like a seaweed Christmas tree Gibraltar Ecuador but the the nice thing is is there's like you know you've got the what's that one there people in the Atlantic Antarctic territory so again if I've got someone I don't know who's going somewhere where there's the snow you know what there's a stamp that's themed to it so I hope you kind of get what I'm saying here the Philippines these ones I really liked here these are again you got all these animals Nigeria look at the you know the wonderful cheetahs there and on these ones here this is all Taurus so this is all the Republic of the Maldives but it's all Taurus on them so I'm sure they will come in handy at some point got some sports related ones here Cyprus got the hair got some fish got the plane so again I've got like ones with trains and planes and automobiles that all that kind of thing and I do I really like it isn't like I said it is just a nice way to just finish off your cards that was that one and then there was this one which has got 500 over 500 in here but this one had a lot more floral so it's these are in bit more of an order so they've got the UK Jersey we've got Guernsey look at this one here that's really cute it's a Christmas old Christmas one there got some more flowers here another Father Christmas one that's the Isle of Man again Isle of Man there with the I want to say it's a form of Daisy but I don't yeah it is Daisy okay so really perfect for this you know these months now so we've got a nice you know spring summer birthday card then that Daisy stamp would go on the front for example so look at these South Africa you got the Rhino there beautiful so nice again South Africa there these are brilliant all the African ones because there's just so many really lovely animal ones and they're just really different that's a good one there Zimbabwe and you've got the like the trains and so the buses there's the motorbike in the plane so got quite a few got any fishing fans you know you've got more fish here you've got guinea fowl and they're perfect as well if you've done if I've done a card that's just got lots of purple in it then it's really nice to add these purple flowers for example so yeah it's something I've done for a long time and I really do like to just kind of add that where I feel I need to so what I plan to do is I'm actually going to decorate these books as well I'm going to not decorate the sides because I like that that's you know that's got that kind of old stamp album on the side but I do want to just do something I think with this or at least kind of cover this in some way I guess that's quite nice all the embossed stamp album there or maybe I might do something with my cricket and do a nice font in gold and stick it over and yeah because I mean the albums themselves I know they're old but they're only they're just made in China so and that one there as well but we'll see we'll see what I do with those but they need to all be sorted along with my other ones then our taser very kindly sent me some more products so they've sent me the fine line pens so I will I will share these in a video I don't know if I'm going to do a separate actual review of them because they're a fine line pen so it's not really there isn't really anything to review I guess apart from the fact that there is a lot of colors and stuff here so I they will be shared at some point again but if you are looking for some fine liners in a real nice mix of colors these are brilliant and again the price point is great but what I tend to use and find these handy for is if you've stamped an image maybe you haven't used your stamp platform because I don't use it for everything if I've stamped a little sentiment and I might have missed a bit and say it's in a blue or something it's quite handy to be able to pick up your fine liners and you can just go in you can see the nib these are really really nice nibs and they've got triangle barrel on them as well so they're really comfortable to hold but they're just perfect for just kind of filling in any bits you might have missed and you've got the the black so this would be the most common one to use is the black and they're lovely to write with as well so along with my glitter gel pens and these is what I'd use to also you know write in my cards so yeah really really nice so thank you Arteza you will see them pop up and as always I will share all the links below and if you are limited with space they always come in these really nice tins so these are very thin like I said they you know you can store them away easily but again if you've seen me sharing stuff over on Facebook for the last few weeks you would have seen that I purchased a ton of those wine plastic wine racks or wine kind of cases from the Pound Shop these are going to be going straight in there and then finally after waiting for a month which is just ridiculous but it wasn't well anyway I brought them from Hoshanda and basically they didn't have the stock when they sell it so they had to wait for all the stock to come over from America anyway it's here so this was an absolute bargain I put I shared this over on Facebook when I purchased it and I know a few of you have got yours or you ordered it as well and hopefully you've all got yours now as well but this was for both of these was 20 pound was it just under 1999-19 something like that and that is a steal and it is still being sold on Hoshanda but it is not at this price anymore I think you pay normal so basically here you get both sizes so this is the five what size is this oh no this is the 7 by 9 with the lid closed so and it's your hinged stamping platform so I've got my magnets on the bottom and so you've got your foam so if you're using a photopolymer stamp you'd keep the foam in and you've got your magnet there to hold it in place which I will put some washi tape on if you are using cling mount or red mount stamps then you would remove the foam and you have the depth there which will allow that stamp to be able to you know cling onto here and then stamp down so it is literally the same well there's two magnets I knew there was don't let them snap together because they are likely to snap in half so when you get them I need to put some washi tape on them and then straight away they will be safe to use and they won't pinch your skin and stuff but yeah they're just really really handy I know I've got my Tim Holtz one this is a bit smaller so it's just handy to kind of sit on my desk so yes that's that size and then I've well you get this one here which is the 10 by 10 with the lid closed it's 8.3 by 8.3 in the actual stamping area so my Tim Holtz let's just get into this one I just want to compare it next to my Tim Holtz one so again there's your magnets on the back just take them off they're very very strong just make sure and they will hold through the foam or obviously not on the foam so you can see there sorry you get a lot of glare from this but that's obviously I can't be can't be helped because of the material it is all these feathers are going everywhere now as well I've got so much on my desk I need to clear away so here's my Tim Holtz one this straight away I can see this is heavy not so heavy that it's you know because I've never taken any notice before but now I'm comparing it next to this this is really quite light but in terms of size let's just pop let's pop this foam they're going to just go on together but should be okay you slide as well if they do go together slide them off each other it's much much easier so yeah it's the same area that the difference with the Tim Holtz that I like and that's why I will still continue to use this as you can put any size cardstock in here because you don't have any kind of wall around here whereas with this one here you can only have paper that's within this this square okay so you know kind of think about that when you go to I guess buy these kind of things but I don't think this is going to be around forever because I don't think they're allowed to well they're certainly not allowed to sell it in the US anymore so whether they're going to produce it over here I don't know if that's even allowed but it's the same for the Tim Holtz as well I don't think he can sell this anymore in the US I think it's only in the UK so I could be wrong I don't want to start any massive debate or anything it's you know I only go by what I read in here so that's what I believe to be true so yeah I still love my Tim Holtz because you can use any size paper in this and all you do is just flip that around you know to change whether you want to use a clear stamp or photopolymer or a cling or red foam stamp so yeah so I've got enough stamp in platforms but I think things like this are a bit like your bread and butter now for me they are anyway with crafting so if this was to break I know I've got one straight away to be able to to use but this is lightweight and it's a little bit more streamlined so you can see here that's it there's nothing kind of sticking out so that can slide in with like my files and things quite nicely whereas the Tim Holtz one is very bulky you know it's got a different raised level here this all lifts up here because obviously this is the other side so you can't really put stuff on top of this it kind of I always find things kind of slide off of it but I still love it I'm not you know it's not that that's just me kind of you know being critical when I go to store it away but yeah this one you can kind of see the difference and then if you just do small cars and that's all you are as a card maker and you always stick within this size this one's perfect very very lightweight so there is everything guys once you take the packaging off of most of this stuff you end up with very little to be honest there's so much packaging so I do recycle wherever possible so yeah that's what I've got any questions you've got just pop them in the comments box and I will get to them as soon as possible I will share links for these because I do believe like I said they're still available share links for the fine liners because they are good and things like this it's hard to really share links because yeah the stocks are very different in stores to what they are online and yeah you might not be able to get it all but just pop into any of your local range stores or pound shop the works they stock a lot of this craft brand here and they should do these I think these are relatively new so you should find these around but they have a guy so I will be back tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching bye