 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my video today. As promised here is the review and demo on the We Are Memory Keepers Happy Jig. I showed this, I posted it up on my Facebook page and lots of you requested for me to do a demo on it so that's what I'm going to do. So I saw this when We Are Memory Keepers launched it which was about three, four months ago and I then forgot about it and I was reminded by Trimcraft they shared it over on their Instagram so I went and had a look and I managed to order it. So basically this is creating letters and shapes using wire. So I was just yeah I just thought it's something really different to have in your craft room it just offers you a different dimension, a different look, texture, all that kind of thing to your paper craft. So there's many ways you can use it. I'll give you a couple of examples. I've done it on this scrapbook layout, it's the Happy there that you can see and I've attached it with brads. I initially attached it with hot glue and then when I posted this someone put on my YouTube used brads, brilliant idea, it worked a charm so now that's not going to go anywhere and you can see there and it's just brought lots of dimension and texture to that mixed media page that I've done. So that was one one way of using it and that was using the word happy. Then I've made this gift tag here. Again it's using the word happy. Now this is using the wire, this is thicker wire from my own stash. I wanted to see how it worked with the thicker wire and you can use it. You have to change a few things but I will show you how to do that. Now this one I've stitched so if you can just see just here my lighting is not great tonight but here I've just used a needle and thread and I've stitched around the bottom of the H there and then also the top of the P just in there. I've also stitched so that was a really neat way and then I just sealed my tag with another die-cut tag on the back just so it was nice and neat. I think I prefer this way to using a brad just because it doesn't then take away from the word itself so it's another easy way to attach it to your paper crafts. Now you don't have to use brads all stitching because in the book that comes with this they basically every single one can be made into a paper clip so they give you the additional length and directions to show you how to make just the little kind of extra bit of wire I guess just for you to slip it over paper on gift tags in your journaling all that kind of thing in your planning and you can make these all into nice decorative paper clips. So this is how it comes obviously I have used this it's a little bit tatty and you get three wires that come with it. Now these are really soft thin wires they sell these separately and they also sell the baker's twine wire. Now I haven't got that yet it's something I am looking to order because I just I love the look of baker's twine and it's the striped baker's twine so it comes in blue and white red and white green and white and I think pink and white and I just really like that so I probably will end up getting that as well hopefully but these are the ones you get so they do have to be this thin I think it's one mill let me just bring this in just to show you here yeah they're one mill these ones so again see what you've got in your own stash if you've got some one mill wires and you're you're thinking about maybe buying this I'm sure they will work but the softer the better I'll bring in my bigger wires in a minute but you get these pliers really nice they've got a rubber handle really easy to they're not stiff at all they've got a really nice easy movement and then this is this is the the happy jig so let me get rid of that bit of packaging there let's put that down so this is how it comes it's got a really strong little clip kind of lid here where everything is kept these are all your little pegs now the easiest way to describe using this it reminds me of battleships so if you imagine you know you've got your your your player that you're playing against here and this is your little kind of you know wall to hide where you're placing all your ships it's it's the same process it's k13 and that's how you you line this all up and we'll get to that in a minute basically then these will sit inside there and it all snaps in nicely so it's really easy to store away and you could even you know pop your wires in there I guess you know and it would all be stored away that way as well in a plastic bag or something but it's in its lightweight there really is nothing to it but it's very very strong plastic and then this is the book that comes through it now initially when I first opened it and looked through I thought oh gosh is this actually going to be you know quite confusing you know you see all this but all it is when you break it down it's also in four different languages so actually just the top paragraph here is all you need to read in English so don't be kind of thinking oh my god there's so much to read there because there really isn't and then it just breaks it all down for you so they give you a couple of little pictures here at the front so you can see there there's the hello they've actually pierced it through the card the beginning and the end there as well and then you can see there there's a paper clip with a nice little polaroid photo and that's been yeah no it's been stapled onto a wooden block so it's actually they've made that into a photo frame now if you go across the We Are Memory Keepers they will have all these on their YouTube and on their blog so I will explain it to you you can obviously you know look through this if you did again have it or you're thinking about getting it but here is all of the different things that you can make so these are the paper clip or just decorative shapes to use in your paper crafts the colour here where it changes so this kind of beigy stone colour that's the extra to make it into a paper clip so see here it doesn't have it so that's just the normal if you just want that shape if you just want that heart then that's that's fine if you do want to make it into a paper click it tells you the extra bit here now down at the very bottom here it tells you how much wire you need for each thing now the top one in black it's saying you need 13 inches or 33 centimeters below it says 16 inches or 41 the below one is that extra wire you need to make it into a paper clip so the colour of this piece here is the same colour as that measurement okay so it's just an easy way for you to know oh yep I want to make that one into a paper clip so you go down to the the more stone coloured font there the writing and that's the size you will need then it also goes along and tells you what you will need to make it so it's telling you that you need one of these large pieces and that starts in E 18 so that's always your start one and this is your clip this is the piece you clip your wire into and then for the rest of it you just need seven of the smallest and that's all there is is large medium small okay and the clip which I'll show you again here it's telling you there's the wire 10 inches if you just want the normal one or 13 if you want to make it into a paper clip and then again it's telling you there all and how much you would need so you've got lots of different shapes and symbols that you can use here you've got the pineapples and the cactus the camera I've used the camera here I quite like this one there's the camera and I've made that one into a paper clip so it just comes off the top there and you can see the paper clip piece I just pop it there next to it that's that extra bit but if you don't want that then you just end up with that there and it just literally works as it has another just as a paper clip would like so so these will look great in your planners great on scrapbook layouts you know pockets letters all those kind of things they're just nice it's a nice additional piece to have with your paper crafting you know it's it I'll be completely honest is it something we all desperately need no but we're crafters and if you're anything like me I just like to have other things I like to be able to think oh it needs something a little bit different oh I know what I use I use the happy jig for example and I'll make some wire you know art so you know it's you've got to see if it's going to work for you I like gadgets and tools so I knew I wanted this straight away this one's really good this is a star I love the paper clip look at that one now this one is it looks like a paper clip already but then they're giving you the extra piece there to make it into a paper clip because you'd look at that and you think actually that could but the whole purpose is is that's actually a wand so you want that piece to show the paper clip piece would be behind that so got the coffee there with the steam Christmas tree bats are great for you know all your occasions pretty butterfly that ball dog looks really fun I've done cute and it's here there we go and if I just sit against some some white card here and you can see there there's the word cute okay now I've not made that into a paper clip but now all like all all I would need to do is just stitch that there and maybe there and then I can use that on a scrapbook layout I think that would be really good for that so keep that one safe and then you've got hello love happy and thanks happy is my favorite I do like that one I think it works really well I tried thanks I think I need to practice a bit more with that one I wasn't I wasn't convinced with thanks I thought there was just maybe a bit too much going on um I haven't tried love yet and I've done hello which you've have you seen hello I don't think you have no so there's a couple there but I will play around anyway so yeah so this is what it is so let's get into a demo let's do the okay so first of all I'm going to show you how to make this leaf here so it need you need 18 inches because I want to do it with the paper clip okay 18 inches of wire so I've gone and already just cut that there all right so now it's telling me here that I need two large ones which I've already just grabbed then two have a medium including one being my little clip there at the top and then 14 of these little ones here so just move all that then and then grab all these ones here so one two three four 14 okay so I've got all those there close all that up so first of all start where the arrow is so that's my starter this little one with the the bit of the clip so it's 21e so like is it just like battleships 21e and when you push it in you've got to push it so it makes that click because there's two parts to the pins there is the let me just come in a bit here I show you here see if it will focus here we go so you can see the peg it's got a thin bit and then this thick bit you've got to push it so that thick bit goes into these holes here so you've got to push it right in so it's it's not hard but I would say if you're doing this a lot you're probably going to start to get a bit of a sore thumb so um yeah it if you do have problems with your wrists or your hands um that you might you may find this a struggle it could be quite difficult at times so then you just want to follow where your wire next goes so it goes through that clip and it's coming down to this little one here so that's 20k so 20k like so again just push it so it clicks and then it goes up to this big one here and the center of that is in 18h and that's what you want to do is just go around 18h it's just there you just need to start going around until you've got those all in so I'm not going to listen you know have you listened to me do all of these it's a bit boring 14l but I think I'm showing you you know enough here for you to kind of gather what it is that you've got to do this is the only time consuming bit really is kind of getting these all in place so I'm just going to carry on and get my leaf finished okay so I've got that all in place I've got my image there just don't want to get the glare of my lamp there we go and I've got my wire already okay so just follow the arrows so we're coming in from the top here first you need to push your wire in the clip and it will stay in there okay and then you literally just follow the the root of the wire so it's going down and under this one here first so like I said the wire is very easy it's just a bit fiddly with your fingers you've got to you know kind of push it around so it's going around the top here now I'm going down around this one under over so you've got to have a bit of patience a little bit fiddly oh I've missed one so and you'll see there as well so I've missed this one here which is 15 p 15 p so it's good so don't worry because you will because you're following it's not until you actually follow the pattern properly that then you'll realize if you've missed any so then I'm coming up that one there and then down gotta get two in this bit here so you get two in that bit and then around again two in there back up again and now we've got to come down into this middle one to make the paper clip part so down push it all in there it will all fit and then back up so I've got a bit extra so that's one thing I would probably say is they still do give you maybe a one and a half inches extra again so once you start using it more and you're confident with it then you can I would say you know don't have to be you know exactly 18 I could have had 16 and a half for example so now I'm just going to trim this it's trimmed just below that large one there so I'm going to do the same there we go so that's kind of wastage now which you know would be better if it's not okay then when you lift it out take the piece that's clipped first and then lift everything slowly it will pop out now because there's those little kind of tracks on the middle of each peg and that's what it's clipped on so you just have to lift them off that but once it comes out and then you just want to go flatten it all down keeping its shape and this one looks a bit odd because obviously we've got this bit but that's the paper clip so that's going to go behind you're not going to see that so now if I bring in a piece of card and pop the paper clip piece behind there we go really fun you could pop some ribbon on that you could have a nice tag hanging from it you could have a few of them and have it as a card base you know there are lots and lots of ways to use these and the ideas that we are memory keepers give you are brilliant so go over and check out those as well because there's there's great inspiration but I really do like it I yeah I do like it I think it's nice I would put maybe some ribbon some green ribbon or something on there I don't know I will see but I like that a lot so that's that one so let's do oh let me show you how you take it all out so they recommend that you get a large one of the pegs turn it over and then push them through and you can see they go shooting off but what I would say is some are really harder to do than others but I'm only finding that after I've used it a few times because I think the harder ones the ones that I've not used yet because some are easier than others so again it does put a bit of pressure on your thumb so it's you know just kind of think think that through really the last thing you want to do is buy it and then find that it is too painful for you to use so you know that's that's the one negative I would say with this is that it is very stiff but I think it will loosen up the more you use it so now I'm going to do a word so let's do love I think it was because I haven't done that one yet and I'm going to use thicker wire so this is the wire that I have as well I just want to show you that you can use this but obviously yeah get used to using the softer thinner stuff first although this is very soft this is very soft still but it is thicker so for this particular word here you need 31 inches I've already gone and cut my thick purple here now I'm going to go and get it all all the pegs in place so I need two large nine medium and six small so I'm going to go and do the image first okay so if you're wanting to make it the paper clip then you start from where the stone color image is there if you're just wanting this as this image here then you start from the arrow through your clip there but I'm going to start here because that's what I want to do first so I'm just going to pop my wire in come down and around and then I would go into that clip but it won't fix this is thicker wire but I don't need to I'm going around it anyway so then I'm just going to come up you can hear me keep hitting my lamp there and then round and down remember you're not going to see this piece underneath because it's the paper clip part so now I'm just coming up and around here back down round again figure of eight down and around so it's still working quite well I just don't know how well it's going to read and then up here and then around and down that's it yeah that's it so again look how much I've got extra I might have cut a little bit extra actually and I know you've got to twist a little bit around there I wonder what those ones are for but they're literally just to keep you that in that shape I guess so that bulky bit underneath is all paper clips so you don't need to worry what that really looks like you're not going to see that and then we can start to mold the rest so just carefully just prise it all off just do it all bit by bit oh it will come off or go flying off like so and again just you can maneuver it a little bit but that bottom piece is my paper clip so I don't really need to worry too much how that looks and that's going to probably be more like that anyway but you want it to be flat so it sticks to your paper properly other than that it's quite good actually so now I'm just going to wrap this twice around like so to do what it said there just to kind of finish the heart and then I can just just again you know work it because once you pull it off it will not kind of come out of shape but you've got room to be able to change it up a little bit there but I think that's pretty much there so let's try this against got this white piece of card here so there's my paper clip part and that's I think it pretty much yeah you can see that that says I think I need to do my owl a little bit better there I think maybe that's better there we go and again you can stitch it you can do whatever you want with it because it's wire it's very very workable but there's the word love just does the image shows so it does work with thick wire as well so um yeah I mean that's all I'm going to really show in this demo for today you'll see me use it and obviously I can revert you and direct you even to this tutorial um but yeah would I recommend it yes I would I think it's a nice addition um to have in your craft room I'm just going to take all these out okay so yeah it's a nice thing to have in your as a nice addition is it for everybody um no I don't think you know if you're maybe just a paper um maybe just a card maker you probably wouldn't find that you'd use this within your card making but certainly if you're into um planning scrapbooking um you know making gift tags that kind of thing then yeah I think you will you will like it I think it's a good a good addition so I'm really pleased that I like how it all stays nice and compact and then I've got a plastic tub with this and all my wires to go into everything you've kept together but um in terms of my little bits here that I've done so that's my happy birthday I've got my love I've got my I did I put my other ones here they all are here so I've got my leaf I've got a gold one there that I've done as well and I've got that one I've also got the cute which is somewhere which I've put down so yeah oh there it is there I really like them I think they are very very fun so I hope you've liked this one I hope I've given you kind of a fair um you know review on this and demo and um let me know what you think and like I said I will be using it definitely especially in my scrapbooking I love it and I love the stitched the stitch look of it there I really like that tag and how that's all come together and I like that I can use the thicker wire as well so um and hopefully I'll get that bakers twine also so there you go so I hope you've enjoyed it please leave any comments and I'll be back again with another tutorial tomorrow thanks for watching bye