"Slim Mini" cards from Taylored Expressions

My first thought was all of the envelopes that I have bought will no longer be the size for the trendy cards. At least the slimline cards used a #10 envelope. I do, however, have the WRMK envelope maker. I won’t gripe too much on that score.

I have only made one slimline card so far. I like it, but I am not crazy about the size. Something about it bugs me. I think the 3.5x6” size card would be nicer proportions. Even nicer, the triple window dies that I already bought from My Favorite Things will work better with that size, too, than with the slimline cards.

I recently bought all of the Foundations die sets from Queen & Co. I have a ton of dies of all shapes, sizes, purposes, but I like that the Q&Co. dies coordinate easier and can be used for a wide variety of card sizes and shapes, no matter what the stamp and die makers come up with.

I know that selling new dies and coordinating stamps for new shaped cards helps to keep these companies in business, but I am really glad now that I never bought any slimline dies. I think I will play around with what I’ve got, using my Cameo as well as using the dies that I already own.

So basically a 6"X 10½" cs. If you make your own, you can use something a little more interesting than off white and squares. Like scrapnnana, I prefer sizes I am used to.

Okay, I can maybe see someone getting the scalloped one if you like that look and want to make that size card but the little squares for the trifold make no sense to me.  If you already have square dies why not use those.  If you already have some slimline dies there are several YouTube videos that show you how to alter a die cut to get the size you want.

do these fit in a regular non business envelope? the kind that's about the size of a check?

Hum...I don't think I can get on the bandwagon for this one. It's just too specialized for me.
and I also wonder about postage - would that size increase the stamp price?

Can't say I'm rushing to get on the bandwagon. If I was going to make slimline cards regularly I'd probably make the larger ones, otherwise I prefer to stick to something around the A2 size. There's no standard envelope size here that would be a good fit for a mini slim so I'd probably end up using business envelopes anyway, in which case why not make the taller card?

I do vary my 'A2' card sizes a bit and sometimes make cards that are 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" which obviously gives a slightly slimmer card which I think looks quite nice. Got the idea from Melissa Phillips.

They are really cute. BUT I fall on the side of marketing ploy. Right now the market is saturated with the standard sized stitched frames, cardfronts, grass edges, borders, etc. What better way to generate more sales than create new sizes to reproduce all those things for?? No creativity needed. No new designers to hire to come up with new original dies. Just design teams that are already in place to use the different sized products.

Which slimline dies did you start with? And where did you order them from? Every time I think I have narrowed down my wishlist at a particular store, everything goes OOS 🙄

I like the regular slimline but not on board with this one. I got some trinity stamp slim lines, the main mama elephant one as one die does a lot, and the lawn Fawn ones because I can’t resist lawn Fawn. I like the new trinity stamp living room because I like building scenes and I’m not great at cutting perfect sizes and lining everything up.