 Hi everybody so it's been a couple of weeks since I have done a what did I get video because last week I had holiday so I don't actually have too much I've got a nice amount but not I haven't I don't think well yeah I don't think I've got that much stuff um I have got other things to share which I um got given by the lovely guys at trim craft after I visited there but I can't share that with you yet so in due course I will share those with you but let's get into it so I popped to the works and grabbed this one the floral one that I made for that really large bucket bag which you've all loved and you're still sharing that over on mixed up crafters this one I saw in store and I just thought the the prints were beautiful so it's three pound from the works and I'll just give you a quick flick through here so the thing I like about this is you get the the real nice kind of um plain side so they really can't they complement each other very well so there's the stripes and then on the other side look at that get that gorgeous um yeah is it right maybe no it's peony I think that one is but then that matches really lovely with this plane it's like a cloud effect or like a watercolor wash I can't quite work it out but it's it is nice it's probably just looking quite plain there but there isn't a kind of a design to it and then here you've got this it almost looks like it's been painted and then sanded so you've got like these these white highlighted areas and then this beautiful print so again they work really well because years ago when the works did do paper packs they would just whack any old design any kind of colors really and some of them didn't match and if you were doing something and it would show both sides of the paper it used to just look not good but they've really come up now with their paper packs so this one here so you've got that design so you've got that or that one you've got this one with the plane I would say it would have been nice if they'd done that with the plane on the back but otherwise it's still really nice so you've got those two that match you've got that one there on that side and then you've got this one which you've got the butterflies in it and then the stripes on the back so if I flip that that way that works really nice together flowers and stripes flowers and polka dots stripes and polka dots all work really well this one I love which is like a marble texture really really nice that one and then look at that on that side that is gorgeous look at those two together really really nice like a dusky pink color you've got the lavender color there and I like that it's on that white background really pretty and then you've got this one which again it looks like it's kind of got a sandpaper look to it they go really nice together and then that goes well there this is actually one of my favorite prints this one it's like gray pinks and peachy colors love it and then it's against this one here which is almost like a hessian or burlap it's got a kind of weave but large weave or woven look to it um I think they look really nice together so there's going to be some gift bags coming guys few of you've been asking I am due to do another couple of good nice unusual gift bags there will be some coming this is nice with the birds again works really well with that one there and obviously you've got this plain background with that one and then you've got this one here which again can work with that background all with this one here really nice that one um then this is see that's two planes there so I would have put that other printed one where I said they've got two prints together which one was it they could have afforded really to have done that yeah this one here where it's got the two prints one of those prints should have been with one of these on the other side so that's my only negative and then we've got that one this one here it's got it's kind of a pattern but it's like watercolor that's really lovely the greens there and like little yellow bits to the flowers much smaller so these are what I would say yeah kind of this is halfway now so you actually get I didn't even say did I you get 24 sheets two times 24 designs 230 gsm acid free so that's the center point now so you've got those two there so you've got two of each design and then it goes back through again exactly the same as what I've shown you so perfect for gift bags when you need two one at the front and one at the back and for gift boxes and things like that but for three pound I just thought those designs were absolutely beautiful so this one is just called flowers blooming okay so that's that one so one of the things I got given when I visited trim craft which was a great day those of you that follow me on facebook or on instagram I did share a few things on there from behind the scenes but they gave me this just a small selection of their dot and dab which is all of the adhesives that they do now these one this one here I like to look at because it's acid free strong all purpose and it's photo safe so this is going to be great for when I'm doing my scrap books what it is like oh yeah so it's completely clear so it is a glue stick you can see it coming out there completely clear so yeah transparent glue stick ultimate transparent glue stick so I'm really yeah looking forward to trying those out so I've got those two then I've got a permanent glue runner here 10 meters these are always great especially for speed so this is the eight millimeter double sided again acid free and that's your tape runner so it's that one the bin then I've got this very very thick you get two and a half meters but it's four millimeter thick there you have it look how thick that is really really good that one so that's definitely going to get used with shaker cards um then this one is a favorite okay so this is it now just taking out the packaging I said to Claire that I'd never seen this before this is silicone foam tape and basically it's transparent if I pop it on its side it's completely clear so that's going to look great again with shaker cards or just anything that you're adding you want to add some dimension and you don't want it to be seen because sometimes when you use for example this you see all that white or you can color it in and there's black ones out there as well I mean these ones here you know what I mean so this one here is completely transparent so there there it is on the side and I just thought that was really really good so again I could be really slow with this and there's actually loads but I hadn't seen this and it's really squidgy you see there um and I just think that's great so this one you get three meters clear adhesive tape double sided it is five millimeters thick so it's actually is it thicker than that then oh no sorry two mils thick I was thinking then why is that two mils thick I read that wrong um anything else that it says about it no so yeah really good like that one but it does give you comes in the plastic but you also get this here because if you do have any of the red runner tapes um they are very sticky on the sides so I always do keep mine um the ones I've purchased before from every crafts a pound they um not of this this I've only seen through trim craft um is very sticky and I use um like a grease proof paper in between each layer so they don't get stuck together so that's just going to be fine now in my drawer it's not going to get all gunked up and things and then I just got some hook and loop so you get 20 pieces there just in the white and then I got these here which are great for when I'm doing the deco page and things like that and you get 400 pieces on each one but these are black so I have yeah three black ones so again really handy so don't have any in black okay so then they also sent me these now these are launching middle of May so you've only got a couple of weeks to wait so I just thought I'd give you a little um kind of closer look at these um and I've spoken to trim craft and they are happy for me to share them so these are sticker packs um by dovecraft you've got the butterflies you've got tropical and you've got friendship so in the butterflies you've got 124 pieces tropical you've got 120 and friendship you've got 140 and they're really nice so you know when I use my stickers I like to stick them onto a strong card stock first and then cut them out so they become more of an embellishment so they're a bit easier I find to manage but these are still lovely if you like to do planning or for scrapbook layouts and things like that but they've a lot of them have got a can you see catching the lights can you see all that lovely sparkle so that's really nice and they I like the little sentiments don't let the don't let life flutter by let's fly away happy days so you get one two yeah two of each kind of you know um spread so there's that one and then you've got this one beautiful life it's so lovely you get two of those and then we've got high spirits and with love and free to fly and I love butterflies and that's that one there so that's the butterflies one which I thought was really nice glitter sticker book then you get this one here tropical this is fun so you've got a low hat love the bird there tropical vibes so again you've got two of that one then you've got this one escape wild and free look at the two um what is it yes loft and they're hugging the heart there I thought that was quite nice and you got the parrot and flamingos it's really colorful one oh there's three of that one oh there must be three of each design then maybe that one the other one was stuck together let's have a little look one one two no because there's two of that one oh maybe I've got an extra because everywhere is two that's the next one paradise and tropical getaway and again they've all got that sparkle to them and then this one here one and two let me see in the middle of this one if there's three because you've got two there it's definitely two one two definitely two of that one I think I missed that one believe in you wonderful thoughts spread your wings two of that one and then two of that one so one two three four five six seven there's eight pages in the books but this one I think I've got nine one two three four five six seven eight nine look at that got an extra sheet so you never know you might do two I don't know if that's supposed to be but anyway so I've got that extra sheet I need to count because it says 120 pieces so I need to see if that's included or not and then this one here this is friendship this one I really like you've got BFF best friend forever whatever nope good look oh look good feel good selfie and again they've got that lovely gold foiling on them so you've got two pages there this one here like this with the like the scrabble tiles there call me I used to have this I don't know if anybody asked it but this was forever friends back in the very early 1990s they've done this necklace and I had one half and my friend had another and it when they're put together it says best friends I actually really like that and I think I'm going to use that on a scrapbook later if I can find a picture of one I wore that necklace I think that'll look really nice dreamer oh my god you can see all that lovely foiling so there's one two so there's only two of that one so I think that one you do get that extra this one here babe sassy pants girl gang number one two glam to give a damn pink fizz I just think they're really fun so two of that one and then the last one here yes girl good vibes girls slay girl power best friends fries before guys I think that's really fun I like that one there and queen and you get again there's two there so yeah there we have it so 140 120 but I'm going to check that because I think I've got an extra page and 124 okay and then lastly is stuff that I picked up from a charity shop because you know I do like to have a little mooch and this one particular one that I go in I think slowly somebody has been clearing out their craft room because every time we go in there new stuff's been added and I had a look and this was a bundle for £3 so I had an elastic band around it and this is awful of really good quality almost 300 gsm card stock it's very very heavy card stock but these ones here on top now I think these have come from a kit they've possibly come from maybe creating crafts if anybody recognises this please let me know but I'm going to be using this just for you know my card making it's really nice I'll probably cut it in half and then I've got the smaller polka dots and the larger but you've got green I've got two yellow blue turt I think I've got two of each and this is thick this is I reckon this is about 270 so there's the green there so that matches I've got that lovely orange then I've got like a orangey yellow then I've got this pinky colour or reddish pink then I've got a pink again then I've got I think I've got two of every one almost well then I've got a purple as well and then it goes in so that's all the polka dot again I think it's picking up the sparkle should be able to see it there really nice good quality card stocks I've got those and then it went into these ones look at the shine on that beautiful it is textured it's quite rough glittered card stock but again that's going to look great that will go nicely with my fairy tales collection so again I'll probably be using that then so it's all part of the same one again if anybody has this I'd love to know if there was more to it but the card stock is just really really nice so I've got lots of I'll probably go and cut this down so I've got all these a5 um glitters card stocks and then they'll be easier for me to store away for me to use so I've got a couple there so I can see where it's been used and then what's kind of been left and that's another purple one there and then that one there so again lots of lovely colours and then you've got these green striped ones look at them it's just so nice it really is lovely and like I said the quality is just great um can pink yes that's all I've got there just the pink and that lovely green so that's all glitter so I'm going to sort that out it does shed a bit but again I don't mind a bit of glitter and then this is just thick card stock just all different so I've got this lovely one here again really nice quality that's your card blank there so that'll be nice I'm not going to go through them all because it is just you can kind of see got some thick brown it's all different there's pretty much one of every colour look at that one really nice it reminds me of a top I've got it's like that and there's a blue to go with it really nice so anything else there's a lot of white there's some hammered card stocks different textured these are really thick that is really really really thick lovely got some craft card in there this one's thin but it's nice look at that if I bring it out can you see that it's almost like snake skin texture to it so that's lovely and then I think there's a few sheets of mulberry paper as well which is nice and then I've got these here which is Kanban which I you know it's not something I go out and buy it's not usually my kind of style but I thought these just as backgrounds are quite nice so there's this one here this is moments in time it's come from on the brand in strip their background paper but I thought this one I really like that one that's going to look lovely so again all from the same one moments in time you've got that one there it's a little bit like a bokeh effect which is nice it's the blues and then I've just got that plain background not so sure about that one it's not really my style so no probably not that one love that one plain then you got that one there which I think is really nice that one not usually my style but maybe it could work for like a valentine's thing possibly or even a gift bag a gift bag or gift box and we've got that little one there and then that clouds one I thought was quite nice for maybe a new baby card or something so yeah I thought that was quite a good little find for £3 all of that I mean that glitter stuff's just lovely so I got that one then I picked up this more ribbon these were always handy this was 40 pence 10 yards 9.14 meters and it's just thin but it's perfect for hanging little dangles and things on and just doing little bows and there's absolutely still tons on this so yeah that was a good little one 40p and then I got all of these and I found these at a market and this lady was selling vintage cards now some yeah they are more now that one I'm not going to share yet because this one has given me an idea for a funfold card so I'm not going to show you what's inside you will see this in another tutorial but that one is to come so I'm not going to share that one today but I just wanted you know again if you've been following me I've just got this thing for old vintage and I mean very old I mean like 30s 40s 50s 60s kind of age I love old cards and I just thought I'd share some of these with you so I picked these up from a lady and she's selling them for 50p each now all of these birthday ones were all from this they were an old lady donated them all and it was from her birthday so I haven't got number one I don't think we had it but right up until her 21st birthday so there's the 21st you've got her sixth birthday oh that must have been from somebody else I think that was like aunt and uncle I'll show you the others you've got when she was eight seven that was another birthday 1951 I mean oh I just love them absolutely love them look at this this is her second birthday so doesn't have a birthday on that one and then when she was 21 because we were trying to work out how old they are that's from granddad and just look it's got this lovely pearlized paper and you can see how they were made so it was one great big piece just folded in half and then they'd obviously you know cut this out key to the door congratulations on your birthday I just think that's beautiful and these are the things that inspire me you know when I'm doing my coloring or all kinds of things this happy birthday to you on your second birthday love that little peephole there and her name is Iris and it says that in a lot of the cards with lots of love from auntie joy and uncle jack and they've done a lot of these cards auntie joy and uncle jack so it's that one there that's two then when she was three with lots of love from your auntie joy and uncle jack and this one I mean again it's just been cut you can see there and this is that it reminds me of that 1980s toilet paper that sounds awful because it's a beautiful card but you know that really had a name and it was like well it would hurt I remember in public toilets it'd be this really thick almost like tracing paper is horrible but that's what that's awful to say but that's what that texture reminds me of anyway there's that one and then you've got yeah these ones here two iris with lots of love this one's difference this is with lots of love and a big kiss from cousin Barbara beautiful absolutely beautiful number six this is loving kisses from uncle Ben and auntie auntie can't see what that is if I hold that up who is auntie auntie Michelle wouldn't thought Michelle doesn't seem like a name that would have been used a lot back then anyway uncle Ben and auntie someone let me know in the comments really cute and then you've got eight with best love from uncle Bill yeah uncle Bill so hold on a minute I'm just realizing and that's uncle Jack that's what I was getting on me me uncles and aunties mixed up there number seven from auntie joy and uncle jack wishing you wishing iris a very very happy birthday beautiful and then this one here I like this one it has this little envelope which you can open there and get a little peek inside the card and this one says from auntie again it's that I can't quite read it's probably it will you know once you know it it's right there but I just can't seem to make it out and uncle Ben and that's the one that says 1951 but it doesn't have the age and if it had the age on this one we would be able to work out you know how old she was because I'd be able to go back to number two and work out when she was born because yeah we don't know if that was given after her 21st for example this might have been given on her first birthday so we just don't know because nothing else has got a date in it and this one says made in the USA made in England so printed in Britain so again I just love to try and yeah do a little bit of detective work with these things so that was that and then you've also got here this is happy birthday to my wife my own darling is that with all my love and thanks for the years past from your own gym yes isn't that lovely that's how he addressed her so to my own darling with all my love and thanks for the years past from your own gym isn't that lovely oh I absolutely love these things and there you go I can sit looking at these in like in you know on a market stall this one I loved this was just really fun happy reflections on your birthday I mean what you don't hear that anymore do you um I send a wish sincere and true with fondest birthday thoughts for you and then you open it up and this one actually opens I remember now you pop that in there what a lovely idea look at that and then it stands up there's one I might try and redo as well because I think that's really sweet and then on the back here it would have had something else attached but it says from Jean and Harry with love and best wishes on your birthday so I don't know if that was to Iris as well I'm not sure with these ones and this one here many happy returns dear daughter with best wishes from dad oh that lovely wishing you every happiness may this may this birthday to the dearest of daughters sweet and life's pathway and calm winters waters again what lovely words again just not really seen a lot in our modern cards and then this one I thought was really unusual year round birthday wishes and in here this is a an actual resin like plastic even centrepiece there for the flower which I just thought was really unusual so it opens up and this says love gosh I can't see that again that's really something do and daughters I think that's Muriel maybe Lenny again if I hold that up there because I know some of you will be looking at this but who's that from is that Muriel that's definitely daughters I'm not sure about the other two there so again I'd love to know what you think and then again this is an unusual one so it's in half like you can see it's just one big piece and then this piece has been stuck in separately just to the centre part there so no date and that one's made in the USA so it's a little mix here and then I've got this as well again it's just more for inspiration I like to see how different colours can work together like the purples with that yellow in the green and this is just an old it's from 1951 it's from a hotel and it's a Viking hotel in Oslo hotel Viking and it's basically just a brochure so inside you can see here it tells you about the hotel so it shows you there what it was like because obviously that you know a very nice place to go and it's heyday right in the centre of Oslo two minutes from the main railway station five minutes from the keys and airways terminal I'm gonna have to have a look see if it's still there that'd be interesting welcome to the hotel Viking yeah so this was obviously a trip that was organised maybe and this is what they obviously gave out to people but yeah just things that inspire me I've loved doing this for many years and these are giving you an insight into what I also enjoy and then I picked up these they're not a vintage but they're nice to use on nautical cards or even when I am sewing and things like that and these I thought are quite handy for scrapbooking you've got art family fun love sunset and sunrise and that's those there as well so there's everything that I have purchased over the last couple of weeks not too much it's mainly inspiration I guess just that one paper pack and then these were obviously given to me kindly by the guys at Trimcraft so yeah any links that I can share I should be able to do the works one for you all the dot and dub stuff I can these sticker books like I said not coming out just yet but once I start using them in my tutorials I will and let me know yeah what you think about the cards there I'd be I always like looking at the comments so thanks guys I will be back tomorrow with another tutorial and yeah until then see you later bye