 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So I thought I'd do a what did I get? I've got a few things that I've accumulated so I thought I'd share them with you before I kind of put them away. So first of all I picked up these really really cute little mini crackers. So I picked these up from Chaplains. It's just a local bit of a hardware kind of like arts and crafts just does everything really. It's a kind of tube and cheerful place and they were £4.99 you get £8 but I'm going to you know I want to collect these bits now because I'm going to be starting to think about my Christmas makes and I just thought they were really cute as a little kind of maybe just a stick on the front of maybe a gift box or gift bag you could have them hanging down. They do have little gifts in them they're just those tiny little charms you know just something cheap and cheerful again but and I just thought they'd look nice maybe if you're going to make a wreath a big you know door wreath you could have these all stuck on there as well. So if you see these little things they're really handy and they're just nice little fillers so I picked those up. Whilst I was also in Chaplains I picked up these it's just Halloween 20 gift bags obviously with everything that's going on in the world at the moment I'm not sure how many trick or treaters will be out and about if they're even going to be really be if they're even going to really be doing it because you know who's going to want to really take things from someone else's house so I don't really know what I'm kind of going to do with my Halloween stuff this year but I'm going to do some of these for family and have a few kind of treats at the door if anybody does knock I mean we'll have it all kind of cleaned I'll go to my mum and dad's because they always get loads of what they have done in the past had loads of people knock on the door for trick or treat and it's so nice but yeah I just don't really know how that's going to go and if it's really it's not really a wise thing to do is it let's face it we need to be socially distancing and and so on but you never know there might be ways around it we might put something maybe outside the door with a little hand sanitizer next to it or something I'm sure there's still ways that we could do something but I've got them I'm going to you know do some little things for family anyway and we'll see how it goes so that was those I also just picked up some more of these which is the 5x7 Salo bags these were 229 it's that Craft UK brand and you can pick these up online as well lots of the you know craft online craft stores have them and then I had some bits and oh actually yeah I got this as well this was in a charity shop it was 20p and it's a adhesive rubber I mean I'll show you my one that's my one there's not too bad I just pick all these bits off when it kind of builds up but I mean that will still last for ages but I saw it then I thought for 20p so I'm going to keep it in the packaging because I don't know I don't think they do dry out they just stay rubbery I mean mine's still very very soft I imagine if it's kept near sunlight and stuff like that it would dry out but I thought for 20p I'm going to grab it then I've got a few bits and pieces from Craft Stash so I mentioned these I've had these now for about two weeks and I love the card making magic verses so these are perfect for outside the card but mainly for inside your cards so you know I know lots of people print off their inserts and have them kind of all cut and ready to kind of put in the cards I to me I just can't even be bothered to do that to be quite frank so I like to just quickly have a stump and you just get so many here so I already have three of the other verses and you see me probably use them in most tutorials and if not I do stamp them after I've made the card but this one here is your Christmas verses and this is the birthday verses these are the two newest ones there is another one as well there must have been a reason I didn't get it I don't know if I was too keen on the verses or I didn't think I was going to use them as much but you can see I've already used this one here so it says wishing you a day of happy moments and a year of happy days but I love this one here at least you are not as old as you will be this time next year you've got hope you have a delightful day and a year full of joy and love here's hoping your birthday is full of delightful surprises then you have all of us from me everyone you've got happy birthday on its own there with love on its own and a few other ones so just they're just so handy so picked up that one and then also this one here which is obviously Christmas base but you do have sent with love we've got happy new year which is obviously handy you don't need tons of those and I only probably send out maybe a handful of new year cards seasons greetings these ones are nice wishing you sparkle wishing you cheer for a bright and cozy Christmas and a peaceful new year from our home to yours at this special time I mean that you can use you know for for a multiple of occasions really thinking of you at this special time of year again that one could be a special anniversary you know it could be another you know kind of moment in time that you acknowledge and then you have have yourself a very merry Christmas and get all my words mumbled up there but anyway you get the idea I think that's pretty much all of them on there really handy and just something that I use a lot I also picked up these they were dead cheap and you get 400 and they are your stamen detail and I want them to put inside the centres of my paper flowers when I make them you can see them all there crafters companion and you can colour them too that's why I've got the white ones so I can just you know make them match anything I need then I picked up these ribbons here so I've got the purples and these kind of teal blue colours they were just ones that I didn't really have and they're just a nice quality again from craft stash pretty inexpensive you get quite a lot on there I can't remember how many it said you get it's not listed on here it just says assorted colours some of those blues are quite nice for Christmas cards as well so I picked up those two then I also picked up some card stocks to match so I have this one here is the adorable scorable you would have seen if you watched me do the launch for the terrific towers this was the one that I done the six by six in so it's the truncle turquoise by hunky dory really really nice card stock the 3d makes I just love that colour then I picked up this glitter it's gorgeous this is the tonic nebula purple a4 250 gsm you get five sheets there single-sided low shared acid and lingham free I don't have this kind of deep purple colour it's so nice so I've got that one which is electric purple again that's the tonic 250 gsm high gloss mirror card acid and lingham free and I've got this another adorable scorable royal purple and then I've got this one which is gorgeous this is 220 gsm so it's a great card weight size and you can still use it with your 3d makes but it's the wisteria such a nice really soft lilac colour and it's the a4 size and that's creative expressions that's one that is used they put as used by sue wilson just some nice ones and that one you get 20 so I mean they do vary in quantity so I've got 20 in that one I think this one is 10 these ones you get a five and then again that's another adorable scorable which I think is 10 so yeah just some card stocks there and just some kind of different colours but they're going to work really nice for Christmas snow scenes and things like that as well so I'm just kind of you know stocking up where I need to and then I also in the charity shop picked up these jars whenever I see them I grab them these were 20p each so they only had the four I've given them a clean and I've just put some of my embellishments in them and I have them on my Ikea pegboard and I have quite a few now some of the sizes vary but this was the other lot that I brought from the same charity shop you see they're the same size jars and I just love that I have these right in front of me so when I just want to add little extras onto cards or if I think I'm going to do a shaker card I've got some Christmas bits there little baubles these are my little water droplets and I have some little stars and little angels they're those recent Christmas wooden embellishments that I shared in another watch that I get I've got snowflakes actually what I'm going to do is probably sort them so I have all my Christmas on one and then kind of other you know occasions and colours and stuff on different ones I've got these gorgeous um lovely life faceted gemstones there and then that's another one that I've got for example these ones are taller there's a couple of different ones you can see there how they differ in size but you can see again all the sequins and stuff on them I do my shaker cards and I've also got things like these were the paper discovery I sorted them out so I had the shells in one and the fish in the other um and then I've got yeah things like this little Christmas pom-poms again I need to kind of get all the Christmas stuff together these ones here all these like little sequin bits in there um so they're just really handy I really like them they fit nicely in these trays again they go on my pegboard and I just like having them all in front of me so I grabbed those one I saw them and then lastly I've got some magazines so I have the latest issue of Simply Cards and Papercraft um and it was again a very pleasant surprise to see my card on the front and I am so so pleased it's a gorgeous freebie I really did love this one I enjoy most of them to be fair because it's just always something a bit different but this in bottom folder with the Christmas tree and then you have the decorations here the little dies and stuff and then you have this stump set so that was just one example there where I've created a diorama card and then you also get these papers and you've got ones with like the scenes in the background you've got this one here so you can have the Christmas tree you've got snowflakes you've got this one here really nice so I'll show you the other makes again I never really show too much because I always like it to be a surprise but I do like to show the free gift because I think sometimes when they're in these packaging like this it's in the supermarket and you can't open it it's really hard to kind of sometimes see exactly what you get so that's why I always like to show the magazines and lots of you have said that it's really helpful in helping you choose whether or not you want to get it so I'm just going to show they were near the front yeah here we go so I done so you always get loads of inspiration it's a really thick magazine but I've done seven in total so here's some of them here so I've done this kind of silhouette effect I've done a bit a little bit of masking that's using the embossing folder and then the presence along the bottom that's the main card on the front which was that diorama and I just cut lots of the trees here this one this is that stamp and then I done this bridge fold and I just used the papers as the main kind of focus on that one and then I done this lovely easel card with the vellum embossed Christmas tree and then there's actually a tea light inside there show you how to make that one and then the other one that I done was oh yeah I done the triple cube so just a nice way to show that again it shows the papers really well and then I done this one here which is a box is it a shadow box I can't remember what I called that one it was a shadow box I think and I've just done a little bit of the embossed tree there and then used one of the papers again with that scene to kind of build that card so it was a really nice one you again I always like to show a real kind of mix of cards so that's something there for hopefully everyone's taste and you can see how you can use your free free gift so that was the issue 209 of simply cards and papercraft okay and then I have here issue 190 of papercraft essentials and with this one you get this free 112 elements and it's the Highland collection and it's perfect for those masculine makes so you get this gloss paper with all the papers at the back there sorry is yeah gloss papers at the back of the pad and then you start to come into all of these kind of pop out pieces here so you've got these pages where everything kind of sits together and you've got two yeah you get two of each there so you got the pheasants then you've got that Highland cow or bull you've got the hair and you have the fox and then you have the stag or the deer there as well so it's a really nice one the great colours perfect autumnal colours as well one of the contributors there has done a pencil pot that's my card there actually I just realised and then you've got some more makes along the bottom here and again I'll just show you and here's the ones I've done so you can actually see that pen pot was done by Vanessa she's also done a post-it note cover and then I've just done some different card shapes so you've got a centre pop out I think that one was I've done an easel like a z-fold or an m-fold this one was nice there's actually acetate behind there I just built up that scene that was a really big 8x8 one just showing all the different layers I think that was it oh there's some stuff there from Jeanette some Christmas makes so I haven't had a good look through this yet so yeah that's what you get with that one so for again those people because it all comes in this case here so it's really hard to really see what's inside so hopefully by me flicking through that you're able to get a bit of you know a better idea really so that is everything okay so as always our link is much of the product here and below in the description box as I can and yeah I'll be back very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye