 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today, so I've got a few things to share with you. So I popped into town, I've tried not to go in there too much, and obviously with a pending full lockdown looming, if that's going to happen or not, I thought I'm going to go in, get a few bits that I need to, and I've actually brought a few Christmas presents as well, and I popped into the works. So I picked up these, I saw, I've got these larger silver ones, which you would have seen me feature in shaker cards, and I've also got those in brown, and I've got lots of sequins, but they had these little kind of jars for a pound, and these are smaller silver ones, but they're just the discs, and these just are so, I prefer these in my shaker cards because they're so flat and smooth, they just move really freely. Sequins are lovely, and I've got lots of these, but because they have a bit of dimension to them, they can kind of build up on top of each other and get a bit stuck, and I find, you know, things like this just move a bit better. So I picked up, they didn't have a great deal, and they had more shapes, I was hoping they had some red ones, but they didn't, but I did get these lovely kind of pinky, purpley coloured ones, very similar to these ones here, so I mean they would look quite nice like mixed together, so I can have a play around with them, and then like I said, the silver, and then I've got the gold there as well, really nice, these are going to get used through Christmas in different projects, and stuff, but I thought for a pound you get a lot in there, and they come in these jars as well, so they're easy to store, and I can pop them onto my little pegboard shelf. So I picked up those, then I picked up these here, and I just, I'm going to be making some kind of wreath in 3D projects and things like that, this is £1.50, I just thought they were really good quality, I love the pom-poms anyway, and then you get the holly leaves, which just on their own would look nice with some different little red balls or something, so I've got other bits and pieces I can mix with this, I mean they've got thread with this, so you're meant to stitch it all together to make a pom-pom garland, but I'm going to probably just use them, you know, on their own and kind of break it all apart really, so for £1.50 again I just thought the quality was really nice, and you get quite a lot in there, and then I picked up these two paper pads, they're a pound each, they're very similar to the other Christmas one that I shared maybe about four weeks ago, which I picked up from the works, you would have seen me use it in my Daisy May makes, it seemed to work really well, with that I used it on a gift box and a few other things, but I saw this one and these colours are a bit more vibrant, again they're those greens and reds which I really like at Christmas, so I just was drawn to this one here which was like that candy cane kind of look, you've got a snow scene there, you've got some stripes, sorry zigzags, bit of a kind of plaid look there, love this one, and I don't think they're very Christmassy, you could use these throughout the year as well, I think they'd look quite good on some masculine makes, so although they are the Christmas colours, I mean that stripe background you could use on a nice spring card you know, so you've got a snow scene there with the red background, those are little yeah little Christmas trees, so that one obviously not so much, other zigzag there and then you've got some, yeah I guess there's snowflakes, just thought it was really nice classic Christmas for a pound, they're going to get used on my kind of favours, little boxes and stuff that I like to put into my friends gift bags, so yeah I picked up two because I think I only got one of the other paper pad, and I wish now that there was two, and I went in there to look for that one and they didn't have any more left, so I've gone for this one now, and then I saw these which I've never seen before, and these are clear sentiments, and these I just think, if I grab maybe the back of this, there we go, they're going to look really nice on acetate, so I thought on shaker cards and any kind of apertures that I might be doing with just a window, these are going to look really nice stuck on there, so I'm hoping the adhesion, the stickiness is really good, and yeah you've got Merry Christmas on that one, well why did I think there was happy Christmas on some of them, maybe I saw something else, so yeah Merry Christmas in the gold, and then Merry Christmas in the red, I thought they were really nice, you get loads on there 24, again for a pound, but I just like that they were clear, I've not seen anything like that, so I grabbed those, and I'll share the links because if you don't have a works nearby, they do have an online store, they don't ship internationally unfortunately, but anybody you know in the UK, and you know maybe yours don't have these ones, they may well be online, so I'll link those below, and then I picked up some of these, I like these ones because they're just a little bit bigger, so if you have got any bulk to the cards, which most of mine do, they fit really nicely in these, I've just picked up these, you get 45 for 150, and then I got them again, this one here, so you get A5, but I prefer that for my 5x7 cards, because again if they've got the dimension, and the envelope's always a little bit bigger, and they just fit nicer into these, so again from the works it's the craft place, and yeah, just always handy, and then as I was paying this was at the till, and it's an LED flushing party necklace, now I've seen these, I've seen them over you know a couple of years really, so I just take it out there, so what I thought, this is going to look nice in my shadow boxes, or any again my 3D makes, I'm going to bound to do another Christmas cottage or something, now not all of them light up, which I didn't realise at the time, but I still think it looks nice, so it's all, this is all you've got to kind of conceal is this small little battery pack, but when you, so you get, I think there's four different settings, so you can see it's every two, so you've got one, then you've got two normal ones, then a light, then two, and then a light, and so on, so you've got the flashing, then you've got that one, that's quite nice, and then slightly faster, and then they stay on, so again I just thought it was quite nice, I gave it two pounds, it was bargain, and when it's off it looks really nice as well, because it's obviously all coloured, so yeah just thought, I'm not going to use it as a necklace, I'm going to use it on some of my 3D makes, so that's what I picked up from the works, then I popped into the pound shop, they've got lots of their Christmas stuff now out, and I picked up these, they're the rice lights, I always use these, but they call them micro lights, I use them a lot, they're great for cards as well, these ones do have the bigger battery pack though, so not so much, but you can get the ones with just the disc batteries, so there's a lot flatter, and they're good in your cards, but these ones here you would have seen me use last year in the cottage, in my advent calendar, in my big Christmas village, these are the ones that I like to use, so for a pound you can't go wrong, so I picked up two boxes and no doubt I'll probably need some more, they also look nice in things like wine bottles, and just wrapped around other kind of candles, and things like that that you might have at Christmas time, so they are very handy, and I like that smaller light, and then I've got a couple of bits from Amazon, so these are two separate orders, and then I've got another one to share in a moment, and these are the wax seals, I really like these, I've got lots of them already which I've shared, and I've done the tutorial on them, if you're interested I'll share it up here, I like to do this once I've kind of put the card in the envelope, seal it all up, and then I finish it with a wax seal, but I had no Christmas ones, so this one here is the North Pole official seal, so if you are maybe sending a letter from Santa to your children, this is a perfect one, because it looks like that official seal, but also these are great not to just put on envelopes, you can use them on scrapbook layouts, you can actually use them on the front of cards as well, they look really nice, so that's the the stamp there that you would then put onto your hot wax, and then when it dries you take this off, and it will have this impression on your wax seal, so it looks really nice, and then I picked up this set here, so I've got one, two, three, four, five, six different ones here, so this one is a Christmas tree, it's a really nice one, then I have Father Christmas or Santa Claus, you can just see there, again they look much nicer when they're actually you know printed onto the wax, and then this one here says best wishes, I think I might have that one actually, oh no I think mine's with love, and then this one here is the reindeer flying, just see it there, and then I have this one here says Merry Christmas, and that kind of traditional font, and then I have this one here which is the snowman, I really like that one, so I haven't used them yet, but I ordered the other ones, I ordered these from the same company I had ordered before, and they were all perfect, so I've got no worries that they're not going to print, now what I probably do is once I'm kind of ready to write in all of my Christmas cards is I might do a video of me sealing them and then you'll get to see how these all work, but this one here I believe was $11.99, something around that price possibly, this was a little bit more because it was sold just on its own like that, I think I paid maybe $6.99 for this, but again these are things that are going to last you forever, the axels have been around for absolutely hundreds of years you know, so it's not something that I would ever get rid of, and it's just that final perfect little touch I think on your envelopes it looks really nice, and you get the boxes there, so these make great gifts as well if you've got any crafty friends and you want to send them something, I've got a big box that I keep all mine in, so I will add this to there in a moment, and then I stocked up on some more of my labella refills, so these are the tapes that go into the labella machine, I've got the Brother P Touch, this is the D210, and I have shared a video where I show you me using this and organizing my stamps, something like that, it was a while ago, I'll link it up here if you're interested, there are loads of other great labella machines as well, my mum has a different brother one which is more of a handheld one, it's like a taller rectangle kind of shape, but this one here I bought when I was abroad, ironically I've had to label my labella, so this was all had Chinese writing but I just went onto the brother website and I was able to just you know work out what all these meant, and it's really really easy to use, prints out from the top, you just take the back off here, and this is where your tapes go in, but the reason I'm showing the tapes is you can get the brother official tapes, which are obviously a lot more expensive, but these ones I just got off of Amazon and I brought these, these last a long time to be fair, I haven't actually had to do this order, you get five, I think it's £11.99, and the last time I purchased them was probably last year, but because I've obviously recently moved, I've got a new craft room, I've been organizing and you know kind of relabeling things, so that's why I've got these, but this is now going to last me such a long time, and again it's just much much cheaper this way, it's just like my, I've got the, I've got a Canon printer, I don't buy the Canon inks, I go to Tesco and I buy the Tesco ones, so they, they work just as well, I buy the black on white, so it's just the black white writing on the white, but you can get different colors if you wanted to, all on there as well, so again I'll share the links below, but that's what I use, I get a lot of people sometimes in comments and stuff, they're like, oh where'd you get your labelled from, this is linked on my Amazon storefront, which is on my Facebook page, I'll link it below, because it's also in the description box as well, if you've missed it, if you're interested check it out, it's a great machine, I've had this for about three years now, and yeah it's great, no problems at all, so I thought I would just show you those for those of you that've been asking, and then I got my order from Craftstash, and that's you've been waiting ages for this, and that's not down to Craftstash, Craftstash you know sent it out really quickly, but it got delivered and then I wasn't in, and they didn't leave me the note, so I didn't realize it had been delivered till about a week, and then um yeah I had to chase it anyway, this is what I brought, so in preparation for all my Christmas makes I've got the big tub here of the very fine silver embossing powder, so this is the Cosmic Shimmer, and it's the detail embossing powder, so this is perfect for your sentiments, and it's lovely, so I've had the smaller one before, but I wanted to get the bigger tub, so this is the 100 ml, and it's the silver shine metallic, so again yeah, those of you who like to do your embossing, I've got this one here, it's really nice, and then I've been looking for a really good red, proper really nice Christmas red, and I found this one here, and it's the Nouveau, and this is the Sports Car Red, so as you can see there it's just really bright, it's just like my nails, so and that's the colour I've been after, so I picked up that one as well, and then I've got this here, now I want it, it was for these more than anything, these are lovely, and they're just little flat back kind of gemstones without the adhesive, but it was these, again it's those flat discs, I want them for shaker cards, and I also want them to have as little embellishments on my cards, and they're tiny little hexagons, they're ever so small, but just to add that little bit of shine and sparkle, and I had them in my car for a while, so I went and got them this time, I think they may have been reduced, I can't remember, I have to check, but they're lovely, really really sparkly, and again there's so many in there, and then I finally got this, so I missed out the first time, I had it in my basket and it got taken, it was sold out, and this is the Paper Discovery, and it's the Lost in Music, and this is the Musical Panels die set, and this is nice, but it wasn't for that, I wanted this here, so I've got an idea on how I want to use it, I'm not going to lie, I did think it was going to be bigger, but it does clearly say on there the largest die set, and it says the size, I just didn't bother reading that because it's not, I just don't, but it's still a good, I'm still pleased with it, and it's great, so this is your piano, so I've got the embossing folder which came in the Papercraft Society box, which you'd see me use in that two-way trifle card, I think it was, but I wanted the die, so here it is, and then that's the other one there, so that's the Musical Notes, which is still lovely as well, but I just think music and Christmas go hand in hand, they work really nice with cards, so I'm going to be using this with all of my other Christmas bits that you're starting to see me share, so yeah, that's that one, so I know quite a few of you have got it, and then I got my Wallace and Gromit dies, so I'd seen these before, I love Wallace and Gromit, it's something I've watched for many, many years, it's always on at Christmas, they do a lot of Christmas specials, and it's just brilliant, so I've got the stamps from last year, which were in a magazine, I believe, and I do love it when they do these official things, like the Father Christmas, the Raymond Briggs, you know, I've got the Snowman, and I've got the Father Christmas, and you've seen me use them, but these are the dies, and these are the buildings, so you've got Gromit, you've got Sean, you've got Wallace, and you've got Feathers and McCraw, it's funny because Sean the sheep, I had the nodding Sean the sheep in the back of my car for many, many years, so it was really nice to get him, he looked just like that, and his head was a wobbler, but I'll just show you here, so basically, look at that, so tiny, but it will, I know they look great, so I've seen the inspiration, but basically you just die cut all these pieces, so there's the main body, that's his knitted kind of sweater there, and all his body parts, there's his legs, you can see, so you cut them like on black or brown, there's his face, oh no, yeah that's his face, do you see there, there's his ears, you've got his nose every bit, so they're on these plates, that's the zigzags for his jumper, those are more details I think for the jumper, that one there, I'll have to look at the picture, can't see what that one is, there's his face, there's his wool, you can just make out his eyes, so there's everything there, I do love these kind of dies, I like building the scenes, so I'm going to build the characters, and I'm going to probably do them together, so I do Wallace and Gromit on a card together, I might do something quite funny with the penguin, sorry not Wallace and Gromit, there's Gromit, Sean, sorry, I might do Sean, Wallace and Gromit all together on a card, I think it's going to look really nice, maybe some kind of pop-up card or something like that, but yeah I love these, and these are for me, these are like collectibles, so these are timeless, lots of years to come, these will still be enjoyed, so yeah I was glad to get my hands on these, so once again I will share the links, I did get these when they were on sale, I don't know if it was a one-off sale and then it goes back up to a normal price again, but again I will link them for anybody that's interested, and then I finally got it, I got the hot pink, which is ridiculous, I'm going to be completely honest, I don't need this at all, I have the purple one, which I'll show you here, which works perfectly fine, but this is the limited edition and it's always been sold out, and it was sold out when I originally wanted it, so when I went to buy this, this was sold out, I wanted this one, so I just thought okay I'll get the purple one, and then everybody keeps saying oh I've got the pink one, I've got the pink one, I was like I want it, so I've got it, always good to have a backup anyway, it's my favourite scoreboard, I like that it's thin, it fits perfectly just down the side of my desk, you have centimetres on the back and you have inches on the front, and it will also make boxes for you, so this is your box lid and then this is the box base, and it explains all that to you anyway, it's the adorable scoreboard by Hunky Dory, so if you do like to make your boxes and lids, I never show that on my videos because not everybody has this scoreboard, but when I'm making boxes off-camera and you know I will use this just for the kind of speed really, it's really quick to do, but yeah and it's got a handle there, so it's great for kind of grabbing I guess, and it's just an all-round good scoreboard, I really like this one and you see me use it all the time, so you'll see me flip between the purple and the pink, so I'm just going to keep them side by side because they take up no room at all, but I was super pleased to get it, you also do get the mini which I'm tempted to get because I do have the UK Tools one, but I'd like the two the same that I'm used to you know, because sometimes when I go to take the UK Tools one it's weird that I'm so used to this and this stylus and then I have to use a metal one and stuff, so I think maybe I'll see it might go into the sale at Christmas time, they might have an offer on it, but I might pick up the smaller version as well, but I like them, so when you like something you know if it's what you want then get it, so that's what I did, and this is the latest issue of Simply Cars and Papercraft, so it's issue 210 and you get this amazing Altenew stamp set, the Altenew ones when they do the free gift they always sell really well, Becky the editor she asked me to do a commission for this to do kind of gift wrap ideas which I'll show you in a moment, but you get this wonderful stamp set and then you have these layering stamps, so you've got your your base then you've got your shadow and then you have your detail, these sprigs here are beautiful and these sentiments are just lovely, look December to remember I love the different fonts mixed you've got Christmas memories, Believe in the Magic, joyful traditions and holiday fun, really nice ones for scrapbook layouts as well, joyful traditions, you could have a nice picture of something that you do every year with your family, December to remember, so great if you like to do your December dailies as well, this is a really nice stamp set for that, so it doesn't you know if you're not a card maker and you like your 3d makes or your memory keeping this is still going to be a good one, and then you have your dies, you've got your die to cut the ball balls, you've got the die for the bow, you've got your little bit kind of berry detail there and then you've got the stars and more shadow detail, really good set you won't be disappointed with this one, and then just to give you an idea there of the inspiration, I'm just going to take that away because there's a bit of glare, you can see that lovely card on the front that's been designed kind of a build up there of all those sprigs, you've got the lovely bell and you can see the layers there, that was one very simple packaging idea that I'd done, so I just wrapped a present or it was a box in white paper and then I stamped directly on top of it and put some twine around, so I'll just show you the packaging ideas, here we go, so craft your own Christmas again trying to get rid of that glare, there we go, so I stamped this paper here, you can see all the different layers to get that real real 3d looking baubles or bell and then I've just built up a little kind of tag there and then I've made this bow which I'll show you how to do here and then these were some of the ones that I've done, so you've got a gift tag, you've got this exploding gift box which you'll see in a moment, I've decorated the front of a notebook, so you know if you are wanting to give just a nice token gift, making notebook covers is really nice and then there's that present that you saw, there's a close up of that gift tag, you can see the berries there that I used, I used glossy accents on them, set it with an eyelet just to give it a bit more of a finished look and then again you can see that lovely stamp there, I've done this which was a paper looking gift bag so I used the craft card and I used some twine for the handle and I heat embossed all of that in white, again there's a close up of the notebook there and then there's the exploding gift box, you can see when it opens the sides all fall down, it looks great filled with loads of sweets like a quality street or celebration, something like that and then again just the lid there, then there's that one again there, very very easy to do and it looks nice as well, you could also do that on the packing paper, so if you buy your parcel paper you can get the rolls of it, very inexpensive, one year for Christmas, I wrapped all of my presents in brown paper and then they all had really nice thick red ribbon around them and I made gift tags and they look beautiful, I think I've got a picture, I might have even shared it on my page many years ago, so I do try to do different every year, I've got some vintage paper which sometimes I flip to from year to year so I'm still unsure what I'm going to do this year, I'm sure I'm going to have to incorporate some of my new stamps I think, so we will see, I will share it with you all at some point and then you're you know on to all of your inspiration, there's lovely cards, I'll give you a quick look at some cards as well using that stamp set, here we go, so Ingrid, she's done some beautiful ones here, that lovely vibrant green, you can see you can make a wreath, love this one here with the glittery bow, again you can see here having the baubles hanging down, just wonderful, really is nice so that is the issue 210 and again there's the lovely stamp set that you get with that one then just in case you've missed me shouting about my latest release here it is, so I have the these are the dies, these are the stamps and these will go with your wiper and your slider dies which were my first two releases, so when we launched Jerry and Horace, loads of you were requesting for more animals and that's what we've done and with them you get these props, these photobooth props, it's fantastic so here's the two new stamp sets, so you've got your Christmas critters and your animal antics, you can see here we've got Eve the elephant, we've got Marty the meerkat and we've got Heidi the hippo and then here we have Bobaer, Rudolph and Penelope or P the penguin, super cute, I've shared all of my samples and I will link that up here in case you haven't seen that one, these are all available over on craftstash and there's some deals at the moment you can get some bundle offers and then here you have your photo props and some people a few people said that they've just brought these because they've got other stamps that they want to use them with and they've got other ideas and these are great for like scrapbook layouts as well so if you've got photos maybe you've been to a wedding and they've had a photo booth and you want to do a scrapbook layout these props would be really good to kind of you know document that photo really really fun and I've got a tray here I show you with just how some of them look so you have you've got your naughty and nice which I just think are adorable you don't have to put them on the sticks the sticks I brought from the pound shop they're just toothpicks they're just cut off the ends and you can see them on their own they just look nice little embellishments you can put these on your cards I've got the lovely cute little Santa's hat there and I've used some of the fluffy stuff by Cosmic Shimmer you just apply heat to it and it fluffs up so it looks like snow or wool and then this one's really cute this little unicorn headband you've got the ears there glittery horn you've got cowboy hat pirate's hat love the birthday hat there and I put one of the little polystyrene balls on the end you've got a beard you've got bows so that's the party ones these are the Christmas ones I've used a lot on cards and so on but like I said if you haven't seen those close up check them out they're also all on my Facebook page you've got the tie there there's another hat with a fluffy pom pom so very very fun thoroughly enjoyed putting all them together and yeah again it will be linked below and you have some dies that will cut some of the props and then you have the dies for the critters there so there's dies to cut all of the outline of the animals you've got the balloons there some of the sentiments will cut as well you've got the present die that's his scarf a bow but you can put you can mix and match as well so really good fun and yeah you'll see me using them along with my big Christmas release which is on the 3rd of November on Hachanda so check out that one and I'll share some more stuff about that near the time so okay so that is everything as always I will try to link as much of this in the description box below and I'll be back very soon with really fun tutorials featuring all of this wonderful new product thanks for watching bye