 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today. So I have recently moved house and I'm kind of there now so my craft room is still kind of being sorted and I'm waiting for my desk so I'm in a bit of a temporary kind of setup at the minute but it's working and it's certainly a good way to I think you know when you move in kind of take your time with it and see how things are going to work because already I've been changing things in my craft room but I think I've got it how it's going to flow so once the rest of the furniture comes I will um yeah should be finished and then I will do a craft room talk with so many of you have been asking but amongst the move I received this the day before I moved so I was just like everything was already packed so I was just like right put it somewhere safe so Tonic um contacted me maybe about three weeks ago now and asked if I'd like to choose some product and share it with you guys this can make anything I want and um the fact that I get to choose it as well was really nice because then I know that I'm gonna you know enjoy it so I know a lot of you like the Tonic products and especially like Nuvo drops and like the mediums I know everyone mixed up craft is we're um yeah we're all fans of it aren't we so anyway I wasn't you know you never know really what you're going to get in terms of quantity so I was a bit blown away when I opened this box so let's just get straight in okay so let me show you the I guess the mediums and things that they've sent me first of all I'll go through the dies in a moment so I have I did say to them that I have a lot of the embellishment moose I've got tons of Nuvo drops but if there's anything new then I would like to try it so they've sent me the crackle moose and I don't have any of these so I'm really looking forward to trying these out and if you've got these and you enjoy them please drop a comment because I'd like to read them and just see what you kind of think of them and maybe some tips and tricks with them it would be really much appreciated so yeah do leave those comments you know below so I can read them so I've got here so from what I've seen so I have seen a couple of YouTube's with these is you literally just paste it on and then give it some time and it will just crackle I don't believe you add heat because I think it doesn't work so well if I remember somebody saying it says here for a textured finish apply with a spatula if applied using a stencil a raised effect will occur ensure a thick even layer is applied to create a crackled effect so I think it's yeah I mean they look great so I've got here they got me too oh I've got two of the same color that probably wasn't intentional and it looks a bit I'm not sure you see there I guess that's just got to be mixed again let me know I haven't opened these at all this is me kind of really um you know this is a first kind of glance properly at everything because like I said I got it the day before I moved so I was stressed enough as it was so just put this to one side but I guess that just needs a good mix up I don't know how long it's maybe been sat in there but I have two of those ones anyway and then I've got this is pink gin I like the sound of that one and then wrought iron so again the pink gin hasn't got that liquid on it it's you know looks like it's completely mixed so I guess I don't know if that's to do with the ingredients for those colors you can see again here it's a little bit you've got that I guess maybe it's like the glue or something I don't know but anyway I've got those so I'm looking forward to trying them out and seeing how they you know react and work because I love like I said you know the embellishment mousse is a great I've used them I use them a lot I showed them in a Facebook live and then I done the tutorial to make single colored cards using like one medium what I use the embellishment mousse and I'll link that one up here actually because it's a really nice tutorial and lots of you have been sharing your single colored cards on the group so then I've received these here so I guess these are like this is a mini embellishment mousse so I imagine these are what goes it what go into the kits and doesn't say the color on this one or maybe it's on the side let's have a look so things like this are handy anyway for you know if I go and craft somewhere else and I just want to take a little pot of something then these will go into like my little travel bag and it says here oh polar wind I don't recognize that name so I don't believe I have got that color yeah because I would remember that name I think and I that's not on my swatches I don't think so yeah so that's just a mini one but I think this is the size that you get if you're you know if you receive the tonic kits I'm sure that's what they send out um but I know you do get full-size things as well so this one here is a dual drop and this is iceberg blue and again I think I may have this one my Nuva drops drops are currently in a bag they're not even displayed yet because I'm waiting for the my displays and everything to come so I need to check that out but I love the Nuva drops I think that you know in terms of the crystal drops I have nearly everyone and I'm already on my second kind of little um you know bottle of some of them because I just use them all the time they're perfect ways for finishing off your cards I just add that detail um these ones here are your dual drops so these are translucent you've got crystal drops you've got your glitter drops you've got gosh what other ones are there there's loads there's so many different ones but um it's just a nice thing to collect over time and uh there's just so many colors to choose from then I've picked this up now it's really this is probably the one thing I was the most excited about getting in the box because I've tried to get this for so long every time I've gone over onto craft stash it's been sold out I've looked on tonic and it's been sold out and then they've put one in here for me so this is um it's just a very good glue it's a clear drying craft glue now it doesn't um this is not something in replacement of my cloud I don't think anything will ever replace the cloud cloud is my favorite glue for large surfaces and for you know just my mats and layers and boxes and things like that but when you want to stick your tabs down small areas and you want a quick grab then these glues are good and I use the cosmic shimmer and then I've got this one now the nuvo and I hear great reviews about this one easy to use reliable and versatile craft glue try to see lots of people use it again let me know your thoughts on this glue and um yeah it's another one to add to my stash but it's it's always sold out so it's really nice to have one I'm not sure if they do bigger bottles this is a 60 mil so again if anybody knows then yeah leave a comment then I've received these so these are little blending sponges so I've got my blending brushes and I've got the other sponge the the tonic the Tim Holtz one sorry and um then these ones are like your little buds perfect to use with your nuvo hybrid ink pads and nuvo embellishment mousse so that's quite good because actually I use my finger or one of my blending brushes so it'd be quite nice to see how the blending mousses work with these they're really soft they're like makeup they're just the same all the same fabric you know materials and stuff with your makeup like foundation sponges and stuff but I've got a fall there again yeah let me know what you think whether you have these and um yeah what you recommend and what you do with them and things like that so I've got those four there just pop all that way and then I've got some of the I think these are the water so we've got three different here so they've sent me a pack of the aquaflow brushes so these are just like a water pen so in terms of the the actual barrel and everything but I guess these are loaded with color whereas with other ones they're just filled with water and then you would pick the color up with them for example that's what I do with like my artesans ones and things like that so these here this is the ocean air brush tip watercolor pens so it'd be interesting to know and see when I do it just how pigmented these are so you've got in this one you've got clear water vanilla sundae and true turquoise now these have again a very similar working to the gwin castella pens and you have to remove this piece and I know some of you might be like yeah we know that sound but you'd be surprised and when I first got these kind of pens I didn't realize that and I was you know and they didn't fall off like this one either and I'm there trying to you know get them to work you have to remove that and then you pop them back on and when you it will you'll sometimes hear a little sound but it will puncture a hole and it will allow then that all of that kind of pigment and the fluid to then move through the pen to the end and onto the brush and then you would usually yeah there's a press there so you just press that for a while and you can start to see how well let's see how long this takes to come down but yeah the winker stella there we go it's already coming down here can you see bring it up there we go so that's the vanilla sundae starting to fill the brush there and just kind of yeah squeeze it carefully and just let it fill that brush and then that's ready to go you know maybe give them a shake as well because there might be if they've got mica in them then sometimes that will settle so you'll want to move that but just again you'll feel it sometimes they make a click depending on the you know the brand some of them are a bit different see that one's not there we go so just give it a little bit of a you know a push and again just then press on the sides and you'll start to see that pigment come down through there we go I can just start to see it it's just moving in here and it's starting to fill the brush I can see the color now coming in there so that's that one and let's just try this one here because this is a bit of a darker color I think most of them do have this fluorescent yellow band on them and so that one was really easy to do but yeah you have to remove it some don't fall off these fall off so easily that you know it kind of helps you there but some of them they don't they're quite stuck on there you have to unscrew them and I think that's where people have you know been struggling like I did so I done a video for the winga stellar ones and so many people comments saying thank you so much I almost threw mine in the bin so yeah again just get that one I can see it start to come down here it will fill up this end of the barrel here and there you can see there's a real strong color now of that blue just coming through onto the bristles there so those are nice I love those colors and so I'll be using those this one here this is an aqua shimmer so this would be the kind of one which will have your mica in it so you would want to I would imagine I know I would I'd give it a shake again I'm going to grab a bit of paper in a minute and check and test all these so I'm just kind of moving them oh look at that that one's actually so it's come out here but look that is absolutely gorgeous there is so much pigment and mica in that that's really shiny fortunately this is a shiny surface so I'll be able to wipe that off in a minute so I'm just going to pop that one in there and then this one here I guess is going to be a comparison a good comparison to the winged stella and the spectrum noir glitter pen which I have this one here is your opal quartz and it just adds a subtle iridescent shimmer effect which is what those others do and I use them a lot again it's a bit like you know adding the nuvo drops at the end of a project this is something that's lovely to just brush over maybe like the leaves or the flower petals on your projects and it just looks lovely so again just give it a nice squeeze just might as well put the other one on my there we go you can see it just coming out there oh yeah you can see that iridescence like you know when you look at the when there's a rainbow and there's like maybe some like petrol or something on the floor and it catches the rainbow that's what I can see there you're probably not picking that up but it looks really nice I'm going to pop them onto some paper just so you can see the colors a little bit better okay so just need to the bristles are quite um stiff so you have to kind of soften them up once that kind of pigment starts flowing the brush there we go but you can see there that's that one and then this is a darker one again once it starts to flow freely and you'll get it coming out nicely that's that one there and that's the oh this is the blush rosette sorry it's not the one from that trio let that dry a second and then I'll hold it up and they do click in make sure you click them into place again so this is that vanilla sundae they're really nice subtle it's almost a quite a nice um skin color as well it's pilling up there you can see all the bits of the the fibers from the cardstock lifting so yeah I'll definitely use them on my watercolor paper or it's certainly a thicker cardstock and then this is just the iridescent one but I'm also going to grab a piece of black card just so you can see looks like it's purple when it comes out but I imagine that will once that settles and dries you'll just be left with a sparkle you can just see there it just looks wet actually it doesn't show you anything but I can see all the sparkle in there and again apart from the pilling because I've used the wrong cardstock but can you see it really picks up that shine there with that lovely what's it called again keep forgetting the name blush rosette that's really nice yeah love those so that's nice so it's certainly something that I can start playing around with and then you know if I feel that I'm really enjoying them and there's so many colors and you know within the collection that you can go for so that's all of those bits let's move on to the dyes okay so I was a little bit spoiled with the dyes this is what I just didn't expect all of this to come so first of all I've got this here so they call them the floral favor box and you get 19 dyes in this one here so let's have a quick look inside so I don't even know how you open these because I've never had a tonic dice I've always had not like this in their new packaging I've got a lot of that older stuff so I've got a lot of like their nesting dyes and things like that I will end up transferring all of this onto my magnetic sheets but now you take it out all right okay so there you can see the size of it so you'd die cut this twice but you've also got it looks like two different patterns here you've got this pattern here and then you've got this version so it'd be nice to see how that all comes about and then you've got two sentiments here that says just for you and then with love you can see they're the with love or just for you so it's a great little size I wonder if it fits and tonic's teacakes in you've got all these different panels here as well so you've got honeycomb and then that honeycomb one and then this is just like a bit of a trellis effect so you can see the honeycomb one there actually so yeah they look really nice and you've got this as well you need to have a little look check out some of the design team on youtube and see what they've done with them as well so that was that one you can see it all on the back there as well you can see them a little bit clearer there let me just show you the frames and this is called flourishing floral favour box it's a bit of a mouthful okay so that's that one there and then we'll carry on with these so this is another favour box this one here is the embellished swirl favour box so again let's have a little look inside here you know things like this are perfect for you know if you're planning your own wedding or you've been asked to do the favours for a wedding the dies for things like this are just perfect for that speed really especially if you're doing like a big bulk you know amount so these look really pretty in your different party colours or wedding colours so you get 13 dies and you can see how they work there so you it looks like you do the tray oh right that's all attached yes it's one big some reason it reminds me of something out of Alice in Wonderland I don't know like the queen something I don't know it's just got a bit of a shape to that but it's nothing to do with that so ignore what I'm saying there but it's just the feeling I got from it um but I like that you can back it so you can see there that's just showing all that detail and you can actually see through it what might have some acetate in there but I like that version I think more because I think you really get to see all the beautiful pattern so and that is just by there's a frame one here yeah you can just about make it out that one so that will just cut a block colour and then you can back it behind any of these so I like that and I wonder if this one has that no it's slightly different however you could easily back that I just think then you get to really see all that pattern so they'll be getting they've even done the little holes here for you to be able to thread your ribbon through as well which is nice I like this die the love and it's things like this that you find me I pull a lot of dies from different kind of collections and use them in my crafting so you know something like that I know I've got card shapes and stuff that that would probably fit nicely in so yeah look forward to trying that one out and I know my mum is going to be after these because this is right up her street as well but this is the one this is the one I just fell in love with and I thought I really want to try this and it is just this adorable satchel bag die set but it's a mini album and since moving I have found so much of my old just school books and we always used to send letters in school it was a and I'm so glad we did because the memories I mean if I guess we all do it when we move house but who gets sidetracked amongst all the boxes and you end up sitting on the floor I just had school letters some of them were just so embarrassing but I thought I'd really love something or a way to document take them and I also found all the letters that my dad used to send me when he was away at sea in the navy so again I want to have and you know find some nice ways to do them so it might not be the satchel style but I think for the ones from my dad but certainly for the ones with my school letters I might do this in the colors of my school and you know I can put like the date and stuff on it and I just think it would be a really nice little keepsake for doing that and I will of course do a YouTube video to show you how I do it but there you can see it on the back and I like that it has these pockets so that I can put the letters in there so they're protected and I can just it'd be nice to just know that if I grab this album it's got all of those in there because I know that when I invite all my my girlfriends around because I'm still very close friends with a lot of my school friends we can have a right giggle looking back at them because a lot of the letters are from them when we were like 15 so let's have a little look here you get so many dies 26 dies in this one that's your binding system there so imagine that's what you connect all of the well that's the hinge and then you've got all the decorations and stuff so yeah I'm really looking forward to doing this one whether I'll use all these pieces in my version I might keep it just a bit planer and maybe I don't know print something out to put on it but I just love that concept of opening it up like this and then having those and I wonder if you can extend it I'm sure if I look at a way of making it a bit wider you may well be able to do that but I just think it's really good really with these with this one it's part of their memory book line so you get the base and decoration and I imagine oh it says here compatible with most oh that's the dye machines but I'm sure there are add-ons for things like this as well so yeah really excited for that one and then I have these here which I think are brilliant so I do have they're a little bit smaller and it was by Festedition and they done these Scrabble style they call them here gaming tiles and they're brilliant but it was these ones and I love these these are just so good they're going to be perfect for mini albums perfect for my vintage things the junk journals and stuff like that I just love them and you can obviously you can write anything you want so these are your typewriter tiles and you get 40 and then these are your gaming tiles and again but even if you want to do any of you like your home decor I've got quite a few frames and I like to just make my own phrases I've got some old Scrabble boards with the letters that I've got framed and I love them and they make really nice gifts so I think yeah certainly for some Christmas ideas for me I'm going to be using probably this one for the frames but I love this style for like my junk journaling and my mini albums and stuff you can use both but they're really been nice you get um yeah I did say that you get 40 yes 40 in both of them and again let's just open this one up here got all your letters you've got your numbers there they are in terms of size they're 0.8 inches 21 millimeters so if you just want an idea there of the actual size and then these ones here are 0.8 by 0.9 21 by 22 millimeters it's about the same and what I like here is you've got your blank one so you can you know cut a load of those and then cut these in different color and then back them so that I would probably maybe see what it looks like do that in holographic card stock and then do these in another color and then you'll have the letter itself will you know show that holographic card through I think that'd look really nice so they're just great really really nice lovely addition to my alphabet dies and to have something like that so yeah again thank you very much and then I have these ones here so these are love life sentiments diesets I do love a sentiment so one thing I say a lot is you can never have too many sentiments even if it's the same it says the same thing you know they all look different and the styles can really change the look of your project so yeah sentiment dies I think brilliant so these are so you've got here sending and kisses and is all you need and then you got with love so you can have love is all you need I guess but then you haven't got love I don't know with love look oh I see how they work takes me a while guys that's why it's always good to flick it over and see what's on the back you got with love sending love these are all the different kind of ways that you can put it together love and kisses and then love is all you need get it because on here that looks like one die but it's not I really like I didn't realize so this is gorgeous actually that is a great big love so yeah I can see now how these would all kind of then fit together that's really good I like that a lot in fact I've got a card idea and someone that can send that to so I think that's going to be quite appropriate so yeah just nice big sentiments you can see the sizes of those and I'll give you a quick measurement with them so that's just under four by just under two and a half again the same there and then but that one's more just under two again that's like one and a half maybe I'd say two because it kind of goes up a bit there this one here they're all the same width so that just under four that's two and a quarter and then this one here to the highest points three so it's three by you know four it's a really nice size perfect to go on the front and cards but also for me it's more 3d projects like gift boxes and stuff I think they're going to look really nice on and then I've got these here which are really nice frames so they're quite different to my usual style but I don't tend to use things all together and how they kind of show you to use them as you will know if you follow me I'm more interested in the frames on their own because I just love this one here which rather than having a stitch detail it's just got lots of little dots so I know that's going to fit onto my six by sixes and it's just nice having all these different frames but with those little details it's just something a bit different and then in the middle here you have this pattern but I quite like you know the frame there from it there's so many and obviously lots of ways that you can put this all together to create different looks so that's the square seamlessly beautiful crystal sphere die set and this is the seamlessly beautiful natural entwine die set entwine die set yeah let's just say that right so again let me just take these out I've got lots of stuff to store away now but these I think you're going to see me using these more um there's probably a really easy way to open these guys but I'm not too precious on the packaging this will go into my recycling bin um so I mean if you are someone that likes to you know keep them all in these don't do what I'm doing but um again when I do like my rocker cards and things like that it's going to be quite nice to have just that one there with that different detail on it I really like it that's got to me it feels a little bit Christmassy as well I can imagine that as a shaker card you know it's almost got a bit like a snowflake or something in fact you know without that detail and just have it actually you've got another one there as well I would almost remove that and have that as a Christmas shaker card and then have merry Christmas in the middle I think that looks really nice so you'll probably see me do that so just you know don't always look at things as they put them together but that is a lovely that would make a nice Christmas gift tag if you've just done those two together there's your backing how pretty is that as a gift tag really nice do that in some white like glitter card or something I think that look really really nice so yeah I might even put this one in my Christmas kind of um with my Christmas dies because that's that feels quite Christmassy to me but I do love these circle dies just with the detail and also this one here it's got the kind of a bit of a porthole feel to it because it's got those little kind of dots there you know if you've got a nautical under water these are going to work really well for that so um yeah just you know when you're looking at things to buy kind of you know it's hard to do sometimes but kind of look at them all as separate pieces and you know if it's something that you feel you can get a lot from then it just makes it really good value for money and I actually think this would work for quite a few things so I'm really pleased with those ones I like those ones a lot and then this one here is that natural end twine that I said so let me just take this one out I'm bound to get people commenting about the way I've unpacked these but never mind so and this one here I do love that design in the middle it's got a bit of a medusa feel to it I actually played medusa in a school play to make her hair with all of the snakes that was really funny I'll try and find a photo of that actually but that's what that reminds me of but again I think these make great gift tags just think of something about them and um yeah there you can see those different frames again so there's lots lots and lots of dies across all of them and this acetate I will be keeping because it's really nice sheets there that is you know keep that so I'll recycle all the card but this acetate will go in with my other acetate and I'll be using this for my you know shaker cards and any other card designs where I use the acetate so that's always good and then this one here is the designer's choice now I had a look on their website and I cannot find the designer for this one so if anybody knows I don't know if this is brand new or whether it's very old but it's I believe from what I've looked at if someone can comment just so I can look up exactly how you're to do this but it looks to me like it's a mini album because these look like your front and back pages or these are all the pages and this is your kind of hinge I imagine you put ribbon through this maybe and maybe there is this is well no because I think the designer choice is the whole point is that that is everything you need these look like maybe little buckles or something these look like tabs so I'd love to see what this meant is you know what it does look like so yeah if anybody can help me out if I put it against this you might be able to see it a bit better if anybody's got this one and they know the name of it then I can check out some tutorials and have a little look but it again I was kind of excited because I thought it looks like a mini album kind of thing so which you know I like and I've got so much stuff that open now I want to you know actually put into albums and it looks like here yeah these look like the ends of your pages because it only cuts on you get I guess like the three sides here this is no there's no cut line here so I imagine that's the width of a page and that's the edge and then maybe you cut it with this I've got a kind of a slight idea but I'm not 100% so yeah it'd be nice to know and I like these plastic wallets so I guess for those of you that collect the designer choice I imagine that they've got some kind of file where you can keep all this in because it's just a little pocket there with the holes on the side and it says designer choice but I know these are designer choice are by the designers and they give you the name of the designer but I couldn't see this one at all so yeah it'd be nice to know about that one okay so that is everything that I've been sent by the lovely guys at Tonic Studios I can't wait to start crafting especially I think this is the first thing I'm going to do is this mini album while those letters and everything are fresh in my mind I think I'm going to work on that one so you'll see that one coming soon and then these I think you're just going to see featuring quite regularly throughout because I just think it's quite nice to yeah just you know make your own little sentiments and titles and stuff up and the pens and stuff the glue I'm going to pop in front of me now just so I remember to use that and I'm yeah I want to know what you guys think of the crackle glaze or no crackle mousse sorry and how those work and yeah I will be sharing as much of it with you as I can over the coming weeks and months so thank you for watching as always I will share all the links to everything that I've shared below and I'll be back very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye