But what frustrates me about dies is that designers/companies comes out with a template or frame die that you can use to create say a lantern, basket, container, or book, and additional dies to create a specific holiday look, but then don't come out with other additional dies for other holidays.
I love the Halloween Spellbinders Trick or Treat set. I made several of these in different cardstock, glitterstock and textured papers. They were awesome!!!
I took the base frame and created several awesome lanterns with it for Christmas and Valentines Day.
But at you can see I used other dies that were not squares to create different sets.
I bought another square looking die set last month - Shapeabilities Calligraphy Flourish Tiles Etched Dies Ooh La La Collection by Stacey Caron. It looked like it would fit the frame. However the square is literally 1/16 of an inch bigger than the frame for the Lantern can hold. So now I get to do something else - tweak the frame to support these squares.
Going to try that today since I thought they would be a nice lantern set.
And no a Cricut machine will not solve this problem. Though I do plan on getting one this year because I really love lacy elements (especially words). And they are a pain to do in the manual die cutting machine.
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