 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching today so this week I haven't really got much at all I was just going to talk about a few things and well I'll go straight in. It's been a sad day because my baby blue has finally come to the end of its life because it's broke. This is now completely just it's so loose it's just gone and it's my own fault because I was die cutting something and I really was forcing it and I was like go on it's just going to go it's just going to go and it literally went almost like bang kind of thing it like popped and then that just went really really loose and it's just it's gone it just it doesn't grab anything anymore and it gets caught so yeah I've had it for about maybe four five years a long time so it's really good and I would get it again but I'm not happy with how much they've hiked the prices up for this. They have now restarted selling it again and they're selling it for 65 plus and I'm just not paying that for a mini die machine so if anybody has any other recommendations I already have one in mind that I'm going to go for and I will share that one hopefully it'll be here within the next week so I'll be able to share it next week with you all but yeah if you've got any ideas or recommendations of ones that you have and that you you know you really enjoy please pop them in the description box below so I can have a little look so yeah it's this I would I would recommend it's a brilliant machine but I just don't like I paid 25 pound for this I actually know my mum did she bought it as a gift for me Christmas gift and that was the full price for it so in four years three four yeah four five something like that anyway it's it's gone up a lot and yeah I just don't really want to pay that much again so yeah I don't want to pay too much so let me know what you think okay then I popped the charge up and I just saw these so it was two pound fifty and the reason I liked it is they're all silver and this is a beautiful really nice thick material silver it's lovely so we made in England 100% polyester it was 40 per meter but there's still quite a lot on there there you can see how much is on there so there's a good yeah good few meters so I've got that one these two are brand new never even been opened and these sell I think for about 150 to two pound from the range I see them in their big bins there so I've got two of them and it's very similar this is a little bit rougher than this one here and then this one was also in there this was 199 originally but it's a real thin lovely so smooth and again with all the Christmas projects now starting to come into my mind and commissions that I'm doing it's nice to have these kind of you know colors I do have some silver but I saw them I thought for what was did I say 250 that was a bargain so I've got loads of meters there and then I picked up the creative stamping issues 75 magazine and the reason I've gone for this one I always like their magazine they always have great inspiration and they always do an A4 stamp set and the reason I love this one so much it is Christmas themed but it's the clearly besotted company have obviously collaborated for this one and look at all these lovely little images here the snowman so cute love that nice big joy stamp and I also like what was the other one this the let it snow I love that font that's really nice nice Noel there I love that Chris moose and you've got the little moose there so again and the stamps are great because they're not they haven't got a lot of detail they haven't got a lot of black in them so these are perfect for the coloring and all these lovely little subtitles here so that's the clearly besotted section and then this is the practical publishing their own you know obviously designers and stuff I've done these ones so look at that lovely heart wreath as well I think that's really nice you've got inspiration some here for the clearly besotted and they just mix them with some of the other ones as well I think it is just that section there because the way they framed that makes me think it's that obviously they've used Noel with it there so you can obviously yeah mix it all together it's entirely up to you but I love the the wreath around that they've done like an aperture so cut it out of the the card itself and then inside there's tons of inspiration so they've done like another kind of like almost aperture or diorama style card there which I think looks really nice and I recognize this stamp set so I have that that's the woodware one you would have seen me use that in some tutorials so I like to see what they're doing there and there's the diamond foil card that I've made as well not that one that's not you know but I've obviously got a tutorial for that but yeah so I'm gonna as always usually after these I go and sit down with a cup of tea or there they are there and yeah have a good old wreath so that's that one also from the charity shop I'm not having these I'm actually giving these to my mom it's 50p and they are the tonic studios picture frames shadow box cards so I have lots of tutorials how you can make these but for speed sometimes we all do it is you know if you've got something you can just pop out and quickly fold so my mom will enjoy this and it comes with the stand there as well or a little hook I like the idea of the little hook so you can hang it but I'll link up my shadow box ones because they will be up there so you can also look at those but these don't look like they would be too old if I can find any links to this I will do you get five and I believe it will give you it will finish being because that's gonna fold in on itself so you're looking at a four by four inch rough center so I imagine it's gonna be a five by five frame yeah five by five or five and a half I need to I'm just looking at those folds so it's a nice size so yeah none of you are familiar with these or you seem like I've literally got identical ones to that and I've got tutorials for them but for people that do like to have something pre-made and you don't want to do the scoring then yeah these look good and then I'm just showing you the other magazines I've brought this month now I know I have already shared these in my what did I get I do get a lot of people messaging me without even looking at the YouTube asking me what magazines I've purchased or what ones I like so these are the ones so this is the Papercraft Essentials and I made the wreath with this one and I used this is the dye that comes with it really really nice and I do have other tutorials coming and you've got the free embossing folder this is still available so I'll link it below really like this one and then this was the other Creators Stamping one and I've already done a tutorial using this stamp set and so you can see what I mean if you if I was to say well there's many that I would say subscribe to but if you're someone who loves stamps and you just yeah that's your thing the Creators Stamping magazine is brilliant I did used to subscribe to it but it got a bit out of control because I just had so many stamps and they don't repeat themselves but you know that there's going to be another Christmas one and and spring ones tend to be a little bit generic because I don't think people well I say they don't think outside the box but there's you always get the rabbit and you get the the daffodils you know I mean it's so you don't always need multiples of that kind of thing so I stopped subscribing just so I could kind of pick and choose but if you're someone starting off and you want to have something coming through your door this is a lovely magazine to get so you see what I mean that you just get and they're so different from one one month or one issue to the next that was last issues this is the newer issue I mean I know we're going into Christmas and that but it's they do really always do a nice variety and they collaborate a lot with that you would like to come with the brands that you love so I got this one because it's for the lover stamps and I love them and then this one I like the clearly besotics I love all the little critters that they do so yeah and they collaborate with other designers and things like that so you'll see that as well so that was the creative stamp in 74 that was 75 and that was the papercraft essentials 177 and I will link that below because also once this video goes out this issue 178 has gone out as well and that one has what did that one have on it and I really oh it's got a oh is it a diorama I think it's a diorama card I'm sure it is but it's Christmas it looks amazing I'm going to be getting that so I will get that now like within the next few days and I'll share that next week but if anybody is wanting to grab it before then I would definitely recommend that one because the kit that comes with it our link it's down below alright so have a little look at that you can click on it it'll be along with this one actually so you can see you know but it's a really nice Christmas card and the kit that they give you from what I've seen on the cover I only saw it on Facebook today well no wasn't today when was it yesterday I think it was because it was showing you what was coming that was it and yeah it looks really really fun so I'm definitely going to get that one and I think that one might actually drop through my door so I do get them if I feature in them I get them dropped through my door for free which is really nice and I am in issue 178 I think I'm sure I am so hopefully that might even come through my door I need to check so anyway that's everything it was very quick I won't ramble on any more check the links below if you are interested in any of this let me know what mini die machines I have big die machines I don't need to get that I want a mini little desk one so the plates like the size of these so I want something that's roughly the same as this again these were one two you're looking at three it's about three and a quarter I think the plates are they know the plates were three yeah so I don't really want anything bigger than that so yeah let me let me know what ones you like so thank you for watching all the links will be shared below as always and I will be back tomorrow with my normal Friday tutorial thanks for watching bye