 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So this week I've got a few things to share with you. First is the latest issue of Paper Craft Essentials magazine with this one here this is issue 179 and you get this lovely luxury shaker kit. Now I've not even opened this yet so I'm just going to see how do we get in this one oh on the side. So this one's been designed by Simply Made Crafts which is Helen Griffiths, I always get Christina Griffiths and Helen Griffithn. I get the the Griffithn and the Griffiths mixed up so I'm just going to take it this is how you do it. It seems a shame to rip into it but that seems to be the only way in. Oh that was a fight anyway. There you go I can still close it up. So in here you get everything you need to make a shaker card. So there will be no doubt exclusive papers so let's see you get 16 scene images, 8 card blanks, 24 foiled sentiments, 54 foiled die cut pieces, 8 die cut window frames and plus sequins acetate and foam strips. So if you're someone that struggles with maybe making shaker cards they have your frames pre-done for you. Now you get loads in there there's an example of one of the cards you can make and you've got some other nice Christmas ones there as well so 78 pieces inside. So here is some acetate, you've got these bags here of sequins I love the iridescent clear ones because they just work with everything and then you have all of your card blanks these are your windows they're so cute you can use these in so many other projects as well not just for the shaker cards they're really really nice do like them and they're white so obviously they're easy to add your inks to just stress them you can yeah do whatever you want there then you get a little pad which is full of all the strips so that's one long strip which is great and then these are your papers so these are going to be a six size card I believe looks like it four by yeah it's about four by six isn't it so then we've got all these background papers you've got this one I like those ones Santa Claus Joy Laugh Snow Merry Christmas Starry Night Noel we've got these with the snow theme and you've got your antlers brick that's nice see these would be great for new home cards as well it's not just Christmas you've got your like wood effect there the decking there's another festive one and then you've got these smaller scenes here I'll have to have a look on how they oh these are I see so this is to look out the window so your window here will sit perfectly over these how sweet is that that's a really really lovely just completely transforms those images and then you sit that on your chosen so there's to say your house has got a wood effect or you live in a brick house I think they're going to look wonderful so that's those you get two of those and then that's nice so this is the the other way now this is like you're looking in the house in this Father Christmas where you've got the Christmas tree really like it nice and then I spots on foiling lovely I think it's needed as well because these don't have any foiling in the papers they're quite matte it's nice to have that pop so you get double there as well you get the little cat so you could have the cat sitting on the windowsill because he's just that yeah look perfect and then you've got your Christmas tree so yeah they're really really good and I think with these kits I need to almost like schedule in some time to actually work through them because I love them and I they're quick cards so they're handy to have and like I said some of these I donate charities once I've made them so I'm going to pop all that back in its case you actually get two bits of acetate there's another one there as well so it isn't just that one piece that would be enough for four cards because I imagine actually no probably no you probably get two four so yeah that's enough for eight of the cards because of the size of the windows so that's the lovely kit and then the magazine does as always have lots of inspirations you've got inspiration there I feature in this one as well I have done oh look yeah they look really really good because you can change the window as well that's a different window effect so that one's been made love it there with all the sequins inside always lots of inspiration trying to see where my one is because I haven't actually looked yet oh oh my god I get really touched you're seeing this as a first reaction guys I've just seen two projects and both of them have been inspired by my tutorials that's so lovely so Jane Kennedy in Bristol thank you so much Anna Elizabeth Fienham from via Facebook that's so lovely she was inspired by my wreath because I used the the the leaves the autumnal leaves that were the free gift I was inspired by sound Clayton from mixed up craft plus the fabulous kit from issue one seven seven oh that's so lovely and then this one here I do love that box and I love that she's made both sizes as well because that mini one's really it always chokes me up I'm such a silly one right anyway this one says I love sound Clayton's projects in issue one seven seven and I couldn't wait to make her step a box they are so cute this is my version and I also had a go at the large box too oh thank you Jane that's so lovely and they are amazing this is I love that huge it's like a Hessian bow that looks absolutely amazing and then there's more amazing these are great this this was such a great kit with all the flowers so many of you made some wonderful things with that and you can get these back copies as well so again I'll share all the links below because they are so handy and if you're someone who maybe I always say is just starting out or you know you don't like to spend a lot of money on cross supplies these kit things are great I mean that's going to make you how many cards did it say eight luxury shaker cards that's brilliant and this cost of this one is really competitive this is one of the cheaper ones 6.99 so it's always I think really good but where is my one there we go I just show you how to make your own wrapping paper so I created these little um these boxes here with the wrapping paper on them and I used the Altenew that was the bells and bows it's lovely that one I got it last year but it's still available it's just such a lovely stamp set and I'll be pulling that out again this year but that was my feature all wrapped up so it was really nice and you're like next month's next month's is next month's no it's every fortnight this one it's I think it's going into that one it's amazing loved making that one so that is the latest papercraft essentials magazine okay and then I picked up the creative stamping magazine this is issue 76 so let's just open this one and the reason I wanted this one although I nearly buy I'm kind of starting to buy every single one of the magazines again I did stop for a while because I was just taking up too much room but this one is Pinkfresh Studios and it is lovely big images of your well it says Christmas florals but you've got your Ponsettias here and I don't have nice big images of this and I'm seeing so much card inspiration with Ponsettia flowers I thought I want some and then I saw that this was coming out so I thought yes I'm having it I also love the little houses anything with houses on is brilliant I mean that one does have a wreath on it certainly this one here would work great for a new home card you even got here from our house to yours lovely little images here and just all these sprigs you've got the berries it's just a really really nice set let me take the packaging off okay just so you can see it a bit closely look at all the detail so much detail but easy to color you know still nice blank areas so you're really going to see your um yeah all your coloring with them love this one as well just think they're very nice and modern and I think that's something you know it's pink fresh studios they are very modern with their stamps and contemporary feel to them and I just think it looks lovely love all the the lines through this one here so that's that one it's got a little bit of inspiration on the back there as well and then you have your magazine and again lots of inspiration see this is the kind of thing I like I love that look that's been stamped using embossing powder so it's golden embossing powder and then you color within and it's just such a lovely effect so I'm definitely going to be giving that a go and I'll show you some more inspiration here love this one it's the diamond fold card see this everywhere some more there that's on like a craft card so that looks lovely and then here yeah see they've used it there from our house to yours that's really lovely and there's that one there and that's so quick to do that doesn't take long even with just basic coloring you don't have to do all your blending you can keep the coloring quite blocked so yeah so I'm really pleased with that one so that's the creative stamping issue 76 and then I also picked up the crafts beautiful this is the october 2019 issue so this one you have 25 festive stamps plus a festive edition craft snowflake die and trim craft papers on the back which are here turnover for 32 festive papers free 164 page coloring book worth 9.99 you've just got to pay postage so that's something else you can get and then there's a competition there and an interview with one of the designers so let's just get into this one first of all there is the stamp set now the reason I was drawn to this one if I just take the belly band off that snowflake dies actually really sweet because it's smaller than the ones I've got so I'd be nice to mix in with them you can just see the nice little snowflake but look at these stamps you've got the Christmas tree there and you've got the elf with his legs sticking out the top so he's got stuck inside the Christmas tree you've got lovely images of Father Christmas but it's these that I like I like the elves eyes only until the 25th of december and I love this one welcome to the north pole and you're going to see that on a really nice 3d project which I keep hinting at but I also like these because they're nice stamped as like a silhouette so I can use them with some of my other ideas you've got santron is sleigh and just these boxes and things like that they're just handy to just mix with other projects so that's the stamp set so let's have a little look at the papers this is the enchanted Christmas it's 32 designer prints so it's the trim craft ones and I'm on their design team so it'd be quite nice to see what papers we've got here so start from the back so you've got that lovely like traditional color there this is great for masculine style cards again great for background papers these and not just for Christmas I've said it before this is this was like a golf print reminds me of love that one with the holly it's really nice and then you've got your Nordic style recognize this one I think some of these are maybe from paper addicts or they've evolved from that some of them I do recognize love that one that's great for again all year round you've got the wood effect there with the snow you've got your stag head again more of a Nordic or Scandinavian feel and stars again great for any kind of card it's nice with the craft it's like wrapping paper Christmas paper that reminds me of and it's actually you could easily use that to wrap small gifts as well that's cute love the houses and there's your mistletoe you've got like your candy cane stripe and the candy canes they're great love those ones and then that one there so you can even use your top sheet as well and then there's just a little welcome letter there so that's the papers they're always handy and then you have a very colorful magazine here full of inspiration it's actually really thick this one 100 Christmas craft essentials gadgets papers pens and more okay so that's the crafts beautiful and like I said that's issue that's the october 2019 issue and then last week on my facebook page I said that I joined the Kleina Palmer designs design team so Kleina is or has been designing dyes for other companies for many many years and she's been crafting for a long time and she's now done her own collection and it was really nice that she um she approached me and asked if I would like to you know have some of her product and join the team so I jumped at the chance now I'll show you why in a moment because I think they're a really cool idea but what she sent me is these magnetic sheets I've got a four and I've got a five so they work on your smaller machine and your larger and these are your they're called a linem so they're your die cutting alignment tool okay now you get two so I'll show you here all right that's the smaller ones and then you've got your large ones here and the real thing I like about these as well is that she's done all of the in different colors so it's really easy to see like my five by seven is that turquoise color so I will you know I'll get used to seeing that you've got five by five a six six by six seven by seven a five eight by eight so you and I've got these lovely stencils so I've got the heart stencil that's the embroidery on glaze um probably see that a bit better there actually really detailed and then that one there and that's your doily I like that it covers the whole thing actually it's going to look lovely with my embossing paste and glitters and stuff on them and then I've got these two dies which are your nested heart and the nested doilies they coordinate with the stencils but the nice thing about these is they're so big because you've got your outer cutting line and then all the detail cuts into the card stock this will cut it out so I'm going to make a card that size with this I think that's going to look really pretty and again with the heart there you've got your outer cutting line and then these all cut within so I think they're going to be so detailed and lovely then I've got these I couldn't believe how big they are they are so nice and these fit the alphabet letters in perfectly but just look at those now you can cut these in half and layer them up which is what she shared on some of the cards that she'd made but I think they're lovely I like that they're just plain and then you can add everything to them lovely cutting decorative papers they're going to be really nice and then these are the linkums so basically this is a modular system so these are 44 this is your bold lowercase alphabet and you'll see there she's got a little dovetail and they link in to each other so that you can get them perfectly aligned so there's no kind of wonky sentiments and things so that's the 33 bold numbers bold lowercase and then you got bold uppercase and then you've got your shapers so these here will allow you to have like a curve on your sentiment so that's nice and these here allow you to again get them perfectly lined up but also a nice kind of gap between them so you've got all of them but you also get like with these here you get loads of spacers so it's just yeah I'm going to really look forward to playing around with this and yeah just watch your space because I will be showing tutorials and if you watch Hachanda where this is all available and I'll link all of that below you may see some of my cards as well so thank you Kleiner and in due course you will see some lovely projects that I'm going to make using this product and then I think it was the beginning of last week that I saw Paper Mill Direct done a call out for design team and I thought oh yes please so I applied and it was really nice and this week I found out that I joined the team so thank you Paper Mill Direct I am chuffed to pieces because now I get sent really nice playing card stocks so that's like your bread and butter that's like the main thing you need they do so much over there they do your envelopes they do all your different card stocks papers there's loads and loads of different things so I'll link them below and go and check them out but they so she sent me some glue there which is always handy but then this is the paper I've got so I've got the buff I like the name 240 gsm so she's wrote on these what they are this here is the white smooth this is going to be I think amazing with my coloring so using with my alcohol markers then I've got a mixed non-shed glitter pack let's have a little look at these colors so I've got silver red or real lovely Christmas red that one's beautiful sparkle and I've got that rose gold Christmas green lovely like baby pink and then a gold or like a bronze actually it's more of a bronzy color so some real lovely glitter card stock there I'm going to pop them all back in because I don't want these to get mixed up then I have so she sent me a lot for Halloween because I'm working on Halloween projects so she sent me some that we're going to work well with out now this is charcoal sparkle I don't have anything like this and just look at that oh my god look at all the colors you got everything it's like rainbow sparkle on a black background so she's sent me those and they are just gorgeous and it's relatively smooth you can feel it but it's not it's non-shed again that's definitely not coming off but isn't that gorgeous gift boxes oh can't wait so yeah that's charcoal sparkle and then this one here is dark violet that is a really good Halloween color love that one then this one here's black and this is this is a dark black and it's not until you put it against another black so this is my other black and that is considerably different that is now looking gray it's a real lighter black so this is the darkest black I have so if you are looking for that black black again I think this is going to be a good one it's really really nice and this is 240 gsm so it's a perfect weight for your card blanks and for making you know your 3d projects then we've got mandarin orange I'm not going to take that one out you can see there how that looks and then this is navy blue and I've said this before it's a color that I never have a lot of but once I get it I use it and I know I just don't seem to replenish it so this is going to look lovely with the moonlight song the paper boutique pad that I've got and also the nautical one that I've got in that collection as well I think that's going to really complement them well and then I've got this is fleck craft I've only ever used two other craft cards before in the past so it's going to be nice to try a different one this is 250 gsm and it's a fleck because you do have that fleck detail throughout and then you've got that slightly different tone on the back so yeah really really nice thank you Charlotte I'm going to get cracking with these and then lastly I picked up a couple of bits from craft stash so they've asked if I would like to try this product here so this is sussie crafting by Emma Jewell so she is one of the newer of the branded product that they have so yeah I just thought I'm going to give it a go because I don't like I said before I don't buy halloween paper pads I never really have I've always looked for downloads online or just used stamps and kind of made do or just used black card stock but I thought you know I'm going to give these a go so I've got here that's a bundle there so these will die cut these here so you've got your skull but I do like her playing with the words so she's got love at first bite and you've got the lips stay spooky my kinder and then you've got poison or you've got watch your poison and you've got happy halloween and I just think you know what they're a little bit of fun you don't have to use the traditional colors you can do like hot pinks and yellows and stuff like that to make it look quite bold you've got the little spider and stuff so I've got some yeah I've got some fun ideas and I'm going to be doing a table kind of layout this year so things like this are going to get used a lot for that and then you've got a nice sized spider here but I thought about doing the spider in like glitter I think that's going to look really cool and I'm thinking I might do a ring as well and then you've got the bat and you've got the skull and crossbones there so they're fun then she's also done these here are your this is sticker pack in this one here yeah just loads of different stickers if you've got it haunted stay spooky um you've got some strips there got that one there with all the days of the week and then you've got freaky friday so I'll use this one on my planner for the the week the run up to halloween and the week after and then you've got again the poison keep it creep it real I put a spell on you I'll be watching hocus pocus this year happy halloween actually when I was making some of my crafting products projects the other day I was watching adams family I forgot how much I like that movie and then here she's got these die cuts it's 22 pieces 11 designs if you don't want to do the dies and coloring with this set here then you can use these because she's done it for you so I don't think they are stickers no they're just on a nice thick card so it's these images here and you've got the coffin but blown up so I'll probably do a scrapbook layout and I will probably do I'm thinking I might do a mini album actually with the papers I think it's going to look really good because I've got so many over the years of like halloween fancy dress parties that I've been to and I went to Alton towers over halloween one year and I think if I pull out all those photos and put them in a halloween album I think that's going to look really quite cool and this is a bit more of a modern halloween which I like so that's where I think I'm going to use a lot of this and then I'll show you the papers which I'll be using so here you get 12 sheets and this is trick or treat they're double-sided again they're going to work really well for a mini album I love that it's like the cover and then you've got this one here I believe these are all Emma's sketches they're her like images that she's done I like the pink with the orange and then you've got there the the lips with the fang teeth and that's the second one she gets two of each page love that one I really really like that that would be actually good for the front cover I think yeah I think I might use that one instead and then you've got the coffin with the rose and then you've got these cutouts if you've got it haunt it creep it real stay spooky love it first bite trick or treat they're going to look really cool as little journaling cards because you have got room there you could with a white gel pen you can journal above here and you can journal here so they will work nicely there and then that's the same and that's the same so yeah that's going to be just enough papers I think for a nice mini album halloween mini album so yeah so that was the sassy crafting halloween collection okay and then it wouldn't be a good what did you get video without something from a charity shop and we scored big so first of all picked up these so these are lindy sprays if you're into I guess more mixed media then you may know of these I believe they are American in fact they are American and I've seen these from my scrapbooking earlier kind of days this is you know a lot of people that I followed or follow still on youtube use a lot of lindy sprays I've had one before but a lot of mine are cosmic shimmer and these ones here are your flat fabios I think it was so all you do these have never been used they're brand new you can still get them online and they are they're about four to five pound per bottle I got these for two pound and all you do to activate them is you add boiling water and then you leave them to sit for 10 minutes and then you will have a highly pigmented spray color so these are just really really bright colors there's no shimmer in these but you can also use them for paints you can just spray some onto your acrylic block and then use your paintbrush and use them with your stamping and stuff you can see the colors there they're on the fronts so I just thought that was a bargain so two pound for all of those sprays so I will activate all of those later on and I will share any links to anything that I can find that I brought in the charity shops because like I said I think these are still available but may not be those exact colors and then these were like the gift that kept giving because they were in a basket and honestly I thought when is it going to stop because I kept pulling one out after the other and these are your new boat embellishment mouses I've had one of these before and they are really really nice for using with your stencils and they add texture and dimension but with a metallic finish so I'm going to be using these on cards these are all still available online in stores and they were a pound each and they are £6.49 between five and as much as seven pound each online I couldn't believe it and they are all brand new not one of them has been opened they've all got the foil on top so yeah I was like squealing inside and then we spoke to the lady at the the desk and said look who who is the lady don't ain't in all this this craft product because you know we've been coming in for the last few weeks and not every time has been successful but it's it's been that same kind of stuff all really good quality product and never been used so she was either a crafter that hoarded and never used anything or she might have been a demo some rep or something I just don't know but it's all in perfect condition so I have for here I've got like a black the colors are there but the one pound price tags on a lot of it you've got this beautiful blue if I just put them like this and you can see there the colors I love this this is like a peony color it said I remember reading that one this is a bronze or copper color in fact that's more of a copper there so that's more of a bronzy color blue black lilac or lavender this is like a golden yellow you've got that green at the end there like a pistachio color love that lovely minty color they're just I've got such a nice range I can't believe it so yeah that was um a huge score at the local charity shop and then my mum done really well because this was all in the same thing but I was grabbing all of the nuvo and the sprays and she was grabbing all the dyes so it's all that sheena stuff again and I got some of the embossing folders I think either last week or the week before so again none of it has been used it's all brand new in the packaging so it's this one is home life and you've got the teapot cup and saucer this one's beautiful sweet peas sweet peas are just so lovely look at them really nice sized dyes then this one here was really good she's got so excited about this because it's really nice and big so I've got the small ones from the secret garden collection these are slightly bigger ones so they're gonna look lovely with lots of flowers you could actually have like sweet peas coming out of this and you've got a nice size little you know what's it called planter marker or whatever it is and then these are 3d embossing folders but we knew we all know how you know these are can be quite pricey you know you're looking at like six pound for a 3d embossing folder and they're five by seven size again my mum's a five by seven card person like myself so this one's gorgeous with this it's got a bit of a steampunk background there with the cogs but then on the front here you've got these beautiful large flowers so it's called clockwork oh daisies they are sorry clockwork daisies that was a pound all of this they were a pound each that one was 50p and this one here is autumn leaves so yeah was that the one yeah and that's the top part of it that's the bottom part so it's like snow and you've got this one here with the butterflies this is a lucid butterfly this one here is up up and away and you've got your hot air balloons so it's the sky and then this one here is cherry cherry I think that's really sweet it's going to be lovely if you just highlight these in pink for your cherry blossom really really nice again never ever been used and then with that was this here which was the spots and stripes this is do cross paper mania it's their capsule collection I've had some of the capsule collection ranges before in the past they are really nice but with this one so she got the 32 pack of 12 by 12 papers again brand new all in the packaging for two pound then got the matching buttons I think that was 50p that one didn't have a price so I think the lady scanned it through 50p and then these are beautiful they're a pound they're huge flowers look at these there we go my mum's been crafting a long time she's not the kind of person that has to get the latest craze she is you know happy using anything she just appreciates all kinds of you know patterns and colors and things like that plus I hand a lot of my stuff down to her so yeah these are just look at all these absolutely wonderful so you just get a couple there and like offset them and put a nice embellishment in the middle put some leaves behind them but look at these it's going to look lovely on gift bags I said to her you've got to make some lovely big gift bags with these great big so there's two of each you can offset each one like so or add you know clash them I mean that's a lovely lovely look there I think they're brilliant really really good quality lovely and thick and there's tons in there how many do you get 32 pieces they're 160 gsm they're so strong so yeah so that was all my mum's charity shop finds so that's what I've got this week so I've got plenty of card stock which is going to be awesome to now kind of finish the rest of my Halloween projects I'm going to plan a Facebook live and I'm going to be doing these along with the Christmas ones from the last issue and then yeah look out for tutorials featuring these because though yeah thank you for watching there's always I'll be back tomorrow with another tutorial see you later bye