 Hi everybody it's Sam from mixedupcraft thank you for watching today so I'm doing an unboxing of the kit number 13 from papercraft society so this one is by Helen Griffin and I had the absolute pleasure to do some of the inspiration for this one it is wonderful so I'm a big Christmas fan anyway and I do love nutcrackers and as you can see on the front here that's what you're going to get inside so you always get kind of a bit of a hint towards the papers that are going to be inside from the packaging and you can see we've got nice silver foiling there and this kind of light blue and then you've got some Christmas ornaments there and then those lovely nutcrackers so let's have a little look so I did have a peek already so this one here says I'm over the moon to bring you this Christmas crafting box to play with and that's from Helen so let's pop the tissue paper to one side we'll go through that in a moment and we'll first look inside the envelope so I always tend to flap out my boxes and then I try and store as much as what's in here into the envelope and then any ink cubes or mediums then I will I have a separate storage for but here's the lovely envelope okay so I've just taken all the plastic out so first of all we can look at the die set so you're going to be able to create crackers so that's the kind of the main die in this set you can see this lovely big cracker die and then you have this looks like the outline for a ballerina then you have the nutcracker you've got the Christmas tree you've got holly and you've got other sprigs you've got the bow I'm not sure where that one cuts out I'll be able to have a look in a minute little tree decorations or ornaments baubles and then you've got some frames here as well and banners just to decorate everything so you would die cut two of this cracker you can see your side tabs here join them together and then you'd be able to make a four-sided or a three-sided cracker and I know that that's already explained in the inspiration booklet but yeah really really nice set that you have there lots of dies I will also be using this on my trying to think from today from filming on Monday on my Facebook live I'll be using this kit so I know more people are starting to receive it now so again this is the stamp set so you can see the nutcracker stamp the ballerina and then I think that other die cuts the drum you got the drum image there as well you've got keys candles all your sprigs your different foliage there hanging kind of baubles or bells you've got that looks like a orange segment it's like a tree decoration you've got the bow and then your sentiments are joy to the world have a cracking Christmas a merry Christmas and twinkle all of the way I think they're really nice I cannot wait to start using this one I was done the inspiration probably about two months ago now so I had a brief to work with a particular die and stamps so it would be nice to be able to use everything now I have it myself so again I'm just gonna take these papers out just to show you what you've got so you have two of that lovely nutcracker print then you have two of this print here that's got your merry Christmas on there reminds me of a vintage wrapping paper then you have this one here which has got all of the different leaves and the flowers and stuff there and then this one is your ornaments yes an orange and like an orange slice there not segment that's that one and that's that lovely blue color that's on the box and then you have these so I never got to see these actually and these are just kind of pre kind of cut little toppers you could have that as a little gift tag as well so you've got merry Christmas then you've got some actual photographs here and see again there I'm going to take these all apart jingle all the way with the drum you've got merry Christmas and then you have this one here as well so I like them as gift tags I think that's how I'm going to use those and then this these are your jokes to go in your crackers so you've got the the joke and then the the kind of the answer the pun not not who's there Hannah Hannah who Hannah partridge in a pear tree so I will definitely get these used I'm actually thinking I'm going to do these I have seven whilst the six seven including me but six of my closest school friends we always get together every Christmas we're going to have to try and work this one out how it will work with the the rule of six but I always do a little kind of I've shared it in in tutorials over the you know the years but I always put together like a little gift bags that I give them all so I think they're all going to have one of these crackers with the gifts and then I can get some sweet treats to go inside them so that's that's one kind of element that can go into their gift bag of goodies and so yeah I'm looking forward to putting those all together so that's everything that you get in your envelope or your wallet and like I said it all folds up really nicely and I have them all displayed on a shelf and then here we have our tissue paper lovely red you get two sheets so that all I keep all of mine and I use them for when I'm giving presents so this will go into like my Christmas colours so what do we have here we've got some embossing ink so it's your watermark ink and you have your silver embossing powder and I'm glad I've got this one I have actually done an order for a big tub of silver embossing powder but I've used this little one a lot so I had this obviously a few months ago and it's a lovely very very fine very dusty silver but it gives you a lovely embossed finish then you have a bag of bells I love bells I use these so much on my Christmas makes and on my gift you know gift tags when I'm wrapping presents and so on so you get quite a lot there as well you get 20 bells there's lots in there then you have your ribbon to this lovely silver ribbon there and then these are your cracker poles I call them cracker snaps so these go inside the cracker so that one person pulls one end you pull the other and then when they when the cracker pulls apart it will make a bang or a snap sound and all the bits and pieces will fall out so it's really nice that those are in there as well then you have your little information cards this one says add a touch of sparkle to make a Christmas magical and this one is simply made cards Christmas cracker cut at least three cracker panels and carefully fold the side also it's telling you how to put your cracker together add the snap a small gift or sweets and a joke and tie off the ends with your silver ribbon also you should have a Christmas hat inside you can buy them off of Amazon I always buy them every year you can get like a you can get all different colors really but you put you put a paper hat inside as well if you want a longer cracker trim the ends from on your panels and join together also you can extend that cracker as well so that's really good to know and then you can do a three panel four panel a five panel or a six panel so you've got a pentagonal or a hexagonal cracker so you can actually do four styles of cracker with this one so that's really good so I'll definitely be having a play around with that here we have these are always white course you can do lots of techniques with it so we have Christmas reds we've got two two sheets of the Christmas red and we've got that lovely winter blue like an ice blue and then we have like a nice cobalt blue there really rich lovely Christmas green and then we have the creams so this one's more heavy on the cardstock I guess because of the cracker these give you all your base kind of colors to make the cracker and then you have your pattern paper to do your layers and so on so it's really nice to have all those then like I said they are double-sided and they're white core so you can do some nice different techniques and then here's the lovely Helen and this is your information and your inspiration booklet so I won't talk through all of it but again there's always new people watching these unboxings so you always get a little welcome by Helen herself it gives you kind of an overview of what's inside the booklet everything that you get inside your kit and then just so again if some of you aren't familiar with how this cracker should look Helen's shown you here a three-sided cracker so you got your triangular one and then a square so that's your four-sided cracker and basically you pull the ends of this and these you know your snaps there will come apart so it talks you all through how to make that a little bit about Helen and questions and then I won't show like I said all the cards but just to give you another idea of what you can do I made this pop-up card with the four Christmas trees so when you open up the card these four will stand up and then just to give you an idea on the detail of those foliage kind of dies and the sprigs things like that you can make these kind of cards so I made these I done five in total so this one here I turned it into kind of look like mistletoe or it could be holly I mean I done the berries in white in red but if you'd done them in white then it would look like obviously mistletoe but I just done this festive kind of sprig I created a wreath and that wreath has so much dimension on it it was really lovely to make because they're all the dies again that come in the set and then just something a bit more simple but I did just rest the edges so you can see that white core in the cardstock and I embossed that Christmas tree there and then the last one I know it was just four some reason I thought I had to do five no it was four and then lots of other makes and ideas and inspirations I like that one there as well so it's a cracker box lantern so Helen's turned it into an actual little like a favour box there you could put treats as well as a little tea light battery operated of course in there I always want to show more but I do want to keep this as a surprise because obviously people are still receiving theirs I will check to see if it's still available online because sometimes once they've all gone out to the subscribers then there's an open stock if there's anything left so check my link below if you would like to you know see if this is available but also if you're interested to sign up to receive future boxes you can sign up for the whole year you can sign up quarterly you can sign up for six months and you can sign up for month by month but you do have to you can sign up for the month but then you have to make sure you then cancel so it doesn't just roll because it's a rolling subscription but you can cancel at any time so you can dip in and out depending on the boxes and you know which ones you like so let me pop all this back so that is box number 13 at the Papercraft Society I cannot wait to start making some lovely things with this one and the next one that's coming out to us is by Lou Collins which again I had the joy of making some lovely samples for and it is another wonderful one like I said that every month is so different and I just enjoy them all because you get to create different things and I think if you're someone like myself that just likes paper crafting and you don't really mind you don't have a set style as such you just like to try different things these kits are great because they're always so different and there we've got we've had obviously some repeats from some designers but they have a lot of new ones joining all the time so it's really really fun to be part of so thank you for watching as always like I said all the links will be shared below and I'll be back very soon with some wonderful tutorials using this kit