Everyone knows that the home is where the heart is. It’s also the place where you and your family experience everyday life, with all the adventures and catastrophes that it entails.
These new shapes are perfect for capturing your favorite moments at home from potty training and laundry, to family hobbies and home improvement projects. Use them to embellish scrapbook layouts, welcome to the neighborhood cards, family chore charts and more.
New 4x8 Number Sets
For the first time you can get a complete grand number set on a 4x8 die! These numbers are the perfect size to highlight a year, age, date or home address in any layout or craft project. Try cutting out your home address numbers with adhesive vinyl and stick them on your outside mailbox!
Here's a few project ideas from this release.
This cityscape border is great because it can work for almost any big city that you live in or travel too. Very versatile.
Denver by Shaunte Wadley
I absolutely love the sewing machine die. I think it's adorable. Perhaps it's because I wish I could sew. Anyway, these projects by QK designers Maegen Jenne and Leah Killian look absolutely darling with all the buttons and stitching they've added. Well done ladies!
I *heart* to sew by Maegen Jenne
I'm sew glad we're friends by Leah Killian
These next two projects are by Samantha Van Arnhem. She did such a good job utilizing both of the new 4x8 Number Sets in very creative ways. It's also a very creative use of the toilet for that matter!
Laura's Challenge:
So tell me: What's your favorite shape from this release and why? Leave a comment telling me which shapes/ numbers sets you are most excited to get and what types of projects you'd make with them. I'll choose three random winners that'll get two shapes of their choice from this release. Can't wait to hear what you have to say and don't forget, there's no place like home!
1664 loads project by Maegen Jenne
this is so hard... i can't choose just one! I can see the city scape below santa in his sled blazing across the nighttime sky wishing "merry christmas to all and to all a goodnight", great card idea? and then the pincushion!!! wow I need that. I used to work for a major sewing machine company and have already silhouetted our sewing machine shape, but the pin cushion would augment all those pages already done! not to mention a cute card "sitting on pins and needles".... and I'd turn the school house into a church in a jiffy...
Posted by: marlis | June 16, 2009 at 12:23 PM
i love the sewing machine the most and i think the font that the numbers are in is a perfect solid basic font that will go with everything...but i also love the buildings and the cityscape...i love them all!
Posted by: Mary Dawn | June 16, 2009 at 12:37 PM
I love so many of these shapes it is hard to pick one, but if I had to I would say the picket fence - I can see it being used for so many purposes just as a fence - but I also can see cutting off the points and using it as a train track or boardwalk. I also love that finally we have a "#" sign with the number sets - I've really missing having one of those with some of the alpha sets (I scrap a lot of sports stuff so I need a #1 a lot). Thanks QK for another great release!!
Posted by: Jenn in MO (scrapinstl) | June 16, 2009 at 12:39 PM
I totally love the sewing machine :) My mom, me, and MIL all love sewing in various ways (clothes, decor, and quilts respectively) and I'd love to make them a card or even a tag that says "Sewn especially for you by SMK" to go with some homemade decor pieces!!! :D
Posted by: SMK | June 16, 2009 at 12:52 PM
The two houses on the left are ADORABLE!! They'd be perfect for house warming gifts and cards! :D
Posted by: Zarah | June 16, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Although I love all of the new shapes, I'm most excited about the 4x8 number sets. No. 73 is exactly what I want for the month-by-month baby album I'm starting to put together for my son. The lack of 1s in most alphabet sticker/chipboard sets means I'll never get to month 12 without buying several sets or finding the perfect dies, like these!
Posted by: Sarah Jay | June 16, 2009 at 01:00 PM
I am in love with the sewing machine and pincushion! My mom is a seamstress and I'd love to get this die to make her layouts and cards! Too cute!
Posted by: Katy Young | June 16, 2009 at 01:02 PM
This whole release is stinkin' cute! Pick just one? Well, my favorite would have to be: house REV-0213-S
Perfect for scrapbooking about our home. A new home card, we're moving card....so many ideas..
Posted by: Kaylyn B | June 16, 2009 at 01:06 PM
There are a lot of great ones in this collection, I could see using the toilet for potty training pages and the school house for school pages but I think my favorite die is the pin cushion. Only because I think you could make that into a lot of different little things for pages, like a tomato for a gardening page or an alien for a little boy page!!
Great release! Those numbers are cool too!!
Jen M in Texas
Posted by: Jen M | June 16, 2009 at 01:17 PM
These are great releases! I love the numbers and the city skyline too! Great for covers of mini albums and highlighting in pages. So versatile!!!
Posted by: Nancy L in Vancouver | June 16, 2009 at 01:42 PM
I like the grand numbers by son plays football and I just love the chunky look of the numbers on layouts. I would also use them to make a few t-shirt iron ons with his number. #66
Fun Fun Fun
Thank you,
Posted by: sophia | June 16, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Oh, that layout so makes me miss Denver! I really love the little house and the adorable lamp post shape! I have also thought of lots of creative ways to use the sideways hanging sign die cut, too! It's great for layout titles or dates!
Posted by: Jingle | June 16, 2009 at 01:49 PM
Love the number sets!!! There is so much you can do with numbers! My daughter is just learning to add and subtract so I would love to do some flash cards for her with her favorite things on them.
Posted by: Heather Ippolito | June 16, 2009 at 02:02 PM
I love these new releases! It's hard to choose which is my favorite because I've already added to my list just by looking at the samples.
I am very excited about the no.73 number set and the hanging sign. I do a lot of travel pages and I can see that being used to identify all kinds of things. I also think the cityscape and window have great potential for cards, pages etc. I just love how you can use so many shapes together to create different looks. You aren't limited to just the original idea of the image. Thanks again QK!
Posted by: Melanie | June 16, 2009 at 02:13 PM
OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS ENTIRE COLLECTION! My husband and I just bought our first house (we're scheduled to close on July 22nd!) so this timing is PERFECT. If I had to choose, I'd say my favorite is the picket fence. So classic Americana. Thank you, QuicKutz!
Posted by: Kristi | June 16, 2009 at 02:27 PM
I love them all, but I like the school house. It reminds me of the one room school house that my husband went to school in. I would use it to do pages with my husband's childhood school pictures.
Posted by: Helen | June 16, 2009 at 02:29 PM
It's so hard to pick ! The barn would be so cute for a book of farm animals I would like to make for my grandson. Or, one of the little houses would be great for a page of my daughter moving into her own first home.
Posted by: Marcia | June 16, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Love the houses and the sewing machine!
Posted by: Maylee | June 16, 2009 at 02:37 PM
I love the sign because I can use it with rollerskate alphabet to use on my violin shop pages as titles to each project. T lamposst is pretty cool too!
Posted by: rebeccaw | June 16, 2009 at 03:06 PM
Wow it's so hard to choose, but I love the numbers and the sewing machine dies. I do sew, but I still love it!
Posted by: Bobbi-Lynn | June 16, 2009 at 03:08 PM
ps...i heart 2 sew is by maegen jenne :o) i loved this release!
Posted by: Maegen Jenne | June 16, 2009 at 03:37 PM
the sewing maching is gorgeous, but the houses and numbers would be what I'd buy.
Posted by: Jenink | June 16, 2009 at 03:52 PM
Love all the houses and barn..so much to do with those! New home cards, city cards, moving cards... picnic, bbq...Even just as a background piece on a flower card!
The #73 number set it way cool! Love it!
Love all the sewing pieces, lots of use for those!
Oh and the mailbox !!!!!!!! love it!
oh my..they are all fabulous!
Posted by: Patty W | June 16, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Oh WOW! The possibilities are endless! My favorites are the sewing machine and the toilet. I like the sewing machine because my Mom has always sewn and is constantly making things for my children. Would be great to photograph these items and use this die on some layouts. She also belongs to several quilting groups and I'm always helping her shop for Christmas and birthday gifts for her friends (she lives in a small town and I'm in a city). We could make such cute tags/cards with this die. The TOILET is oh so cute! I have one little one who is working on potty training right now...how cute to make a potty chart and use the die to cut out some toilets (put a magnet on the back) and every time she goes in the potty let her put one on her chart.
But honestly - LOVE all the dies!
Posted by: Amy V. | June 16, 2009 at 03:55 PM
If I had to pick just one, it would be the 4x8 number set. It's a perfect font to go with everything!
Posted by: Joni Kix | June 16, 2009 at 04:09 PM