Hi everybody, so I have a few things to show you today. I've had a little bit of a splurge and I finally went to the range and I haven't been there since the beginning of lockdown. For those of you that don't know what the range is in Plymouth we've got a few of them because it's where the stores were founded and it's just basically like a homewares place but it does everything crafting stuff DIY. Everything you can think of but the craft department is really and yeah it was just nice to be in a shop and there was nobody else up there it was just me and my mum and it was just yeah it was really nice to be able to browse and we had our masks on but we weren't having to worry about walking into people and we could just have a really good route around and they had some really good bargains so let me get started. Okay so first of all I picked up these paper pads here so I've got two 12x12 pads they have loads there I don't need I mean there's loads I could have had but I've got some other paper pads coming and I've got my own ones now so I don't need to go too mad but these ones here this one here is called vintage dreams and it's navies and that's just something I don't have a lot of and I do love navy and white together I think it's really nice in projects but I love that this comes with all these wood grains so I'll give you a quick flick through so you have a wood grain on one side and then you have a blue and white kind of image on the other so that's a nice kind of layout scrapbook layout page there and then you've got a wood grain blue one wood grain look at these gorgeous I had a bedding like this a long time ago really nice again lovely wood grains and if you like to take photos of your cards these are nice backgrounds you can lay your card on there and take a photo really nice so you get two of each design it's 240 gsm this is nice I'm going to use that for a scrapbook layout I really like that one got some nice blue flowers I can use again that one there's got a background already done there for you and then that's the center so I make a lovely gift bag you've got your two sides there and then that would that would be the inside of the gift bag and then it just repeats again on this side so that was that one these are 2.99 and then this one here I thought go really well with my slider dice because it was let's hear it for the girls so it was all about makeup palettes and you had the lipsticks and all that lot different stamps and dyes thought this would go really nice I know I had papers with it but there's something about these ones I just thought was really fun I love the red white and the black and these would work well for Valentine's as well so again give you a quick flick through so you've got a black and white spec tiny little hearts animal print that one's like almost like Chevron and then this one here was the one that kind of drew my eye it's got the ring strawberries lips perfume bottle and I've got there of nail polish little signs stars eyes glasses shoes all sorts these are great I actually like them together you could do like a black band or something on the card I think that would look really good I can't wait to use them unlike my tower cards and things like that I think they're going to look really nice this one's got love and tiny writing so again great for Valentine's here you got the black hearts the cherries think that one's great more flowers this is cool love that one then that one says beauty style grace elegance perfection beauty star and then it repeats nice background one there that's a good one as well stars arrows that's great roses hearts and lips more polka dots and then that's the center so I love the cherries there as well and then it repeats again so I picked up those two then I picked up these pads and they were three pound each in the clearance section you get 28 pieces these are steel for three pounds so it was the last two there so I grabbed them so this one's got 16 pieces this one's the luxury glitter card and this one is your luxury mirror card and I am low on mirror card I've got some more that I also picked up because it's not these colors but it's the Flutterby collection by Crafters Companion Sarah Davis they're on the front so you can see there you get that lovely turquoise midnight blue mauve and dusky pink I'll just I'm going to take this out and put it into my where I keep them all so the front those are the different colors they're really really nice super please they're really really nice thick cardstock so I will leave those there and then this is the glitter obviously it's all part of the same collection so they do go together so it'd be nice to kind of mix them because you go again you've got the turquoise midnight blue mauve and dusky pink so you can see them that I mean that actually makes it lovely because it's that slight greeny color it'd be great for snow still it would look nice for a Christmas snow card but you can see them there aren't they lovely and they're non-shared I mean the quality is great anyway so and again you get the little kind of taster ones on the front which is great that you get the as extras so yeah lots of glitter and mirror card there which is good and a bargain price okay and then I picked up these so these were £1.50 each was it £1.50 each and my receipts in my wallet still they were under £2 and you get 10 sheets of card five of each classic tone five of each classic tone 10 sheets of card okay ideal to use with tonic studio dies 12 by 12 weave textured card acid and lingam free so I've got the this is the magnificent magenta so that's the colors you get there so I've got the two again these were the last four left so I just grabbed these two and then there was these and I just saw the perfect for right now because obviously they're the autumnal tones it's called heated hues um and again same description there so yeah just you know go through cardstock so quickly so it's good to keep stocked up and they are really nice colors and these ones are you know I'll probably use a few now but they go through into spring anyway so that's good and then I picked up these two here so these were full price which was 3.99 each I mean that's still a bargain for 20 they're 250 gsm so again you could use them to make your you know gift boxes and bags but also as your card base and this is the Anita's gold mirror board and the silver mirror board um and it's a really nice so it's not just show you here there you go you can see it's just a really nice it's almost mapped in a way but there is a real nice shine to it um and you can see the gold there I don't need to take that one out but again these are that's all going to be gone on Christmas cards um and I actually needed some to finish a project today so I'll be able to do that and get that filmed so uh yeah just kind of stocking up on the basics but also getting a few bargains along the way and then this one here I saw now last year when I was at the craft show I picked up the three snowmen stamp sets for pennies that I think they were like 2.99 each or something like that and I made one card with them because I got them in the November I'd already made a lot of my projects so I didn't really get to use them so much and then I saw this reduced for 1.99 I mean it was only 2.99 apparently called as the stickers that was to me still good but it matches the stamps and I just thought I can make some really nice Christmas cards with it because I've got a few flying floating kind of ideas in my head and the snowman works perfectly for that so it's just really nice 8x8 very cute you've got some lovely imagery here and obviously it's the official Raymond Briggs merchandise so all of the official images there which are just so cute and I love these background ones so I can use that on other things as well so yeah just grab that one then I grabbed the paper posies these were down 2.99p and this pad was 1.99 or 2.99 and I've adored this collection I used all of my 12x12 I've got just scraps and the 6x6 pad I've only got things like maybe some of the blues left none of these ones so I just sort of for that price I'm going to grab it and just keep it there because it does make some beautiful cards and I've still got some of the Decoupage toppers so it'd be nice to match them up and I thought while I was there I've picked up the wooden matching shapes there as well I have used a lot of them I think I've maybe got two left so yeah I thought I'd grab those so I don't tend to try not to buy repeats of things but because I've enjoyed them so much and I know that they will they were popular with cards that my friends got from me so if they did ask for another kind of card similar I've got stuff there to be able to do it and still in the clearance bin these were both with these orange stickers I just hadn't put them on some things as well so these this here was 30p I just thought they're going to be nice just to pop on my cards like fit in little areas so these make little flags so you've got your little sticks there and you just wrap them around the top they've got the little flag tails on the ends there so it's just deer santa hell's couple ditch collection that would have been it was for trim craft so I don't remember the deer oh yeah no I do remember actually so I've got them and then I never had these last year and it's the dovecraft the magic of Christmas and their metal snowflakes little charms I thought they'd look really nice some bound to do maybe a Christmas album and any gift bags and things like that and those again were 30p so again it was such a bargain and those were a pound again all the 50p I can't remember but they were cheap they were all in the clearance the wellington boot I still have a few of but the birds have all gone so I've stocked up on some more of those because I do love using them for my 3d makes and so on and I picked up this very bizarre glitter pom-pom garland I love pom-poms and pom-poms were glitter just even better but I saw it and I just thought I know I can do something with this it may go into some form of wreath I might use it for handles on gift bags I think that would look really fun it's just it's got the Grinch kind of feel to it I just thought for 199 for the amount that you get I needed to get it so yeah so I'm now thinking of a fun project if you've got any ideas pop them in the comments section and I will check them out it's really soft and I know I can do something fun with this so yeah there was three in the bin I didn't think I'd need three 1.8 meters so I just picked up the two there but for 199 I thought that was pretty good I don't know what it was to start with it probably wasn't too much more because it doesn't actually say on there but anyway yeah that's what I got and then I picked up some more foam so lots of people always ask me where I get the foam from it's just in the children's department so and you can get it in the pound shop it's kind of cut into shapes but you can still use it to die cut but it's how I add dimension to my sentiments or any kind of different dies that I might use I tend to always want them to be a bit dimensional so I've got this pad here which has got all of your darker tones and then you've got white and cream there and then this one's a bit more colorful and yeah I use them a lot so they're very inexpensive a few pound and very lightweight as well but yeah if you um if you like to make things more dimensional and you don't want to cut it out multiple times in paper if you just cut it out once with the foam and then once of the actual image and you stick that on top um yeah you've got a nice dimensional element for your cards or your 3d projects so I picked up those and then I treated myself to a cordless glue gun I have been eyeing this up for a while there is nothing wrong with my scissics one I really enjoy it however it just I don't like having it on display and the wire does irritate me sometimes I'm not going to lie so I just I googled it and it I had it on my amazon basket for a while and I remembered I put it back in there you know you can save for later or whatever so I went back to it and I checked out the reviews the reviews are really good and I've been using it now I've used it maybe three or four times and it's it's really good so you have a USB lead here so this will connect like so now you can use it when it's on as well I believe I don't think I have but I'm sure you can because it does charge if I just pop it in here you can see now the lights on just make it out of the red lights on when it goes green that means it's fully charged it has a little stand there I'm going to take that back off again now and it shows it's on there anyway even though it does need charging it will still work glue sticks in there you get 30 glue sticks so I've got them all there I'll put them in my drawer and you get a little mat as well now it doesn't drip I've not seen anything drip from it but I've got some really good hacks that I'm going to share for using a heat gun which I think some people are going to like so that video will be going up very soon it takes about four minutes to start kind of you know being soft enough for you to squeeze through but if you can leave it a bit longer when I'm coming into start projects I tend to turn my glue gun on and then you know it's there it's ready and it's piping hot when you go to use it not very heavy really comfortable like I said I think it's a really really good product I'm very very pleased with this one but I wanted to use it a few times before I kind of shared it with you just so I can be a bit more honest with my opinions on it but so far I'm very impressed and it was 11.99 I'm going to say which again I thought was really good so I'll share the links as always you also get these now I do have the pink ones here which are by the stick to anything brand it's a little silicon finger protector so you can you know push the hot glue down with your finger you see me do use this sometimes in my videos so you don't get any of that burning your fingers but it's good that they give you quite a few in here so I haven't actually taken these ones out I'll put them with that one there I don't think I need this many I can't imagine I'm going to be going through them like that but I guess if you're someone who uses a glue gun a lot now these are more like rubber gloves like just on your fingers but there you go I guess if you're doing maybe quite a lot of gluing you can put them on a few fingers but they're there anyway and just take those off and yeah reuse them you don't have to throw those away and you've got instructions there so yeah I'm pleased with that one so yeah it's already I can feel it oh yeah don't put your finger on that bit there but it's it's got nice and warm already so I'm just going to pop that to one side then I got a couple of magazines now I have already used the creative stamping one because I showed it in a recent Facebook live so this is issue 88 and within this one here you get the A4 stamp set here and it's the floral Christmas and this section here is the John next door brand so I was very fortunate I got to actually use this and do a commission um maybe about two months ago when I done the commission and this is my card on the front so I was super chuffed to see that in there and this is actually the first time I've done a commission for this magazine and being a huge fan of creative stamping magazine it's something I've collected myself for many years I have lots of the stamps it was very very it was a very happy moment when this dropped through my door and I saw my card there so that's just you know inspiration on some you know just a card idea I've done this one here and I'll just show you again I'm not going to show everything all the other inspirations because it's a nice surprise but I don't mind showing the ones I've done so there's the cover card this one's really nice I just used this stamp here and just stamped it all over done a circular kind of wreath effect there and then I've done this one here which is like a little you can have it as a place setting as well your name setting what you want to call it and then there's a pop-up box card there as well there's some really lovely makes in this magazine as well using that free stamp set and you also get a die there and that die which will cut this one and that flower there which will layer up on that one as well but you get the lovely big ponsettia there um you've got this is nice it's like the mistletoe you've got the rose flourish you've got pine cones there and the ferns it's really really nice the merry Christmas peace on earth sent with love and warmest winter wishes and just for you oh enjoy to the world she got a few sentiments plus the sentiments in the john next door so yeah that one is the creative stamping issue 88 and then this is the hunky dory premium magazines this is volume 12 again I get these sent to me for free because I've done the some of the commissions for them but I also like to share them and then a lot of these go into my giveaway box for the facebook lives that I do so this one here you get this die here which I can't remember seasons greetings oh yeah it says it there some so you get a stamp set there on there we go so it says gnome for Christmas as in hand for Christmas Christmas wishes you got the little stock in you've got this nice little garland effect and then you have here three gnomes that are all standing on top of each other which is very very sweet I've actually got one of their larger edible stamps or edger they call them and it has I believe it's penguins and I'm going to use it on a tower card so yeah I saw this one it's super cute in fact I'll probably hopefully get to use this because in my brief for the commission mine was just shaped cards so and they wanted me to kind of focus more on the cutout pieces or the pop out pieces that you get which hunky dory are known for I didn't get to use the stamp set and this is there for lovers stamps stamp sets which obviously I really like so I'll pop all that back in there in a moment there's the magazine so again I'll just find my makes I mean I love that I've done something similar before on my channel with the tea lights but I like the size of that one they put three I think mine I've done four or five so quite like that kind of more I guess smaller version and that was one of mine there so I done the TP card worked really well with that I done a little rosette and a little cluster on the front and here's some of the makes so there's the they called it shapeshifting this feature so it's the TP card there then I done this center easel with the that's one of the I show you them it's all in this pad here they're going to see it actually it's this lovely image here that's what I used in the center of the easel I've done the triple cube box that was really fun actually I like that one with the gnomes on the fronts there and the sentiment in the middle and then I've done this one which is a top folding but I've done a very very thick kind of top part and I've scored the card this is all in the kit and put they've made this big bow on the top it looked really good it's you see it really kind of appreciating more on the side really she gets to see all the dimension there but it's that was a yeah I like that one and this is a box card using the whole piece of A4 so you can see there it's kind of and this bit sits out again I've done similar before on my channel but it's just nice ways to show off the paper and that's all in here again I'm not going to open and take this out but you get loads you've got your card stocks there and you've got all of these pieces to pop out and make some lovely lovely things with so yeah that's the volume 12 and if you'd like to try and get your hands on this one and you just have to watch my Facebook live so that every Monday and Friday at two British summertime and I will always make something and then at the end I will randomly select a comment and that person will win whatever the giveaway prize is for that day and we have some really great stuff because a lot of it's been donated as well so there's some fantastic prizes but at the moment we're trying to make sure let's say we I'm trying to make sure that I get the Christmas stuff out to people the Christmas giveaway pieces because then you can use it this side of this year rather than win it maybe in February or something next year and not be able to use it straight away so yeah so that one is going to go into the giveaway box and then I received some wonderful friend mail so this has come from my lovely friend in Ireland called Simone and she's been following me now for a while she's a great support really really active on our mixed up crafters facebook page she has our own youtube channel as well which is Blonde Cards and Creates I believe and she messaged me a while ago and we chat anyway but she said oh I'd love to send you something and she asked for my clothes size and my favorite colors and then this has arrived so she's done the wonderful Book of Tricks easel card which I showed how to make maybe a year ago now and I was saying it's so nice to get a card back to me that of a style that I've created because obviously I make cards for everybody else but my mum obviously makes a lot but you know it's just it's nice to receive it so when I saw this one it's gorgeous it's got this little charm here and it says thanks so much and it's got this crafty feel to it I love the colors pink again I think pretty much everybody knows I love hot pink and then inside she's just put just a little note Sam you're such an inspiration to me such a wonderful person to your friend in Ireland Simone so then her and her husband and her husband she said he took my logo which I'd sent to them anyway and he edited it and then they put it onto all of these different items so I have here a water bottle so here's my mixed up craft logo and I love this it's just so nice and I've got the clip here and I can obviously change so I can have it with that I mean I'm not sure what I'm going to use yet that's just you like I guess sports kind of lid and then you've got that one to screw on there but that's really nice and then I've got these mugs now I've actually got three of each so I've got plenty of them I'm actually going to keep one of each in my craft room and put my pens in them so I can get to you know because unfortunately these kind of things when I use them for making my cups of tea and they go in the dishwasher or these ones are probably won't dishwasher to be fair but anyway they're going to probably end up chipping at some point you know unfortunately it does happen that's why I thought I'm going two of them one of each design is staying in my craft room and that way it will last forever so this one says made to surprise which is my brand with craft stash and then here again it is my logo mixed up craft aren't they lovely and they're good drinking mugs as well nice size so I loved those and then I've got these here which are two shopper bags and they have my logo on now I use these all the time I don't you know use any plastic bags if I don't need to so I use these kind of things a lot they get rolled up and put into my handbag so I've always got them handy so again one of them is going to stay in my craft room I'm going to keep this one hung up just so it's nice and yeah it won't get marked or stained and then this one I'm going to take out and show it off because I think it looks wonderful done a really good job I had a lovely one from Louise Beauregard who's another member of our mixed up crafters group and she sent me one with my made to surprise on it so now I've got one of each which is really good so I'm super pleased with that and then I have some clothing I can't believe it again I was I said to Simone she actually did make me cry because I'd received the magazine had come through and I'd seen my card was on the front and that made me really happy and a little bit emotional and then this came through and Simone's lovely card and words and it was just a really nice morning I felt really positive I mean I'm I'm pretty positive anyway but it's just just reassures you and just makes you realize that there are really good people still around in this world and yeah I try not to get too caught up in news and all the bad things that are going on it was just it was just a nice positive day so look at these I've got the fruit of the loom t-shirts here so the really nice quality and this one is my logo again love the pink color so I was saying it's such a shame that I'm not able to do any classes or anything because this would be like my uniform um so they will definitely obviously be used and um I look forward to uh yeah wearing them so I've got a lovely pink color and then this one is brilliant I craft so hard I sweat glitter this is I mean you can wear it all year round but with Christmas coming you know um it's definitely going to be used and I do have another launch on her chanda coming up I need to check the colors because you do get told the colors that you can wear on TV I'm sure pink was a good color so I may well wear this one because I can't wear anything with my obviously my branding with the mixed up craft on but this here weekend forecast crafting with a chance of chocolate I thought it was wicked and I love chocolate and I just think that's great I just love the glitter it's not doesn't shed or nothing it's been so well made um so I love that one and then this one again on that lovely pink color I'm going to wear this with jeans I think I love it really really deals again so touched that somebody well Simone and her husband have gone to this you know effort to make this for me so um yeah it's hugely appreciated and um yeah I'm going to display some of it and um yeah get these give them an iron and uh start wearing them I think okay so that is most of the things that I've got I can't get it all in um but I will link as much as I can as possible I'll look out for those paper pads because they're obviously a bargain the magazine's fantastic the stamps are always great so I always rave about that one and definitely this I think you're going to really like it if you don't like the leads getting in the way and um it's just handy as well if you're doing jobs around the house you know having you know not being kind of restricted with the lead is really good so um yeah definitely look out for that one and hopefully you can get some of these bargains that I managed to get from the range so thank you as always for watching and I'll be back again very soon with a tutorial featuring some of this lovely stuff so I'll see you all again soon bye