 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so I'm really excited with what I've got to share with you. A lot of you will know I collaborate with CraftStash and they very kindly asked if I'd like to choose some more product so I was slightly overwhelmed by what I've received or what I chose and actually received today so this came in the post maybe about an hour ago so I thought well I've got to get this recorded so I'm going to go through it bit by bit so first of all I've been after a really nice tag punch now I know there are quite a few out there but this one here is by Hunky Dory and it's a big one but the good thing about this is is you can you can tag you can punch three different sizes of tags so what I mean by that is I've already on and cut the pieces here so it tells you on the top here you can have two and a half inch wide a two inch wide and a one and a half now the length is entirely up to you which is another nice thing about it and I've seen lots of people making like little mini books little mini albums with these lovely tags and obviously you can use them in the traditional way as a nice gift tag on the gift box or gift bag so gone and cut here a piece of card stock with the width of two and a half and you basically just slide it in and then better put this down so it's easier for me to and you'll feel it and look at that and you a nice little embossed ring love this detail and obviously like said you can have that as long as you want now you can use these to make little mini album so you can use that now to put your say your ring binder through and you can have little photos on these yeah it's just endless so you are going to see this feature a lot then this is the two inch size so it goes in the next one and there you have it slightly different pattern eggs obviously it's dropping down in size and then this one here is your one and a half which goes right in the bottom this is the white card stock so just slide that one in and you can see how that one looks there so if I just layer them over the top you'll see the white one really well you can just see the difference in the sizes there and there's that one how cool is that I love that you get the three sizes all in that one punch it's just gonna make it's just so much easier I think just to use this rather than get my my dies out so I'm really pleased that I've got this one it's a nice size nice weight to it and it feels really really good so that's the premier craft tools fancy egg edge fancy edge tag punch designed with precision and it just tells you exactly what to do on the back there as well but I just like that you can have them obviously any length that you want but I guess that's that one so super please again that would be linked below for you then I've got these here so these are the Spectre Noir harmony ink pads so these are the water reactive dye ink pads I've got the ocean blue crushed velvet orange and then I also have the this is the set of three so this is pretty pink row sorry it's called pretty pinks and you get pink tulip fuchsia and plum jam just love these kind of colors so again they're going to kind of work in the same way as a distressed oxide but I like that you have these color combos here so if you're doing any kind of layer stamping or you want to get a really nice kind of ombre with the same kind of color tones these are great because it's kind of already done for you and you know you've got your light your medium and your dark so yeah they're definitely going to be used with my layer stamping and some nice backgrounds also I like about these is they're really deep so they stack really nicely so again don't take up a lot of work space and you can stack them quite high and also if you take your lids off they've marked on the back here H is for harmony because they do have another style in that in their kind of range or collection so that's the H there but you have it on both sides so again if you are limited on space you can see that was falling down a bit there but when they're all stacked you can see all your colors you can have them all stacked along like that so take those ones out there these are all sealed as well you can buy these separately or in packs of three and there you can see them all really nicely stacked together so I'm really pleased with them they're a lot more compact than other ones that I have and yeah I prefer this and I think they might even fit in my little IKEA trays that I've got so that's going to be even better but I've got one two three four five six there they don't take up much room so again really pleased about these are so far I will let you know in terms of their inking but then I saw these here so this is the lakeside blooms by the paper tree it's another beautiful kind of paper pad of images just love the illustrations but I did go for the essential paper pad to go with it so here are all your backgrounds kind of like your mats I would say so you've just got nice polka dots stripes really nice colors which match perfectly with the lakeside blooms so again they just repeat you always get so many 48 sheets it's eight by eight pad 160 gsm so it's perfect for using for envelopes for gift boxes gift bags and card making so it covers all of them single-sided but that's fine because you get so many sheets and it's made in the UK and that's good as well you can use that one all on the back there so this is the paper pad and I'll just show you again you've got that lovely piece you can use on the back there if I just flick through look at these we've got your borders there look at that rabbit or hair so cute and again there I just love these you know I'm really enjoying using the paper tree papers love that one there with the swans have a lovely stamped image in the middle there or you can cut it in half and have that on the side of your card got the lovely flowers that real nice kind of watercolor background and then it repeats again so yeah really pleased with those ones think they're absolutely stunning and I know I think some of you one of you ladies on the group Facebook group you shared this one as well so yeah super excited to play with that one then I picked up these dies here so I've seen these before and I just thought they were really cute what the the kind of inspiration was for them so this is the cake shop and this is new home now the cake shop I do have a cake die I never use it I'll probably end up getting rid of that one I'll give it to charity this one here you can it's tears that you can lay it up so you can create it any kind of well you can go obviously higher in size but it's just a lovely I just like the idea of it it says here sweet wishes so that's a really nice sentiment just to use on anything anyway you've got the candles and then these are your kind of icing to go over the top so I will be using that I've got like a pop-up card idea for this one so I think that's going to work really nicely and then this here is the little house again you've got all your different rooftop sizes and then all these elements here you've got your window and this says here new home but again I've got ideas to be using this for Christmas so I need these little kind of pieces like that little window and yeah so again got lots of ideas for these things so I'm just kind of preparing building stuff up but I will show you some cards with this one again because I think it's going to look super cute as a nice little pop-up card so those two there again craft work cards I will link all of this below then I did say that I'm I'm desperate for a new pokey tool so this is my old Tim Holtz one so this is the old color and but I've the end I caught it I think last year it's quite a few months back now and it does kind of still work I don't know if you notice in my videos I'm really kind of picking like the corners so I have yeah needed a new one so this is the new packaging this is the black and it's just so nice to have a super sharp pokey tool and the reason I love these ones over all the other ones is because you can retract it back so it's nice and concealed and it's safe so if you are traveling you take your craft tools to craft classes and things like that I just feel this is much safer and I have also linked ribbon around this and had it hanging like in my little craft bag and stuff so just they're just nice and compact I feel it's much safer as well so I will keep this one but yeah it's just it's not even really sharp anymore at all and it's just I'm constantly kind of like really trying to almost scratch my paper so this now I just be able to hook it up nicely so yeah again I will share all of this below for you and then I needed some more snips I say more snips because I do kind of chop and change because when you I think do as much fussy cutting as I do because I do really enjoy it there are still different snips that I find for different kind of things so these are the current ones I've got so this is the X-cut and the tonic the thing that well the only negative I have with the tonic is it's perforated and it does show that perforation sometimes and it does frustrate me however I do still use it for things where that kind of gets covered so it doesn't yeah I'd use it for the things that maybe aren't a topper on a card something that you're going to see but I still need some precision with my cutting then these are great do need sharpen them gone for the carbon steel ones here which is the crafters companion so let me just and then I've got these here these aren't precision ones these are just like really heavy-duty little snips I just use for things like this so just take off this so these here they feel very similar but it's not until you get a new pair that you realize your older ones don't feel but these I mean that's a thick card I wouldn't use that anyway but yeah they feel they feel quite nice so again until I start using them so yeah that's them and then let me have a look at these ones because yeah they don't have the perforation and they've got their little protect yeah there's so much I think they're going to be so much nicer high quality high durability titanium coated blade yeah they feel lovely fine control craft is snips includes protective cap for safe transport and storage let's have a little look okay I've got this piece here now I actually do need to cut this so I'm just going to very quickly just try this one here yeah they feel really nice and when you snip right to the end it doesn't break the paper so then you can just carry on just quickly finish off the video I'll carry on with that but they feel really nice now if I use these ones I'll use it down this here you might not be able to see it in this but yeah you won't pick up on camera but they leave a perforation there's a little perforation mark all the way along that and it's just frustrating so but those might be my new go-to along with these as well need to see let's have a little look here yeah they both cut nicely I think it's just going to be down to personal preference preference to be honest these are lovely though really do like these I think it does make a big difference that you've got the titanium blade here so yeah really like them so they're going to be the ones you're going to see a lot so I said I need to get these cleaned up but yeah so I've got some there to play around with now so I will chop and change because but you do get a comfort for your scissors again for those anybody new watching or people that aren't even into papercraft thinking what's she talking about it's true and I know a lot of you will agree there is just something about them and you do mold your scissors so if you start cutting them one way then that's the way you should be always cutting them so you shouldn't then chop them change and flip them over I know which way my scissors are and the way that I use them so but yeah I'm going to have a bit of a scissor cleanup later on I think and get these all sorted out okay so next I've got this glue gun so those of you that follow me will see this one and I hate it is the cheapest one out there but I did have a really nice blue one and it has just got lost literally has just disappeared so again when they kindly said if there's any tools I'd like to you know use and try yes definitely this one I've seen the reviews really reviews are really good for it but the thing I like is that you get this stand so my glue gun I have to hang up which I don't like to be honest so let me just take all this out of packaging so haven't unpacked anything yet okay so taking everything out and firstly they give you an adapter which is brilliant so if you are outside of the UK or you need somewhere where you use a two pin they do send you the adapter which I think is really good so that's perfect for me for my holidays I'll be keeping order that one and then let me just undo all this okay so one of the main reasons I got this is because it has the on off switch this doesn't now I come into my craft room and the first thing I do is I turn on all my plugs and if I've left this plugged in I have and I scares me but it's gone on and I've obviously not realized and then I've gone to pick something up and I've caught myself on this and burnt myself and then realized it's on this gives you no indication that's not a light by the way that's a gem that's stuck to it so yeah for that reason I won't be using this anymore I mean I'll keep it as a backup but it does panic me whereas this one here has that on off so I can plug everything and have all my my kind of switches on but know that that's off and then when I need it I just need to flick it on it feels really nice again it's not until you get something that's much nicer it takes your normal standard blue sticks so there's that one all in there now and it has got a much thinner nozzle than what I'm used to now you do have this here so you don't have to buy this you can get it as a bundle but you can buy them separate but the thing is you find that because these wires are so thick even with its stand that's gonna have to really soften up for that to stand on its own so that's why I've gone for this so you get this rubber plate here which the glue anything that does drip would just peel straight off and then you have this little kind of it's almost like a deck chair style so you can just kind of adjust it to whatever height you want like so and then that should go in like so and obviously I'm gonna have to play around with that piece that all goes behind my desk so I think once it kind of softens up a bit but it's in there you can see much nicer in fact I don't need that that's what's stopping it I need to put that in there we go much better so once this is kind of in place you can see how it sits it looks so much better and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put Velcro strips on the back here and have it actually stuck just off to the left here just off camera and it will stay there as a permanent fixture so it's again once it goes on in the mornings when I come in to start my day yeah that's all gonna be ready to go so I love this it feels really nice let me just put it on okay so you see a light there that's just come on on the back which is great as well so it's just another good indication to know that it is on I'm just gonna see how long this takes to warm up okay so it's literally been a couple of minutes it's really really quick and I could feel I put my finger on it and that was really really hot so this one here takes ages good like five even longer minutes to heat this is instant so now you can see yeah it's actually nice it's clean that comes straight off so I always kind of wipe it off at the ends and you can see there there's nothing I'm not touching the nozzle or anything and nothing seems to be I mean I imagine if that's left on for a long time I can't imagine you know you can only expect the glue to kind of end up falling out but there may be a little kind of trigger inside that maybe cuts it off so yeah really like it this is a new one anyway you're gonna see the shoes now all the time so it has got a lot more precision than my other one so and it feels so much easier to actually use like that on this one I have to really push that down whereas this one here is just effortless so again if you do have any dexterity issues I mean I know there's others out there but this is the one I chose and really pleased with it so yeah I'm happy with that one guys I'd like to know if anybody else has it I like now that I can just turn that off and that light goes off so yeah but it's still plugged in so it just makes it a bit easier but I need to get rid of all this now clean it all up but yeah I like it okay then I went and got some Daisy May's Stamps and Dies now I really like her collection and I've got all of them apart from this one and there's one more which is the basket with the duffer deals in it I think but I really liked this one so it's this little bird box you've got the little blue tit friend stamps and that's the blue tit friend die set and the thing that I really like about this one is you get this lovely picket fence stamp and die but it's a really nice size if you just die cut quite a few of those you'll have a really nice picket fence so I love that idea and then you've got this lovely little kind of I guess it's a it's like a wooden piece of old wood and then you've got the hello friend to go in there but that would fit a lot of my other stamps as well and then you've got that lovely little wooden bird box how cute is he gonna look outside so yeah I just I love Claire Roland she's the illustrator designer of these and she's such a lovely lady I just really really like her her ideas so got that one and then this was her die set the circular die set and she's done a beautiful circle easel card which I enjoy making but she's got one using this and you just get that beautiful lovely kind of it's not scalloped it's kind of it's like a really uneven scallop kind of print but it also I like that you have all this stitching really sporadic it's not like perfect it's just all over the place and it's really I just love it like I said I just saw the cards that she'd made and I thought I really like them I love this effect and you see me all the time I'm always using my circle squares over all those kind of dies so yep they are definitely gonna get used but beautiful do go check out Daisy May designs because she does if you like sweet and cute things then she's got some lovely things okay next was the card making magic collection this is by Christina Griffiths and I love this so I have seen these a while ago I saw her actually demo these and I'll talk you through the dice first then I'll talk through the stamps so these are huge these are the 20 no sorry yeah A5 rectangular and A5 oval you get 14 in this one you get 13 in this one now the reason I love these is they've got the double stitch so they've got the stitching on the piece that you would die cut away from your card stock and then they leave a stitched kind of impression on that well what some people would have as their kind of waste and it's perfect for when you're making any kind of like shaker cards any kind of cards with a window and aperture these are great and they're also great for doing mats and layers as well so I'll show you just how big these are can't quite believe it you see you look at the measurements but it's not until you actually have them look at that so this is how it looks so that and the reason I love these ones is I've got oval dyes but they are not this I guess stretched like flat they almost look like they're squashed I've got almost more rounder ones than oval and the reason I like these are die cut the two smaller ones and you can see there how nice is that topper I've got lots of ones I can do this with circles but I haven't got anything I can do that that small with an oval so again you're going to see that a lot on cards and gift boxes and tags but the thing that is great about it is this is the what we would call the waste but can you see the lovely stitched detail so if you were to die cut lots of them and have them layered over like this you can create really fun cards with all of those different layers so when it's die cut that is what it does so it leaves your stitch inside here and outside I think that's great really really like that kind of detail on these and the fact you get so many the largest one I think it's actually even longer than my ruler here it is so this is it's looking like eight and three quarters so imagine that as a card lovely big card shape that's gonna look so nice so yeah they almost do fit on my magnetic strip just because it's over I can get away with it but you can see there how lovely are these so that's your packaging that's how they come they don't come with the magnetic sheet that is my own they just come in plastic but yeah really they're like your bread and butter that's the ovals and this one my largest one doesn't fit on my sheet so I'm gonna have to get a bigger one but you can see there's the largest and that's all of them there I just love how tight they are together because I've got a lot of nest dies and there we all they almost like miss one so you imagine they're like they're like that and it's too big a gap and I always have to kind of mix them with other kind of rectangles that I've got whereas with this one now you just got so many they're gonna work brilliantly together and this one exactly the same you can see there you get that lovely detail and then there as well so love it think they're really really good so again always as always everything will be linked below okay and then I picked these here so I've got this one I love sentiments in cards and I've got a few but these ones just stood out they've just got some really nice sayings and they're large so they're some of the ones I've got can be a bit smaller but these ones are just nice and big so they're perfect for inside your cards this one just says happy birthday to you on this special day it made the warmest of wishes all come your way wherever I am whatever I do I'm truly happy when I'm with you this this one I love this crafted card how made with love created just for you is sent to wish you happiness in everything you do there's nothing like a baby so lovable and sweet to make a family happy and to make the home complete I'm not gonna read the rest out you can see them all online but I just thought they're really nice you can never have too many of these things and because I kind of I go through a phase where I just use maybe these ones and then it's nice to put them away and bring out another one so I always chop and change and these things never date these are stamps that I will always always keep so they're investment stamps which is always good and then I've got this one which I love so you've got the happy male one which is great to just be stamped on the back of like your envelopes this one I think is brilliant which I'm gonna put on some of mine open immediately to release happiness warning contains pretty things a little something made with lots of love you've got mail special delivery just for you snail mail is the best way to send a little love they're made with love lovingly crafted just for you I have got that one I think that one was a freebie on or something similar was a freebie on a magazine love that kind of just that strip and then this is always good as well because it's got the bird you've got the arrow with the male or the you know the paper plane really nice little pen and pencil and then you've got your envelope there as well so love that one and it's just called happy male and that one's called large sentiments and then I got this one here which was just another I don't know what the name of these are it just says a two-piece die set but they're very say fashionable at the moment what a lot of companies are doing and it's these where you have the background cut so you don't have to fussy cut that kind of sentiment is already done for you and then that sits over the top and let me just cut this and show you okay so just die cut both of them so that's your background worst colors I've chose but it's just the scraps that I had so that's this one here and then when you die cut the actual sentiment you get this lovely here birthday wishes and then that will stick over the top and they just look really nice and then you can just pop some foam adhesive on the back and you've got a really nice top over there for your cards love the font think that's really pretty so yeah I'm happy with that one glad I got it and then I got the adorable scoreboard by hunky dory now I have had a few scoreboards the current one I'm using is the stamping up one but I'm not gonna lie I'm getting a bit irritated with it now because I feel that I keep kind of coming off the track when I use this one you will notice that I use this one a lot and that has become a habit and I want to stop using it because it is kind of blunting the end not that it matters because it's in my bone folder but it is my special baby so I don't really want to be doing that for this and yeah let me just show you so this is a stamping up scoreboard and it's brilliant like it does what it's supposed to do but I do feel that I I don't know I just seem to sometimes I hop over a track and it can be quite frustrating I've done it in tutorials you would have seen me do it but also the thing that I'm kind of getting frustrated with with this one is I lose feet constantly this one I've had to glue them that's glue in there that I've put in and this one here it is so bulky that you can see it's got this kind of overhangs and there is it's very very thick and it's not until you use things for a long time and then when something else comes on the market or you see something else and you kind of think I think that's gonna suit me better and that's this one here so the reason I love this so much is for three reasons so let me just take out the packaging okay so one of the reasons I liked it is the handle so I can hold this obviously we're not just want to move it around but also I can hang it which is what I plan to do but is that thin if I pop it on its side there we go but you can just slide this down the side of your desk or any of your furniture in your craft room or if you don't have a craft room you're limited on space this will sit perfectly down behind the sofa or anyway you see what I kind of mean you know maybe you use a kitchen cupboard to put some of your stuff it's just I think really good now the other thing I love about this is that you have inches on one side and you have centimeters on the other so you know if you do watch my tutorials and you prefer working in centimeters if you've got this scoreboard you can just flip it over and follow the measurements that I give you it's great for that and vice versa if I need to work in centimeters I can just flip this over during a tutorial and tell you what it would be in centimeters so I really really love that and then you get your tool so it's easy you got a little kind of well here so it's really easy to kind of pick that out but the great thing is like so that I mean that's really not going to go anywhere because the other girl you can hear it snap in there that other one it just falls out all the time so this looks really good now it's nice it is quite sharp so I'm hoping it wouldn't cut your cardstock let's try and score this here so let's do a few that score at one two three four and six it's got a much tighter score line at the minute I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing the nice thing is that it has the track it it starts like before you actually go on to the line so you get if you look on here you get a score line right from the very top of your card stock whereas on the other one my score line doesn't go right from the very top it starts just maybe like a millimeter or so just from it because that barbarian doesn't get right into the top of the card makes a difference definitely it's not too easy you can see it but now do a nice concertina fold with this one okay I've got no cracking yeah I like it oh yeah that is the adorable scoreboard and I do adore it I think it's really nice okay so that was everything that I was very kindly sent by craftstache then I've also purchased a pop into the works and I have picked up these wooden counters and these here I had a look at them earlier a wooden beads pound each now the reason I've got these is for example if you have your ribbon through your gift bag handle how nice would that be at the top to actually hold put your hands around or these could be at the bottom of your ribbon so your ribbon comes up around here and these are at the bottom so just above maybe the card stock I think they're gonna look really cool but you can also use them for feet as well on gift boxes and things like that so yeah you get how much you get there just as 50 grams so there's quite a few for a pound and also I'm kind of building up for my Christmas tutorials so I'm kind of you know getting the ideas in my head anyway because before you know it's gonna be here and then these like a set of wooden counters so I guess the idea is to use them for games but I like them for again using his feet so I've got the smaller ones but if you turn them upside down they make perfect feet but you can also have them as little people and also as counters so yeah so I've got those ones there you only get six is it yeah but I got two packs of those and you can colour these so these will I imagine take quite well to the alcohol markers but also if you put a load of embossing powder on them you can cover them in glitter and things like that so yeah I got those and then I picked up this paper pad so it's the three pound ones 12 by 12 230 GSM double-sided the double-sided sometimes they get it right sometimes they don't they've kind of gone a bit it's a bit annoying really because like these are okay love them that was one of the reasons I brought it because I love that watercolor kind of polka dot but then you've got these ones not that one that was okay that's okay I mean as in what they've used they're all beautiful I love all the images this one here so look got a really nice pattern there and there but why they've done them on the same paper it would have been better having like that on the back of this one so at least then if you had a gift bag and you fold over the top you would have that showing rather than this they clash you couldn't use those two together plus whenever you have like a more plainer colour it's easier to cut into and you don't have to decide what one you want to use so yeah that's that one it's frustrating me a little bit I've had others from them and they've been brilliant like every one they've kind of nailed like that one there I got that nice print but then it's got that print on the other side so still love it and because it's only £3 I'm not gonna Simone and you know too much that I love that reminds me of quite a famous designer so yeah brawn to that one they got these here like the bubbles that's really good you had like a bath scene or something and then they just repeat again so yeah love it love all the images but I just wish they would think about what ones they put together but that is called Summer Dreams that was everything from the works and then I think it was beginning the last week or the week before I was at trim craft head office and Claire very kindly gave me this permafix tape it's brilliant it's one inch thick 24 mil you get five meters so it's you know it's your red tape but the thing with this is I've noticed a big difference this is so sticky like so sticky I can't believe it you only need a little amount I mean yeah this isn't something I would really use for mats and layers it's going to be great for adding strength to more 3d projects and gift bags and things like that but when you compare it to my other ones which are great still like these but yeah I don't know where this one's come from because it is super super sticky so this is the dot and dab range they do do other widths as well so you don't just have to have the one inch but I love that and I love that it is so thick so yeah again I will link that below because I think it is now available in the stores then my mum picked me up this one here I can't remember where she said she got it from I'll put a little pop up here but I really like it and she the idea she had was to use it as a handle on gift bags so if I just open this one up but for really fancy gift bags how nice for that be as a handle so yeah you get five meters and I know it was only sheep I think a pound she paid so again I will link up there where it came from then finally I sent a letter to tunic teacakes or tunics and they really kindly they just they sent me a lovely letter and just said or reply and said you know we really like what you've made because I shared with them all my tunics teacake tutorials and they asked for my address and they sent me this and it is a tunics teacake oven glove oven mitt I love it I was so excited when it came through the door look look at this it's so nicely made it really is lovely quality and on here they just put so it says Thomas tunic limited chocolate biscuit manufacturer with compliments regards and so thank you and that will be cherished and put in my kitchen so yeah I absolutely love it so here is everything I got this week again a huge thank you to craft stash thank you so much for allowing me to choose this product it's product that I genuinely love and have had an interest in so I'm really looking forward to using it and sharing the tutorials with you all love my tunics teacake gloves that's like a bit special because I just yeah love it and can't wait to use my scoreboard really really looking forward to that one as well and yeah just all of it I just you know how much this is my passion so yeah hope you like it all the links will be shared below ask any questions give me any kind of you know comment on anything here that you may already have what you think of it I'm always interested to know what other people's thoughts are and yeah thank you for watching I'll be back tomorrow with my normal Friday tutorial until then have a great day and I'll see you all again soon bye