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Hi All,
I've been searching for thinlet, framelit you know those small thin metal dies for use in the bigshot or gemini....
I'm specifically looking just for word dies and having difficulty finding them. I would like to have: "amazing" "happy" "sorry" "hello" "love". It's so hard to search for them so I'd appreciate any guidance or specifics you may have.
I really like the Hero Arts Stamp & Cut sets - they have a die that cuts a word in a script font, a co-ordinating large stamp and then lots of other small word stamps so that you can make phrases and some small, simple shapes. I�m sure �happy�, �hello� and �love� are all available, not sure about the others. I can�t see a way to get words only on the Hero Arts site but the Stamp & Cut range is here which is probably a manageable number of things to look through if the idea tickles your fancy.
Hi Chalmy - you can also try searching on "sentiments" under the category of dies on many websites (Simon Says Stamp, Ellen Hutson, Scrapbook.com, others), rather than "words." Or you can google on "cards dies sentiments" or similar.
Concord & 9th has some nice big word dies, and my favorite set of double cut alpha dies so you can make your own words, and have both an inner and outer piece of the letter. You can also use the negative space so it's really a "3-fer."
My Favorite Things has lots of word dies; their Happy Greetings set has happy, hello and love all together. Poppy Stamps has several different Hello and Love dies.
I don't know if you have a Michael's by you, but mine has packages of word dies for a good price - I think $9.99 for about 6. Plus, you can use a coupon.
Brenda, agree, very nice small company, fast shipping, good prices and sales (I think), and Els (owner) has some lovely tutorials on youtube and her blog. What's different is they often have complete instructions/pics in a pdf that you can save or print out. Here's the direct link: https://www.elizabethcraftdesigns.com/
I recently met someone who's a designer for Elizabeth Crafts and also speaks highly of her. We're getting together soon to play with Els' Shimmer Sheetz, which I already have and enjoy, fun to sand.
Hi and welcome to SCS!
I am looking at my list of dies and I see I have words from a LOT of places, one here, one there because I liked the word or the font...but the guys I have a lot from:
Yes general suppliers like 1-2-3 are great.
One way in general to look for word dies-ask a company for "hello". You will get dies and stamps.
I am a huge fan of Quietfire and their calligraphy words (Canadian) you can order direct and you get the better exchange rate so if they have a sale it is very worth it. They are available stateside at Elizabeth Crafts
If you have the patience to sift through them, there are lots of word dies on Ebay, that come from China. Let me say- I order from China all the time, the dies are fine, I've never had an issue with the dies. I have, on a couple occasions, not gotten my dies, but they refund immediately when that happens. Yes, it takes time to get them, usually a month, but you cannot beat the prices. I have a lot of cheap from China dies, and I love 'em!
I did not read all these responses but our local Hobby Lobby has word dies and I have bought the exact same words your looking for in 1 package. I believe there were 2 different collections with 4 or 5 words in a package for $10. I don't remember the name of the manufacture tho. Sorry.
Spellbinders make small sets of word dies like you are asking about. I have gotten them at Hobby Lobby, JoAnn's and Michaels. I'm sure you could search for that brand by name and easily find them online. They are fairly inexpensive (less than $10) and all of the places I listed offer coupons regularly or sales. I think they are called Phrase I, II, etc. and each set has 4-5 common phrases. Good luck!
I often buy my dies from the SimonSaysStamp line because the fonts they use on their branded dies are just beautiful. I'm picky about the fonts on my dies! They tend to be script and brush lettered looking dies. I included a few links here. I don't know how to embed a link so I just cut and paste them here. You can also typically buy them in a smaller or a larger size die which is nice. There are links to some other brands too. SimonSaysStamps has sales every so often for their own brand items - sometimes up to 20% off. That's when I buy their brand of dies. Echo Park has some sets are really great too - where you can find multiple of your word choices in the same pack. Those you can find everywhere and find some good sales at times. They have a variety of fonts that I love too.
Love (By Penny Black)
-https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Penny-Black-TRUE-LOVE-Thin-Metal-Creative-Die-51-183-PB51183?currency=USD Love (Your Next Stamp)
-https://www.simonsaysstamp.com/product/Your-Next-Stamp-SCRIPTY-LOVE-Die-Set-YNSD560-YNSD560?currency=USD
What I love about Elizabeth Craft Designs' word dies, is that a lot of them are now designed by Suzanne Canon, of Quietfire Designs. Suzanne is a delightful woman who does amazing calligraphy and turns it into rubber, and now dies. I can't say enough good about her as a person - I had the good fortune to take a book making class from her a couple years ago in Vancouver BC - and I have loved her rubber forever it seems. Her dies are amazing and so different and classic from what is out there by other wonderful designers. Really worth taking a look at.
I also think she has a different collection than many - a lot of the "usual" but also things like memories, and a collection of winter, spring, summer, fall, a sympathy die, just a little different than usual. Anyway, I really like her stuff, and I'm voting for folks to take a look at it!
__________________ The future is uncertain, because love changes everything!
It�s obvious that there are a lot of sources for sentiment dies, and I have purchased from nearly all that have been listed - and have gotten wonderful service from them.
I�m popping in on this thread to offer some unsolicited advice on the type/style of sentiment die to order or avoid like the plague. I have many sentiment dies in my possession that are for all intents and purposes useless to me after having used them once and discovering how difficult they were to place once they were cut.
The word dies that I have found to be not-for-me are those that cut a very fine, scripty sentiment...and the longer the sentiment, the worse they are. These diecut sentiments are GORGOUS, don�t get me wrong, but they are a beast to get placed on a card!
I use many different brands of double-stick adhesive strips or paper on the back of the cs to prep it for cutting sentiments, so my issue is not getting the words to stick, it is in handling those skinny, stretched out sentiments and getting them wrangled onto the card front! I have many long (1 1/2� to 2�) skinny scripty sentiments that will strech and curl and become out of control monsters when the adhesive backing is removed and they are ready to put down....gettting the individual letters back into shape AND perfectly straight can be a time consuming and frustrating process!
My most used and favorite sentiment dies tend to be ones with a bit thicker letters and nice tight connected words. There are sentiment dies out there that cleverly combine skinny script and tight letters that don�t separate when they are cut. Here is a link to some scripty dies with long tails at each end that are a dream to cut AND place on a card front.
It�s obvious that there are a lot of sources for sentiment dies, and I have purchased from nearly all that have been listed - and have gotten wonderful service from them.
I�m popping in on this thread to offer some unsolicited advice on the type/style of sentiment die to order or avoid like the plague. I have many sentiment dies in my possession that are for all intents and purposes useless to me after having used them once and discovering how difficult they were to place once they were cut.
The word dies that I have found to be not-for-me are those that cut a very fine, scripty sentiment...and the longer the sentiment, the worse they are. These diecut sentiments are GORGOUS, don�t get me wrong, but they are a beast to get placed on a card!
I use many different brands of double-stick adhesive strips or paper on the back of the cs to prep it for cutting sentiments, so my issue is not getting the words to stick, it is in handling those skinny, stretched out sentiments and getting them wrangled onto the card front! I have many long (1 1/2� to 2�) skinny scripty sentiments that will strech and curl and become out of control monsters when the adhesive backing is removed and they are ready to put down....gettting the individual letters back into shape AND perfectly straight can be a time consuming and frustrating process!
My most used and favorite sentiment dies tend to be ones with a bit thicker letters and nice tight connected words. There are sentiment dies out there that cleverly combine skinny script and tight letters that don�t separate when they are cut. Here is a link to some scripty dies with long tails at each end that are a dream to cut AND place on a card front.
This is out of order..I'm actually replying to the post by Boss re: those thin, scripty word dies that go all over. I have a couple of those I used to wrangle and cuss over, too, and then saw someone, either Jennifer MaGuire or Amy Rysavy demo how they do it.
Get everything ready and place the negative space down on your card and use washi or something to hold it in place. Remove the backing off of the die cut, and place it back into the card stock you cut it out of, and press down. Voil! Perfectly placed, lined up sentiment.
And it made me wonder why I hadn't thought of that earlier myself. It also helped me love those hard to love sentiments again.
HTH
__________________ The future is uncertain, because love changes everything!
This is out of order..I'm actually replying to the post by Boss re: those thin, scripty word dies that go all over. I have a couple of those I used to wrangle and cuss over, too, and then saw someone, either Jennifer MaGuire or Amy Rysavy demo how they do it.
Get everything ready and place the negative space down on your card and use washi or something to hold it in place. Remove the backing off of the die cut, and place it back into the card stock you cut it out of, and press down. Voil! Perfectly placed, lined up sentiment.
And it made me wonder why I hadn't thought of that earlier myself. It also helped me love those hard to love sentiments again.
HTH
That's BRILLIANT! I have in mind a particular congratulations die that gives me the stated problem. This ought to take care of that! Thank you!
This is out of order..I'm actually replying to the post by Boss re: those thin, scripty word dies that go all over. I have a couple of those I used to wrangle and cuss over, too, and then saw someone, either Jennifer MaGuire or Amy Rysavy demo how they do it.
Get everything ready and place the negative space down on your card and use washi or something to hold it in place. Remove the backing off of the die cut, and place it back into the card stock you cut it out of, and press down. Voil! Perfectly placed, lined up sentiment.
And it made me wonder why I hadn't thought of that earlier myself. It also helped me love those hard to love sentiments again.
HTH
Ditto - definitely a Jennifer video (and maybe the other person you named will have to look her up). I often dot adhesive into the negative space instead of using double-stick.
Some narrow word dies go across the entire card and have swoopy tails on each end. Dotting adhesive into the negative space *or* the die cut without using the negative space works. They don't stretch out, which may be because they're not pulled off of double stick tape/sheets, or it's the cardstock itself.
I used to have die cuts that stuck in dies and stretched them when trying to get them out, so for those dies I use die release paper to avoid stretching.
I forgot another Jennifer technique for those narrow word dies.
You can lightly press a die cut onto Post-It tape, dot adhesive on it, and then place it on the card. Leave the top of the word(s) showing so you can see where you're placing it if you want to keep it on the Post-It tape when placing it.
Jennifer's video shows it so much better than I can describe it but I couldn't find it and have to leave. I'll look at another time.
Last edited by bjeans; 04-26-2018 at 05:35 PM..
Reason: card too big!
This is out of order..I'm actually replying to the post by Boss re: those thin, scripty word dies that go all over. I have a couple of those I used to wrangle and cuss over, too, and then saw someone, either Jennifer MaGuire or Amy Rysavy demo how they do it.
Get everything ready and place the negative space down on your card and use washi or something to hold it in place. Remove the backing off of the die cut, and place it back into the card stock you cut it out of, and press down. Voil! Perfectly placed, lined up sentiment.
And it made me wonder why I hadn't thought of that earlier myself. It also helped me love those hard to love sentiments again.
HTH
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!! I watch most of Jen�s videos, but I must have missed this handy tip. Can�t wait to give this a try! :cool:
I forgot another Jennifer technique for those narrow word dies.
You can lightly press a die cut onto Post-It tape, dot adhesive on it, and then place it on the card. Leave the top of the word(s) showing so you can see where you're placing it if you want to keep it on the Post-It tape when placing it.
Jennifer's video shows it so much better than I can describe it but I couldn't find it and have to leave. I'll look at another time.
Thanks for sharing this tip. I just got some new skinny dot runner adhesive and this would be a good first use for it!
Thanks for sharing this tip. I just got some new skinny dot runner adhesive and this would be a good first use for it!
I wasn't clear (so what's new? :shock. I meant I dotted liquid adhesive onto the die cut - just on the high and low part of each letter - doesn't have to be all over.
But it might work to use skinny dot runner adhesive and if it does, I hope you'll report back!
I couldn't find the exact video that shows Post-It tape to attach delicate die cuts, but if you fast forward to about 10 minutes, this video works.
Jennifer is using a sticky backed die cut but whether you use double-sided adhesive sheets to cut your die or liquid adhesive after it's cut, it's the same basic technique.
Note that the bottom of her die cut is showing - otherwise she wouldn't see it to place it correctly. Other times you'd want the top to show.
I wasn't clear (so what's new? :shock. I meant I dotted liquid adhesive onto the die cut - just on the high and low part of each letter - doesn't have to be all over.
But it might work to use skinny dot runner adhesive and if it does, I hope you'll report back!
Thanks for the clarification! I will try the liquid glue, which I also have!
I don't know what style of font you're looking for, but Winnie & Walter has several word dies. They do have hello and love. Those are more in a bold serif font, but they are substantial enough to carry a card, and you can get just the one word, so it's a pretty good price point. They also have other sets with more of a scripty font. You kind of have to go through all their dies on their site to find the words, but it's only 3 pages total, so not too bad. You can find all their dies here. Hope this helps, and welcome to the community!
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