Put together this quick and easy fall banner with some die cut letters and shapes from pattern papers and old book pages. Hang on your fire place or over a doorway! The Glue Dots blog has all the details.
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Projects: Holiday Gift Tags using Die Cuts
Designer Laurie Schmidlin has some tips for turning die cut shapes into gift tags for the holidays. By folding over cardstock and not die cutting the top of a bulb die you can make an easy shaped tag. You can … Read More ...
Project: Scribble Style Holiday Cards
You can find complete directions for making these 3 Holiday cards over on Vintage Muse Designs. Using products from Tim Holtz, with different watercolor backgrounds using Distress Ink and adding scribble die cuts over top Bobbi made these fun cards … Read More ...
Project: Cute Halloween Shadow Box Card
Not really into dark and spooky? Combine cute Halloween stamps and die cuts for this adorable shadow box Halloween card. This cool card also folds flat for mailing. Find complete directions on how to put it all together over at … Read More ...
Project: Floral Die Cut Card
Combine a large sentiment stamp along with pretty die cut flowers and scrolls for a bright and beautiful card. The Spellbinders blog has a video tutorial, click here to watch.
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Template: Paper Basket
Create a lovely centerpiece full of flowers that will never wilt. The Craftwork Cards Blog has a template and directions for turning a piece of patterned cardstock into a basket that you call fill with die cut or punches 3-D … Read More ...
Projects: Birthday Cards
Maureen from My CASE Studies blog has two video tutorials to share focusing on birthday cards. She’s got a cute mini 3×3 card using a die cut with matching envelope and a fun cupcake card using dies, stamps and glitter. … Read More ...
Tip: Die Cut “Halfsies” Cards
Get more from your die cuts and add lots more interest to your hand made cards by cutting your die shapes in half. Betsy from Paper, Scissors and Superheroes has several “halfsies” card ideas to share on her blog, click … Read More ...
Tip: Die Cut Card Border
Take your die cut shapes and turn them into a border for your cards by only cutting out part of the dies. The Top Dog Dies blog shows you how to get more use from your die cut shapes with … Read More ...
Project: Intricate Die Cut Card
Yana Smakula is sharing a video tutorial for making this stunning card she made using a combination of die cutting and embossing using several different large background and label dies from Spellbinders . You can watch the video tutorial here … Read More ...
Tips: Using the Same Stamp Set 3 Different Ways
Are you using a stamp set in the same way each and every time you use it? Try mixing it up, use the same stamps as a background, as your focal images or mixed with die cuts. Heather Nicols from … Read More ...
Project: Fish Bowl Shaker Card
The My Favorite Things blog has a video tutorial showing how to make this cute fish bowl shaped shaker card made with die cut shapes and filled with tiny beads and sequins. Click here to watch.
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Technique: Cards Accented with Die Cuts and a Resit Technique
Designer Karolyn Loncon shares two wonderful card projects on the My Favorite Things blog. The first is a fantastic use of dies, she got wonderful texture and pattern by layering an intricately cut floral die cut out of white onto … Read More ...
Tip: Making Custom Stamps using Metal Dies
Do you have any die cuts that you wish were actually stamps instead? Well, guess what, in many cases you can make a stamp from a metal die using thin crafting foam, how cool is that?! The Card Making Connections … Read More ...
Project: Burlap Easter Bag
Die cut paper shapes don’t always have to be applied to cards and scrapbook pages you can also add them to fabric, like with this adorable Easter bag. The Echo Park Paper blog cut out some bunny shapes and applied … Read More ...