 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So I have the latest papercraft society box and this box is by me. So it seems really weird to say that and those of you that have followed me for a while know that I was a subscriber to the box when it very very first launched and here I am now with my own kit and it's just a really surreal moment it's just bizarre. So they've all gone out to everybody and I've received so many lovely messages and comments from people saying how they love the box which I'm really pleased about so let's just dive in. I have had a look and obviously of course I know what it is anyway but it's you know you see it on screens and you you choose samples and things like that and then when you actually see it like this it's just it's just so different. You'll see lots of the things that I like so we've got the holographic cardstock here which catches the light it's like the rainbow effect. This beautiful polka dot it's just all those brights and lovely colors that I you know use regularly throughout my tutorials. So this box I won't be getting rid of usually I just flap out the boxes and I use them to post things to other people but this one I'm going to keep it. Now I will be doing three exclusive tutorials for all of the papercraft society members so you will get that and I've also done the some of the inspiration in the booklet so you probably won't see me do a lot of this on my YouTube channel like I do with the other kits so because there are those exclusive ones already going out to other people but hopefully I'll be getting the Olga box soon because I haven't got that one yet and that was box nine so they are all up to date now as well so this is the time when you should usually get them within the first slightly maybe into the second week of the month is when the boxes arrive so you open it up and inside it says here a colorful life is a happy life the brighter the better that's me if it's not bright I'm not happy I just love color so let's go with the envelope first just pop that one to one side there so here's the envelope and as I always say the patterns and the colors are an indication of the papers that are inside so here is that envelope or open it up so here it says don't forget to share your makes with us hashtag papercraft society and then inside here so I've got it's all about the detail add finishing touches with those smaller dies and I was saying this I think I know I do but those smaller dies sometimes get missed and it's those that really do kind of finish things off and you know I love to build scenes and it's it is all about the detail for me I really enjoy those things then I've got here sometimes more is better don't be afraid to go crazy with color and in here it says color your images and build your scene so first of all we've got the dies now this kit will allow you to be able to make slider cards and I show you exactly how to do them I'll show you some of the inspiration in a moment so you know it's really straightforward to do but basically this middle one here this is your mechanism okay and it's that that's the main piece that will give you that slider card and you can do it on a six by six five by seven you know even larger it's entirely up to you then you've got all these frames here which will add to that you've got this frame here which will die cut in fact if I bring the stamps out I'll just pop them on the back of this coffee paper here so you can see so you've got this lovely bouquet here and that die will cut it out you have the wand which will cut out the wand here you have the this here is the bottom of the stand for the cake so it's a two-tier cake and you've got your cake stand there you have your lollipop which are the candy cane this is the lollipop you've got a small one there you've got your candles and you have the bow love that bow and then this one here is your icing so again I'll show you the inspiration but that fits perfectly in there and it can create the icing on your cake you've got streamers you've got the exclamation mark there because I've got yay for today and you've got pull just one more slice another year celebrate and then these here will decorate the cake but you can also use them you know as just nice borders you've got a vase there what else think that's everything so yeah really nice stamp set and that will all correspond with this and this is the die that says yay as well because I say that a lot yay so let's pop that back in because I've showed you the stamps now as well then onto the papers so the papers are lovely so you've got two in that stripe two in the confetti two in this falling polka dots really nice it's my favorite one that's why it's gone onto the box and then this one here which is on the envelope here and it's just the stripes with the stars just really colorful and everything matches with the card stock which I'll show you in a moment and then onto here these are your specialty papers so you've guessed it we have some silver sparkle card and this is non-shed so you don't need to worry about this going everywhere and then some holographic card I had to put it in it's just brilliant it's really really nice I like this one because it's almost stripy so yeah lots of fun with that one pop that all back in there so that's everything in your envelope okay let's now have a look inside here so we've got a lovely orange tissue paper okay so first of all we've got this rick-rack trim that's a mouthful I've got this beautiful very vibrant yellow color and I just rather than just a standard ribbon I wanted to have something a little bit different and with you know more of a shape and this is really good for you know adding a trim onto your cards and again you'll see that in the inspiration how we've used it but it's really nice and you get a load on there it's quite a lot then we've got some rainbow sequins so there's loads of different colors in there so you can pull out individuals or you can use them all together you know and make shaker cards and things like that then for the card I very regularly maybe a few times a week people ask me how I you know match colors and how I choose colors so I thought it'd be really handy to have a color wheel on your card so this is color theory and the way that I always remember and I ask them to actually put that in here is opposites attract so it says here when choosing your color schemes opposites really do attract start with your chosen color and consider various color relationships as below I you know I could go into this in a lot more detail but this is just a very basic way but basically if you have a red the opposite color would work well with it so it's saying here this real nice green color but different tones so then when you go around here you've got more of a an orange red that would work better with more of a teal green and then you've got your purple here to the left that goes better with more of a lime kind of green so you do need to you know kind of look at the tone of the green that you have or the shade of the green but it's just if you start to think in your head opposites attract and you have a color wheel it's really quite simple and then once you get used to that then you can start looking to it into more detail because also colors that are next to each other work so you can see here we've got this little grouping of the oranges so they all work really nice together just like if you were to choose that segment there they will all work well together so it's a really handy card I think a lot of you will find this really useful and yeah have a little look at this and just keep it close by and it should really help you when you come to do your coloring and just choosing your pattern papers and things like that and then we've gone for color pencils now I always use color pencils and I think lots of people that follow me have started to enjoy coloring a bit more and I don't know I'm taking that off because you don't need to but rather than do the ink pads you know the ink cubes even sorry you can just I think I'm already finding I've got quite a few similar greens and quite a few similar pinks and stuff and I just thought rather than have more ink cubes let's do some pencils these kits are going to be going for months and months and months so you're going to have plenty other options you know opportunities to get those cubes but I just wanted something that you could have even more colors with so color pencils seemed a good choice these are really nice they are lovely to use and again hopefully once you start using them do sharpen them don't use them like this resharpen them and then just kind of you know do a little test kind of color and then start using them but yeah they're really nice you've got a nice variety of colors there and that pink is gorgeous so yeah that was my reasoning for the pencils so hopefully you do enjoy using them you've got the nice little box there to keep them in otherwise you can just add them in with your others as well that you might already have there's me really strange seeing me on the front of the booklet there and then you've got your colored cardstock so again let's have a little look here so this will match with the pattern paper you've got these are your primary colors you've got a lovely red lovely green purple yellow that's not quite primary I know and then the orange but they're just again actually when I look through my monitor they don't look as bright as they really are in real life they are just such fun colors so that's your cardstock and then onto the booklet so there's me all happy on the front and um let's just go through it so there's a little um contents there and then here is the contents of your box so you'll see everything that I've just showed you there this is the main card this is my favorite I absolutely love this if I just bring it up a bit you can start to get an understanding so this whole thing slides up so this is all 3d and then it reveals your sentiment here and that's on a 6x6 card and I just think it's wonderful and you can see there that rickrack trim which is just used as a border there and you can see how it looks when it's flat it's a really fun very bright card you just see there my lighting and there's your pull tab at the top and then I give you step by step instructions there how to do that card and you can again see the the vibrant colors there with those colored pencils and the holographic card that I've used you see the yay there really fun this is another one this is on a 5x7 and I've used that lovely bouquet of flowers coming out either sides and then I just used like the sequins in the centers of the ones and also on the bottom here and then when you reveal this one it says celebrate and then you've got another year and then you've got the presents there and everything again lots of fun then there's a little Q&A five minutes with Sam and then a little peek in my craft room which has now changed and then we've got here this is done by Emma so she's on the design team so she's done a gift bottle well it's a gift card and she's done it as a bottle um tag I'll just read what it says there and I think that's a great idea so that's the other idea is you have this die here with the little thumb pull there and you can pop a gift card inside and then this one here is also done by Emma so she's just done you know just ways to use those dies so like the pocket and that you don't always have to use it like that and I love how she's used this really nice red with the card stock there and using the the dies I think that looks really nice and then see that's my latest collection I see everything there and then this card this has just been so popular I thought it'd be really nice to do with the kit and it's the swing card so um lots of you will be familiar with this and it just worked really well with this kit um and you can see there how I've used it with the present and it just says another year and then yay for today inside you can see how it looks on the front there really nice then I also done this gift tag so you can have this hanging off of the side of a gift bag or a gift box it's entirely up to you or you could have it as a smaller card and again you can see where we've used the rick rack ribbon trimmed it along the bottom here and I've used that lovely vase rainbow of flowers you know rainbow color of flowers there um I just I've thoroughly enjoyed it and you know I'm completely biased but it really was just so much fun to create with because it's just so bright you know and um if that's the kind of thing you like then this kit's going to be right up your street um then we've got this one here which is by carol so she's on the design team as well really nice like the way that she's used the silver card there and the confetti it's really nice to see other people's take and what they do with the kit so and then this one I like this that's been done again is this yeah this is by carol and she's done a wreath and I wouldn't have thought to have done that but I really like that effect and there's no reason why you couldn't use that as a Christmas card you know those could be you know put on to you know a different color card stock or something I think it'd look great and she's actually wrote on the bunting again I didn't think to do that so it's really nice to see how other people you know use your your kind of ideas and and create different cards and then there that's the end and there's my top of five products which I always use so um yeah it was it's been an absolute joy doing this um and like I said I've thoroughly enjoyed seeing um and reading the comments that people have been you know sending me about receiving theirs and I know some of you are still waiting and some of you that are outside of the UK hopefully you don't have too long to wait I really do hope that it does arrive to you quite soon okay so that is this month's kit I hope you've enjoyed it I love it and um yeah it's just been an absolute joy to do so I think I believe this one did sell out so what I'll do is I'll share the links below because sometimes they do have some that come on later on I don't know whether they hold maybe some back I'm not sure how it works but just click on that link and you can go and check it out anyway but if you if you'd like to join the papercraft society or just find out a bit more there's a there's three different options on how you can pay you can do monthly quarterly six monthly and yearly actually so there's four different payment options and um you can dip in and out as well but you have to cancel each time but you can just you know see which one's coming next subscribe for that one cancel afterwards and then wait and see if the next one you like or not so you don't have to have it so that you receive every single one and it's always a different designer every month I know we do rotate some of them around but more and more people are starting to be introduced to the papercraft society now in terms of designers so hopefully you'll see some more familiar faces in the coming months so thank you for watching all the links will be shared below and I'll be back again very soon bye