 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my day so I've got a few things to show I have got these here so I did say in a few of my videos I keep meaning to buy some more of the Spectrum Noir sparkle pen there's a massive range to these but I always just like to buy the crystal clear and you can add color to this if you want to but these are very very well they are they're the same as Winkastella but I actually prefer although I have quite a few Winkastellas I'll just pull a few out here just to show you they're clear is actually more of a gold and it does actually color or cover your paper your cardstock whatever it is you're decorating whereas the crystal clear it's in the name leaves a gorgeous sparkle so whenever you get these just like the Winkastella ones you just have to take off the yellow that's your stopper once you put that back on it will click I don't know if you just missed that thing so I was talking but it clicks and that means it's just punctured into the barrel so it will now let all of the sparkle and it will just slowly if you can see there you see it's there you can see it's starting to move you just pump it a few times it says push on the sides value for money for these is so much better than one Winkastella so yeah you can buy well they come in packs of three and they will last well depending on how much you use them I use these things a lot but if I just get some dark card just so it picks up well on camera once you get it going just give this a minute oh it's just it's beautiful when you get a new one after you've been trying to get all of the the last bits out and you can add if you want you can use I guess I think the rubbing alcohol is the same as surgical spirit I'm pretty sure it is I think rubbing alcohol is more commonly used in the States and we have surgical spirit here which is what I use to clean things I use it to clean up my my stamp stamping platforms and things like that but if you add a bit into the barrel of this when it's nearly gone you can you know get the last of it out kind of thing some people add water but the problem with adding water is then you're adding water to your projects which will then react with the card stock and probably make it warp so you do have to be careful if you use a rubbing alcohol or a surgical spirit then it's just going to be you know it dries it almost instantly and it doesn't do that so but look at the sparkle amazing so yeah so I just picked up three more of those and what I will do is I leave the yellow ones on the ones I'm not using just so I know which one to go to because it's very easy to start you know using them all and yeah anyway so those are the spectrum noir sparkle pens as always I will link everything below and check out the rest of the range because if you you know check out some of the demos that they do on crafters companion with the coloured ones they're so opaque I mean the the amount of colour that you get in them and you can yeah colour your stamped images and create some really pretty results if you love sparkle then the sparkle pens are really good then I just picked up some more nouveau drops so I use a lot of these on my scrapbook layouts on my commission projects so cards that I'm making for magazines and projects like that and I find that I use them a lot more at Christmas time so you'll start to see some more of the cards that I'm starting to share with nouveau drops I'm using the white a lot again now it's kind of the time of year that I use it but I thought I would just stock up on a few that I don't have so I don't have this green and it is just a it's just a really nice simple green there's no sparkle in this or anything and this is the the the grande tubes and this one is where's the colour there it is this is woodland green so it's a really nice green to use I've got that one then I've got this green which does have the sparkle so this is your glitter drops and this is sunlit meadow then I picked up this one here which again is the glitter drops which is holiday cheer and the other two kind of christmasy ones were these ones here that I got which I thought would be nice together I realized I thought I had a red glitter and then I checked after I'd done the order and I didn't so I do need to order a red glitter this is gold coast it's beautiful it's like a golden champagney kind of color really really pretty and then I got this one here now I do have this one and they're quite similar but this one I'm going to show you is really thick because this is the nouveau glitter I can't work out what that says on it accents and this is glitter drops so I think this is runnier this is really really thick and I've used this on a few projects already which will see coming so yeah this is the color of this one here is golden sunlight it's just beautiful really really it's almost more bronzy because it's got the orange going through it there so and these last ages they really really do so again if you're looking for things when you finish a card you just think it just needs that little bit extra nouveau drops are really nice and this one here is like a molten metal kind of look where is the name again liquid mercury here and I just thought I love the name I thought oh I bet that's going to look really nice and these things are perfect for adding on to like more of your masculine cards especially if you want to you know maybe you've got some cogs or you've got some metal work or maybe you've got like some tools you add these kind of things you know this this over like I don't know the head of a hammer or some spanners and it just I don't know just really fun so you don't just have to do them as dots I move mine around I use my poke tool and you can you know actually use it to cover die cuts and things like that so you can get some really fun effects with them and then the last one I got here was rhubarb crumble made me hungry when I saw that one it's just a really lovely let me just show you that one a little bit on here it's just a beautiful again if you're new to seeing any of this Nuvo products these just keep their dimension so I've got some cheaper ones I guess and they just end up I think the I think some of them to be honest do have water in them these don't and the cardstock just absorbs that water and then then you go to it in the morning and it's just flat it's just a flat circle these don't do that they stay on on the surface and they keep that dimension so that will not I mean if I did on his side it's still where it would drop but that will stay with that dimension to it so it's just yeah every nice great to use if you've got a black which I do so I've got quite a few probably where is it there it is this is great to use for eyes just the center of the eyes so just you've got that little bit of dimension and the white I'm on about my third of the white now is great for snow and highlights and things like that so yeah I do love it on I love my yellow as well that's the yellow one there that one is English mustard and it is that is English mustard so yeah they're really really fun so I just picked up a few more of those so they can all be added in and again if you like sparkle and you like things that are pretty the bottles are really cute as well and that's the first of the grand day ones that I've got actually so which is good because I probably end up using that green a lot because that'll go perfect with your summer projects and things like that as well so that was those and then I've been wanting this for ages but it every time I went to get it it was out of stock it was more expensive on Amazon and then I got it from craft stash and it's basically to pick up your magnets so it's a huge magnet but it's in the shape of a diamond so it's really pretty and it's the same color as my Cricut machine so it's that lovely minty color but when I work you see it all nice and neat on camera because you see this area which is always pretty clear but when I'm preparing beforehand sometimes I have so much mess I have die cuts I have bits of stamped images I have bits of random paper and things like that and I have lost dyes when I've just thought that I've picked everything up you get the paper and you kind of brush it all off into your bin with this here it's like a hoover you can just run it over all of that mess and it will pick up all of your die cuts now of course you can use any magnet if you've got a strong magnet you know you could probably run your the bottom of your stamping platform over all of your mess if you wanted to you don't have to have this but I've always liked it I think it looks really pretty it sits just like that and also when I am sometimes I've got like this one here this is free from a magazine I just haven't got around to putting it away I have a spare magnet here on one of my um it's on my Ikea pegboard and I just stick them to that which is fine but now I can just pop it on there you can see how strong that is so if you imagine you know there you go that was about three inches away from it there we go so you can see how that's going to work when you're kind of dragging it through your your paper and your mess basically it's just a good way to check that you have got everything so I yeah when I saw that it was in stock I thought no I'm going to buy this I really like it and I think it's going to come in very handy and it is going to sit just off camera right there so I've got no excuses and you'll probably find sometimes things will catch on to it by accident if you brush past it and things like that so yeah that's the spell binders what do they actually call it let me just show you it is the main attraction one magnetic pickup tool so contains magnets and then it's got all it's every you know every language imaginable wrote on the front of that as well so easy to collect loose dyes pins etc with one that sweep of the ball of the ball and that's the other good thing is pins so if you're someone who sews I've done it before and in my old house before I moved abroad I had a carpet and I knew I dropped pins in it one time I did actually tread on it and I got the pin in my foot so if you ever do drop a pin and you're worried you've got children or animals around something like this is going to be quite handy to just brush all around the area you can get under your bed or wherever is your desk and yeah we'll pick up those pieces so I think it's really handy I just really liked it so I've got that and then I have finally picked up the Christmas tales so this is the Christmas premium dovecraft collection so they've got twilight wishes which you've seen me already share and then we have dovecraft Christmas tales this is the one that I'm going to use through this year's Christmas workshop along with other ones that you've seen as well I've got some of the paper boutique the paper tree I have other you know first edition trim craft papers so I do have a lot but for maybe three of my main projects this year this is what I'm going to be using and I can't wait because it is just so beautiful so this is the six by six pad I thought I'm going to get this I don't usually get the six by six but I thought this time I will because of the the things that I want to do I think it's going to work quite well again that will all make sense over the coming weeks and I will show you the papers from that in a moment so you get I think I've got everything from the correct the collection I did check it on Amazon and I believe I have got everything so these are your adhesive pearls it's just nice to get the matching ones then I have these here which are your sentiment toppers so you got Merry Christmas and with love and it's got the silver foiling on those ones I picked up two packs of these because last time I had them I it was the dovecraft secret garden and I made the shoe shed I made the bird box I made all kinds of things and the stickers just went really quickly and then I couldn't get them for a while and then I said I just moved on to something else so I thought actually I'm going to get two because I know they're going to get used on gift tags and on the projects that I want to do but they're just really really cute very vintage and it's just yeah it's just perfect when I saw this in July actually I saw it even a little bit before that because Claire showed me it on the computer first and then when we went up to craft in July I actually saw it then in the you know it's as it is here so this one here's your 12 printed tags and again it's just it just reminds me of my Christmas when we used to have those stickers well we still get them but the stickers that you just stick straight onto your present and write to and from they've just got that feel about it but you get these here so I've got three of Father Christmas with the bunny and the the little deer there it's like Bambi and then you have the three there they're really cute and I'm going to do some real nice big loaded gift tags with all of this I've got some wonderful my notebook actually no one else would make sense of it but to me it sits by my bed because a lot of you do comments saying do you ever sleep I do and I'm also very organised so I've already got about 16 18 tutorials already scheduled and on my YouTube channel so I sometimes though I will think about something in bed and I'll have to quickly write it down so yeah my notes are very odd but there is the Father Christmas he's really cute look at the way he's smiling with his little rosy cheeks absolutely gorgeous and then you've got those three there as well so I think they're just lovely to pop them away in a moment then these are just stunning I love the wooden shapes that they do anyway so easy wooden toppers they look at these look at him he's just adorable and these are so well made they're coated wooden they've got a little adhesive piece on the back there but they are just oh love them absolutely love them I've got to think well I've I've got ideas but I need to think of a few of the things that I want to do that I'm going to keep so something I can pull out each year because things like that I want to have for myself as well to enjoy then I picked up the stamp set really really sweet love again the little Bambi there or dear and you got the holly leaves the Christmas tree and the merry christ just two nice little sentiments there as well then I picked up the accordion stickers or your rosettes your little mini ones there really cute you could do a tiny little mini rosette wreath on a card or something would look really sweet just yeah gorgeous so I'm kind of thinking now I should have probably got two packs of those but never mind I can always see if I can then I've got the bunting I love the bunting I use the secret garden bunting in the two of the big display cards it's on I keep looking up because my bird box is hanging above my head and my she shed is on the shelf above my head as well they've all got bunting on them so I thought I've got to grab this one so it's basically just picked out all like the paper kind of images and put them on tiny bunting and you get your string and you get 60 pieces I've always got some leftover again I just think these the cards that I have kind of roughly drawn up in my notebook with this in mind I think you're going to absolutely love them so look out for all of that then I'm so excited to get the Decoupage kit you know I love the Decoupage I made last year it was the Hell's Couple Ditch and it was the I can't remember Christmas Village I think it was beautiful Christmas tales love the Decoupage and then there's the 12 by 12 so I'll just quickly show you the papers here you always get it on the an overview anyway but you've got that nice background kind of always reminds me of a tablecloth and then you've got your baubles there you've got your holly you get four sheets of each you've got your snowflakes so again these are all great for your backgrounds and then you get your more patterned ones so there's Santa and then there's that one there which is just so that's all the gift all the tags there so they've just used those images a couple of those ones and then you've got that one there that one which is really sweet and then you got that one and then that one the most wonderful time of the year joy merry christmas yeah so it's just those three and then again that little bunny and you've got the candy cane and the presents and then that side you've got again like the Bambi so that is the paper pads beautiful so now I can crack on with those and yeah the christmas workshop will be coming soon and then I've got one more paper pad as well let me just pop this away and then I got this one here which is the dovecraft again this is over the rainbow this is the back to basics there is a lot in this range as well this isn't new this has been around for a while but I've always liked it and it's just one of those things that I've just I don't know I just yeah there's always been something else but I thought do you know what no I'm gonna get this one because it's perfect for birthdays but it's also I don't know it's just it's a really nice background pieces I just love all these different prints the stripes love the squares there and this is like your safety glass kind of yeah it reminds me of that like 80s glass but obviously in pink and then you got that nice like blue could work as a sky I just thought it was really handy so you get 36 sheets 150 gsm and how many did you get of each oh three sheets of 12 designs yeah so there's a lot in there it's a nice thick pad like I said 36 sheets so I just really liked it and just thought it was nice and you get this one as well this lovely print on the top so yeah that was another one I picked up then I was approached by a lovely lady at creative expressions and probably now about a month ago and we've been chatting exchanging emails and I can't I don't think I can't say this and I'm you know I'm sure they weren't mind but they basically offered me a position to be a tv demonstrator on one of the or it would have possibly been both because I know that they work across both the channels but on the two UK craft channels so I was completely blown away they just were lovely really yeah just really really nice and but we kind of like we were talking a bit and they wanted me to be completely exclusive to them and I'm just not ready yet I just I don't know I feel I've built up some really lovely friendships with some well known companies and I don't want to let that go yet and I was really honest with them and they actually thanked me for my honesty they said that it was really rare to find people in this industry you know to be so committed to the brands and I can't remember the exact word that she used and yeah I just thought to break away from trim craft and lots of companies I'm still I communicate a lot I do a lot of things behind the scenes that I don't even talk about on this channel and I just don't want to give that up I like to bring to you guys products that I genuinely love and enjoy and I think that you would love and enjoy and to then not be able to necessarily do that with a mix of brands and just have to work with one brand which is a fantastic brand I don't know it just doesn't feel right and I'm one of those people that I've learned a lot especially later on in life that go with your gut and straight away and my gut just was like blown away with the fact that they'd said these great things but also I was just I kept thinking oh but that means I'm not really going to be doing that anymore and I just be a lot of traveling I'd be traveling a long way as well so there was all those kind of factors anyway with that being said I still wanted to work with me so get to choose product which was again something that appeals to me I like it when I can choose the product I don't like to just be sent something and then told I've got to say stuff about it you don't very rarely see me do that if I do say anything it's because it's stuff I've chosen which I've already got an interest in they have sent me this product which was what I chose and you would have seen some of this already I have shared lots of Cosmic Shimmer on this channel over the years so yeah I have got a lovely collection of Cosmic Shimmer products and this is things now that I am going to share with you I'm going to share some really fun tutorials and mix it in with all the other things that I've got and I think you're going to really like it so I was super excited that they wanted to yeah carry on working with me in some capacity and this is what we're going to be doing so they the other thing that appealed to me was that they are they have a lot of brands under their umbrella so Creative Expressions is the company then you've got Cosmic Shimmer, Woodware, there's loads I can't even actually I'm just I've just said them because they're what's in front of me but there's tons okay so and they are stocked with lots within lots of stores you'll find them you know their products in Hobbycraft you'll find it online stores it's stocked you know it's a huge huge company so I chose Woodware which you know is one of my favorite stamp companies and these stamps are incredible they are so so good and then I picked out some dies and then I've got some of the Cosmic Shimmer stuff now this stuff here I will show you briefly now but what I'm going to do is do separate tutorials with them because I've got some nice card ideas and things like that but I will go through and show you these stamps because some of them are so awesome I've not seen anything like it so this one here says towards the night before Christmas went all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse and it's a big tag now I haven't opened it up but I'm I don't know that name I don't think it is separate actually is one stamp but I think that's going to make a lovely gift tag that one there and that is a nice size I mean this here is just under four by four it's about three and three quarters squared so that's a lovely size stamp so I've got that one then I got this one which is just I love it I'm going to put family's faces in the middle of this because I think they're going to find it really funny and it's just timeless that is just going to be great for your kids cards for adult cards for all kinds of things you can put it on a gift bag you can I just I think you're going to really like some of the tutorials that I bring with this because it's just a really really fun stamp and again it's a really lovely size this one is five and a quarter by three and a half so it's a great size I've got this one here which I believe was your dotty is it dot oh bubble bloom that was it I just thought it'd be really nice to color it's very different don't have one like that at all so um yeah I just wanted to try that one and again you can kind of see the idea these are yeah five again the largest there's five by three and a half so again nice size I've got this one here so I haven't got I've got I've got one similar that's got you and then you've got all the bits to go with it and that was by craft work cards I think and this one here's just another one you've got wishing and hoping and dreaming I really liked that one yippie I thought that was a really nice one as well heartfelt this one's good if life's boring make something up a little something just for you friends I just really liked them and these lovely big sentiments here these are called these are hand drawn greetings see some have it wrote on the front and then some see there's nothing there and then it's on the back so whether that's new but it's on the back as well I don't know anyway but hand drawn greetings you've got happy christmas and a joyful new year merry christmas to you and then have yourself a happy christmas I like that one because you can color in the happy and little flowers here and everything just so it's really nice again they're a nice all you know good size and then this one here I just love the big holly stamp I don't have a lovely large one like that and you've got that big bow there as well I can't wait to color that one in and then you've just got holly holly berries says all different words there so that's really nice this one here is another really good one so it's basically like the paper ripped so it's like someone's burst through the hole like you imagine a cat like I don't know ran through the a box or something and it's all split around there's probably a really bad way to describe how this what this is but again I've just had some really funny ideas with this have like a real family members photo of their head poking out of this or you could do so much but I've got some I've got a really fun gift box idea with this which I think you're going to like again it's a great size this is four and a half by just under four and you've got surprise there as well just loved it I thought that's so original so different and that's just called surprise so love it absolutely love that one then these two are just really good as well so this is just bar humbug with the humbug sweet and the good thing about this is they're separate so that is just a really nice size sweet anyway so you can color that and you know stamp that and have it as a background but the bar humbug I just thought was brilliant and I know someone in my family that that would be perfect for so that'll probably be on their card and then this one here I actually didn't realize just how big this is going to be I don't know I just I kind of thought it was going to be more like I guess that kind of size and then I got it and I thought well actually that's really big so this is going to be a really nice gift tag hanging off of a bag but also stamped along the side of a bag I think it would look cool but otherwise it will work great on one of your eight by four cards you need to play around with that one because like I said it is bigger than I thought but I love it and it just says you are and then it's got all those great words really really nice so again all of that will be linked below then I picked up these here I think the majority of them are all Lisa Horton dies they are she designed some wonderful dies and I do enjoy watching her as well so these ones here are your borderline collection so I got the happy birthday thank you congratulations and merry Christmas so I went for these ones which will work all year round because I just thought they're going to look really nice so basically you can have it so that it hangs off the side like the top of a card but it will work as like a tab so you could have you know say that's your your card fold okay like that then you could have this for example congratulations coming off the side of this so you just it's going to be in tutorials I think they're going to look really nice yeah I just saw it again I think it's got quite a modern look on it so I'm looking forward to using them but you've also got the frame to cut them out so they are in a single piece but this one here it doesn't have a cutting line along the bottom of the writing so it will stay attached to whatever it is you die cut it on even at the top of a gift bag having that like actually on the top I think will look really nice so yeah I've got some nice ideas with them and yeah so I've got the four of those ones and then these ones here are your cut and lift collection really lovely so I've got this one here which is the festive foliage however this one here you could use all year round it's only that one that is distinctively holly but that doesn't mean you can't use it after Christmas but basically what it does you have your shadow die so you have your background one there and then this one in the middle when you cut it the cutting line will not cut all the way down so it leaves just a tiny bit where it doesn't cut to allow you to lift all of those leaves up and then you've got that bottom die to give you your color so you could you know maybe die cut the bottom one in a dark green die cut that in a lighter green lift it up to see the two colors and it just gives you a really nice 3d die so yeah I'm looking forward to trying out those ones so I've got the leaves then I picked up this one which was the pansies I really like it you can kind of see here where they've showed you whether it's got that like shadow around that's it that's the lifted piece so I'm looking forward to trying them again they're a nice size and I like the dies as well they're like a bronze color they're not silver and then this one here is the Ponsettia so I have got recently got those large Helen Griffin ones but these here are smaller and I think between the two I've got a nice kind of you know mix of sizes now but I love that these are that lift effect so again you've got your background shadow die and then you've got your detail which you lift up I can't wait to try them out I think they're going to look really really nice and you get a nice selection there's it four yeah four different sizes and then these tiny bits here as well which I guess will be like the the center like the stamen part I mean these dies are tiny here they've literally got everything and then you've got your little spiral pieces there as well so yeah these are all you're going to see all of this featuring over the Christmas period I cannot wait and then the Cosmic Shimmers like I said I'm going to do separate tutorials using this stuff but it's beautiful so a lot of you you know will have a lot of this I've got the glitter kiss I do have a couple of glitter glitter glitter kiss pots you would have seen me use the opal polish these are they're all different things like I said I'm not going to go into detail now with what they are and what they do you can find that all out online but I did want these ones I love the colors they're even better in person they have the same bottle and they work the same as the I've already tried some of these out this here is basically glitter that you can apply without adding glue and then sprinkling glitter it's all in there it's kind of all done together and you just you can cover like a background of paper within minutes and it's dry and you have this beautiful sparkle paper that I mean that's just one example the things you can do with the the glitter kiss is brilliant and you can just use it to just highlight like just the edges of maybe like a die cut flower all kinds of things it's beautiful stuff so I've got here the color I have is this is ocean spray because I wanted this one for again my underwater themed kind of things I just think with mermaids and stuff this is going to look beautiful so that was the glitter kiss in that and I thought I got yeah there's the other one there this one is rose copper and it's beautiful these are stunning then I've got the luster polish so which is these ones here you've also got your gilding ones but I've got a few of the gilding ones so I thought I would just go for the luster polish because I don't have I think I might have one luster polish actually but look these are have a very very high pigment color in them and they have a very small amount of mica that runs through them and again the coverage that you get from this this looks lovely as like green grass so if you covered a piece of cardstock on the bottom and again I did try these out before but the color is so rich and you don't need a lot you really don't and I'll be showing you how to use these how to look after them all that kind of stuff look at that oh it's just so yummy I love it and the color so the colors I got was bubblegum this one here is apple fizz the names are brilliant and this is lemon sherbet and this one is raspberry sorbet oh I feel so hungry and then I've got these here which are lovely little glitter pots but they're large glitter so these are going to be nice for my shaker card so you've got teal haze mermaid purple rainbow black and blush haze and you can see those colors there take out a little pinch and then sprinkle it inside your card I think they're going to look really nice I've got them and then these here are also to add these are like glitter dust but it's very very very fine so again there's going to be lots of things to do that I can do with this and you could probably add it not into that but when you apply this you could sprinkle it over and it would probably stick to it just to add more shine and sparkle but again these ones here I got pink fire gold flame silver rainbow and midnight glow and then they also added these ones in for me which was really kind of them so I do have these but they are this one I haven't used yet but this is the cosmic flake and glitter glue so it makes sense that they've sent that because obviously I've got the glitters there and okay so that's all the creative expressions product okay so that's everything I just want to say a huge thank you to creative expressions you've just been so so nice from the beginning and I cannot wait to start creating some amazing projects with this I hope you are all going to really enjoy what I bring to you as well it's really fun to be able to use like I said things that you enjoy because I find it easy to create things with because I've already got ideas for these you know and I've already got I'm familiar with this product here and it's just going to be really fun and yeah these these cut and lift dies are going to be interesting as well can't wait to start making the Christmas projects with all of that lovely stuff because it is just beautiful and I've got my nice little diamond there to sit on my desk as well so everything works together you're going to see it all mixed and working together as well which is what I enjoy doing so yeah I've been speaking for a long time I'm now going to stop I'm going to put all this away and yeah I hope you enjoyed the video please give me a thumbs up as I look out for all the tutorials thanks for watching bye