LASinMT's Reviews

I ordered 6 sets. Was debating 5 or 6. Sounds greedy doesn't it. They were out of the green nature set for myself. These are lovely to work with for card making. On super sale today HELPED a lot with my choice to go with 6. I'm gifting 5 so that's the story behind it all. A set for a friend who loves to color & I even print out pages for her. Then I'm gifting a huge selection of bundled card making supplies. I hadn't provided any coloring media. Not ink pads, not pencils not even my favorite chalk pastels. So here along comes these pencils & 2 packs of mini ink pads for 1 dollar each. A no brainer to add to the over the top bundle. (Bundle includes 2 die machines, loads of cardstock, weeding tools, heat embossing tools & powders and inks. Just about EVERYTHING a group could enjoy together. All confined in a large rolling duffle bag that weighs well over 35 pounds.) Thank you Scrapbook for allowing me to share. Often these sales are limited to just 1 item.

My first 7 mats are the white not green back ground. I bought to use with small card making classes. But I've given away too many and find I need to order at least one more. I love it. The magnets so far hold perfectly & I do have spare other magnets if needed. I rarely use the magnets myself. I gifted the last one to friends who I also gifted a tiny pancake baker for making marvelous WOW embossing elements instead of heat gun. And I also gifted them with a small tea ring heater for wax seal making along with wax and a seal. I figured they could use the small glass mat to keep the wax sealer safe with flame and also along side or under the pancake maker. Right now it is sitting at my left elbow while typing having made 3 fancy intricate thank you cards where you glue many bits and pieces together to make a pop up floral card. Having a small glass mat is priceless & often is my first go to mat skipping past the Tim Holtz (Yes 6 of his travel mats.) And the largest Tim Holtz mat, & two large W-R glass mats too. I have one larger one in my sewing room. So I'm familiar with glass mats of all kinds. This is just a charmer & so easy. I put them all in clear envelopes that fit perfectly and keeps them safe. (I would love to find the neoprene covers for this gem like Tim Holtz Travel glass mats too. (I plan to teach classes out of my tiny 21' renovated class B+ RV this summer. So I favor these little ones for less weight and size when pulling together class materials. (I've gotta quit giving them away or NOT:)) Half the fun of crafting is sharing!

Just had to have this one. I don't have this one...whew. On rare occasions I've duplicated Altnew dies. I just get carried away. Anyway live where we have a lot of streams and rivers and 78% of our huge county in NW MT is public land much Forest Service in the heart of the Rockies. So streams are often themes in my outdoor oriented cards. And though it's not exactly a Bitter Root the state flower Altenew has a metal cutting die and flower embossing combination die I have that I can kind of make believable as a bitter root flower and placing it over a stream bed of rocks so perfect. You can find the Bitter root flower on occasion in a dry stream bed or areas that remind me of that. It's a hardy little plant. And look forward to playing with this folder and making multi colored rocks like we actually have here all rounded stones and in pastel greens, pinks and browns.

I should have pulled down my larger embossing folders but my room was a hot mess with over 40 intricate cut xmas type lanterns for an office I was making and will had no room to set down my totes I keep them in and sort through to make sure I wasn't duplicating. But this can be used as an ocean wave too and sand dunes and turn it on the side for some interesting ideas too. I just for some reason really like this folder. I have a pretty good collection of Altenew embossing folders. They do an amazing job of making some amazing ones.

May switch out the adorable bunny with a small kitty die because the sister in law loves cats too. Love this horse and or pony. Your imagination has to work out the details and see what you want to see. But this is lovely. I'm a huge fan of Creative Expressions intricate dies. I have all the Paper Panda Dies that this one reminds me of. I keep hoping they will add to the Paper Panda designs but so far 3 -4 years I've been checking I haven't seen new ones. But bring on more like this and I'm on board. An expensive die so it had to speak to me for a specific person. (She has not once sent me a BD card in our entire 53 years married to her Brother..however she carries on every time she gets one from us as if HE picked t out himself. Not sure how she reacts to all the hand made ones the past 20 plus years now. But some how I get a kick out of making her special cards. She must need a little something special and no I never correct her in WHO's really behind her cards. Why spoil my fun! Family can be complicated lets not make it messy is my motto. But lets make messy fun cards.

Sharper points and longer ones too. I found the scissors a good fit in my smaller hands and love it has a blade protector too. A freebie I believe this was but have 4 pairs of Scrapbook precise style scissors too and love them. I just finished or called it a wrap on my intricate die cut lanterns or I would have enjoyed having these for a number of elements in need of cutting close and delicately.

I am still trying to figure out how to use this folder. But love it's texture and look. It may be plaster like with ivory and white shimmer card stock but using it with glitters and colored stock media and it's another item all together. Also how about flocked velvet paper. I buy rolls of velvet flocked paper that often has adhesive on the back side. I carefully stick it to 65# cardstock or heavier depending on what I'm attempting and then cut it just like regular card stock. Works great and I plan to pass it through this embossing folder. I suspect it'll flatten a lot of the velvet but I'm looking forward to seeing results with a dark blue velvet I have and maybe black too. I usually do not emboss my velvet papers as it can ruin the velvet grain I want for animals and even lettering sometimes. I made a Black Cat Fuzzy Wuzzy like book one time so you could feel the kitty as you read the book and had a new kitty appear on each page always black and always flocked. Now I have browns and tans and yellows and golds etc. I can make a marmalade kitty or a lovely white velvet kitty too. OH MY but what will this folder reveal?

This is one of those stamps you know you'll be wearing out in time. But Woodware stamps last for all of time if you take good care of them. So not to worry. Happy to have these gems in my stock pile of stamped words. I needed some new ones and new life in my collection and so I splurged on several orders this season including this pack. One of my fav's is It is what it is. And yes t was what it was...and it will be what it will be. Let life unravel and flow with it over the brook rocks and waterfall drops on our journey to where life tanks us and that will be exactly what it will be. A good sense of humor protected and used often helps too.

I go through TAPE like this like it's free...wait a minute this one was a freebie. Thank you Scrapbook. I'm enjoying it. So far it's behaving very well. I have the large runners you get refills of hundreds of feet for from a name brand tape maker but guess what it too sometimes gets messed up and then is a hot mess just trying to fix it and continue with your project. To date not so with this little gun. Bigger than many of the smaller ones and smaller than the BIG one I have too. I use them all by the way. I also appreciate repositional tape which this is not. It's the PERMANENT tape that once you bring two pieces together it grips so tight you dare not try to move it even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction it's unforgiving. There are times this is just what I'm needing and happy to take the risk. I go through a lot of this tape by the way. I make my own magnetic sheets 8.5"x11" size reinforced to heavy cardstock or chipboard for my own die magnetic sheets that then slip into large 3 ring binder plastic envelopes and find this so much easier to find my dies. Will the glue the magnetic sheets to the card stock is the clue here. Also I sometimes glue a second magnetic sheet to the other side providing me with two sides of good magnetic cling and storage for my many dies. So themes of dies can stay together much better than in smaller envelopes I started out using. This tape won't last long in my hands and in my craft room. I never have enough. Have tape Runner will RUN...And this one was a freebie. I'm so happy.

I decided to update. For some reason my magic mat review was generic for all sizes. That's fine. But this one was a freebie. And I just have to say it was confusing. I tried numerous times to BUY this red mat too not just accept a free one. Unfortunately for some reason I was prevented from purchase if one was a free one too? Perhaps a glitch in the program or perhaps not. I just found it odd. Meantime I use these magic mats in my Empress, my two Spellbinder Platinum 6 and 8.5's, My Big Shot an electric version, Even my Sidekick and Gemini. What it won't work in is any of my larger Diamond Press machines. It's too thick. I've been searching for similar cutting material in thinner form to cut to fit the DP's but so far it's falling short. I do have some thinner I cut down to fit but with a cutting folder cut in half to one layer for the DP it's still too thick to go through. If you play around with this kind of customizing sandwiches for any particular machine you need to use the rule of thumb NO two layers can be thicker than two original cutting plates and that includes with the DP machines no thicker than the folder. But I haven't given up. I do scrape the mats clean after each use. I rotate them and flip them and also yes wash and heat them lightly with a heat gun to get further use out of them. They do not last for ever but they definitely make your acrylic plates go further and some times they work better than your acrylic cut into plate other times you may need to go back to a fresh acrylic plate too. (One time however one of these larger ones got caught along the edges of my Platinum 8.5 machine and took me two days to dislodge. Also it took a few days of use before finally all the bits of black peeled off bits came out and machine seems fine now. I have no idea how it went crooked. But somehow it had enough play it did. Since then I've shaved down one side or the other of the large mat I use with the larger plates in the larger machine to insure it doesn't happen again. About an 1/8 of an inch is all it seems to take. It hasn't stopped me from loving the mats however. I also use Sizzix Chrome Precision Plates sold one at a time for cutting tough membrane cored glitter papers. But they can de-laminate and create a lot of hassle too. I found a solution for that too however. DIY people but use common sense and know your machines and don't be afraid to try things. Most of the machines are built for USE and rarely break easily. I woke up once time to my chrome plate having separated and warped upwards around the die machine rollers as it did this over night and I'd put the plates centered into the machine. It took me half a day to work that mishap out but did and no harm to the machine. I now never use one as face down and cut up plate. Always face up and bottom dies cut down option. I have never tried these magic mats for both bottom and top. I feel an acrylic plate is needed to give enough consistent firm pressure as you roll it through the machine. But for the DP machine if I could find a mat that was thin enough to match the two layers of the cutting folder when you cut two sheets of the magic like material I'd be all in for giving it a try.

I'm working on 2-4 different designs of booklets with a series of stamps which I have over 30 of. These I only found out of the USA and took me a while to collect all I've bought so far. Some would say a bit risque others like myself not so much just lovely intricate dies and all very earthy like. Human figures coming out of twisted trees and branches and horse and animals too and I just knew I wanted to do them in Sienna like prints on off white to ivory papers. I'm now going with a heavy shimmer card stock in ivory for the covers and shimmer paper text grade for the inner pages. Will tie with ribbons or colorful yarns and gift to friends who will find them lovely too. This is my perfect INK to mate with the ivory. Too dark a brown is lost like black is too sharp. It needs a tad bit of red but not Rust or Maroon though they could be nice just not classy enough. This is the ONE for this project. It would be lovely to shade and bring depth to embossing folders that have wood grain to them too. I have not tried that yet with this as I want to save to insure it fills all my booklets in mind first without running out of ink. I held off buying a re-ink filler and will now need to follow up on that. Then I won't be so stingy with myself and it's uses. I've always been in love with Browns by the way.

OK bought this to work with the WOW products Marion Emberson on Youtube has videos using this. Roll it across your embossing clear ink pad and then roll across your die cut or cardstock. Then dust with your glitter/embossing media and powders. Then heat from beneath (OR use one of those single pancake griddle devices to heat set and watch the magic happen. Anyway she uses this Brayer. I almost bought the larger one too however I decided to give this a try first. I usually just smooch my dies into the stamp or the stamp onto the die depending. I've talked myself out of the brayer a few times because what I do seems perfectly good. However took advantage of Black Friday sales and went on a splurge binge. I have other brayers I love and wouldn't trade for anything but they are not meant for inking and this softer rubber type is classic for the inking trade and so here I am. Here you are trying to wonder if this is THE BRAYER for YOU! It's just one of mine. It has a small built in stand to prevent it from touching the surface when you lay it aside. This is wonderful by the way. I may want two as I often invite a friend for a play date and we are like always finding when we have ONE tool one of us has to be polite and share more than the other...I know we are always polite with each other. But two makes all the difference then. (PS the pancake griddles the smallest ones run around 8-10 on Amazon and the larger version I also have can be hand for 12-17.) I do have three heat guns including name brand crafting ones. But turns out I am in love with the pancake griddle method of embossing powders etc. techniques. Go to UTUBE look up Marion Emberson and WOW and have some FUN.

A few precious sweet ones and then a zinger or two. Love these stamps. I splurged and bought a bunch of them including of course this gem. Now and again you just need fresh sayings and funny ones and twisted ones and well just super NICE ones like this. Woodware seems to cover it all without being too snarky when it's a little twisty for some of our most special family and friends. I'm thinking seriously of making a tag for one of my die cut lanterns I'm making this holiday to hang from one of the two tree styles. I have a modern tree like lantern very tall over 7" and shorter intricate cut out die tree all of my lantern choices will be lit inside with tea lights. The ones with timers so the person I gift them to can turn it on one time in the evening and each evening for days at a time it'll come back on for 6 hours. I'm giving each a spare battery just cause some might want it to go on and on through Xmas of course if not new year. Just another Magic...scratch Monday and insert Xmas. Of course you can switch these about . And some people who will get one is Ridiculously AMAZING too. My lanterns are all big enough to string or hang a small tag with sayings on it without distracting from the lantern itself. Also if you hang them with a wire like an earring hook hey the person you gift to can remove it too. I love options.

I'm making die cut lanterns for the Holidays. Of course to give away. I thought a few might be funny with this stamped on a small tag to hang from the two different tree dies, And I have two different Angels, Two trees, One star and then one complicated 4 layer cylinder style lantern with trees, steeples and critters and so darn precious. So a little humor with this one as it is afterall Xmas and some of us indulge others if not ourselves. This one is spot on and covers several of our mild sins this time of year with a wink if not a blink. Love Woodware dies they have me covered.

Love these stamps. I splurged and bought a bunch of them including of course this gem. Now and again you just need fresh sayings and funny ones and twisted ones and well just super NICE ones like this. Woodware seems to cover it all without being too snarky when it's a little twisty for some of our most special family and friends. This one is a keeper. A few of my splurge will go to making a customized set of dies and stamps and embossing folders including an embossing die cutting machine for my Dentist office gals. They are so darn funny and luves them a bunch. I know who knows they may not be able to share this among themselves but if one alone ends up with the loot that's life. Once you release a gift you know it's out of your control and you must release your own ideals in heart and mind you thought it would go. That's the hard part I know. So for my ALMOST perfect husband who just turned 87 this is going to be lovely in his Xmas card or perhaps his 88th BD. I'll add on the side...ALMOST as an edited correction of course I will. LOL. Humor is what makes life work really without we'd all be sad sacks and life is so drab then. Lets all make a huge effort to be FUNNY..sarcastic yes, sassy yes, loving with a zinger yes but always with love and Kindness. Happy Woodware stamping. They have me covered.

Love these stamps. I splurged and bought a bunch of them including of course this gem. Now and again you just need fresh sayings and funny ones and twisted ones and well just super NICE ones like this. Woodware seems to cover it all without being too snarky when it's a little twisty for some of our most special family and friends. This is another one the SMILE of course will be removed and put into the customized gift for my dentist office gals. They will need a few SMILE stamps and a few quirky ones and will Woodware dies cover them all. PS I keep typing in Woodward. A family name actually and I caught my self this time in the title but will try to avoid it going forward. But probably oops it a few times as I bought like I said a few of these as a big splurge to myself and oh yeah those Dentist office gal's.

Love these stamps. I splurged and bought a bunch of them including of course this gem. Now and again you just need fresh sayings and funny ones and twisted ones and well just super NICE ones like this. Woodware seems to cover it all without being too snarky when it's a little twisty for some of our most special family and friends. Also collected a few of these stamps to pull off or give entire sets to customize a huge gift bag to my Dentist Office gals. This will indeed include a new die cut and embossing machine. All the Smiles and my favorite is I'm wearing the smile you gave me. Which yes can be snarky, can be precious, can be intimate with your significant partner in life can just be...but for me it'll be going to the Dental office ladies. Who all have a fantastic sense of humor.

Love these stamps. I splurged and bought a bunch of them including of course this gem. Now and again you just need fresh sayings and funny ones and twisted ones and well just super NICE ones like this. Woodware seems to cover it all without being too snarky when it's a little twisty for some of our most special family and friends.

Maybe to some more coral notes than just pink. Pastel though and lovely with the Valentine season close at hand. Will get a lot of use out of this freebie I believe it was. And thank you Scrapbook you do have a lot of great freebies on your site. This one is tops too. And works into my growing collection of Glitter Drops by Nuvo and others.

Love both sides but not sure how I can use the train side unless as a poster collage or similar. Still love both sides and both will work great over the years for HP fan cards.

This will be part of a never ending card idea. Can't wait to use it but it has great options overall for a number of HP designs. Of course since the one side with the envelopes isn't ID'd enough to see Ministery of Magic or other symbols one could use it for other seasonal cards too. But anyone familiar with HP is going to think Harry Potter.

Wee bare foot prints lots of great options from Luna foot prints to new born baby cards arrival and so forth. Love these.

Great paper sunny yellows and golds will play well with gnome dies and bee dies alike.

So will put these to use on my never ending card on last page to show everyone is present to help them all celebrate their BD's. My relatives are
HP fans too and in their 70's and I'm making them a never ending card. Ending in Room of requirements or just all showing up on the mauraders map. It's not fully completed yet but I have a good idea in my head how to go about it. I will make a faux mock up to insure my paper thickness works well. Card stock is too thick for a never ending card. Some paper may be too thick too. And the stickers are great because they do not load it down with too much excess thickness and weight. A win win. And the perfect patronus's of course is the Doe and the Stag and bunny as of course Luna must be there too.

I invited a friend to play date to make HP cards for family members who are huge fans. We both have relatives that are married couples who are huge fans and will enjoy getting a never ending BD card they share. So mine is in May but her's in March so we got to get together soon. Not sure where yet I'll use the wands but even if not this card they will get used.

Will be so useful in my Never Ending card project. Will trim off the ornament end however definitely leave on if say you want to make one of those big tree cards with the little warlock who's trimming the tree. That would be great idea for sure for our HP fans and relative fans of HP.

Easy to clip off the ornament top and just have a circle. Well done for adding interest to my never ending card project. Like riding on the train with all 3 famous kids. Because there are multiples of each I'll be able to share with a friend who's joining me in an adult play date to make our never ending cards or such.

Love these and you get multiples of the same figure. A friend is joining me in a play date to make HP cards this year so enough to share too. Also I'm starting with the beginning so the brick wall and 9&3/4 station is the first top page on the card.

Will use these in my never ending BD card for a couple only a week apart in their BD's in May. When you get to the last page everyone is there to celebrate their birthdays so these are the perfect size to use. Oh and the MEAN lady in pink will not be invited. Nor will she be crashing. LOL. We all have to have some fun. Great smaller stickers and perfect for my design project

It's a great goup to put with my stash of HP stuff but I didn't find the foil accents very much that great. Won't buy this one a second time. However others might like it better than me.

I'm making HP fan cards and stuff all the time for family who are well into their 70s even into their 80's. So I pick up this stuff all the time to add to their cards and BD's yearly. It's nice if paired with the paper with the foot prints.

Plan to make several never ending cards over sized. Say about 8" or 9 inch square. So I'm also looking for other HP stuff for all the HP fans in our family. A lot of my designs are for the older fans all now in their 70's all the way to 85 year olds. So I'm always on the look out for paper and designs that can add to the fun. Now a neighbor also has members into the HP category and is into paper crafting so we plan a big play date or two to make cards for our up coming BD's and such. We both have married couples who we plan to make one card for both as their BD's are in May and March. In my family members they are only a week apart. I sometimes send individual cards but sometimes double them up and depends on the designs I come up with. This year it is going to be a double never ending. When you get to the last page it'll have many of the HP owls pratronus's and people too. All in the room of requirements or perhaps on the Mauraders map. Luna of course will have bare feet not shoes on the map if it is the map. Fun and sharing it is what it's all about.

I would have bought 5 but putting in 4 upped the shipping to about double then 5 was triple so for some reason 4 was running only 10 over the base price for shipping with all the other items in the same order which was quite a few. So I settled for 3 and with mine at home I do have 4. Why so many you may ask? Greedy perhaps I am. But not really in that I can give classes outdoors in the summer as in garden gatherings or park gatherings to make cards and other paper crafting. Having a glass travel mat is great as a way to insure people taking the class has a smooth clean surface to work on. Some of the picnic tables are not entirely smooth but bumpy wood surfaces and planks not aligned across the top and metal picnic tables that often are very rough. So as nice as self healing mats are the glass is much better. Also several other bonus points go to the glass surface as in it helps prevent die machines from slipping around. Those with suction feet or cups are ideal with the glass mat and also if you cut a silicone mat down to fit under other die machines it too helps hold firmly in place on a glass mat. You can clean a glass mat up quickly and dry with a towel and slip away in it's neoprene bag. I also have small 6x9 glass mats too and as lovely as they are they can be a wee bit too small. So love these larger mats and the travel mat is not so small but very nearly perfect in size and easy to hand out with kits for the classmates to take to their station. I may come back for another 2 while sale is still on and supplies last so I can take advantage of this lovely sale. Plus my neighbor who helps with classes would love to have her own and it's an affordable gift at the sale price.

Should have bought a few more. These are so cute. Back finished side is helpful for making so many cards when you need a flip side but don't want to add more bulk to a card.

I bought Moon Dust here, Venus, Mars and Aquarius. Had to have the latter it's my SIGN so to speak. Anyway this is fantastic to color on a Moon as in MOON and BACK or celestial card designs. Moon Dust is a great name for it. I suppose one could stick it on a cheese shape and think cheese too. Just ignore me. I haven't tested them all out yet. Venus was a pinkish range and not sure about that one yet but with Moms day and valentines card making ahead all these colors will get a work out. I'm going to look for a video on how best to utilize these glitter gels. And need to check out better how translucent they are or are not.

A lovely DEEP RED. On some papers that are colored may lean towards a bit rusted but overall it's a pure solid RED. Bought the set also have the green called Pine in same pad and refills. Go well together.

To bee or not to bee that is the question. Turns out I have a many bee dies and stamps even but little to none hives....and bees need honey combs for sure. So I have bees to make large and small shaker bees plus several smaller bee dies and now with a stencil to make a corner here or there with honey combs it's going to be so helpful at extending my world of BEE CARD KEEPING. I may need to get a bee keepers hat with netting.

Along with just falling heart paper too. Ordered several sheets per design plus a sticker set and will use for MOM and valentine cards near future. Also just today Scrapbook newest order arrived with scallop die heart stacking or nesting set but their pocket hearts in two sizes. If you watch a video it shows how to glue the pocket hearts together making an accordion style or continuous style set of hearts and these papers would be great paired together with solids too.

Really adorable both sides of this paper. Bought 5 different designs along this line and just hearts too and stamp like pattern so plan several projects for MOM day and Valentines and just arrived today from Scrapbook another order with the scalloped heart 2 sizes of heart pockets which watch the video on how to make a continuous heart pocket book. This paper would be just perfect for it along with solid reds too and if not super thick may want to back with card stock.

Both sides are just lovely and I selected 5 different patterns and bought multiple sheets of each so looking forward to using with the up coming events both heart day and Mom's day. Plus not limited to just those. I also just had the folded scalloped heart dies 2 sizes from Scrapbook arrive today and this along with several other papers and card stock would make fantastic pocket envelopes. Watch the video of making a continued box accordion like. Looking forward to using some of these designs on several of those.

I love all things Wizardly in the HP realm that is. So the bolt should be 2 not three squiggles. The three sticker stamps for envelopes would be ideal if they had the Ministery of Magic looking seal on them too. Overall it's useful for my cards and designs around the HP series. In our family there are 5 huge adult fans. Ages from 70 to 85. Education between all of us BS to 2 PHD's. Yeah J.R. Rowling may have meant it for the YOUNG but she meant it for the young of heart and spirit. So I'm always coming up with never ending HP cards and other fun interesting takes on the subject for their BD cards etc. Next project is a 8x8 inch never ending card starting at the 9&3/4 station with brick all the way to the room of requirement for their BD party with everyone there to wish both 74 year olds who's BD's are a week apart and a couple so I create cards that play to both sometimes instead of individuals. They do love them. It's all magical of course. DOBY where are you?

When small is just ideal and perfect. You can play with these for reveal cards too which is even more fun. Is it a boy is it a Girl is it which one. I am happy with the itty bitty word dies. I never have enough word dies. So great addition.

Oh I'm always into intricate dies and I seem to get myself into the most tiny needing circumstances for tapes. So it's hard to go smaller than 1/8" but there have been times I wished for 1/16. No kidding. This in person is small. But I've had gifts from Scrapbook of this tape and size and smaller roll I think it was and knew it was what I wanted and need. I'd buy again for sure.

Wanted more than came with a double set of cool and warms with the two 6 divided trays and so bought while on great sales. Though simple plastic pieces they are perfect and built for the divider trays. I also have 5 of the double divided trays I think they are 6" sized and these fit perfectly. I will use for future work shops with these helping organize pre-cut down pieces of paper and the other side will hold tools and dies and glues or glue tape. All in all it's a win win win. And I've made similar out of plastic files but these actually are firmer nicer plastic.

I picked up their great set of these with the 6 divided boxed sets that were sold with both warm and cool colors of these and the smaller dividers. I'm happy to buy extra dividers. I will be using to keep supplies divided properly for future work shops. I can cut paper to 5-6" widths to fit all and any of my die machinse in advance of the class saving time during class. And one side of a two divided storage box will hold scissors, glue, tweezers, and dies of course. I favor the cool colors but the warms are great addition too.

Bought to cover edges of paper stock and tags I make too out of card stock. And also to finish an edge to white core card stock when it helps to hide the white core. But I was hoping for a BRIGHTER gold. Still useful and for what I intended just had hoped it would be a medium but gold leaf more gold.

I bought the wrong size by honest mistake. Anyway I use in a Tonic size large drawer set which I bought 18 total drawers. I took apart & made into a tower of 15 high plus use the rest stacked in my She bath. Ok these happen to fit almost perfectly from front to back long way taken apart into 2 pieces. And yes they hold all my pops of color drops and others misc. items and bottles and a few tubes. The part that has no holes in them are ideal for small paint brush storage being long and narrow. I can get 5 across and I mix and match the sizes to my needs. Since I now have 12 split apart I have no more extra drawers to use them in at this time. But if I should happen to open up another drawer I'd be back for another 2 to 3 singles that for me make double. And love I can keep all my small squeeze bottles of ink and pops of color upside down. I have a few odd ends of glues too that are best stored upside down. Think outside the box quite literally with these.

As long as the buyers realize the material and the small size of the box and interior four smaller divided sections then YES I would recommend. These are great to keep things you are working on organized. I use a lot of different boxes and some are plastic some card stock and this is card stock or press board if you prefer. My only negative is sometimes there is warping on the outer most sides and in my case both of the longer divider end bows in. This makes it a little bit tight and tricky for smooth action with the dividers. Otherwise I like them and I still make out just fine. I bought extra spare dividers in both sizes but more in the wider larger size divider and tabs to use with the 2 divided size boxes they also have in this line. I intend to use the double divided boxes for workshops. I can add tools and supplies for each participant and hand out all at once instead of having to go around or pass around every item individually. Great size for that. I will keep spare parts and cut paper in this box up front with me as well as featured dies that day for the work shop. Also many if not most of my embossing folders also sit well into the larger boxes. I do wish these boxes were as high as the double divided box but it's not proved to be a big problem either. I recommend as long as you pay attention to the size elements and materials these are all made of. These are not BIG boxes and that's one of the things I like. Smaller profile takes up a lot less space. Can slip onto a shelf with ease too and again not compete for so much space.

Hey hey hey if you have a pad you need to get a reinker too. Just smart that's all. I bought the trio of pads in metallic with this pad in it. At the time was getting a free Rose Gold with a reinker so two pads and one reink. And I also picked up the white frost reinker. I know have three white frost reinkers. I lean that way as sometimes we do that. Anyway this is a good rich but yellow gold ink. And it's not a smooth or ultra smooth gold leaf gold it's a lovely gold. I seem to be using the Rose in the trio more than this. But I'm also chasing after a Silver and Scrapbook where is your silver? White frost is lovely for stars, moons and all things white with shimmer but SILVER please TOO.

This was a freebie. Not sure why but I reviewed this in a trio group and it was shown here all filled in for me? Anyway thank you Scrapbook for this freebie. I love it and love having two pads because it's a lovely shade of gold and not too pink which some rose golds lean into. I can use as a gold even on a guys card without being too girly. Also love the reinker so I can keep my pads happily filled also I can share a pad with a friend when we are making cards together. Yes I have a card making buddy. A neighbor who is also into this and we get together pretty often to have fun and share dies and supplies. How wonderful is that. And sometimes your wonderful freebies are re-gifted to her. That's extra special treat too. And yes I always let her know it's a freebie from You.

Cart before the horse so to speak here. The Re-inker before the Pad but they pads were out that day. So I have mini - no inked pads that I can use to make my own ink pads out of and love those but I did want the full size pads that mate with these. But also wanted the ink colors here. SOOOO soon I'll have both. The pads are back in stock. I ordered...all is well with the world. This is a solid good red. Pine is a good deeper green and both work well across the seasons. Red come Valentines and Mother day and well it's a good rich but not bright red. The Pine I lean on pine trees, branches, plants and stems and leaves and pine needles and so PINE as a shade of color is wonderful. This is not an easy to find color of green. Everyone goes with spring and yellowed greens more than deeper much deeper than emerald greens and you are dark almost black green. This is spot on. Love it. These are not shiny and bright but you can add that touch over them if you want that. For me I'm in love with both shades. And both play well with other shades on the color chart in their field.

Thank you Scrapbook for allowing me to try this tape roller out before buying another that always end up messing up. So far this has not. Turned out I got this twice free as they offered it on another order too. So Now I have two to give a go with. They say you can refill and that THIS one does not brake or mess up half way through it. My fingers are crossed as I love these little tape rollers when they work. I also need some of this in a non permanent tape or the ability to re-position before becoming permanent. Due to my macular fold/wrinkle in one eye my eyes do not work together and I have issues seeing clear edges. So over the past year or 2 I find myself needing aides to help me get a matched edge or even and square glue on die. But I still find plenty of uses for Permanent Tape and glues too.

Like so many crafter's we seek a PURE WHITE as white as white can be. Bright and clean and shiny or not just WHITE WHITE WHITE. Yeah this is almost spot on. Maybe a little dull...maybe shake the bottle. Add a little sparkle over it with something with a bit of glitter or polish to it. Anyway overall it's properties are it will be pretty decent white on a black, dark blue, dark red, maroon, dark green card selection. It plays with dark. The pads were out the day I ordered the this & I have large and small make your own ink color pads and so enjoyed it that way. However I just ordered yesterday the white pad which is back in stock now. I'm that happy with the white. It's not a SHINY WHITE but it's a lovely white and pigment ink sits on top of card material well enough to remain white. Even through the Mail system.

I didn't check ahead and look at my pops of color bottles and thought they were this size. OOPS only maybe three are .5's and the rest and I mean a lot are 1 ounce sized. So now what. Will I was taking a chance as it was ordering these because I did not plan to stack. I intended to put inside a Tonic Large drawer tower (12 drawers high) And prayed they would fit when in half. They are perfect. So I had two sets side by side the ones with the holes and the ones without. Take advantage and I have two upside down and or right side up storage boxes to organize my bottles. So love how well it worked. I ordered the set of 4 two of each size to expand my system. Also my brushes fit into the upside down half that hasn't the holes and what a great deal is that? I can even slip it out and use on my card making area. Clean brushes and return. I may need more just waiting to see which size will work out best for more. Took advantage of their sales through Holidays too. Thanks Scrapbook.

A mini with such huge expression. Love this. And hey we all know it's primarily used with those little bundles of joy soon to be here. BUT there's other small miracles too so lets step out of our usual boxes and color the world FUN. We all need some sweet miracles and hope that they are on the way oh yes the do come true. Sometimes when they are good! This die is a keeper. I've already paired with a baby foot holding a daisy flower die. SO CUTE.

How cool is this. It's a HUGE Wishes word die then it has a small bar die along with numerous word dies in script and non script fonts and bold and not bold and just lovely all will fit onto the bar die. The bar allows you to quickly just cut it out with the Wishes and then pick a phrase from the stamp set. Or go search through your own stamp phrases or what have you may. I often cheat and print off a full sheet of phrases I make on my computer in numerous font colors btw. And Then leave enough room around them to allow a punch out like this bar to cut them out cleanly. So yes it's cheating. I have arthritis & problems with my vision including double vision & my eyes don't always see together. SO even with stamp presses & other helps I've found more ways to insure I get a good clear worded die. Nothings wrong in that. I should post a video on how to do that. I know but I'm camera challenged too.

This is great to add to my ever growing BEE cards. I have large and small shaker card bees. I have lovely just be a bee no shake to it dies and actually I could use some major comb dies but this is so cute and will work well with my other dies. Also Creative Expression dies cut and easy to use and just always dependable. I took advantage of two sales and bought more than a dozen total phrases mostly but a few larger dies like this too. Thanks to Scrapbook for their sales.

I believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy who's over worked and needs a raise for sure these days. Ok I'm being silly but you get the point this Just Believe can fit into so many fun and funny cards in ways you may not have initially thought to use it. I believe IN YOU. I have numerous sets of alphabet dies. So to take advantage of them I pair them with phrase dies like this matching or mix-matched fonts. So I might add "I" Just Believe "in You" or YOU or U. Ya you know. Play and think outside the box with the phrase dies.

Yes one more Most wonderful time of the year. Home Alone kid would agree! And though a mini as they are referred to the die works great between all sizes of cards including my A2, A7 and A9's. It just depends on your design layout. Make the most of it. I do often applying this style of mini expression to the rear side of the cards making them a complete deal. Better than hallmarks or my own younger ego when I thought I needed a personal hallmark. This is far more caring to the person who gets it.

Lovely die though a mini it's a nice size and plays well across all size of cards just depends on your design setting is all. Love this one and bought numerous word and phrase dies. Also almost always Creative Expression dies hold up well and cut well.

I can store A9 envelopes & cards in these. I have clear open ended envelopes that is made for this larger box specifically from another site & allows me to also store A7 & A2 envelopes & cards as I make them. I often remove the included thick dividers as they can restrict projects. I have 3 of these large boxes. BUT best of all one stores several years of Xmas cards we receive by the year. So if I need to update addresses etc. also quick way to find those or keep them towards the front of that years stack. This is the larger box & they make smaller ones. But it's hard to find a box that works with A9's including envelopes slightly larger sized. It's not perfect but it's a BIG YES!

I received a free one in a recent order. So I was so surprised I thought it wasn't my order. Turned out it was. They inserted a 2nd as they referred to it. I put it to use instantly with that order. Holding all the new dies to be organized into my usual storage system. I would love to hold classes & gatherings so I see another reviewer also suggested these as a way to organize supplies for such events. I'm here to order 4 for that. Also picking up the dividers in Cool & Warms for these too. The 6" fit these side ways. Narrower to the front.

Mum's the word literally and figuratively with this stencil. Highly recommend and you can play with it on smaller cards or full size A9 cards. Geat stencil to have and explore the many ways you can use it.

WHY not this pink. It's hard to call it pink exactly but it's lovely. I had the same color in the regular length but a friend needed new plates so I gifted them to her as her favorite color is PINK too. Anyway this replentished my needs for the moment. And got at a slight discount from Scrapbook too.

Make it 12 sentiments not 11 as early stated. This is Penny Black and I love it. I'd love to have a The Stars are Brightly Shining one. So I could have this on outside of card and second inside. Anyway I am very good with computers and will make one myself that I can print with laser then foil with laminator and textile foils which I have over 30 to choose from. And Red and Red Stars are trending the most this Season but blue stars right behind. This in blue would be perfect to mate with the inside sentiment then. Beautiful.

It was one of Scrapbooks freebies. And it's lovely. Also a huge shout uot and THANKYOU for this free ink pad but for an extra sorting / work box that was included in my order as a spacer to protect all the items. I went oh no I got someone elses order. I had to double check the address and name to make sure it hadn't been mixed up. (That's happened up here a lot lately.) So Thank you Scrapbook for all my freebies this Ink Pad & the Mum's stencil in this order and the SUPER SURPRISED BOX. Love the box btw.

Works great with many of their Mini's too. And though For You is one die it's super easy to clip apart and use separated if you have a use. I do. And so you can play with these together or use them separated and with other dies. And fit right into any of the mini's too. Real keepers. I bought a total of 11 of these word dies this order. All CE's but 10 were the mini's. I had to put brakes on or I'd have bought even more.

We are all in this craft together. And it's perfect for that as is You are my favroite person which I must have like a dozen of those people. You know them they are those who you think of often and sometimes constantly and love to get together to gab or call each other and well what a perfect die for a card for them.

I do have plenty of luv you's but need some others more direct perhaps and specific. So this is lovely way to add it without going over the top. It's one of 11 sentiment dies I bought and most were CE's Min's which are not always so mini. Often BIG in spirit too.

Dashiing through the snow if you live in Extreme NW MT as we do we are a little low on snow so far but told it's coming. COLD HERE. Poor NY they got the SNOW and it's not allowing them to Dash about. Having experienced a few huge storms over my 70 years I do feel empathy for them. Hope they stay well and safe. This die is perfect for our region of the USA and Canada. And we get to apply that wee little sled and pony by itself or with the sentiment. Below or above. Love it.

I have a great friend and so needs a Special card from me and this will be the first die I reach for when I pull my design together. She is a great friend. And she needs to know I know. Perfect. and not that mini.

This is a great die to express you care and sending wishes of hope to your friends or love ones. It works across the genre and the miles and family and friends so what's not to love. I bought 11 sentiment dies in this order and most are the CE mini's but some are not all that mini but all just right.

Love these mini's and this may be mini so it even works on some tag sizes but also it's just a lovely pair which work together well or stand alone or with other sentiments too. Love these are set into two dies.

Perhaps or perhaps more because sometimes you just want to gift someone or drop them a note Just Because. What a delightful mini or not so mini expression. I bought a total of 11 sentiments most these so called CE's Mini's.

I was thrilled to find so many word dies for friends and friendship. Allows me to express more personal greetings or formal depending. These are just great and though mini's not so mini that it's an issue. In fact a great size for any of my favorite sizes of cards from A2, A7 and A9's. I bought more than half a dozen expressions.

Not super mini but lovely size. I can use with all size cards from A2 , A7 and A9's. I splurged and bought a huge selection.

I'm so happy to find this Creative Expressions die. I love theirs as they are connected no loose letters that you end up gluing each one and it can get messy for a dextrous challenged person like myself. Anyway these are delicate and lovely and small enough to fit anywhere you want a little placement or sentiment. And my Friends cards are fancy embossed more Thanksgiving or fall gathering styled but some could work for Xmas table settings too. The idea is to offer the option of using a lovely card as just a card or double duty as a place setting at a fancy family or friends formal sit down gathering. Just by putting a wee wire card holder pin into the fold of the card and tenting the card ever slightly open across the plate or table place you have both or just skip the pin as people can sit anywhere around that table. Outside card says Thankful or Grateful and inside For Friends or For Family or for both. I have a lovely saying what each means for the main page. But this can be inside instead of For Friends but I plan to use it on the very back of the cards hallmark. Lovely as all my dies from CE are.

I have a lot of these small Creative Expressions die sayings. Love them all small to larger. This is a small variety. I also bought Technique Tuesdays Every season word set too and intend to eventually make a fun card with this on the front of the card and all the other sayings spread over the inside of the card and then the back side the Thinking of You or similar sayings like Just For You hallmark area another Creative Expressions die no doubt I have many. So this already has a plan but I also intend to put it on the backs of a number of my mini cards for sale and the flip side of a few of my holiday tags for a wee bit of whimsy.

My dear Jewish friends need to know I care for them too. I have one couple who's a mixed marriage. I often design cards that are doubled so there is a blending of the two religions or now and again I come up with a way to flip the card one way and it's Jewish the other Christian. To date I don't think I've done wrong though one needs to be careful when we do this kind of thing. I know in IA friends who clearly were unhappy when I gave them any item card or gift at Holidays as they explained they do not celebrate. Got it. So happy many do because I enjoy making my message I care about them. I personalize all my holiday cards for those who recieve. Years ago I quit including any brag list or even highlights of our year. We want the people we are reaching out to Know They are who we care about more than boring them with us. Anyway this is a great set to help me accomplish my goal of including my Jewisn friends too.

Good brands should never wire their dies together. Good brands rarely do. Anyway they lost a star and some of would take off 2. These are smaller words but lovely sayings. Also the card should have the words printed clearly on front or back so you can trim it to fit in your storage envelope I use 5x7 inch clear ones with a 5x7 magnetic sheet inserted to hold the dies on one side and then insert the card with the words on it on the other side facing out so you can see dies on one side attached flat side to the magnet and the words written out on the back side. There are no shadows with these. And they are decent lovely words with some rare ones included which are wonderful. I picked up the Happy Everything wee die too and thought I might later on make a fun card with all of these words printed out and arranged with others too I have and on the front before they open the card have a Happy Everything and on the back another wee die I have saying Thinking of You for a wee bit of whimsy. So dies and words get 5 stars but the wires knick it down one. I cut myself all the time on the wee sharps often left behind and have actually ruined 4 different cards now when I've bled on them not knowing I was due to that. Wear safety glasses too people when clipping these wires off.

Dis are lovely sized if you like the larger ones. I do. So happy they are this size and even love bigger when I can find. Anyway my one star off is Hero needs to write out the words clearly on their cards back or front so I have a record. I use 5x7 inch magnetic sheets and envelopes to store my dies. Then I place on the back side of the magnet the included printed design or words on that included card cut to fit and faced out so I can see through the clear envelope what I'm looking for. YES in this case all of the words can be flipped over and you can read the words. But they stick better to the magnets when the flat area is atached not the cut edge. However they lost a star because they are not loose they are wired together. If you look at the item's photo lay out it give the impression they will arrive free but all the shadows are attached. I have trouble cutting them even with good quality snippers which I buy from Amazon in packs of 3-6 at a time. On my Xmas list I've asked my hubby for a set of quality chisels made primarily thin enough to cut these wires and metal connections cleanly and better than the snips that aren't made to handle these dies and also knick easily. The inner words are however free. So that's a huge relief.

I have a lot of peacock dies and embossing folders and stamps too. So now and again I need some lovely shades of greens and blues in the realm of PEACOCK colors and this one caught my eye. It appears to be a lovely shade of greenish blue teal if you will. Persion by name here. So it's what you want to make of it in your own eye as the beholder or how it plays on your designs. And Light verses dark cardstocks can make a difference too. I haven't used on any peacocks alife or imagined yet. I tried it out with a couple of holiday stamps with clear embossing ink on white stock and I found it to be a lovely green and was well recieved on the paper. It has a shimmer but it's not a glitter and I did not want glitter. Glitter can be such a mess and you just never know if it'll take well or not. So I prefer the detailing powders with some shimmer but more silky than gritty. It's a keeper for sure. Oh I think it will make great blue spruce pine branches too. And I intend to try soon on cut out branches that I will dab with an embossing pen or sponge dauber with clear and then cover with this powder and shake off excess and heat gun lightly. I haven't the time right now but I'm excited to give it a try within the week.

My happy husband of 50 plus years now knows my history with GLUE GUNS he's inherited many that a few years go buy and I take another chance on one. HA HA HA. The joke is clearly on me. Hubby likes my handovers. He also enjoys laughing at me and I must admitt I enjoy laughter in the home. So it's a win win of sorts. Tape oh my gosh tape takes on another whole out of body experience if not out of this universe event. Where I can't handle glue or glue guns tape? It's a mystery to me. I should not own tape. So why did I buy this huge 81 foot roll 4 inches wide too? WHY because just had to. We all have a weakness and vices and mine seems to be stuff that gets me into sticky trouble. THe tape on the other hand is great stuff. It does as it should. You can place wonderful intricate cut dies onto it and then fill in the empty spaces with glitter and other stuff that sticks to tape. Or is suppose to stick to tape. I find it helps me to secure the loose end with a wee bit of other tape so it's held in place. Then carefully roll out the amount needed. Washi tape may work best for this but not always. And then you can lay our die over the exposed tape. You set your roll the other way the paper side down not like the photo shows. Anyway I usually do not have to put a stopper on the other end of the roll but so far so good. I am not comfortable yet placing cardstock onto it and then cutting that out with dies. The reason I don't want sticky gummed up dies I must clean all the tipe. Also I know I have issues getting smooth parts of intricate dies when glued down so all taped areas could be problematci for me. I think others who are more dextrous and also far less fearful of the stuff will do fine. I'm looking forward to becoming more comfortable with it as I do more and more with it. So yes I recommend. If like me you have fears buy on sale like I did and decided 6" or 4". I wanted more than 2" I knew that so 4 works well for a lot of dies I have and also for many stencils or I can always roll out two side by side pieces of tape if I need to a larger area to work with. Also you have the option of removing the bottom tape and placing your cardstock for support in advance of filling in the blank areas of the tape or filling then transferring to cardstock. I do card first then trim all edges cleanly and then only work with the actual design. I have silicone mats that help keep it in place but on a glass surface I can also washi tape it in place or grab an item that helps me keep the stencil from moving too. Lots of tricks that you pick up with more practice as you go along. We are all different so some tricks work better for some while others may not need them.

I keep a small drawer just below a 50 plus inch wide work table I have that holds many of my handy hand tools I most frequently need like the hole reampers for dies and tweezers and scrapers for cleaning off bits of paper from cutting plates and corner clippers and on it goes. The problem is if the item gets back in the drawer after every use it's not a problem it's when it's miss laid under some other larger item...paper beats out scissors like in the game but also tweezers and every other tool in the paper crafting world too. So more is better and having a spare in the drawer or two until the lost one surfaces is wonderful. All by end of day land back in the drawer and all is well with the world until the next day begins all over. Physics has a law for that called chaos and it usually wins during the acctivities but I win for a split moment when tucked in my bed I know where these wee tweezers are. All of mine hold pieces of cut out dies well for me when applying super thin lines of liquid glue to intricate cut dies. Not to mention hot glimmer plates and a # of other tasks to tedious to mention. None of my tweezers have failed to securely hold the paper. I know others say it happens but to date they all work prefectly well for all these tasks. I will buy more if I lose these.

I save those plastic cards you get in the mail for fake credit cards to just about everything. Also have some pot cleaners and scrapers and all of those are great for cleaning and scraping off the bits from my cutting plates. HOWEVER they aren't that great for smearing stuff onto and across stencils and these will allow that and also great for the other tasks too. They are a little softer than I expected but that's on purpose to lend itself to smoothing out the paints and pops of color drops etc. across those stencils. Also it can help glide glitter into the empty space of die cut outs laid over double stick tape so you fill in with the glitter. I'm glad I got the 3 pack and can share with a friend into this stuff...I mean paper crafting too. I sometimes swear it's ore GLUE crafting than paper crafting and that means it's stuck all over you not always in the places you want to shine or glimmer or glitter....then again they do sell glitter to put on your skin and hair. I sparkle somedays more than I should. As do my clothes.

I'm still experimenting with what I like to use this for and with. It's a lovely soft brush so great to clean off glitter and excess chalk too. Butit's a blender brush and love the mini size. I may order a second once I narrow down what I use it most for as for right now it's a toss up between as a cleanup tool and a blender. My next experiment is with gilding like waxes to see if it blends them well or not. I have trouble with daubers getting the mix just right with gilding products. It was free so I get to play...

Only negative is package photo or image is terrible. I do have eye sight issues but this is a bit beyond bad. Anyway it's a lovely holiday folder. And happy to add to my collection this time of the year. I prefer simplified cards not too fussy and embossing folders help me achieve that. And stay within more classic than sloppy over the top all kinds of stuff stuck on top of each other cards. So it gets 5 stars. Not sure I've ever met an embossing folder I didn't like kinda like CATS and DOGS.

Slicone mats do collect bits of stuff. You have to wash them a lot. WHITE what was I thinking and I bought 2. They also hold your various die cutting and embossing machines from scooting about. Still must wash a lot. Let dry and resuse. AND the shiny side goes down mat up. Trust me. Then again I believe in coloring outside the lines so if you want to roll the other way why not. Little mat if you want HUGE ones in colors do google searches. These are saved for when friends come to craft with me.

Ok been a Caver as in Spelunker since the 60's. Met Hubby of 50 years this year through Caving Club in Bozeman MT in 1971 through Shining Mountain Grotto club. A member of the NSS for over 50 years. So lots of our friends are fondly a little batty in more ways than a few. Gottal luv this collection from tiny to huge. Took advantage of the sale. Did have to jump to my larger poly envelpes to store the set in but how fun. Would make a great mobile too.

Delightful doves and wonderful they are identical mirror images. That's rare in a die and this can be very helpful in making cards. Lovely size. Will be two turtle doves on inside of my Partridge in a Pear card too.

If you care careful you can make this into a frame too. And you could have it turned up to be a stand up option too. Anyway lots of options with this lovely die.

Big dissapointment. Usually love Paper Roses. So thrilled to find this message as in such an iconic saying from a wonderful classic story. Anyway this one is not for me. I could do better with the numerous aphabet dies in script and non script I own. This and another from Paper Roses both let us down the same way.

I took a star off because it should have at least one die but these embossed are adorable. I have a similar item with a couple of dies to match the moths and butterflies too. If you are dextersous enough no doubt you could cut them out after beiing mebossed. I have a similar set but they do have the dies to match each one. So I intend to play around a bit and see what happens when I've embossed these and if I can come close to the dies to punch. I think it might work for 2 but the others it's more mismatched than a good fit. All in all very happy with the embossing folder.

A name brand embossing folder with dies combined together. I can see a number of ways to use this. Including new babies, Baby showers, But Zodiac options pop up in my mind too. I have a bunch of glimmer 12 signs and Just lots of uses. Thankyou Scrapbook for this freebie really looking forward to using it.

This makes Good size letters not itty ones. Bold and clear in intent. Has shadow box and letters both optional with one or the other. Yes I do recommend but this was a freebie from Scratchbook. I didn't get freebies with last order but this one I made out like a bandit. 3 total freebies. And very nice ones indeed. Thanks Scrapbook.

Can play with this and make a ginger bread Holiday Shaker Card. I may need to borrow some of the ginger bread men shaker bits a neighbor has. Anyway it's cute and it was free. Thank you Scrapbook.

I have Let it Snow, Deck the Halls, & Dang I forgot the other....I just made them today too. I'm going with white embossed plain cardstock with a super smooth finish. I will cut out the white and make a frame around it not sure what colors yet. I embossed a lot today and tomorrow I will start building actual cards. I might make a stardream light blue I have with this tomorrow too to try it out besides just white. Should look a bit like this card. I'll need to add some snow effect or glitter to the raised words so a lot of these things happen when you are in the groove just chlled out making it. I like in general this one better than the Deck The Halls one. I also wish they were made as big as the new Spellbinder ones so I could emboss the full half sheet of regular 8.5x11 folded cardstock. Still gets 5stars.

I like it just plain white cardstock with super smooth finish. To use to write note inside you need to add a piecce of cardstock to cover the indentations or reverse embossing///debossing. Anyway you can avoid that if you make it like their demo mock up and apply the embossed layer only on the outside of a folded card. I intend to put up a few for sale at a craft fair with a few wee bits of glitter or shimmer and color here and there.

I bought only one sheet to see how nice it is. Passed the NICE test well and now buying 2 more sheets along with the mail one and witches spells etc. Plan to make several ever opening cards. Not sure if I'll use a die cut for that which I have on order or follow a larger card lay out. I'd prefer a 5x5 or even 6 x 6 inch card rather than the limited 4x4 smaller one. These cards make four pages that open by flipping the half openings back and fourth and so first page may open vertical cut next horizontal and so forth and actually ends back to the first page and continues around as long as you care to keep it going through the four pages. There are lots of Youtube videos to make several different approaches to similar results. I'm thinking of sticking with the basid lay ot of the die cut tool but just make it larger all squares. Rather than the version you end up cutting a piece out of. Anyway how fun is this going to be. I'll add on second page name of one birthday person. Then on third the next..this is for a couple who's BD's just happen to be about a week apart in May and hute HP fans even in their 70's. So I try to outdo myself each year with a customized or special card where both of them are united in the same wishes on same card. They enjoy but I know they do not keep them. Kinda sad they don't and maybe if they knew how much work goes into them they might reconsider. Some have been turned into kitty toys. We are all huge cat fans in the families too. Of course if you love HP you've got to be charmed by cats too. Have fun and think outside the BOX.

Not just for SNOW FLAKES how about stars that need a little glitter. I'm very much into stars and celestial and zodiac themes right now so this is so perfect to add some glimmer to anything. Does add a pop of glitter maybe more than color as in if you apply over colored or deeper colored items it will glitter that up to and you can still see some of the under color if you do not over apply. Stars are my thing but smaller moons too cut out from die cuts. Think Paper Panda MOONS so many are delightfully small and a little glimmer glittering is ideal to make them POP too. This was free but will buy more when it's low. & I have so many stars and moons to glitter it won't be too long.

Bought these previously and have multples now and so though a freebie as special this holiday order it's still wonderful to add to my other identical applicators. And of course I also already have the spare dome foams to switch out when new is needed. Nice comfortable dabbers for sure.

Oh who doesn't love this one and especially for children and grandparents grandkid cards. Just over the moon myself with this one. I am not so fondof the bow tie above moon but so simple to snip ot away and actually do a little more snipping and slip the moon up just a bit more. Also yes you could cut out the words too even for a different card without the saying. Or trim the words out and slip inside the card. This card is two dies. One is a larger square ideal for backing up this with different or contrasting paper. This one as lovely as it is has the scalapped edge all around that prevents using as a cut out for negative space design. But still adorable.

I love it but would like to have seen the noses look more BEAR like they kind of look a little PIG like. Nothings wrong with piggies mind you but I have a fondness for Teddy Bear Picnics myself. Have little musical inserts that play teddy bears picnic and so wanted to pair this card with them. I probably still will but not sure how to bring out the teddy ears and noses a bit more Bear like. The die comes with a large square cut out option as well as the intricate design cut out which could work as negative space or the die itself rendering two cards if you like. Also you can trim out pieces of you want to change out the cards a bit say take out the flags which I many do and fill in with something else or not.

Just one of them. So delightful. Such wonderful detail. You can see her as a little girl or even trim the hair and skirt area to appear more boy like. Anyway it's adorable and I love her. Great for children and adults and winter BD's.

I think a lot of us are KIDS at heart who play with stamps and die cutting and embossing and paper and yes even fabrics etc. HEY HEY HEY it's all about staying sane and poking fun too now and again. Often at ourselves. This is ideal for making yourself the joke. I have some lovely unicorn charms and stamps and dies even. So these will pair perfectly. Also if you take care not to ink the UNICORN words you can substitute another item like mermaid or Teddy Bear or Whale or let your imagination or persoalization kick in for that. If you do not have a stamp or die with the word you want print off a page of them on your computer in any color of ink you have and choose and then cut out them and paste them into the right spot or over the Unicorn print too. Thinking outside the box is all about being a Unicorn...you knew that of course cause you are one probably too.

Bought the sidekick black Tim Holtz with bundled plates this color and so ordered spares. But also ordered them in aqua and plain clear. And the black set to match originals. So this way I end up with a total of 6 plates and two of these embossing pads for the sidekick and no worries I'll be without a plate if needed. (You can usually use plates across some of the larger models but not so easily with these tiny machines. I wanted a small machine for portablity and quick jobs on the fly. I am so far happy with this one even though it's small but for earrings and my mini notebooks and book marks this is ideal. I will buy more plates including this Embossing pad as time goes on of course.

Our home made xmas cards are always photo cards. Full A4 sized folded in half. I get tired of having to get a perfect red out of my printer to apply personalized greetings over the photos. So this is going to make it oh so much easier. Plus it will please those who tell me they save our photos and now an again frame them too and are not happy when I print right onto the photo. We are not talking the classic people, family, plus dog photos that many oblige each year we are talking bout photos of wildlife both animal and plants up here in NW MT. I'm sure if it was just US people plus our cats no one would care to save or frame. I can very also from year to year going with green one year and red or gold or silver. I can place inside the double sided photo paper to avoid interference with the main photo image too. Yes this is ideal. Did not want a HUGE Merry. Love that it is sript too.

If you have a guy that's not into all the HEARTS and glitter and such stuff these are ideal sayings to still enjoy making them a card anyway. You can combine with other stamps and die-cutting and embossing too. And just enjoy the whimsy.

I bought two I know had to have two. I couldn't find extra plates so I decided 2 made second best sense. I also have the larger size plus 2 spare top plates and also two of the narrow plates that fit on the orginal larger one. I ended up with a spare large one too but no longer recall how I did that. Needless to say head over heals with these tools. The reason both large and small have open sides is so you can move paper of various sizes about or through them. Works well for that. I also cut down a thin silicon mat I had to see if it worked like the one on the larger unit and low and behold it did. Maybe you find you have a thin mat about for embossing machines that could be trimmed to fit if you feel the need. The mat I used was from a tray for keeping pet bowls from slipping but kittys found it even more fun to play with the mat and spill the food. So was pulled up cleaned and stashed away. It had a lip so trimmed it off and used the mat itself as it was quite thin and perfect use for it. Anyway happy to have and actually bought not just spares for myself but sometimes a neighbor joins in the fun too so handy to have on hand to share too.

My major use as many others will be too is to hold metal dies and items in place to cardstock or fabric stock. (I cut vinyls and faux leather fabric too. Not just cardstock and paper.) I make customized mini dies to punch letters and shapes into rectangle sized note book covers to personalize specific to an individual. Keeping the letters precisely in place is a must so this tape works for that. As one crafter on a video suggested she keeps bits of these tapes between reuses stuck to the outside of her die cutting/embossing machine. So that tidbit clicked with me and that's ideal which allows one to use and reuse it several times before perhaps it does give up it's tack. It doesn't last as long with many faux leathers as it does with cardstock but for the smooth jelly plastics say if you cut out earrings and bows it is good for many re-use before needing a replacement piece. Good buy on sale in pack of 3. I do like 1/2 even 1/4 widths too but so far didn't find it in this tape just some wasibi's. Since I use as a tool not decoration I would like to see this in narrower widths. (Those itty whittle dies like Poppystamp makes with mini flowers and animals for whimsy on my cards the narrower piece is very useful.) I've never experienced damage to cardstock or paper even on it's first use.

Bought some years ago WeRmemory Keepers Fuse tool that comes with a variety of blades. Some are wheels that seal two pieces of plastic laminates together and at least one cutting blade. More blades and replacements are available too. Meantime despite having laminators and various thickness of limination material both in pre-formed sleeves and just plane single sheets I've never put the Fuse to use that much. It did help make a super oversized Map laminate for a display think 30" by 5 feet. So quite the sophisitcated job. And my laminators are only 14" wide. So when I saw these on sale I jumped at the oportunity. And YES YES YES the Fuse wheel and cutter works pretty well. Must allow it to heat up and because these are for 12 x 12 inch paper I can cut to just about any size I desire and my desire is to make 8.5 x 11" protective mats for stamps and cutting dies and also add a few storage pockets ontop of the main sheets to store maybe a few thicker items or tools too. It requires knowledge of the tool and the plastics both. It may require some learning curve to catch on but once you do it's great fun and the successes so helpful for storage. A pack of 50 gives me more than enough for a few oops and disasters but then as I too learn from those I will have a lot more successes even when I push the limits such as working out how to make two pockets deep. These are are made with that decent flexible plastic material not the thin laminate sleeves you may have used with a laminator that can be as thin as 3 and as thick as 10mil. My usual go to is 5ml but use all as what ever the design or use requires. This material is adding a new option to the whole scheme of things. Luv it and kinda wish I'd ordered two packs now.

Our family, my family, my husbands family are all CAT people. At one time three different families shared siblings and cats all from the same mother cat we owned. No we do not breed kits but some times we were known to rescue a stray with babes or about to give birth. This kitty is great. Plus you
could actually very carefully cut the cat out and with glue dots to the back side of kitty bring her out more to the front even. The delightfully detailed cat and plants are one die and there comes with it an ideal square die to make windows or other backgrounds. Both can be indpendent or used together. Only your imaginination awaits where you'll take this kitty.

Even though I know badgers have dens not sure what to think of these wee fellas tucked under the tree on a crescent moon night? Then again it's so delightful I had to have it to add to my growing collection of Paper Panda dies in this Expressive almost overly detailed dies. I think with a little bit of
fiddling you could actually make these wee creatures look a bit like skunks too but the fluffy tail isn't clear because badgers don't have those fluffy ones. But if you have a BADGER Fan or school mascote this would be even more special say on a travel glass or mug. I'm still playing a bit in my mind with who and what to do with this one. YOu could cut the badgers out carefully and replace with dots behind them to bring them even more to the forefront of the card too or replace with another wee critter cut out of your choice. It lacks no creative juice for sure.

Yes a sister in law who loves cats and foxes and though cats are fantastic and I have Paper Pandas kitty too the fox is so much harder to come by so this is wonderful and delightful and just what is the little fox up to at midnight by the way. I suspect he's meeting up with a cute little girl fox for some romance under those stars. Or just waiting to creep up on the hen house just as soon as that farmers bedroom window light goes out. He's a fox of course and a delightfully detailed one at that. Comes with a background circle die too so you can open the front of card up as a window to different color background or cut it out in sturdy cardstock to put dots behind to bring out towards the forefront more. Try wraping around a flameless candle or vinyls on mug or travel mug.

I'd love to see a series in this style and size for other creatures great and small. Love these Paper Panda Dies. I have at least half a dozen probably more now. I have to put a brake on my enthusiasm for sure. I have a few of their stamps too. Anyway the stag wouldn't he be great to wrap around a travel mug using permanent adhesive vinyl. Depending on background of mug and type of vinyl design and color it could really pop or rock or both. For a more subdued male or female just staying natural deer and dark solid background would in itself be special.

I have more than half a dozen now of the Paper Panda special dies. Very detailed and so delightfully pretty and expressive. I read one reviewer who uses these to cover the outside of her non flame candles to dress them up. WOW what a really neat idea. Most come with a die for the background so you can make a different color choice other than a base of just the card or play around with different ways. All just beautifully done. Let your imaginations begin. (I plan to try several different designs without the background using permanent vinyl to stainless travel mugs etc. They will need an overlay of clear shellac or acrylic spray to protect but expect the results to be magnifico.)

This is a substantial die.It can be made to look 3D too as some of the individual scales are cut into so you can bend them outward. I live in the very heart of Ponderosa Pine country with around 200 or so trees on our small acreage. We joke about the tree turds we must pick up year round but mainly in spring and summer when they are falling the most. Some years far more than others. Anyway you either embrace them or hate them. I did put up a sign that's behind the guest room door that states "You are welcome to pick up all the pindcones you want." My husband thought I was being mean. I'm not exactly a pine cone hugger because they can be a bit prickley but I luv this die and wanted it for quite sometime. So plan to use with very thick textured paper that's wettable to appear like old leather. Use some highlight glitter waxes and polishes too depending on theme of cards or project. Winter a touch of snow for example.

Sing kookaburra sing comes to mind. Had to have for my collection of down under critters for sure.

So adorable and would love to find other similar dies in the western theme. I plan to use with the thicker textured Sizzix paper that you can wet and crumple and crease up and smooth slightly out with this die so it'll have a very raised worn metalic effect and make a great embellishment to any project including book corner protectors for specialized and personalized not books I make. Luv it.

We have friends in Tasmania and I'm behind sending them a card so why not a home crafted one with their little creatures and beasties. Love this and ordered the Koala bear pair and others from Paper Rose too.

I decided to get a mid size machine. I have a BIG one twice the weight of this and a wee small electric one all different brands. So I was leaning towards two others when I caught a Video on this and then a second & quickly decided this was what I was looking for. Nice clean lines I love it's narrow profile and easy to set aside when sides folded up and just a well made overall machine. I took off a star because I am having some trouble getting my vinyl faux leather fabrics through which I use for earrings and what have you using it's sandwich. It's just too thick. Since I use a lot of thicker papers and materials this is something I will need to work out with it. Finding a lighter cutting sheet or trying other brands of less thick plates might be the answer. But I think it's made solid enough though the opening could be a bit wider for my thicker 3D embossing plates and thick materials I favor for my crafts. (I don't make a lot of cards pese.)

Where are the bears and lions and coyotes? Beautiful stamp I do wish they offered this in one of their beautiful intricate two part dies too. YUM. Anyway will have fun with this one and so very different with all it's details but are clear. You will want to use a stamp press for this one expecially if you want variations in color throughout the print.

I almost didn't choose this one. But then I did and so happy I did. Love the theme that she's got to get home it's chilly and almost there and just so expressive. Or how about CA Dreaming theme where you go out for a walk on a winters day & for that special someone of the 60's child's BD what an adorable card that would make. I have at least 3 people in my husbands family in mind already.

Beautiful very intricate designs so lots of weeding. You may want to use wax like paper to help or paper that gives clean cuts. Maybe stick an extra shim paper under the design cut out to help with that. I save all my scraps just for times like this. Also a nice big shape too so it fills up a page no matter what size card you like to work in.

You get two dies. One is the bunny through moon all one intricate design die. The other a perfect circle which of course you could use on other designs and cards say as a BIG moon to color with the celestial stamp stencils. Anyway I they make a similar bunny design too & now think perhaps I want that one too. No one can have too many bunny's. Also bought two other Paper Panda dies. All beautiful.

I'd love to scream in a feminist voice that WHAT idiot designed these drawers and did not add just one quarter wider. At 12" deep drawer depth it would handle 8.5" x 11" standard size paper and cardstock. Really a quarter inch too shy? Ok so in todays world we can't yell 'MEN' anymore but betcha lol. Or NOT. Wouldn't I be ashamed if I found out it was a woman. Meantime really these are well made above average compared to Sterilites craft drawers etc. HOWEVER when I invested in 6 sets for total of 18 drawers taken apart and set into two mini towers side by side of 9 drawers each and mated close to an antique oak chest next to them that has deep drawers that hold all my giant and small stacks of spare embossing plates for 3" Gemini Go to 8.5" Spellbinder Platinum I assumed they would hold a standard ream of paper and cardstock beautifully. NOT. Oh my and so now I've moved 15 stacked high as one high tower behind my craft room door to hold odds and ends of misc. tools and supplies. These were perfect in everyway for quality built plastic drawers. Just so much of what I do is around standard sized papers. Special printer papers for laser and inkjets, Fabric printing sheets, metalics, clear label printing paper not to mention as already the standard cardstocks and photo papers. (I counted the type of special papers I have over 17. And that is not counting vinyl adhesive, hot foils, hot iron on vinyls or the beautiful faux leathers used for jewelry and bows etc. So now I've replaced them with Sterilites medium size desk top dawers. Good news is I get 10 drawers in each stack to mate height of oak chest. Bad is together side by side they take up a LOT more floor space. BUT these not only hold much of the special papers which I can label to find quickly but any size pretty much as some of the vinyl rolls and faux leathers are as long as 13 inchs. Bad news is the height of the draers are a little less. I have a closet that's been converted to hold standard paper dividers some 36 I believe it has slots for which for years has worked fine for many fancy paper supplies but with the vinyls, embossing fabrics, faux leathers and occasional 12x12 inch size papers I so needed more organization and protection for all of them too. So maybe TONIC will realize they missed the boat here by one quarter of an inch. But overall if you aren't looking to hold full sheets of paper in here these are lovely drawers. They have stops that keep you from pulling the drawers out all the way. That's a plus and a negative. I do like to move my drawers about such as what I'm working on most at any given time to the upper most drawers and say materials I work on for past projects to the bottom by just squeezing a drawer sides in a bit to pull out. The Tonic drawers do not have that much flex to them. But it's do-able just not as easy. Drawer stops however are great if you worry about dropping a drawer when opening too fast and spilling contents or worse dropping a heavy tool such as some punches are on your foot. And also I don't like drawers that can go all the way through on both sides because I put almost all my towers on wheels so I can move them to an area my machines and tools are set up at and also move to clean easily under and behind them. I know these are designed for most people who just let sit on their desk or side table and for folks in sewing and smaller crafting tools and dies and what nots I think they are great. But yes my frustration is there. I would have gladly bought six more sets to hold 18 more reams of specialized papers and vinyls had they just been one quarter wider. Sniffles. Tonic please hear and head this plea. Make a bit XXL size maybe to make this work. But with having just bought 18 three drawer sets of the Sterilte desk top drawers and so far made two 10 drawer high towers and one 12 high tower plus set 3 single drawers under my antque craft chests and two stacks of 4 under small side tables Oh my gosh still have 9 maybe 10 drawers left to work in. Yes have a place already in mind for them. But it'll be a while if not a forever long while before I buy more drawers period. Meantime what's great about all of these is taking off their tops and building custom sized towers where ever and however fits your space and your style of crafting. So for that hats off to a superior product Tonic. sniffles....lol.