 Hi everybody it's Sam here thank you for watching today so I've got a few things to show you. First of all is the foam tape that I like to use. Quite a few people always ask me which one it is because it always tears so well. I kind of get like three different ones. This one here is from Chaplains which is just an independent kind of homeware store down near me but I've also purchased from the Pound Shop which would be like your dollar stores things like that where else the range they do it as well but I always get the cheap one. I always get the one that's like a pound. It is very sticky so not everybody actually likes that and they want to be able to cut it with scissors so you can get those nice thick like the 3m ones but this is great for me it's speedy and I've just had it literally from as early as I can remember so it's just the one I always get. Also use these are the pads that you see me use all the time so I've got more of these than I do the rolls but you get all of those and then there's the roll so I just stick it on there and I just tear it off and that's what I use so it's just the cheapest one but I guess my cheap one might be very different to your cheap version it could be you know not very good and it might not tear. It's not a brand I mean it's come from obviously a factory this one is a star stationery just the cheap and cheerful ones nothing fancy and it works really well for me. Next I went back to my favourite charity shop and they had some more stuff in their craft bin so I saw this stamp here which is an older stamped by Chloe it was only a pound has a really pretty set of butterflies and I don't have anything like this so it's a butterfly or it's butterflies within a butterfly but I love that I've got all the different sizes and they're going to be easy to cut so there's like two looks like there's two designs like these three and then I guess these ones I don't know I haven't stamped them out yet I'm just going to add them with my butterflies and then when I decide to do a butterfly project I'll be reminded because I'll see this one there so then I'll give it a go but yeah for a pound and it's from I think it says here oh 2014 so yeah it's an older one but still lovely and it's photopolymer I would imagine yeah it is nice thick sticky stamps so that was a bargain and then I picked up these ones here both a pound each now I don't know who these were originally by if anybody knows let me know and because I do like to you know label them when I put them into my little wallets when I store them away I just thought they're just a little bit more masculine but also I love all of these kind of hinges to add with my gift bags so you've got like the little kind of pull I possibly could be like a door knock you know knocker for a door but I thought it looked like the little rings that I added onto the pullout drawers on my last gift bag but things like this I just think if you embossed that onto the card and then scored it through the middle to fold it that would look like the hinge on the side of a bag or something so yeah you might see that featuring in the future handbag series that I'm currently working through and then there's this one here as well but I love this stamp it says number and then it's blank of blank so if you're doing mini albums and things like that I thought that would be a nice addition and instead of made by it says hand made by and then hand stamped by so I just thought they were both a little bit different and then you've got the letterpress and the roller in the ink and this one here says created by which I thought was nice as well and I like that it's framed pretty ornate scissors again they'd look lovely embossing gold so yeah and then you've got a tray there but those were both a pound each so I thought I'm having those then there was these three packs of card now they're all the same in each pack so there are eight sheets of this one and then on the reverse is this here I'll take them all out actually so here's the first one so you can see that lovely effect now these are great to take photos of your cards so if you're doing any flat lay photos these are lovely backgrounds but also for doing any kind of like Christmas crates and storage boxes and things like that near other time I'll be using these but they're all the same so there's eight sheets in there and then you've got that lovely kind of it's almost like chipped paint on the wall it's got a little bit of script at the bottom there but these are by studio light so I know it's a good brand so I've got those ones and this one's called industrial 2.0 this is that one and then there's this one you can see that design there it's the metal what's that pattern and then you've got that lovely orange thing again they all work together but how nice does that look so and then there's this one here again great for taking photos of your cards like a cool background level that chipped paint again it's all that industrial 2.0 and then on the reverse is the brick which is again another really nice background so I just thought they were a bargain they were a pound each oh no sorry those were two pound each a little bit more but I know that's still good really nice quality they smell amazing and they're brand new you know they've never been they all were in their packaging still and everything so I'll be using those you'll probably see them in some backgrounds when I'm taking photos of my projects then there was all these bits just loose in the little baskets they've got this one here which is by craft box and this is fibre paste now what I thought this is going to be good for is Christmas cards when I want to have it for snow so I'd be interested to see how that works it says it's a dimensional paste perfect for 3d sculpting and adding crisp texture to a project keeps the shape given contains fibres water-based protect from frost closed jar when not in use so you'll be able to add ink to that and colour it but it's not even been open so I know that should be fine because sometimes when you buy medium second hand you don't know how old they possibly were when they were opened so this one was still completely sealed so that should be good to go and I'm not going to open that until I am until I want to start using it but yeah www.craftbox.co.uk and then there was these four these are special effects rust paints I just thought they're going to be nice when I do do some of my scrapbook layouts but also when I do some of those 3d projects that I want to distress then I thought these would be nice again they were 50p so it's always good to have these bits and when I do some of my canvases mixed media canvases these are going to be nice you've got rust gold there is rust oxide rust penny and rust brown and they are the cosmic shimmer they've all been opened but it's a paint paints are usually you know you're okay with those I took the lids off you know the screw lid and they were all fine inside they're still running and everything so but yeah 50p each I thought that was a bargain then there was also this which was 50p and it's the dawn bibby creations glue I used to have the larger jars of this it's very similar to arc glitter glue and cosmic shimmer acrylic it's got a quick grab um I just saw 50p it's just a handy one for just traveling and stuff so and the bottles were always handy to keep anyway then this one which is a copper embossing powder this is by ranger now I do have a copper one but I've got more of a goldie copper this one is a brown copper so again it's going to work really nicely with those papers and those stamps that I showed you so it's just you know you you embossing powders it's always good to collect them and if you can find them for a pound then it's a bargain again embossing powders you do have to be careful with this has been used and opened some embossing powders I think I've got some and they do react differently the older they get so if it doesn't work it's you know it's not the end of the world but I think it's going to be okay and then I got these now I I'm using embellishments a lot and I'm going more to the ones that don't have the adhesive on them so they're just like the ones that come on you know the big kind of um strips but these ones are just all loose so I'm going to add them to others because I've got some smaller sizes of these but again these were cheap the amount that you've got and then I'll put something else in those little pots because they're quite handy as well and then lastly I picked up these wonderful stamps from the latest daisy may designs release they're just so much fun as soon as I saw them it just reminded me of me and my friends and kind of the the funny antics that we've got up to in the past and I've decided that I'm going to make a special birthday card using each one for each of my friends and I started off with this one so I've already used this one and there'll be a tutorial coming up very soon you've got the two crazy ladies on the space hoppers and then you've got some really nice sentiments there just hopping by to say hi hopping mad at hop till you drop hopping you have a lovely day they're just really lovely images there Claire is just an amazing illustrator this one here love it this is time to relax you've got the two ladies there at the spa it's the one soaking her feet the other one's playing around with some lemons or orange slices or cucumber slices actually they would be um I love the straw in the bottle of champagne or prosecco and it says you don't look a day over fabulous it's time to relax and pamper yourself and these are really nice sized stamps as well so they're a real focal point on your cards and then this one here is yoga class twin that frown upside down have you hugged yourself today life is all about balance you can hum and then all the sounds I'm not going to do the rest of that just yeah brilliant and then this one is possibly my favorite because I've got some very funny lovely memories of me and my friends over the years in hot tubs um so I need to decide which one of them gets this one because we've got all there at the same time with this particular funny story but this is called gin o'clock if you have a crate if you have crazy friends you have everything let the fun be gin friends who play together stay together and then keep your gin up and I just think they're lovely they the women look great I love their expressions love all the little bubbles glasses on their head and the glasses in their hands a little towel there and everything really really lovely this one here this is really funny so this is cycling granny brilliant can't wait to color these and then there's this one here this is at the salon and one of my friends in the group she's a hairdresser the gossip girls let's catch up what happens in the salon stays in the salon let's have a gossip life is too short to have boring hair I love that she's got her champagne in her hand looks like she's showing off her bling ring there and then the other one's got her magazine but they're having a good old chit chat together and then so this one here's born to shop and it's got this lovely big image here you've got the two ladies and you know driving home after a very successful day of shopping and then you've got her scarf blowing there again it's going to be really nice to color that car just need to decide what color and then you've got sentiments born to shop but forced to work shop till you drop shopping is cheaper than therapy I've been shopping all my life and still have nothing to wear that's so true but they're just really lovely I think this is all the ones in the release so there are the seven here I couldn't see any other ones I mean Claire has a huge collection of stamps if you've been following me for a while you will see that I've you know I've got quite a few of them I've used you know a lot of them over the years they're classics to me these are things that would never go out of fashion so it's I like to collect them even if I don't use them straight away I know that I will these ones I never get rid of so yeah just thought I would share those ones with you because I know there's a lot of Daisy Mae fans that follow me as well so it's now another week and I've picked up some more craft supplies so I thought I'd pop them into this video so I was recently at B&M and I noticed these packs of cardstock now they had all the primary colors they had silver and gold mirrored card which I've already got from there before and I've shared that in some of the what did I get but the white stood out to me it's a 210 gsm so it's it's the lighter end for our 3d projects but you can still use that weight I tend to use more of the 220 up but for cardblanks anything above 180 really you're fine with so I thought this is going to be good for mats and layers but also it's really smooth which surprised me because I thought usually when you buy the kids department kind of cardstock it's it's a bit fluffy it's got a grain to it and you know it's for kids to use but this is actually surprisingly smooth now I haven't tested it with my colored pencils yet but I think it's going to work really well so I'll just take it out of the plastic there I mean there's not much I can really show you it's just white card but it's £2 from b&m 210 gsm you get 32 sheets so it's and sometimes I look at the weights and then I feel it and I think that feels lighter but this does it's got a nice you can kind of hear it's got that cardstock feel to it but it's a really smooth cardstock so I'm excited to use this one because at the moment I always use my 300 gsm for stamping because it's just the one that I've just kind of found myself always going to but I love that card and that's the craft store and I've got some more card from there in a moment which I'll show you but for this for also doing prep for my shows and samples for £2 for 32 sheets I think is a steal so if you've got a b&m near you I promise I don't think you're going to be disappointed with this at all because like I said it's really smooth how it's going to hold with alcohol markers is another question I think it's going to bleed I don't think it's going to hold the color I mean give it a go but if you're using your colored pencils I think this is going to be really nice again I've not tried it with the blending solution yet but I will start using this in some of my live craft alongs so you'll see my kind of thoughts on it a bit more then so I picked up I just thought anyway even if it doesn't work brilliantly with the pencils and you know coloring mediums which I'm pretty sure it will but it's going to be perfect for mats and layers so that's you know it's certainly not going to get wasted but I'm hoping it's going to be really good for coloring and then I picked up the black now this one's a different kind of mix this feels like craft card so I'm not sure if you can see it it's it's got a tooth to it it has a grain but again it's black so this is going to be more for my 3d projects and and for mats and layers but it does it feels like it's almost like it's dyed craft card but it's not I mean this is I'll rip this piece this is yeah it's color core so it's it's not been you know it's completely dyed yeah two pound I think that's a steel 32 sheets the whole pad of that feels much thicker than the 32 pad of the white in fact I could sit them together and you can really see the difference almost like this is so that's exactly 32 sheets but you can see how much thicker the black is compared to the white hopefully that's picking up there so yeah I think it's always good to share bargain cardstock that's good especially if you're just starting up um you know two pound you can't go wrong and yeah hopefully you'll be able to get hold of this I think this is new I've never seen this hobby world kind of in this cardstock all packed like this in mine and I've been to mine for quite a while now um so whether this is a new thing and there seem to be a lot more cardstock in the the b&m by me whereas before there was very little so it'd be good if they do keep this because I'll certainly stock up I also went back to the charity shop from where I've already showed you stuff and there was more and so I picked up this organza ribbon just a really pretty brand new rolled 50p and it's got let's say how many meters on that one but I imagine I take mine all off the spools but yeah there you go there's loads on there so just a really pretty color so hopefully I'll get that on some summer spring summer kind of makes then there was this one here which is the wonderful day triple banner stumps 50p tonic studio you've got your dies you've got two dies there your outline and your detail die and this one says have a wonderful day and this one says many congratulations to you you can see how they look there and there's there's two dies so just a generic kind of saying so that's going to work on on many projects and on the fronts of cards and then I picked up some more of the flower foam but this is from the craft box so in here you get your stamens you get these lovely faceted flatback pearls I love that one it's like a matte olive green really different that's just got the craft wire and then so that's the shape I guess I mean I'm not going to do what this is for I've got my dies and I'll make my own flowers um I've got a bit of a love hate relationship with the flower foam but I do want to use it and do more with it so these are big sheets and what you do with this and I've shared it in one tutorial where I did the it's like a border which using some bright rosa dies but you fold it up um again depending on the size of the die but now you could put your dies on there and it will cut through all the leaves because this is green it would cut through all of those layers because it's so thin I think this is like 0.5 mil whereas your thumb foam is like 2 mil and you can stretch this you can apply heat to it all that kind of stuff I've got here the green kind of burgundy colour cobalt blue nice purple and then the cream and then this one was just two pounds it didn't have the extras and this is the saw base set blue she got the lighter blue the same purple yeah then you've got the lighter pieces there you got the cream that's like an off white and then the blue oh and then it repeats so I'm gonna I'm gonna cut these down to a four in fact I'll probably just cut them in half because I think the the width is a four it's just the length they won't go into any of my storage so I'm going to trim those down but flower foam is expensive it's you know unless you can get good deals with bundle offers it can be quite pricey so I thought that was quite a bargain so I picked that up I was getting some storage from biology and I picked up these and I think I'm going to use them on my handbag gift bags they're going to look really nice on like the handles and these look great coloured with your alcohol markers or even heat embossed you just cover it with your versa mark and then sprinkle the embossing powder on and then just heat set it so I just thought they were going to look kind of like the hardware really for the the gift bags so 99p quite a few in there they did have a circular one but the hole was quite thin whereas that I think I can you know with a large needle I can feed the ribbon through so they should work quite nicely and then I took advantage of the recent 21% off site-wide on craft stash and it was to kind of celebrate the longest day of the year so I stocked up on I think now if I need to go back through my swatch but these are the last four of the distressed oxide colours that I need and then I've got the whole set so I was really pleased to get these because I've gone on many times and they're always sold out so these were all in stock so I've grabbed them so I've got the salvage patina bundled sage black soot and antique linen so I'm going to get those swatched and added to the rest I picked up some more of the red tape I to be honest I don't really mind the brand but I like the you get more on the smaller rolls so for example here they've got that small white in a ring that's what you want to look for because this is what you want the most of is the red tape the bigger rings it they look like a bigger roll they can be a bit deceiving so always check how much they're offering these ones here you're getting 15 meters and this is the six millimeter and this one here's the three millimeter and these are the ones that you see me you know use a lot and I like that they have the little kind of carrier sheet there to keep them in because they're very sticky either side but that lasts a long time so although they are more I think these are three pound a roll whereas you could probably get three of the other rolls which should then work out to be the same kind of meterage so just check how much you're getting on the rolls don't always think the ones with the bigger white ring because I used to get those I used to get them from every crafts a pound which is now changed to every crafts a bargain I think and it was still a bargain to a degree but actually it worked out that I would get more and it was slightly cheaper when you buy these ones so just look around just check how much you're getting on the rolls but I've just stocked up on the the red tape then I've picked up this white dye ink now I've been looking for a really good white ink for black and to stamp on to black card and to craft card so I did um ask the question on one of my lives and this one came up and I saw that craft stash had it so I'm going to do a quick little test I'm going to use one of these stamps here so this is they have a wonderful day let's pop that on there I would probably use a stamping platform but this is where to get a nice opaque intense white colour but so far so good that looks because usually what happens is they go they just absorb into the card stock and they go quite translucent needs a few more layers but that's not bad it's better than I thought so I think if I use my stamping platform I could probably get a you know a more opaque white colour but I don't think that's too bad it's better than the one I've had so that's a good sign but there's also another one I can't remember the name of it I've wrote it down somewhere and I'm looking for that one I'm going to buy that as well because I want to get these now in time for Christmas because whenever you look for any kind of white or Christmas colours you can never get them around Christmas times it's always best to get them before but it's not seeping in and that's dry so that's not rubbing at all and this is on a smooth black card stock so there you go so that is the hero arts and it's the it's just called white hero hues then I got some of the glitter jewels so this one here I was from craft stash and you can see that it's your holographic hexagons and I've used that on a few cards and I love them they're really nice and they're completely flat this one here these are clear again I'm thinking Christmas but I just loved that you can pop them over your cards they're not going to take away from whatever's behind it's all going to come through but you're just going to get that lovely shine when you move the card aren't they gorgeous so so pretty but again I'm thinking snow you get absolutely tons in there as well so again it's going to last me a long time but those ones are called iced flakes or iced flake and these ones are holographic hexagon yeah really really nice so I picked up those I picked up this creative stamping magazine I've seen a lot of people using this one and I totally forgot to buy it myself and so when I was taking advantage of the discount I thought right see what the magazine's there and then I was reminded of this one so this is issue oh there's me on the front I didn't even know that's quite funny um this is issue 96 and I've seen a lot of people use this with my swing dies and it was blonde cards and crafts Simone bless her she made some beautiful cards and she had the hammock with the palm trees swinging so she had the palm tree tree palm trees either side and then the hammock swinging and it looked lovely and I was like I need to get that one love this one here the deck in you've got a little picnic basket love the lady reading there you've got the sand castles there bucket and spade the shells the tree the bench and then these are nice we do not remember days we remember moments memories are meant to be made not forgotten and then the happy retirement remember when love this really nice and then crafty individuals have done these I've got nothing like this at all and I think they're lovely and you know this this to me this scene I think would look really nice on a sympathy card for someone who's lost their dog I don't know what that's when I saw that I it screamed more of a sympathy card or thinking of you you know if the if the family's maybe going through a tough time that's obviously a great one for sisters or best friends but that's what I saw when I I am you know saw the the inspiration for these so I'm going to sit down with me cuppa and and have a look and yeah win 750 pounds worth of crafting goodies from me to surprise and there's the amazing Claire Roland with her collection which I now have which I'm super pleased with because I love it okay so that's that one and then just finishing off I've got talking of Daisy May I've been wanting this one for ages I've got my own background papers I love background papers it just takes out so much of the hard work for you because it's it's like an instant scene created and these are just going to go so well with with lots of my collections and the dies that I've got so these are the village green scenery paper pads isn't that gorgeous I can imagine some of my bee stamps and dies with this one and then I've got my woodland animals they're going to look cute the bunnies and stuff with this as the background so you've got it's almost like this is the original and then there's like a watermark so this would be nice as the insert inside the card because you could easily write your message over that so and then again you've got the richer and then you've got that slightly faded one of the one with the tree and then I think it repeats them yeah that's the same so this one you get six designs oh so they're classing one two three four five oh so it's okay yeah to me that's more three designs but in two different kind of looks I guess but they're classing each one as a different design anyway I'm pleased with them they're both really nice so eight by eight which is always a good size because it covers most of your card sizes and then I picked up this cardstock in the 12 by 12 so this is the craft you case this is the 300 gsm white card that you always see me use is by this company I buy the block of a hundred and you can usually get it for around 699 so I got the craft in 12 by 12 which I don't have any craft in 12 by 12 only the a4 more of the black this is lovely because it's smooth again great for 3d projects and then the white in the 12 by 12 250 gsm 225 gsm and 280 gsm so just again I'm kind of stocking up preparing for new releases and Christmas I hope you've enjoyed this what did I get video I will try and link these kind of bits and pieces in the description box below and I'll link to Claire's collection as well so you can check that out if you want to as always thank you for watching if you haven't subscribed then click on my face which will be popping up now and then you can subscribe to the channel and if you hit the notification bell you'll be notified every time I upload a new video and also if you want to carry on watching some more tutorials I'll pop some nice card designs in now I'll pop actually some Daisy May ones so you can see some of her other kind of designs and like I said she's still got lots of stuff on there so go check it out thanks for watching bye