 Hi, stampers! I'm Jill, and welcome to Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm here to show you a new suite of stamps and paper and dies. It's called the Countryside Inn Suite, and let me show you what it includes. This die is called Countryside Corners, elongated octagon shapes, and I'm going to show you some fun versatile effects with these dies. This is called the Countryside Corners stamp set, and it has all those edges to go with the dies. And coordinating to that is also a folder. This folder is really nice because it coordinates with the designer series paper, and it's called the Countryside Blossom Folder, and so that goes with it. Also coordinating is the Lasting Joy stamp set, which has got some great sayings in it with the flowers that match your designer series paper, which is called the Countryside Inn. You get two of each design, six of double-sided, so I'm showing you the 12 different designs right here, and it's so cool. I just love this paper with all these blues, and we have two new colors in this, the Boho Blue, which is this color, and also the Misty Moonlight. So those colors are amazing. As I was creating with this stamp set, the Lasting Joy, and using the Countryside Corners dies, I decided to make this template to be able to fit to go ahead and say, oh, these work, or this doesn't work, or if I want it for this saying, and it's perfect because you can put it right on top of what you're using to see if that's the size you want. So I would suggest doing that with a window sheet. It really makes these basic dies just so easy to use. With that, I want to show you a technique that you can decide to customize your dies if you want it longer or shorter, or however a different shape. So let me show you how that works. I'm going to take this from the stamp set and just do it in Night of Navy, and it's, you're going through this. So I'm going to stamp it on basic white, and I'm just going to show you, okay, there it is. Now I want to use this to go around it. How am I going to do that? Well, I'm going to start at this end, and I'm going to go ahead and put a posted note on this, and I'm going to only run it through the die machine just so far. So I'm going to go ahead and put this exactly where I want it to be with the posted note. I'm going to bring my die machine in. Okay, I'm going to put this right in, and I'm only going to go through just right to here because I want to make it longer. So I'm going to go through when I see it, and then I'm going to go back. So I'm not going all the way through because I don't want this side being cut because then it will cut off my same. So I went ahead and went through so far like that. Now I'm going to move this down right here, and I'm going to put it in this little groove right here, and it kind of fits in there. After I've done that, because it's already been cut so much, then I'm going to put the posted note back on. I want to make sure it's in the groove. You can kind of feel when it's in the groove it kind of just moves right in that spot. Put the posted note back on, and then I'm going to run it through again, but I'm going to run it all the way through, actually not all the way through, right to here where I cut the other one because you'll cut off the one side if you do it all the way through. So I'm going to go ahead and run that through, and then I'm going to back up because I'm just making this longer. Voila! We've got a custom made little tag right there, and we just elongated that from this size right here to this size. So you only go through on this side we went through to here, and then when we put it back we put it like this, and we only went to here so they met in the middle. Let me show you how to get an octagon shape with your dies, and so it's more like a square shape than elongated. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is decide which one of these I want to use around this same. So they're elongated. I don't want them that long. What I want is it shorter. So I'm going to go ahead and put this where I want on the top, and then I'm going to run it through the die machine right to about here. And I just want it to stay in the same area so I can line it up. So I don't want to go from the bottom. I want to go from the top of the same and not go all the way through. You could actually go all the way through because it is just straight. So I'm going to go all the way through because then I'll show you what I mean here in a second because I'm cutting it smaller not larger. So I went through there. Now I'm going to go from this side right here and bring it up. So it's like, okay, how big do I want this octagon shape to be if I want it longer or do I want it shorter? You just want to make sure that when you do this the sides are in that little area that will stay, that you're not recutting it. Let's bring this back in. And we can go all the way through this because we're cutting the bottom part so it's not going to matter because you've got your piece of paper already there. So there's that octagon shape made out of this die. So isn't that cool how you can make things longer and shorter with these dies? I love that with basic dies that are basic shapes. So this card right here, I went ahead and did that same look with this. Okay, now I'm going to show you how to get this effect. How do I get this die without it cutting at the top? Right here, and I'm just going to take this designer series paper right here and just fold it and make a really good crease with it. You can use your bone folder or your fingernail. And then what I'm going to do is take this. If you notice, this little spot right here is where the die is, where it cuts. So I'm going to slide this down over this till it kind of stops. I don't want it to cut. I just want it to be right there on the fold. But I'm going to put a couple post-it notes to hold this together and you just saw everything move. Let's do it again because we don't want to cut that top part. So that's really important is making sure that your die is. You can look on that side. It's not going to be cut because it's right underneath the blade. Okay, we're going to bring the die machine in. I'm going to put that down and we're going to run the whole thing through. The top part is underneath the die. Now this is like magic. I love seeing this when you take a die and you do something different with it. Okay, look at that. Awesome. Okay, I've got a couple ideas made with this same type of look. Let me show them to you. You saw this one right here. Then I took this die on the inside and I went and did the same thing with the piece on this top side of the die and folded it and did the same exact thing so you could have like a little flap inside your card. So it didn't ruin the outside look of how pretty it was. And here's one more that uses that look of where you take the die and fold the paper. And this was a little bit more difficult because what you want to do is when you do this particular one, and I think it's the same die that I used before, yes, what you want to do is make sure that you measure from this blade over to this blade and just come in just to smidgen and then you can say, okay, I need this plus the folding over is going to get that shape. So you want to make sure you come in so you don't cut the fold and that's how you do that. And you're probably wondering how I got this right here. Let me show you. So I'm going to leave that right there, but I'm going to show you how I got that look. So if you look at it, is it this one? No, it's not that one. Is it this one? Yes. So what I did, so I'm just going to stamp the stamp and I'm going to take this and I'm going to go ahead and say, oh, I want this little point to be the center of what I'm stamping. So I need to move it up or even better, if you move it down, you can decide, okay, I want that to be exactly that right at the top. So either way, it's going to work. I'm going to put it at the top. Let me get a post a note again, because you don't want it to move. Let me run that through the die machine. I'm going to bring that in and just run it through. Okay, now I take the post a note off. Now I'm going to take this same die and move it all the way up. I want this to be pointed right here and here. So it's like the center of the what you stamped on. So it's just like right there. So I'm going to go ahead and put the post a note again because I want a different shape. That's the cool thing about using these basic shapes is you can make bigger, smaller, and fun shapes that will work with your sands. And you don't have to worry about cutting them just in a square or a rectangle. You can actually make them pretty with these different shapes. I'm going to pull that out and there again, this is the die and there again, you've got perfect all the way around it. So that's how I did that one. Let me show you some other ideas with this suite that basically they use the dies in the regular way. So these are just some other cards. I love yellow and blue. So I did this one just regular and this one I just use the dies and the folder. This one you go ahead and put the two together with the designer series paper first, then you cut it out. So that's how you get that look. That's the same look, but just a little bit bigger die. It's kind of fun to try different sizes because then you could say, oh I like this one better and this is also used with the dies. I'm so glad you were here today with us and you got these opportunities to see these alternative ways to use your dies. So hope you get a chance to order these countryside corner dies. We really love them and I think you will too. See you next time on another Watch It Weekly Wednesday.