Sneak Peek: August 2023 Dies

Good morning! It’s Lindsey here today, and I’m giving you a sneak peek of some of the fun, new dies releasing this month. You are going to love them!

New release will be available August 7th

First up is a spooky cute card that was inspired by a blanket I saw. I loved the colorful ghosts, so I recreated it using the new Ghost Shaker Dies.

This fabulous sentiment is the Spooky Wishes Shadow Dies. I adore the size and scale of the shadow dies and was happy to see this one added to the lineup.  For a little extra magic, I added various stars and diamonds from the new Halloween Mug Additions.

Did you notice the little pumpkins in the photographs? That’s actually another peek.  I created those using the new Stitched Pumpkins Dies. It’s a set full of creative possibilities! They look cute as is or in 3D like I did here. 

I’ve created lots of cards for this release, and this next one is a favorite of mine. It’s an A6 card (4.5″x6.25″), so it’s a little bit larger in size, which I’m really enjoying lately. There are so many cute things that I need more space to fit them all in!

My children have old letterpress (typeset) drawers hanging on the walls in their rooms. They fill the little cubbies with all their tiny treasures. When I saw the cute dies in the Halloween Mug Additions, I immediately thought of those shelves and knew they would make the perfect fillers.  

To create the little shelves/cubbies, I stacked the Storybook 1 and Storybook 5 dies on top of each other. I taped them together, so I could run them through the die cut machine several times. Layering 3 pieces of 110 lb. cardstock gave the shelves some depth. For the top layer I used woodgrain paper that I have had in my stash for a few years just waiting for the perfect project to use it on.  This was it!

Then I got to work filling the shelves with Halloween cuteness! First up is the witch hat. I die cut all the pieces from the Halloween Mug Additions included the stars and diamonds that I used to adorn it. I set it on top of the tombstone. The tombstone die is designed to create a window in your mug, so the stitching is on the outside. I ended up fussy cutting it out, though, and layering a few of the center tombstone shapes on top of each other for added dimension.  

I filled a second shelf with the two pumpkins included in the set, although I opted for a chunkier stem on the larger pumpkin, which I found in the Stitched Pumpkins Die set.  

The upper shelf is filled with a candy corn from the previously released Candy Treats dies. Next, I trimmed down one of the stitched rectangles in the Halloween Mug Additions (they can be used for mummy wrap…) and made it into a book. The little coral strips on the book were trimmed from the buckle die and the spider on top is also included in the Halloween Mug Additions.  

Now for the bottom row – a darling broom and a bubbling cauldron.  I was delighted to see that the new bubbles fit perfectly in the previously released Cauldron Shaker! I wanted to dress the cauldron up a bit more, so I added “boo” from the Ghost Shaker dies and a few diamonds. If you couldn’t tell, I was really enjoying adding those to all the things. 

Thanks so much for joining me today. Join us tomorrow as we reveal the release in picture form, so you can start to get your wish lists together and/ or purchase your release bundles!