 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Graph. Thank you for watching my video today. I just wanted to come in and just just kind of go through all of the kind of social media platforms that I have where I share all of my projects. So it's just a huge source of information for you guys and it's all free and I get a lot of people asking me questions on how to find measurements for something or they've lost a tutorial. So what I thought I would do is go through each of the social platforms that I have. So I've got YouTube, I've got my blog, I've got Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. I do have Twitter but it's just a feed from Facebook. I don't actually physically use it myself so I'm not going to touch on that today or show any more that's it. You know it's there if any of you are on there but I don't actually really do anything with it. But the main thing for me is YouTube. Now I can't show you this bit because obviously it's my own channel but if I click on the craft blog down here and next to there so here's their title so next to that you have subscribed or if I hadn't it would say subscribe and it would be highlighted in red. Now if I click that bell off it tells down here you'll get occasional notifications. If I now click the bell on it says you'll get all notifications. Now I get a lot of people asking me or you know they say oh Sam I don't know how I miss this or I don't seem to be getting your videos coming through. If you subscribe to a lot of people on YouTube like I do it works in the same way as Facebook. It will only kind of show the ones that you maybe watch a lot and it might be that you subscribe to me and you enjoy the tutorials but you've also subscribed to other people since and you're enjoying theirs as well and I kind of you know just end up going further down the line. If you hit the notification bell that will bump that channel up so you know whatever channels you're really into go and have a little look because the other day I went through and I actually sorted out a lot of maybe older channels that I subscribed to I unsubscribed from a lot. I turned off notification bells for you know a few of them and just kind of because I just found sometimes I'm scrolling through and I'm thinking none of this is really inspiring me so I went through and had just a bit of a clear out really. It sounds awful but I think you know I taste change over the years and things that I may have subscribed to years ago. I've actually got no interest in whatsoever now so I just went through and kind of sorted it out and now I'm finding that I'm getting all of the YouTubers that I really enjoy. I'm seeing all of their tutorials so do go and have a little look and just see next to you know who you've subscribed to if you've turned on that bell or not because if you turned it on it I have two little lines either side okay so just go and have a little look at that one then also if you head over to playlists so if I go back to my channel they've got me featured there which is really nice I can just click on myself there and then turn that off that's only coming on because I've got it set in the format for new people that join so that's what they will see. If you've already subscribed to me you won't see that welcome video pop up but along here I've got my home I've got videos playlists and community channels and about. If you click on playlists it is that there are tons and tons of playlists where I go through and I basically pop every video I make into a different playlist that it will obviously sit in so if I've done a fold flat gift bag I will pop it in the fold flat gift bag playlist so if you you know you're thinking oh I know Sam made a really cool fold flat gift bag if you want to get to it quickly there's only 13 there if you click on that go on straight away here on the right hand side the video will be for the whatever the video is that's at the top so here it says the huge gift bag and down here it says huge gift bag so that's what that video is but then it will play the faux wooden handle then the curved top and so on and here you will find all my fold flat gift bags so that's one way to get to something quickly if you're thinking oh you know I forgot where it was and that saves you scrolling through all of my youtube videos all you have to do is is go on this one here then if I just come back out of that one oh gosh my skippads pause get off of it there we go and then there's there's loads more so I've got mini albums there I've got my what did I get so if you kind of think oh I remember Sam showed a really cool glue or something that she purchased a few weeks ago go into the what did I get videos and father's day ideas mail cards it's all there I get just kind of broken down so you don't have to scroll through a really really long list this is a bit more easier to kind of manage so that's how I organize my youtube and then on community it's kind of a little bit like a facebook wall I can just do a little post usually what it is is just a well the last one I done was two months ago to just say I'm gonna have an impromptu week off so it was just so that some people messaged and they're like Sam you haven't posted today I hope everything's okay so it's just a quick way for me to kind of let you guys know that yes everything's fine I'm just going on holiday or there I put five months ago I put sorry everyone having problems with today's upload and then I've done a happy new year so I don't use it a lot but it's there it's just a kind of handy way to communicate with youtube if I need to and then that's channels that I subscribe to and then just a little bit about me which yeah you can read if you want but they are the main ones I would say for you guys or more so the playlist one to look at is that one there because it's really kind of helpful and obviously check that you've got your notification bell turned on next to my name as well so that's youtube then if I go onto the blog that sits nicely with youtube so every time I do a blog post you if you are on my email list here I can't believe I've already got nearly 5100 followers now but if you pop your email address in there and hit follow you will then get an email when I do my blog so whenever I post on there you will get a little update and from there you can go to the youtube video because that's always linked into every tutorial every blog post that I do now lots of people message saying you know oh how do I find the measurements for the video that you done for I don't know the lanterns say that I done last Christmas some bless some ladies they said oh I've just spent ages scrolling through all of your blog posts you don't need to do that so this is why I wanted to come in and kind of share a few kind of just little tips really on how to use all these things on my blog if you're on the desktop you will see this search bar right at the very top on the right hand side if you type in there so for example lantern and then if I tick if I click enter straight away it will come up with the mini lantern and if I scroll down it will also bring up the bigger lantern there now it's also bringing up these Chinese lanterns that I made and I think that's it yeah then it's just the rest of my sidebar there so under lanterns I've got three tutorials and that's the quickest way I would say to go to it or you can go on to YouTube go to playlists go to Christmas select the lanterns and then if you go into the description box it will say blog post for this tutorial and it will take you straight to this as well what I do is every time I do a blog post is I will tag words that are relevant to that blog post so for example if I pop in here jungle and then it should bring up monday's video or sorry blog of the jungle card that I created okay then if I pop in here mother's day and it should bring up every tutorial I've done for mother's day so here it goes right about this is 2017 and it's got these lovely boxes that I made you've got cards I'm not sure why that one's there because that was not mother's day I need to look at that one it's got the teacup and saucers a pop-up card that I done the tote bag it's got the stepper cards bags there's more as well it's got older posts if you click on that it will go down further so anything you think of and you you only know a word I'm trying to think of some other examples when I'm on the spot like this let's do floral so I just pop in floral there so every time I do a blog post I try and think of what words I would use if I wanted to search for that so here we go so there's that floral gift bag with the card and gift tag that I done and then if you scroll down there you've got that pretty easel stand card where I done the floral design that one there the gift bag got a little keepsake sake storage box stunning squash top gift bag any size origami faceted boxes because they've got a floral print I think the other one I done within that tutorial had a floral design they've got floral designs so you kind of get what I'm saying here so if you just don't know the name of the tutorial but you know a keyword type it in there and it more likely will bring it up for you now I am aware that if you're on your mobile phone or your tablet devices that search bar will not be on the right hand side it will actually be at the bottom of all of these tutorials now unfortunately because I have so many if you just keep scrolling it will keep bringing more and more up so what you need to do is if you're on your tablet or your mobile phone so if I go back to my homepage you just click anywhere on that mixed up craft it will take you back to your homepage which is this if you click on the first tutorial regardless to whether you want to do it or not just click on it and then if you just scroll to the very bottom I know at the moment it's showing it there just pretend it's not there you scroll to the bottom of the tutorial right all the way down got quite a lot in this one have a great weekend sorry I've got loads of windows opening and it's obviously recording the screen so it's a little bit delayed and right down here it will have search now it's saying leave a comment it's got comments there but it will have the search bar down here and then type in what it is you want to look for so I know it's a little bit long winded doing it that way for the minute but I have asked the guys that do all of the the blogs and stuff and I've just said to them can they have a look at mine and see about how I get that moved so that's what's being done there also you have all these drop downs you've got themed projects and under there you know you've got all kinds of stuff so if I click on Easter you've got the two there you've got 2017 2018 so it's just going to if you just click on Easter it will bring up all of them regardless and there you go straight away it starts to show all of my Easter tutorials from all the previous years so yeah I hope that's answered some questions for you know those that have asked also here I've got my card fold catalogue I do need to go and kind of sort this again because right now this list look it's so slow it's so long and I need to go through that so that they're kind of like more drop down so I think what I'll do is I'll have pop-up cards and then you would click on that and then it would bring down more just so that that list isn't so long because yeah that's ridiculous so I do need to tidy up a few things but I just wanted to kind of show you you've got card ideas so fun fold cards you could go in that way as well but I don't think I've been tagging that one I need to check then I've got the creative card series and the creative card series 2018 and guess what series is starting tomorrow you've guessed it creative card series 2019 will be just below this and these are really popular a lot of you do enjoy it when I do these series so yeah look out for that one and yeah so that's kind of it really with the blog so I hope that that's yeah like said answers some questions then I've also got my instagram so if any of you do have instagram and you haven't yet followed please do so I this is just a nice pictorial kind of sharing platform so it's just pictures of everything that I make so sometimes I add extras and little mini videos and other bits and pieces there that was quite a funny one I think that was when I went to trim craft um yeah head office actually no that was on my way home that was beautiful that was it was a really nice sunset so I thought I'd capture that so yeah it's not it's wow most of it is um and why is it telling me now go to post oh there we go anyway I don't know what I'm doing let's get back oh I'm not used to doing it on the desktop usually I have my mobile phone but there you go so yeah that's instagram and then Pinterest is again something else that I pin everything to so I know loads of us love to use Pinterest it's a great great way to um kind of catalog and or log all of your inspirations and things that you think I love that oh I'm going to pop that in a little folder so I remember to do it you know whenever so yeah I've got my boards here masculine themed tissue box covers Father's Day graduation cards pyramid fold anniversary engagement these are all of my boards I've got tons and um yeah you can follow them so again I'm seeing this because it's my own page but if you just type in mixed up craft on Pinterest it should bring up my face there with my pink hair and you can just click follow and then it's the facebook so I've got my facebook page so this is my private page where I will also then post my pictures so the blog post automatically pins or posts on here for me because it's a link that's set up with my blog to facebook and then I will then go and upload the photos separately because I know some of you like to save the photos so they're on your mobile devices but it's just a nice way for me to catalog my photos and it's also back up if anything was to happen to my blog my facebook has all of my photos saved on it and vice versa so it's just a nice way for me to really store things for free so yeah that's the facebook page and then from that also with the facebook page you can have the option obviously you need to like it to be able to see it but then you can either follow it as well if you follow it it works the same way as the youtube notification bell so if you don't click the bell on youtube then you will only see occasional uploads whereas if you click the bell you see everything it's the same for this if you click following you've got the c first so if you just make sure it's got that on then that means you'll see everything defaults just standard how it would be with like most things even some of your friends that your friends with you can follow them so who some people always say oh i don't think i've never i never see if you're online or not it's probably because you're not following them and then you've got unfollow so if you're not interested but you want to still like it i mean i don't really get that because i think if you don't want to follow it then why have you liked it in the first place kind of thing because most of the things that i've liked i follow because i want to see it so i guess it's like youtube you know our taste change over the years so anyway that's enough rabbling that's the page and then the group is mixed up crafters and that is for you guys so head over to there join it and um you do have to answer two questions now i know that if you are on the phone or even your i think your tablets as well i don't think the questions come up i'm sure i remember reading somewhere that the two questions that you need to answer to be approved don't show so if anybody wonders why they get declined that's the reason why you need to go on to the desktop facebook and join it and then you will see the questions i believe so i think that's what it is because i hate to decline people but it's worked really well because it's a really safe and fun environment and i hand on how it's not even a year old yet we've got over 3 000 members and i've never once had anything negative happen on this group i've never had any nastiness i've never had any anything vulgar said i've not had people spamming it or uploading things they shouldn't because everything gets vetted by my mum me and my sister so it's if anybody's unsure it's just a really safe place plus it's private so it means that if you have made a card for someone's birthday as long as they're not a member of the group you can post it and they won't see it so don't ever worry like you know if you've been making something two months in in advance because sometimes people post and they're like oh finally i can share this you can share it as long as they're not a friend you know they're not in the group as well because obviously then they will see it but say it's your birthday card for your husband and you're in this group you can post it he won't see it because it's a private group he has to be a member to see what goes on in the group so yeah there you go i hope that's helped those of you that have asked these questions i hope it's maybe just yeah shown some of you some things that you didn't already know and um yeah thank you i appreciate all the support all the followers all the likes all the comments everything you know how much i am yeah i'm very very very thankful so tune in tomorrow for the start of the new series i can't wait and um yeah i've got lots of cool cards to show you and thank you for stopping by thanks again guys see you soon bye