S/O Favourite new Christmas dies?

I have been using my Tim Holtz Christmas dies prepping my December Daily album and I am loving them!

I liked that one but HATED that they made the dies into tags.  It's so limiting.  If the didn't have the hole, you could make them tags or not. But w/the hole, they're just tags and can't be an element on a card that's just a tree, not a tree tag, etc.

My favorite die this year is the "let it snow" die that's included with Mama Elephants So Many Snowmen set.
ME So Many Snowmen Creative Cuts

I also use the Lawn Fawn Merry Christmas border die from last year. (well at least last year for me) LF Merry Christmas border die

This one!

www.lilinkerdesigns.com/christmas-words-tree-die/

I love this thread! Keep posting your favorite dies, my wish list is growing!

I loved that snowman stamp and wanted both it and the dies, but dang that’s a lot of money to spend on something I doubt I would really use! 

I saw that too and it was SO cute! 

Maybe if you got the sleigh, I could get the tree and we could share! 

grammadee and justjac, that would work well for the both of you! Either the sleigh OR the tree would work for other occasions. The sleigh would be great for winter birthdays, it already comes with the present and the two sizes of bows. The smaller bow is for the wreath but will work for the present also giving presents a different look.

The tree has the cardinal, so you could just have a tree with birds, trim the top knot and it is different bird. The tree would work for any time of the year whether birthday or just hello card.

The way I decorate the tree as a Christmas tree, I've found the fastest thing to do is use glitter glue, lay them out, dot the different colors on, just at the top on the larger trees but all over the smaller. Let them dry overnight and then assemble. You do need to add a little on the back of the top of the bigger trees but I usually do that AFTER everything is done. Dot with glitter glue and just let them stand open until dry. Since I do everything assembly line AFTER I've done the very first card and satisfied that I know how to do it, it works well for me. I wanted to do sequins to position them over glue takes too long if I'm doing a lot of cards. I'm also afraid they might pop off the tree during mailing.

I like Karen's newer sleigh die because it works as a standing popup with the background completely flat or as a traditional popup with the background standing up. It comes with everything you need except an animal and you don't "have" to have an animal but makes it even cuter. I love the penguin and the dog in her latest set the best. Heck, I love the bear, he is a polar bear or just a teddy bear! The new Tiny Accessories is cute because you have glasses, props and more hats. Winter Animals has a hat as does Birthday Charms. 

The standing popup, both the sleigh AND the tree works best as Karen shows, with only ONE layer of cardstock at the fold. It doesn't lay as flat IF you have the inside layer of cardstock go over the fold. 

So long as the shape hid the mechanism, the sleigh mechanism could popup anything. You can also do the same with the tree popup mechanism, not as easy BUT if you've had as much experience in popup cards as I have lately, you can do it.

If any of you have any questions about the popup cards, something isn't working right or if you want to know IF something would work, just ask. I've learned a few tricks to make things work even better. I like Karen's dies because she has so many little extras to make a complete card in her sets AND I mix and match shapes from her different sets to make something completely different.

I put her sets on "vent magnet sheets" that I get at Walmart and also available at Home Depot and other hardware stores. Just cut to fit and put the entire set into a zipper lock freezer bag. Freezer bag because they are thicker and stronger and I don't use ziplock, I prefer the zipper bags because they close and open faster and more precise. I don't want to lose any little dies! I wish there was a size between quart and gallon but I wind up using Fuse accessories to cut down a gallon bag.