 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so this week I popped to Hobbycraft and I picked up these bits here so I have already used one of these for a project and you'll see that in due course but you get I thought you'd get five, oh no four pack I could have sworn there was five anyway so you get a four pack of these mini wreath decorations I think I want to say they were two pound they're really really sweet you can see they're they're very nicely made because sometimes these kind of things can be a little bit naff looking but these ones are actually quite sweet so I've used one of them then I picked up the mini trees again these ones I really like the look of them because a lot of them you get they're squashed in the packaging or where they've been you know you know during their deliveries to the stores some of the greens are a little bit funny whereas this one's a real deep green and it's just got just the right amount of snow it's a little bit full up there but they're all really really nice so these are going to be for some of my 3d projects like I said I have been building it all up ready for me to kind of do it and also for shadow boxes I like to make little shadow box Christmas kind of scenes these fit in perfectly so they're not too big they're not too small I do have some original like ones from like the kind of 60s and 70s so those are like different colors I've got like a quite a bright pink and yellow and things like that so they will all get incorporated as well but you can put a little star on them you can add little you know extras to them so I've picked up those then I've got this one which I wanted now this one was £1.50 which is I think rather expensive for something just like that I would have thought more around £75 but I really wanted it because again it's the perfect size cute little Christmas sleigh isn't that sweet and I'm going to put some um some string on it as well I just thought that'd be quite nice you can obviously paint these if you want I think I'm just going to distress it with some darker brown because I have an original one of these with the metal on the bottom which I always had around my tree so I'm kind of going to you know use that as my inspiration in terms of the decoration for this so that's what I will do with that so you're going to see this and this all kind of featuring together it's very very sweet and then I already have the artificial snow which I love and I've already been using but they do have the white beads now this is just like in your beanbag so if you imagine but this is going to flow and look really nice in shaker cards and also any snow globe kind of cards that you might do this is the perfect kind of stuff so yeah I picked that up that was only a pound I think it was really nice to squeeze I turned the volume off then because it doesn't sound nice but it feels nice so yeah I picked up that okay then I popped into the pound shop and I picked up these now they are wine glass charms anybody who's not familiar with these basically it was all together but I've um taken them apart and I'd already started to use them in a video so that's why they've deconstructed them but they had these beads either side and then one of these hanging and they go around the bottom of your wine glass so that if you're at a party you know which glass is yours so you know you'll have this the snowman or the tree or whatever but I want some really nice Christmas inspired little dangles and charms to hang off of mini albums and things like that and the ones I've seen online and in some of the stores they're really expensive just for such a small little thing so I saw these and you know what they are really really like well made they're solid pieces they've been coloured I think really well because usually things like this you know they're they're just coloured badly so I think these have turned out really well I mean look at the tree they're really really cute and then like I said they're solid nice pieces now if you wanted to you could turn these into jewellery as well they'd look quite nice as Christmas earrings but like I said I've used them to have on my Christmas projects so these look lovely hanging off of gift bags and things like that so if you have a pound shop near you now I imagine stuff like this will be all over the world in different kind of euro one euro shops or pound shops or dollar shops and things like that so I hope that you can find them because I think they're really really good and for five for a pound I think that's really good value for money 20p so you can't go wrong and then you get these pieces here which I'm sure I will find another useful because they're little clips so they're clipping like so again they could be used within my jewellery making and then you get those beads and again the colours aren't too bad they don't go at all with this but yeah you got these kind of nice turquoise and the gold there so yeah I picked up two packets I probably will get a couple more packets if they're still there over you know the coming weeks because I think it's again they're timeless and I'll just keep them in my stash because I know they're going to come in very handy so yeah you'll see them in again some up and coming tutorials let the bell I think that's really nice and even his face you know I was checking quite a few of them but they're all lined up and I think they look really sweet so yeah I was pleased with those okay then I just picked up some more of the A4 double-sided adhesive tape so I usually get the stick to brand or I've had the crafters companion before actually I've had the hunky dory as well so there are a few brands that do them and they're just A4 sheets of double-sided sticky sheets so it's just like your double-sided tape but in a sheet form and I use this a lot for when I'm doing like the herringbone technique or when I'm using like glitters and just want to make big stickers and it's good for intricate dies so you can stick this onto the back of your pattern paper your glitter card whatever it is then put your die on top run it through your die machine and then you can just peel off the back and stick it down so it's perfect when you don't want to have to use glue on those really detailed dies so yeah I picked up them again I'll share the links below these ones were I think I found them on Amazon in the end so I think they were a little bit cheaper so again I'll find those links for you and then a few weeks ago I got those really lovely dies by the John Next Door brand and they're like die plates and you can just run the plate through and it will cut all the different flowers now when he done his demos he used a lot of this foam so this is I think it's not what yeah 0.8 millimeter now that's the very very thin foam and that's the perfect foam for using for flowers flower making and it's beautiful it's really nice I have done some something kind of yeah it was a long time ago when it wasn't really the best stuff to use so and what I thought I would do is I've picked up white so I've got crafters companion in white because you can add inks to this and you can add pastels and it looks really really lovely so I'm looking forward to using this one and then I thought I'll get this one here because it has red and green in it and these are real nice Christmas colors and I've got some lovely dies Christmas dies and they'll see the green and stuff that I want to use with the holly leaf die that comes in that set or in the collection so I'm going to be using that and I just take it out again for anybody that's not seeing you can see just how thin it is very very thin normal fun foam is about two mil so it's like a chipboard standard chipboard kind of width whereas this is very very thin and the thing with this is you can twist it you can stretch it you can do lots of things with this to really make those flowers look like they're very real and it shows you on the back there as well or yeah that's it you can apply heat so you can use it they're using it on the back of an eye in there so I do have an old eye in which I use you know crafting so I'll be able to give that a go as well and you can die cut multiple like layers like you can fold it in half then in half again then in half again put your die on top make sure you get your sandwich right on your die machine run it through and you'll have all your layers for your flowers so yeah I'm looking forward to using this and I've been holding out using those dies for a while because I wanted to wait for this to come through so that one and then I picked up this one here as well which is the greens because there is just that one green there and I plan to use that for the holly I thought this one's going to work well just for the nice leaves and stuff with the other flowers and using the white there so yeah really pleased with those ones and then I saw this magazine on Facebook I think maybe a week and a half ago and I thought oh my god I love it I need to get it and then I kind of forgot about it and then when I was in hobby craft I always looked through the magazines and they had it there and I thought I've got to get it so let me show you so you get with this one you can create these characters so these are characters that you can create they give you the card shapes here which I will do some like that or I'll probably do them all because it's only stumped and that's what they're there for I wouldn't really probably use them for anything else and then so yeah you just basically build them up so it has the scarf let me just take this out so you get these little kind of bits here which are you got a mix of actual sayings what we've got here Christmas and we've got holidays taking out the bits there holidays happy okay so you can have happy holidays and then Christmas wishes I'm just taking out those bits because they bug me there we go and Christmas wishes okay so you get them and then you get these red glasses which if you don't want the red you can turn it over and color it in you can have black ones so that's them then like I said these are your oh this is your oh no yeah these are the cards so they go they're any dinky but they're going to look really sweet so that's the cards and then these are all of the stamps turn over for bonus templates oh okay so that's here oh look what you can do oh I love it so here you can add paws to them so that you'll just cut that out and then trace around it and then you can add the little envelope but I have these already made ones which I think they're going to fit perfectly because once it's folded down look at that oh my god it is literally meant to be so the idea is is that you would have the little envelope then a paw coming around each side so he's holding the letter and then you literally stamp any of the characters and you can mix a match as well you don't have to have them as they are but I just thought these are things that you can use all year round because the eyes and the glasses and the ears and things aren't you know just for Christmas so even the scarf that's just a nice winter kind of one so apart from the present and the fish that's wrapped up as well which I thought was really nice yeah look you can put the little present oh I love it but the idea was that it's not just going to be used with this because you can do any shape and I've got a few kind of I guess kinetic style cards in mind to use this I'm really excited with this one I love it I think it's really cute if I bring it up a bit close you can see what I mean so like there's the little paws that come around holding the present we've got the glasses on and then that one there she's she's holding the drink and there like they've got the stamped little kind of little bell but you could put a real bell I think that'd look really sweet but they are they're adorable you've got the elf love that one there yeah really really nice I just thought it was a really unusual and it's nice and big like you can I mean you can see they are that's going to be a nice nice size so yeah I got that one and that was papercraft inspirations I didn't even say what it was and then I shared over on my Facebook page I think it was the end of last week that Trimcraft let the design team know that now the range have actually made a specific area for all of the simply creative product so up until then you just kind of clicked on something and then you'd have to search for something else and if you didn't really know the name of it you couldn't it was really difficult to find and now you just click on simply creative and it will bring up everything within the collection so I was fortunate enough to be given quite a lot of the Christmas stuff as part of my design team package which is all in this tub because I'm working on Christmas stuff now I just kind of put it all together this can then go on my desk when I'm working and then at the end of you know Christmas this will all go into another tub and then that gets filed away until next year so what I wanted to do is we got sent for example I got sent the gold tinsel so I wanted to get the silver so I've got that one there now the thing about the simply creative range is that it is budget friendly crafting supplies they just do really really fun stuff and there's so much to it as well so do go and have a look if you haven't already it's not just on the range there's also on amazon and you will find some of it on craft stash and a lot of other independent kind of craft online stores as well so yeah keep an eye out because it is very very yeah cheap so I got the silver there so I'm going to pop that in there just so I know what I'm showing you then I raved about these when we got them we were all using these when we were at head office they're just just really really popular and just so easy to use and I've already used them on my star card that I used on the front cover so I thought you know I'm going to get some more now because I know that these will end up selling out so I already have I've got one left in the gold and I think I've already used yeah the silvers have gone because I've got another project coming so I've got them just to keep me going then we all got sent a different one of these stickers so I got the gingerbread man and we I just love them when again when we were at head office so I've got the rest of the collection so you get this beautiful snowflake and these are lovely as gift tags but you can also put them on acetate and you can have them as like a shaker there's so many fun ways to do them so I thought I'm going to get the collection then I'm going to do a really nice tutorial featuring all of these so I've got the snowflake then I've got the Christmas tree beautiful all with rhinestones on them and then the Father Christmas he's got a really cute face I like him and the penguin so I think that's all of them from what I could see I could be wrong maybe there is a couple more but I think that's all of them so there's five there and I just love them I think they're really really sweet so they're all going to go together and then I've got the felt reefs and I've used these on a really nice project that you'll see soon so I thought I'm going to get the felt reindeers and the felt penguins super super sweet and they've all got the little googly eyes there googly eyes googly eyes googly eyes oh I don't know they move so aren't they sweet so I've got those ones and then I had the white pom pom trim so I wanted the red so I've got the red as well and again I've used both of those on a fun tutorial which is coming then I've got the mini snowballs these make fantastic shaker cards they will be quite deep but they look really fun inside so so I'm going to try and do a um a tutorial using these also they're great just to use you know just literally stuck on cards for like the snowfall and you don't just have to use them for Christmas either so they would work on other projects so that's going to go just on the top there then we did get a really nice selection of the dyes and stamps I'm so pleased I got that one so I love that little bear and there's a really fun tutorial coming with that one love them um so I've got those stamps oh yeah and I've got that one which I love as well and the sentiment but I wanted the presents because I use that one more again when I was at head office this one says do not open until Christmas morning and then you've got the presents they're two separate stamps there I've just got a nice selection to crack on with and those are the dyes which you would have already seen with the original unboxing and then these here are another very popular thing that we use in the day you get 16 these are metallic snowflakes let me just take them out so you can see them a bit more detail but look aren't those really really lovely beautiful so and there's some lovely cards that have been made by the others on the team which Trimcraft will share in due course so again if you don't share um don't follow them on Facebook go check out Trimcraft on Facebook because they've always put a lovely inspiration and also go over to the craft blog which is their website and there's you can upload your makes there and there's tons of inspiration there as well so that was my little kind of simply creative haul I think I'm going to have to get a bigger tub actually because it's a little bit squashed and then I'm not going to do the unboxing of this I've already done a separate tutorial but this is the new papercraft society kit this was something that I've been raving about for about the last six weeks and it's finally here and it's amazing I've already been making some lovely tutorials with this product so I can't wait to share those but if you want to see this in detail click the link here and you'll be able to see inside it is beautiful so do go and check that out I don't want to make this video any longer than it needs to be so yeah go and have a look there for that one but if you like kits I think you're really going to enjoy well it won't be this one anymore because this one's gone but you can certainly subscribe for the next ones