 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today so I've got a few things to show you, it won't be a long video. Okay so first of all I have some I think, I think there's a little bit more of the new release by CardMakingMagic so I was sent this product just before Christmas, oh no, sorry it came just after Christmas, just for New Year. And really really nice, I've already used two of them and I was really naughty because they weren't available online so I didn't want to share these ones because I just thought it was a bit unfair to kind of put it out there and then you find that you can't get it so I just said what I'm using right now is a bit of a sneak peek and I will update the links which I have and I know some of you have already gone and got these so the 27 piece month die set is what I used to make my little mini desk calendar, so this one sits on my shelf and I really really like it, they're a great size and the fonts just, it's a really nice font, it's not something that I think is going to particularly date so if you are kind of building your stash, you're quite new to maybe paper crafting, something like this is a real good one to have because it's something you will go to year after year so you have all your months there and then you also have your anniversary, what do they call it, anniversary years and then at the bottom you've got happy anniversary and birthday and I'll just give you a quick look at how big they are so for example there I mean that you can see how long they are, there's the birthday one that's the anniversary and then you've got this one here, this is a nice one that's sapphire, they're great they really are and I like to die cut these a few times and then layer them on top of each other or if you die cut maybe first of all with some foam, foam foam then die cut again in maybe like a gold or something mirrored cardstock and stick them together you've got a real nice dimensional you know sentiment there so definitely love these I'm going to put all these onto my magnetic sheets once I've done this video and then this is the other one so this is your Landmuk occasions collections this is a 26 piece ultimate number and overlay die set it's brilliant I use this for the twist and pop card that I shared a few days ago maybe a week ago now it's another one which is going to be perfect to have in your stash they're great size numbers and you're always going to need numbers there's always going to be someone's birthday obviously each year if you're making a new year's card and many other reasons you know scrapbooking mini albums let me just show you how big these are I can't show you those cards because they've now been given away given away you know I've given them to the people that I wanted them for so but here there's your zero big big big size dies so let me just grab my ruler these are so this is just over one and a half wide they're all the same height so they are two and a half that's a really good size that is a lovely large I mean look at the five and you've seen I'll put the card here if any of you haven't seen that twist and pop you can see just how big they are but those what a lovely size to have as your big top on the front of the card and again it's a nice font it's not something that has you know it's not going to date that is just a nice font and something that you can pull out year after year and I think it's lovely and you've got all those lovely little sprays there are flowers you've got that one that one there that's a nice one looks like the Ivy that's quite a nice big one these you can use obviously on all kinds of cards but I guess the idea is is that you would have maybe so for example you've got the eight there and then you could die cut and you could have like a little kind of section there where it's like crawling up around the the number these will be pulled out time and time again I know I'm going to go to these a lot you've also then got so if it's someone's third birthday so we've got the three and then we've got the R and the D so great for children's cards or anything you know there was the I've just pulled out the 50th so you've got the five and the zero and then there's the ST oh there we go there's the TH so you've got 50th and then they coordinate with this one you've then got anniversary so you can have that underneath they're honestly I think they are brilliant I think they are just they're good value for money and there's something that you will never ever not want to use you're going to find yourself probably go into them a lot so I know that I think these are going to be heavily used this year there's already some big birthdays that I know that I've got cards to make for and I'm going to look at some other fun ways as well so yeah really looking forward to using these ones I'm just going to pop all those back then we've got this one here so this is your land market kids this is all the land market occasions collection this is a four-piece spectacular swirl die set so again coordinates with this so that I guess the idea and once Christina shares more of her inspiration I imagine you know this would be a nice piece to have as your background and then you could have again like I said 50th or 60th birthday or anniversary on the front so I haven't even opened this one see how big oh gosh it is very big four piece so there's your four pieces that is huge that is beautiful wonder if that's for a five by let me have another little look five by seven card yeah perfect so that's my favorite size so that's five and just under seven so that will fit perfectly and how nice would that look on the corner of a mini album cover really nice so just again give you an idea that's how that pattern looks but I would layer that up you can also have it that way as well so you could have a top-folding five by seven and you could have you know the the numbers in this section here or obviously that way then you've got the hearts this is gonna be great for Valentine's but it's also that's a really nice size to have as your actual card blank itself so that's probably what I will do you can imagine again the numbers in the middle of the heart so it might be a nice Valentine's card you know you might have got engaged or married on Valentine's day so you can you know combine the two so this is five by I mean the highest point you're looking well I yeah five by five yeah so it's yeah nice size and then you've got your detail such your background die and then this will cut the detail so if you just want to have this cut this pattern cut into your card so this is great for a like a shaker window then that's the detail you will get minus that frame because it would just cut straight in so that's really not really pretty I like that one a lot so I'll be making some nice nice things with that and then there's the frame and then you've got the little heart which goes in the center here so again you can layer that up to create a nice effect so it's very pretty then we have here 36 while there's a lot in this one and this is your extravagant egg dye set and you know I don't have a lot of dyes Easter dyes at all I've got one I think I've got one and my mom's got a really nice like nest of egg-shaped dyes which is what I've kind of gone to a lot so now I won't need to because this looks like it's got everything I need in it so let's have a little look so this one coordinates with this which I'll show you in a moment so wow they are huge dyes and what I love is that that is your card blank that is your Easter egg look how big that what a lovely Easter card size so this one here measures what are we looking at so again perfect just under seven so it's going to fit yeah it's going to fit in a five by seven envelope so you know all of those pre-made envelopes that you've already got this will fit in it but I really like this detail here so this one just does this very very pretty decorative trim which I imagine if you've got small enough embellishments little rhinestones you could put a rhinestone in every single one of those and that would make a very very pretty detail so yeah you can see how that one oh my god I've already got a really nice idea and the colors for this love that lattice effect these are really really lovely so you can have that one and there's your frame so obviously lots of mats and layers you can really you know layer it up but that again until you see it but it's covered it's got little so it's going to emboss because that's they're not cut circles they're just embossed so it's going to emboss all these little circles and it's going to cut all those diamonds out but you could then paper piece you could die cut it again in another color and then piece those back in again or that could be again a really nice shaker window and you'll see all the pieces shaker shaker shaking in the background I love this it's really really nice and I'm already starting to put a few bits together for my Easter series so this is definitely going to feature then you've got these beautiful like plaques so we've got this one is here and then you've got okay right so I need to work out so these are more diamonds here which will cut this out here and then you've got the smaller one which will cut out those there and then you can layer them on top again so if you die cut so you die cut five at a time but you can then put them on top of these and then die cut the smaller ones again and then layer up so you can really create some dimension with this card I think that's going to look really quite pretty so that's those you've got these little bows so again I'm imagining but what the idea is is that you can put bows across all the little crossovers here on all these sections so it's all covered in bows and I've seen more of the vintage style old kind of Easter eggs with that style so whether that's where the inspirations come from so that's really nice then you've got these little hexagon pieces you've got little flowers that's here you've got these little bits here which would look nice again at the around the bottom here of like the Easter eggs so they're smaller ones again so these are going to be nice for your sentiments so I imagine there are stamps to come with this as well so it should all be launched on craft stash by the time this video goes out so I will share all the links below and you can check out the stamps and stuff so I imagine there will be some nice sentiments to go in there which I'll have to have a little look at and then you've got these really nice ones here and these are great to use on all of your you know any cards or the bottom I mean they'd look really nice under you know a number you know so that kind of frames like the top and the bottom of a number imagine like so let me just grab one I've just pulled out 20 but you can see you could have something like that you know someone might be you know might be someone's birthday on Easter Easter day so you could imagine you could have there's your big card I think that would look really nice actually make a beautiful card that's your card shape there's all your mats and layers all your detail and then you've got that big 20 and then you've also got this detail at the top and the bottom what a lovely card I know it's kind of hard to kind of see it there but you can get the idea so there's a you can see how everything and those perfectly fit within the the kind of curves there of the Easter egg so now I really I like this because it's it's different and I don't have a lot of Easter stuff and if you get this I'm going to kind of keep that out so no doubt I'm going to want to try things with it oh there's another piece so you know like I said this is some of the collection because there's also this card making lacy nested oval die set she got that beautiful detail there so that's that one which I've just showed you so let's have a little look at this one here again it's another big all there's one in there always count your dies because that one oh my wow that's tiny it's full hang on a minute there we go always check the amounts and then I like to put mine all onto magnetic sheets but because the bottom of this is split I think it's just cut from the metal there but let me just move these to one side okay so this is going to create let me just grab because I'm just looking at these pieces this is I think it's going to have a similar kind of way as the paper discovery and it was the the snow globe and you can use that snow globe circle piece and you can make circular boxes it's very similar I think to that so my guess is so these pieces here will wrap around so I have to have a play around with that one but you've got those two pieces there one's thicker than the other so imagine one's going to be for the base one's going to be for the lid look at the size of these these are bigger than five by seven but again because they coordinate with this you can layer up if you want to make some really nice yes it's five and a half by oh it's just under eight so that's seven and three quarters so you could use this you could die cut two of these on a piece of A4 because yeah like I said that was five and a half wasn't it and you've got 11 and three quarter length on A4 so five and a half yeah you can literally just yeah you can die cut two of them anyway sorry I'm just thinking about the cardstocks to use so these are all going to layer up so you can see there you've got tons tons and tons and tons on this one so that one these are all stitched as well so they're going to leave a nice decorative shape you've got that one that's in between I just lie this down so you can see so if you've got you know this is maybe the lid you can see all that lovely dimension you're going to get but I was just about saying then I kind of get sidetracked you can make a really nice decorative centerpiece maybe for your Easter table I think I might see about doing that these are exactly the same I'm going to count how many dies I've got here because I'm wondering whether yeah they're exactly the same if I've had an extra fall in there because that's definitely exactly the same mind you know it is slightly different okay so that one's slightly bigger we will see and then this one here look at that beautiful detail again make a lovely window you can see that goes in there and then from there you've got all these pieces so you know you your options here of how it will look is endless because there's just so many ideas and another nice idea has just come to mind actually for this so yeah I think I know what I'm going to do you've got that lovely 1920s kind of fan effect there that's nice which is this one here sorry I forget I'm filming sometimes and just kind of disappear in in ideas and thinking of things this is so sent with love and you've got all these you've got butterflies and bits and pieces there and sprigs and that's quite a nice trim actually that one there which is this one and then you got a lovely big tag these are always handy I pull out tags a lot just for other things you've got that one you've got your sent with love which is really big and then you've got your shadow for that as well so that's a I like these style dies where's that other tag so there's the oval one oh I see okay so it is also an oval but there's that little circle that I dropped on the floor if you pop that up there there's your oval tag yeah so that's that one there and then there's that one so they've done it I guess so that you can use it as a layer for this or you can have it as a tag so yeah no I really like it but then you can see I know they these are egg shape this is just oval which I probably said and some of you are probably thinking Sam these are oval and it clearly says box overbox collection but then that one says overbox collection but it's an egg shape so I think parts of them can coordinate but the actual shape that is an egg shape that's an oval shape so you're yeah you won't be able to layer those up with that for example because it is it's definitely a different shape let me just check yeah no that is definitely oval that's definitely egg yeah you can see that so love them love love love how big they are and I'm guessing as well let me just grab these are Christina's a5 oval dies and I'm just wondering because the largest of this one is is huge again but yeah so if you have these already because I rave about these I go to these a lot but you've got more mats and layers so that you see that's gonna fit perfectly around there and it just shows how big these are and then that one probably sit there again so yeah so if I do want to do an even bigger kind of table piece that's gonna work because you can see they all sit in there really nicely so yeah so if you do have these already because these have been out for ages and I've got the rectangles as well and I love them especially I think the reason I love these so much is they're quite squashed ovals so these again are perfect for when you want to put sentiments you know and kind of layer them up for nice little toppers but as you see these are kind of larger or yeah larger ones so yeah lots of fun stuff to play with I will be making some samples and I'll share those I'm looking forward to making some nice box effects with these and I've got a really fun idea but I'm probably gonna start using this now because why the idea is fresh in my head I'm just gonna pull this back and then the last thing I wanted to share was just these I was in Waitrose the other day which is a supermarket for anybody outside of the UK or doesn't know of Waitrose and they have all their seasonal stuff is reduced and these are little table scatters they're felt and they were 75p but you get loads and I thought I'm gonna get these now I just get rid of all the rustling from that plastic and but you can see here you get absolutely tons little felt pieces and you build up the holly berries but these are gonna look lovely for you know embellishments on my cards and just any kind of Christmas crafting I'll do next year so you can see there you can kind of just layer them up but they are table scatters but my idea is to actually you know put them together in little kind of groupings like that you get absolutely tons I've got two bags 75p each and I think they're gonna be yeah just a nice little extra and because they're felt and they're soft if you are putting them on a card you know they're not gonna create too much bulk but they'd be nice on gift bags gift tags things like that so if you have a Waitrose nearby and yeah pop in and have a look at their seasonal section I also picked up some really nice stripy candy cane gift you know gift wrap a big roll of it and that was reduced as well so that'll be used next year even though I do have my vintage stuff but I did like that because I thought that looked really nice so yeah I picked those up as well that's everything to show you this week I just wanted it's been quite nice to sit down in some detail and go through those because I hadn't opened a lot of them only those two that I'd already shared you know when I made this one here and that twist and pop card so look out for the tutorials and I've posted plenty pictures of other samples that I make as well but these are definitely gonna be getting used quite a lot and I've got some nice Easter ideas as well for that one so and yeah see if you can get a hold of those so thank you for watching and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye